Go to work, but keep your distance
Beyond B2B
JULY 22, 2020
The economic fallout from the pandemic is motivating businesses to reopen, but the fact remains that the virus is still an active threat.
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Four things that matter in the AI hype cycle
CIO
OCTOBER 24, 2023
The capabilities of these new generative AI tools, most of which are powered by large language models (LLM), forced every company and employee to rethink how they work. If you don’t figure out how to make the most of GenAI, are you going to get outclassed by your peers? Enter vector embeddings.
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Innovation chief Claus T. Jensen on executing a vision
CIO
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Dan Roberts: Like many technology and digital executives today, you wear many hats in your role as Teladoc Health’s chief innovation officer. It’s not a delegation, because it’s truly a unified way of working together to deliver meaningful change. What we didn’t talk about is your ability to turn vision into action.
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4 eVTOL trends moving the air taxi industry closer to takeoff
TechCrunch
MARCH 17, 2022
It’s likely that if you hadn’t previously heard of eVTOLs (electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft), they might have made their way onto your radar last year. I’ve been working in the aircraft development space for decades, but 2021 was different. The competitive landscape of the eVTOL aircraft market is going to expand.
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4 paths to sustainable AI
CIO
JANUARY 31, 2024
Concerns that AI contributes to global warming stem from estimates that GPUs used to develop and keep AI models running use four times as much energy as those serving conventional cloud applications, and that AI could be on track to use as much electricity as Ireland. Our theory is no. Think about how much computer and carbon that saved.”
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Revel founder Frank Reig a year later on driving EV adoption in big cities
TechCrunch
MAY 13, 2022
Today, we’re taking a second look to see how far the startup has come, and the distance it has to cover to achieve its stated goal of helping urban cities transition to electric transport. Back then, moped sharing was your main business, but now the focus is on EV charging infrastructure.
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After the layoff: How to support your team when it just got smaller
Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Practical Tips to Help You and Your Team Heal. There’s the initial shock, the communication, the “I wonder if I’m impacted too” angst, and of course, the really painful decisions involved in selecting who will go. If you’re going through or recovering from a layoff, first let me say, I’m sorry.
FleetZero looks to capsize the shipping world with electric vessels serving forgotten ports
TechCrunch
MARCH 15, 2022
Steven Henderson and Mike Carter grew up in and around the shipping world and, as engineers, they understand the immense forces and challenges at play for anyone looking to change how the industry works. And even if you manage to do it, how are you going to recharge — run out a dozen extension cords to the base of a crane every hundred miles?
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Empowering at-risk youth and adults with devices, connectivity and dignity
CIO
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Verizon Fixed Wireless Access provides critical backup connectivity that keeps POIC staff members in touch with families and others in at-risk situations. It connects families in transition, enables students to learn from anywhere, helps jobseekers apply for work, and allows the recently incarcerated to reintegrate into everyday life.
Leading From Home: Pro Tips for Managing A Remote Workforce
CEO Insider
JULY 23, 2020
If you are working from home to keep business going while your company enforces “social distancing,” count it as a blessing. For all the inconveniences of having your team everywhere but in the office, it’s still great to have work.
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Artifact co-founder Kevin Systrom on the SVB crisis, its further impacts and future of tech
TechCrunch
MARCH 16, 2023
However, unlike many other startups impacted by the bank crisis, Artifact’s co-founders were in the fortunate position of being able to self-fund their startup, if need be, and were planning to loan the company money to keep it afloat. As it turns out, Artificat’s financial crisis was short-lived.
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TechCrunch+ roundup: 2022 R&D tax prep, social media for founders, managing remote teams
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Keep in mind that funding will solve your money problems, but it won’t solve everything else,” he writes. Keep in mind that funding will solve your money problems, but it won’t solve everything else,” he writes. If you’re not living and breathing your startup, you’re going to struggle anyway,” says Karim.
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Is the metaverse inching closer to reality?
Capgemini
JANUARY 16, 2024
1 Whether for work, shopping, education, or entertainment, it is set to take our experiences online to the next level. The pandemic reshaped the working world and while hybrid working has been successful, it is by no means a complete experience. Distance negatively impacts collaboration.
The Size of Your Hope
Nathan Magnuson
APRIL 6, 2020
“I’m not quite sure how we’re going to make payroll next month,” Ryan told me, taking inventory of his options. ” John Johnson observed, “It’s the size of your hope that will determine how far you’ll go in life.” What You Feed Your Mind. Who You Spend Your Time With.
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How IBM ran a virtual hackathon for its employees across 10 countries
Hacker Earth Developers Blog
MAY 20, 2020
Everything around us is going virtual and so are hackathons. For those who are new to virtual hackathons, Jeff said you’d need to keep these points in mind for successful execution: Know your target audience and have your problem defined to a granular level. To infuse Artificial Intelligence into existing products. .
