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<div>===Fall 2017===<br />
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[[Taylor Jacobe]] [[Work Logs]] [[Tay Jacobe (Work Log)|(log page)]] <br />
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2017-12-01: Finished up the California post, ready to publish.<br />
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2017-11-30: Finished and published the Augusta post. Worked on California post in Wordpress, adding a bit more content suggested by Ed.<br />
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2017-11-29: Cleaned up Augusta findings post and cleaned out spam comments on Wordpress; there were almost 2000 spam comments within the last 3 weeks, which is concerning. Maybe there is a reason it has increased so quickly?<br />
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2017-11-17: Worked on Augusta Findings post.<br />
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2017-11-16: Finished first draft of California post, [[California Growth (Blog Post)]]. Continued looking into a "Future of Communication" post and what that would look like. Anne also suggested I write a post about [[Augusta Findings (Blog Post)]], so I began that!<br />
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2017-11-15: Peer edited Yunnie and Dianna's blog post drafts. Anne suggested another post: McNair projects>Agglomeration>PeterHarrison. Research growth of high-tech high-growth enterprises in California from 1986-2016. Use file of maps. Started working on the post.<br />
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2017-11-10: Spent the morning cleaning out the spam comments on the blog. More than 1000 of them! Kept investigating Blockchain; I think I've determined that it might not be worth doing a post about because there are already a lot of sources that have published pieces that explain blockchain in simple terms. Continued looking for future blog post ideas: new social media (https://www.techworld.com/social-media/bumble-founder-whitney-wolfe-herd-talks-harvey-weinstein-linkedin-future-of-social-network-3666350/), 3D printing, security in a time of increasing automation and digitalization, the future of communication (smartphones, etc.: what's next?)<br />
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2017-11-09: Reorganized work log. Continued researching blockchain and began a draft of a post that will explain the concept in simpler terms and discuss potential impacts of this new technology! Created graphs for the Fund of Funds post. Finished the post and put everything into wordpress.<br />
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2017-11-08: Compiled a list of cities in Greater Cincinnati to use for data for blog post. Tried to educate myself on blockchain to eventually write a post about it<br />
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2017-11-01: Tried to gather research to improve the VC FOF post. Edited and redrafted. Investigated other potential blog posts.<br />
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2017-10-26: Worked on [[Fund of Funds in VC]] Blog post<br />
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2017-10-25: Looked over summary and edited. Started working on a blog post on the role of fund of funds in venture capital by direction of Anne and Ed<br />
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2017-10-23: Worked on a summary document for the Houston Innovation District project, verbal summaries of data analysis<br />
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2017-10-19: Worked on Houston Innovation District more. All work is documented on the wiki page<br />
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2017-10-18: Working on Houston Innovation District project. Figuring out what we've done and what needs to be done. McNair center servers went down, while I was working, so I lost a decent amount of work that I had been doing to summarize what we had and had to start over when it was rebooted. Cleaned up the wiki page and summarized where we are so far: what data we have & where it is, what data we are currently collecting, and what data we still want/need. Began working on collecting information about tax codes, incentives for development offered in Houston.<br />
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2017-10-11: Worked on prep for [[Houston Innovation District]] project<br />
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2017-10-06: Added more slides and edited. Updated wiki page with info.<br />
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2017-10-05: Spent quite a while trying to figure out source data for patent data in slides for Augusta, then worked on cleaning up and adding to Augusta slides that were unfinished/not great, created cybersecurity slide<br />
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2017-10-04: Continued working on Augusta project<br />
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2017-09-27: Worked on data analysis and research for Augusta Project, looked into Augusta business news (there isn't very much of it!)<br />
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2017-09-21: Continued preparation for [[Augusta Startup Ecosystem]] and [[Houston Innovation District]] Projects<br />
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2017-09-20: Preliminary preparations for Augusta and Houston Projects<br />
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===Spring 2017===<br />
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2017-01-18: Worked on the right to entrepreneurship post, talked to Anne about plans for the semester, looked in wordpress and marked spam comments on our blog posts.<br />
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2017-01-20: Worked on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]] to investigate potential ways we could collaborate with other universities and improve our blog. Work meeting at 2pm.<br />
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2017-01-23: Put the Right to Entrepreneurship post in wordpress (editing for readability and adding in links) and did more research on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]]<br />
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2017-01-25: Brainstormed ideas for potential blog posts, ideas can be found on [[Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)]]. Also drafted tweets and put them in hootsuite.<br />
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2017-01-27: Drafted tweets in hootsuite and did more exploring for potential blog post ideas. Right to entrepreneurship post was published!<br />
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2017-01-30: Started writing a post about how Trump's Muslim ban may affect American entrepreneurship; it will be tabled until more concrete info is available. Updated wiki's blog post tally by going through and marking all published posts. Drafted tweets.<br />
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2017-02-01: Drafted tweets. Did research on crowdfunding and social entrepreneurship, two topics I'd be interested in exploring for blog posts<br />
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2017-02-03: Researched, edited, and re-drafted Ramee's blog post, [[Start-Up Visa (Blog Post)]].<br />
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2017-02-08 Edited the Startup visa post in wordpress, did all of the SEO stuff, did more research on future blog posts. Came back from 4:30-6 - worked on crowdfunding post and talked to Ed about future projects<br />
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2017-02-13: Researched [[Trump and Women in Entrepreneurship]] for the project on [[Women in Entrepreneurship (Issue Brief)]], worked on crowdfunding blog post, went through the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page and cleared out any outdated information/deleted duplicate pages, looked into research for [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
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2017-02-15: Finished first draft of [[Crowdfunding (Blog Post)]], looked into working on [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
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2017-02-17: To-dos and things covered in this shift: Crowdfunding post, women in entrepreneurship post, carried interest post, and proposal by Dr. Green<br />
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2017-02-20: Same as above ^ working on these posts<br />
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2017-02-22: Edited Eliza's post on Cincinnati. Finishing up crowdfunding post and women in entrepreneurship post. Started working on [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]]<br />
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2017-02-24: Worked on editing the crowdfunding and women in entrepreneurship posts based on Ed's edits.<br />
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2017-02-27: Mostly worked on the policy uncertainty piece. Briefly worked on women in entrepreneurship post, but need input from Carlin before we can do anything more!<br />
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2017-03-03: Put crowdfunding post into WordPress. Waiting on Carlin's results before updating the women in entrepreneurship post. Doing more research on policy uncertainty<br />
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2017-03-06: Started by investigating comments on WordPress blog posts (up until now, it seems we haven't been approving any comments even though some of them are good), worked on women's entrepreneurship post and put it into WordPress, worked on policy uncertainty and stock markets post and sent to a peer editor<br />
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2017-03-08: Finished up women's entrepreneurship piece: ready for publishing. Edited Policy Uncertainty piece and sent on to Anne. Started editing [[Carried Interest Debate (Blog Post)]]<br />
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2017-03-10: Talked to Ed about Policy Uncertainty post. Made edits and revisions to Policy Uncertainty post based on Dr. Green, Ed, and Anne's comments. Also worked on Carried Interest piece<br />
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2017-03-20: Peer edited Carried Interest Debate page, worked on policy uncertainty post and carried interest debate post. Also participate in Ed's session where we learned how to use sequel to make database tables.<br />
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2017-03-22: Finished up [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]] and put it into WordPress. Still need to put in links but otherwise, it is ready to go!<br />
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2017-03-24: Finished working on Policy Uncertainty in WordPress; it is ready to be published. Then worked on editing Anne's post on congress' attention toward innovation so that all of the readability measures in wordpress are met!<br />
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2017-03-27: Finished Carried Interest post and put it into wordpress. Started a post on Mass Challenge. Looked through WordPress Comments and approved/marked as spam as necessary<br />
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2017-03-29: Cleaned up the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page so that all published posts were marked as such. Worked on Mass Challenge post. Edited Iris' posts.<br />
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2017-04-03: Worked on [[Mass Challenge (Blog Post)]] and [[Research Parks and Innovation Districts (Blog Post)]], observed Ed's workshop on sequel<br />
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2017-04-07: Finished up first draft of MassChallenge post. Worked on Research parks/innovation district post<br />
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2017-04-10: Edited Iris's posts.<br />
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2017-05-09: Working from home on Research Parks & Innovation districts post. Made edits and sent to Anne<br />
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2017-05-10: Finished RP and ID post based on Anne's suggestions. Put it into Wordpress.<br />
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===Fall 2016===<br />
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2017-09-08: Introductory exploration, talked to Anne, made my wiki page<br />
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2017-09-09: Research on women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for potential blog post/series<br />
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2017-09-12: Worked on blog post about [[Women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]], finished it, sent to Anne for first round of edits<br />
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2017-09-13: Completed more research on women and innovation, but was uninspired and then sidetracked by the idea of a post about [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]. Did a lot of research on this for the rest of session<br />
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2017-09-14: Worked on Innovation in Public Service piece, almost finished first draft<br />
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2017-09-15: Met some other members on the team, talked to Ed and got some tips for how to improve on blog posts, made a wiki page for idea generation<br />
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2017-09-16: Explored the McNair wiki page to further educate myself on entrepreneurship and innovation and continued to refine my two already-drafted blog posts based on Ed's suggestions<br />
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2017-09-27: Back at it! Spent the day doing a project for Anne- making the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page for troubleshooting<br />
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2017-09-28: Worked on Blog Post Best Practices again and talked to Anne and Ed about my Women blog post<br />
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2017-09-29: Briefly worked on Women blog post, met with Anne and other bloggers to talk about editing. started editing the ClintonKaine and Entreprenruship blog post for readability qualities, and continued working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page<br />
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2017-09-30: Kept working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page and editing CK entrepreneurship article. Finished both (I think) and worked on Women piece for a while<br />
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2017-10-03: Worked on women piece and editing blog posts for SEO/readability analysis<br />
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2017-10-04: Got women piece to a place where I am happy with it!<br />
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2017-10-05: Worked on Policy Innovation blog post: probably going to take a new approach<br />
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2017-10-06: Finishing up new policy innovation blog post<br />
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2017-10-07: Sent women blog post to Anne and Ed, looked through blog posts on the website and adjusted their settings in Yoast SEO for searchability, helped Ed do this for his new blog post.<br />
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2017-10-12: Worked on women blog post based on Anne's comments.<br />
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2017-10-13: Worked on women blog post and sent it to Ed for final approval, made a proposal for structuring the blog post process and sent it to Anne and Ed<br />
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2017-10-18: worked on posts and Staff meeting at 5!<br />
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2017-10-19: Met with Anne and Ed about blog structuring<br />
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2017-10-20: Worked with Anne on blog structure wiki page<br />
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2017-10-21: Make wiki page for blog structure [[Blog Team]], edited the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page<br />
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2017-10-21: Met with blog team to talk about new structure!<br />
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2017-10-24: Tried to finish women piece again lol<br />
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2017-10-25: Began researching for next blog post- looking at statistics for tech companies and their hiring of women and maternity benefits.<br />
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2017-10-26: more research on tech companies and women's benefits. Also peer-edited two of Meghana's posts<br />
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2017-10-27: more research on benefits offered by tech companies. Google is cool!!<br />
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2017-10-28: Happy Friday! Worked on the women's benefits in tech companies research and tried to find some articles for Ramee for twitter<br />
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2017-10-31: Worked on a mix of the stuff from last week + making sure all of my blog posts work in our new organizational system<br />
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2017-11-01: Finishing touches on the Women in STEM post, then worked on the women in top 5 tech companies research<br />
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2017-11-02: Started drafting the tech women's benefits post<br />
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2017-11-04:Put the women in STEM post into wordpress and worked on the tech women post<br />
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2017-11-08: Peer edited Dylan's piece, worked on tech women post<br />
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2017-11-10: Looked at Carlin's post, edited the tech top 5 women post, sent it to Anne and Ed. Talked to Ed about what is next for me!<br />
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2017-11-11: published women in STEM post! Then did research on entrepreneurship and human rights<br />
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2017-11-14: looked at wordpress drafts, then worked on human rights and entrepreneurship blog post<br />
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2017-11-15: edited the innovation in public sector post and women in tech companies post<br />
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2017-11-16: worked on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
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2017-11-17: edited women in tech companies post and continued to work on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
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2017-11-18: worked on all three pieces that are currently in the works, edited blog posts, and made wiki pages for Anne<br />
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2017-11-18: Blog Team Meeting about style and the Yoast plugin<br />
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2017-11-21: explored idea of a post about entrepreneurship and the holidays, tried to find pictures for my posts that are pending, worked on editing the three posts that are in the works and getting them back to Anne for more feedback<br />
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2017-11-22: edited all three of the pieces so they are extra good when Anne reads them<br />
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2017-11-29: Began exploring a post for Anne about startups that make educational toys<br />
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2017-11-30: Continued the startup toys post, finished and sent to Anne for editing<br />
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2017-12-01: Edited and added to all pending posts: [[Start-Ups for the Season (Blog Post)]] [[An Unlikely Pair: Human Rights and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]] [[How the Tech Top Five Treat their Women Employees (Blog Post)]] [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]<br />
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2017-12-05: Found photos for all pending posts, set them up in word press, made edits<br />
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2017-12-16: Last shift of the semester! Worked on getting out the posts, yay!<br />
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<div>===Fall 2017===<br />
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[[Taylor Jacobe]] [[Work Logs]] [[Tay Jacobe (Work Log)|(log page)]] <br />
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2017-11-29: Cleaned up Augusta findings post and cleaned out spam comments on Wordpress; there were almost 2000 spam comments within the last 3 weeks, which is concerning. Maybe there is a reason it has increased so quickly?<br />
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2017-11-17: Worked on Augusta Findings post.<br />
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2017-11-16: Finished first draft of California post, [[California Growth (Blog Post)]]. Continued looking into a "Future of Communication" post and what that would look like. Anne also suggested I write a post about [[Augusta Findings (Blog Post)]], so I began that!<br />
<br />
2017-11-15: Peer edited Yunnie and Dianna's blog post drafts. Anne suggested another post: McNair projects>Agglomeration>PeterHarrison. Research growth of high-tech high-growth enterprises in California from 1986-2016. Use file of maps. Started working on the post.<br />
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2017-11-10: Spent the morning cleaning out the spam comments on the blog. More than 1000 of them! Kept investigating Blockchain; I think I've determined that it might not be worth doing a post about because there are already a lot of sources that have published pieces that explain blockchain in simple terms. Continued looking for future blog post ideas: new social media (https://www.techworld.com/social-media/bumble-founder-whitney-wolfe-herd-talks-harvey-weinstein-linkedin-future-of-social-network-3666350/), 3D printing, security in a time of increasing automation and digitalization, the future of communication (smartphones, etc.: what's next?)<br />
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2017-11-09: Reorganized work log. Continued researching blockchain and began a draft of a post that will explain the concept in simpler terms and discuss potential impacts of this new technology! Created graphs for the Fund of Funds post. Finished the post and put everything into wordpress.<br />
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2017-11-08: Compiled a list of cities in Greater Cincinnati to use for data for blog post. Tried to educate myself on blockchain to eventually write a post about it<br />
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2017-11-01: Tried to gather research to improve the VC FOF post. Edited and redrafted. Investigated other potential blog posts.<br />
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2017-10-26: Worked on [[Fund of Funds in VC]] Blog post<br />
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2017-10-25: Looked over summary and edited. Started working on a blog post on the role of fund of funds in venture capital by direction of Anne and Ed<br />
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2017-10-23: Worked on a summary document for the Houston Innovation District project, verbal summaries of data analysis<br />
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2017-10-19: Worked on Houston Innovation District more. All work is documented on the wiki page<br />
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2017-10-18: Working on Houston Innovation District project. Figuring out what we've done and what needs to be done. McNair center servers went down, while I was working, so I lost a decent amount of work that I had been doing to summarize what we had and had to start over when it was rebooted. Cleaned up the wiki page and summarized where we are so far: what data we have & where it is, what data we are currently collecting, and what data we still want/need. Began working on collecting information about tax codes, incentives for development offered in Houston.<br />
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2017-10-11: Worked on prep for [[Houston Innovation District]] project<br />
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2017-10-06: Added more slides and edited. Updated wiki page with info.<br />
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2017-10-05: Spent quite a while trying to figure out source data for patent data in slides for Augusta, then worked on cleaning up and adding to Augusta slides that were unfinished/not great, created cybersecurity slide<br />
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2017-10-04: Continued working on Augusta project<br />
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2017-09-27: Worked on data analysis and research for Augusta Project, looked into Augusta business news (there isn't very much of it!)<br />
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2017-09-21: Continued preparation for [[Augusta Startup Ecosystem]] and [[Houston Innovation District]] Projects<br />
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2017-09-20: Preliminary preparations for Augusta and Houston Projects<br />
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===Spring 2017===<br />
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2017-01-18: Worked on the right to entrepreneurship post, talked to Anne about plans for the semester, looked in wordpress and marked spam comments on our blog posts.<br />
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2017-01-20: Worked on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]] to investigate potential ways we could collaborate with other universities and improve our blog. Work meeting at 2pm.<br />
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2017-01-23: Put the Right to Entrepreneurship post in wordpress (editing for readability and adding in links) and did more research on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]]<br />
