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The Awesomeness of a Hackathon

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Designate one person in charge of managing the hackathon. I’ve seen things like help systems, new web sites, better customer support processes, better management of social media activity, and lots of business process stuff created and implemented during hackathons. Here’s how: Pick a date during the quarter for the hackathon.

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The GameStop Phenomenon

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Boomer hedgies getting crushed by young folks self-organizing in social media. Many of these rules are designed to protect “widows and orphans” but all they really do is make the rich richer and keep those without money out of the game. For example, from Fred’s post. The generational aspect of this is important.

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Jobs at Orbotix

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If you fit the description, like playing with robots, want free beer all day, and live in Boulder, email them a note with a resume. - Game Designer : Are you passionate about gaming and have a deep understanding of game design and game mechanics?

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How To Predict The Future

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By day he works on web and social media for HP. I chose to use computers I owned that were designed for compactness for their time. Apocalypse , near-term science-fiction novels about realistic ways strong AI might emerge. They’ve been called “frighteningly plausible”, “tremendous”, and “thought-provoking”.

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Boulder New Tech Meetup Helping Local Non-Profits

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The tech community helped the non-profits on tech issues ranging from web design to social media help, database support to graphic design, and everything in-between. Robert sent me a list of the non-profits that presented.

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Back From Sabattical

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I’m in great emotional shape, as I meditated almost daily, spent lots of time with friends who came to visit, ignored almost everything going on in the world (although I got sucked into the election a few times), stayed completely off social media, and read a book a day. No conference calls. No Google Hangouts.

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The Miasma

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I saw someone recently describe social media in its current state as a doomsday machine, and I think that’s not far off. Neal Stephenson: I ended up having a pretty dark view of it, as you can kind of tell from the book.