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Adafruit was founded in 2005 by MIT engineer, Limor "Ladyada" Fried. Her goal was to create the best place online for learning electronics and making the best designed products for makers of all ages and skill levels. Over the last 6 years Adafruit has grown to over 45 employees in the heart of NYC. Adafruit has expanded offerings to include tools, equipment and electronics that Limor personally selects, tests and approves before going in to the Adafruit store. Limor was the first female engineer on the cover of WIRED magazine and was recently awarded Entrepreneur magazine's Entrepreneur of the year.

Someone my London cousin suggested we look at. She is quite something and has grown a very successful company. She is the first woman engineer featured on the cover of WIRED. Her site is interesting, and she awards badges for acquiring skills.

Description of a course offered by the Hague University of Applied Sciences, Fall 2012. Nancy White is one of the faculty. "The intersection of technology and social processes has changed what it means to "be together." No longer confined to an engineering team, a company, a market segment or country, we have the opportunity to tap into different groups of people using online tools and processes. While we initially recognized this as "online communities," the ubiquity and diversity of technology and access has widened our possibilities. When we want to "organize our passion" into something, we have interesting choices. It is time to think about a more diverse ecosystem of interaction possibilities which embrace things such as different group configurations, online + offline, short and long term interactions, etc. In this course we will consider the range of options that can be utilized in the design, testing, marketing and use of engineering products. In this course, we'll also begin to pay attention to "The Four i's of Innovation." You'll be learning a lot about these in the coming courses, but consider this a preview. The first i is the itch; "a hunch" that there is something going on. This inclination can indicate the sublime starting point for change or an innovation The second i is insight; the research framework to base the fundamentals of the innovation on The i for idea; the experimenting towards potential solutions ("what if"- approach) The final i is for impact; the realization of the changes and innovations."

Explains why Indeed, LinkUp, and SimplyHired are three best job search engines of 2015--biggest job pool, strong search tools, mobile integration and ease, being able to post one's resume, limiting jobs from company career pages which avoids out of date or duplicate listings.

how algorithms and humans act together now for search engines and finding info and categorizing info.

Interesting article on algorithms and humans working together to retrieve and catagorize as well as provide search engine information.

women becoming solar engineers in Madagascar Spiegel Online

good lock at women with sTEM credentials and why they haven't stayed in field

Adam Rogers, Science, Wired, 8.6.15, writes about how the Google tanking algorithm of positive and negative stories on the candidates could affect major elections 25% of the timer. This is the tyranny of the algorithm. They tested the impact in mock voter labs before elections in Australia and India where the impact of feeding positive stories about a candidate first shaped voters decisions between 24 and 72 percent of the time with certain voter groups. Voters in towns in the US that watch a local a Fox channel vote more conservatively because of recency and placement issues. While the numbers in real live do not add up to the impact achieved in the test research, when elections are decided by 1 or 2 percentage points, it's enough to turn the tide in favor of a candidate.

This blog post by Jeff Thomas Cobb, March 6, 2013, Learning for Leaders,offers four tips for content marketing: determine your minimum effective dose, make it about you as much as your market, use it as a testing and innovation engine, and go after noncustomers.

Blog post by Chris Collison on 2.26.13, that discusses reciprocity in fostering a learning atmosphere and adoption of best practice in an organization. Excerpt: "Reciprocity is an important principle for knowledge management, and one which underpins the idea of Offers and Requests. Offers and Requests was a simple approach, introduced to make it easier for Operations Engineers at BP to ask for help, and to share good practice with their peers. The idea was for each business unit to self-assess their level of operational excellence using a maturity model, and identify their relative strengths and weaknesses. In order to overcome barriers like "tall poppy syndrome", or a reluctance to ask for help ("real men don't ask directions"), a process was put in place whereby every business unit would be asked to offer three areas which they felt proud of, and three areas which they wanted help with. The resulting marketplace for matching offers and requests was successful because: i) The principle of offering a strength at the same time as requesting help was non-threatening and reciprocal - it was implicitly fair. ii) The fact that every business unit was making their offers and requests at the same time meant that it felt like a balanced and safe process."

An article view by Jenna Wortham at the New York Times of different online learning sites for mastering computer codes and programming, March 27, 2012. Mentions Codecademy, Girls Develop It, Treehouse, General Assembly, etc. Excerpt: "Peter Harsha, director of government affairs at the association, said the figure had been steadily climbing for the last three years, after a six-year decline in the aftermath of the dot-com bust. Mr. Harsha said that interest in computer science was cyclical but that the current excitement seemed to be more than a blip and was not limited to people who wanted to be engineers. "To be successful in the modern world, regardless of your occupation, requires a fluency in computers," he said. "It is more than knowing how to use Word or Excel but how to use a computer to solve problems." "

I am going to purchase this plugin and play with it to see how it works. WPDirectory PRO is simply the best & most powerful Wordpress directory plugin to improve the popularity of any website. Every webmaster knows that creating a Web Directory is one of the first things to do to improve Search Engine Optimization. Top Rankings and Top Search Engine positions is the dream of nearly every website owner.

College students don't use email because it is too slow, you have to put in a subject, and you have to send it. They all text, which is faster and less labor intensive. They also don't use search engines. One professor reports saying to students (he is an academic adviser) "have you tried Google?). Usually, they hadn't.

Interesting article on the age divide between new guard (Stripe) and old guard companies (Cisco) and why that is so, Yiren Lu, March 12, 2014

from The Future of Work. Elizabeth Segran "For women in tech, a humanities background can be an added liability, since there is already a perception that they are less competent at science and math. Danielle Sheer says that when she joined Carbonite, her first impulse was to hide her lack of knowledge and retreat at meetings. However, she quickly changed strategy, deciding it was more important for her to ask questions to fully grasp the technology. She's spent hours tinkering with the software and working with engineering teams to learn about it. She says her colleagues are supportive, even if she sometimes slows them down. "By articulating complicated technical or strategic ideas in plain English, you'd be amazed at how much progress we've made solving problems," she says. "We've become very good at assuming that we don't have the same definition.""

short video (about 6 minutes) showing underwater robot built under open source (publish and share all code online for others to adapt) in a garage. remote operated vehicle. 1,000 times cheaper than vehicle used to explore Titanic. Underwater vehicles used in oil exploration, construction, etc. set up website with discussion forums to bring in tips from others; slow at first, then hobbyists and professional ocean engineers started showing up; people wanted kits, they used Kickstarter to raise $20,000, raised over $100k in 2 hours, then had to start small manufacturing. now they have ocean explorers all over the globe.

interview by Moira Gunn, December 30, 2015, on TechNation Radio with Bernie Roth, Stanford Engineering Professor and author of "The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life." start at 5 minutes-44 minutes

Optimizing SEO for title tags on each page of a website, 2.23.12

how kids need to be equipped socially to work effectively with others by Greg Satel, @Digitaltonto

Blog post introducing Marc Ensign as a speaker, blogger, and consultant. Includes "my more notable posts as determined by my readers" on 1. Why Keyword Research is a Waste of Time (and what you should be doing instead; 2. 10 Reasons Why I don't Want to Be Your Friend Anymore; 3. Me, Me, Me, I, I, I; 4. Stop Calling Yourself a Guru, Jedi, Rock Star and Ninja (unless you are a Guru, Jedi, Rock Star or Ninja), and so on. Entertaining. Will speak in Sarasota on 11/22/13. Friend/associate of Andre Kasberger.