Embrace your inner geek and join us for Burgers and Star Trek on May 8.
May 8, 2009
8:00PM
Fuddruckkers
50 Walkers Brook Dr, Reading, MA 01867
(781) 942-4891
http://www.fuddruckers.com/
Please RSVP to mdinglasa@gmail.com by May 7
Star Trek 9:30PM showing
I recommend purchasing tickets ahead of time at Jordans Imax website http://www.jordansimax.com/.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Monday, April 27, 2009
Donate old electronics for SWE event for teen girls on May 2nd
SWE Boston Members,
Do you have old electronics (telephones, radios, etc) that you need to get rid of?
How would you like to help a girl learn about engineering at the same time? (Besides, the garage needs to be cleaned out sometime.)
For our "Wow! That's Engineering!" SWE signature event next week for teen girls (May 2nd), we are looking for donations of old electronics for our "take-apart" portion of the event. The girls take apart old electronics to find out how they work. We need old telephones, radios, answering machines, etc. for 200 girls to take apart and explore!
If you have something to donate, please email Tracy at tcp@ieee.org. Here are the drop off options:
Bring to the SWE meeting on Tuesday April 28th at Analog Devices.
Bring to the event on May 2nd (at UMass Lowell), from 9-10:30 AM.
Email Tracy at tcp@ieee.org to arrange a drop-off.
The list of items we can use includes, but is NOT limited to, the following:
-Telephones
-Answering Machines
-Radios
-Computers, keyboards, printers (no monitors, please)
-Fax Machines
-VCR or DVD players
-Cameras
-Game consoles
Anything else you can think of
Interested in volunteering on the day of the event? Register at http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=178807.
Do you have old electronics (telephones, radios, etc) that you need to get rid of?
How would you like to help a girl learn about engineering at the same time? (Besides, the garage needs to be cleaned out sometime.)
For our "Wow! That's Engineering!" SWE signature event next week for teen girls (May 2nd), we are looking for donations of old electronics for our "take-apart" portion of the event. The girls take apart old electronics to find out how they work. We need old telephones, radios, answering machines, etc. for 200 girls to take apart and explore!
If you have something to donate, please email Tracy at tcp@ieee.org. Here are the drop off options:
Bring to the SWE meeting on Tuesday April 28th at Analog Devices.
Bring to the event on May 2nd (at UMass Lowell), from 9-10:30 AM.
Email Tracy at tcp@ieee.org to arrange a drop-off.
The list of items we can use includes, but is NOT limited to, the following:
-Telephones
-Answering Machines
-Radios
-Computers, keyboards, printers (no monitors, please)
-Fax Machines
-VCR or DVD players
-Cameras
-Game consoles
Anything else you can think of
Interested in volunteering on the day of the event? Register at http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=178807.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
The perils of managing too many social networking sites
I'm busy, everyone I know is busy and the folks reading this are most likely busy too. On average, it takes 2-3 hours to maintain the SWE Boston website. If something goes wrong (i.e. hackers posting diet links on our site), it may take all weekend long. The additional tasks of maintaining social networking sites for the organization takes an additional 2 hours. To me, 5 hours every week for years is a lot of work. Not many of us have time to update all of our profiles and post messages every day (or every 6 months).
Issues
1) I have to repeat the same profiles on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Blogspot and etc.
2) I have to keep the audience interested on our organization by posting updates at least every week.
3) Memorizing many usernames and passwords.
4) Eats up too much time.
5) I'm lazy.
Solutions
1) RSS feed is my good old friend. I can use RSS to automatically post news/updates on Facebook, Twitter (through twitterfeed.com), LinkedIn and Blogspot.
2) Atomkeep.com is my new best friend. I love that I can update my profiles all at once though atomkeep. I only need to memorize one username and password.
Gripes
The SWE communities does not accept RSS to post updates, does not automatically save username/password and the search features is still behind the times.
-MLD
SWE Boston webmaster
Issues
1) I have to repeat the same profiles on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Blogspot and etc.
2) I have to keep the audience interested on our organization by posting updates at least every week.
3) Memorizing many usernames and passwords.
4) Eats up too much time.
5) I'm lazy.
Solutions
1) RSS feed is my good old friend. I can use RSS to automatically post news/updates on Facebook, Twitter (through twitterfeed.com), LinkedIn and Blogspot.
2) Atomkeep.com is my new best friend. I love that I can update my profiles all at once though atomkeep. I only need to memorize one username and password.
Gripes
The SWE communities does not accept RSS to post updates, does not automatically save username/password and the search features is still behind the times.
-MLD
SWE Boston webmaster
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