My Standing Desk Home Office
Since I live in Washington DC and work for a company in San Francisco, I can’t exactly go into the office every day. Instead, I work from home. Yet even there I am a little different from the rest. I don’t have a sitting desk with a chair – I stand to work. Yes, I […]
Read MoreVenn Diagram Location of m4D and Apps4D in ICT4D
Recently, Ken Banks put forth an interesting question in his post “Mobile community: The holy grail of m4d?” He essentially asked “Who is the mobile community?” and hinted that there is a lack of clarity in the definition and therefore the need for a specific mobile community. Taking his hint, Nate Barthel suggested we think […]
Read MoreApps4Dev: Smartphone Application Development as ICT4D
The rise of the smartphone has unleashed a wave of excitement and income generation across the software development community. Applications that can run on iPhones, Android phones and Blackberry’s, can be written quickly, and on the cheap, and have generated outsized returns for their creators. Even more impressive is that this application revolution is just […]
Read MoreHow to Blog for Professional Success in International Development
“We need a website. Who wants to figure that out?” says my new boss in the very first staff meeting I attend on the very first day of my new job. “I will,” I answered, and so in 1995, I started blogging, before there was even a term for it. Blogging got me on 60 […]
Read More3 Surefire Steps to Securing a Kick-Ass ICT4D Job
The response to my recent offering to help you get an amazing ICT4D dream job in 2011 has been overwhelming – I can barely keep up with the individual requests for help. So to speed up the knowledge sharing, I present to you the 3 surefire steps to securing a kick-ass ICT4D job (or any […]
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