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The #ADHD solution for families - iGotThis #apps

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We talk with Rich Schramm, Rich is the founder of iGotThis - an app, community, and mission dedicated to helping ADHD families and extraordinary kids better navigate the expectations of our ordinary world. Rich has had a number of hands-on and leadership roles in the corporate and consulting sectors of the technology industry over the past 25 years. He lives in Cincinnati with his wife and 3 ADHD kids.

What is Famban? That is my own abbreviation of #Family + #Kanban ! #agile

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Famban What is Famban? That is my own abbreviation of Family + Kanban! In other words, our attempt to visualise and keep track of all activities within our family. Can't an ordinary kanban board solve that need? Of course, but we have made some additions that we find useful.

Evernote #EC2014 Day 1 Recap

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Day 1 of the Evernote EC2014 conference brought about several interesting announcements, speakers, food, decor, heat and more. New Web Interface  Augmented Intelligence - Context Presentation Mode WorkChat More Best Speakers of the Day: Adeo Ressi CEO & Co-Founder Founder Institute Carley Knobloch Digital Lifestyle Expert @carleyknobloch Tim Ferriss New York Times Best Selling Author @tferriss

Robot Turtles - Board Game Teaches Kids To Think Code

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Nerd Stalker interview with Dan Shapiro inventor of Robot Turtles . Robot Turtles is a board game you play with your favorite 3-8 year old kids. It sneakily teaches the fundamentals of programming. Robot Turtles launched on Kickstarter, where it became the bestselling board game of all time. Which is pretty darn amazing. The Kickstarter campaign is over. 1,500 copies went up on the Make Magazine store and they sold out in 8 hours. Now there are a few copies at http://buy.robotturtles.com . For you Robot Turtle aficionados make sure to get the e-book here  and use the code " kickstarter " to get $5 off the ebook . We must admit that we secretly bought Robot Turtles under a private name so as to experience the whole fulfillment process like a general consumer would. We received it prior to the holidays despite the hot demand for the game. I sprung Robot Turtles on my six year old daughter who was thrilled with the game. In no time she ran through the basics t...

Ollo Mobile Hopes to Keep Your Family Safe

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Making sure your family is safe and secure can be worrysome in today's world. Well, we interviewed  Hugh Geiger , CEO & Co-founder of Ollo Mobile . Ollo Mobile is an Australian based start-up hoping to create a way for you to keep track of the elders as well as the young ones in your family. We met Hugh at the well-known tech meetup in SF called SF New Tech . CloudPhone3G was Liberty Madison (#ThatTechGirl) and my pick of the night on the post show . Watch as Hugh describes their dream of creating a mobile device to deliver a promise of a safe family environment.

Electrically Conductive Paint, No Really

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by Adolfo Foronda - Nerd Stalker Maker Faire interview with Matt Johnson of Bare Conductive , makers of the electrically conductive paint for makers of all ages. With Bare Conductive products you can learn how to draw paper circuits or paint physical interactive projects, oh the possibilities.