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Femme 2012: in Baltimore and Everywhere on the Web

August 14, 2012May 22, 2015 by femmetech
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I'm busting with pride because, for the last year, I've been volunteering co-leading the Media team of this weekend's Femme Conference. Between starting work on this conference and now, I started graduate school and went to two Allied Media Conferences, and it's just really clear to me how incredibly important…
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Shareware, Freeware, Open Source: Definitions, explanations, and some programs!

March 12, 2011July 17, 2013 by femmetech
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Why are there a billion free PC programs out there but only ten thousand free Mac programs? Because a PC operating system is open source and Mac is proprietary. What the hell does that mean? Friends that's a long conversation down intellectual property and capitalism lane, so let's go there…
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Buying A Video Camera

February 1, 2010July 17, 2013 by femmetech
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Buying a video camera might seem like a simple task, perhaps because you haven't attempted to do it recently, or maybe you live in a world where video cameras are an oft-discussed item. For the rest of us -- hearty DIY people who would like to purchase a video camera…
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Google games: beemp3 makes my songs into… ringtones?

January 26, 2010July 17, 2013 by femmetech
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[caption id="attachment_33" align="alignright" width="300"] woohoo narcissism![/caption] ONE So every once in a while I'll google my name[s] to see what comes up. And this time around I learned that you can get two songs from Ice 9 and two tracks from Exquisite Witness on the illustriously sketchy beemp3.com. This is…
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Recording For Free: Sound on a Mac & PC [how-to]

January 25, 2010July 17, 2013 by femmetech
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I love recording audio, making music, archiving stories and beautiful moments, and I am not endowed with money -- and have definitely been seriously broke and still wanted to make audio art. What's a techhead to do? Read on for audio recording recommendations for voices and music on mac and…
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Webpages I: Getting A Name

January 22, 2010July 17, 2013 by femmetech
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So you want a webpage, or maybe you want to be like me and have six plus some blogs [see blogroll]. Either way, you have to start with your web name! This covers basics like getting a domain name [your URL], what the heck you do to make it work…
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How To's Are Hot: File Sharing

January 18, 2010May 21, 2015 by femmetech
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I really love knowing "how-to"  any and everything -- both digi/technological and real-time. Lately I find myself to be the Lady of Reference among my friends -- and because I believe in skill-sharing and DIY/C [that last "/C' is for "collectively"] I love to let people know how to do…
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The Steps to do Applied Design Research

Few things make me more forlorn than work that goes unapplied — here’s how and why to apply your design research!

Jul 13, 2022 / Read More

Solving business problems by using journeys instead of moments

A case study about solving business problems by using a journey framework, instead of a moment lens.

Jun 23, 2022 / Read More

What I Learned Designing a CX Listening Program

As I wrap up a role in which developed a Customer Experience [CX] data listening program, I wanted to share a few of the learnings surfac...

May 26, 2022 / Read More

Future of Work Reflections from full-time consulting experiment

Today I celebrate 3 months of full-time consulting as a principal with my firm Staircase Strategy.

Apr 06, 2022 / Read More

Thanking 639 people in 2020

In this often disconnected and lonely year, I learned with and taught, collaborated with on projects, coached, interviewed, and facilitat...

Jan 03, 2021 / Read More

The two crucial types of “how” to address in remote meetings

For many of us, the practice of “being in remote meetings” has been turned up a few notches, and not all of us are enjoying the experienc...

May 26, 2020 / Read More

The future of work needs facilitation: How Applied Creativity and Collaboration Techniques…

As technology increases automation and its reach over logistics, attention is turning to the roles of collaborative, human-centered produ...

Feb 21, 2020 / Read More

Using Design Thinking to Fix Your Money Problems

Feb 14, 2020 / Read More

Five Problems Teams Get Stuck On (and five ways to address them)

Sep 23, 2019 / Read More

How to Throw Yourself a DIY Retrospective

Jul 12, 2019 / Read More

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