Category Archives: communication

Coming to a Computer Screen Near You Soon

04 Thursday Mar 2010

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Computer History Museum

Where better to bring together technology thought leaders together than the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

Last night Dice launched NextTech, an  industry event  designed to inform and entertain, all while supporting tech professionals, many whom are Dice job site users.

NextTech brought together tech industry visionaries, a select group of tech professionals, and leading tech companies to learn about the future of the tech industry, software, gaming, social media and more – beyond 2010. My guess is that  300+ showed up to this capacity event.

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Bucking the “Over the Hill” Drive

12 Friday Feb 2010

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I dropped by the Satellite Telework Center today,  a co-working space in downtown Felton, California.  Founding partner Jim Graham poured a cup of coffee and sat down with me to report on this growing business’ progress.

Graham and partners Barbara Sprenger and Ken Meshke started the business almost a year ago, and are on track with their projected goals.

“We always felt this would be the beta site and we now have several more sites in Santa Cruz County under consideration. I have studied co-working for years and have always wondered what prevented this way of working from really taking hold. Our idea has been to get the right mix of  components in terms of services, space configuration and community involvement and then reproduce this, with each site having a ‘neighborhood personality.'”

Jim Graham, Director of Marketing

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