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Looker: How to Keep a Distributed Workforce Engaged with Your Data
Jill Hardy Content Strategist, Customer Marketing at Looker May 5, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA As companies shift to a distributed workforce, finding new engagement strategies can be crucial In a distributed workforce model, there are […]
Digital NEST named one of the Bay Area’s “Best Places to Work”
By Ahalya SrikantSilicon Valley Business Journal May 5, 2020 — Watsonville, CA (Photo source: Silicon Valley Business Journal) Watsonville-based nonprofit featured in Smallest Companies category [Editor’s note: This article has been edited to focus on Digital […]
UCSC alumnus leads massive effort to ramp up COVID-19 testing
By Dan WhiteUC Santa Cruz May 5, 2020 – Santa Cruz, CA (Photo above: Joe DeRisi, UCSC Crown College ’92, biochemistry and molecular biology, wearing a protective mask at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub. Source: UC Santa […]
Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops (SISC) and SupplyShift announce the soft launch of the new SISC Stewardship Calculator
(Contributed) May 5, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo source: SupplyShift) Online platform makes on-farm sustainability data easy to collect and share Following last April’s news of their partnership and initiative to develop an on-line […]
Local nonprofit Digital NEST rises to the challenges of COVID-19
(Contributed) May 5, 2020 — Watsonville, CA (Photo source: Digital NEST) Digital NEST runs virtual programming, continues to provide high-touch one-on-one mentoring, and creates space for members to engage creatively Digital NEST, a youth workforce […]
GetVirtual: Interns for businesses, college credit for students
By Arin Spanner, with input from Anagha Vijay, Ananya MisraUC Santa Cruz studentsMay 4, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA GetVirtual pairs local businesses seeking help with college students seeking experience. Businesses get free interns. Students […]
Five in Five: Dennis Donohue of Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology
By Sarah Vickers-WebbProduction & Editorial AssistantSanta Cruz Tech Beat May 1, 2020 — Salinas, CA WGCIT finds space for innovation in the midst of the pandemic For our Five and Five interview with Western Growers […]
Voices of the Valley: Rodrigo Nieto Gómez of Naval Postgraduate School
(Source: Voices of the Valley) April 30, 2020 — Monterey, CA (Photo: Rodrigo Nieto-Gomez is a professor at the Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. He describes himself […]
Concentric Power Webinar Covers Innovation during a Crisis
(Source: Western Growers) April 30, 2020 — Salinas, CA (Photo source: Western Growers) Founder and CEO Brian Curtis will discuss navigating disruptions while adjusting previous assumptions Concentric Power, a vertically integrated clean energy project developer, […]
Innovating to Zero COVID19
By Rodrigo Nieto-GomezMedium April 29 2020 — Monterey, CA (Image source: Medium) How to innovate our way out of Coronavirus hell by doing the right things in the right order [Editor’s note: Rodrigo Nieto-Gomez is […]