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Conversations With Normals: When No One Understands Your Job
(Credit: Leovalente on PixaBay) Have you ever had a moment when your absolute immersion in something is presented to you on a silver platter as entirely not the norm? When you are suddenly the absolute nerdiest person in a room…
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Introvert Thoughts: My Love-Hate Relationship with Social Media
By Doesn’t say [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons Confession: Sometimes I question why I’m on social media. This usually happens when I’m having particularly introverted moments. Which of late, seem to be pretty often. And in those moments I silently debate…
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Hacking Old Tech: Breathing New Life Into Obsolete Devices
By perfectska04, GNOME icon artists via Wikimedia Commons One part of our basement used to be a tech graveyard. If you rummaged around, you might stumble upon some of my favourite pieces: My old 1994 Asus laptop with 2MB (megabytes!!)…
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Flashback: That Time I Was an Online News Anchor (Way Before YouTube)
Warning: Flashback moment ahead I used to produce (and read!) online news when I worked for a tiny little consulting firm in 1998-1999. We were a video conferencing consulting firm, which means I spent most of my time learning video…
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The Google Glass “Failure”: Why Words Are Important in Innovation
By Danlev (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], Wikimedia Commons By now, you’ve probably heard that Google has shut down the Google Glass Explorer program. And chances are, you’re hearing people describe it as a failure. This is why we can’t…
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Beyond “Pages”: Is It Time To Rethink Our Mental Model of the Web?
One guarantee of working on the web is that you will inevitably be in a conversation about a web site and people will talk about “web pages.” Which makes sense: the Web has been around for a couple of decades…
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The 4 Things I Learned About Technology Adoption by Being an Early Blogger
Spydergrrl on the Web turned 6 last week. This hasn’t been my only blog, but it is the one with the most staying power. As I was approaching this anniversary, I did a bit of reflection and realized that the…
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The ONLY Way To Get Girls into STEM (Boys Too!)
Three times in one weekend, I was asked if I was involved in female-oriented and girl-specific tech programs. And it bugged the hell out of me. I love any initiative that has the potential to interest people in science, technology,…
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Dispelling The Myth of “Fake Geek Girls”
Each and every one of us has at some time felt impostor syndrome (i.e. that feeling that you don’t belong and someone will find you out eventually). Being a nerd, it’s been a recurring theme throughout my life, but no…
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How To Live-Tweet an Event: Part 5 – Outcomes and Measurement
This is part 5 in an ongoing series on Live-Tweeting Events. Check out Part 4 – Showtime!. Or see the bottom of this post for the full 5-part series. Your event is over. First of all, CONGRATULATIONS! You did it! As…
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