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En este territorio con David Ruiz, líder de Analytics, Big Data y Artificial Intelligence de Google y Renzo Casapía, CEO de Cengage, conoce cómo la Inteligencia Artificial te acompaña diariamente para mejorar tu vida y optimizar la toma de decisiones estratégicas de tu empresa. Un Podcast de Tec Sounds Podcasts.

Neste episódio do Podcast do PublishNews, vamos à China para falar da Feira Internacional do Livro de Pequim 2024, que recebeu mais de 300 mil pessoas em cinco dias. Foram mais de mil eventos culturais ligados à Feira neste ano, como lançamento de livros, palestras, seminários, exibições de diferentes tamanhos. Desde antes do início dos trabalhos, a organização vinha divulgando os esforços de internacionalização – 17% a mais de exibidores internacionais do que em 2023. Países como Japão, Malásia, Reino Unido e Itália fizeram crescer sua presença, com estandes nacionais reunindo editoras, agentes e escritores, e foi possível notar na Feira forte presença de editoras científicas alemãs (como a Springer Nature), norte-americanas (como a Cengage e diversas universitárias) e holandesas (como a Elsevier e a De Gruyter Brill). Editoras chinesas demonstraram interesse em se aproximar do mercado brasileiro – o PublishNews noticiou que a biografia de Lula, de Fernando Morais, vai ser publicada por lá pela Yilin Press, selo do grupo Phoenix, um dos maiores do país. A Feira também anunciou um negócio que envolve o Brasil entre os principais acordos realizados durante a semana: a editora Jilin Science and Technology Publishing House vendeu os direitos para publicação no Brasil de um livro de fotos das Montanhas Changbai para o Grupo Editorial The Books, que tem bom trânsito com o mercado asiático. Neste episódio, o editor-chefe do PublishNews, Guilherme Sobota, conversa com duas pessoas que também estiveram lá na Feira de Pequim. Karine Pansa, diretora editorial da Girassol e presidente da International Publishers Association (IPA), e Leopoldo Cavalcante editor da Aboio, editora independente que foi selecionada pelo programa de apoio da Feira. Este podcast é um oferecimento da MVB Brasil, empresa que traz soluções em tecnologia para o mercado do livro. Além da Metabooks, reconhecida plataforma de metadados, a MVB oferece para o mercado brasileiro o único serviço de EDI exclusivo para o negócio do livro. Com a Pubnet, o seu processo de pedidos ganha mais eficiência. https://brasil.mvb-online.com/home                                                                      Já ouviu falar em POD, impressão sob demanda? Nossos parceiros da UmLivro são referência dessa tecnologia no Brasil, que permite vender primeiro e imprimir depois; reduzindo custos com estoque, armazenamento e distribuição. Com o POD da UmLivro, você disponibiliza 100% do seu catálogo sem perder nenhuma venda. http://umlivro.com.br e também com o apoio da CBL A Câmara Brasileira do Livro representa editores, livreiros, distribuidores e demais profissionais do setor e atua para promover o acesso ao livro e a democratização da leitura no Brasil. É a Agência Brasileira do ISBN e possui uma plataforma digital que oferece serviços como: ISBN, Código de Barras, Ficha Catalográfica, Registro de Direito Autoral e Carta de Exclusividade. https://cbl.org.br Este é um episódio 327 do Podcast do PublishNews do dia 1º de julho de 2024, gravados no dia 26 e 27 de junho. E não se esqueça de assinar a nossa newsletter, nos seguir nas redes sociais: Instagram, Linkedin, YouTube, Facebook, TikTok e X. Todos os dias com novos conteúdos para você.  O PublishNews esteve ainda em junho na Feira Internacional do Livro de Pequim, na China. O editor-chefe Guilherme Sobota foi conferir in loco como os chineses estão discutindo as questões mais importantes do mercado editorial hoje em dia, como o uso de inteligência artificial nos processos, e também outros assuntos como a venda online de livros, que vem crescendo de maneira muito acelerada por lá, e a tradução de livros para o mercado chinês --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-do-publishnews/message

The ed-tech executive on shifting the discussion to emphasize the economic benefits of education, harnessing AI, skills-based hiring, employer-educator collaboration, and the public policy landscape.

The non-profit organization Pornography Is Not Education reveals concerns about explicit content in school and public libraries targeting minors. Commercial providers like EBSCO, Cengage, and Gale are criticized for embedding harmful advertising and explicit links within educational resources, bypassing internet filters. This issue has triggered legislative responses in states like Mississippi and Utah, though many struggle with enforcement and accountability.In Texas, despite the U.S. Supreme Court's support for age verification laws, the challenge persists with providers continuing to expose students to inappropriate content. Schools employ "single sign-on" systems that shield student activities from parental view, complicating oversight.There's also a troubling trend where schools partner with public libraries to share digital resources, enabling them to deny direct responsibility for the content accessed by students. This partnership model, funded significantly during the Obama Administration, is expanding nationwide, further diluting parental control over the educational content their children are exposed to.Parents are encouraged to engage directly by requesting access to their children's online school portals, communicating with district administrators, and advocating at school board meetings to ensure a safer digital environment for their children.Support the Show.DONATE TODAY!www.ParentsRightsInEducation.com

“[A matrix reporting structure] really requires both sets of managers to…have alignment around an individual's goals.”-Allison MairenaHave you ever been in a matrix reporting relationship?  It can be very frustrating if both leaders are not aligned.   In today's episode, my guest gives us a peek into how her organization manages matrix reporting.My guest is Allison Mairena. Allison (she/her) specializes in building and scaling People Operations practices, particularly for rapidly-growing startups and international teams. Currently, she serves as the VP of People for NewGlobe, an international education company providing innovative curriculum and transformative technical services to public schools. Recently leading the People & Talent function at connectRN, she led the organization through COVID-19 and the transition to remote-supportive work. There, Allison developed and executed the HR strategy as the company grew 4x YoY. Prior to connectRN, Allison served as the Head of People at CozyKin, a tech-enabled childcare service, and talent acquisition teams at EF Education First and Cengage, hiring globally and nationally respectively.Being a very mission-driven professional, Allison has worked predominantly for companies which make a societal impact (edtech, healthtech, famtech). She believes in a human-first approach, advocating for employee wellbeing and amplifying voices from underrepresented groups.In this episode of Talent Management Truths, you'll discover:The business case for buying performance management software when you don't have already an HRIS Insight into the difference between a globalization model and a COE structureBest practice ideas for matrix reporting structuresLinksAllison Mairena on Linkedin Are you a Talent leader who is longing for a safe place to bounce ideas off of? In addition to my group programs I work privately with a select few clients as their Talent Management Thought Partner. I will help you, over the next 90 days, create the space, the intention and the strategy to implement an initiative that is CRITICAL to your team. Let's chat and see if there's a fit. Book me online at greenappleconsulting.ca/contact Stay Connected JOIN our free, value-added Community of Peers and Learning! Lisa hosts regular FREE Talent Talks for HR and Talent Management Leaders to expand your network, spark ideas and learn with your peers. We leverage large group discussion and small group breakouts: https://www.greenappleconsulting.ca/TalentTalks Share the Show Like what you've heard? Pretty please with an apple on top - kindly leave me a 5* review so that others can find the show and elevate their impact too! Here are the simple instructions: Launch Apple's Podcast app on your iPhone or iPad. Tap the Search icon (on the botton) and search for “Talent Management Truths.” Tap the album art. On the podcast page, tap the Reviews tab. Tap Write a Review at the bottom of this page. Follow me LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-mitchell-acc-ctdp-7437636/ Instagram: @greenappleconsulting Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greenappleconsulting.ca

In episode 119 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Professor Michael Sipser.Professor Sipser is the Donner Professor of Mathematics and member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT.He received his PhD from UC Berkeley in 1980 and joined the MIT faculty that same year. He was Chairman of Applied Mathematics from 1998 to 2000 and served as Head of the Mathematics Department 2004-2014. He served as interim Dean of Science 2013-2014 and then as Dean of Science 2014-2020.He was a research staff member at IBM Research in 1980, spent the 1985-86 academic year on the faculty of the EECS department at Berkeley and at MSRI, and was a Lady Davis Fellow at Hebrew University in 1988. His research areas are in algorithms and complexity theory, specifically efficient error correcting codes, interactive proof systems, randomness, quantum computation, and establishing the inherent computational difficulty of problems. He is the author of the widely used textbook, Introduction to the Theory of Computation (Third Edition, Cengage, 2012).Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other feedback)? Let us know here or reach Daniel at editor@thegradient.pubSubscribe to The Gradient Podcast:  Apple Podcasts  | Spotify | Pocket Casts | RSSFollow The Gradient on TwitterOutline:* (00:00) Intro* (01:40) Professor Sipser's background* (04:35) On interesting questions* (09:00) Different kinds of research problems* (13:00) What makes certain problems difficult* (18:48) Nature of the P vs NP problem* (24:42) Identifying interesting problems* (28:50) Lower bounds on the size of sweeping automata* (29:50) Why sweeping automata + headway to P vs. NP* (36:40) Insights from sweeping automata, infinite analogues to finite automata problems* (40:45) Parity circuits* (43:20) Probabilistic restriction method* (47:20) Relativization and the polynomial time hierarchy* (55:10) P vs. NP* (57:23) The non-connection between GO's polynomial space hardness and AlphaGo* (1:00:40) On handicapping Turing Machines vs. oracle strategies* (1:04:25) The Natural Proofs Barrier and approaches to P vs. NP* (1:11:05) Debates on methods for P vs. NP* (1:15:04) On the possibility of solving P vs. NP* (1:18:20) On academia and its role* (1:27:51) OutroLinks:* Professor Sipser's homepage* Papers discussed/read* Halting space-bounded computations (1978)* Lower bounds on the size of sweeping automata (1979)* GO is Polynomial-Space Hard (1980)* A complexity theoretic approach to randomness (1983)* Parity, circuits, and the polynomial-time hierarchy (1984)* A follow-up to Furst-Saxe-Sipser* The Complexity of Finite Functions (1991) Get full access to The Gradient at thegradientpub.substack.com/subscribe

