Category: Career

• September 2015 – the month of the Black Woman

  

  I’m calling September 2015 the month of the black woman. Incredible things have happened. Not just in terms of what black women have accomplished – that has been happening for many years – but in terms of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT by the media. This is a hot topic that has been talked about in The Huffington Post, The…

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  September 2015

  Beauty, Black is Beautiful, Book/Magazine Reviews, Career, Entertainment, Fashion, Girl Talk, Makeup, News, Politics, Social Media, Sports, TV

  abc, ameliarobinson, apple, applemusic, black, blackhistory, blackisbeautiful, chance, ciara, civilrights, color, csiriano, essence, fashion, fox, janelle, janellemonae, justice, kerry, kerrywashington, maryjblige, model, opportunity, options, perfectguy, politics, sanaalathan, shonda, shondarimes, sister, sisterhood, sistervote, taraji, tarajiphenson, theperfectguy, tv, voiladavis, vote, women, womenofcolor

• The Case for Computer Science

  

  This morning Martin Armstrong released a post titled, “Most Schools Do Not Teach Computer Science.” After hearing a few years ago that some schools don’t even offer Physical Education (PE) any more – better known as play time to kids – I’m not surprised one bit! Do you know what Computer Science is and the benefits?…

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  September 2015

  Business, Career, Education, Tech

  apple, college, computer, computerscience, education, facebook, intel, jibs, job, Kids, kntel, major, tech

• The Confidence Code

  

  I live for a non-fiction book recommendation! That’s exactly what I got this morning while planning a Women’s networking event with a co-worker. The book is called The Confidence Code, published in April of 2014 by Claire Shipman, a regular contributor to “Good Morning America” and Katty Kay, anchor for BBC World News America in Washington. “Confidence. We know…

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  February 2015

  Book/Magazine Reviews, Career, Read

  career, code, confidence, excel, females, women

• Tech Pays

  

  Don’t believe Tech Pays really well? Well enough to be able to give small fortunes away to charity? “The Philanthropy 50” compiles the 50 most generous donors of last year. A total of 12 donors from the tech world contributed gifts representing 47% of the $9.8 billion donated in 2014. The chart below from Mashable tells it all!…

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  February 2015

  Career, Charity, STEM, Tech

  bayarea, charity, donations, Philanthropy, tech

• Get Started

  

  Get Started. Do Something. Just Do It. Go! These are all things I heard multiple times this week: in church, at work, on blogs. Check out a few highlights from an article I read this morning discussing this very topic: Many people spend their whole lives waiting to be ready. For us, ready often becomes more…

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  November 2014

  Business, Career, Education, Read

  action, getstarted, justdoit, move, start