Last update: Tuesday 7/28/15
This afternoon while reviewing tweets from business sources about today's news, I was stunned by a photo in a tweet from Business Insider about a "tech billionaire" who had had a "lavish wedding" because the text appeared above a picture of of a middle aged Black man and a young White bride ... wait ... he's Black ... and he's a tech billionaire ... click the link to the article ... more pictures of a man in his fifties in wedding garb who has my color, my lips, and my hair ... who's a Tech billionaire ... who I never heard ... maybe he's really Italian or Greek or from India and his photographs just look Black ... no ... that man is Black ... Tuesday, July 28, 2015
DLL Storify of Black Girls Code Hack at Yammer -- Tuesday 7/28/15
Last update: Tuesday 7/28/15 @ 5:57 pm EDT
Yammer invited the Bay Area Chapter of Black Girls Code to a workshop/hack at its headquarters in San Francisco. Details are provided on the event's invitation pageBelow find the DLL Storify of the few tweets that were generated by participants who used hashtags = @yammer and @BlackGirlsCode. As usual, the DLL Storify is merely a "firehose" draft, i.e., it includes all tweets in chronological order without comment or classification ... Storyfies of other #DiversityInTech events are listed in the DLL Archives
From Online to Blended -- Part 1 (High Tech, High Touch)
Last update: Tuesday 7/28/15
Way back in the fourth century BCE, Aristotle noted that man is a social animal. Twenty-five hundred years later, his judgment stands, unchallenged by modern behavioral science. It also stands as a warning about the limits of innovations, e.g., online education programs, that don't give sufficient importance to people's needs to interact with one another.
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