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Thriving into the New Abnormal: How to Support Your Team (with Video)
Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 1, 2021
Your team is looking to you for guidance on what happens next. As you’re making plans think beyond the new normal, and focus on helping your team thrive in the new abnormal. Three points really resonated with me and the work we’ve been doing to support our clients in this transition. That’s not the new normal.
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Daily Crunch: London-based SumUp pins $8.5B valuation with $624M debt-equity roundÂ
TechCrunch
JUNE 23, 2022
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. Anywho, if you’re not NYC bound and happen to be within spitting distance of Menlo Park today, grab a ticket to the TechCrunch Summer Party. PDT, subscribe here. Hey, folks! Get that vitamin D in when you’re able.
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5 Things to Do When Your Team is Downsized
Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 1, 2015
” And yet most of us have been on the receiving end of the conversation saying “We’re going to need to figure out how to do more with less.” 5 Things to Do When Your Team is Downsized. Keep Your Cool. Don’t let your team see you cry or whatever your equivalent of a tantrum is.
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Educator Insights: What it Takes to Support Blended Learning and Teaching
PowerSchool
AUGUST 3, 2020
From technology directors and instructional leaders to administrators and support staff, everyone has to align to make blended learning work. The need for educational flexibility to make sure students keep learning through any challenge is more relevant today than ever before. Challenging times in education require a team approach.
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Remembering the startups we lost in 2020
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 22, 2020
It also offers an opportunity to examine those issues from a bit of distance to see if there are any broader takeaways for the community at large. It also offers an opportunity to examine those issues from a bit of distance to see if there are any broader takeaways for the community at large. Atrium (2017-2020). Essential (2017-2020).
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I Actually Chatted with ChatGPT
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
JANUARY 16, 2024
Here’s what I did: In December 2023 I installed the official ChatGPT iOS app from OpenAI on my iPhone and used its voice input mode to hold several hour-long conversations with it while driving long-distance on California highways. What more is left to say by now? Well, I bet very few of those people have actually chatted with ChatGPT.
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Readjusting Your Business During The Pandemic
Strategy Driven
JANUARY 22, 2022
The pandemic is not over, much as we would all like it to be, and it is as important as ever to make sure that you are taking it into account when you make major and even some of the minor decisions you need to make in your business , every day. Build Your Customer Relationships. Maintain Social Distancing Without Harming Productivity.
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Working From Home Now? Here are Our Best Tips to Ease the Transition
N2Growth Blog
MARCH 22, 2020
Are you working from home now? Because of the Coronavirus and new social distancing guidance, many people have been directed whether voluntarily or involuntarily to work remotely until the pandemic subsides. Fortunately, most of our team at N2Growth has been working remotely for years.
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Are Your Remote Operations Fully Supporting Hybrid Learning?
PowerSchool
AUGUST 18, 2020
Having the tools and best practices in place to operate your district remotely can help you cope with changes and maintain the most stable hybrid learning environment possible for students. Hybrid education calls for more than distance learning solutions for students. Keeping families engaged. Remotely managing finance & HR.
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How to Work and Manage a Team Remotely
UruIT
OCTOBER 9, 2020
What we learned working from home during the pandemic. For starters, I am going to tell you a little about the place where I’m working. As a team, we’ve been working hand in hand with all of our employees who are in both countries. For some UruITers, remote work was not a novelty either. Going Remote.
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Cybersecurity Tips for the Household CIO of 2020
Palo Alto Networks
OCTOBER 12, 2020
As more students and employees are working from home than ever before, this year’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month is uniquely significant and we want to help make sure everyone knows how to be secure and remain secure online. Understand what your child is doing online. Compare a password to the key to your house.
Accountability as a Leader: The Key to Leadership Success
Experience to Lead
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Learn how to implement this into your leadership strategy. Still, in order to go the distance, leadership success relies heavily on having a vital element of accountability. For example, it could be your responsibility to present a proposal to a potential client.
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What is a Static Site Generator? And 3 ways to find the best one
Netlify
APRIL 13, 2020
And we’d have to ensure that they had enough horsepower to keep up with demand, fearing the times that our site became popular! As the approach began to gain popularity, more and more developers created tools to work in the language and environment which best suited their development tastes. What is a static site generator?
Hiring Remote Developers Versus Relocation – What To Choose in 2022?
Hacker Earth Developers Blog
JANUARY 26, 2022
According to a recent Eurofound report, 34% of employees residing in the EU worked exclusively from home as of July 2021. In August 2021, 77% of job offers posted on a popular social news website for computer science professionals mentioned remote work. Compared to pre-COVID statistics from 2018, that’s a whopping six-fold increase.
