Innovate for Vegas Foundation
@innovateforvegas.bsky.social
NV Nonprofit 501(c)(3) Public Charity
Our purpose, “To enable and encourage ideation, innovation, and implementation to make our communities better.”
🌐 https://innovateforvegas.org
🔉 https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/lets-innovate-for-vegas
Our purpose, “To enable and encourage ideation, innovation, and implementation to make our communities better.”
🌐 https://innovateforvegas.org
🔉 https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/lets-innovate-for-vegas
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Let’s Innovate for Vegas • A podcast on Spotify for Creators
Our audio program about the Innovate for Vegas Foundation, our volunteers, our projects, our ideas, and how what we are working on will ideally impact our communities in and around Las Vegas in positi...
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Finally added our audio program to Apple Podcasts, despite Apple Account creation being impossible for some reason. Oh, Apple… anyway, also on Amazon, Spotify, and don’t forget YouTube, and more coming, plus adding some video eventually…
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Our Smart Calendar is the goal of course, but for the moment we are trying out Luma for discovery and RSVP for our weekly Online Office Hours (plus a couple of other things in the near future), Thank You For Your Attention To This Matter!
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The topic of this week’s podcast…
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The topic of this week’s podcast…
January 14, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Our Smart Calendar is the goal of course, but for the moment we are trying out Luma for discovery and RSVP for our weekly Online Office Hours (plus a couple of other things in the near future), Thank You For Your Attention To This Matter!
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The topic of this week’s podcast…
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The topic of this week’s podcast…
Is LinkedIn still all it was cracked up to be when it launched in May 2003? Well…
We can do better, so let us do better.
This week’s episode of Let’s Innovate for Vegas is available via our Spotify for Creators profile page, linked in our bio, and includes our RSS feed for your podcatching needs.
We can do better, so let us do better.
This week’s episode of Let’s Innovate for Vegas is available via our Spotify for Creators profile page, linked in our bio, and includes our RSS feed for your podcatching needs.
January 6, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Is LinkedIn still all it was cracked up to be when it launched in May 2003? Well…
We can do better, so let us do better.
This week’s episode of Let’s Innovate for Vegas is available via our Spotify for Creators profile page, linked in our bio, and includes our RSS feed for your podcatching needs.
We can do better, so let us do better.
This week’s episode of Let’s Innovate for Vegas is available via our Spotify for Creators profile page, linked in our bio, and includes our RSS feed for your podcatching needs.
One last post with the latest, year-end episode of Let’s Innovate for Vegas, link in bio for all episodes, RSS feed, and the rest.
And
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In the mean time, we are sending 2025 away.
Happy New Year!
And
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In the mean time, we are sending 2025 away.
Happy New Year!
December 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
One last post with the latest, year-end episode of Let’s Innovate for Vegas, link in bio for all episodes, RSS feed, and the rest.
And
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In the mean time, we are sending 2025 away.
Happy New Year!
And
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In the mean time, we are sending 2025 away.
Happy New Year!
For the final full week of 2025, a look back at our year of interestingness here in Greater Vegas, a hill to climb, a couple of Board Seats to fill, and some unanswered emails to move past. What is that up ahead?
All of our episodes
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All of our episodes
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December 29, 2025 at 4:46 AM
For the final full week of 2025, a look back at our year of interestingness here in Greater Vegas, a hill to climb, a couple of Board Seats to fill, and some unanswered emails to move past. What is that up ahead?
All of our episodes
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All of our episodes
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One last aspiration episode for a while as we shift focus toward accomplishment (though an interview or other conversation now and then would be good also).
STEAM is a thing, and needs to be more so.
Link to all episodes in bio, this week’s
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STEAM is a thing, and needs to be more so.
Link to all episodes in bio, this week’s
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Episode 0145: STEAM and More
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November 26, 2025 at 8:37 AM
One last aspiration episode for a while as we shift focus toward accomplishment (though an interview or other conversation now and then would be good also).
STEAM is a thing, and needs to be more so.
Link to all episodes in bio, this week’s
open.spotify.com/episode/42CB...
STEAM is a thing, and needs to be more so.
Link to all episodes in bio, this week’s
open.spotify.com/episode/42CB...
Out of necessity, we are changing our outreach model… less about podcast episodes, more about show & tell. We need to attract attention, not ask for it.
Do you work in the civic volunteer space, and if so, how do you reach out?