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2017-01-25: Brainstormed ideas for potential blog posts, ideas can be found on [[Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)]]. Also drafted tweets and put them in hootsuite.<br />
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2017-01-27: Drafted tweets in hootsuite and did more exploring for potential blog post ideas. Right to entrepreneurship post was published!<br />
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2017-01-30: Started writing a post about how Trump's Muslim ban may affect American entrepreneurship; it will be tabled until more concrete info is available. Updated wiki's blog post tally by going through and marking all published posts. Drafted tweets.<br />
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2017-02-01: Drafted tweets. Did research on crowdfunding and social entrepreneurship, two topics I'd be interested in exploring for blog posts<br />
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2017-02-03: Researched, edited, and re-drafted Ramee's blog post, [[Start-Up Visa (Blog Post)]].<br />
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2017-02-08 Edited the Startup visa post in wordpress, did all of the SEO stuff, did more research on future blog posts. Came back from 4:30-6 - worked on crowdfunding post and talked to Ed about future projects<br />
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2017-02-13: Researched [[Trump and Women in Entrepreneurship]] for the project on [[Women in Entrepreneurship (Issue Brief)]], worked on crowdfunding blog post, went through the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page and cleared out any outdated information/deleted duplicate pages, looked into research for [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
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2017-02-15: Finished first draft of [[Crowdfunding (Blog Post)]], looked into working on [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
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2017-02-17: To-dos and things covered in this shift: Crowdfunding post, women in entrepreneurship post, carried interest post, and proposal by Dr. Green<br />
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2017-02-20: Same as above ^ working on these posts<br />
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2017-02-22: Edited Eliza's post on Cincinnati. Finishing up crowdfunding post and women in entrepreneurship post. Started working on [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]]<br />
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2017-02-24: Worked on editing the crowdfunding and women in entrepreneurship posts based on Ed's edits.<br />
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2017-02-27: Mostly worked on the policy uncertainty piece. Briefly worked on women in entrepreneurship post, but need input from Carlin before we can do anything more!<br />
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2017-03-03: Put crowdfunding post into WordPress. Waiting on Carlin's results before updating the women in entrepreneurship post. Doing more research on policy uncertainty<br />
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2017-03-06: Started by investigating comments on WordPress blog posts (up until now, it seems we haven't been approving any comments even though some of them are good), worked on women's entrepreneurship post and put it into WordPress, worked on policy uncertainty and stock markets post and sent to a peer editor<br />
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2017-03-08: Finished up women's entrepreneurship piece: ready for publishing. Edited Policy Uncertainty piece and sent on to Anne. Started editing [[Carried Interest Debate (Blog Post)]]<br />
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2017-03-10: Talked to Ed about Policy Uncertainty post. Made edits and revisions to Policy Uncertainty post based on Dr. Green, Ed, and Anne's comments. Also worked on Carried Interest piece<br />
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2017-03-20: Peer edited Carried Interest Debate page, worked on policy uncertainty post and carried interest debate post. Also participate in Ed's session where we learned how to use sequel to make database tables.<br />
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2017-03-22: Finished up [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]] and put it into WordPress. Still need to put in links but otherwise, it is ready to go!<br />
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2017-03-24: Finished working on Policy Uncertainty in WordPress; it is ready to be published. Then worked on editing Anne's post on congress' attention toward innovation so that all of the readability measures in wordpress are met!<br />
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2017-03-27: Finished Carried Interest post and put it into wordpress. Started a post on Mass Challenge. Looked through WordPress Comments and approved/marked as spam as necessary<br />
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2017-03-29: Cleaned up the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page so that all published posts were marked as such. Worked on Mass Challenge post. Edited Iris' posts.<br />
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2017-04-03: Worked on [[Mass Challenge (Blog Post)]] and [[Research Parks and Innovation Districts (Blog Post)]], observed Ed's workshop on sequel<br />
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2017-04-07: Finished up first draft of MassChallenge post. Worked on Research parks/innovation district post<br />
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2017-04-10: Edited Iris's posts.<br />
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2017-05-09: Working from home on Research Parks & Innovation districts post. Made edits and sent to Anne<br />
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2017-05-10: Finished RP and ID post based on Anne's suggestions. Put it into Wordpress.<br />
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===Fall 2016===<br />
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2017-09-08: Introductory exploration, talked to Anne, made my wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-09-09: Research on women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for potential blog post/series<br />
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2017-09-12: Worked on blog post about [[Women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]], finished it, sent to Anne for first round of edits<br />
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2017-09-13: Completed more research on women and innovation, but was uninspired and then sidetracked by the idea of a post about [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]. Did a lot of research on this for the rest of session<br />
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2017-09-14: Worked on Innovation in Public Service piece, almost finished first draft<br />
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2017-09-15: Met some other members on the team, talked to Ed and got some tips for how to improve on blog posts, made a wiki page for idea generation<br />
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2017-09-16: Explored the McNair wiki page to further educate myself on entrepreneurship and innovation and continued to refine my two already-drafted blog posts based on Ed's suggestions<br />
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2017-09-27: Back at it! Spent the day doing a project for Anne- making the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page for troubleshooting<br />
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2017-09-28: Worked on Blog Post Best Practices again and talked to Anne and Ed about my Women blog post<br />
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2017-09-29: Briefly worked on Women blog post, met with Anne and other bloggers to talk about editing. started editing the ClintonKaine and Entreprenruship blog post for readability qualities, and continued working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page<br />
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2017-09-30: Kept working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page and editing CK entrepreneurship article. Finished both (I think) and worked on Women piece for a while<br />
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2017-10-03: Worked on women piece and editing blog posts for SEO/readability analysis<br />
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2017-10-04: Got women piece to a place where I am happy with it!<br />
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2017-10-05: Worked on Policy Innovation blog post: probably going to take a new approach<br />
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2017-10-06: Finishing up new policy innovation blog post<br />
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2017-10-07: Sent women blog post to Anne and Ed, looked through blog posts on the website and adjusted their settings in Yoast SEO for searchability, helped Ed do this for his new blog post.<br />
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2017-10-12: Worked on women blog post based on Anne's comments.<br />
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2017-10-13: Worked on women blog post and sent it to Ed for final approval, made a proposal for structuring the blog post process and sent it to Anne and Ed<br />
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2017-10-18: worked on posts and Staff meeting at 5!<br />
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2017-10-19: Met with Anne and Ed about blog structuring<br />
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2017-10-20: Worked with Anne on blog structure wiki page<br />
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2017-10-21: Make wiki page for blog structure [[Blog Team]], edited the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page<br />
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2017-10-21: Met with blog team to talk about new structure!<br />
<br />
2017-10-24: Tried to finish women piece again lol<br />
<br />
2017-10-25: Began researching for next blog post- looking at statistics for tech companies and their hiring of women and maternity benefits.<br />
<br />
2017-10-26: more research on tech companies and women's benefits. Also peer-edited two of Meghana's posts<br />
<br />
2017-10-27: more research on benefits offered by tech companies. Google is cool!!<br />
<br />
2017-10-28: Happy Friday! Worked on the women's benefits in tech companies research and tried to find some articles for Ramee for twitter<br />
<br />
2017-10-31: Worked on a mix of the stuff from last week + making sure all of my blog posts work in our new organizational system<br />
<br />
2017-11-01: Finishing touches on the Women in STEM post, then worked on the women in top 5 tech companies research<br />
<br />
2017-11-02: Started drafting the tech women's benefits post<br />
<br />
2017-11-04:Put the women in STEM post into wordpress and worked on the tech women post<br />
<br />
2017-11-08: Peer edited Dylan's piece, worked on tech women post<br />
<br />
2017-11-10: Looked at Carlin's post, edited the tech top 5 women post, sent it to Anne and Ed. Talked to Ed about what is next for me!<br />
<br />
2017-11-11: published women in STEM post! Then did research on entrepreneurship and human rights<br />
<br />
2017-11-14: looked at wordpress drafts, then worked on human rights and entrepreneurship blog post<br />
<br />
2017-11-15: edited the innovation in public sector post and women in tech companies post<br />
<br />
2017-11-16: worked on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
2017-11-17: edited women in tech companies post and continued to work on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
2017-11-18: worked on all three pieces that are currently in the works, edited blog posts, and made wiki pages for Anne<br />
<br />
2017-11-18: Blog Team Meeting about style and the Yoast plugin<br />
<br />
2017-11-21: explored idea of a post about entrepreneurship and the holidays, tried to find pictures for my posts that are pending, worked on editing the three posts that are in the works and getting them back to Anne for more feedback<br />
<br />
2017-11-22: edited all three of the pieces so they are extra good when Anne reads them<br />
<br />
2017-11-29: Began exploring a post for Anne about startups that make educational toys<br />
<br />
2017-11-30: Continued the startup toys post, finished and sent to Anne for editing<br />
<br />
2017-12-01: Edited and added to all pending posts: [[Start-Ups for the Season (Blog Post)]] [[An Unlikely Pair: Human Rights and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]] [[How the Tech Top Five Treat their Women Employees (Blog Post)]] [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-12-05: Found photos for all pending posts, set them up in word press, made edits<br />
<br />
2017-12-16: Last shift of the semester! Worked on getting out the posts, yay!<br />
<br />
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<div>===Fall 2017===<br />
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[[Taylor Jacobe]] [[Work Logs]] [[Tay Jacobe (Work Log)|(log page)]] <br />
<br />
2017-11-29: Cleaned up Augusta findings post and cleaned out spam comments on Wordpress<br />
<br />
2017-11-17: Worked on Augusta Findings post.<br />
<br />
2017-11-16: Finished first draft of California post, [[California Growth (Blog Post)]]. Continued looking into a "Future of Communication" post and what that would look like. Anne also suggested I write a post about [[Augusta Findings (Blog Post)]], so I began that!<br />
<br />
2017-11-15: Peer edited Yunnie and Dianna's blog post drafts. Anne suggested another post: McNair projects>Agglomeration>PeterHarrison. Research growth of high-tech high-growth enterprises in California from 1986-2016. Use file of maps. Started working on the post.<br />
<br />
2017-11-10: Spent the morning cleaning out the spam comments on the blog. More than 1000 of them! Kept investigating Blockchain; I think I've determined that it might not be worth doing a post about because there are already a lot of sources that have published pieces that explain blockchain in simple terms. Continued looking for future blog post ideas: new social media (https://www.techworld.com/social-media/bumble-founder-whitney-wolfe-herd-talks-harvey-weinstein-linkedin-future-of-social-network-3666350/), 3D printing, security in a time of increasing automation and digitalization, the future of communication (smartphones, etc.: what's next?)<br />
<br />
2017-11-09: Reorganized work log. Continued researching blockchain and began a draft of a post that will explain the concept in simpler terms and discuss potential impacts of this new technology! Created graphs for the Fund of Funds post. Finished the post and put everything into wordpress.<br />
<br />
2017-11-08: Compiled a list of cities in Greater Cincinnati to use for data for blog post. Tried to educate myself on blockchain to eventually write a post about it<br />
<br />
2017-11-01: Tried to gather research to improve the VC FOF post. Edited and redrafted. Investigated other potential blog posts.<br />
<br />
2017-10-26: Worked on [[Fund of Funds in VC]] Blog post<br />
<br />
2017-10-25: Looked over summary and edited. Started working on a blog post on the role of fund of funds in venture capital by direction of Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
2017-10-23: Worked on a summary document for the Houston Innovation District project, verbal summaries of data analysis<br />
<br />
2017-10-19: Worked on Houston Innovation District more. All work is documented on the wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-10-18: Working on Houston Innovation District project. Figuring out what we've done and what needs to be done. McNair center servers went down, while I was working, so I lost a decent amount of work that I had been doing to summarize what we had and had to start over when it was rebooted. Cleaned up the wiki page and summarized where we are so far: what data we have & where it is, what data we are currently collecting, and what data we still want/need. Began working on collecting information about tax codes, incentives for development offered in Houston.<br />
<br />
2017-10-11: Worked on prep for [[Houston Innovation District]] project<br />
<br />
2017-10-06: Added more slides and edited. Updated wiki page with info.<br />
<br />
2017-10-05: Spent quite a while trying to figure out source data for patent data in slides for Augusta, then worked on cleaning up and adding to Augusta slides that were unfinished/not great, created cybersecurity slide<br />
<br />
2017-10-04: Continued working on Augusta project<br />
<br />
2017-09-27: Worked on data analysis and research for Augusta Project, looked into Augusta business news (there isn't very much of it!)<br />
<br />
2017-09-21: Continued preparation for [[Augusta Startup Ecosystem]] and [[Houston Innovation District]] Projects<br />
<br />
2017-09-20: Preliminary preparations for Augusta and Houston Projects<br />
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<br />
===Spring 2017===<br />
<br />
<br />
2017-01-18: Worked on the right to entrepreneurship post, talked to Anne about plans for the semester, looked in wordpress and marked spam comments on our blog posts.<br />
<br />
2017-01-20: Worked on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]] to investigate potential ways we could collaborate with other universities and improve our blog. Work meeting at 2pm.<br />
<br />
2017-01-23: Put the Right to Entrepreneurship post in wordpress (editing for readability and adding in links) and did more research on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]]<br />
<br />
2017-01-25: Brainstormed ideas for potential blog posts, ideas can be found on [[Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)]]. Also drafted tweets and put them in hootsuite.<br />
<br />
2017-01-27: Drafted tweets in hootsuite and did more exploring for potential blog post ideas. Right to entrepreneurship post was published!<br />
<br />
2017-01-30: Started writing a post about how Trump's Muslim ban may affect American entrepreneurship; it will be tabled until more concrete info is available. Updated wiki's blog post tally by going through and marking all published posts. Drafted tweets.<br />
<br />
2017-02-01: Drafted tweets. Did research on crowdfunding and social entrepreneurship, two topics I'd be interested in exploring for blog posts<br />
<br />
2017-02-03: Researched, edited, and re-drafted Ramee's blog post, [[Start-Up Visa (Blog Post)]].<br />
<br />
2017-02-08 Edited the Startup visa post in wordpress, did all of the SEO stuff, did more research on future blog posts. Came back from 4:30-6 - worked on crowdfunding post and talked to Ed about future projects<br />
<br />
2017-02-13: Researched [[Trump and Women in Entrepreneurship]] for the project on [[Women in Entrepreneurship (Issue Brief)]], worked on crowdfunding blog post, went through the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page and cleared out any outdated information/deleted duplicate pages, looked into research for [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-15: Finished first draft of [[Crowdfunding (Blog Post)]], looked into working on [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-17: To-dos and things covered in this shift: Crowdfunding post, women in entrepreneurship post, carried interest post, and proposal by Dr. Green<br />
<br />
2017-02-20: Same as above ^ working on these posts<br />
<br />
2017-02-22: Edited Eliza's post on Cincinnati. Finishing up crowdfunding post and women in entrepreneurship post. Started working on [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-24: Worked on editing the crowdfunding and women in entrepreneurship posts based on Ed's edits.<br />
<br />
2017-02-27: Mostly worked on the policy uncertainty piece. Briefly worked on women in entrepreneurship post, but need input from Carlin before we can do anything more!<br />
<br />
2017-03-03: Put crowdfunding post into WordPress. Waiting on Carlin's results before updating the women in entrepreneurship post. Doing more research on policy uncertainty<br />
<br />
2017-03-06: Started by investigating comments on WordPress blog posts (up until now, it seems we haven't been approving any comments even though some of them are good), worked on women's entrepreneurship post and put it into WordPress, worked on policy uncertainty and stock markets post and sent to a peer editor<br />
<br />
2017-03-08: Finished up women's entrepreneurship piece: ready for publishing. Edited Policy Uncertainty piece and sent on to Anne. Started editing [[Carried Interest Debate (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-03-10: Talked to Ed about Policy Uncertainty post. Made edits and revisions to Policy Uncertainty post based on Dr. Green, Ed, and Anne's comments. Also worked on Carried Interest piece<br />
<br />
2017-03-20: Peer edited Carried Interest Debate page, worked on policy uncertainty post and carried interest debate post. Also participate in Ed's session where we learned how to use sequel to make database tables.<br />
<br />
2017-03-22: Finished up [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]] and put it into WordPress. Still need to put in links but otherwise, it is ready to go!<br />
<br />
2017-03-24: Finished working on Policy Uncertainty in WordPress; it is ready to be published. Then worked on editing Anne's post on congress' attention toward innovation so that all of the readability measures in wordpress are met!<br />
<br />
2017-03-27: Finished Carried Interest post and put it into wordpress. Started a post on Mass Challenge. Looked through WordPress Comments and approved/marked as spam as necessary<br />
<br />
2017-03-29: Cleaned up the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page so that all published posts were marked as such. Worked on Mass Challenge post. Edited Iris' posts.<br />
<br />
2017-04-03: Worked on [[Mass Challenge (Blog Post)]] and [[Research Parks and Innovation Districts (Blog Post)]], observed Ed's workshop on sequel<br />
<br />
2017-04-07: Finished up first draft of MassChallenge post. Worked on Research parks/innovation district post<br />
<br />
2017-04-10: Edited Iris's posts.<br />
<br />
2017-05-09: Working from home on Research Parks & Innovation districts post. Made edits and sent to Anne<br />
<br />
2017-05-10: Finished RP and ID post based on Anne's suggestions. Put it into Wordpress.<br />
<br />
===Fall 2016===<br />
<br />
2017-09-08: Introductory exploration, talked to Anne, made my wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-09-09: Research on women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for potential blog post/series<br />
<br />
2017-09-12: Worked on blog post about [[Women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]], finished it, sent to Anne for first round of edits<br />
<br />
2017-09-13: Completed more research on women and innovation, but was uninspired and then sidetracked by the idea of a post about [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]. Did a lot of research on this for the rest of session<br />
<br />
2017-09-14: Worked on Innovation in Public Service piece, almost finished first draft<br />
<br />
2017-09-15: Met some other members on the team, talked to Ed and got some tips for how to improve on blog posts, made a wiki page for idea generation<br />
<br />
2017-09-16: Explored the McNair wiki page to further educate myself on entrepreneurship and innovation and continued to refine my two already-drafted blog posts based on Ed's suggestions<br />
<br />
2017-09-27: Back at it! Spent the day doing a project for Anne- making the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page for troubleshooting<br />
<br />
2017-09-28: Worked on Blog Post Best Practices again and talked to Anne and Ed about my Women blog post<br />
<br />
2017-09-29: Briefly worked on Women blog post, met with Anne and other bloggers to talk about editing. started editing the ClintonKaine and Entreprenruship blog post for readability qualities, and continued working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-09-30: Kept working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page and editing CK entrepreneurship article. Finished both (I think) and worked on Women piece for a while<br />
<br />
2017-10-03: Worked on women piece and editing blog posts for SEO/readability analysis<br />
<br />
2017-10-04: Got women piece to a place where I am happy with it!<br />
<br />
2017-10-05: Worked on Policy Innovation blog post: probably going to take a new approach<br />
<br />
2017-10-06: Finishing up new policy innovation blog post<br />
<br />
2017-10-07: Sent women blog post to Anne and Ed, looked through blog posts on the website and adjusted their settings in Yoast SEO for searchability, helped Ed do this for his new blog post.<br />
<br />
2017-10-12: Worked on women blog post based on Anne's comments.<br />
<br />
2017-10-13: Worked on women blog post and sent it to Ed for final approval, made a proposal for structuring the blog post process and sent it to Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
2017-10-18: worked on posts and Staff meeting at 5!<br />
<br />
2017-10-19: Met with Anne and Ed about blog structuring<br />
<br />
2017-10-20: Worked with Anne on blog structure wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-10-21: Make wiki page for blog structure [[Blog Team]], edited the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page<br />
<br />
2017-10-21: Met with blog team to talk about new structure!<br />
<br />
2017-10-24: Tried to finish women piece again lol<br />
<br />
2017-10-25: Began researching for next blog post- looking at statistics for tech companies and their hiring of women and maternity benefits.<br />
<br />
2017-10-26: more research on tech companies and women's benefits. Also peer-edited two of Meghana's posts<br />
<br />