Not Forgotten
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
APRIL 11, 2023
Customers want technology that “just works.” And that leads us to a different kind of metaverse: not about meetings, but about collaboration, about presence while collaborating, about doing things with your colleagues and associates. Since the release of ChatGPT last November, it has sucked all the air out of technology discussions.
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A guide to personal retrospectives in engineering
CircleCI
OCTOBER 25, 2021
From sprint retros through to post-incident reviews , we look back on our work to learn from it and to get better. We could look over a whole year of work, or focus more closely on a particular project. We could look over a whole year of work, or focus more closely on a particular project. Why write a personal retrospective?
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The World Needs Designers Now More Than Ever
Scott Berkun
MARCH 24, 2020
Most ideas go nowhere, it’s true, as it takes more than just having an idea to change the world. It was a leader who designed regulations to keep people safe (or not) or crafted plans to help them recover after a crisis (or not). We take good design for granted, as when it works we assume “it just happened that way.”
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Fitness Goes Digital With Mobile Apps In 2020 And Ahead
Xicom
JULY 3, 2020
Regardless of social distancing norms, uncertainty, and roadblocks surrounding the epidemic, the only way out is to go mobile with trusted app developers in Dubai and stay at the path. Some other to the list is SoulCycle, which has presently closed all its locations globally, keeping the fingers crossed to open when the curve flattens.
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CIOs Ponder If They Should Ever Return To The Office
The Accidental Successful CIO
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
The question is: Will there be an office to go back to when this is all over? There will likely be fewer offices in the center of big cities, more hybrid schedules that allow workers to stay home part of the week and more elbow room as companies free up space for social distancing. What do all of these changes mean for a CIO?
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Extra Crunch roundup: Optimized SaaS pricing, recruiting growth experts, VC surveys, more
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
Perhaps you ran your first errand on a rented e-bike or scooter? It can be challenging to maintain a recommended physical distance on a bus or subway. Since the pandemic began, have you been walking more, or do you know someone who bought a new car? Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. Dave Clark, partner, Expa.
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Monetization: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 2
CloudGeometry
MARCH 3, 2022
It’s easy to get lost in the noise of “SaaS monetization makes the world go round,” “Subscriptions mean printing money,” and other hype. It is a necessary prerequisite for selecting the “threshold of value” you commit to building out in your platform architecture. So why put it on our shortlist?
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A tale of two surveys: Fintech VCs change tune on investment landscape
TechCrunch
JULY 31, 2022
If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. Welcome to The Interchange! If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week.
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8 Tips to Help Manage Increased Tech Usage During Back To School
PowerSchool
AUGUST 19, 2020
Building more resiliency in your infrastructure and edtech systems to deliver uninterrupted learning . Confirm your school or district bandwidth. When schools switched to distance learning due to COVID-19 closures, the sheer volume of usage and video uploads on remote learning platforms caused multiple issues for school networks.
How to Assess Equity Gaps, Widened by Distance Learning
PowerSchool
OCTOBER 22, 2020
Now, not only are schools missing the critical data required to determine the educational needs of students, many districts have not yet determined a means to address the inevitable learning and equity gaps that have been widened by distance learning. How did we get here and what do we need to do?
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3 Keys to Virtual Management of School HR Operations
PowerSchool
APRIL 7, 2020
Today’s K-12 districts need the flexibility to keep HR and talent management processes running from anywhere, any time. With more schools and districts turning to remote and distance learning, HR teams also need the ability to work virtually. Most school operations rely heavily on the HR office. Virtual recruitment and hiring.
#ClouderaLife: Unplugged
Cloudera
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
And could this work not only for technology but for the people behind the technology? Work changed overnight. In an effort to keep employees safe in the middle of a global pandemic, many companies have sent their staff home to work remotely, Cloudera included. It also makes access to work just an arm’s length away.
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“School is not just the building. It’s the people.”
PowerSchool
MAY 14, 2020
As we all continue dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact, I wanted to pause and share some thoughts on what we’ve seen, what we’ve experienced, and what we’ve been working on. 2 As a result we saw a massive surge in distance learning nationwide as educators scrambled to get programs, devices, and internet access in place.
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How Can CIOs Work From Home?
The Accidental Successful CIO
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Shifting to home means making changes in how you work Image Credit: Digital Creators. What used to be a normal job where we went into the office and did our work supporting importance of information technology has become a much more diverse thing where we find ourselves working from many different locations.
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The Station: Cruise loses its head, Nio brings AR in the car, and Rivian expands to Georgia
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox. Hello readers: Welcome to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. Policy corner is going on hiatus for a bit. A few items before jumping in. See you next year!””
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