Do you work in the civic volunteer space, and if so, how do you reach out?
November 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Out of necessity, we are changing our outreach model… less about podcast episodes, more about show & tell. We need to attract attention, not ask for it.
Do you work in the civic volunteer space, and if so, how do you reach out?
Do you work in the civic volunteer space, and if so, how do you reach out?
We have it on good authority that Las Vegas is dialing back the “Global Innovation Hub” claim, which is a reasonable admission.
However, Innovation is still happening, without municipal collaboration, which is usually where the best stuff is found anyway!
#BetterVegas
However, Innovation is still happening, without municipal collaboration, which is usually where the best stuff is found anyway!
#BetterVegas
November 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We have it on good authority that Las Vegas is dialing back the “Global Innovation Hub” claim, which is a reasonable admission.
However, Innovation is still happening, without municipal collaboration, which is usually where the best stuff is found anyway!
#BetterVegas
However, Innovation is still happening, without municipal collaboration, which is usually where the best stuff is found anyway!
#BetterVegas
Fiddling with the dials for the balance of 2026 as our quest for new Board Members continues…
This week’s audio program episode of
Let’s Innovate for Vegas
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This week’s audio program episode of
Let’s Innovate for Vegas
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Episode 0141: Tuning by Let’s Innovate for Vegas
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Our foundation is sounding a bit flat, some tuning is necessary, even essential, as we move forward in the Dark City that is Greater Vegas. LinksInnovate for Vegas A...
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October 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Fiddling with the dials for the balance of 2026 as our quest for new Board Members continues…
This week’s audio program episode of
Let’s Innovate for Vegas
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
This week’s audio program episode of
Let’s Innovate for Vegas
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
There is no try! Something like that. This week’s audio program episode, expressing a little bit of frustration but if it was easy everybody would be doing it, right?
Community Elevation, one person at a time…
More places to find our audio in the bio
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Community Elevation, one person at a time…
More places to find our audio in the bio
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Episode 0140: Do Or Do Not
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October 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
There is no try! Something like that. This week’s audio program episode, expressing a little bit of frustration but if it was easy everybody would be doing it, right?
Community Elevation, one person at a time…
More places to find our audio in the bio
open.spotify.com/episode/0oj2...
Community Elevation, one person at a time…
More places to find our audio in the bio
open.spotify.com/episode/0oj2...
We should be having Smarter City Hackathons to stir up Greater Vegas Innovation up, right?
Planning for 2026… Podcast link in profile for other places to listen in.
open.spotify.com/episode/6OYL...
Planning for 2026… Podcast link in profile for other places to listen in.
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Episode 0139: Smarter City Hackathon 2026
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October 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
We should be having Smarter City Hackathons to stir up Greater Vegas Innovation up, right?
Planning for 2026… Podcast link in profile for other places to listen in.
open.spotify.com/episode/6OYL...
Planning for 2026… Podcast link in profile for other places to listen in.
open.spotify.com/episode/6OYL...
Today, @hacktoberfest.com begins again for 2025, which was a reminder that digital badges are a thing, and a thing we have talked about for civic volunteer efforts all year. How about a podcast about it?
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open.spotify.com/episode/4BDp...
Episode 0137: Badges
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October 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Today, @hacktoberfest.com begins again for 2025, which was a reminder that digital badges are a thing, and a thing we have talked about for civic volunteer efforts all year. How about a podcast about it?
open.spotify.com/episode/4BDp...
open.spotify.com/episode/4BDp...
Do Smarter Smart Cities need to lean in to the Fediverse?
We say yes.
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We say yes.
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Episode 0136: Federation
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September 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Do Smarter Smart Cities need to lean in to the Fediverse?
We say yes.
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We say yes.
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October fast approaches, can our Project-ACT initiative fit into the Hacktoberfest mix? We aim to find out…
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Episode 0135: Project-ACT meets Hacktoberfest
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September 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
October fast approaches, can our Project-ACT initiative fit into the Hacktoberfest mix? We aim to find out…
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The fun part about nonprofit public charities, especially in the early days when we don’t need much which is good since we don’t have much. Plans up ahead…
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Episode 0133: The Money
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September 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The fun part about nonprofit public charities, especially in the early days when we don’t need much which is good since we don’t have much. Plans up ahead…
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Non-trivial, takes more than posts on LinkedIn (or Bluesky, or…), and it takes time.