Listen as Paul Abernathy explains the Fast Trax "SYSTEM" to folks on Facebook who seems to want to spread lies and misleading information. Fact is, we have always openly stated the Fast Trax System is based on the partnership with Cengage and the use of Charles Millers Illustrated Guide to the NEC. We take the BASE NEC information and built an Exam Prep Course out of it with suplimental education via live wednesday night sessions and with the ability to have access to our CEO Paul Abernathy when needed to explain the NEC in a way folks can understand it.The "SYSTEM" is built around course material no differently than you would in a vocational school where you pay thousands of dollars to attend and use course material written by folks but taught by an educator. The key to learning is the EDUCATOR and how approachable they are. We took a publication and without re-inventing the wheel turn it into an exam prep program that explains disection and how to use NEC references to move in and out of the NEC to gain a better knowledge of the NEC. We have NEVER claimed the course base material was ours in in fact it is evident EVERYTIME you log into the system that it is based on the core material from Charles Millers Illustrated Guide to the NEC. What we do is break it down and suppliment it with our interpretations and commentary both via live zoom meetings and in videos and other avenues.We are ALL taking the information out of the NEC, we are all essentially copying the content from the NEC and then conveying it in ways students will understand. The reason our Fast Trax Program is so success is because it is a PROGRAM with many facets of support all rolled into the material. In other words we dont abandon you along your NEC learning journey.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/master-the-nec-podcast--1083733/support.

Today, we're talking with Allison Mairena, VP of People for NewGlobe, an international education company. We talk about career transitions, self-advocacy, the importance of peer support, some great advice for what to do (and what not to do) to uplevel your LinkedIn profile, and so much more.  Contact Allison LinkedIn: @peoplexenthusiast About Allison Allison Mairena (she/her) specializes in building and scaling People Operations practices, particularly for rapidly-growing startups and international teams. Currently, she serves as the VP of People for NewGlobe, an international education company providing innovative curriculum and transformative technical services to public schools.  Recently leading the People & Talent function at connectRN, she led the organization through COVID-19 and the transition to remote-supportive work. There, Allison developed and executed the HR strategy as the company grew 4x YoY. Prior to connectRN, Allison served as the Head of People at CozyKin, a tech-enabled childcare service, and talent acquisition teams at EF Education First and Cengage, hiring globally and nationally respectively. Being a very mission-driven professional, Allison has worked predominantly for companies which make a societal impact in the edtech, healthtech, famtech spaces. She believes in a human-first approach, advocating for employee wellbeing and amplifying voices from underrepresented groups.

  In this episode, Craig has a mini-rant about misleading click-bait headlines, discusses two recent generative AI surveys, gives the rundown on Google's rebrand from Brard to Gemini and Perplexity.ai and shares a modest experiment in redesigning an assignment to prevent generative AI academic dishonesty (which is a fancy way to say cheating). More details are available at https://www.aigoestocollege.com/p/newsletter/, where you can subscribe to the AI Goes to College newsletter. Contact Craig at https://www.aigoestocollege.com/ or craig@EthicalAIUse.com --- Transcript --- Craig [00:00:10]: Welcome to episode number 2 of AI Goes to College, the podcast that helps higher ed professionals try to figure out what's going on with generative AI. I'm your host, doctor Craig Van Slyke. So this week, I give you a mini rant. It's not a full rant, but a mini rant about misleading headlines, Talk about Google's release of a new model and its big rebrand from Bard to Gemini. My favorite part is gonna be when I talk about dot AI, which is generating a lot of interest right now, and I think it's tailor made for higher ed, even though I don't think that they're restricting the audience to higher ed and some promising results from a little experiment I did in redesigning an assignment. I'm gonna hit the highlights in this episode of the podcast. But if you want the full details, go to AI goes to college.com And click on the newsletter link and subscribe to my newsletter. A lot more details, screenshots, that sort of thing there. Craig [00:01:09]: So here's my rant. Cengage, and if you're in higher ed, you know who Cengage is. They call themselves course material publishers, Just released its 2023 digital learning pulse survey. As far as I can tell, this is the 1st time the survey gathered data about AI. The results are pretty interesting. It says only 23% of faculty at 4 year schools thought that their institutions were prepared for AI related changes, and that number was only 16% for 2 year schools faculty at 2 year schools. 41% of faculty across the 2 different types of institutions thought that generative AI would bring considerable or massive amounts to change to their institutions. What bothers me about this survey, is really not the survey itself, But how it's being reported? So the headline of the article from which I kind of learned about this survey read, Survey reveals only 16% of faculty is ready for Gen AI in higher ed, which is not at all what the survey was about. Craig [00:02:22]: The survey, at least the part of it I'm talking about, asked 2 generative AI related questions. Do you think your institution is is prepared for AI related changes. And how much will AI tools change your institution over the next 5 years? So first of all, that really isn't specific to generative AI, although I think that's what most people would interpret, AI as. The title of the article that led me to the survey said that faculty aren't ready. Well, that's not what the survey asked about. It didn't ask if the faculty were ready, although that would have been a good thing to ask. It asked if they thought their institutions were ready. So I want to caution all of you to do something you already know you should be doing. Craig [00:03:09]: Read these click headlines, and there are a lot of them. Read the articles with a critical eye. If it's something that's important, if it's something that you're going to try to rely on To make any sort of a decision or to form your attitudes, take the time to look at the underlying data. Don't just look at how that particular author is putting the data. Look at the data yourself. All of that being said, I think we're probably not especially well prepared collectively for generative AI, And that's not a big...

Ashley Brummet is a future sex therapist and advocate for women's sexual health. She discusses growing up with a unique family dynamic, including meeting her half sister when she was seven years old. Ashley also talks about her relationship with her parents and how it's evolved since her father got sober. She then discusses going through her first marriage with an unexplained vulva pain and how getting a diagnosis and going through therapy pushed her to a divorce and advocacy as a career.  Follow us on socials! @FriendRequestPod Email your boats! JustinsFriendRequest@gmail.com

Welcome to Media in the Mix, the only podcast produced and hosted by the School of Communication at American University. Join us as we create a safe space to explore topics and communication at the intersection of social justice, tech, innovation & pop culture. Today, we look back at guests Pallavi Kumar and Isis Amusa!  On this episode of Media in the Mix, we look back at everything SOC3. SOC3 Provides opportunities to students for hands-on learning while also giving them course credit and compensation. In other words, it's true real-life work experience in the communications world!  ⁠Pallavi Damani Kumar⁠ is a full-time professor in American University's School of Communication and the former Division Director for the Public Communication division. Prior to teaching full time, Kumar gained more than 20 years experience in the public relations industry having worked as a vice president in FleishmanHillard's social marketing practice in Washington, DC, a vice president/account supervisor in Ketchum's healthcare practice in New York as well as associate director of international public relations at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals in Philadelphia. She began her career in environmental communication at Ruder-Finn in Washington, DC. Kumar co-authored the ninth edition of Public Relations Case Studies published by Cengage. Her articles and commentary have appeared in The Washington Post, USA Today and PRWeek. In 2015, she received the Outstanding Service to the University Community from American University. PRWeek named her to the 2017 Global Power Book - a list of the world's most influential PR professionals. She was most recently profiled in a chapter of the book Diverse Voices: Profiles in Leadership published by the PRSA Foundation and Museum of PR. She graduated magna cum laude from American University with a degree in public affairs and public communication. She received her master's degree in public relations/corporate communications from Georgetown University. ⁠Isis Amusa⁠ is (an SOC Alumna now!) who double-majored in journalism and justice & law. She is a queer Black social justice storyteller working in communications and was the Creative Strategist at SOC3. As a journalist, she has worked to uplift the stories of social justice activists as they ameliorate the threats upon undocumented immigrants' educational attainment and DACA, failing educational supports for incarcerated women, Black professorial exodus and performative antiracism in private white higher education, and most recently, food insecurity among college-aged youth. In her current roles, she communicates on behalf of Black farmers and food justice organizers, organizes for Black food sovereignty and Black land stewardship, and cultivates SOC3's digital face to promote its history, aims, and client projects. Visit ⁠⁠https://soc3change.com/ ⁠⁠ to learn more about this program and how you can get involved!  Visit this link to apply for next semester:  ⁠https://www.american.edu/soc/experiential-learning/storytelling-for-changemaking.cfm⁠   Follow SOC3 on social media ⁠@soc3change⁠! 

When Joshua Gans and his co-authors released their book Prediction Machines in 2018, they were writing about a topic that seemed quite niche. At this time, machine learning was just starting out. In the last year, the speed at which artificial intelligence has advanced has surprised almost everyone.In this conversation, we hear how the analytical framework that he and his colleagues developed helps to sort through the hype. He argues artificial intelligence is best thought of as a prediction machine. You'll hear why he's optimistic that artificial intelligence will be able to help people remove some of the drudgery from some jobs, but at this time, doesn't seem likely to take over full jobs. He'll share how understanding artificial intelligence as an advance in predictive statistics will help leaders assess how artificial intelligence may or may not be useful. About our guest:Joshua Gans is a Professor of Strategic Management and holder of the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management, the University of Toronto (with a cross-appointment in the Department of Economics). Joshua is also Chief Economist of the University of Toronto's Creative Destruction Lab. Prior to 2011, he was the foundation Professor of Management (Information Economics) at the Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne and before that, he was at the School of Economics, University of New South Wales. At Rotman, he teaches MBA students entrepreneurial strategy. He has also co-authored (with Stephen King and Robin Stonecash) the Australasian edition of Greg Mankiw's Principles of Economics (published by Cengage), Core Economics for Managers (Cengage), Finishing the Job (MUP), Parentonomics (New South/MIT Press) and Information Wants to be Shared (Harvard Business Review Press) and The Disruption Dilemma (MIT Press, 2016);

This practice comes from my training with trauma therapists and chaplains in hospice and bereavement work. In moments of high, anxiety or panic, the client is often encouraged to bring awareness to their feet. This simple, grounding practice help Cengage, the parasympathetic nervous system, responsible for coming to mind and body.

