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Turning former inmates into future software engineers

Mashable Tech

SEE ALSO: Man leaked classified Pentagon docs via Discord — now he’s sentenced to 15 years in prison Formation's remote learning model, which includes at least 15 weekly hours of daily stand-ups, mentor-led sessions, and panels held by industry leaders, does more than help aspiring engineers brush up on their coding skills.

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AI is coming for the laptop class

Recode by Vox

I write stories like this in Google Docs on my laptop. That said, part of Blooms skepticism about full-remote work comes from his belief in the importance of mentoring, which is much harder to do in a remote work setup. With AI, presumably the need to mentor in-person becomes moot. What are the most remote-friendly jobs?

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Vote for the Winners of the 2014 DoGooder Video Awards!

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Don’t forget: Your votes determine which organizations go home with fantastic prizes: NTEN will provide the contest winner with a free registration pass to the 2015 NTC in Austin, Texas Cisco will contribute a cash prize to the winner of the Best Nonprofit Video Award The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture in partnership with the National (..)

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"Google Was Our First Office": Managing a Worldwide Staff

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Each fellow is guided by a personal volunteer, mentor, and a coach, who are professionals in different fields. They used Google docs to help share documents with the volunteers worldwide as they worked on the magazine. "Google was our first office", Simi explains. It was not used efficiently at the beginning.

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How working remotely changed my life (and can change yours, too)

The Next Web

Here’s our toolkit: Campfire (it’s like a digital water cooler), GoToMeeting (video conferencing meetings, and screen sharing), Google Docs (document collaboration and editing), Sprint.ly (task management for software companies), and email. Lack of social interaction, and face-to-face mentoring you get in an office. Trade-offs.

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Your 2022 Guide to Blackbaud’s K-12 Conference

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Traci Holinger, data and software administrator at Regis Jesuit High School, will showcase the custom insights she built to help guide the school’s direction on student support, teacher mentoring, student body inclusion (by gender, ethnicity, and religion), student engagement (in clubs, retreats, immersions, and athletics), and tuition projections.

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