2017-10-27: more research on benefits offered by tech companies. Google is cool!!<br />
<br />
2017-10-28: Happy Friday! Worked on the women's benefits in tech companies research and tried to find some articles for Ramee for twitter<br />
<br />
2017-10-31: Worked on a mix of the stuff from last week + making sure all of my blog posts work in our new organizational system<br />
<br />
2017-11-01: Finishing touches on the Women in STEM post, then worked on the women in top 5 tech companies research<br />
<br />
2017-11-02: Started drafting the tech women's benefits post<br />
<br />
2017-11-04:Put the women in STEM post into wordpress and worked on the tech women post<br />
<br />
2017-11-08: Peer edited Dylan's piece, worked on tech women post<br />
<br />
2017-11-10: Looked at Carlin's post, edited the tech top 5 women post, sent it to Anne and Ed. Talked to Ed about what is next for me!<br />
<br />
2017-11-11: published women in STEM post! Then did research on entrepreneurship and human rights<br />
<br />
2017-11-14: looked at wordpress drafts, then worked on human rights and entrepreneurship blog post<br />
<br />
2017-11-15: edited the innovation in public sector post and women in tech companies post<br />
<br />
2017-11-16: worked on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
2017-11-17: edited women in tech companies post and continued to work on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
2017-11-18: worked on all three pieces that are currently in the works, edited blog posts, and made wiki pages for Anne<br />
<br />
2017-11-18: Blog Team Meeting about style and the Yoast plugin<br />
<br />
2017-11-21: explored idea of a post about entrepreneurship and the holidays, tried to find pictures for my posts that are pending, worked on editing the three posts that are in the works and getting them back to Anne for more feedback<br />
<br />
2017-11-22: edited all three of the pieces so they are extra good when Anne reads them<br />
<br />
2017-11-29: Began exploring a post for Anne about startups that make educational toys<br />
<br />
2017-11-30: Continued the startup toys post, finished and sent to Anne for editing<br />
<br />
2017-12-01: Edited and added to all pending posts: [[Start-Ups for the Season (Blog Post)]] [[An Unlikely Pair: Human Rights and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]] [[How the Tech Top Five Treat their Women Employees (Blog Post)]] [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-12-05: Found photos for all pending posts, set them up in word press, made edits<br />
<br />
2017-12-16: Last shift of the semester! Worked on getting out the posts, yay!<br />
<br />
[[Category:Work Log]]</div>Tayjacobe22http://www.edegan.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Tay_Jacobe_(Work_Log)&diff=21965Tay Jacobe (Work Log)2017-11-17T16:14:52Z<p>Tayjacobe22: </p>
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<div>===Fall 2017===<br />
<onlyinclude><br />
[[Taylor Jacobe]] [[Work Logs]] [[Tay Jacobe (Work Log)|(log page)]] <br />
<br />
2017-11-17: Worked on Augusta Findings post.<br />
<br />
2017-11-16: Finished first draft of California post, [[California Growth (Blog Post)]]. Continued looking into a "Future of Communication" post and what that would look like. Anne also suggested I write a post about [[Augusta Findings (Blog Post)]], so I began that!<br />
<br />
2017-11-15: Peer edited Yunnie and Dianna's blog post drafts. Anne suggested another post: McNair projects>Agglomeration>PeterHarrison. Research growth of high-tech high-growth enterprises in California from 1986-2016. Use file of maps. Started working on the post.<br />
<br />
2017-11-10: Spent the morning cleaning out the spam comments on the blog. More than 1000 of them! Kept investigating Blockchain; I think I've determined that it might not be worth doing a post about because there are already a lot of sources that have published pieces that explain blockchain in simple terms. Continued looking for future blog post ideas: new social media (https://www.techworld.com/social-media/bumble-founder-whitney-wolfe-herd-talks-harvey-weinstein-linkedin-future-of-social-network-3666350/), 3D printing, security in a time of increasing automation and digitalization, the future of communication (smartphones, etc.: what's next?)<br />
<br />
2017-11-09: Reorganized work log. Continued researching blockchain and began a draft of a post that will explain the concept in simpler terms and discuss potential impacts of this new technology! Created graphs for the Fund of Funds post. Finished the post and put everything into wordpress.<br />
<br />
2017-11-08: Compiled a list of cities in Greater Cincinnati to use for data for blog post. Tried to educate myself on blockchain to eventually write a post about it<br />
<br />
2017-11-01: Tried to gather research to improve the VC FOF post. Edited and redrafted. Investigated other potential blog posts.<br />
<br />
2017-10-26: Worked on [[Fund of Funds in VC]] Blog post<br />
<br />
2017-10-25: Looked over summary and edited. Started working on a blog post on the role of fund of funds in venture capital by direction of Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
2017-10-23: Worked on a summary document for the Houston Innovation District project, verbal summaries of data analysis<br />
<br />
2017-10-19: Worked on Houston Innovation District more. All work is documented on the wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-10-18: Working on Houston Innovation District project. Figuring out what we've done and what needs to be done. McNair center servers went down, while I was working, so I lost a decent amount of work that I had been doing to summarize what we had and had to start over when it was rebooted. Cleaned up the wiki page and summarized where we are so far: what data we have & where it is, what data we are currently collecting, and what data we still want/need. Began working on collecting information about tax codes, incentives for development offered in Houston.<br />
<br />
2017-10-11: Worked on prep for [[Houston Innovation District]] project<br />
<br />
2017-10-06: Added more slides and edited. Updated wiki page with info.<br />
<br />
2017-10-05: Spent quite a while trying to figure out source data for patent data in slides for Augusta, then worked on cleaning up and adding to Augusta slides that were unfinished/not great, created cybersecurity slide<br />
<br />
2017-10-04: Continued working on Augusta project<br />
<br />
2017-09-27: Worked on data analysis and research for Augusta Project, looked into Augusta business news (there isn't very much of it!)<br />
<br />
2017-09-21: Continued preparation for [[Augusta Startup Ecosystem]] and [[Houston Innovation District]] Projects<br />
<br />
2017-09-20: Preliminary preparations for Augusta and Houston Projects<br />
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<br />
===Spring 2017===<br />
<br />
<br />
2017-01-18: Worked on the right to entrepreneurship post, talked to Anne about plans for the semester, looked in wordpress and marked spam comments on our blog posts.<br />
<br />
2017-01-20: Worked on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]] to investigate potential ways we could collaborate with other universities and improve our blog. Work meeting at 2pm.<br />
<br />
2017-01-23: Put the Right to Entrepreneurship post in wordpress (editing for readability and adding in links) and did more research on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]]<br />
<br />
2017-01-25: Brainstormed ideas for potential blog posts, ideas can be found on [[Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)]]. Also drafted tweets and put them in hootsuite.<br />
<br />
2017-01-27: Drafted tweets in hootsuite and did more exploring for potential blog post ideas. Right to entrepreneurship post was published!<br />
<br />
2017-01-30: Started writing a post about how Trump's Muslim ban may affect American entrepreneurship; it will be tabled until more concrete info is available. Updated wiki's blog post tally by going through and marking all published posts. Drafted tweets.<br />
<br />
2017-02-01: Drafted tweets. Did research on crowdfunding and social entrepreneurship, two topics I'd be interested in exploring for blog posts<br />
<br />
2017-02-03: Researched, edited, and re-drafted Ramee's blog post, [[Start-Up Visa (Blog Post)]].<br />
<br />
2017-02-08 Edited the Startup visa post in wordpress, did all of the SEO stuff, did more research on future blog posts. Came back from 4:30-6 - worked on crowdfunding post and talked to Ed about future projects<br />
<br />
2017-02-13: Researched [[Trump and Women in Entrepreneurship]] for the project on [[Women in Entrepreneurship (Issue Brief)]], worked on crowdfunding blog post, went through the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page and cleared out any outdated information/deleted duplicate pages, looked into research for [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-15: Finished first draft of [[Crowdfunding (Blog Post)]], looked into working on [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-17: To-dos and things covered in this shift: Crowdfunding post, women in entrepreneurship post, carried interest post, and proposal by Dr. Green<br />
<br />
2017-02-20: Same as above ^ working on these posts<br />
<br />
2017-02-22: Edited Eliza's post on Cincinnati. Finishing up crowdfunding post and women in entrepreneurship post. Started working on [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-24: Worked on editing the crowdfunding and women in entrepreneurship posts based on Ed's edits.<br />
<br />
2017-02-27: Mostly worked on the policy uncertainty piece. Briefly worked on women in entrepreneurship post, but need input from Carlin before we can do anything more!<br />
<br />
2017-03-03: Put crowdfunding post into WordPress. Waiting on Carlin's results before updating the women in entrepreneurship post. Doing more research on policy uncertainty<br />
<br />
2017-03-06: Started by investigating comments on WordPress blog posts (up until now, it seems we haven't been approving any comments even though some of them are good), worked on women's entrepreneurship post and put it into WordPress, worked on policy uncertainty and stock markets post and sent to a peer editor<br />
<br />
2017-03-08: Finished up women's entrepreneurship piece: ready for publishing. Edited Policy Uncertainty piece and sent on to Anne. Started editing [[Carried Interest Debate (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-03-10: Talked to Ed about Policy Uncertainty post. Made edits and revisions to Policy Uncertainty post based on Dr. Green, Ed, and Anne's comments. Also worked on Carried Interest piece<br />
<br />
2017-03-20: Peer edited Carried Interest Debate page, worked on policy uncertainty post and carried interest debate post. Also participate in Ed's session where we learned how to use sequel to make database tables.<br />
<br />
2017-03-22: Finished up [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]] and put it into WordPress. Still need to put in links but otherwise, it is ready to go!<br />
<br />
2017-03-24: Finished working on Policy Uncertainty in WordPress; it is ready to be published. Then worked on editing Anne's post on congress' attention toward innovation so that all of the readability measures in wordpress are met!<br />
<br />
2017-03-27: Finished Carried Interest post and put it into wordpress. Started a post on Mass Challenge. Looked through WordPress Comments and approved/marked as spam as necessary<br />
<br />
2017-03-29: Cleaned up the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page so that all published posts were marked as such. Worked on Mass Challenge post. Edited Iris' posts.<br />
<br />
2017-04-03: Worked on [[Mass Challenge (Blog Post)]] and [[Research Parks and Innovation Districts (Blog Post)]], observed Ed's workshop on sequel<br />
<br />
2017-04-07: Finished up first draft of MassChallenge post. Worked on Research parks/innovation district post<br />
<br />
2017-04-10: Edited Iris's posts.<br />
<br />
2017-05-09: Working from home on Research Parks & Innovation districts post. Made edits and sent to Anne<br />
<br />
2017-05-10: Finished RP and ID post based on Anne's suggestions. Put it into Wordpress.<br />
<br />
===Fall 2016===<br />
<br />
2017-09-08: Introductory exploration, talked to Anne, made my wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-09-09: Research on women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for potential blog post/series<br />
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2017-09-12: Worked on blog post about [[Women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]], finished it, sent to Anne for first round of edits<br />
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2017-09-13: Completed more research on women and innovation, but was uninspired and then sidetracked by the idea of a post about [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]. Did a lot of research on this for the rest of session<br />
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2017-09-14: Worked on Innovation in Public Service piece, almost finished first draft<br />
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2017-09-15: Met some other members on the team, talked to Ed and got some tips for how to improve on blog posts, made a wiki page for idea generation<br />
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2017-09-16: Explored the McNair wiki page to further educate myself on entrepreneurship and innovation and continued to refine my two already-drafted blog posts based on Ed's suggestions<br />
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2017-09-27: Back at it! Spent the day doing a project for Anne- making the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page for troubleshooting<br />
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2017-09-28: Worked on Blog Post Best Practices again and talked to Anne and Ed about my Women blog post<br />
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2017-09-29: Briefly worked on Women blog post, met with Anne and other bloggers to talk about editing. started editing the ClintonKaine and Entreprenruship blog post for readability qualities, and continued working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page<br />
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2017-09-30: Kept working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page and editing CK entrepreneurship article. Finished both (I think) and worked on Women piece for a while<br />
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2017-10-03: Worked on women piece and editing blog posts for SEO/readability analysis<br />
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2017-10-04: Got women piece to a place where I am happy with it!<br />
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2017-10-05: Worked on Policy Innovation blog post: probably going to take a new approach<br />
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2017-10-06: Finishing up new policy innovation blog post<br />
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2017-10-07: Sent women blog post to Anne and Ed, looked through blog posts on the website and adjusted their settings in Yoast SEO for searchability, helped Ed do this for his new blog post.<br />
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2017-10-12: Worked on women blog post based on Anne's comments.<br />
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2017-10-13: Worked on women blog post and sent it to Ed for final approval, made a proposal for structuring the blog post process and sent it to Anne and Ed<br />
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2017-10-18: worked on posts and Staff meeting at 5!<br />
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2017-10-19: Met with Anne and Ed about blog structuring<br />
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2017-10-20: Worked with Anne on blog structure wiki page<br />
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2017-10-21: Make wiki page for blog structure [[Blog Team]], edited the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page<br />
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2017-10-21: Met with blog team to talk about new structure!<br />
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2017-10-24: Tried to finish women piece again lol<br />
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2017-10-25: Began researching for next blog post- looking at statistics for tech companies and their hiring of women and maternity benefits.<br />
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2017-10-26: more research on tech companies and women's benefits. Also peer-edited two of Meghana's posts<br />
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2017-10-27: more research on benefits offered by tech companies. Google is cool!!<br />
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2017-10-28: Happy Friday! Worked on the women's benefits in tech companies research and tried to find some articles for Ramee for twitter<br />
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2017-10-31: Worked on a mix of the stuff from last week + making sure all of my blog posts work in our new organizational system<br />
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2017-11-01: Finishing touches on the Women in STEM post, then worked on the women in top 5 tech companies research<br />
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2017-11-02: Started drafting the tech women's benefits post<br />
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2017-11-04:Put the women in STEM post into wordpress and worked on the tech women post<br />
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2017-11-08: Peer edited Dylan's piece, worked on tech women post<br />
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2017-11-10: Looked at Carlin's post, edited the tech top 5 women post, sent it to Anne and Ed. Talked to Ed about what is next for me!<br />
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2017-11-11: published women in STEM post! Then did research on entrepreneurship and human rights<br />
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2017-11-14: looked at wordpress drafts, then worked on human rights and entrepreneurship blog post<br />
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2017-11-15: edited the innovation in public sector post and women in tech companies post<br />
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2017-11-16: worked on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
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2017-11-17: edited women in tech companies post and continued to work on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
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2017-11-18: worked on all three pieces that are currently in the works, edited blog posts, and made wiki pages for Anne<br />
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2017-11-18: Blog Team Meeting about style and the Yoast plugin<br />
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2017-11-21: explored idea of a post about entrepreneurship and the holidays, tried to find pictures for my posts that are pending, worked on editing the three posts that are in the works and getting them back to Anne for more feedback<br />
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2017-11-22: edited all three of the pieces so they are extra good when Anne reads them<br />
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2017-11-29: Began exploring a post for Anne about startups that make educational toys<br />
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2017-11-30: Continued the startup toys post, finished and sent to Anne for editing<br />
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2017-12-01: Edited and added to all pending posts: [[Start-Ups for the Season (Blog Post)]] [[An Unlikely Pair: Human Rights and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]] [[How the Tech Top Five Treat their Women Employees (Blog Post)]] [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]<br />
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2017-12-05: Found photos for all pending posts, set them up in word press, made edits<br />
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2017-12-16: Last shift of the semester! Worked on getting out the posts, yay!<br />
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<div>===Fall 2017===<br />
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[[Taylor Jacobe]] [[Work Logs]] [[Tay Jacobe (Work Log)|(log page)]] <br />
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2017-11-17: Worked on Augusta Findings post.<br />
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2017-11-16: Finished first draft of California post. Continued looking into a "Future of Communication" post and what that would look like. Anne also suggested I write a post about [[Augusta Findings (Blog Post)]], so I began that!<br />
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2017-11-15: Peer edited Yunnie and Dianna's blog post drafts. Anne suggested another post: McNair projects>Agglomeration>PeterHarrison. Research growth of high-tech high-growth enterprises in California from 1986-2016. Use file of maps. Started working on the post.<br />
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2017-11-10: Spent the morning cleaning out the spam comments on the blog. More than 1000 of them! Kept investigating Blockchain; I think I've determined that it might not be worth doing a post about because there are already a lot of sources that have published pieces that explain blockchain in simple terms. Continued looking for future blog post ideas: new social media (https://www.techworld.com/social-media/bumble-founder-whitney-wolfe-herd-talks-harvey-weinstein-linkedin-future-of-social-network-3666350/), 3D printing, security in a time of increasing automation and digitalization, the future of communication (smartphones, etc.: what's next?)<br />
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2017-11-09: Reorganized work log. Continued researching blockchain and began a draft of a post that will explain the concept in simpler terms and discuss potential impacts of this new technology! Created graphs for the Fund of Funds post. Finished the post and put everything into wordpress.<br />
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2017-11-08: Compiled a list of cities in Greater Cincinnati to use for data for blog post. Tried to educate myself on blockchain to eventually write a post about it<br />
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2017-11-01: Tried to gather research to improve the VC FOF post. Edited and redrafted. Investigated other potential blog posts.<br />
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2017-10-26: Worked on [[Fund of Funds in VC]] Blog post<br />
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2017-10-25: Looked over summary and edited. Started working on a blog post on the role of fund of funds in venture capital by direction of Anne and Ed<br />
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2017-10-23: Worked on a summary document for the Houston Innovation District project, verbal summaries of data analysis<br />
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2017-10-19: Worked on Houston Innovation District more. All work is documented on the wiki page<br />
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2017-10-18: Working on Houston Innovation District project. Figuring out what we've done and what needs to be done. McNair center servers went down, while I was working, so I lost a decent amount of work that I had been doing to summarize what we had and had to start over when it was rebooted. Cleaned up the wiki page and summarized where we are so far: what data we have & where it is, what data we are currently collecting, and what data we still want/need. Began working on collecting information about tax codes, incentives for development offered in Houston.<br />
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2017-10-11: Worked on prep for [[Houston Innovation District]] project<br />
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2017-10-06: Added more slides and edited. Updated wiki page with info.<br />
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2017-10-05: Spent quite a while trying to figure out source data for patent data in slides for Augusta, then worked on cleaning up and adding to Augusta slides that were unfinished/not great, created cybersecurity slide<br />
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2017-10-04: Continued working on Augusta project<br />
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2017-09-27: Worked on data analysis and research for Augusta Project, looked into Augusta business news (there isn't very much of it!)<br />
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2017-09-21: Continued preparation for [[Augusta Startup Ecosystem]] and [[Houston Innovation District]] Projects<br />
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2017-09-20: Preliminary preparations for Augusta and Houston Projects<br />
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===Spring 2017===<br />
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2017-01-18: Worked on the right to entrepreneurship post, talked to Anne about plans for the semester, looked in wordpress and marked spam comments on our blog posts.<br />
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2017-01-20: Worked on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]] to investigate potential ways we could collaborate with other universities and improve our blog. Work meeting at 2pm.<br />
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2017-01-23: Put the Right to Entrepreneurship post in wordpress (editing for readability and adding in links) and did more research on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]]<br />
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2017-01-25: Brainstormed ideas for potential blog posts, ideas can be found on [[Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)]]. Also drafted tweets and put them in hootsuite.<br />