El micrófono de Íntimo Vilima, ese dispuesto a recoger cada gota de esencia del ser humano, es entero y sin restricciones para mi amigo David Pastor Vico. La palabra amigo es una palabra muy grande, pocos han nacido para lucirla. Sin embargo, se me vino a los labios cuando conocí al Vico en aquella aula de Tercero de Bup del turno de noche del Instituto San Isidoro. Allí ya destacaba su envergadura física y humana sobre el rebaño de pipiolos que lo rodeábamos. Ya era entonces un tipo con las ideas claras, de esos a los que los años vividos no le caben en el D.N.I. Un ser humano inclasificable, que hacía avanzar sus ideas con la determinación de un rompehielos que atraviesa el Ártico y que tarde o temprano arribará al puerto de destino. Con estos mimbres, no me extrañó que al cabo de los años terminara destacando en una profesión que él mismo se inventó: la de filósofo emprendedor. Creó Corchea 69 como hogar de su vendaval creativo y desde allí sopló por medio mundo, no borrando huellas sino dejándolas. La Universidad Autónoma de México lo reclutó para deleite de algunos de sus más de 300.000 alumnos. Al otro lado del Atlántico ha logrado el reconocimiento que España aún le adeuda. Aquí ha vuelto a enfrentar un cancer, en el Virgen Macarena, con los mejores especialistas, gracias a la Sanidad Pública. En estos días, Vico está presentando “Ética para desconfiados”, un referente de la divulgación de la filosofía y el pensamiento crítico entre los jóvenes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Vico nació en Bélgica en 1976. Estudió Filosofía en la Universidad de Sevilla y se especializó en ética de la comunicación. Entre sus referentes (de los que aprendió viajando por toda España) destacan Eugenio Trías, José Antonio Marina, Gustavo Bueno o Agustín García Calvo. En 2003 fue el Presidente y Organizador del “40 Congreso de Filósofos Jóvenes”. Trabajó en la producción y desarrollo de eventos culturales-académicos de primer nivel en España vinculado estrechamente a la Universidad de Sevilla, la Universidad Pablo de Olavide y la Universidad Internacional de Andalucía con las que trabajó como organizador, responsable académico y docente en más de una treintena de congresos, cursos y jornadas con amplia repercusión mediática. En el año 2013 es invitado a trabajar como Coordinador de Proyectos Especiales en la Dirección General de Atención a la Comunidad de la UNAM. En tres años promociona a Director de Comunicación Social del Deporte Universitario y ha sido el encargado de impartir las conferencias de bienvenida a los alumnos de nuevo ingreso de bachillerato y licenciatura desde el curso 2014 hasta la fecha, más decenas de conferencias sobre diferentes temas de su ámbito de conocimiento. Además, en el curso 2018 fue nombrado portavoz de la campaña de Valores de la UNAM. En todo este periplo de ocho años ha sumado más de 1000 conferencias y 250.000 asistentes, sin contar las participaciones en línea. Actualmente Vico divide su actividad en impartir conferencias y escribir siendo, a la par, autor de la editorial CENGAGE, profesor de Asesoría y Tutoría Pedagógica en la Dirección General del Deporte Universitario de la UNAM, colaborador de la Dirección General de Divulgación de las Humanidades de la UNAM, de TVUNAM, colaborador semanal de Imagen Radio y autor de los podcasts de Himalaya Pro “Yo te explico filosofía” y “Filosofía de supervivencia”. Más recientemente ha sido contratado como colaborador en el programa “Y ahora Sonsoles” en Antena 3 televisión. Su libro “Filosofía para desconfiados” (Planeta México, 2019) se ha situado por méritos propios como un referente de la divulgación de la filosofía y el pensamiento crítico para jóvenes, enlazando una reimpresión tras otra. En noviembre de 2021 salió al mercado su nuevo libro “Ética para desconfiados”, un texto sobre ética y valores especialmente escrito para el público adolescente de educación Media Superior que suma ya dos reimpresiones y está siendo adoptado por muchas instituciones educativas de bachillerato como lectura obligatoria en México. La labor de Vico ha sido reconocida internacionalmente con cuatro participaciones en Aprendemos Juntos de BBVA o en revistas especializadas como ETHIC MAGAZINE o Filosofía&co. Amén de centenares de entrevistas en prensa, radio, televisoras y redes sociales de todo el ámbito hispano.

Nowhere has artificial intelligence and generative AI tools like ChatGPT disrupted a space more than in education, where teachers and students are debating whether the tools can help or harm them. Jim Chilton, executive vice president of learning platform provider Cengage, chats with Keith about why knowledge workers can take advantage of the tools to help them become smarter and better prepared for an AI future. 

In a world of AI, what does the future of work look like? Will certain jobs and industries become obsolete? What skills will become elevated in this new world and how should schools revamp their operations to develop these skills in students? Today's conversation with Corinne Hoisington, professor of information systems technology at Central Virginia Community Colleges, begins to tackle these questions. Corinne also travels 200,000 miles a year providing keynotes on topics in technology and has authored over 30 books with Cengage learning on outlook, office, windows 10, and many others. With her deep experiences in career and technical education and her learnings in AI, Corinne has much to share with us how AI will impact the educational experience. If you are interested in having Corinne speak, check out her website: https://professorcorinne.com/about-me/ Plus, Microsoft shares three key findings on the future of work with AI based on 31,000 survey responses.

Guest host Nicole Hiers meets up with Sam Christ, Instructure's Principal Learning Experience Designer, and Nancy Lowery, Cengage Marketing Manager for Instructor & Learning Management Systems. The trio talks about the new partnership Instructure now has with Cengage, as part of the LMS' Training Services Portal. To learn more, read this blog in The Community: Welcome-Cengage-to-the-Training-Services-Portal. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/canvascasters/message

Welcome to Media in the Mix, the only podcast produced and hosted by the School of Communication at American University. Join us as we create a safe space to explore topics and communication at the intersection of social justice, tech, innovation & pop culture. Today, we welcome guests Pallavi Kumar and Isis Amusa! On this episode of Media in the Mix, we discuss everything SOC3! SOC3 Provides opportunities to students for hands-on learning while also giving them course credit and compensation. In other words, it's true real-life work experience in the communications world! Pallavi Damani Kumar is a full-time professor in American University's School of Communication and the former Division Director for the Public Communication division. Prior to teaching full time, Kumar gained more than 20 years experience in the public relations industry having worked as a vice president in FleishmanHillard's social marketing practice in Washington, DC, a vice president/account supervisor in Ketchum's healthcare practice in New York as well as associate director of international public relations at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals in Philadelphia. She began her career in environmental communication at Ruder-Finn in Washington, DC. Kumar co-authored the ninth edition of Public Relations Case Studies published by Cengage. Her articles and commentary have appeared in The Washington Post, USA Today and PRWeek. In 2015, she received the Outstanding Service to the University Community from American University. PRWeek named her to the 2017 Global Power Book - a list of the world's most influential PR professionals. She was most recently profiled in a chapter of the book Diverse Voices: Profiles in Leadership published by the PRSA Foundation and Museum of PR. She graduated magna cum laude from American University with a degree in public affairs and public communication. She received her master's degree in public relations/corporate communications from Georgetown University. Isis Amusa is a senior at American University double-majoring in journalism and justice & law. She is a queer Black social justice storyteller working in communications at the National Black Food and Justice Alliance and as a Creative Strategist at SOC3. As a journalist, she has worked to uplift the stories of social justice activists as they ameliorate the threats upon undocumented immigrants' educational attainment and DACA, failing educational supports for incarcerated women, Black professorial exodus and performative antiracism in private white higher education, and most recently, food insecurity among college-aged youth. In her current roles, she communicates on behalf of Black farmers and food justice organizers, organizes for Black food sovereignty and Black land stewardship, and cultivates SOC3's digital face to promote its history, aims, and client projects. Applications for SOC3 are now open through April 4th, 2023! Visit this link to apply: https://www.american.edu/soc/experiential-learning/storytelling-for-changemaking.cfm Visit https://soc3change.com/ to learn more about this program and how you can get involved! Follow SOC3 on social media @soc3change!

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Welcome to the Indie Writer Podcast where we talk about all things writing and indie publishing. Today we are excited to talk about Beach Reads with Annie McQuaid.   Annie McQuaid is a Boston native, but grew up in North Carolina where the winters are much easier to handle! She's been writing since she can remember and holds a B.A. in Communications and Creative Writing from Elon University. In April, 2022, she was selected as a Kiss Pitch mentee for a two-month-long writing mentorship program. In her day job, she works as a Marketing Director for Cengage publishing where she gets to be a storyteller every day. KEEP UP WITH OUR GUEST! Twitter - @AnnieWithAnE   RESOURCES/BOOKS MENTIONED: Beach Read by Emily Henry The Idea of You by Robinne Lee People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle Something Wilder by Christina Lauren The Bodyguard by Katherine Center The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert Jagged Little Pill by Eric Smith Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert When Life Gives You Vampires by Gloria Duke Save the Cat Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody On Writing by Stephen King The Emotion Thesaurus   _______________________________________ Check out the following books by our Patrons!  Deadly Declarations by Landis Wade Mission 51 by Fernando Crôtte Want to see your book listed? Become a Patron! 

