Kyle Ellis
Philadelphia
Head of Product and Technology, @gonoodle // Bourbon drinker, music lover, traveler // Formers: @bizjournals, @CNN, @lasvegassun, @nypost // Love and trust ☘🏀
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Making Your Production Sustainable
The federal government reports that industrial operations use about one-third of the overall amount of energy produced in the U.S. annually. To create a sustainable future, manufacturing companies will need to play an important role. The good news is that manufacturing engineers are already waking up to the challenge, mainly design and manufacturing engineers. Products that use less energy, minimize waste, and remove emissions are built by engineers every day and manufactured in sustainable ways.
When Should You Hire An Accountant?
They say it takes first-hand knowledge to run a business successfully. But what about those areas of management that are not necessarily industry related but are still crucial? Take accounting, for example. Truth be told, even the most brilliant entrepreneurs are easily fazed by crunching those numbers. From filing tax returns to issuing financial statements or maintaining payrolls, these responsibilities can be a struggle for untrained minds.
10 Most Inspiring Start-Up Stories
Succeeding as an entrepreneur can be challenging -- especially when you're first starting out. Other professionals might suggest you go to school or attend a class here and there to help you navigate the cut-throat world of commerce. But is formal education all it really takes to be a good entrepreneur? Not necessarily. Sometimes, what you really need is a strong will-power and powerful motivation.
Best Bookkeeping Practices for Small Businesses
Bookkeeping is a critical task for any business that wants to remain in good financial standing. The good news is, technology is great, and you don't have to keep literal books of financial records anymore! There's so much accounting software out there that anyone can learn to use. But really, it doesn't matter what you use to keep track -- a physical ledger or electronic ledger; it doesn't matter what size your business is. All that matters is that you keep up with your books. What is Bookkeeping?
Letter to the Editor: Putting a Supreme Court nomination over economic stimulus
Letter to the Editor: Putting a Supreme Court nomination over economic stimulus Lankford (left) and Inhofe. Tulsa World and Associated Press file Sens. Jim Inhofe and James Lankford have sided with the president in stating that a Supreme Court nomination is more important than COVID-19 stimulus up until Election Day. How will this hasty, hypocritical appointment help an unemployed worker? Or a struggling business?
SND34 Best of Digital Design: First silver medal goes to The Washington Post
Click the image to view the winning entry. Judges have awarded the first silver medal of the SND34 Best of Digital Design contest to the Washington Post for its entry, “Newtown School Shooting: Remembering the Victims” in the breaking or daily news, over 50,000,000 page views/month category. Here’s what the judges had to say: “There was an emotional resonance in the way the kids are treated in the photo grid.” “It’s navigable and not overly-complicated.
How To Develop, Manage And Scale Your Sales Team
Our Ambassador Program is all about providing tangible value and actionable advice to our brand advocates. We’re interviewing startup founders, innovators, and thought-leaders across a variety of industries. Want to see more of these? Refer 4 friends to the Daily Email and it’s yours… Learn More: Here Background: Adam Ryan, Head of Sales Could you start with a little bit of background — where’d you begin your career, how’d you get into sales, and how’d you ultimately land at The Hustle?
Let’s build our way out of this
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I somehow got sucked into watching James Cameron’s Titanic with extended family in Atlanta. I’ve never been a fan of the movie — the ship sinks — but this time around I saw it in a different light. Somewhere between Jack gambling his way on to the ship and his love affair with Rose, I started noticing parallels between the film and the news industry.
SNDMakes ATL to focus on making writing more collaborative
The Society for News Design is thrilled to announce that SNDMakes is heading to Atlanta. Apply to join us the weekend of October 14-16, 2016, as the SNDMakes team partners with Cox Media Group’s Rare. We’ll be tackling the design challenge, “How might we make writing more collaborative and delightful?” with a focus on ways to improve the content creation process.
Jim Brady on launching the washingtonpost.com and why the web excites him 20 years later
In the digital media world, Jim Brady needs no introduction. Currently the founder and CEO of Billy Penn — a mobile news platform in Philadelphia — his career in online journalism has spanned two decades serving in roles such as Executive Editor of The Washington Post dot com, Editor-in-Chief of Digital First Media, and President of the Online News Association.
