CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 7, 2023

As a critical part of the governance ecosystem, we impact the economy, social welfare, and all of those people who rely on these organizations to deliver the outcomes they need. One way to get experience is by joining a nonprofit or small private board. Search firms look for folks, but they’ll only find you through networking.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 8, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis isn’t the first global pandemic experienced by Compass Health, a nonprofit caring for mental health and substance abuse patients. The quick pivot to telehealth also drew from the nonprofit’s experience shifting to electronic records a few years back. Your preferred social network?

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

According to The State of the Tech Workforce 2023 report from training and certification organization CompTIA , professionals identifying as Black or African American made up 8% of US tech occupations (compared to 12% across all US occupations). Students share that perspective.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 19, 2022

“It seemed too good to be true — free classes for six months, a paid internship, partnerships with great companies in my area, high graduation and employment rates, and lastly, an emphasis on social justice,” says Burrows, who now works as a software engineer at RealSelf. Mariya Burrows, software engineer, RealSelf. Mariya Burrows.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Whether it’s workplace issues, social justice issues, or talking about engineering, and help each other along with our careers,” says Greenlee. Today BIT includes a for-profit and a nonprofit side, each of which seeks to break down barriers, create opportunity, and diversify the tech talent pipeline.

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GeekWire

MAY 25, 2021

The nonprofit sea.citi recently convened a panel of Seattle tech leaders to talk about DEI efforts. The foundation also has its own set of goals for greatly expanding its network of BIPOC-led organizations and foundations that it can partner with and provide resources for.

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GeekWire

JULY 6, 2021

In June, Seattle’s Perkins Coie launched the Black Boardroom Initiative to increase the diversity of S&P 500 corporate boards by training cohorts of potential candidates. The initiative has support from major Northwest tech companies and provides a free, six-month training program for “board-ready” Black executives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2023

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. What we must do is continuously train our people.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Tony Hunt, chief development officer of Operation Safe Escape, a nonprofit organization that helps victims of domestic violence escape their abusers, says deleting yourself from the internet could be exactly what the stalker wants. For Lorraine, deleting herself from the internet didn’t feel like a solution. “It

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The Verge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Ferguson spoke on a call organized by a group that calls themselves the Real Facebook Oversight Board , along with Color of Change, a progressive nonprofit that led the call for a Facebook advertiser boycott over the summer, and UK-based nonprofit technology justice organization Foxglove.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has shifted its long-term strategy away from its social media apps to focus on the metaverse, a virtual world where people wearing augmented/virtual reality headsets can talk to each others’ avatars, play games, hold meetings, and otherwise engage in social activities.

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Vox

JULY 29, 2022

Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien told Recode in July that his union is intent on “disrupting [Amazon’s] network until they get to a point where they surrender” and stop resisting workers’ unionization efforts. Another question asked, “How will this earn Amazon Political capital, in regions where we are facing unionization efforts?”.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Behaviors to exclude me would happen in corporate [workplaces] and even in nonprofits where I volunteered, and I wasn’t prepared for them coming.” After closing his software company during the pandemic, Beasley turned toward the nonprofit space, working with several organizations, serving on the board of directors.

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Cloud Musings

MAY 28, 2015

This latter scenario has been driven by the lack of industry consensus on security and a dearth of nonvendor specific cloud security training and certifications. While this is sometimes done for self-serving commercial reasons, perpetrators are often well-meaning individuals holding critical corporate responsibilities.

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Cloud Musings

MAY 28, 2015

This latter scenario has been driven by the lack of industry consensus on security and a dearth of nonvendor specific cloud security training and certifications. While this is sometimes done for self-serving commercial reasons, perpetrators are often well-meaning individuals holding critical corporate responsibilities.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

One semester, Sandra Aistars, director of the Arts and Entertainment Advocacy Clinic at George Mason University, had law students do takedown notices for artists and nonprofits and tracked their interactions. Even people who should be experts in copyright matters can struggle to contend with takedown policies.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2021

It is very deep device driver level work in Windows which controls how your files are located across the network and optimized for performance and easy access across a large enterprise.”. The company provides back-end tech and software to help companies build training and onboarding programs. What did you learn from it? “I

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Our guests included: Cindy Liebes, Chief Program Officer for the Cybercrime Support Network; Jake Wilson, Security Awareness Evangelist for Western Governors University; and Gretel Egan, Senior Security Awareness and Training Strategist for Proofpoint. Release bite-sized, creative training experiences. It's just not the case.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 8, 2023

We sold the company to Palo Alto Networks, I think less than four years from its founding date, which is a very interesting growth story, obviously. So I also have recently launched a nonprofit called the Forte group. And so if you want to want it to make InfoSec decisions, maybe it has to be trained on private data.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

GPT stands for “generative pre-training.”) To simplify things, the program has been trained on a huge corpus of text that it’s mined for statistical regularities. These regularities are unknown to humans, but they’re stored as billions of weighted connections between the different nodes in GPT-3’s neural network.