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A disciple of Michael Gerber and a lifelong student, Susie Carder started with one salon and health spa and built it into one of the most successful businesses in the country. She then founded and sold three profitable companies, the last of which sold for eight figures to Cengage (previously Reuters and Thompson Learning). Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pacific or listen on Apple Podcasts or tonydurso.com/podcast.

A disciple of Michael Gerber and a lifelong student, Susie Carder started with one salon and health spa and built it into one of the most successful businesses in the country. She then founded and sold three profitable companies, the last of which sold for eight figures to Cengage (previously Reuters and Thompson Learning). Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pacific or listen on Apple Podcasts or tonydurso.com/podcast.

A disciple of Michael Gerber and a lifelong student, Susie Carder started with one salon and health spa and built it into one of the most successful businesses in the country. She then founded and sold three profitable companies, the last of which sold for eight figures to Cengage (previously Reuters and Thompson Learning). Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pacific or listen on Apple Podcasts or tonydurso.com/podcast.

A disciple of Michael Gerber and a lifelong student, Susie Carder started with one salon and health spa and built it into one of the most successful businesses in the country. She then founded and sold three profitable companies, the last of which sold for eight figures to Cengage (previously Reuters and Thompson Learning). Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pacific or listen on Apple Podcasts or tonydurso.com/podcast.

