Ben Werdmuller helps leaders at newsrooms, non-profits, and mission-driven organizations to navigate their biggest technology challenges.
FOSS
Education has a software problem. 98% of higher educational institutions have a Learning Management System: a software platform designed to support the administration of courses. Larger institutions often spend over a million dollars a year on them, once all costs have been factored in, but the majority of people who
By Sandra Schoen
@DeadSuperHero Do you mind if I quote you?
@DeadSuperHero It would solve a number of normally intractable problems. More soon!
@DeadSuperHero I'm literally writing a blog post about this right now.
I'm convinced that the state of #EdTech software (which is not good) could be improved by giving educators the power to purchase.
And you know what? I *love* it.
Startups
Doing user research, paper prototyping, financial modeling, application design and development, sales, marketing, PR, lunch runs. #startups
The name for the fallacy, pointed out by @hanjabanja: "blind faith". Always harmful.
@kylewmahan In startups, totally. I really, really hate Jobs syndrome. Also comes up in politics and other areas.
And the cloud *is* ... Never mind.
I know I'm being a killjoy, but telling your browser to replace words with text you'd rather read doesn't seem like a great precedent.