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2017-01-27: Drafted tweets in hootsuite and did more exploring for potential blog post ideas. Right to entrepreneurship post was published!<br />
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2017-01-30: Started writing a post about how Trump's Muslim ban may affect American entrepreneurship; it will be tabled until more concrete info is available. Updated wiki's blog post tally by going through and marking all published posts. Drafted tweets.<br />
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2017-02-01: Drafted tweets. Did research on crowdfunding and social entrepreneurship, two topics I'd be interested in exploring for blog posts<br />
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2017-02-03: Researched, edited, and re-drafted Ramee's blog post, [[Start-Up Visa (Blog Post)]].<br />
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2017-02-08 Edited the Startup visa post in wordpress, did all of the SEO stuff, did more research on future blog posts. Came back from 4:30-6 - worked on crowdfunding post and talked to Ed about future projects<br />
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2017-02-13: Researched [[Trump and Women in Entrepreneurship]] for the project on [[Women in Entrepreneurship (Issue Brief)]], worked on crowdfunding blog post, went through the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page and cleared out any outdated information/deleted duplicate pages, looked into research for [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
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2017-02-15: Finished first draft of [[Crowdfunding (Blog Post)]], looked into working on [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
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2017-02-17: To-dos and things covered in this shift: Crowdfunding post, women in entrepreneurship post, carried interest post, and proposal by Dr. Green<br />
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2017-02-20: Same as above ^ working on these posts<br />
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2017-02-22: Edited Eliza's post on Cincinnati. Finishing up crowdfunding post and women in entrepreneurship post. Started working on [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]]<br />
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2017-02-24: Worked on editing the crowdfunding and women in entrepreneurship posts based on Ed's edits.<br />
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2017-02-27: Mostly worked on the policy uncertainty piece. Briefly worked on women in entrepreneurship post, but need input from Carlin before we can do anything more!<br />
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2017-03-03: Put crowdfunding post into WordPress. Waiting on Carlin's results before updating the women in entrepreneurship post. Doing more research on policy uncertainty<br />
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2017-03-06: Started by investigating comments on WordPress blog posts (up until now, it seems we haven't been approving any comments even though some of them are good), worked on women's entrepreneurship post and put it into WordPress, worked on policy uncertainty and stock markets post and sent to a peer editor<br />
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2017-03-08: Finished up women's entrepreneurship piece: ready for publishing. Edited Policy Uncertainty piece and sent on to Anne. Started editing [[Carried Interest Debate (Blog Post)]]<br />
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2017-03-10: Talked to Ed about Policy Uncertainty post. Made edits and revisions to Policy Uncertainty post based on Dr. Green, Ed, and Anne's comments. Also worked on Carried Interest piece<br />
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2017-03-20: Peer edited Carried Interest Debate page, worked on policy uncertainty post and carried interest debate post. Also participate in Ed's session where we learned how to use sequel to make database tables.<br />
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2017-03-22: Finished up [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]] and put it into WordPress. Still need to put in links but otherwise, it is ready to go!<br />
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2017-03-24: Finished working on Policy Uncertainty in WordPress; it is ready to be published. Then worked on editing Anne's post on congress' attention toward innovation so that all of the readability measures in wordpress are met!<br />
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2017-03-27: Finished Carried Interest post and put it into wordpress. Started a post on Mass Challenge. Looked through WordPress Comments and approved/marked as spam as necessary<br />
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2017-03-29: Cleaned up the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page so that all published posts were marked as such. Worked on Mass Challenge post. Edited Iris' posts.<br />
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2017-04-03: Worked on [[Mass Challenge (Blog Post)]] and [[Research Parks and Innovation Districts (Blog Post)]], observed Ed's workshop on sequel<br />
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2017-04-07: Finished up first draft of MassChallenge post. Worked on Research parks/innovation district post<br />
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2017-04-10: Edited Iris's posts.<br />
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2017-05-09: Working from home on Research Parks & Innovation districts post. Made edits and sent to Anne<br />
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2017-05-10: Finished RP and ID post based on Anne's suggestions. Put it into Wordpress.<br />
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===Fall 2016===<br />
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2017-09-08: Introductory exploration, talked to Anne, made my wiki page<br />
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2017-09-09: Research on women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for potential blog post/series<br />
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2017-09-12: Worked on blog post about [[Women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]], finished it, sent to Anne for first round of edits<br />
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2017-09-13: Completed more research on women and innovation, but was uninspired and then sidetracked by the idea of a post about [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]. Did a lot of research on this for the rest of session<br />
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2017-09-14: Worked on Innovation in Public Service piece, almost finished first draft<br />
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2017-09-15: Met some other members on the team, talked to Ed and got some tips for how to improve on blog posts, made a wiki page for idea generation<br />
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2017-09-16: Explored the McNair wiki page to further educate myself on entrepreneurship and innovation and continued to refine my two already-drafted blog posts based on Ed's suggestions<br />
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2017-09-27: Back at it! Spent the day doing a project for Anne- making the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page for troubleshooting<br />
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2017-09-28: Worked on Blog Post Best Practices again and talked to Anne and Ed about my Women blog post<br />
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2017-09-29: Briefly worked on Women blog post, met with Anne and other bloggers to talk about editing. started editing the ClintonKaine and Entreprenruship blog post for readability qualities, and continued working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page<br />
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2017-09-30: Kept working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page and editing CK entrepreneurship article. Finished both (I think) and worked on Women piece for a while<br />
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2017-10-03: Worked on women piece and editing blog posts for SEO/readability analysis<br />
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2017-10-04: Got women piece to a place where I am happy with it!<br />
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2017-10-05: Worked on Policy Innovation blog post: probably going to take a new approach<br />
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2017-10-06: Finishing up new policy innovation blog post<br />
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2017-10-07: Sent women blog post to Anne and Ed, looked through blog posts on the website and adjusted their settings in Yoast SEO for searchability, helped Ed do this for his new blog post.<br />
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2017-10-12: Worked on women blog post based on Anne's comments.<br />
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2017-10-13: Worked on women blog post and sent it to Ed for final approval, made a proposal for structuring the blog post process and sent it to Anne and Ed<br />
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2017-10-18: worked on posts and Staff meeting at 5!<br />
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2017-10-19: Met with Anne and Ed about blog structuring<br />
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2017-10-20: Worked with Anne on blog structure wiki page<br />
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2017-10-21: Make wiki page for blog structure [[Blog Team]], edited the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page<br />
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2017-10-21: Met with blog team to talk about new structure!<br />
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2017-10-24: Tried to finish women piece again lol<br />
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2017-10-25: Began researching for next blog post- looking at statistics for tech companies and their hiring of women and maternity benefits.<br />
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2017-10-26: more research on tech companies and women's benefits. Also peer-edited two of Meghana's posts<br />
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2017-10-27: more research on benefits offered by tech companies. Google is cool!!<br />
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2017-10-28: Happy Friday! Worked on the women's benefits in tech companies research and tried to find some articles for Ramee for twitter<br />
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2017-10-31: Worked on a mix of the stuff from last week + making sure all of my blog posts work in our new organizational system<br />
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2017-11-01: Finishing touches on the Women in STEM post, then worked on the women in top 5 tech companies research<br />
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2017-11-02: Started drafting the tech women's benefits post<br />
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2017-11-04:Put the women in STEM post into wordpress and worked on the tech women post<br />
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2017-11-08: Peer edited Dylan's piece, worked on tech women post<br />
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2017-11-10: Looked at Carlin's post, edited the tech top 5 women post, sent it to Anne and Ed. Talked to Ed about what is next for me!<br />
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2017-11-11: published women in STEM post! Then did research on entrepreneurship and human rights<br />
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2017-11-14: looked at wordpress drafts, then worked on human rights and entrepreneurship blog post<br />
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2017-11-15: edited the innovation in public sector post and women in tech companies post<br />
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2017-11-16: worked on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
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2017-11-17: edited women in tech companies post and continued to work on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
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2017-11-18: worked on all three pieces that are currently in the works, edited blog posts, and made wiki pages for Anne<br />
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2017-11-18: Blog Team Meeting about style and the Yoast plugin<br />
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2017-11-21: explored idea of a post about entrepreneurship and the holidays, tried to find pictures for my posts that are pending, worked on editing the three posts that are in the works and getting them back to Anne for more feedback<br />
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2017-11-22: edited all three of the pieces so they are extra good when Anne reads them<br />
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2017-11-29: Began exploring a post for Anne about startups that make educational toys<br />
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2017-11-30: Continued the startup toys post, finished and sent to Anne for editing<br />
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2017-12-01: Edited and added to all pending posts: [[Start-Ups for the Season (Blog Post)]] [[An Unlikely Pair: Human Rights and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]] [[How the Tech Top Five Treat their Women Employees (Blog Post)]] [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]<br />
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2017-12-05: Found photos for all pending posts, set them up in word press, made edits<br />
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2017-12-16: Last shift of the semester! Worked on getting out the posts, yay!<br />
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==Message from Larry Peterson== <br />
It was a pleasure meeting with you last week in Houston! I am in Boston at MassChallenge this afternoon, where it is way too cold.<br />
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Following up on our lunch conversation, I wanted to provide several things:<br />
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· A list of typical financial tools for research parks and innovation districts<br />
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· A well-regarded Battelle study on research park design, and the NAS report on research parks (attached). As we discussed, research parks and innovation districts are slightly different implementations (greenfield vs. brownfield) of the same paradigm. <br />
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· A model letter of support for MassChallenge<br />
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· An offer of an introduction to Kevin Byrne at TUFF<br />
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Attached is a model letter of support and several example letters. We would appreciate one from you and/or Rice in support of MassChallenge.<br />
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The common financial tools for research parks and innovation districts are layered to form a “capital stack.” There much be numerous types of equity, debt and incentives to address all the needed design parameters.<br />
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Planning grants may be available through EDA in partnership with the regional Council of Governments (in your case, the Houston-Galveston Council).<br />
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Equity commonly comes from New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC), Texas Enterprise Fund, HUD community development grants (through CDBG or direct), EDA grants, foundation grants, participation in Empowerment/Enterprise and other “Zone” designations, tax relief through federal and state mechanisms (e.g. state 313 program).<br />
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Common debt instruments include the Texas Product Development and Small Business Incubator Fund, a large variety of tax credit bonds, such as:<br />
· Build America Bonds<br />
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· Recovery Zone Economic Development Bonds<br />
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· Qualified School Academy Zones (QZABs)<br />
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· Qualified School Construction Bonds (QSCBs)<br />
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· Clean Renewable Energy Bonds (CREBs)<br />
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· Qualified Energy Conservation Bonds (QECBs) <br />
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Plus a variety of municipal bonds, including several types of revenue bonds and private activity bonds. In addition, tuition bonds can be used to building campus facilities for workforce education-focused activities. <br />
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Some of the major state incentive programs include:<br />
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· Skills Development Fund <br />
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· Texas Enterprise Zone Program <br />
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· Governor’s University Research Initiative <br />
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· Texas Capital Fund Infrastructure / Real Estate Programs <br />
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· State Sales and Use Tax Exemptions <br />
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· Franchise Tax Deduction for Business Relocation <br />
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· Chapter 380 /381 Economic Development Agreements <br />
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· Texas Leverage Fund <br />
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· Event Trust Funds <br />
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· Bonds: Sales Tax, Exempt-Facility and Tax-Exempt Industrial Revenue <br />
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· Defense Economic Adjustment Assistance Grant Program (DEAAG) <br />
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· Texas Military Value Revolving Loan Fund <br />
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· Texas Product Development & Small Business Incubator Fund (PDSBI) <br />
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· Research & Development Tax Credit <br />
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· Texas Economic Development Act <br />
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· Ad Valorem/Property Tax Exemption <br />
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· Renewable Energy Incentives <br />
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· Permit Assistance <br />
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· Moving Image Industry Incentive Program <br />
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· Cancer Prevention and Research General Obligation Bonds <br />
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· In-State Tuition for Employees<br />
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There is an organization with whom I have worked, the University Financing Foundation (TUFF) in Atlanta, headed by Kevin Byrne, former AURP president. They are a non-profit that has created the capital stack for numerous research parks, including Atlanta’s Technology Square. I have talked to Kevin several times over the years about research park opportunities in Texas, and I think he could be a tremendous help.<br />
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Finally, as we mentioned, a huge part of successful research park / innovation district design is social factors engineering. The realm of social network theory provides the basis of “minimizing social distance” that provides the functional basis of why successful agglomerations work – resources are rapidly accessible as needed, represented by the speed of navigating complicated social networks (e.g. for acquiring capital, finding customers or key hires, etc.) I can probably identify some other experts to assist in these factors for your concept.</div>Tayjacobe22http://www.edegan.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Tay_Jacobe_(Work_Log)&diff=21950Tay Jacobe (Work Log)2017-11-16T21:19:51Z<p>Tayjacobe22: </p>
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2017-11-16: Finished first draft of California post. Continued looking into a "Future of Communication" post and what that would look like<br />
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2017-11-15: Peer edited Yunnie and Dianna's blog post drafts. Anne suggested another post: McNair projects>Agglomeration>PeterHarrison. Research growth of high-tech high-growth enterprises in California from 1986-2016. Use file of maps. Started working on the post.<br />
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2017-11-10: Spent the morning cleaning out the spam comments on the blog. More than 1000 of them! Kept investigating Blockchain; I think I've determined that it might not be worth doing a post about because there are already a lot of sources that have published pieces that explain blockchain in simple terms. Continued looking for future blog post ideas: new social media (https://www.techworld.com/social-media/bumble-founder-whitney-wolfe-herd-talks-harvey-weinstein-linkedin-future-of-social-network-3666350/), 3D printing, security in a time of increasing automation and digitalization, the future of communication (smartphones, etc.: what's next?)<br />
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2017-11-09: Reorganized work log. Continued researching blockchain and began a draft of a post that will explain the concept in simpler terms and discuss potential impacts of this new technology! Created graphs for the Fund of Funds post. Finished the post and put everything into wordpress.<br />
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2017-11-08: Compiled a list of cities in Greater Cincinnati to use for data for blog post. Tried to educate myself on blockchain to eventually write a post about it<br />
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2017-11-01: Tried to gather research to improve the VC FOF post. Edited and redrafted. Investigated other potential blog posts.<br />
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2017-10-26: Worked on [[Fund of Funds in VC]] Blog post<br />
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2017-10-25: Looked over summary and edited. Started working on a blog post on the role of fund of funds in venture capital by direction of Anne and Ed<br />
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2017-10-23: Worked on a summary document for the Houston Innovation District project, verbal summaries of data analysis<br />
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2017-10-19: Worked on Houston Innovation District more. All work is documented on the wiki page<br />
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2017-10-18: Working on Houston Innovation District project. Figuring out what we've done and what needs to be done. McNair center servers went down, while I was working, so I lost a decent amount of work that I had been doing to summarize what we had and had to start over when it was rebooted. Cleaned up the wiki page and summarized where we are so far: what data we have & where it is, what data we are currently collecting, and what data we still want/need. Began working on collecting information about tax codes, incentives for development offered in Houston.<br />
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2017-10-11: Worked on prep for [[Houston Innovation District]] project<br />
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2017-10-06: Added more slides and edited. Updated wiki page with info.<br />
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2017-10-05: Spent quite a while trying to figure out source data for patent data in slides for Augusta, then worked on cleaning up and adding to Augusta slides that were unfinished/not great, created cybersecurity slide<br />
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2017-10-04: Continued working on Augusta project<br />
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2017-09-27: Worked on data analysis and research for Augusta Project, looked into Augusta business news (there isn't very much of it!)<br />
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2017-09-21: Continued preparation for [[Augusta Startup Ecosystem]] and [[Houston Innovation District]] Projects<br />
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2017-09-20: Preliminary preparations for Augusta and Houston Projects<br />
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===Spring 2017===<br />
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2017-01-18: Worked on the right to entrepreneurship post, talked to Anne about plans for the semester, looked in wordpress and marked spam comments on our blog posts.<br />
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2017-01-20: Worked on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]] to investigate potential ways we could collaborate with other universities and improve our blog. Work meeting at 2pm.<br />
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2017-01-23: Put the Right to Entrepreneurship post in wordpress (editing for readability and adding in links) and did more research on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]]<br />
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2017-01-25: Brainstormed ideas for potential blog posts, ideas can be found on [[Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)]]. Also drafted tweets and put them in hootsuite.<br />
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2017-01-27: Drafted tweets in hootsuite and did more exploring for potential blog post ideas. Right to entrepreneurship post was published!<br />
