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You know a class is going to be awesome when you have @sirjessthebrave as your instructor, #kitten pics & #gifs. Especially when one is a super sweet #theitcrowd gif! #Thankyou for the great class. So happy we got to finally meet! #latergram #DCTech #womenwhocode #womenintech #adventuresincoding #programmerslife #coding #tech #generalassembly #dcfemtech (at General Assembly)

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DC Is the Top City for Women in Tech

DC Is the Top City for Women in Tech

Nashville may be the best city for women-owned businesses, but DC is the best city for women in tech. This is the second year in a row that the capital region has earned the title, according to a report produced by SmartAsset, a financial software company. Kansas City, MO was also the runner up for the second year in a row. The Gender Gap In DC, the gender pay gap for women in computer and…

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This was fun!

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[socialsandbox] #NPRHustle

Good morning NPR!

INSIDE THE BUILDING

1. LA Johnson started last week as a new interaction designer working with the Design Team. Her twitter handle is @theLAJohnson. 

(If you have a new employee joining your team, please a) tell them about this listserv and b) let me know their social handles so everyone will know that and follow)

2. Today, Petra Mayer and the Books Team are hosting a live First Read Twitter chat with Colson Whitehead. It starts at 12:30ET and they’ll be discussing his new book “The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death.” Hashtag #NPRHustle 

3. The NPRViz team released copytext.py — make a website from an Excel sheet.

4. Also Alex Schelldorf shares how the interns have used social this term:

For the Winter/Spring semester that ends this week, I’m most stoked about two of the series we’ve produced this term: The first, #NPRtbt, was produced by Arts Desk intern Linda Chen. It’s a series of “Throwback Thursday” pictures and interviews.

  It was a dual-platform series: First, we’d post the Throwback pictures (curated by Linda from the NPR Archives, with the help of librarian Jane Gilvin and others) on our Instagram account, with a short blurb. Our latest one was this amazing photo of engineer Dave Glasser carrying a ‘highly portable reel-to-reel player’.

  Later that day, we’d put up an interview with that same person on our Tumblr, like this one with Bob Boilen, with a current photo, shot by Science Multimedia intern Meg Vogel.

  The other series is a continuation from last semester. It’s a series of exit interviews we’ve called ‘Exit Through the (NPR) Gift Shop.’ Meg again took portraits, and I helped to write and edit a survey for interns to say a few things about themselves, the experience at NPR, and include links to anything they’ve written or a project they’ve assisted with in some way.

  It’s been a great experience helping to manage the Interns’ social media presence, and I look forward to seeing what the next interns will do.

OUTSIDE OF THE BUILDING

1. Really like how the new NYTimes upshot blog displays Twitter handles under bylines. 

2. #DCFemTech: Event calendar to learn to code in DC

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