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How To Live-Tweet an Event: Part 4 – Showtime!
This is part 4 in an ongoing series on Live-Tweeting Events. Check out Part 3 – Editorial Calendar & Cheat Sheet. Or see the bottom of this post for the full 5-part series. It’s your big day, so let’s jump…
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How To Live-Tweet an Event: Part 3 – Editorial Calendar & Cheat Sheet
This is part 3 in an ongoing series on Live-Tweeting Events. Check out Part 2 – Developing a content plan. Or see the bottom of this post for the full 5-part series. So now that you have figured out why…
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How To Live-Tweet An Event: Part 2 – Developing a Content Plan
This is part 2 in an ongoing series on Live-Tweeting Events. Check out Part 1 – Defining Success. Or see the bottom of this post for links to the full 5-part series. In part 1 of this series, I listed…
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How To Live-Tweet An Event: Part 1 – Defining Success
A couple of years ago, I wrote a 3-part series on Twitter chats: finding them, managing your way through them and running a good one. Since then, I’ve been asked more times than I can count about doing the same…
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5 Ways to Hack (and Future-Proof!) Our Libraries
Computerpool in the Public Library Dresden (Credit: Conrad Nutschan, CC-BY-SA-2.0 Wikimedia Commons) I love libraries. But I will openly admit that I don’t hang out at our local library that often because it’s small, has limited comfortable seating and really…
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Thoughts On Facilitating Tech Adoption In The Workplace
(Credit: Microsoft Clip Art Gallery) Organizations tend to throw tech at problems and assume that, because the staff have been asking for better machines, the presence of the hardware alone will lead to widespread adoption. This is flawed thinking; introducing…
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Startup Weekend Ottawa Redux: A Mentor’s Perspective
Startup Weekend Ottawa I spent this weekend hanging out in the funky Shopify offices providing advice and support to the teams participating in Startup Weekend Ottawa (SWO). And I had a fantastic time. I’ve been asked why I don’t go…
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Ada Lovelace Day: Do Women in STEM Need A Strong Supportive Female Career Mentor?
(Credit: FindingAda.com) So, here’s a conundrum. Today is Ada Lovelace Day, and bloggers around the world are requested to write about a female geek, their personal geek girl hero. And so I sat down to start writing and tried to…
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The Six Million Dollar Question: How Will The Future of Prosthetics Affect Human Performance and Self Esteem?
Cyborg Sprinter (Credit: 3oneseven Agency) (This is a post that I have had milling around in my brain for quite some time but knew that I needed a few hours to really get it down properly. Here’s hoping I was…
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Girls Learning Code Workshops: Is Gender-Segregated Tech Learning Necessary?
One of my contacts at Code For Kids and Ladies Learning Code sent me a note about an upcoming workshop on August 24th, called Girls Learning Code. In similar fashion to Code For Kids, the workshop aims to teach kids…
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