Many articles that talk about burnout make the mistake of devaluing self-care as a burnout prevention or recovery tool. But self care isn't all just pedicures and massages, and it can be a huge factor in burnout recovery. When you take away self-care, it puts the entire focus on the systems in place that cause burnout, which may lead people to believe there is nothing they can do to influence their burnout recovery. In today's #straightfromcait episode, Cait explains 8 factors affecting burnout that are within our locus of control. Are you feeling like you have no control over any of the causes of your burnout? The first step is to figure out which factors are internal and which are external. If your burnout is caused mostly by external factors such as your job, then you know to start making an exit plan. Not all factors are external, and many internal factors are within our control. By getting reacquainted with our core values, learning to set boundaries, and beginning to meet our most basic foundational bodily needs, you can reduce the factors that contribute to burnout.  Tune into this week's #straightfromcait episode for a conversation about how certain types of self care are pivotal for burnout recovery. Learn the 8 factors within our internal locus of control that can help you heal from burnout.  Quotes • “Waiting for the system to change while you're already burned out is not a successful plan.” (3:27-3:32) • “You might not be able to change the system, but you can leave it.” (6:50-6:54) • “Knowing what your values are, and taking action to move yourself toward a life that is more aligned with them will catapult your recovery. Being in alignment matters. I don't mean this in a woowoo way. I mean this in a neuroscience way. If you are living a life that does not match your values, about 75 to 80% of the time, you are creating stress for yourself on a regular basis that your body has to react to.” (12:21-12:50)  • “It is really, really difficult to notice and meet your bigger needs when your basic needs are ignored. Work on being in your body enough to notice when you are thirsty, tired, have to use the bathroom, your eyes need a break from the screen, you're full from eating, your body is asking you to move. The basics. When you start caring for yourself on that very base level, you start to believe you are deserving of even more care.” (16:33-17:35) Links: https://friedtheburnoutpodcast.com/quiz https://www.friedtheburnoutpodcast.com/post/straightfromcait-teach-your-brain-that-you-re-safe-and-it-will-grow-new-nerve-cells https://www.maggiesupernova.com/yoga https://caitdonovan.com/freebie-ie https://caitdonovan.com/freebie-values Reference: Harrington, R. Personality and Stress. Stress, Health, and Well-Being: Thriving in the 21st Century. Boston. Cengage. 2013. 9781111831615. Ch. 6. pp. 171-208. XOXO, C If you know that it's time to actually DO something about the burnout cycle you've been in for too long - book your free consult today: bit.ly/callcait Podcast production and show notes provided by HiveCast.fm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In this episode, we cover: Introduction (00:00) How Chris got into the world of chaos and teaching middle school science (02:11) The Cengage seasonal model and preparing for the (5:56) How Cengage schedules the chaos and the “day of darkness” (11:10) Scaling and migration and “the inches we need” (15:28) Communicating with different teams and the customers (18:18) Chris's biggest lesson from practicing chaos engineering (24:30) Chris and working at Cengage/Outro (27:40) Links Referenced: Cengage: https://www.cengagegroup.com/ Chris Martello on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophermartello/ TranscriptJulie: Wait, I got it. You probably don't know this one, Chris. It's not from you. How does the Dalai Lama order a hot dog?Chris: He orders one with everything.Julie: [laugh]. So far, I have not been able to stump Chris on—[laugh].Chris: [laugh]. Then the follow-up to that one for a QA is how many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? The answer is, none; that's a hardware problem.Julie: Welcome to Break Things on Purpose, a podcast about reliability, quality, and ways to focus on the user experience. In this episode, we talk with Chris Martello, manager of application performance at Cengage, about the importance of Chaos Engineering in service of quality.Julie: Welcome to Break Things on Purpose. We are joined today by Chris Martello from Cengage. Chris, do you want to tell us a little bit about yourself?Chris: Hey, thanks for having me today, Julie, Jason. It's nice to be here and chat with you folks about Chaos Engineering, Chaos Testing, Gremlin. As Julie mentioned I'm a performance manager at Cengage Learning Group, and we do a fair amount of performance testing, both individual platforms, and coordinated load testing. I've been a software manager at Cengage for about five years, total of nine altogether there at Cengage, and worn quite a few of the testing hats, as you can imagine, from automation engineer, performance engineer, and now QA manager. So, with that, yeah, my team is about—we have ten people that coordinate and test our [unintelligible 00:01:52] platforms. I'm on the higher-ed side. We have Gale Research Library, as well as soft skills with our WebAssign and ed2go offerings. So, I'm just one of a few, but my claim to fame—or at least one of my passions—is definitely chaos testing and breaking things on purpose.Julie: I love that, Chris. And before we hear why that's your passion, when you and I chatted last week, you mentioned how you got into the world of QA, and I think you started with a little bit of different type of chaos. You want to tell us what you did before?Chris: Sure, even before a 20-year career, now, in software testing, I managed chaos every day. If you know anything about teaching middle school, seventh and eighth-grade science, those folks have lots of energy and combine that with their curiosity for life and, you know, their propensity to expend energy and play basketball and run track and do things, I had a good time for a number of years corralling that energy and focusing that energy into certain directions. And you know back, kind of, with the jokes, it was a way to engage with kids in the classroom was humor. And so there was a lot of science jokes and things like that. But generally speaking, that evolved into I had a passion for computers, being self-taught with programming skills, project management, and things like that. It just evolved into a different career that has been very rewarding.And that's what brings me to Cengage and why I come to work every day with those folks is because instead of now teaching seventh and eighth-grade science to young, impressionable minds, nowadays I teach adults how to test websites and how to test platforms and services. And the coaching is still the same; the mentoring is still the same. The aptitude of my students is a lot different, you know? We have adults, they're people, they require things. And you know, the subject matter is also different. But the skills in the coaching and teaching is still the same.Jason: If you were, like, anything like my seventh-grade science teacher, then another common thing that you would have with Chaos Engineering and teaching science is blowing a lot of things up.Chris: Indeed. Playing with phosphorus and raw metal sodium was always a fun time in the chemistry class. [laugh].Julie: Well, one of the things that I love, there are so many parallels between being a science teacher and Chaos Engineering. I mean, we talk about this all the time with following the scientific process, right? You're creating a hypothesis; you're testing that. And so have you seen those parallels now with what you're doing with Chaos Engineering over there at Cengage?Chris: Oh, absolutely. It is definitely the basis for almost any testing we do. You have to have your controlled variables, your environment, your settings, your test scripts, and things that you're working on, setting up that experiment, the design of course, and then your uncontrolled variables, the manipulated ones that you're looking for to give you information to tell you something new about the system that you didn't know, after you conducted your experiment. So, working with teams, almost half of the learning occurs in just the design phase in terms of, “Hey, I think this system is supposed to do X, it's designed in a certain way.” And if we run a test to demonstrate that, either it's going to work or it's not. Or it's going to give us some new information that we didn't know about it before we ran our experiment.Julie: But you also have a very, like, cyclical reliabilities schedule that's important to you, right? You have your very important peak traffic windows. And what is that? Is that around the summertime? What does that look like for you?Chris: That's right, Julie. So, our business model, or at least our seasonal model, runs off of typical college semesters. So, you can imagine that August and September are really big traffic months for us, as well as January and part of February. It does take a little extra planning in order to mimic that traffic. Traffic and transactions at the beginning of the semester are a lot different than they are at the middle and even at the end of the semester.So, we see our secondary higher education platforms as courseware. We have our instructors doing course building. They're taking a textbook, a digitized textbook, they're building a course on it, they're adding their activities to it, and they're setting it up. At the same time that's going along, the students are registering, they are signing up to use the course, they're signing up to their course key for Cengage products, and they're logging into the course. The middle section looks a lot like taking activities and tests and quizzes, reading the textbook, flipping pages, and maybe even making some notes off to the side.And then at the end of the semester, when the time is up, quite literally on the course—you know, my course semester starts from this day to this day, in 15th of December. Computers being as precise as they are, when 15th of December at 11:59 p.m. rolls off the clock, that triggers a whole bunch of cron jobs that say, “Hey, it's done. Start calculating grades.”And it has to go through thousands of courses and say, “Which courses expired today? How many grades are there submitted? How many grades are unsubmitted and now I have to calculate the zeros?” And there's a lot of math that goes in with that analytics. And some of those jobs, when those midnight triggers kick off those jobs, it will take eight to ten hours in order to process that semester's courses that expire on that day.Julie: Well, and then if you experience an outage, I can only assume that it would be a high-stress situation for both teachers and students, and so we've talked about why you focus so heavily on reliability, I'd love to hear maybe if you can share with us how you prepare for those peak traffic events.Chris: So yeah, it's challenging to design a full load test that encompasses an entire semester's worth of traffic and even the peaks that are there. So, what we do is, we utilize our analytics that give us information on where our peak traffic days lie. And it's typically the second or third Monday in September, and it's at one or two o'clock in the afternoon. And those are when it's just what we've seen over the past couple of years is those days are our typical traffic peaks. And so we take the type of transactions that occur during those days, and we calibrate our load tests to use those as a peak, a one-time, our performance capacity.And then that becomes our x-factor in testing. Our 1x factor is what do we see in a semester at those peaks? And we go gather the rest of them during the course of the semester, and kind of tally those up in a load test. So, if our platforms can sustain a three to six-hour load test using peak estimate values that come from our production analysis, then we think we're pretty stable.And then we will turn the dial up to two times that number. And that number gives us an assessment of our headroom. How much more headroom past our peak usage periods do we have in order to service our customers reliably? And then some days, when you're rolling the dice, for extra bonus points, we go for 3x. And the 3x is not a realistic number.I have this conversation with engineering managers and directors all the time. It's like, “Well, you overblow that load test and it demonstrated five times the load on our systems. That's not realistic.” I says, “Well, today it's not realistic. But next week, it might be depending on what's happening.”You know, there are things that sometimes are not predictable with our semesters and our traffic but generally speaking it is. So, let's say some other system goes down. Single-sign-on. Happens to the best of us. If you integrate with a partner and your partner is uncontrolled in your environment, you're at their mercy.So, when that goes down, people stop entering your application. When the floodgates open, that traffic might peak for a while in terms of, hey, it's back up again; everybody can log in. It's the equivalent of, like, emptying a stadium and then letting everybody in through one set of doors. You can't do it. So, those types of scenarios become experimental design conversations with engineering managers to say, “At what level of performance do you think your platform needs to sustain?”And as long as our platforms can sustain within two to three, you know, we're pretty stable in terms of what we have now. But if we end up testing at three times the expected load and things break catastrophically, that might be an indication to an architect or an engineering director, that, hey, if our capacity outlives us in a year, it might be time to start planning for that re-architecture. Start planning for that capacity because it's not just adding on additional servers; planning for that capacity might include a re-architecture of some kind.Julie: You know, Chris, I just want to say to anybody from Coinbase that's out there that's listening, I think they can find you on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophermartello/) to talk about load testing and preparing for peak traffic events.Chris: Yeah, I think the Superbowl saw one. They had a little QR code di—Julie: Yeah.Chris: —displayed on the screen for about 15 seconds or so, and boy, I sure hope they planned for that load because if you're only giving people 15 seconds and everybody's trying to get their phone up there, man I bet those servers got real hot real fast. [laugh].Julie: Yeah, they did. And there was a blip. There was a blip.Chris: Yeah. [laugh].Julie: But you're on LinkedIn, so that's great, and they can find you there to talk to you. You know, I recently had the opportunity to speak to some of the Cengage folks and it was really amazing. And it was amazing to hear what you were doing and how you have scheduled your Chaos Engineering experiments to be something that's repeatable. Do you want to talk about that a little bit for folks?Chris: Sure. I mean, you titled our podcast today, “A Day of Darkness,” and that's kind of where it all started. So, if I could just back up to where we started there with how did chaos become a regular event? How did chaos become a regular part of our engineering teams' DNA, something that they do regularly every month and it's just no sweat to pull off?Well, that Day of Darkness was 18 hours of our educational platforms being down. Now, arguably, the students and instructors had paid for their subscriptions already, so we weren't losing money. But in the education space and in our course creations, our currency is in grades and activities and submissions. So, we were losing currency that day and losing reputation. And so we did a postmortem that involved engineering managers, quality assurance, performance folks, and we looked at all the different downtimes that we've had, and what are the root causes.And after conferring with our colleagues in the different areas—we've never really been brought together in a setting like that—we designed a testing plan that was going to validate a good amount of load on a regular basis. And the secondary reason for coordinating testing like that was that we were migrating from data center to cloud. So, this is, you know, about five, six years ago. So, in order to validate that all that plumbing and connections and integrations worked, you know, I proposed I says, “Hey, let's load test it all the same time. Let's see what happens. Let's make sure that we can run water through the pipes all day long and that things work.”And we plan this for a week; we planned five days. But I traveled to Boston, gathered my engineers kind of in a war room situation, and we worked on it for a week. And in that week, we came up with a list of 90 issues—nine-zero—that we needed to fix and correct and address for our cloud-based offerings before it could go live. And you know, a number of them were low priority, easy to fix, low-hanging fruit, things like that. But there were nine of them that if we hadn't found, we were sure to go down.And so those nine things got addressed, we went live, and our system survived, you know, and things went up. After that, it became a regular thing before the semesters to make sure, “Hey, Chris, we need to coordinate that again. Can you do it?” Sure enough, let's coordinate some of the same old teams, grab my run sheet. And we learned that we needed to give a day of preparation because sometimes there were folks that their scripts were old, their environment wasn't a current version, and sometimes the integrations weren't working for various reasons of other platform releases and functionality implementation.So, we had a day of preparation and then we would run. We'd check in the morning and say, “Everybody ready to go? Any problems? Any surprises that we don't know about, yet?” So, we'd all confer in the morning and give it a thumbs up.We started our tests, we do a three-hour ramp, and we learned that the three-hour ramp was pretty optimal because sometimes elastic load balancers can't, like, spin up fast enough in order to pick up the load, so there were some that we had to pre-allocate and there were others that we had to give enough time. So, three hours became that magic window, and then three hours of steady-state at our peak generation. And now, after five years, we are doing that every month.Jason: That's amazing. One of the things you mentioned in there was about this migration, and I think that might tie back to something you said earlier about scaling and how when you're thinking of scaling, especially as I'm thinking about your migration to the cloud, you said, “Scaling isn't just adding servers. Sometimes that requires re-architecting an application or the way things work.” I'm curious, are those two connected? Or some of those nine critical fixes a part of that discovery?Chris: I think those nine fixes were part of the discovery. It was, you can't just add servers for a particular platform. It was, how big is the network pipe? Where is the DNS server? Is it on this side or that side? Database connections were a big thing: How many are there? Is there enough?So, there was some scaling things that hadn't been considered at that level. You know, nowadays, fixing performance problems can be as easy as more memory and more CPU. It can be. Some days it's not. Some days, it can be more servers; some days, it can be bigger servers.Other times, it's—just, like, quality is everybody's job, performance fixing is not always a silver bullet. There are things like page optimization by the designers. There's code optimization by your front-end engineers. And your back-end engineers, there are database optimizations that can be made: Indexing, reindexing on a regular basis—whatever that schedule is—for optimizing your database queries. If your front-end goes to an API for five things on the first page, does it make five extra calls, or does it make one call, and all five things come across at the same time?So, those are considerations that load performance testing, can tell you where to begin looking. But as quality assurance and that performance lead engineer, I might find five things, but the fixes weren't just more testing and a little bit of extra functionality. It might have involved DevOps to tweak the server connections, it might have involved network to slim down the hops from four different load balancers to two, or something like that. I mean, it was always just something else that you never considered that you utilized your full team and all of their expertise and skills in order to come up with those inches.And that's one of my favorite quotes from Every Given Sunday. It's an older football movie starring Al Pacino. He gives this really awesome speech in a halftime type of setting, and the punch line for this whole thing is, “The inches we need are everywhere around us.” And I tell people that story in the terms of performance is because performance, at the software level, is a game of inches. And those inches are in all of our systems and it's up to us as engineers to find them and add them up.Julie: I absolutely love everything about that. And that would have made a great title for this episode. “The Inches we Need are Everywhere Around Us.” We've already settled on, “A Day of Darkness with Chris Martello,” though. On that note, Chris, some of the things that you mentioned involve a lot of communication with different teams. How did you navigate some of those struggles? Or even at the beginning of this, was it easy to get everybody on board with this mindset of a new way of doing things? Did you have some challenges?Chris: There were challenges for sure. It's kind of hard to picture, I guess, Cengage's platform architecture and stuff. It's not just one thing. It's kind of like Amazon. Amazon is probably the example is that a lot of their services and things work in little, little areas.So, in planning this, I looked at an architecture diagram, and there's all these things around it, and we have this landscape. And I just looked down here in the corner. I said, “What's this?” They said, “Well, that's single-sign-on.” I says, “Well, everything that touches that needs to be load tested.”And they're like, “Why? We can't do that. We don't have a performance environment for that.” I said, “You can't afford not to.” And the day of darkness was kind of that, you know, example that kind of gave us the [sigh] momentum to get over that obstacle that said, “Yeah, we really do need a dedicated performance environment in order to prove this out.”So, then whittling down that giant list of applications and teams into the ones that were meaningful to our single-sign-on. And when we whittled that down, we now have 16 different teams that regularly participate in chaos. Those are kind of the ones that all play together on the same playing field at the same time and when we find that one system has more throughput than another system or an unexpected transaction load, sometimes that system can carry that or project that load onto another system inadvertently. And if there's timeouts at one that are set higher than another, then those events start queuing up on the second set of servers. It's something that we continually balance on.And we use these bits of information for each test and start, you know, logging and tracking these issues, and deciding whether it's important, how long is it going to take to fix, and is it necessary. And, you know, you're balancing risk and reward with everything you're doing, of course, in the business world, but sometimes the, you know—“Chris, bring us more quality. You can do better this month. Can you give us 20 more units of quality?” It's like, “I can't really package that up and hand it to you. That's not a deliverable.”And in the same way that reputation that we lose when our systems go down isn't as quantifiable, either. Sure, you can watch the tweets come across the interwebs, and see how upset our students are at those kinds of things, but our customer support and our service really takes that to heart, and they listen to those tweets and they fix them, and they coordinate and reach out, you know, directly to these folks. And I think that's why our organization supports this type of performance testing, as well as our coordinated chaos: The service experience that goes out to our customers has to be second to none. And that's second to none is the table stakes is your platform must be on, must be stable, and must be performing. That's just to enter the space, kids. You've got to be there. [laugh].You can't have your platform going down at 9 p.m. on a Sunday night when all these college students are doing their homework because they freak out. And they react to it. It's important. That's the currency. That is the human experience that says this platform, this product is very important to these students' lives and their well-being in their academic career. And so we take that very seriously.Jason: I love that you mentioned that your customer support works with the engineering team. Because makes me think of how many calls have you been on where something went wrong, you contacted customer support, and you end up reaching this thing of, they don't talk to engineering, and they're just like, “I don't know, it's broken. Try again some other time.” Or whatever that is, and you end up lost. And so this idea of we often think of DevOps is developers and operations engineers working together and everybody on the engineering side, but I love that idea of extending that.And so I'm curious, in that vein, does your Chaos Engineering, does your performance testing also interact with some of what customer support is actually doing?Chris: In a support kind of way, absolutely. Our customer call support is very well educated on our products and they have a lot of different tools at their disposal in order to correct problems. And you know, many of those problems are access and permissions and all that kind of stuff that's usual, but what we've seen is even though that our customer base is increasing and our call volume increases accordingly, the percentage decreases over time because our customer support people have gotten so good at answering those questions. And to that extent, when we do log issues that are not as easily fixed with a tweak or knob toggle at the customer support side, those get grouped up into a group of tickets that we call escalation tickets, and those go directly to engineering.And when we see groups of them that look and smell kind of the same or have similar symptoms, so we start looking at how to design that into chaos, and is it a real performance issue? Especially when it's related to slowness or errors that continuously come at a particular point in that workflow. So, I hope I answered that question there for you, Jason.Jason: Yeah, that's perfect.Julie: Now, I'd like to kind of bring it back a little bit to some of the learnings we've had over this time of practicing Chaos Engineering and focusing on that quality testing. Is there something big that stands out in your mind that you learned from an experiment? Some big, unknown-unknown that you don't know that you ever could have caught without practicing?Chris: Julie, that's a really good question, and there isn't, you know, big bang or any epiphanies here. When I talk about what is the purpose of chaos and what do we get out of it, there's the human factor of chaos in terms of what does this do for us. It gets us prepared, it gets us a fire drill without the sense of urgency of production, and it gets people focused on solving a problem together. So, by practicing in a performance, in a chaos sort of way, when performance does affect the production, those communication channels are already greased. When there's a problem with some system, I know exactly who the engineer is to go to and ask him a question.And that has also enabled us to reduce our meantime to resolution. That meantime to resolution factor is predicated on our teams knowing what to do, and how to resolve those. And because we've practiced it, now that goes down. So, I think the synergy of being able to work together and triangulate our teams on existing issues in a faster sort of way, definitely helps our team dynamic in terms of solving those problems faster.Julie: I like that a lot because there is so much more than just the technical systems. And that's something that we like to talk about, too. It is your people's systems. And you're not trying to surprise anybody, you've got these scheduled on a calendar, they run regularly, so it's important to note that when you're looking at making your people's systems more resilient, you're not trying to catch Chris off guard to see if he answered the page—Chris: That's right.Julie: —what we're working on is making sure that we're building that muscle memory with practice, right, and iron out the kinks in those communication channels.Chris: Absolutely. It's definitely been a journey of learning both for, you know, myself and my team, as well as the engineers that work on these things. You know, again, everybody chips in and gets to learn that routine and be comfortable with fighting fires. Another way I've looked at it with Chaos Engineering, and our testing adventures is that when we find something that it looks a little off—it's a burp, or a sneeze, or some hiccup over here in this system—that can turn into a full-blown fever or cold in production. And we've had a couple of examples where we didn't pay attention to that stuff fast enough, and it did occur in production.And kudos to our engineering team who went and picked it up because we had the information. We had the tracking that says we did find this. We have a solution or recommended fix in place, and it's already in process. That speaks volumes to our sense of urgency on the engineering teams.Julie: Chris, thank you for that. And before we end our time with you today, is there anything you'd like to let our listeners know about Cengage or anything you'd like to plug?Chris: Well, Cengage Learning has been a great place for me to work and I know that a lot of people enjoy working there. And anytime I ask my teams, like, “What's the best part of working there?” It's like, “The people. We work with are supportive and helpful.” You know, we have a product that we'd like to help change people's lives with, in terms of furthering their education and their career choices, so if you're interested, we have over 200 open positions at the current moment within our engineering and staffing choices.And if you're somebody interested in helping out folks and making a difference in people's educational and career paths, this is a place for you. Thanks for the offer, Julie. Really appreciate that.Julie: Thank you, Chris.Jason: Thanks, Chris. It's been fantastic to have you on the show.Chris: It's been a pleasure to be here and great to talk to you. I enjoy talking about my passions with testing as well as many of my other ones. [laugh].Jason: For links to all the information mentioned, visit our website at gremlin.com/podcast. If you liked this episode, subscribe to the Break Things on Purpose podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast platform. Our theme song is called “Battle of Pogs” by Komiku, and it's available on loyaltyfreakmusic.com.

