Google's "Marissa Mayer"

Google’s Marissa Mayer was on NPR the other day. She says turn new projects around fast, and get them out early and often. Let the users decide the iterative changes.
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Wed, Apr 23, 2008 -- 10:00 AMGoogle's Marissa Mayer

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Download (MP3) (Windows: right-click and choose "Save Target As." Mac: hold Ctrl, click link, and choose "Save As.")In an annual ranking of the world's top brands announced this week, Mountain View-based Google topped the list with a brand value of $86 billion. We welcome Google vice president Marissa Mayer - the first female engineer hired by the company - for a conversation on Google's rapid growth and on her response to critics who say the company has become too powerful. Host: Michael Krasny

P16 Council - Connecting the Dots

This was up at UC Davis (Mondavi Center) on Friday, April 18, 2008. It was great.
P16 reqested research and had about 20 papers written up. This was the public presentation of the findings.
The presentation had half of the authors do a 10-minute presentation of their findings, followed by q & a, followed by roundtable discussions.
Papers: http://cap-ed.ucdavis.edu/node/25
ppt: http://cap-ed.ucdavis.edu/node/26