Peter Corbett, who heads iStrategyLabs, reports that his firm is opening a New York office at 220 Lafayette St. #3, co-located with Personal Democracy Forum, Open Congress, and other like-minded civic innovation organizations.
Peter said, "This move comes at the heels of our bid to run the NYC Big Apps competition, an initiative that will become crucial to NYC’s plans to maintain and grow its leadership position in digital media and technology innovation. We’ve learned a lot about citizen driven innovation through the course of creating Apps for Democracy, and hope to translate and apply the experience to NYC Big Apps, if we should be so fortunate. If you’re in NYC this Saturday, join me at BigAppsDevCamp to talk about this project and meet with other people passionate about it.
"Regardless of whether or not we win the Big Apps project, we’re committed to building our business in NYC, and adding tremendous value to the tech/social media/marketing communities in The City as we’ve done – and will continue to do – in DC.
"iStrategyLabs is a strange bird – we feel much more like a community organizing entity than anything else, but we’re a for profit that does marketing/innovation work for brands both big and small. In the end, what we’re passionate about is adding value to communities and solving problems – and The Big Apple’s got big problems to work on just as DC does.
iStrategyLabs will celebrate its 2-year anniversary in about two weeks – and in that time, during a period of serious economic strife, we’ve grown from a team of one (me) to 4 full time iStrategists, along with a sea of talented collaborators who are helping us forge new paths in fields of interactive strategy, experiential marketing, content creation, civic engagement, and more."