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Greane Tree Technology Lead Software Engineer Matthew Gerrior knows a lot about the ins and outs of integrating social media into web applications. He will be sharing his insights at Social Media Breakfast Tech Valley #14: The Mechanics of Social Media. The event will be held from 8 to 10 am on Tuesday, April 30, at the Cohoes Music Hall. Breakfast will be provided by All Good Bakers. Matt’s experience with social media includes: Using Trendspottr to pull data from Twitter and Facebook to help users tailor their own engagement with social mediaEnhancing video sharing with Facebook Open Graph and Twitter Player Cards Interweaving data from Twitter and Instagram to add a live stream of relevant social media to webcasts from entertainment venuesMatt will explain the basics of social media APIs, and will give pointers on how to use them.
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Greane Tree Technology President Annmarie Lanesey will speak about Girls in STEM and Women in Business at two events in April. The first event is “Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM): Change. Create. Collaborate. Contribute. Girls in STEM.” The event aims to educate girls and their parents about the opportunities and rewards of STEM education and careers. Annmarie will appear with representatives from GLOBALFOUNDRIES, NYSERDA, CNSE, and Ballston Spa Central School District on a panel entitled “Business & Industry Careers - Amazing Women Leaders in STEM.
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At Greane Tree Technology, we are especially happy when we can use our skills to contribute to our community. Such was the case when we recently worked with the Commission on Economic Opportunity to rebuild their website, www.ceo-cap.org. CEO has long been one of our favorite organizations, and we were deeply gratified to assist them in their mission to empower local people. The Commission on Economic Opportunity (CEO) was formed in 1965 as part of the network of Community Action Agencies created to administer Head Start and other programs that help people rise out of poverty and become independent.
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As part of the Agile methodology, in addition to the regular reviews of the work product, there are retrospective meetings to inspect and adapt the work process. Our retrospective discussions with Baby-Friendly, USA, Executive Director Trish MacEnroe and Russo Project Management CEO Mary Alice Russo yielded insights that apply not only to the Baby-Friendly, USA, project, but to other Agile engagements as well. A New Approach to Software Development Trish and Mary Alice were not familiar with the Agile process when the project began.
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Most small businesses owe part of their success to a network of trusted suppliers, vendors, and external partners. Greane Tree Technology is no exception, and we’ve decided to profile some of the people we depend on. We recently completed a project for nonprofit Baby-Friendly USA during which it was our pleasure to work with Mary Alice Russo, CEO and founder of Russo Project Management (RPM). Mary Alice was helping Baby-Friendly USA devise and execute a capacity building effort.
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Lunch and Learn is a new initiative at Greane Tree Technology which allows developers to gather over lunch and present topics to one another. We hope that this will not only improve the skills of our developers, but also the quality of the software we engineer. The idea stems, in a way, from a blog post about working at Stripe, which can be found at: http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/stripes-culture. The post describes a program at Stripe in which a group of employees chooses one research paper a week to read, and then gathers to discuss the paper over lunch.
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On Wednesday, January 16, 2013, from 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM, Greane Tree Technology President Annmarie Lanesey will join Jeff Weiss, CEO of Glennpeter Jewelers Diamond Centre, and Dave Smith, President of LinguaLinx, Inc., on a panel entitled “The Secret To Our Success: Insider Information From Local CEOs.” The three CEOs will share their insights on overcoming obstacles and achieving business success. They will also facilitate an interactive workshop in which attendees can get individualized feedback in small groups.
Authored by on Thursday, Jan 3, 2013
Baruch College’s Newman Library website is a portal to unimaginable riches. Digital copies of archival materials, study guides by Baruch College’s professors, videos of guest lectures, links to collections at the Smithsonian and Library of Congress, online catalogs for the whole CUNY system – these are just a few of the resources publicly available on the website. CUNY students and staff can access additional troves of proprietary online journals, databases, and collections.
Authored by on Wednesday, Dec 26, 2012
In this season of giving, we are spotlighting some of our favorite organizations. The Commission on Economic Opportunity (CEO) brings “hope, opportunity, and success” to people throughout the Capital Region in fulfillment of its mission is “to preserve and advance the self-sufficiency, well being, and growth of individuals, children and families through education, guidance and resources.” CEO offers Community, Housing, Early Childhood, and Youth and Family Services. CEO has a centralized intake process that quickly connects families and individuals with all pertinent services in CEO’s continuum of care.
Authored by on Monday, Nov 19, 2012
We are so pleased to announce the launch of the new website that we built for the nonprofit Baby-Friendly USA. Baby-Friendly USA is the accrediting body for the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative in the United States. Baby Friendly is the national authority that helps hospitals and birth centers conform to international standards of infant care that support optimal infant nutrition and mother/baby bonding, as well as achieve public health goals set by the U.