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Twitter: Influence and Engagement
→: Twitter: Influence and EngagementIntroduce myself: my name is Cate and I’m a second year Masters student in Computer Science. There’s all these different parts of Computer Science, but how I like to describe myself is that I try to create things that answer the questions that people haven’t thought to ask. What does that mean? Well, you could…
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Simple Steps that Reduced my Bounce Rate
→: Simple Steps that Reduced my Bounce RateGiven that my current project is all about engagement, it’s probably not surprising that I’m more focused on engagement with my website than number of hits. Here’s my SEO strategy: write content, post regularly, give pages different names, insert images properly. That’s it. However the bounce rate is more interesting – that’s the number of…
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Science Teacher Talk: Information -> Meaning
→: Science Teacher Talk: Information -> MeaningInitial draft of a talk I’m supposed to be giving in February. Information -> Meaning Before the printing press, literacy rates were really low, and the average book was the bible. This was all people had by way of information. The printing press caused a revolution. 100 years later, humans had more information than they…
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Finding Balance and Motivation
→: Finding Balance and MotivationOn Wednesday, uOttawa WISE had the latest talks in our Inspiring Women series. As has happened every time so far, I think this is the best yet. How do we top it in February? (OK I have a sneak preview of what will be happening in February, and that’s going to be awesome too). Our…
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Graduate School
→: Graduate SchoolI went back to school because I didn’t think I knew enough to go and join the real world, yet. Then I got to graduate school, and realized it wasn’t the place to learn it. I’m not a better programmer than I was before I came. I know a little more about some things, but…
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Slides for my Talk – 15 Tools to Make University Easier
→: Slides for my Talk – 15 Tools to Make University Easier15 Tools to Make University Easier View more presentations from Cate Huston. See the original blogpost.
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Digitally Distinct?
→: Digitally Distinct?Out of interest, I took the Online Identity Calculator, and they gave me a badge! Dominating the first 3 pages for my name was pretty easy because I have an uncommon one. But social media is a big part of it. A lot of my results are from Twitter (and applications built on it that…