Raines Cohen

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Raines Cohen’s Summary

I worked at Lotus when it was 5 people in a basement. Then I went to High School, and started the Newton Apple Kids club. From that experience, I helped start BMUG when I came out to Berkeley, which gave me the connections and background to work in the MacWEEK newsroom, then User Group Connection (an Apple spinoff), Editor of NetProfessional magazine, then launched my own consulting business, Communitarian Visions. I help people build community, whether its coworking shared offices, cohousing neighborhoods, or "Aging In Community" service systems that help keep people in their homes.

Raines Cohen’s Specialties:

Facilitation, coaching, writing, editing, organizing, group development, conflict resolution, database development, systems design, nonprofit management, publication coordination, event production, networking, matchmaking, inspiring.

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Raines Cohen’s Websites:

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Raines Cohen’s Interests:

recumbent bicycling, science fiction, matchmaking, community development, cohousing, elder cohousing, community-building, senior cohousing, aging, politics

Raines Cohen’s Groups:

BMUG, Commonwealth Club, Coho/US, East Bay Bicycle Coalition (EBBC), FIC, Coho/US, EBCOHO, Cacophony Society, Black Rock Arts Foundation (BRAF), ConnectorsNet, Gnomedex, Apple User Group Advisory Board (UGAB), DailyKos, YearlyKos, BreakfastCabal, The Climate Project, coworking, NetSquared, National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD), Social Media Club, Boston Computer Society, BarCamp/WineCamp, Build It Green, Green Chamber of Commerce

•    NetSquared
•    BlogHer
•    Coworking
•    Wikipedia Users Group
•    MacHack
•    Jelly
•    Sustainability Professionals
•    Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
•    National Aging In Place Council (NAIPC)
•    Multi-family emerging markets
•    Conjunctured
•    BetaHouse
•    Bicycle to Work!
•    Lotus Alumni
•    Carrboro Coworking
•    BLANKSPACES Coworkers
•    Netroots Nation
•    Ziff-Davis Alumni
•    Cohousing
•    Altrupreneurs
•    National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD)
•    Farallon Alumni
•    Lunch 20
•    Sustainable Business Alliance

Raines Cohen’s Honors:

City of Oakland citizen activist (1991 firestorm); American Red Cross exceptional volunteer (1989 earthquake); Exceptional services to User Groups (1997)

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