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2017-01-30: Started writing a post about how Trump's Muslim ban may affect American entrepreneurship; it will be tabled until more concrete info is available. Updated wiki's blog post tally by going through and marking all published posts. Drafted tweets.<br />
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2017-02-01: Drafted tweets. Did research on crowdfunding and social entrepreneurship, two topics I'd be interested in exploring for blog posts<br />
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2017-02-03: Researched, edited, and re-drafted Ramee's blog post, [[Start-Up Visa (Blog Post)]].<br />
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2017-02-08 Edited the Startup visa post in wordpress, did all of the SEO stuff, did more research on future blog posts. Came back from 4:30-6 - worked on crowdfunding post and talked to Ed about future projects<br />
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2017-02-13: Researched [[Trump and Women in Entrepreneurship]] for the project on [[Women in Entrepreneurship (Issue Brief)]], worked on crowdfunding blog post, went through the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page and cleared out any outdated information/deleted duplicate pages, looked into research for [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
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2017-02-15: Finished first draft of [[Crowdfunding (Blog Post)]], looked into working on [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
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2017-02-17: To-dos and things covered in this shift: Crowdfunding post, women in entrepreneurship post, carried interest post, and proposal by Dr. Green<br />
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2017-02-20: Same as above ^ working on these posts<br />
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2017-02-22: Edited Eliza's post on Cincinnati. Finishing up crowdfunding post and women in entrepreneurship post. Started working on [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]]<br />
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2017-02-24: Worked on editing the crowdfunding and women in entrepreneurship posts based on Ed's edits.<br />
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2017-02-27: Mostly worked on the policy uncertainty piece. Briefly worked on women in entrepreneurship post, but need input from Carlin before we can do anything more!<br />
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2017-03-03: Put crowdfunding post into WordPress. Waiting on Carlin's results before updating the women in entrepreneurship post. Doing more research on policy uncertainty<br />
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2017-03-06: Started by investigating comments on WordPress blog posts (up until now, it seems we haven't been approving any comments even though some of them are good), worked on women's entrepreneurship post and put it into WordPress, worked on policy uncertainty and stock markets post and sent to a peer editor<br />
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2017-03-08: Finished up women's entrepreneurship piece: ready for publishing. Edited Policy Uncertainty piece and sent on to Anne. Started editing [[Carried Interest Debate (Blog Post)]]<br />
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2017-03-10: Talked to Ed about Policy Uncertainty post. Made edits and revisions to Policy Uncertainty post based on Dr. Green, Ed, and Anne's comments. Also worked on Carried Interest piece<br />
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2017-03-20: Peer edited Carried Interest Debate page, worked on policy uncertainty post and carried interest debate post. Also participate in Ed's session where we learned how to use sequel to make database tables.<br />
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2017-03-22: Finished up [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]] and put it into WordPress. Still need to put in links but otherwise, it is ready to go!<br />
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2017-03-24: Finished working on Policy Uncertainty in WordPress; it is ready to be published. Then worked on editing Anne's post on congress' attention toward innovation so that all of the readability measures in wordpress are met!<br />
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2017-03-27: Finished Carried Interest post and put it into wordpress. Started a post on Mass Challenge. Looked through WordPress Comments and approved/marked as spam as necessary<br />
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2017-03-29: Cleaned up the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page so that all published posts were marked as such. Worked on Mass Challenge post. Edited Iris' posts.<br />
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2017-04-03: Worked on [[Mass Challenge (Blog Post)]] and [[Research Parks and Innovation Districts (Blog Post)]], observed Ed's workshop on sequel<br />
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2017-04-07: Finished up first draft of MassChallenge post. Worked on Research parks/innovation district post<br />
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2017-04-10: Edited Iris's posts.<br />
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2017-05-09: Working from home on Research Parks & Innovation districts post. Made edits and sent to Anne<br />
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2017-05-10: Finished RP and ID post based on Anne's suggestions. Put it into Wordpress.<br />
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===Fall 2016===<br />
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2017-09-08: Introductory exploration, talked to Anne, made my wiki page<br />
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2017-09-09: Research on women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for potential blog post/series<br />
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2017-09-12: Worked on blog post about [[Women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]], finished it, sent to Anne for first round of edits<br />
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2017-09-13: Completed more research on women and innovation, but was uninspired and then sidetracked by the idea of a post about [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]. Did a lot of research on this for the rest of session<br />
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2017-09-14: Worked on Innovation in Public Service piece, almost finished first draft<br />
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2017-09-15: Met some other members on the team, talked to Ed and got some tips for how to improve on blog posts, made a wiki page for idea generation<br />
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2017-09-16: Explored the McNair wiki page to further educate myself on entrepreneurship and innovation and continued to refine my two already-drafted blog posts based on Ed's suggestions<br />
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2017-09-27: Back at it! Spent the day doing a project for Anne- making the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page for troubleshooting<br />
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2017-09-28: Worked on Blog Post Best Practices again and talked to Anne and Ed about my Women blog post<br />
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2017-09-29: Briefly worked on Women blog post, met with Anne and other bloggers to talk about editing. started editing the ClintonKaine and Entreprenruship blog post for readability qualities, and continued working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page<br />
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2017-09-30: Kept working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page and editing CK entrepreneurship article. Finished both (I think) and worked on Women piece for a while<br />
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2017-10-03: Worked on women piece and editing blog posts for SEO/readability analysis<br />
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2017-10-04: Got women piece to a place where I am happy with it!<br />
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2017-10-05: Worked on Policy Innovation blog post: probably going to take a new approach<br />
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2017-10-06: Finishing up new policy innovation blog post<br />
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2017-10-07: Sent women blog post to Anne and Ed, looked through blog posts on the website and adjusted their settings in Yoast SEO for searchability, helped Ed do this for his new blog post.<br />
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2017-10-12: Worked on women blog post based on Anne's comments.<br />
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2017-10-13: Worked on women blog post and sent it to Ed for final approval, made a proposal for structuring the blog post process and sent it to Anne and Ed<br />
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2017-10-18: worked on posts and Staff meeting at 5!<br />
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2017-10-19: Met with Anne and Ed about blog structuring<br />
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2017-10-20: Worked with Anne on blog structure wiki page<br />
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2017-10-21: Make wiki page for blog structure [[Blog Team]], edited the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page<br />
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2017-10-21: Met with blog team to talk about new structure!<br />
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2017-10-24: Tried to finish women piece again lol<br />
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2017-10-25: Began researching for next blog post- looking at statistics for tech companies and their hiring of women and maternity benefits.<br />
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2017-10-26: more research on tech companies and women's benefits. Also peer-edited two of Meghana's posts<br />
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2017-10-27: more research on benefits offered by tech companies. Google is cool!!<br />
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2017-10-28: Happy Friday! Worked on the women's benefits in tech companies research and tried to find some articles for Ramee for twitter<br />
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2017-10-31: Worked on a mix of the stuff from last week + making sure all of my blog posts work in our new organizational system<br />
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2017-11-01: Finishing touches on the Women in STEM post, then worked on the women in top 5 tech companies research<br />
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2017-11-02: Started drafting the tech women's benefits post<br />
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2017-11-04:Put the women in STEM post into wordpress and worked on the tech women post<br />
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2017-11-08: Peer edited Dylan's piece, worked on tech women post<br />
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2017-11-10: Looked at Carlin's post, edited the tech top 5 women post, sent it to Anne and Ed. Talked to Ed about what is next for me!<br />
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2017-11-11: published women in STEM post! Then did research on entrepreneurship and human rights<br />
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2017-11-14: looked at wordpress drafts, then worked on human rights and entrepreneurship blog post<br />
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2017-11-15: edited the innovation in public sector post and women in tech companies post<br />
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2017-11-16: worked on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
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2017-11-17: edited women in tech companies post and continued to work on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
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2017-11-18: worked on all three pieces that are currently in the works, edited blog posts, and made wiki pages for Anne<br />
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2017-11-18: Blog Team Meeting about style and the Yoast plugin<br />
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2017-11-21: explored idea of a post about entrepreneurship and the holidays, tried to find pictures for my posts that are pending, worked on editing the three posts that are in the works and getting them back to Anne for more feedback<br />
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2017-11-22: edited all three of the pieces so they are extra good when Anne reads them<br />
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2017-11-29: Began exploring a post for Anne about startups that make educational toys<br />
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2017-11-30: Continued the startup toys post, finished and sent to Anne for editing<br />
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2017-12-01: Edited and added to all pending posts: [[Start-Ups for the Season (Blog Post)]] [[An Unlikely Pair: Human Rights and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]] [[How the Tech Top Five Treat their Women Employees (Blog Post)]] [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]<br />
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2017-12-05: Found photos for all pending posts, set them up in word press, made edits<br />
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2017-12-16: Last shift of the semester! Worked on getting out the posts, yay!<br />
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[[Category:Work Log]]</div>Tayjacobe22http://www.edegan.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Work_Hours&diff=21949Work Hours2017-11-16T21:17:35Z<p>Tayjacobe22: /* Fall 2017 */</p>
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===Fall 2017===<br />
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| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Name'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Mon'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Tues'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Wed'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Thurs'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Fri'''<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ben Baldazo]]||2-5:00||||3-5:00||||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Catherine Kirby]]||10-12||10:00-12:00||10:00-12:00||10:00-12:00||10:00-12:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Christy Warden]]||3:00-5:00||9:00-10:30, 4:00-5:45||||2:15-3:45||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Diana Carranza]]||8:00-12:30||8:00-12:30||8:00-12:30||8:00-12:30||8:00-12:30<br />
|-<br />
| [[Dylan Dickens]]||10:00-12:00||10:00-12:00||10:00-12:00||10:00-12:00||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Harrison Brown]]||1:00-5:00||||1:00-3:50||1:00-3:50||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Matthew Ringheanu]]||2:00-5:00||3:00-5:00||2:00-5:00||3:00-5:00||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Meghana Gaur]]||||2:30-5:30|||||2:30-5:30||3:00-5:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Peter Jalbert]]||2:00-5:00||2:00-4:00||2:00-3:00||1:30-3:30||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Shrey Agarwal]]||4:00-6:00||3:00-5:00||4:00-6:00||||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Taylor Jacobe]]||||||9:30-12:00||1:00-4:30||10:00-12:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Jeemin Sim]]||4:00-6:00||9:00-10:40, 1:00-2:20, 4:00-5:30||||9:00-10:40, 1:00-2:50||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Joe Reilly]]||||9:30-12, 4-5:15||9:30-12, 4-5:15||2-4:30||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Julia Wang]]||10-12||10-12||10-12||2:30-4:30||10-12<br />
|-<br />
| [[Shelby Bice]]||||8:30-10:30||||||2-5<br />
|}<br />
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===Spring 2017===<br />
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| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Name'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Mon'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Tues'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Wed'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Thurs'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Fri'''<br />
|-<br />
| [[Amir Kazempour]]||||||||||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Avesh Krishna]]||4:00-6:00||2:30-4:00||2:00-5:30||2:30-4:00||2:00-4:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ben Baldazo]]||2-5:30||||2-5:30||||1-3:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Carlin Cherry]]||||10-12, 2:20-3:50||12:45-2, 3-5:30||2:20-3:50||12:45-2<br />
|-<br />
| [[Catherine Kirby]]||||1:00-3:00||1:00-3:00||1:00-3:00||1:00-4:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Christy Warden]]||10:00 - 12:45||||10:00 - 12:45||||10-12:45<br />
|-<br />
| [[Dylan Dickens]]||10:00-12:30, 1:00-5:00||||10:00-12:00||||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eliza Martin]]||2:00-4:00||4:00-6:00||2:00-4:00||4:00-6:00||2:00-4:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Jake Silberman]]||||||||||<br />
|-<br />
| [[James Chen]]||||10:00-12:00||||3:00-5:00||10:00-4:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Julia Wang]]||1-4:30||||1-4:30||||1-4:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Marcela Interiano]]||||||||||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Matthew Ringheanu]]||1:00-5:00||||1:00-5:00||||1:00-3:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Meghana Gaur]]||2:00-4:00||||4:00-6:00|||4:00-6:00||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Meghana Pannala]] || || || || ||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Peter Jalbert]]||10:00-12:00||2:30-5:15||10:00-12:00||2:30-5:45||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ramee Saleh]]||3-5:00||3-5:00||3-5:00||3-5:00||3-5:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Shrey Agarwal]]||2:00-4:00||2:00-4:00||2:00-4:00||2:00-4:00||2:00-4:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Taylor Jacobe]]||1:00-4:30||||10:00-12:00||||1:00-3:30<br />
|-<br />
| [[Will Cleland]]||||12:30-4||||12:30-4||2-5:00 <br />
|-<br />
| [[Jeemin Sim]]||2:00-6:00||||9:00-12:00||||2:00-5:00<br />
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Other students without posted hours:<br />
*[[Iris Huang]]<br />
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===Fall 2016===<br />
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| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Name'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Mon'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Tues'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Wed'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Thurs'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Fri'''<br />
|-<br />
| [[Albert Nabiullin]]||3-4:30||1-3:30||3-4:30||1-3:30||3-4:30<br />
|-<br />
| [[Amir Kazempour]]||||||||||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Avesh Krishna]]||4:00-6:00||2:30-4:00||2:00-5:30||2:30-4:00||2:00-4:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ariel Sun]]||11-12||||11-12||||11-12, 1:15-2:45<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ben Baldazo]]||2-5:00||1:-5:00||||||2-:500<br />
|-<br />
| [[Carlin Cherry]]||||10-12, 2:20-3:50||12:45-2, 3-5:30||2:20-3:50||12:45-2<br />
|-<br />
| [[Catherine Kirby]]||||1:00-3:00||3:00-5:00||2:00-5:00||1:00-4:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Christy Warden]]||10:00 - 12:45||||10:00 - 12:45||||10-12:45<br />
|-<br />
| [[Dylan Dickens]]||1-6:00||||||||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eliza Martin]]||2:00-4:00||4:00-6:00||2:00-4:00||4:00-6:00||2:00-4:00<br />
|- <br />
| [[Harsh Upadhyay]]||||3-5:30||3-5:30||3-5:30||3-5:30<br />
|-<br />
| [[Jake Silberman]]||||||||||<br />
|-<br />
| [[James Chen]]||||10:00-12:00||||3:00-5:00||10:00-4:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Julia Wang]]||1-4:30||||1-4:30||||1-4:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Marcela Interiano]]||||||||||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Matthew Ringheanu]]||2:00-5:00||4:00-6:00||2:00-5:00||4:00-6:00||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Meghana Gaur]]||||2:30-5:30||10:00-12:00|||2:23-5:30|||3:00-5:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Peter Jalbert]]||10:00-12:00||2:30-5:15||10:00-12:00||2:30-5:45||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ramee Saleh]]||3-5:00||3-5:00||3-5:00||3-5:00||3-5:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ravali Kruthiventi]]||3-6||||3-6||||3-6<br />
|-<br />
| [[Shrey Agarwal]]||||2:00-5:00||||2:00-5:00||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Todd Rachowin]]||||||||||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Taylor Jacobe]]||1:00-4:30||||10:00-12:00||||1:00-3:30<br />
|-<br />
| [[Will Cleland]]||||12:30-4||||12:30-4||2-5:00 <br />
|-<br />
| [[Yimeng Tang]]||||10-12,3:30-5:30||||10-12,3:30-5:30||<br />
|}<br />
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| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Name'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Mon'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Tues'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Wed'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Thurs'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Fri'''<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ben Baldazo]]||2-5:00||||3-5:00||||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Catherine Kirby]]||10-12||10:00-12:00||10:00-12:00||10:00-12:00||10:00-12:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Christy Warden]]||3:00-5:00||9:00-10:30, 4:00-5:45||||2:15-3:45||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Diana Carranza]]||8:00-12:30||8:00-12:30||8:00-12:30||8:00-12:30||8:00-12:30<br />
|-<br />
| [[Dylan Dickens]]||10:00-12:00||10:00-12:00||10:00-12:00||10:00-12:00||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Harrison Brown]]||1:00-5:00||||1:00-3:50||1:00-3:50||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Matthew Ringheanu]]||2:00-5:00||3:00-5:00||2:00-5:00||3:00-5:00||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Meghana Gaur]]||||2:30-5:30|||||2:30-5:30||3:00-5:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Peter Jalbert]]||2:00-5:00||2:00-4:00||2:00-3:00||1:30-3:30||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Shrey Agarwal]]||4:00-6:00||3:00-5:00||4:00-6:00||||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Taylor Jacobe]]||||||9:30-12:00||1:00-4:30||10:00-12:00||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Jeemin Sim]]||4:00-6:00||9:00-10:40, 1:00-2:20, 4:00-5:30||||9:00-10:40, 1:00-2:50||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Joe Reilly]]||||9:30-12, 4-5:15||9:30-12, 4-5:15||2-4:30||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Julia Wang]]||10-12||10-12||10-12||2:30-4:30||10-12<br />
|-<br />
| [[Shelby Bice]]||||8:30-10:30||||||2-5<br />
|}<br />
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===Spring 2017===<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="border: 1px solid darkgray; bgcolor: #f9f9f9"<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Name'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Mon'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Tues'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Wed'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Thurs'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Fri'''<br />
|-<br />
| [[Amir Kazempour]]||||||||||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Avesh Krishna]]||4:00-6:00||2:30-4:00||2:00-5:30||2:30-4:00||2:00-4:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ben Baldazo]]||2-5:30||||2-5:30||||1-3:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Carlin Cherry]]||||10-12, 2:20-3:50||12:45-2, 3-5:30||2:20-3:50||12:45-2<br />
|-<br />
| [[Catherine Kirby]]||||1:00-3:00||1:00-3:00||1:00-3:00||1:00-4:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Christy Warden]]||10:00 - 12:45||||10:00 - 12:45||||10-12:45<br />
|-<br />
| [[Dylan Dickens]]||10:00-12:30, 1:00-5:00||||10:00-12:00||||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eliza Martin]]||2:00-4:00||4:00-6:00||2:00-4:00||4:00-6:00||2:00-4:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Jake Silberman]]||||||||||<br />
|-<br />
| [[James Chen]]||||10:00-12:00||||3:00-5:00||10:00-4:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Julia Wang]]||1-4:30||||1-4:30||||1-4:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Marcela Interiano]]||||||||||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Matthew Ringheanu]]||1:00-5:00||||1:00-5:00||||1:00-3:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Meghana Gaur]]||2:00-4:00||||4:00-6:00|||4:00-6:00||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Meghana Pannala]] || || || || ||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Peter Jalbert]]||10:00-12:00||2:30-5:15||10:00-12:00||2:30-5:45||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ramee Saleh]]||3-5:00||3-5:00||3-5:00||3-5:00||3-5:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Shrey Agarwal]]||2:00-4:00||2:00-4:00||2:00-4:00||2:00-4:00||2:00-4:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Taylor Jacobe]]||1:00-4:30||||10:00-12:00||||1:00-3:30<br />
|-<br />
| [[Will Cleland]]||||12:30-4||||12:30-4||2-5:00 <br />
|-<br />
| [[Jeemin Sim]]||2:00-6:00||||9:00-12:00||||2:00-5:00<br />
|}<br />
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Other students without posted hours:<br />
*[[Iris Huang]]<br />
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==Archived Work Hours==<br />
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===Fall 2016===<br />
