Showing all articles by author: Melanie Baker
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Want meaningful innovation? Start kids early
05 March 2015 | By Melanie Baker in: Featured, M-Theory, Opinion
It is important for youth to learn, but are they learning as effectively as they should? There is often a driving force behind entrepreneurship and career choice. Events from youths' lives can lead them… Read more
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Leave the echo chamber, burst the bubble
19 February 2015 | By Melanie Baker in: Featured, M-Theory, Opinion
What makes a tech idea boom? It is not like scientific research well peers will review your work and give you a strong idea if it is good or needs more work. In tech, there is a trial and error system… Read more
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Grownup life is hard. This app handles it for you
05 February 2015 | By Melanie Baker in: Featured, M-Theory, Opinion
pplkpr is an app that tracks, analyzes, and auto-manages your relationships. Using a smartwatch, pplkpr monitors your physical and emotional response to the people around you, and optimizes your social… Read more
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New library blows away dusty stereotypes
14 July 2014 | By Melanie Baker in: Ecosystem, Featured, M-Theory, Opinion
Library stereotypes have gone the way of the dinosaur. Our library and many others are now big, bright spaces that invite interaction. They showcase art, encourage makers and offer resources as likely… Read more
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On learning and the long game
20 June 2014 | By Melanie Baker in: Featured, M-Theory, Opinion
Asking bigger questions and learning about philosophy and all the possibilities of the universe is essential to our learning even though it may not seem practical in our day-to-day lives. It helps us to… Read more
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M-Theory: The three points of the team-building triangle (Part 1)
27 May 2014 | By Melanie Baker in: Featured, M-Theory, Opinion
When thinking of teams, teamwork, and how you get the people part of building companies right, there are many key processes and tools to our culture and values. Learning about the three points of the team-building… Read more
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As data trails grow longer, ignorance is bliss
09 April 2014 | By Melanie Baker in: Featured, M-Theory, Opinion
Jad Saliba with his team at Magnet Forensics, is trying to figure out how to better filter with the tools, digitally helping people with the sense of navigation and memory Read more
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M-Theory: Who needs humanity? There's an app for that . . .
20 March 2014 | By Melanie Baker in: Featured, M-Theory, Opinion
Communicating so much via WhatsApp and Instagram has stripped us of our basic humanity, made us slaves to Poe’s Law. Our Paleolithic brains can’t evolve fast enough to properly understand this tech-saturated… Read more
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M-Theory: Flukes, freemium and Flappy Bird: the economics of mobile app development with Christina Moulton
21 February 2014 | By Melanie Baker in: Featured, M-Theory, Opinion
The app development industry is still young. Many people don't know what they are doing, and apps are very expensive to make. This had led to the creation of a lot of free and cheap apps to see what sticks. Read more
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M-Theory: Welcome to the businesszone
14 February 2014 | By Melanie Baker in: Featured, M-Theory, Opinion
People tend to know what they want. Consumers don't need to add a business' community manager to their long list of best friends. That is where the businesszone comes in. Read more