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What do you think of this “one-line pitch” for qweries?
qweries helps everybody find answers get in the conversation, and contribute to your community by prioritizing diversity and design As I described on the NWEN blog in The agile one-pager (part 5), a good one-line pitch covers what a company does, who they do it for, and a bit about how. Here’s what I’ve currently…
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The home stretch: part 6 of “The Agile One-pager” (DRAFT)
Draft! Revised version on NWEN’s blog. The first four parts of the series (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) have gotten us close. Now it’s time for the final push. For impatient readers, here are the tips Go back over the section descriptions in the application form and double-check that you’re addressing the right questions in…
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First Look Forum participants, please join us Wednesday evening for a Twitter chat!
As we head into the homestretch with the First Look Forum, we wanted to give an opportunity for people to ask some last-minute questions and get some quick feedback. Email works, of course, but it’s soooooo 20th century. So we’re also going to be having a Twitter chat, on Wednesday February 16 at 7:30 p.m.…
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Starting the feedback loop: part 2 of “The agile one-pager” (DRAFT)
Draft! Revised version with better takeaways posted on NWEN’s blog. In part 1 of the series, we looked at reasons to write an executive summary, highlighted resources like Rebecca Lovell’s The Art of the One-Page App and Garage Technology Ventures’ Writing a compelling executive summary, and introduced the agile approach to writing an executive summary:…
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The agile approach to a one-page executive summary, part 1: Getting started (DRAFT)
Update, February 2: Final version posted on NWEN’s blog.
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How can we use #PrivChat to press for #privacy rights? (REVISED)
Update, August 2: discussion of Google+ and HR1981 in a new comment Originally written January 19. Updated January 24, after discussions with Weaver2World and MissHealth. I modified one of the recommendations and added a new one. See the pink highlights in the text. Mark Stanley of the Center for Democracy and Technology wrapped up Tuesday’s…
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Thoughts about a social media campaign for “The Stripping of Freedoms”
EPIC’s The Stripping of Freedoms conference has an all-star cast: Kate Hanni of FlyersRights, pilot Michael Roberts of Fed Up Flyers, Jim Babb of We Won’t Fly, Prof. Jeffrey Rosen, Bruce Schneier, Nadhira Al-Khalili of CAIR, Chip Pitts of BORDC, Ginger McCall and Lillie Coney of EPIC, and many many more. So it’s a great…
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Taking the Train!
We got on the train in Seattle’s King St. Station: a quick ID check, and that was it. No nude pictures. No irradiation. No groping. This is how travel should be.
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Security alert: bots using Facebook chat
If somebody starts chatting with you and asks you to try a link, be wary … No, I didn’t click on the link. I do my best to keep up with security patches, but why take the chance of visiting a site that’s likely to be filled with malware?
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Dinner with D (part 0 of g0ddesses.net)
“Hellrazr and Nemesis is working with a startup for an interim interim CEO. Are you interested? If so, I’m going to be in Seattle Saturday night. Are you free for dinner?†Interim interim CEO didn’t seem like a particularly empowered job so my first reaction was that I probably wasn’t interested … but hey, never…
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Happy Halloween!
18 years … wow … and they said it wouldn’t last … Actually, nobody said it wouldn’t last. But if they had, they’d have been wrong.
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“Tissue turgor” and pink elephants: about Y Combinator (DRAFT)
DRAFT! Work in progress! Feedback welcome One advantage startups have over established companies is that there are no discrimination laws about starting businesses. For example, I would be reluctant to start a startup with a woman who had small children, or was likely to have them soon. But you’re not allowed to ask prospective employees…
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WiseDame: Now *that’s* what I call disruptive (part 6 of TechCrunch, disrupted)
Is it just me, or does WiseDame seem far more disruptive than most of the startups pitching location-based ideas? — Jon Pincus, on WiseDame’s just-relaunched site; originally from A celebration of disruptive women J’aime Ohm won the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon as a solo hacker with a personal safety iPhone app. WiseDame’s tag line is “making…
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If She Ran the Ward: Oni Joseph, the Haitian Sensation
“There are roughly 900,000 people living in Ottawa. A good five per cent are living in a marginalized way. It’s disgusting. It’s a shame. I love my city, I love Ottawa, but we can do better. We have to take care of that five per cent. And I would say three out of that five…
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What Diaspora can learn about security from Microsoft
Back in April, four NYU students decided to raise money to spend the summer hacking on their project: a privacy-friendly open source social network. They put up a page on Kickstarter, a crowdsourced funding site. Talk about being in the right place at the right time: after a great article Four nerds and a cry…
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What can Diaspora learn about security from Microsoft? (FIRST DRAFT)
It’s counter-intuitive to think of Microsoft as a poster child for security. But the progress they’ve made since 2001 along with the challenges they continue to face have a lot of lessons for anybody in this space — including Diaspora, the “privacy-aware, personally-controlled, open-source, do-it-all social networkâ€.
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Is Facebook subject to breach notification laws for revealing phone numbers?
Security warning: If you don’t intend to share your phone number on Facebook, ask a friend to check their Phonebookand see if it’s there. And it’s a good time to check to your privacy settings — my brother Greg has instructions on The Happy Accident. Update, October 7: See the Twitter discussion in the first…
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A celebration of disruptive women (“Techcrunch, disrupted” part 4)
TechCrunch Disrupt wasn’t the only conference happening this week. The tenth Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is currently going on in Atlanta, and this year’s theme is Collaborating across Boundaries. There’s no streaming video, alas, but things have been hopping on Twitter. Since it’s Follow Friday on Twitter, I figured I’d mirror the…