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| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Name'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Mon'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Tues'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Wed'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Thurs'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Fri'''<br />
|-<br />
| [[Albert Nabiullin]]||3-4:30||1-3:30||3-4:30||1-3:30||3-4:30<br />
|-<br />
| [[Amir Kazempour]]||||||||||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Avesh Krishna]]||4:00-6:00||2:30-4:00||2:00-5:30||2:30-4:00||2:00-4:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ariel Sun]]||11-12||||11-12||||11-12, 1:15-2:45<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ben Baldazo]]||2-5:00||1:-5:00||||||2-:500<br />
|-<br />
| [[Carlin Cherry]]||||10-12, 2:20-3:50||12:45-2, 3-5:30||2:20-3:50||12:45-2<br />
|-<br />
| [[Catherine Kirby]]||||1:00-3:00||3:00-5:00||2:00-5:00||1:00-4:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Christy Warden]]||10:00 - 12:45||||10:00 - 12:45||||10-12:45<br />
|-<br />
| [[Dylan Dickens]]||1-6:00||||||||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eliza Martin]]||2:00-4:00||4:00-6:00||2:00-4:00||4:00-6:00||2:00-4:00<br />
|- <br />
| [[Harsh Upadhyay]]||||3-5:30||3-5:30||3-5:30||3-5:30<br />
|-<br />
| [[Jake Silberman]]||||||||||<br />
|-<br />
| [[James Chen]]||||10:00-12:00||||3:00-5:00||10:00-4:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Julia Wang]]||1-4:30||||1-4:30||||1-4:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Marcela Interiano]]||||||||||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Matthew Ringheanu]]||2:00-5:00||4:00-6:00||2:00-5:00||4:00-6:00||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Meghana Gaur]]||||2:30-5:30||10:00-12:00|||2:23-5:30|||3:00-5:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Peter Jalbert]]||10:00-12:00||2:30-5:15||10:00-12:00||2:30-5:45||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ramee Saleh]]||3-5:00||3-5:00||3-5:00||3-5:00||3-5:00<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ravali Kruthiventi]]||3-6||||3-6||||3-6<br />
|-<br />
| [[Shrey Agarwal]]||||2:00-5:00||||2:00-5:00||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Todd Rachowin]]||||||||||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Taylor Jacobe]]||1:00-4:30||||10:00-12:00||||1:00-3:30<br />
|-<br />
| [[Will Cleland]]||||12:30-4||||12:30-4||2-5:00 <br />
|-<br />
| [[Yimeng Tang]]||||10-12,3:30-5:30||||10-12,3:30-5:30||<br />
|}<br />
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[[Taylor Jacobe]] [[Work Logs]] [[Tay Jacobe (Work Log)|(log page)]] <br />
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2017-11-15: Peer edited Yunnie and Dianna's blog post drafts. Anne suggested another post: McNair projects>Agglomeration>PeterHarrison. Research growth of high-tech high-growth enterprises in California from 1986-2016. Use file of maps. Started working on the post.<br />
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2017-11-10: Spent the morning cleaning out the spam comments on the blog. More than 1000 of them! Kept investigating Blockchain; I think I've determined that it might not be worth doing a post about because there are already a lot of sources that have published pieces that explain blockchain in simple terms. Continued looking for future blog post ideas: new social media (https://www.techworld.com/social-media/bumble-founder-whitney-wolfe-herd-talks-harvey-weinstein-linkedin-future-of-social-network-3666350/), 3D printing, security in a time of increasing automation and digitalization, the future of communication (smartphones, etc.: what's next?)<br />
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2017-11-09: Reorganized work log. Continued researching blockchain and began a draft of a post that will explain the concept in simpler terms and discuss potential impacts of this new technology! Created graphs for the Fund of Funds post. Finished the post and put everything into wordpress.<br />
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2017-11-08: Compiled a list of cities in Greater Cincinnati to use for data for blog post. Tried to educate myself on blockchain to eventually write a post about it<br />
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2017-11-01: Tried to gather research to improve the VC FOF post. Edited and redrafted. Investigated other potential blog posts.<br />
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2017-10-26: Worked on [[Fund of Funds in VC]] Blog post<br />
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2017-10-25: Looked over summary and edited. Started working on a blog post on the role of fund of funds in venture capital by direction of Anne and Ed<br />
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2017-10-23: Worked on a summary document for the Houston Innovation District project, verbal summaries of data analysis<br />
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2017-10-19: Worked on Houston Innovation District more. All work is documented on the wiki page<br />
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2017-10-18: Working on Houston Innovation District project. Figuring out what we've done and what needs to be done. McNair center servers went down, while I was working, so I lost a decent amount of work that I had been doing to summarize what we had and had to start over when it was rebooted. Cleaned up the wiki page and summarized where we are so far: what data we have & where it is, what data we are currently collecting, and what data we still want/need. Began working on collecting information about tax codes, incentives for development offered in Houston.<br />
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2017-10-11: Worked on prep for [[Houston Innovation District]] project<br />
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2017-10-06: Added more slides and edited. Updated wiki page with info.<br />
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2017-10-05: Spent quite a while trying to figure out source data for patent data in slides for Augusta, then worked on cleaning up and adding to Augusta slides that were unfinished/not great, created cybersecurity slide<br />
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2017-10-04: Continued working on Augusta project<br />
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2017-09-27: Worked on data analysis and research for Augusta Project, looked into Augusta business news (there isn't very much of it!)<br />
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2017-09-21: Continued preparation for [[Augusta Startup Ecosystem]] and [[Houston Innovation District]] Projects<br />
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2017-09-20: Preliminary preparations for Augusta and Houston Projects<br />
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===Spring 2017===<br />
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2017-01-18: Worked on the right to entrepreneurship post, talked to Anne about plans for the semester, looked in wordpress and marked spam comments on our blog posts.<br />
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2017-01-20: Worked on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]] to investigate potential ways we could collaborate with other universities and improve our blog. Work meeting at 2pm.<br />
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2017-01-23: Put the Right to Entrepreneurship post in wordpress (editing for readability and adding in links) and did more research on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]]<br />
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2017-01-25: Brainstormed ideas for potential blog posts, ideas can be found on [[Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)]]. Also drafted tweets and put them in hootsuite.<br />
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2017-01-27: Drafted tweets in hootsuite and did more exploring for potential blog post ideas. Right to entrepreneurship post was published!<br />
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2017-01-30: Started writing a post about how Trump's Muslim ban may affect American entrepreneurship; it will be tabled until more concrete info is available. Updated wiki's blog post tally by going through and marking all published posts. Drafted tweets.<br />
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2017-02-01: Drafted tweets. Did research on crowdfunding and social entrepreneurship, two topics I'd be interested in exploring for blog posts<br />
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2017-02-03: Researched, edited, and re-drafted Ramee's blog post, [[Start-Up Visa (Blog Post)]].<br />
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2017-02-08 Edited the Startup visa post in wordpress, did all of the SEO stuff, did more research on future blog posts. Came back from 4:30-6 - worked on crowdfunding post and talked to Ed about future projects<br />
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2017-02-13: Researched [[Trump and Women in Entrepreneurship]] for the project on [[Women in Entrepreneurship (Issue Brief)]], worked on crowdfunding blog post, went through the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page and cleared out any outdated information/deleted duplicate pages, looked into research for [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
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2017-02-15: Finished first draft of [[Crowdfunding (Blog Post)]], looked into working on [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
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2017-02-17: To-dos and things covered in this shift: Crowdfunding post, women in entrepreneurship post, carried interest post, and proposal by Dr. Green<br />
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2017-02-20: Same as above ^ working on these posts<br />
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2017-02-22: Edited Eliza's post on Cincinnati. Finishing up crowdfunding post and women in entrepreneurship post. Started working on [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]]<br />
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2017-02-24: Worked on editing the crowdfunding and women in entrepreneurship posts based on Ed's edits.<br />
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2017-02-27: Mostly worked on the policy uncertainty piece. Briefly worked on women in entrepreneurship post, but need input from Carlin before we can do anything more!<br />
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2017-03-03: Put crowdfunding post into WordPress. Waiting on Carlin's results before updating the women in entrepreneurship post. Doing more research on policy uncertainty<br />
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2017-03-06: Started by investigating comments on WordPress blog posts (up until now, it seems we haven't been approving any comments even though some of them are good), worked on women's entrepreneurship post and put it into WordPress, worked on policy uncertainty and stock markets post and sent to a peer editor<br />
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2017-03-08: Finished up women's entrepreneurship piece: ready for publishing. Edited Policy Uncertainty piece and sent on to Anne. Started editing [[Carried Interest Debate (Blog Post)]]<br />
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2017-03-10: Talked to Ed about Policy Uncertainty post. Made edits and revisions to Policy Uncertainty post based on Dr. Green, Ed, and Anne's comments. Also worked on Carried Interest piece<br />
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2017-03-20: Peer edited Carried Interest Debate page, worked on policy uncertainty post and carried interest debate post. Also participate in Ed's session where we learned how to use sequel to make database tables.<br />
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2017-03-22: Finished up [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]] and put it into WordPress. Still need to put in links but otherwise, it is ready to go!<br />
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2017-03-24: Finished working on Policy Uncertainty in WordPress; it is ready to be published. Then worked on editing Anne's post on congress' attention toward innovation so that all of the readability measures in wordpress are met!<br />
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2017-03-27: Finished Carried Interest post and put it into wordpress. Started a post on Mass Challenge. Looked through WordPress Comments and approved/marked as spam as necessary<br />
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2017-03-29: Cleaned up the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page so that all published posts were marked as such. Worked on Mass Challenge post. Edited Iris' posts.<br />
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2017-04-03: Worked on [[Mass Challenge (Blog Post)]] and [[Research Parks and Innovation Districts (Blog Post)]], observed Ed's workshop on sequel<br />
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2017-04-07: Finished up first draft of MassChallenge post. Worked on Research parks/innovation district post<br />
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2017-04-10: Edited Iris's posts.<br />
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2017-05-09: Working from home on Research Parks & Innovation districts post. Made edits and sent to Anne<br />
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2017-05-10: Finished RP and ID post based on Anne's suggestions. Put it into Wordpress.<br />
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===Fall 2016===<br />
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2017-09-08: Introductory exploration, talked to Anne, made my wiki page<br />
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2017-09-09: Research on women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for potential blog post/series<br />
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2017-09-12: Worked on blog post about [[Women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]], finished it, sent to Anne for first round of edits<br />
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2017-09-13: Completed more research on women and innovation, but was uninspired and then sidetracked by the idea of a post about [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]. Did a lot of research on this for the rest of session<br />
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2017-09-14: Worked on Innovation in Public Service piece, almost finished first draft<br />
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2017-09-15: Met some other members on the team, talked to Ed and got some tips for how to improve on blog posts, made a wiki page for idea generation<br />
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2017-09-16: Explored the McNair wiki page to further educate myself on entrepreneurship and innovation and continued to refine my two already-drafted blog posts based on Ed's suggestions<br />
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2017-09-27: Back at it! Spent the day doing a project for Anne- making the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page for troubleshooting<br />
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2017-09-28: Worked on Blog Post Best Practices again and talked to Anne and Ed about my Women blog post<br />
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2017-09-29: Briefly worked on Women blog post, met with Anne and other bloggers to talk about editing. started editing the ClintonKaine and Entreprenruship blog post for readability qualities, and continued working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page<br />
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2017-09-30: Kept working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page and editing CK entrepreneurship article. Finished both (I think) and worked on Women piece for a while<br />
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2017-10-03: Worked on women piece and editing blog posts for SEO/readability analysis<br />
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2017-10-04: Got women piece to a place where I am happy with it!<br />
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2017-10-05: Worked on Policy Innovation blog post: probably going to take a new approach<br />
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2017-10-06: Finishing up new policy innovation blog post<br />
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2017-10-07: Sent women blog post to Anne and Ed, looked through blog posts on the website and adjusted their settings in Yoast SEO for searchability, helped Ed do this for his new blog post.<br />
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2017-10-12: Worked on women blog post based on Anne's comments.<br />
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2017-10-13: Worked on women blog post and sent it to Ed for final approval, made a proposal for structuring the blog post process and sent it to Anne and Ed<br />
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2017-10-18: worked on posts and Staff meeting at 5!<br />
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2017-10-19: Met with Anne and Ed about blog structuring<br />
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2017-10-20: Worked with Anne on blog structure wiki page<br />
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2017-10-21: Make wiki page for blog structure [[Blog Team]], edited the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page<br />
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2017-10-21: Met with blog team to talk about new structure!<br />
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2017-10-24: Tried to finish women piece again lol<br />
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2017-10-25: Began researching for next blog post- looking at statistics for tech companies and their hiring of women and maternity benefits.<br />
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2017-10-26: more research on tech companies and women's benefits. Also peer-edited two of Meghana's posts<br />
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2017-10-27: more research on benefits offered by tech companies. Google is cool!!<br />
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2017-10-28: Happy Friday! Worked on the women's benefits in tech companies research and tried to find some articles for Ramee for twitter<br />
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2017-10-31: Worked on a mix of the stuff from last week + making sure all of my blog posts work in our new organizational system<br />
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2017-11-01: Finishing touches on the Women in STEM post, then worked on the women in top 5 tech companies research<br />
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2017-11-02: Started drafting the tech women's benefits post<br />
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2017-11-04:Put the women in STEM post into wordpress and worked on the tech women post<br />
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2017-11-08: Peer edited Dylan's piece, worked on tech women post<br />
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2017-11-10: Looked at Carlin's post, edited the tech top 5 women post, sent it to Anne and Ed. Talked to Ed about what is next for me!<br />
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2017-11-11: published women in STEM post! Then did research on entrepreneurship and human rights<br />
<br />
2017-11-14: looked at wordpress drafts, then worked on human rights and entrepreneurship blog post<br />
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2017-11-15: edited the innovation in public sector post and women in tech companies post<br />
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2017-11-16: worked on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
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2017-11-17: edited women in tech companies post and continued to work on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
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2017-11-18: worked on all three pieces that are currently in the works, edited blog posts, and made wiki pages for Anne<br />
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2017-11-18: Blog Team Meeting about style and the Yoast plugin<br />
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2017-11-21: explored idea of a post about entrepreneurship and the holidays, tried to find pictures for my posts that are pending, worked on editing the three posts that are in the works and getting them back to Anne for more feedback<br />
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2017-11-22: edited all three of the pieces so they are extra good when Anne reads them<br />
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2017-11-29: Began exploring a post for Anne about startups that make educational toys<br />
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2017-11-30: Continued the startup toys post, finished and sent to Anne for editing<br />
<br />
2017-12-01: Edited and added to all pending posts: [[Start-Ups for the Season (Blog Post)]] [[An Unlikely Pair: Human Rights and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]] [[How the Tech Top Five Treat their Women Employees (Blog Post)]] [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-12-05: Found photos for all pending posts, set them up in word press, made edits<br />
<br />
2017-12-16: Last shift of the semester! Worked on getting out the posts, yay!<br />
<br />
[[Category:Work Log]]</div>Tayjacobe22http://www.edegan.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Tay_Jacobe_(Work_Log)&diff=21754Tay Jacobe (Work Log)2017-11-10T17:27:11Z<p>Tayjacobe22: /* Fall 2017 */</p>
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<div>===Fall 2017===<br />
<onlyinclude><br />
[[Taylor Jacobe]] [[Work Logs]] [[Tay Jacobe (Work Log)|(log page)]] <br />
<br />
2017-11-10: Spent the morning cleaning out the spam comments on the blog. More than 1000 of them! Kept investigating Blockchain; I think I've determined that it might not be worth doing a post about because there are already a lot of sources that have published pieces that explain blockchain in simple terms. Continued looking for future blog post ideas: new social media (https://www.techworld.com/social-media/bumble-founder-whitney-wolfe-herd-talks-harvey-weinstein-linkedin-future-of-social-network-3666350/), 3D printing, security in a time of increasing automation and digitalization, the future of communication (smartphones, etc.: what's next?)<br />
<br />
2017-11-09: Reorganized work log. Continued researching blockchain and began a draft of a post that will explain the concept in simpler terms and discuss potential impacts of this new technology! Created graphs for the Fund of Funds post. Finished the post and put everything into wordpress.<br />
<br />
2017-11-08: Compiled a list of cities in Greater Cincinnati to use for data for blog post. Tried to educate myself on blockchain to eventually write a post about it<br />
<br />
2017-11-01: Tried to gather research to improve the VC FOF post. Edited and redrafted. Investigated other potential blog posts.<br />
<br />
2017-10-26: Worked on [[Fund of Funds in VC]] Blog post<br />
<br />
2017-10-25: Looked over summary and edited. Started working on a blog post on the role of fund of funds in venture capital by direction of Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
2017-10-23: Worked on a summary document for the Houston Innovation District project, verbal summaries of data analysis<br />
<br />
2017-10-19: Worked on Houston Innovation District more. All work is documented on the wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-10-18: Working on Houston Innovation District project. Figuring out what we've done and what needs to be done. McNair center servers went down, while I was working, so I lost a decent amount of work that I had been doing to summarize what we had and had to start over when it was rebooted. Cleaned up the wiki page and summarized where we are so far: what data we have & where it is, what data we are currently collecting, and what data we still want/need. Began working on collecting information about tax codes, incentives for development offered in Houston.<br />
<br />
2017-10-11: Worked on prep for [[Houston Innovation District]] project<br />
<br />
2017-10-06: Added more slides and edited. Updated wiki page with info.<br />
<br />
2017-10-05: Spent quite a while trying to figure out source data for patent data in slides for Augusta, then worked on cleaning up and adding to Augusta slides that were unfinished/not great, created cybersecurity slide<br />
<br />
2017-10-04: Continued working on Augusta project<br />
<br />
2017-09-27: Worked on data analysis and research for Augusta Project, looked into Augusta business news (there isn't very much of it!)<br />
<br />
2017-09-21: Continued preparation for [[Augusta Startup Ecosystem]] and [[Houston Innovation District]] Projects<br />
<br />
2017-09-20: Preliminary preparations for Augusta and Houston Projects<br />
</onlyinclude><br />
<br />
===Spring 2017===<br />
<br />
<br />
2017-01-18: Worked on the right to entrepreneurship post, talked to Anne about plans for the semester, looked in wordpress and marked spam comments on our blog posts.<br />
<br />
2017-01-20: Worked on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]] to investigate potential ways we could collaborate with other universities and improve our blog. Work meeting at 2pm.<br />
<br />
2017-01-23: Put the Right to Entrepreneurship post in wordpress (editing for readability and adding in links) and did more research on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]]<br />
<br />
2017-01-25: Brainstormed ideas for potential blog posts, ideas can be found on [[Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)]]. Also drafted tweets and put them in hootsuite.<br />
<br />
2017-01-27: Drafted tweets in hootsuite and did more exploring for potential blog post ideas. Right to entrepreneurship post was published!<br />
<br />