Topics This Week:Education Stocks Take a Hit306 global education stocks lost $120B of value in 2021, down 40%Edtech Stocks hit a steep learning curvePotato Head Becomes a Digital TherapistPresenceLearning partnered with Hasbro to bring beloved characters & classic games to therapy platformFunding + M&A Round-upMunic-based Edurino raised €3.35M to advance digital learning for kidsFormer Twitter India head Manish Maaheshwari's Invact Metaversity raises funds @ $33M valuationWhy these Udemy execs left to build a better UdemyPaper secures $343M CAD with US schools drawn to its remote tutoring techEvidence as a ServiceGUEST: Karl Rectanus - Co-founder & CEO @ LearnPlatformLearnPlatform releases subscription to help solutions providers lower costs, build EdTech evidence that districts & states trustHomeschoolingGUEST: Kelly Young - Founder & CEO @ PrendaPost-Recording Updates:Edtech is luring students to cheat with fake answer sitesEdtech company Cengage names publishing vet as CTOEdtech market to reach S288B USD by 2031 (comprehensive research by FMI)Educators have some pointed advice for tech companies building the metaverse

Jim Chilton, CIO at Cengage Group, and Rob Lee, CTO at Pure Storage discuss overcoming obstacles during a digital transformation, building infrastructure with ransomware in mind, and staying secure while scaling up quickly, and much more.---------“Over the last couple of decades, you've heard the CIO, or even the CTO, considered to be the CEO's mechanic or plumber… The reality is that technology is the enabler for nearly every company on the planet today – that means that the mechanic and plumber are now the architect. I would encourage executives to think differently about technology executives and the contribution they can make to the strategy of the company.”- Jim Chilton“When you're in a game of ‘build a better mouse trap', ‘build a better mouse', you can't just focus on the next mouse trap in front of you. [Security] has got to be an upfront consideration, in all of the product and process, in all the decisions that you make… for a performance system.”- Rob Lee---------Time Stamps:* (1:14) Impacts of the ‘overnight' shift to remote work * (6:21) Remember the basics when undergoing digital transformation  * (9:33) Predictions for the future of work in 2022* (14:26) Prioritize security when building infrastructure * (31:03) How to scale up quickly and securely * (26:08) What keeps Rob engaged and Jim's technology predictions--------SponsorThis podcast is brought to you by Asana. Asana is a leading work management platform that empowers teams to orchestrate their work — from daily tasks to big strategic initiatives — all in one place. By enabling the world's teams to work together effortlessly, Asana helps organizations of all sizes and industries achieve their goals, faster. Learn more at Asana.com.--------LinksConnect with Jim Chilton on LinkedInConnect with Rob Lee on LinkedInLearn more about Cengage GroupLearn more about Pure Storage