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

The nonprofit, which provides rapid SMS-based access to counselors for people in crisis, had been trying to make inroads in black communities for years. But Jo, who worked at the company as a social media coordinator, found that her white boss did not agree. Lyons-Wolf was also in charge of training new crisis counselors.

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Vox

MARCH 4, 2023

Generative AI is already starting to find its way into mainstream applications for everything from food shopping to social media. There are also concerns of bias due to a lack of diversity in the material and data that generative AI is trained on, or the people who are overseeing that training. Microsoft quickly took it offline.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

CBS: A computer security researcher was kept off a plane for suggesting on social media that he could hack into the planes control system. For that satellite operate, here's the entire ground base network that goes into supporting it. So one security researcher decided to poke the tiger. And his work certainly made the evening news.

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2020

Department of Energy’s broad network of government-funded research institutions across the country, PNNL’s research on national security and energy is worthy of recognition. Founded in Boston in 2000, the nonprofit training program launched in the Puget Sound region in 2011 with a mission to “close the opportunity divide.”

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

Find out what Daniel looks for and how he does digital forensics using social media and other open source resources. While I produced this episode, a 21 year old Massachusetts National Guard airman is alleged to have photographed and distributed copies of classified US Military material on Discord, a social media site. You find clues.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

For example, I have a laptop and it runs Linux so I can get into network security. But what about something in between something like a car in 2016 I took a two day car hacking training session at BlackHat USA. We were trying to make sure we still maintain social distancing at our CTF and and in vehicles.

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Vox

MARCH 30, 2023

A lot of people who saw it thought it was fun, too, so they spread it around social media. You might even call it a turning point in the war against mis- and disinformation, which the people fighting were, frankly, already losing simply because social media exists. We’ve had this issue with text and misinformation on social platforms.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Lil Nas X’s “Panini,” NASA’s social media presence, Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty line, and John Krasinski’s Some Good News YouTube show are among the winners of this year’s Webby Awards. National Geographic took away this year’s most awards, 15 total, with wins for its science podcasts, travel videos, and photos on social media, among other things.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

These moves, part of a broader push by the company, are significant because with nearly 3 billion users, Facebook is one of the most influential social media networks in the world. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. All Open Sourced content is editorially independent and produced by our journalists.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

First, each and every one of the jobs can start someone on a career path right, with training and mentorship, and let them build up experience they can use throughout their lives. My nonprofit group, Venture for America, is known for trying to rebuild local economies through entrepreneurship. They want pathways to develop and grow.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

Hichert also conducts workshops on topics such as the future of transport and the future of migration, and she has trained the Joint Command of the South African National Defence Force on applying complexity thinking to decision-making. One of her focuses is building networks between Azerbaijani people and researchers across the world.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

It was an office where moderators would have panic attacks while still in training, traumatized by daily exposure to gore and other disturbing posts. In a preliminary settlement filed on Friday in San Mateo Superior Court, the social network agreed to pay damages to American moderators and provide more counseling to them while they work.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

The latter app also drove growth in kids’ social app use by 100% in 2019 and 200% in 2020, the report found. So basically, before TikTok, kids used social apps a certain amount. If you are working on a social app, this is a good sign that you are doing something right. Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine ).

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Vox

JUNE 12, 2023

Roller, who has lived in Tulsa since the early ’70s, is a mentor with the local chapter of the business nonprofit SCORE , which offers businesses free assistance with things like financial planning and fundraising. Their training means not just a good job, but potentially a good remote job — much like the ones people in Tulsa Remote have. “I

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

The “Tide Pods challenge” surged on social networks in 2018, and ultimately more than 10,000 children were reported to have been exposed to whatever extremely inedible substance is actually inside Tide Pods. Still, Facebook made it clear today that, like other networks before it, the company does consider QAnon a problem.

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Vox

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Ultimately, the platform is facing the same challenges of polarization and misinformation as other social networks like Facebook and Twitter. The company has long aspired to be a social network where civility and neighborliness prevail; there’s even a guide to being respectful to your neighbors in the Nextdoor help center.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

But you could also use it as an umbrella term to talk about initiatives related to what Facebook and other social networks have lately taken to calling “platform integrity” — removing hate speech, for example, or labeling misinformation. He threatened to shut down social media companies. He said “big action” would follow.

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