2017-01-30: Started writing a post about how Trump's Muslim ban may affect American entrepreneurship; it will be tabled until more concrete info is available. Updated wiki's blog post tally by going through and marking all published posts. Drafted tweets.<br />
<br />
2017-02-01: Drafted tweets. Did research on crowdfunding and social entrepreneurship, two topics I'd be interested in exploring for blog posts<br />
<br />
2017-02-03: Researched, edited, and re-drafted Ramee's blog post, [[Start-Up Visa (Blog Post)]].<br />
<br />
2017-02-08 Edited the Startup visa post in wordpress, did all of the SEO stuff, did more research on future blog posts. Came back from 4:30-6 - worked on crowdfunding post and talked to Ed about future projects<br />
<br />
2017-02-13: Researched [[Trump and Women in Entrepreneurship]] for the project on [[Women in Entrepreneurship (Issue Brief)]], worked on crowdfunding blog post, went through the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page and cleared out any outdated information/deleted duplicate pages, looked into research for [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-15: Finished first draft of [[Crowdfunding (Blog Post)]], looked into working on [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-17: To-dos and things covered in this shift: Crowdfunding post, women in entrepreneurship post, carried interest post, and proposal by Dr. Green<br />
<br />
2017-02-20: Same as above ^ working on these posts<br />
<br />
2017-02-22: Edited Eliza's post on Cincinnati. Finishing up crowdfunding post and women in entrepreneurship post. Started working on [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-24: Worked on editing the crowdfunding and women in entrepreneurship posts based on Ed's edits.<br />
<br />
2017-02-27: Mostly worked on the policy uncertainty piece. Briefly worked on women in entrepreneurship post, but need input from Carlin before we can do anything more!<br />
<br />
2017-03-03: Put crowdfunding post into WordPress. Waiting on Carlin's results before updating the women in entrepreneurship post. Doing more research on policy uncertainty<br />
<br />
2017-03-06: Started by investigating comments on WordPress blog posts (up until now, it seems we haven't been approving any comments even though some of them are good), worked on women's entrepreneurship post and put it into WordPress, worked on policy uncertainty and stock markets post and sent to a peer editor<br />
<br />
2017-03-08: Finished up women's entrepreneurship piece: ready for publishing. Edited Policy Uncertainty piece and sent on to Anne. Started editing [[Carried Interest Debate (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-03-10: Talked to Ed about Policy Uncertainty post. Made edits and revisions to Policy Uncertainty post based on Dr. Green, Ed, and Anne's comments. Also worked on Carried Interest piece<br />
<br />
2017-03-20: Peer edited Carried Interest Debate page, worked on policy uncertainty post and carried interest debate post. Also participate in Ed's session where we learned how to use sequel to make database tables.<br />
<br />
2017-03-22: Finished up [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]] and put it into WordPress. Still need to put in links but otherwise, it is ready to go!<br />
<br />
2017-03-24: Finished working on Policy Uncertainty in WordPress; it is ready to be published. Then worked on editing Anne's post on congress' attention toward innovation so that all of the readability measures in wordpress are met!<br />
<br />
2017-03-27: Finished Carried Interest post and put it into wordpress. Started a post on Mass Challenge. Looked through WordPress Comments and approved/marked as spam as necessary<br />
<br />
2017-03-29: Cleaned up the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page so that all published posts were marked as such. Worked on Mass Challenge post. Edited Iris' posts.<br />
<br />
2017-04-03: Worked on [[Mass Challenge (Blog Post)]] and [[Research Parks and Innovation Districts (Blog Post)]], observed Ed's workshop on sequel<br />
<br />
2017-04-07: Finished up first draft of MassChallenge post. Worked on Research parks/innovation district post<br />
<br />
2017-04-10: Edited Iris's posts.<br />
<br />
2017-05-09: Working from home on Research Parks & Innovation districts post. Made edits and sent to Anne<br />
<br />
2017-05-10: Finished RP and ID post based on Anne's suggestions. Put it into Wordpress.<br />
<br />
===Fall 2016===<br />
<br />
2017-09-08: Introductory exploration, talked to Anne, made my wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-09-09: Research on women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for potential blog post/series<br />
<br />
2017-09-12: Worked on blog post about [[Women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]], finished it, sent to Anne for first round of edits<br />
<br />
2017-09-13: Completed more research on women and innovation, but was uninspired and then sidetracked by the idea of a post about [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]. Did a lot of research on this for the rest of session<br />
<br />
2017-09-14: Worked on Innovation in Public Service piece, almost finished first draft<br />
<br />
2017-09-15: Met some other members on the team, talked to Ed and got some tips for how to improve on blog posts, made a wiki page for idea generation<br />
<br />
2017-09-16: Explored the McNair wiki page to further educate myself on entrepreneurship and innovation and continued to refine my two already-drafted blog posts based on Ed's suggestions<br />
<br />
2017-09-27: Back at it! Spent the day doing a project for Anne- making the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page for troubleshooting<br />
<br />
2017-09-28: Worked on Blog Post Best Practices again and talked to Anne and Ed about my Women blog post<br />
<br />
2017-09-29: Briefly worked on Women blog post, met with Anne and other bloggers to talk about editing. started editing the ClintonKaine and Entreprenruship blog post for readability qualities, and continued working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-09-30: Kept working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page and editing CK entrepreneurship article. Finished both (I think) and worked on Women piece for a while<br />
<br />
2017-10-03: Worked on women piece and editing blog posts for SEO/readability analysis<br />
<br />
2017-10-04: Got women piece to a place where I am happy with it!<br />
<br />
2017-10-05: Worked on Policy Innovation blog post: probably going to take a new approach<br />
<br />
2017-10-06: Finishing up new policy innovation blog post<br />
<br />
2017-10-07: Sent women blog post to Anne and Ed, looked through blog posts on the website and adjusted their settings in Yoast SEO for searchability, helped Ed do this for his new blog post.<br />
<br />
2017-10-12: Worked on women blog post based on Anne's comments.<br />
<br />
2017-10-13: Worked on women blog post and sent it to Ed for final approval, made a proposal for structuring the blog post process and sent it to Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
2017-10-18: worked on posts and Staff meeting at 5!<br />
<br />
2017-10-19: Met with Anne and Ed about blog structuring<br />
<br />
2017-10-20: Worked with Anne on blog structure wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-10-21: Make wiki page for blog structure [[Blog Team]], edited the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page<br />
<br />
2017-10-21: Met with blog team to talk about new structure!<br />
<br />
2017-10-24: Tried to finish women piece again lol<br />
<br />
2017-10-25: Began researching for next blog post- looking at statistics for tech companies and their hiring of women and maternity benefits.<br />
<br />
2017-10-26: more research on tech companies and women's benefits. Also peer-edited two of Meghana's posts<br />
<br />
2017-10-27: more research on benefits offered by tech companies. Google is cool!!<br />
<br />
2017-10-28: Happy Friday! Worked on the women's benefits in tech companies research and tried to find some articles for Ramee for twitter<br />
<br />
2017-10-31: Worked on a mix of the stuff from last week + making sure all of my blog posts work in our new organizational system<br />
<br />
2017-11-01: Finishing touches on the Women in STEM post, then worked on the women in top 5 tech companies research<br />
<br />
2017-11-02: Started drafting the tech women's benefits post<br />
<br />
2017-11-04:Put the women in STEM post into wordpress and worked on the tech women post<br />
<br />
2017-11-08: Peer edited Dylan's piece, worked on tech women post<br />
<br />
2017-11-10: Looked at Carlin's post, edited the tech top 5 women post, sent it to Anne and Ed. Talked to Ed about what is next for me!<br />
<br />
2017-11-11: published women in STEM post! Then did research on entrepreneurship and human rights<br />
<br />
2017-11-14: looked at wordpress drafts, then worked on human rights and entrepreneurship blog post<br />
<br />
2017-11-15: edited the innovation in public sector post and women in tech companies post<br />
<br />
2017-11-16: worked on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
2017-11-17: edited women in tech companies post and continued to work on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
2017-11-18: worked on all three pieces that are currently in the works, edited blog posts, and made wiki pages for Anne<br />
<br />
2017-11-18: Blog Team Meeting about style and the Yoast plugin<br />
<br />
2017-11-21: explored idea of a post about entrepreneurship and the holidays, tried to find pictures for my posts that are pending, worked on editing the three posts that are in the works and getting them back to Anne for more feedback<br />
<br />
2017-11-22: edited all three of the pieces so they are extra good when Anne reads them<br />
<br />
2017-11-29: Began exploring a post for Anne about startups that make educational toys<br />
<br />
2017-11-30: Continued the startup toys post, finished and sent to Anne for editing<br />
<br />
2017-12-01: Edited and added to all pending posts: [[Start-Ups for the Season (Blog Post)]] [[An Unlikely Pair: Human Rights and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]] [[How the Tech Top Five Treat their Women Employees (Blog Post)]] [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-12-05: Found photos for all pending posts, set them up in word press, made edits<br />
<br />
2017-12-16: Last shift of the semester! Worked on getting out the posts, yay!<br />
<br />
[[Category:Work Log]]</div>Tayjacobe22http://www.edegan.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Tay_Jacobe_(Work_Log)&diff=21753Tay Jacobe (Work Log)2017-11-10T16:57:31Z<p>Tayjacobe22: /* Fall 2017 */</p>
<hr />
<div>===Fall 2017===<br />
<onlyinclude><br />
[[Taylor Jacobe]] [[Work Logs]] [[Tay Jacobe (Work Log)|(log page)]] <br />
<br />
2017-11-10: Spent the morning cleaning out the spam comments on the blog. More than 1000 of them! Kept investigating Blockchain; I think I've determined that it might not be worth doing a post about because there are already a lot of sources that have published pieces that explain blockchain in simple terms. Continued looking for future blog post ideas.<br />
<br />
2017-11-09: Reorganized work log. Continued researching blockchain and began a draft of a post that will explain the concept in simpler terms and discuss potential impacts of this new technology! Created graphs for the Fund of Funds post. Finished the post and put everything into wordpress.<br />
<br />
2017-11-08: Compiled a list of cities in Greater Cincinnati to use for data for blog post. Tried to educate myself on blockchain to eventually write a post about it<br />
<br />
2017-11-01: Tried to gather research to improve the VC FOF post. Edited and redrafted. Investigated other potential blog posts.<br />
<br />
2017-10-26: Worked on [[Fund of Funds in VC]] Blog post<br />
<br />
2017-10-25: Looked over summary and edited. Started working on a blog post on the role of fund of funds in venture capital by direction of Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
2017-10-23: Worked on a summary document for the Houston Innovation District project, verbal summaries of data analysis<br />
<br />
2017-10-19: Worked on Houston Innovation District more. All work is documented on the wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-10-18: Working on Houston Innovation District project. Figuring out what we've done and what needs to be done. McNair center servers went down, while I was working, so I lost a decent amount of work that I had been doing to summarize what we had and had to start over when it was rebooted. Cleaned up the wiki page and summarized where we are so far: what data we have & where it is, what data we are currently collecting, and what data we still want/need. Began working on collecting information about tax codes, incentives for development offered in Houston.<br />
<br />
2017-10-11: Worked on prep for [[Houston Innovation District]] project<br />
<br />
2017-10-06: Added more slides and edited. Updated wiki page with info.<br />
<br />
2017-10-05: Spent quite a while trying to figure out source data for patent data in slides for Augusta, then worked on cleaning up and adding to Augusta slides that were unfinished/not great, created cybersecurity slide<br />
<br />
2017-10-04: Continued working on Augusta project<br />
<br />
2017-09-27: Worked on data analysis and research for Augusta Project, looked into Augusta business news (there isn't very much of it!)<br />
<br />
2017-09-21: Continued preparation for [[Augusta Startup Ecosystem]] and [[Houston Innovation District]] Projects<br />
<br />
2017-09-20: Preliminary preparations for Augusta and Houston Projects<br />
</onlyinclude><br />
<br />
===Spring 2017===<br />
<br />
<br />
2017-01-18: Worked on the right to entrepreneurship post, talked to Anne about plans for the semester, looked in wordpress and marked spam comments on our blog posts.<br />
<br />
2017-01-20: Worked on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]] to investigate potential ways we could collaborate with other universities and improve our blog. Work meeting at 2pm.<br />
<br />
2017-01-23: Put the Right to Entrepreneurship post in wordpress (editing for readability and adding in links) and did more research on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]]<br />
<br />
2017-01-25: Brainstormed ideas for potential blog posts, ideas can be found on [[Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)]]. Also drafted tweets and put them in hootsuite.<br />
<br />
2017-01-27: Drafted tweets in hootsuite and did more exploring for potential blog post ideas. Right to entrepreneurship post was published!<br />
<br />
2017-01-30: Started writing a post about how Trump's Muslim ban may affect American entrepreneurship; it will be tabled until more concrete info is available. Updated wiki's blog post tally by going through and marking all published posts. Drafted tweets.<br />
<br />
2017-02-01: Drafted tweets. Did research on crowdfunding and social entrepreneurship, two topics I'd be interested in exploring for blog posts<br />
<br />
2017-02-03: Researched, edited, and re-drafted Ramee's blog post, [[Start-Up Visa (Blog Post)]].<br />
<br />
2017-02-08 Edited the Startup visa post in wordpress, did all of the SEO stuff, did more research on future blog posts. Came back from 4:30-6 - worked on crowdfunding post and talked to Ed about future projects<br />
<br />
2017-02-13: Researched [[Trump and Women in Entrepreneurship]] for the project on [[Women in Entrepreneurship (Issue Brief)]], worked on crowdfunding blog post, went through the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page and cleared out any outdated information/deleted duplicate pages, looked into research for [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-15: Finished first draft of [[Crowdfunding (Blog Post)]], looked into working on [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-17: To-dos and things covered in this shift: Crowdfunding post, women in entrepreneurship post, carried interest post, and proposal by Dr. Green<br />
<br />
2017-02-20: Same as above ^ working on these posts<br />
<br />
2017-02-22: Edited Eliza's post on Cincinnati. Finishing up crowdfunding post and women in entrepreneurship post. Started working on [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-24: Worked on editing the crowdfunding and women in entrepreneurship posts based on Ed's edits.<br />
<br />
2017-02-27: Mostly worked on the policy uncertainty piece. Briefly worked on women in entrepreneurship post, but need input from Carlin before we can do anything more!<br />
<br />
2017-03-03: Put crowdfunding post into WordPress. Waiting on Carlin's results before updating the women in entrepreneurship post. Doing more research on policy uncertainty<br />
<br />
2017-03-06: Started by investigating comments on WordPress blog posts (up until now, it seems we haven't been approving any comments even though some of them are good), worked on women's entrepreneurship post and put it into WordPress, worked on policy uncertainty and stock markets post and sent to a peer editor<br />
<br />
2017-03-08: Finished up women's entrepreneurship piece: ready for publishing. Edited Policy Uncertainty piece and sent on to Anne. Started editing [[Carried Interest Debate (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-03-10: Talked to Ed about Policy Uncertainty post. Made edits and revisions to Policy Uncertainty post based on Dr. Green, Ed, and Anne's comments. Also worked on Carried Interest piece<br />
<br />
2017-03-20: Peer edited Carried Interest Debate page, worked on policy uncertainty post and carried interest debate post. Also participate in Ed's session where we learned how to use sequel to make database tables.<br />
<br />
2017-03-22: Finished up [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]] and put it into WordPress. Still need to put in links but otherwise, it is ready to go!<br />
<br />
2017-03-24: Finished working on Policy Uncertainty in WordPress; it is ready to be published. Then worked on editing Anne's post on congress' attention toward innovation so that all of the readability measures in wordpress are met!<br />
<br />
2017-03-27: Finished Carried Interest post and put it into wordpress. Started a post on Mass Challenge. Looked through WordPress Comments and approved/marked as spam as necessary<br />
<br />
2017-03-29: Cleaned up the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page so that all published posts were marked as such. Worked on Mass Challenge post. Edited Iris' posts.<br />
<br />
2017-04-03: Worked on [[Mass Challenge (Blog Post)]] and [[Research Parks and Innovation Districts (Blog Post)]], observed Ed's workshop on sequel<br />
<br />
2017-04-07: Finished up first draft of MassChallenge post. Worked on Research parks/innovation district post<br />
<br />
2017-04-10: Edited Iris's posts.<br />
<br />
2017-05-09: Working from home on Research Parks & Innovation districts post. Made edits and sent to Anne<br />
<br />
2017-05-10: Finished RP and ID post based on Anne's suggestions. Put it into Wordpress.<br />
<br />
===Fall 2016===<br />
<br />
2017-09-08: Introductory exploration, talked to Anne, made my wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-09-09: Research on women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for potential blog post/series<br />
<br />
2017-09-12: Worked on blog post about [[Women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]], finished it, sent to Anne for first round of edits<br />
<br />
2017-09-13: Completed more research on women and innovation, but was uninspired and then sidetracked by the idea of a post about [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]. Did a lot of research on this for the rest of session<br />
<br />
2017-09-14: Worked on Innovation in Public Service piece, almost finished first draft<br />
<br />
2017-09-15: Met some other members on the team, talked to Ed and got some tips for how to improve on blog posts, made a wiki page for idea generation<br />
<br />
2017-09-16: Explored the McNair wiki page to further educate myself on entrepreneurship and innovation and continued to refine my two already-drafted blog posts based on Ed's suggestions<br />
<br />
2017-09-27: Back at it! Spent the day doing a project for Anne- making the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page for troubleshooting<br />
<br />
2017-09-28: Worked on Blog Post Best Practices again and talked to Anne and Ed about my Women blog post<br />
<br />
2017-09-29: Briefly worked on Women blog post, met with Anne and other bloggers to talk about editing. started editing the ClintonKaine and Entreprenruship blog post for readability qualities, and continued working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-09-30: Kept working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page and editing CK entrepreneurship article. Finished both (I think) and worked on Women piece for a while<br />
<br />
2017-10-03: Worked on women piece and editing blog posts for SEO/readability analysis<br />
<br />
2017-10-04: Got women piece to a place where I am happy with it!<br />
<br />
2017-10-05: Worked on Policy Innovation blog post: probably going to take a new approach<br />
<br />
2017-10-06: Finishing up new policy innovation blog post<br />
<br />
2017-10-07: Sent women blog post to Anne and Ed, looked through blog posts on the website and adjusted their settings in Yoast SEO for searchability, helped Ed do this for his new blog post.<br />
<br />
2017-10-12: Worked on women blog post based on Anne's comments.<br />
<br />
2017-10-13: Worked on women blog post and sent it to Ed for final approval, made a proposal for structuring the blog post process and sent it to Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
2017-10-18: worked on posts and Staff meeting at 5!<br />
<br />
2017-10-19: Met with Anne and Ed about blog structuring<br />
<br />
2017-10-20: Worked with Anne on blog structure wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-10-21: Make wiki page for blog structure [[Blog Team]], edited the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page<br />
<br />
2017-10-21: Met with blog team to talk about new structure!<br />
<br />
2017-10-24: Tried to finish women piece again lol<br />
<br />
2017-10-25: Began researching for next blog post- looking at statistics for tech companies and their hiring of women and maternity benefits.<br />
<br />
2017-10-26: more research on tech companies and women's benefits. Also peer-edited two of Meghana's posts<br />
<br />
2017-10-27: more research on benefits offered by tech companies. Google is cool!!<br />
<br />
2017-10-28: Happy Friday! Worked on the women's benefits in tech companies research and tried to find some articles for Ramee for twitter<br />
<br />
2017-10-31: Worked on a mix of the stuff from last week + making sure all of my blog posts work in our new organizational system<br />
<br />
2017-11-01: Finishing touches on the Women in STEM post, then worked on the women in top 5 tech companies research<br />
<br />
2017-11-02: Started drafting the tech women's benefits post<br />
<br />
2017-11-04:Put the women in STEM post into wordpress and worked on the tech women post<br />
<br />
2017-11-08: Peer edited Dylan's piece, worked on tech women post<br />
<br />
2017-11-10: Looked at Carlin's post, edited the tech top 5 women post, sent it to Anne and Ed. Talked to Ed about what is next for me!<br />
<br />
2017-11-11: published women in STEM post! Then did research on entrepreneurship and human rights<br />
<br />
2017-11-14: looked at wordpress drafts, then worked on human rights and entrepreneurship blog post<br />
<br />
2017-11-15: edited the innovation in public sector post and women in tech companies post<br />
<br />
2017-11-16: worked on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
2017-11-17: edited women in tech companies post and continued to work on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
2017-11-18: worked on all three pieces that are currently in the works, edited blog posts, and made wiki pages for Anne<br />
<br />
2017-11-18: Blog Team Meeting about style and the Yoast plugin<br />
<br />
2017-11-21: explored idea of a post about entrepreneurship and the holidays, tried to find pictures for my posts that are pending, worked on editing the three posts that are in the works and getting them back to Anne for more feedback<br />
<br />
2017-11-22: edited all three of the pieces so they are extra good when Anne reads them<br />
<br />
2017-11-29: Began exploring a post for Anne about startups that make educational toys<br />
<br />
2017-11-30: Continued the startup toys post, finished and sent to Anne for editing<br />
<br />
2017-12-01: Edited and added to all pending posts: [[Start-Ups for the Season (Blog Post)]] [[An Unlikely Pair: Human Rights and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]] [[How the Tech Top Five Treat their Women Employees (Blog Post)]] [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-12-05: Found photos for all pending posts, set them up in word press, made edits<br />
<br />
2017-12-16: Last shift of the semester! Worked on getting out the posts, yay!<br />
<br />
[[Category:Work Log]]</div>Tayjacobe22http://www.edegan.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Tay_Jacobe_(Work_Log)&diff=21752Tay Jacobe (Work Log)2017-11-10T16:52:42Z<p>Tayjacobe22: /* Fall 2017 */</p>
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<div>===Fall 2017===<br />
<onlyinclude><br />
[[Taylor Jacobe]] [[Work Logs]] [[Tay Jacobe (Work Log)|(log page)]] <br />
<br />
2017-11-10: Spent the morning cleaning out the spam comments on the blog. More than 1000 of them! Kept investigating Blockchain.<br />
<br />
2017-11-09: Reorganized work log. Continued researching blockchain and began a draft of a post that will explain the concept in simpler terms and discuss potential impacts of this new technology! Created graphs for the Fund of Funds post. Finished the post and put everything into wordpress.<br />
<br />
2017-11-08: Compiled a list of cities in Greater Cincinnati to use for data for blog post. Tried to educate myself on blockchain to eventually write a post about it<br />