The Boston Globe implored the American people to demand tougher gun laws
This article originally appeared at the Society for News Design (SND) and was written by Kyle Ellis, Director of Strategic Programs for SND. At just after 9 p.m. on Wednesday, June 15, The Boston Globe Opinion team tweeted the front page of the next day’s paper. On it, an AR-15 assault rife, a single bullet hole, and a headline that implored, ‘Make it stop.’ A powerful, and unequivocal call to action in the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in United States history.
The Boston Globe implored the American people to demand tougher gun laws; SND asked for the story behind ‘Make it stop’
At just after 9 p.m. on Wednesday, June 15, The Boston Globe Opinion team tweeted the front page of the next day’s paper. On it, an AR-15 assault rife, a single bullet hole, and a headline that implored, ‘Make it stop.’ A powerful, and unequivocal call to action in the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in United States history. Running off the presses as we speak, stay tuned.
Eight ideas that demonstrate designing for trust in news (Demos, presos)
On March 18-19, the Society for News Design joined forces with the Trust Project to answer the question, “How might we help the people who consume our journalism gain more trust in the news?” This was the first in a new series of events, dubbed SNDExp, created to help partner organizations go an inch-wide and a mile deep on a narrowly defined problem or product.
Unofficial results: Best of Digital Design competition
The Society For News Design is thrilled to announce the unofficial winners list from the “Best of Digital Design” competition held the weekend of February 19 at American University in Washington, D.C. The 2015 contest year brought in nearly 1,000 entries, marking three consecutive years of growth and the largest body of work since the contest was established in 2002. Approximately 257 entries were given an Award of Excellence, 22 were given a Silver Medal, and 2 were given a Gold Medal.
Meet the makers prototyping ‘community’ in Austin, November 13-15
We are thinking about tools that promote community at SNDMakes Austin, in partnership with Statesman Media. Thanks to the generous support of our event hosts — Alley Interactive, CodePen, OwnLocal and Vox Media — and of scholarship sponsors — Dow Jones, EEJF and Scripps Howard — by the end of a 2.5-day, rapid prototyping sprint, the design teams will showcase their ideas starting at 11 a.m. central time, Sunday, Nov. 15. Follow along: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook.
Come invent tools that promote community at SNDMakes Austin
The Society for News Design is thrilled to announce applications are now open for the fourth SNDMakes cohort in Austin, Texas. ‘Makes’ is the Society’s boutique prototyping event — think carefully-designed-dinner-party, not hackathon free-for-all — that uses principles of design-thinking to create solutions for modern news and media companies. Join us in Austin, the weekend of November 13-15, 2015, as the SNDMakes team partners with Statesman Media.
Gregor Aisch on The Upshot’s income mobility interactive
On Monday, The Upshot published an interactive that maps income mobility of children born into poor families. What made this piece particularly noteworthy is that it geolocates readers, rendering a map in the county of your IP address. Click on it, or the table below, and the accompanying story rewrites itself.
60 participants reimagine photo stories at SNDMakes
After 2.5 days of facilitated brainstorming and prototyping at SNDMakes D.C., 11 teams created projects that addressed the design challenge, “How might we tell better picture stories?” Cross-functional teams of designers, developers, journalists and product managers created projects that largely centered around themes like annotation, contextualization, and using photography to navigate non-linear stories.
Meet the 60 participants tackling picture stories at #SNDMakes D.C.
Modern media organizations need modern ways to tell stories, yet we’re often stuck with old templates that don’t take advantage of new technology; especially when it comes to visually-driven narratives.
Winners list: 2014 Best of Digital Design competition
The Society For News Design is thrilled to announce winners from the “Best of Digital Design” competition held the weekend of February 20 at the Ball State University Indianapolis Center. Throughout judging weekend, we provided an in-depth look at our judging process, and our medal winners. The 2014 contest year brought in more than 900 entries, making it the largest body of work since the contest was established in 2002.
SND34 Best of Digital Design: USA TODAY wins competition’s second gold medal
Click the image to view the winning entry. Judges awarded a gold medal to USA TODAY for its entry “USATODAY.com Reimagined” in the redesign category. Here’s what the judges had to say: “It is the most radical redesign among the ones we have seen, 100 percent re-architecture and re-skinning of the site.” “The site has an emphasis on fluidity. It is not just responsive, but also responsive with different modes of interaction.
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