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Corporate Social Responsibility – a fancy term with a lot of meaning

by João Rodrigues / January 7, 2021

Reading Time: 3 minutes Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a fancy word these days, often demonstrated by big companies through a dashboard with numbers of charity donations. The problem is that beneficent donations do not replace the lack of social responsibility at the core of the firms’ strategy. Why can’t we look at CSR’s concept through a vision based on a company’s internal resources? For that matter, we can start by introducing…

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How to know what information is real online

by Joana Santos Antunes / October 29, 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutes Oh, the internet … what a beautiful place and full of information. An entire world to discover in just one click. Like in the real world, there are truths, information, and wisdom, but there are also lies, agendas, and interests that shape what is said—part of the now popularized term fake news. Don’t get me wrong: what is “true” is subjective. Moreover, even the photos of friends…

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5 start-up practices traditional companies should adopt in their daily work

by Isabel Melo / October 2, 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutes Adaptation and resilience to adapt to changes are some characteristics many people and organizations have had to work on internally, in the face of the chaos of the Covid-19 pandemic. Others, like start-ups, hadn’t so much trouble. More traditional companies had to migrate from the offline world to the online world in a matter of weeks and, it is true, that a good part was not prepared…

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Once upon a time without notifications

by Fernando Moreira / June 27, 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the most common habits for people who work in front of the computer is to do it so with the e-mail client open. That is, Outlook, Airmail, Thunderbird or any other is open while we do other tasks that have nothing to do with the e-mail. However, we maintain the e-mail notifications turned on. Imagine the following scenario: we’re doing a task related to the…

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Gamification Canvas: finding the right path towards gamification

by Tiago Leão / April 9, 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutes Despite its recent popularity, gamification is not quite new. The term – that refers to the usage of game mechanics in non-gaming contexts – appeared in the mid-2000s, benefiting from those years’ technological development and from the appearance of platforms that used game dynamics to leverage engagement. Old school developers will probably remember when Stack Overflow first introduced the reputation score, a mechanism that rewarded them by merely…

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Have you ever stopped and wondered how the Internet works?

by Joana Santos Antunes / March 26, 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutes You surely know how to google stuff and find information online, and probably how to watch movies and series in a not so lawful way. But do you know how the internet works? And how do websites get on the first page of Google? Firstly, and very shortly, you need to understand that in every search, this is what happens; the client/user has an IP address, a…