The wait is over…it’s FINALLY time to celebrate a 3rd year of the wiki-awesomeness called AboutUs.org!

Portland-based burgeoning Web site indexing service AboutUs.org turned another year older last month (June 20, to be exact), and in appreciation to the community for helping their database grow to more than 14 million pages they’re buying the Beer and Blog community a beer. Happy birthday to US and AboutUs! This Friday’s free birthday beer comes right on time, too. The night before, on Thursday, is the eagerly anticipated Ignite Portland 6 (brought to us by Legion of Tech and many, many hardworking volunteers). How very poetic (and convenient) to have a nice little decomp the day after in the form of a birthday toast celebrating a successful local business. This will surely help us ease back into the progressive craziness ahead, because just you wait: demands to submit your IP7 proposals will soon be streaking your twitterstream.

Join us on the patio at the Green Dragon this Friday from 4-6. Oh! One more thing: show up sooner than later, because free beer goes fast. That’s just common Law of Free Beer sense.
RSVP on Upcoming or get your deets at Calagator

Crowdsourcing the End of Joblessness It was standing room only at last Saturday’s End Joblessness event. Did you make it? An estimated 65-75 people did, all of us squeezed into OTBC’s new home in Beaverton, Oregon for pizza, beer and conversations about gainful employment. We heard from several representatives of projects and organizations looking for qualified people for tech-focused positions in the area, such as Avatron, the Mainz Brady Group, the Democracy Lab, APCON, and KC Distance Learning. Sean Harry of the social networking site Career Crossroads was there too, spreading the word about his goal to help people get into jobs that make them happy. Not offering jobs, but instead dazzling us with Web 2.0 wizardry, was Magic Seth. What fun to see what tricks he has up his sleeve! We hope you can make it to the next End Joblessness event. In the meantime, how about a beer and a blog? The 5th Friday of the month finds us getting our Beer and Blog on at the Green Dragon as usual. And just like last Friday, Legion of Tech will be there to digitally record your 15 Seconds of Flame. So if you have something to share with your 500 + close personal friends, now’s your chance. And if it’s selected it will playback on the silver screen February 19th. Beery cool! You know, you’d better start thinking up something to say. Just remember, 15 seconds can feel like 15 hours in front of the camera. Here are my Professional Video Tips: Don’t wear white. Also, for the Love of Pete, abstain from going the Liquid Courage routine. Trust me on that one. =) RSVP on upcoming.org