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Episode 0132: Cultivating Innovation Culture
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August 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Non-trivial, takes more than posts on LinkedIn (or Bluesky, or…), and it takes time.
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open.spotify.com/episode/4vEN...
Wasn’t 18F focused on this before they got broken into 1000 pieces?
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Improving Our Nation Through Better Design
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
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August 22, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Wasn’t 18F focused on this before they got broken into 1000 pieces?
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www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
We have that YouTube channel with our catalog of Audio Programs (some still call them Podcasts) available right up to the current episode published this week… Thank you for your attention to this matter!
(Podcast playlist link follows)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=27EH...
(Podcast playlist link follows)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=27EH...
Episode 0131: Odds and Ends Update
YouTube video by Innovate for Vegas Foundation Media
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August 20, 2025 at 7:08 AM
We have that YouTube channel with our catalog of Audio Programs (some still call them Podcasts) available right up to the current episode published this week… Thank you for your attention to this matter!
(Podcast playlist link follows)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=27EH...
(Podcast playlist link follows)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=27EH...
Thinking about another outreach attempt with our local education folks now that school has started again…
Our latest podcast episode on the topic! (Now also available on Youtube, maybe a few other places)
open.spotify.com/episode/163G...
Our latest podcast episode on the topic! (Now also available on Youtube, maybe a few other places)
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Episode 0130: Intersecting Education
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August 13, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Thinking about another outreach attempt with our local education folks now that school has started again…
Our latest podcast episode on the topic! (Now also available on Youtube, maybe a few other places)
open.spotify.com/episode/163G...
Our latest podcast episode on the topic! (Now also available on Youtube, maybe a few other places)
open.spotify.com/episode/163G...
Finally added our audio program to Apple Podcasts, despite Apple Account creation being impossible for some reason. Oh, Apple… anyway, also on Amazon, Spotify, and don’t forget YouTube, and more coming, plus adding some video eventually…
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
Let’s Innovate for Vegas • A podcast on Spotify for Creators
Our audio program about the Innovate for Vegas Foundation, our volunteers, our projects, our ideas, and how what we are working on will ideally impact our communities in and around Las Vegas in positi...
creators.spotify.com
August 12, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Finally added our audio program to Apple Podcasts, despite Apple Account creation being impossible for some reason. Oh, Apple… anyway, also on Amazon, Spotify, and don’t forget YouTube, and more coming, plus adding some video eventually…
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
Enjoying our Let’s Innovate for Vegas audio program but pining away for publication to YouTube? Pine no more…
(Sure, Video content will likely follow)
www.youtube.com/@InnovateFor...
(Sure, Video content will likely follow)
www.youtube.com/@InnovateFor...
Innovate for Vegas Foundation Media
We are a 501(c)(3) public charity tasked to enable and encourage ideation, innovation, and implementation to make our communities better. Here on our channel we publish content about exactly these.
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August 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Enjoying our Let’s Innovate for Vegas audio program but pining away for publication to YouTube? Pine no more…
(Sure, Video content will likely follow)
www.youtube.com/@InnovateFor...
(Sure, Video content will likely follow)
www.youtube.com/@InnovateFor...
Episode 0128: Using AI
Let’s Innovate for Vegas · Episode
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August 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Atomic Teams? Part of Agile for Volunteers, maybe this is something…
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Episode 0127: Open Source Wager
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July 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Atomic Teams? Part of Agile for Volunteers, maybe this is something…
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open.spotify.com/episode/7wlk...
Is civic volunteerism more fun, more productive, more sustainable when we Do It Together?
This week’s episode of Let’s Innovate for Vegas
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This week’s episode of Let’s Innovate for Vegas
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Episode 0126: DIT and DIT
Let’s Innovate for Vegas · Episode
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July 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Is civic volunteerism more fun, more productive, more sustainable when we Do It Together?
This week’s episode of Let’s Innovate for Vegas
open.spotify.com/episode/70pX...
This week’s episode of Let’s Innovate for Vegas
open.spotify.com/episode/70pX...
This week’s is the final episode of our Third fiscal year, a mild retrospective of sorts as we commence Year Four on Tuesday…
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Episode 0123: Thoughts on Three Years
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June 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM
This week’s is the final episode of our Third fiscal year, a mild retrospective of sorts as we commence Year Four on Tuesday…
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