Think back to your childhood and remember what it was like learning to type. Remember the computer class room, full of desktop computers and learning the Herzog System of typing. How critical that was for future job prospects. Now imagine your children’s computer lab, what will that look like? Given recent technologic gains, desk top …
Category Archive: Foundation Work
Apr 02
AT&T Invests $250 Million to Educate At-Risk Youth with Aspire Initiative By Latoya Livingston
It is an unfortunate fact, but nearly one-fourth of all students—and nearly forty percent of African-American, Hispanic, and Native American students—fail to graduate with their class. In an effort to combat those numbers, AT&T launched its “Aspire Initiative” in 2008, which is specifically focused on confronting the high school dropout crisis and to help ensure …
Mar 26
LISTA President and CEO Jose A. Marquez-Leon Selected Politic365 Game Changers 2012 Non-Profit Leader.
On behalf of the Latinos in Information Sciences and Technology Association (LISTA) and its Board of Directors, we would like to congratulate LISTA President and CEO Jose A. Marquez-Leon for being selected one of Politic365 Game Changers 2012 Non Profit Leader. The Politic365 Game Changers 2012 Awards honored the top 365 bi-partisan, multi-cultural minority business …
Feb 13
Ensuring Broadband for the Remaining 100 million Americans Without It
When it comes to ensuring that all 311 million Americans have access to broadband, we still have a long way to go. Although the FCC reported in its Seventh Broadband Progress Report and Order on Reconsideration that nearly 208 million people have adopted broadband, more than 100 million Americans, particularly 37 million women, lack a …
Feb 13
The 10 Most Important Things to Teach your Outlook Users By Susan Harkins
Takeaway: Outlook is complex enough to confuse your users and create support headaches. These basic concepts will give them a better grasp of how things work. Training users on Outlook is often as simple as showing them how to download their mail. But some users push Outlook to extremes and need to know quite …
Jan 30
LISTA Guest Blogger – Rick Najera – The Hollywood Lens on Latinos is Out of Focus.
I’m sitting having lunch (tortilla soup) at a major network commissary as I observe a mob of Hollywood types having their important lunch meetings. It’s business as usual. But the more I watch, the more I begin to worry. It’s not what I see that disturbs me it’s what I don’t see. And what I …
Jan 19
The Day The Internet Struck Back by Catharine P. Taylor
When your 14-year-old son and the checkout guy at the supermarket are thoroughly conversant with the latest attempt at Internet-controlling legislation, you know someone, somewhere, succeeded with their communications. And so it was yesterday, with the forces unleashed through the most powerful Internet companies in the world — which, in a movement that built up …











