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Digital Media Unconference, a.k.a. Open Space Technology... “Open Space Technology (OST) [a.k.a. unconference] is an approach for hosting meetings, conferences, corporate-style retreats, and community summit events, focused on a specific and important purpose or task—but beginning without any formal agenda, beyond the overall purpose or theme.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Unconference
Free Online Stanford like Classes
By David Koenig
Two Tips
1: narrow and focus Google searches by adding “site:xyz.com” to your search keywords. Example: Pavilion g6z site:hp.com In this example, you have an HP Pavilion g6z PC and want help troubleshooting a problem, from HP. The “site:hp.com” search term restricts the results to come from hp.com, your trusted source. 2: Use the “define:” search construct to find the definitions on the web for a word or phrase. Example: define:online community manager
Go to www.udacity.com Focus at this time is on computer science. Thanks to Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig
Hackathon...
“A hackathon (also known as a hack day, hackfest or codefest) is an event in which computer programmers and others in the field of software development, like graphic designers, interface designers and project managers, collaborate intensively on software-related projects.[1] Occasionally, there is a hardware component as well. Hackathons typically last between a day and a week in length. Some hackathons are intended simply for educational or social purposes, although in many cases the goal is to create usable software, or to improve existing software. Hackathons tend to have a specific focus, which can include the programming language used, the operating system, an application, an API, the subject matter and the demographic group of the programmers. In other cases, there is no restriction on the type of software being created.” - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon
Watch What You Say Near Bluffdale, Utah the National Security Agency is building the country’s biggest SPY Center. It will intercept and store your phone calls, emails, Google searches, and more. It’s called Utah Data Center. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the world’s communications. This is a $2 billion center, and should be up and running September 2013. It’s estimated the energy to run the facility is $40 million per year. So what do you think about this? Send your thoughts to grcommunitynews@sbcglobal.net
iPad Donation
Is there someone or a business that would like to donate used ipads to The Playmakers Non-Profit organization? If so, please contact, Gary Stalick at grcommunitynews@sbcglobal.net or 916-224-6624.
How to Innovate
Susan Cain, author of the new book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, shares what works better. “Virtual” Collaboration—with team members cogitation on solutions alone, in private, before getting together to talk them over. Researchers have found that groups working in this fashion generate better ideas and solve problems more adroitly. To get the best out of people have them work alone first, then network later.
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