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14 organizations that support LGBTQ+ tech workers

CIO Business Intelligence

Maven Youth Maven Youth is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering LGBTQ+ youth to “network, organize, and educate for social change through technology and the tech sector.” The nonprofit was born after IBM sponsored a focus group in 2005 at the Human Rights Campaign headquarters in Washington, D.C.,

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10 fastest growing US tech hubs for IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

Dice defines a growing tech hub as a city with universities and colleges to recruit from, venture funding opportunities, a strong social scene for networking, and existing companies looking to hire talent. These 10 cities are the fastest growing tech hubs by salary, according to Dice. increase from 2021, according to Dice.

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Founded by a former high school counselor, EdXeno aims to connect students with their future colleges

GeekWire

EdXeno is developing a mobile app to provide free college advising and resources to students, and give universities a recruiting platform by communicating directly with interested students. He ultimately decided to chart his own path in the field — initially founding a nonprofit called Equitable College Counseling before founding EdXeno.

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How influencers are being recruited to promote the Covid-19 vaccine

Vox

But over the coming weeks and months, she’ll be far from the only person showing up in social media feeds getting inoculated. At the dawn of the pandemic, celebrities and influencers flooded our feeds with content urging us to take preventive measures, like hand-washing, social distancing, and mask-wearing.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

She has worked on projects about diverse issues such as water security, the future of energy, the future of youth, intelligent buildings, the development of cities over the next few decades, and planning for Egypt in 2030. Chung developed the curriculum and conducted training for the government’s in-house futures course, Futurecraft.

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Tech Moves: Zillow co-founder joins Palantir board; Hootsuite names new CEO; and more

GeekWire

based social media management platform Hootsuite named Tom Keiser as its new CEO. Patel was chief intellectual property officer at TiVo and has held IP roles at Technicolor and IBM. Ideoclick, a Seattle e-commerce startup, promoted Jonathan Ferrell to vice president of business development. GeekWire is a dot.LA Vancouver, B.C.-based

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First job lessons: Seattle tech startup CEOs on what they learned from car washing, delivery, and more

GeekWire

I wrote device drivers for the IBM PC, as well as Apple Mac IIs and SEs.”. My role was to develop the “Distributed File System” in Windows. Everyone buys office supplies, so I got to learn about a broad range of companies across different industries, from biotech to shoe manufacturing to video game developers.”.