Heather Hayes - Executive Education Consultant with Gale (A Cengage Company) - takes a deeper look at Cameron's Collection and other resources for understanding student mental health needs. This is episode 443 of Teaching Learning Leading K12. Heather Hayes is an Executive Education Consultant with Gale, a Cengage Company. Heather earned her BA in English from James Madison University and a master of teaching with a concentration in English from Virginia Commonwealth University. As a former English literature teacher and in her role as an education consultant, Heather has a passion for ensuring that we teach the whole child, and that both the mental health and wellness and the academics of every child is fostered, nurtured, and protected—paving the way to each child's unique path to success! Gale, a Cengage company, partners with librarians and educators around the world to connect learners to essential content through user-friendly technology that enhances experiences and improves learning outcomes. For more than 65 years, Gale has collaborated with academic institutions, schools, and public libraries around the world to empower the discovery of knowledge and insights that push the boundaries of traditional research and advanced learners in all areas of life. Today, we are focused on understanding how GALE can help you, that there are resources to help us understand mental health needs of our students and us, and learning more about the special resource  - Cameron's Collection.  Heather was a guest on episode 421. If you haven't listened yet that would be a great place to start and then come back to this episode. Follow this link to go there Episode 421 - Heather Hayes - an Executive Education Consultant with GALE, a Cengage Company - talks about Cameron's Collection a GALE Resource for Teen Mental Health. Thanks for listening. So much to learn! But wait... Could you do me a favor? Please go to my website at https://www.stevenmiletto.com/reviews/ or open the podcast app that you are listening to me on and would you rate and review the podcast? That would be Awesome. Thanks! Ready to start your own podcast? Podbean is an awesome host. I have been with them since 2013. Go to https://www.podbean.com/TLLK12 to get 1 month free of unlimited hosting for your new podcast.  Remember to take a look at NVTA (National Virtual Teacher Association) The NVTA Certification Process was created to establish a valid and reliable research-based teacher qualification training process for virtual teachers to enhance their teaching and develop their ongoing reflective skills to improve teaching capacity. NVTA is an affiliate sponsor of Teaching Learning Leading K12, by following the link above if you purchase a program, Teaching Learning Leading K12 will get a commission and you will help the show continue to grow.  Don't forget to go to my other affiliate sponsor Boone's Titanium Rings at www.boonerings.com. When you order a ring use my code - TLLK12 - at checkout to get 10% off and help the podcast get a commission. Oh by the way, you can help support Teaching Learning Leading K12 by buying me a soft drink (actually making a donation to Teaching Learning Leading K12.) That would be awesome! You would be helping expand the show with equipment and other resources to keep the show moving upward. Just go to https://www.buymeacoffee.com/stevenmiletto Thanks! Happy New Year! Wishing you the best for 2022! Connect & Learn More: CELL: 1-804-437-4516  EMAIL: Heather.Hayes@cengage.com WEB: www.gale.com https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/gale/ https://twitter.com/galecengage https://www.facebook.com/GaleCengage/ Length - 34:06

Quick breakdown of gang stalkers their actions, schedule of past and current events , election results and census funds being distributed. Cengage publishing has come up multiple times as a company that is employing members of the cult/society. Though I feel the management staff and others don't know how much their payroll really os or who's getting it. Predicting virtual lives (fraudulent identities) taking Checks they haven't earned worked for or even real human beings. Maybe an alias but one that doesn't do anything on a vacant or of site or even a completely unknown positing within a company. "|compliment you for......" mark- hey mark, and schroeders lisa(drweb.com), suzeanne(cengage publishing), doug, and ryan (douglas ryan schroeder as well as douglas ryan oeter)- thanks for your secret society of morons. Like I would accept a compliment from a terrorist? Nothing more insulting.

In this episode of Falconcast by Maddie Jo, you'll explore the world from the eyes of the 1840's Ireland potato famine and learn about witnesses who experienced it. Maddie Jo will explain the Potato famine and the witness's stories. Her sources for this podcast included eyewitness history, CENGAGE learning, and Irelandxo.

Heather Hayes - an Executive Education Consultant with Gale, a Cengage Company - talks about Cameron's Collection a Gage Resource for Teen Mental Health. This is episode 421 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Heather Hayes is an Executive Education Consultant with Gale, a Cengage Company. Heather earned her BA in English from James Madison University and a master of teaching with a concentration in English from Virginia Commonwealth University. As a former English literature teacher and in her role as an education consultant, Heather has a passion for ensuring that we teach the whole child, and that both the mental health and wellness and the academics of every child is fostered, nurtured, and protected—paving the way to each child's unique path to success! Gale, a Cengage company, partners with librarians and educators around the world to connect learners to essential content through user-friendly technology that enhances experiences and improves learning outcomes. For more than 65 years, Gale has collaborated with academic institutions, schools, and public libraries around the world to empower the discovery of knowledge and insights that push the boundaries of traditional research and advanced learners in all areas of life. Today, we are focused on understanding how GALE can help you, that there are resources to help us understand mental health needs of our students and us, and learning more about the special resource  - Cameron's Collection.  Thanks for listening! Enjoy! But wait... Remember that Lynn at Connect Flow Grow is ready to help you deal with stress. She has new two new exciting classes: (Click on the links below to learn about each class.) Stress Less Society and Stress Less Family! Through these classes, Lynn will help you or your family learn how stress affects your lives and healthy ways that you can combat it. Don't wait. Go deal with that stress and get on with your life!   Could you do me a favor? Please go to my website at https://www.stevenmiletto.com/reviews/ or open the podcast app that you are listening to me on and would you rate and review the podcast? That would be Awesome. Thanks!   Have you been wanting to tell your story on podcasts? Podcasts are a great way to grow your personal and business brand. Kitcaster specializes in developing real human connections through podcast appearances. If you are an expert in your field, have a unique story to share, or an interesting point of view-- it's time to explore the world of podcasting with Kitcaster. Go to https://kitcaster.com/tllk12 or go to my webpage at https://stevenmiletto.com/sponsors click on the Kitcaster logo to apply for a special offer for friends of Teaching Learning Leading K12.   Ready to start your own podcast? Podbean is an awesome host. I have been with them since 2013. Go to https://www.podbean.com/TLLK12 to get 1 month free of unlimited hosting for your new podcast.    Remember to take a look at NVTA (National Virtual Teacher Association) The NVTA Certification Process was created to establish a valid and reliable research-based teacher qualification training process for virtual teachers to enhance their teaching and develop their ongoing reflective skills to improve teaching capacity. NVTA is an affiliate sponsor of Teaching Learning Leading K12, by following the link above if you purchase a program, Teaching Learning Leading K12 will get a commission and you will help the show continue to grow.    Don't forget to go to my other affiliate sponsor Boone's Titanium Rings at www.boonerings.com. When you order a ring use my code - TLLK12 - at checkout to get 10% off and help the podcast get a commission.   Oh by the way, you can help support Teaching Learning Leading K12 by buying me a soft drink (actually making a donation to Teaching Learning Leading K12.) That would be awesome! You would be helping expand the show with equipment and other resources to keep the show moving upward. Just go to https://www.buymeacoffee.com/stevenmiletto Thanks! Have an awesome day! Connect & Learn More: www.gale.com https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/gale/ https://twitter.com/galecengage https://www.facebook.com/GaleCengage/ Length - 33:36

**Who You will Hear**Guest: Michael Cairns (CEO & Founder of Information Media Partners)Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek)Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek)In this episode, Michael Cairns shares his experience as a consultant helping content-centric business owners transform their businesses and improve their technology. He talks about his passion for figuring out problems and setting out a roadmap to solve them.  Michael also shares his thoughts on how he sees the publishing model and media businesses transforming and evolving during the pandemic and post-pandemic era. The annual publishing technology market survey published by Information Media Partners, Publishing Technology Market Report – 2021, has been released. This report covers over 200 software and services companies supporting global publishers and content owners. Find out more details here. For more information about Michael and his work, please visit Information Media Partners.Tell us what is going on with your publishing projects or business on Twitter (@Klopotek_AG), LinkedIn, or email us at podcast@klopotek.com.  For more information about the Klopoteksoftwaresolution, please write to info@klopotek.com, or register to receive emails from us on technology innovations & events from Klopotek.

On today's episode of the Kevin and Fred show, we're joined by globally-renowned profit coach and author, Susie Carder. After her own success in business, building a salon to the top 1% of the nation in profitability, Susie is putting her unique expertise to good use, to help business owners scale to $10 million. Today, she helps her clients build up their hustle muscle, make their money duplicatable, and focus their energy and efforts in the most productive areas of the business.    Susie Carder is an author, entrepreneur, investor, business consultant and profit coach. A self-made millionaire, she started with one salon and health spa, and built it into one of the most successful businesses in the country. She then founded and sold three profitable companies, the last of which sold for eight figures to Cengage. Susie soon became passionate about helping other business owners achieve what came naturally to her – growth and sustainability. As she led business after business to success, the true test of her talents came unexpectedly. A serious car accident threatened Susie's life and instantly took her away from her business. As she took time off for surgery and healing, something incredible happened behind the scenes. Not only did her business stay afloat, it expanded tenfold. The systems she created enabled her staff to carry on without her. Susie's calling became crystal clear: Bring this level of freedom to others.   Susie has guided hundreds of companies to develop personalized operation systems in finance, sales, and marketing. An international speaker, Susie's spit-fire personality, sharp wit, and heart-warming stories are beautifully woven in with her decades of business knowledge to educate and compel audiences toward financial freedom.  Susie is currently consultant of Lisa Nichols' Motivating the Masses, a global transformation and training company, and author of nine books and multiple training programs. Her Best-Selling book, Living Proof (co-authored with Lisa Nichols) and Power Your Profits: How to Take Your Business From $10,000 to $10 Million, is available today.    88% of small businesses in this country make less than $100k a year, only 2.5% are doing $500k and over, while only $1.7% are hitting the million dollar mark. The recipe for success is simple, and the business owners that follow it can predict their profits and duplicate their results.    Guest Info   Susie Carder is an author, entrepreneur, investor, business consultant, and profit coach. A self-made millionaire, she started with one salon and health spa, and built it into one of the most successful businesses in the country. She then founded and sold three profitable companies, the last of which sold for eight figures to Cengage. Susie soon became passionate about helping other business owners achieve what came naturally to her – growth and sustainability. As she led business after business to success, the true test of her talents came unexpectedly. A serious car accident threatened Susie's life and instantly took her away from her business. As she took time off for surgery and healing, something incredible happened behind the scenes. Not only did her business stay afloat, it expanded tenfold. The systems she created enabled her staff to carry on without her. Susie's calling became crystal clear: Bring this level of freedom to others.   Susie has guided hundreds of companies to develop personalized operation systems in finance, sales, and marketing. An international speaker, Susie's spit-fire personality, sharp wit, and heart-warming stories are beautifully woven in with her decades of business knowledge to educate and compel audiences toward financial freedom.  Susie is currently consultant of Lisa Nichols' Motivating the Masses, a global transformation and training company, and author of nine books and multiple training programs. Her Best-Selling book, Living Proof (co-authored with Lisa Nichols) and Power Your Profits: How to Take Your Business From $10,000 to $10 Million, is available today.    To get a free copy of Susie's book Power Your Profits: How to Take Your Business from $10,000 to $10,000,000, go to https://www.poweryourprofitsbook.com/ebook.    To get Susie's $100k consulting script go to page 199 of the book. 

