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IABC 18: Collaborative Leadership through Communications with Carol Kinsey Gorman

Sherrilynne Starkie

who is an author and executive coach that focuses on collaborative leadership. Her informative and entertaining session looked at how communication powers effective collaboration. To a standing-room-only crowd, Gorman explained how collaboration is replacing the old ‘command and control’ leadership models.

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Lessons learned as an entry-level software engineer

Sprout Social

If you asked me a year ago what a software engineer did, I would have said something along the lines of “solving problems through code.” For engineers on product-driven teams, these problems could include how to implement a new feature that customers have been asking for , or how to improve the performance of existing features.

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Building A Career in Electrical Engineering

The Realtime Report

Building A Career in Electrical Engineering. If you’re among the people looking for your dream career, you might consider becoming an electrical engineer. Knowing how to become an electrical engineer is the first step you need to take. Keep reading to learn more about the steps to becoming an electrical engineer.

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How We’ve Changed Our Engineering Mindset to Become Builders Again

Buffer Social

I've been working at Buffer since 2014, and even before I joined, I was always impressed by the Buffer team's product and engineering culture: how quick they shipped improvements and how close everyone was to the users (not uncommon to see engineers responding to comments on Twitter!).

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Connecting Your Enterprise: Collaboration at Scale

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Last week I moderated another Social Media Today webinar as part of their Best Thinker webinar series, this time on the topic of Connecting Your Enterprise: Collaboration at Scale. Getting those silos to come down using one software solution is the first step to greater collaboration and scale in social.

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5 Ways to Make Your Influencer Collaboration Successful – From a Former Micro-influencer

Pixlee

One of the most successful techniques brands can utilize when collaborating with an influencer is scarcity marketing. Jeffree Starr released a palette with Shane Dawson through Morphe – so successfully, they broke the site’s ecommerce engine. . One thing that is very important for influencer collaborations is staying organized.

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Software engineering personalities: the Teslas and the Edisons

Sprout Social

While reading up on these two individuals, it struck us at Sprout Social that these two working styles can teach us how to build a healthy engineering culture consisting of Edisons and Teslas. We’ve found many software engineers, regardless of background, fall into one of the two personality profiles. Are you a Tesla or an Edison?