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MakeYourJob.org Is A New Interactive Community Helping Teens Launch Startups

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, or NFTE, an international non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring young people from low-income communities to stay in school and recognize business opportunities, just launched MakeYourJob.org, an new interactive web community that gives teens the tools and knowledge needed  to help turn their interests and hobbies ... Read more »
Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Nonprofits, Philanthropy, Real Impact, Social Software
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Six Ways Evangelists Can Promote Like Sports Illustrated Supermodel Kate Upton

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) – Recently, I wrote an essay about how the open government movement could do a better job of engaging mainstream media, and more specifically how the simultanous Transparency Camp and White House Correspondents Dinner weekend could make better connections. One criticism of this is that the WHCD is too focused on celebrities, ... Read more »
Celebrities, Cheeky Geeky, Gadgets and Mobile, Government, Leadership, Movies, Photos, Politics, Social Software
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Free Microsoft Cloud Computing For University Scientists

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) – Microsoft and Internet2 have announced a new agreement enabling member universities to take advantage of Windows Azure to open up collaborative, instructional and research opportunities in the cloud. The announcement was made at the recent Spring 2012 Internet2 Member Meeting in Arlington, VA. This agreement is a significant ... Read more »
Academia, Cloud Computing, Government, Laboratories and Research, Leadership, Real Impact, Why Microsoft
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Microsoft Returns To USA Science & Engineering Festival

Donna Woodall (Washington, DC) — Microsoft is back at the 2nd Annual USA Science & Engineering Festival to be held at the Washington Convention Center in DC on April 28-29, 2012. As an “Einsteinium Sponsor” this year, we’ll have a gigantic area including our Worldwide Telescope display, Xbox and Kinect applications to health, education, and ... Read more »
Citizen 2.0, Contests, Education, Laboratories and Research, Leadership, Why Microsoft
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What You Need To Know About TEDMED 2012

Chris Seper (Cleveland, OH) — What is TEDMED? That’s an odd question, if you’re coming from the perspective the event has been around for years. But this is not last year’s TEDMED (it’s not as heavily associated with the thought-leadership series TED as you may think). Last year, Priceline.com founder Jay Walker bought TEDMED ... Read more »
Biotechnology, Events, Health, Leadership
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Creating High School Adjunct Computer Science Teachers

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) – While nearly all aspects of modern life are being influenced by technology, the computer science industry has a dirty little secret. Despite the fact that computer science majors end up with higher lifetime earnings than just about any other major, remarkably few people actually major in computer science. In numbers: There’s about ... Read more »
Citizen 2.0, Corporate Citizenship, Education, Leadership
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Gamification Of The Next Generation

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — In the media, we mostly read about how gaming is damaging how students learn and pay attention, how the cloud is mainly useful for things like movies and music, and how smartphones are useful for playing games like Angry Birds. But the reality is that while many new innovations can ... Read more »
Apps, Cloud Computing, Education, Entrepreneurship, Events, Gadgets and Mobile, Gaming, Government, Health, Leadership, Movies, Music, Real Impact
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Infographic: Matching Military Veterans With Tech Jobs

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — All the way up to the White House, Americans are concerned about employing currently unemployed and underemployed veterans, whose rate of unemployment is higher than average. Microsoft and other like-minded companies are stepping up their efforts in this area. Now, Payscale.com has created a very useful infographic about why U.S. veterans ... Read more »
Defense, Jobs, Leadership
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