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Inaugurando uma nova série de episódios esporádicos e aleatórios, o Antropocast Convida será em formato de bate papo com especialistas em diversas áreas direta ou indiretamente ligadas à Antropologia. Nosso primeiro convidado é o prof. Dr. Pedro Jaime Coêlho, Doutor em Antropologia Social pela USP e em Sociologia e Antropologia pela Université Lumière Lyon 2. Sua tese foi vencedora do Prêmio Tese Destaque USP 2013 na Categoria Ciências Humanas, mestre em Antropologia Social pela UNICAMP e graduado em Administração pela UFBA. Atualmente é professor do Departamento de Administração do Centro Universitário FEI, lecionando no Programa de Mestrado e Doutorado em Administração e na Graduação em Administração; e dos cursos de Graduação em Comunicação Social da ESPM. É autor dos livros Executivos negros: racismo e diversidade no mundo empresarial (Edusp, 2016), contemplado em 2017 com o Prêmio Jabuti na categoria Economia, Administração e Negócios, e com o Prêmio ABEU (Associação Brasileira das Editoras Universitárias) na categoria Ciências Humanas; e Sociologia das organizações: conceitos, relatos e casos (Cengage, 2017), em parceria com Fred Lúcio. No bate papo, conversamos sobre os desdobramentos da Antropologia Aplicada a partir dos estudos da chamada Antropologia Empresarial e da Antropologia das Organizações no mundo contemporâneo.

A growing body of research has shown that anxiety and mental health issues have become primary concerns for college students. To get a leadership perspective on this challenge, we spoke with Elfred Anthony Pinkard, the president of Wilberforce University, who talked about how his students have been coping with the nation's racial reckoning as well as the pandemic. We also spoke with Dr. Alan Dennington, the chief medical officer at TimelyMD, a telehealth provider focused on college students, who described a spike in demand for mental health counseling among students, and what appears to be driving it. This episode is sponsored by Cengage, from online to hyflex learning, Cengage supports your changing pedagogy at scale. Learn more at cengage.com/institutional.

Amid fears about a possible exodus of lower-income students from postsecondary education, and community colleges in particular, what can policymakers do to help vulnerable students stay on track? For answers, we spoke with Morna Foy, president of the Wisconsin Technical College System. Foy spoke about barriers faced by students across the system and why she and other two-year college leaders want more federal stimulus help for part-time students. Also featured in this episode is Lexi Barrett, an associate vice president at Jobs for the Future, who leads the group's state and federal policy efforts. Barrett put the enrollment crunch many community colleges are facing in a national context, and talked about some possible policy fixes. This episode is sponsored by Cengage, from online to hyflex learning, Cengage supports your changing pedagogy at scale. Learn more at cengage.com/institutional.

The pandemic has brought new urgency to the creation of a learner record system, which could help students more smoothly transfer between colleges and find a job. We spoke with Scott Cheney, the CEO of Credential Engine, to hear about the potential for such a system, as well as how his organization is seeking to bring transparency to credentials while creating a marketplace for them. Also featured in this episode is Kendall Bailey, who leads SEI Labs. She spoke about how interoperable learner records could improve equity by helping students more efficiently bridge the gap between postsecondary education and the workforce. This episode is sponsored by Cengage, from online to hyflex learning, Cengage supports your changing pedagogy at scale. Learn more at cengage.com/institutional.

The College of Health Care Professions is the largest producer of allied health graduates in Texas. Most of its students are Latino, Black and from lower-incomes backgrounds. We spoke with Eric Bing, CHCP's CEO, to hear how the college and its students are holding up during the pandemic. Bing talked about how the college has designed its credentials to be stackable, and how higher education can better serve adult students. This episode is sponsored by Cengage, from online to hyflex learning, Cengage supports your changing pedagogy at scale. Learn more at cengage.com/institutional.

Community colleges and their students are wrestling with plenty of challenges this fall, including obstacles related to affordability, childcare and the digital divide. We spoke with two community college leaders to hear what their institutions are doing to help keep students on track. Sue Ellspermann is president of Ivy Tech Community College, Indiana's statewide two-year system. She spoke about how Ivy Tech used its CARES Act funding and what she'd like to see in a future federal stimulus. We also spoke with Margaret McMenamin, president of Union County College in New Jersey. She talked about the pandemic's impact on enrollment and what the college is doing to make sure all students can access online courses. This episode is sponsored by Cengage, from online to hyflex learning, Cengage supports your changing pedagogy at scale. Learn more at cengage.com/institutional.

Amid growing evidence the pandemic and recession are worsening equity gaps, Excelencia in Education last month released an analysis on Latino representation in higher education, as well as on degree attainment and completion rates. We spoke with Deborah Santiago, Excelencia's co-founder and CEO, about the report's findings and to hear about key data points it identified. She also spoke about what some institutions are doing right with Latino students and where opportunities exist for colleges to do better. This episode is sponsored by Cengage, from online to hyflex learning, Cengage supports your changing pedagogy at scale. Learn more at cengage.com/institutional.

Eric Galis, vice president of compliance and security at Cengage, believes in seizing the right opportunities. A series of happy accidents propelled Eric's career in information security, where he's focused on automation, security monitoring, application security, and more. As a seasoned professional in the field, Eric seeks opportunities for others, particularly by advocating for people in adjacent industries and roles trying to break into the field. In this episode, Eric shares his positive outlook on the industry, provides concrete advice on fixing the workforce shortage, and offers insight into his own experiences in infosec.

Profit coach, Susie Carder, is truly a self-made millionaire. She started with one salon and health spa and built it into one of the most successful businesses in the country. She then founded and sold three profitable companies, the last of which sold for eight figures to Cengage. Susie soon became passionate about helping other business owners achieve what came naturally to her – growth and sustainability. As she led business after business to success, the true test of her talents came unexpectedly. A serious car accident threatened Susie's life and instantly took her away from her business. As she took time off for surgery and healing, something incredible happened behind the scenes. Not only did her business stay afloat, it expanded tenfold. The systems she created enabled her staff to carry on without her. Susie's calling became crystal clear: Bring this level of freedom to others. In her popular program, the Predictable Success Method™, Susie has guided hundreds of companies to develop personalized operation systems in finance, sales, and marketing. An international speaker, Susie's spit-fire personality, sharp wit, and heart-warming stories are beautifully woven in with her decades of business knowledge to educate and compel audiences toward financial freedom. About The Project EGG Show: The Project EGG Show is a video talk show that introduces you to entrepreneurs from around the world. It is broadcast from studios in Metairie, Louisiana to online platforms including YouTube, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify and Stitcher, and hosted by Ben Gothard. Our goal is to give you a fresh, unscripted and unedited look into the lives of real entrepreneurs from around the globe. From billionaires to New York Times best selling authors to Emmy Award winners to Forbes 30 Under 30 recipients to TEDx speakers – we present their real stories – uncensored and uncut. Subscribe To The Show: https://projectegg.co/podcast/ Get Access To: 1. Resources: https://projectegg.co/resources/ 2. Financing Solutions: https://projectegg.co/epoch/ 3. Payment Solutions: https://projectegg.co/sempr/ 4. Services: https://projectegg.co/resources#services 5. Courses: https://projectegg.co/resources#courses 6. Software: https://projectegg.co/resources#software 7. Book: https://projectegg.co/resources#books --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/projectegg/support

What if modern conservatism is less a reaction to environmentalism than a mutation of it? Historian Natasha Zaretsky's latest book, Radiation Nation: Three Mile Island and the Political Transformation of the 1970s (Columbia University Press, 2018), is a fine-grained examination of the local reaction to the most serious accident in the history of U.S. nuclear energy. It is also a sweeping study of the construction of arguments for and against nuclear energy and atomic weapons from the end of the World War II to the present. Zaretsky follows that debate through a transformative six-year debate in central Pennsylvania, where conservative activists launched protests that drew heavily from the examples of environmentalism, the antiwar movement, second-wave feminism, the black freedom struggle, and black and women's health activism. Yet rather than pushing them to the left, their fight with pronuclear forces in industry and government made them more conservative. They articulated an ethnonationalist argument about a threatened nation betrayed by its leaders and illustrated it with ecological images of the damaged bodies of mothers, babies, and the unborn. This “biotic nationalism” helped conservatives paint a convincing picture of the America of the 1970s and 1980s and remains potent today, as visible in the “Crippled America” described by Donald Trump. Natasha Zaretsky is associate professor of history at Southern Illinois University. She is the author of No Direction Home: The American Family and the Fear of American Decline, 1968-1980 (UNC Press, 2007) and co-editor of Major Problems in U.S. History Since 1945 (4th ed., Cengage, 2013). Her articles have appeared in Diplomatic History, The Journal of Social History, The Journal of Women's History, The New Republic, and elsewhere. Brian Hamilton is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin—Madison where he is researching African American environmental history in the nineteenth-century Cotton South. He is also an editor of the digital environmental magazine and podcast Edge Effects.