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Techie-turned-lawmaker uses his Microsoft chops to challenge the status quo as a state senator

GeekWire

It proved a worthwhile exercise. He started using social media more extensively than many of his colleagues, creating a Facebook series dubbed “Olympia Explained.” ” During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, he facilitated virtual legislative hearings and activities in the chambers.

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Office holiday parties are back and smaller than ever

Vox

Pretty much everyone hates virtual office holiday parties. This year, virtual parties are persisting, although, mercifully, companies have learned some lessons from last year about what employees will bear. Virtual celebrations, the sequel. For many companies, this will be year two of the virtual holiday party.

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Microsoft’s Erik Arnold merges passion for tech and philanthropy to help nonprofits gain digital success

GeekWire

Arnold spent time at the Gates-owned Corbis, at PATH, which has a close partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and now Microsoft, where Arnold is CTO of the company’s nonprofit-focused Tech for Social Impact. Philanthropy is part of Microsoft’s DNA and the scale of our social commitment takes my breath away.

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8 Top interactive learning software for online education

Kitaboo

You can create a virtual environment to store and share all your training materials such as eBooks. Other powerful features include search text and social learning. Course content is available in the form of on-demand video lectures, homework exercises, and peer-reviewed assignments.

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Fred Hutch’s president says a new strain of virus research center is needed to fight future outbreaks

GeekWire

.” Lynch said the pandemic’s effect on Fred Hutch’s operating budget is a “huge issue,” as it has been for UW Medicine. To cope with the craziness of the coronavirus outbreak, Lynch said he tries to exercise every day. “I’m a big fan of masks,” he said. PT on May 28.

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What newsrooms can learn from threat modeling at Facebook

The Verge

I had a fixed (and at Yahoo, quite small) budget of person-power, OpEx, and CapEx that I could deploy, so I had to be incredibly thoughtful about what uses for those resources would be most effective in detecting and mitigating risk. Others have formal threat modeling exercises but do so with less heavyweight mechanisms. Makes sense.

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26 great apps for your new 2020 Windows PC

The Verge

It can get hard to navigate all of my various streaming services, work apps, chats, and social media using Chrome tabs — and it also puts me at greater risk of getting distracted. You’ll start with basic phrases such as greetings and move on to more advanced exercises as you progress. Social Media. Video Chat. Content Creation.

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