lessons

27Aug

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DIGITAL MARKETING

Podcast Of The Week: Re-Evaluating Customer Success And Advocacy: Marketing Lessons From Sydney Sloan

Interview with Sydney Sloan - Former CMO, Salesloft & Alfresco, Startup Investor and Advisor. Sydney is a CMO, board advisor, and thought leader who has held senior leadership positions in product marketing, operations, field marketing, partner marketing, business development, and customer experience. Sydney served as a CMO at Alfresco and then Salesloft after managing enterprise product marketing and industry solutions marketing at Adobe Systems for 9 years. Tune in to listen to this seasoned marketer as she shares the lessons she's learned over the course of her 25+ year career in marketing. Click here for the podcast transcript Start Your Outgrow Free Trial!

Tips for living online – lessons from six months of the COVID-19 pandemic

3Apr

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Tips for living online – lessons from six months of the COVID-19 pandemic

Valentine’s Day was sweet, spring break was fun, then… boom! COVID-19. Stay-at-home orders, workplace shutdowns, school closures and social distancing requirements changed lives almost overnight. Forty-two percent of the U.S. workforce now works from home full-time. In the six months since the “new normal” began, Americans have gained a fair amount of experience with working, studying and socializing online. With schools resuming and cooler weather curtailing outdoor activities, videoconferencing will be as front and center as it was in the spring. As someone who researches and teaches instructional technology, I can offer recommendations for how to make the best of the situation and make the most of virtual interactions with colleagues, teachers, students, family and friends. Create a d...

5 lessons from the coronavirus about inequality in America

3Apr

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SOCIETY

5 lessons from the coronavirus about inequality in America

The coronavirus is a global threat, but the pandemic has an uneven impact across the U.S. It exacerbates existing inequalities and creates new challenges. I think this crisis can teach several important lessons about inequality in America: how it hurts, who it hurts the most, why that’s the case and what can be done about it. 1. Staying home is a luxury For millions of Americans, staying at home is a luxury they cannot afford. The comfort and well-being of all Americans depends on grocery clerks, delivery drivers and factory workers putting their own safety second so they can stay on the job. While the upper middle classes take their work with them, working and middle-class Americans are tethered to their jobs: 52% of college-educated people can work from home, as compared to just 12% of...

Birthed by HBCU students, this organization offers important lessons for today’s student activists

15Apr

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SOCIAL JUSTICE

Birthed by HBCU students, this organization offers important lessons for today’s student activists

April 15, 2020 marks 60 years since the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, perhaps better known as SNCC, and usually pronounced as “snick.” SNCC became one of the most important organizations to engage in grassroots organizing during the modern civil rights movement and radically transformed youth culture during the decade. Jelani Favors, an associate professor of history and author of a book on how historically black colleges and universities ushered in a new era of activism and leadership, discusses SNCC’s legacy and what lessons it can offer today’s activists. What role did SNCC play in the civil rights movement? The founding of SNCC in April 1960 represented an important paradigm shift within the modern civil rights movement. SNCC encouraged black youth to defia...

7 lessons from ‘Hidden Figures’ NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson’s life and career

4Apr

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IN OTHER NEWS

7 lessons from ‘Hidden Figures’ NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson’s life and career

Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician who made critical contributions to the space program at NASA, died Feb. 24 at the age of 101. Johnson became a household name thanks to the celebrated book “Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians who Helped Win the Space Race,” which later became a movie. Her legacy provides lessons for supporting women and other underrepresented groups in mathematics and science. As a historian of mathematics, I have studied women in that field and use the book “Hidden Figures” in my classroom. I can point to some contemporary ideas we can all benefit from when examining Johnson’s life. 1. Mentors make a difference Early in her life, Johnson’s parents fostered her intellectual prowess. Because there ...