<br />
2017-11-01: Tried to gather research to improve the VC FOF post. Edited and redrafted. Investigated other potential blog posts.<br />
<br />
2017-10-26: Worked on [[Fund of Funds in VC]] Blog post<br />
<br />
2017-10-25: Looked over summary and edited. Started working on a blog post on the role of fund of funds in venture capital by direction of Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
2017-10-23: Worked on a summary document for the Houston Innovation District project, verbal summaries of data analysis<br />
<br />
2017-10-19: Worked on Houston Innovation District more. All work is documented on the wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-10-18: Working on Houston Innovation District project. Figuring out what we've done and what needs to be done. McNair center servers went down, while I was working, so I lost a decent amount of work that I had been doing to summarize what we had and had to start over when it was rebooted. Cleaned up the wiki page and summarized where we are so far: what data we have & where it is, what data we are currently collecting, and what data we still want/need. Began working on collecting information about tax codes, incentives for development offered in Houston.<br />
<br />
2017-10-11: Worked on prep for [[Houston Innovation District]] project<br />
<br />
2017-10-06: Added more slides and edited. Updated wiki page with info.<br />
<br />
2017-10-05: Spent quite a while trying to figure out source data for patent data in slides for Augusta, then worked on cleaning up and adding to Augusta slides that were unfinished/not great, created cybersecurity slide<br />
<br />
2017-10-04: Continued working on Augusta project<br />
<br />
2017-09-27: Worked on data analysis and research for Augusta Project, looked into Augusta business news (there isn't very much of it!)<br />
<br />
2017-09-21: Continued preparation for [[Augusta Startup Ecosystem]] and [[Houston Innovation District]] Projects<br />
<br />
2017-09-20: Preliminary preparations for Augusta and Houston Projects<br />
</onlyinclude><br />
<br />
===Spring 2017===<br />
<br />
<br />
2017-01-18: Worked on the right to entrepreneurship post, talked to Anne about plans for the semester, looked in wordpress and marked spam comments on our blog posts.<br />
<br />
2017-01-20: Worked on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]] to investigate potential ways we could collaborate with other universities and improve our blog. Work meeting at 2pm.<br />
<br />
2017-01-23: Put the Right to Entrepreneurship post in wordpress (editing for readability and adding in links) and did more research on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]]<br />
<br />
2017-01-25: Brainstormed ideas for potential blog posts, ideas can be found on [[Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)]]. Also drafted tweets and put them in hootsuite.<br />
<br />
2017-01-27: Drafted tweets in hootsuite and did more exploring for potential blog post ideas. Right to entrepreneurship post was published!<br />
<br />
2017-01-30: Started writing a post about how Trump's Muslim ban may affect American entrepreneurship; it will be tabled until more concrete info is available. Updated wiki's blog post tally by going through and marking all published posts. Drafted tweets.<br />
<br />
2017-02-01: Drafted tweets. Did research on crowdfunding and social entrepreneurship, two topics I'd be interested in exploring for blog posts<br />
<br />
2017-02-03: Researched, edited, and re-drafted Ramee's blog post, [[Start-Up Visa (Blog Post)]].<br />
<br />
2017-02-08 Edited the Startup visa post in wordpress, did all of the SEO stuff, did more research on future blog posts. Came back from 4:30-6 - worked on crowdfunding post and talked to Ed about future projects<br />
<br />
2017-02-13: Researched [[Trump and Women in Entrepreneurship]] for the project on [[Women in Entrepreneurship (Issue Brief)]], worked on crowdfunding blog post, went through the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page and cleared out any outdated information/deleted duplicate pages, looked into research for [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-15: Finished first draft of [[Crowdfunding (Blog Post)]], looked into working on [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-17: To-dos and things covered in this shift: Crowdfunding post, women in entrepreneurship post, carried interest post, and proposal by Dr. Green<br />
<br />
2017-02-20: Same as above ^ working on these posts<br />
<br />
2017-02-22: Edited Eliza's post on Cincinnati. Finishing up crowdfunding post and women in entrepreneurship post. Started working on [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-24: Worked on editing the crowdfunding and women in entrepreneurship posts based on Ed's edits.<br />
<br />
2017-02-27: Mostly worked on the policy uncertainty piece. Briefly worked on women in entrepreneurship post, but need input from Carlin before we can do anything more!<br />
<br />
2017-03-03: Put crowdfunding post into WordPress. Waiting on Carlin's results before updating the women in entrepreneurship post. Doing more research on policy uncertainty<br />
<br />
2017-03-06: Started by investigating comments on WordPress blog posts (up until now, it seems we haven't been approving any comments even though some of them are good), worked on women's entrepreneurship post and put it into WordPress, worked on policy uncertainty and stock markets post and sent to a peer editor<br />
<br />
2017-03-08: Finished up women's entrepreneurship piece: ready for publishing. Edited Policy Uncertainty piece and sent on to Anne. Started editing [[Carried Interest Debate (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-03-10: Talked to Ed about Policy Uncertainty post. Made edits and revisions to Policy Uncertainty post based on Dr. Green, Ed, and Anne's comments. Also worked on Carried Interest piece<br />
<br />
2017-03-20: Peer edited Carried Interest Debate page, worked on policy uncertainty post and carried interest debate post. Also participate in Ed's session where we learned how to use sequel to make database tables.<br />
<br />
2017-03-22: Finished up [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]] and put it into WordPress. Still need to put in links but otherwise, it is ready to go!<br />
<br />
2017-03-24: Finished working on Policy Uncertainty in WordPress; it is ready to be published. Then worked on editing Anne's post on congress' attention toward innovation so that all of the readability measures in wordpress are met!<br />
<br />
2017-03-27: Finished Carried Interest post and put it into wordpress. Started a post on Mass Challenge. Looked through WordPress Comments and approved/marked as spam as necessary<br />
<br />
2017-03-29: Cleaned up the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page so that all published posts were marked as such. Worked on Mass Challenge post. Edited Iris' posts.<br />
<br />
2017-04-03: Worked on [[Mass Challenge (Blog Post)]] and [[Research Parks and Innovation Districts (Blog Post)]], observed Ed's workshop on sequel<br />
<br />
2017-04-07: Finished up first draft of MassChallenge post. Worked on Research parks/innovation district post<br />
<br />
2017-04-10: Edited Iris's posts.<br />
<br />
2017-05-09: Working from home on Research Parks & Innovation districts post. Made edits and sent to Anne<br />
<br />
2017-05-10: Finished RP and ID post based on Anne's suggestions. Put it into Wordpress.<br />
<br />
===Fall 2016===<br />
<br />
2017-09-08: Introductory exploration, talked to Anne, made my wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-09-09: Research on women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for potential blog post/series<br />
<br />
2017-09-12: Worked on blog post about [[Women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]], finished it, sent to Anne for first round of edits<br />
<br />
2017-09-13: Completed more research on women and innovation, but was uninspired and then sidetracked by the idea of a post about [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]. Did a lot of research on this for the rest of session<br />
<br />
2017-09-14: Worked on Innovation in Public Service piece, almost finished first draft<br />
<br />
2017-09-15: Met some other members on the team, talked to Ed and got some tips for how to improve on blog posts, made a wiki page for idea generation<br />
<br />
2017-09-16: Explored the McNair wiki page to further educate myself on entrepreneurship and innovation and continued to refine my two already-drafted blog posts based on Ed's suggestions<br />
<br />
2017-09-27: Back at it! Spent the day doing a project for Anne- making the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page for troubleshooting<br />
<br />
2017-09-28: Worked on Blog Post Best Practices again and talked to Anne and Ed about my Women blog post<br />
<br />
2017-09-29: Briefly worked on Women blog post, met with Anne and other bloggers to talk about editing. started editing the ClintonKaine and Entreprenruship blog post for readability qualities, and continued working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-09-30: Kept working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page and editing CK entrepreneurship article. Finished both (I think) and worked on Women piece for a while<br />
<br />
2017-10-03: Worked on women piece and editing blog posts for SEO/readability analysis<br />
<br />
2017-10-04: Got women piece to a place where I am happy with it!<br />
<br />
2017-10-05: Worked on Policy Innovation blog post: probably going to take a new approach<br />
<br />
2017-10-06: Finishing up new policy innovation blog post<br />
<br />
2017-10-07: Sent women blog post to Anne and Ed, looked through blog posts on the website and adjusted their settings in Yoast SEO for searchability, helped Ed do this for his new blog post.<br />
<br />
2017-10-12: Worked on women blog post based on Anne's comments.<br />
<br />
2017-10-13: Worked on women blog post and sent it to Ed for final approval, made a proposal for structuring the blog post process and sent it to Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
2017-10-18: worked on posts and Staff meeting at 5!<br />
<br />
2017-10-19: Met with Anne and Ed about blog structuring<br />
<br />
2017-10-20: Worked with Anne on blog structure wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-10-21: Make wiki page for blog structure [[Blog Team]], edited the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page<br />
<br />
2017-10-21: Met with blog team to talk about new structure!<br />
<br />
2017-10-24: Tried to finish women piece again lol<br />
<br />
2017-10-25: Began researching for next blog post- looking at statistics for tech companies and their hiring of women and maternity benefits.<br />
<br />
2017-10-26: more research on tech companies and women's benefits. Also peer-edited two of Meghana's posts<br />
<br />
2017-10-27: more research on benefits offered by tech companies. Google is cool!!<br />
<br />
2017-10-28: Happy Friday! Worked on the women's benefits in tech companies research and tried to find some articles for Ramee for twitter<br />
<br />
2017-10-31: Worked on a mix of the stuff from last week + making sure all of my blog posts work in our new organizational system<br />
<br />
2017-11-01: Finishing touches on the Women in STEM post, then worked on the women in top 5 tech companies research<br />
<br />
2017-11-02: Started drafting the tech women's benefits post<br />
<br />
2017-11-04:Put the women in STEM post into wordpress and worked on the tech women post<br />
<br />
2017-11-08: Peer edited Dylan's piece, worked on tech women post<br />
<br />
2017-11-10: Looked at Carlin's post, edited the tech top 5 women post, sent it to Anne and Ed. Talked to Ed about what is next for me!<br />
<br />
2017-11-11: published women in STEM post! Then did research on entrepreneurship and human rights<br />
<br />
2017-11-14: looked at wordpress drafts, then worked on human rights and entrepreneurship blog post<br />
<br />
2017-11-15: edited the innovation in public sector post and women in tech companies post<br />
<br />
2017-11-16: worked on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
2017-11-17: edited women in tech companies post and continued to work on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
2017-11-18: worked on all three pieces that are currently in the works, edited blog posts, and made wiki pages for Anne<br />
<br />
2017-11-18: Blog Team Meeting about style and the Yoast plugin<br />
<br />
2017-11-21: explored idea of a post about entrepreneurship and the holidays, tried to find pictures for my posts that are pending, worked on editing the three posts that are in the works and getting them back to Anne for more feedback<br />
<br />
2017-11-22: edited all three of the pieces so they are extra good when Anne reads them<br />
<br />
2017-11-29: Began exploring a post for Anne about startups that make educational toys<br />
<br />
2017-11-30: Continued the startup toys post, finished and sent to Anne for editing<br />
<br />
2017-12-01: Edited and added to all pending posts: [[Start-Ups for the Season (Blog Post)]] [[An Unlikely Pair: Human Rights and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]] [[How the Tech Top Five Treat their Women Employees (Blog Post)]] [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-12-05: Found photos for all pending posts, set them up in word press, made edits<br />
<br />
2017-12-16: Last shift of the semester! Worked on getting out the posts, yay!<br />
<br />
[[Category:Work Log]]</div>Tayjacobe22http://www.edegan.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Tay_Jacobe_(Work_Log)&diff=21750Tay Jacobe (Work Log)2017-11-10T16:06:08Z<p>Tayjacobe22: /* Fall 2017 */</p>
<hr />
<div>===Fall 2017===<br />
<onlyinclude><br />
[[Taylor Jacobe]] [[Work Logs]] [[Tay Jacobe (Work Log)|(log page)]] <br />
<br />
2017-11-10: Spent the morning cleaning out the spam comments on the blog. More than 1000 of them!<br />
<br />
2017-11-09: Reorganized work log. Continued researching blockchain and began a draft of a post that will explain the concept in simpler terms and discuss potential impacts of this new technology! Created graphs for the Fund of Funds post. Finished the post and put everything into wordpress.<br />
<br />
2017-11-08: Compiled a list of cities in Greater Cincinnati to use for data for blog post. Tried to educate myself on blockchain to eventually write a post about it<br />
<br />
2017-11-01: Tried to gather research to improve the VC FOF post. Edited and redrafted. Investigated other potential blog posts.<br />
<br />
2017-10-26: Worked on [[Fund of Funds in VC]] Blog post<br />
<br />
2017-10-25: Looked over summary and edited. Started working on a blog post on the role of fund of funds in venture capital by direction of Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
2017-10-23: Worked on a summary document for the Houston Innovation District project, verbal summaries of data analysis<br />
<br />
2017-10-19: Worked on Houston Innovation District more. All work is documented on the wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-10-18: Working on Houston Innovation District project. Figuring out what we've done and what needs to be done. McNair center servers went down, while I was working, so I lost a decent amount of work that I had been doing to summarize what we had and had to start over when it was rebooted. Cleaned up the wiki page and summarized where we are so far: what data we have & where it is, what data we are currently collecting, and what data we still want/need. Began working on collecting information about tax codes, incentives for development offered in Houston.<br />
<br />
2017-10-11: Worked on prep for [[Houston Innovation District]] project<br />
<br />
2017-10-06: Added more slides and edited. Updated wiki page with info.<br />
<br />
2017-10-05: Spent quite a while trying to figure out source data for patent data in slides for Augusta, then worked on cleaning up and adding to Augusta slides that were unfinished/not great, created cybersecurity slide<br />
<br />
2017-10-04: Continued working on Augusta project<br />
<br />
2017-09-27: Worked on data analysis and research for Augusta Project, looked into Augusta business news (there isn't very much of it!)<br />
<br />
2017-09-21: Continued preparation for [[Augusta Startup Ecosystem]] and [[Houston Innovation District]] Projects<br />
<br />
2017-09-20: Preliminary preparations for Augusta and Houston Projects<br />
</onlyinclude><br />
<br />
===Spring 2017===<br />
<br />
<br />
2017-01-18: Worked on the right to entrepreneurship post, talked to Anne about plans for the semester, looked in wordpress and marked spam comments on our blog posts.<br />
<br />
2017-01-20: Worked on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]] to investigate potential ways we could collaborate with other universities and improve our blog. Work meeting at 2pm.<br />
<br />
2017-01-23: Put the Right to Entrepreneurship post in wordpress (editing for readability and adding in links) and did more research on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]]<br />
<br />
2017-01-25: Brainstormed ideas for potential blog posts, ideas can be found on [[Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)]]. Also drafted tweets and put them in hootsuite.<br />
<br />
2017-01-27: Drafted tweets in hootsuite and did more exploring for potential blog post ideas. Right to entrepreneurship post was published!<br />
<br />
2017-01-30: Started writing a post about how Trump's Muslim ban may affect American entrepreneurship; it will be tabled until more concrete info is available. Updated wiki's blog post tally by going through and marking all published posts. Drafted tweets.<br />
<br />
2017-02-01: Drafted tweets. Did research on crowdfunding and social entrepreneurship, two topics I'd be interested in exploring for blog posts<br />
<br />
2017-02-03: Researched, edited, and re-drafted Ramee's blog post, [[Start-Up Visa (Blog Post)]].<br />
<br />
2017-02-08 Edited the Startup visa post in wordpress, did all of the SEO stuff, did more research on future blog posts. Came back from 4:30-6 - worked on crowdfunding post and talked to Ed about future projects<br />
<br />
2017-02-13: Researched [[Trump and Women in Entrepreneurship]] for the project on [[Women in Entrepreneurship (Issue Brief)]], worked on crowdfunding blog post, went through the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page and cleared out any outdated information/deleted duplicate pages, looked into research for [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-15: Finished first draft of [[Crowdfunding (Blog Post)]], looked into working on [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-17: To-dos and things covered in this shift: Crowdfunding post, women in entrepreneurship post, carried interest post, and proposal by Dr. Green<br />
<br />
2017-02-20: Same as above ^ working on these posts<br />
<br />
2017-02-22: Edited Eliza's post on Cincinnati. Finishing up crowdfunding post and women in entrepreneurship post. Started working on [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-24: Worked on editing the crowdfunding and women in entrepreneurship posts based on Ed's edits.<br />
<br />
2017-02-27: Mostly worked on the policy uncertainty piece. Briefly worked on women in entrepreneurship post, but need input from Carlin before we can do anything more!<br />
<br />
2017-03-03: Put crowdfunding post into WordPress. Waiting on Carlin's results before updating the women in entrepreneurship post. Doing more research on policy uncertainty<br />
<br />
2017-03-06: Started by investigating comments on WordPress blog posts (up until now, it seems we haven't been approving any comments even though some of them are good), worked on women's entrepreneurship post and put it into WordPress, worked on policy uncertainty and stock markets post and sent to a peer editor<br />
<br />
2017-03-08: Finished up women's entrepreneurship piece: ready for publishing. Edited Policy Uncertainty piece and sent on to Anne. Started editing [[Carried Interest Debate (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-03-10: Talked to Ed about Policy Uncertainty post. Made edits and revisions to Policy Uncertainty post based on Dr. Green, Ed, and Anne's comments. Also worked on Carried Interest piece<br />
<br />
2017-03-20: Peer edited Carried Interest Debate page, worked on policy uncertainty post and carried interest debate post. Also participate in Ed's session where we learned how to use sequel to make database tables.<br />
<br />
2017-03-22: Finished up [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]] and put it into WordPress. Still need to put in links but otherwise, it is ready to go!<br />
<br />
2017-03-24: Finished working on Policy Uncertainty in WordPress; it is ready to be published. Then worked on editing Anne's post on congress' attention toward innovation so that all of the readability measures in wordpress are met!<br />
<br />
2017-03-27: Finished Carried Interest post and put it into wordpress. Started a post on Mass Challenge. Looked through WordPress Comments and approved/marked as spam as necessary<br />
<br />
2017-03-29: Cleaned up the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page so that all published posts were marked as such. Worked on Mass Challenge post. Edited Iris' posts.<br />
<br />
2017-04-03: Worked on [[Mass Challenge (Blog Post)]] and [[Research Parks and Innovation Districts (Blog Post)]], observed Ed's workshop on sequel<br />
<br />
2017-04-07: Finished up first draft of MassChallenge post. Worked on Research parks/innovation district post<br />
<br />
2017-04-10: Edited Iris's posts.<br />
<br />
2017-05-09: Working from home on Research Parks & Innovation districts post. Made edits and sent to Anne<br />
<br />
2017-05-10: Finished RP and ID post based on Anne's suggestions. Put it into Wordpress.<br />
<br />
===Fall 2016===<br />
<br />
2017-09-08: Introductory exploration, talked to Anne, made my wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-09-09: Research on women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for potential blog post/series<br />
<br />
2017-09-12: Worked on blog post about [[Women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]], finished it, sent to Anne for first round of edits<br />
<br />
2017-09-13: Completed more research on women and innovation, but was uninspired and then sidetracked by the idea of a post about [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]. Did a lot of research on this for the rest of session<br />
<br />
2017-09-14: Worked on Innovation in Public Service piece, almost finished first draft<br />
<br />
2017-09-15: Met some other members on the team, talked to Ed and got some tips for how to improve on blog posts, made a wiki page for idea generation<br />
<br />
2017-09-16: Explored the McNair wiki page to further educate myself on entrepreneurship and innovation and continued to refine my two already-drafted blog posts based on Ed's suggestions<br />
<br />
2017-09-27: Back at it! Spent the day doing a project for Anne- making the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page for troubleshooting<br />
<br />
2017-09-28: Worked on Blog Post Best Practices again and talked to Anne and Ed about my Women blog post<br />
<br />
2017-09-29: Briefly worked on Women blog post, met with Anne and other bloggers to talk about editing. started editing the ClintonKaine and Entreprenruship blog post for readability qualities, and continued working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-09-30: Kept working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page and editing CK entrepreneurship article. Finished both (I think) and worked on Women piece for a while<br />
<br />
2017-10-03: Worked on women piece and editing blog posts for SEO/readability analysis<br />
<br />
2017-10-04: Got women piece to a place where I am happy with it!<br />
<br />
2017-10-05: Worked on Policy Innovation blog post: probably going to take a new approach<br />
<br />
2017-10-06: Finishing up new policy innovation blog post<br />
<br />
2017-10-07: Sent women blog post to Anne and Ed, looked through blog posts on the website and adjusted their settings in Yoast SEO for searchability, helped Ed do this for his new blog post.<br />
<br />
2017-10-12: Worked on women blog post based on Anne's comments.<br />
<br />
2017-10-13: Worked on women blog post and sent it to Ed for final approval, made a proposal for structuring the blog post process and sent it to Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
2017-10-18: worked on posts and Staff meeting at 5!<br />
<br />
2017-10-19: Met with Anne and Ed about blog structuring<br />
<br />
2017-10-20: Worked with Anne on blog structure wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-10-21: Make wiki page for blog structure [[Blog Team]], edited the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page<br />
<br />
2017-10-21: Met with blog team to talk about new structure!<br />
<br />
2017-10-24: Tried to finish women piece again lol<br />
<br />
2017-10-25: Began researching for next blog post- looking at statistics for tech companies and their hiring of women and maternity benefits.<br />
<br />
2017-10-26: more research on tech companies and women's benefits. Also peer-edited two of Meghana's posts<br />
<br />
2017-10-27: more research on benefits offered by tech companies. Google is cool!!<br />
<br />
2017-10-28: Happy Friday! Worked on the women's benefits in tech companies research and tried to find some articles for Ramee for twitter<br />
<br />
2017-10-31: Worked on a mix of the stuff from last week + making sure all of my blog posts work in our new organizational system<br />
<br />
2017-11-01: Finishing touches on the Women in STEM post, then worked on the women in top 5 tech companies research<br />
<br />
2017-11-02: Started drafting the tech women's benefits post<br />
<br />
2017-11-04:Put the women in STEM post into wordpress and worked on the tech women post<br />
<br />
2017-11-08: Peer edited Dylan's piece, worked on tech women post<br />
<br />
2017-11-10: Looked at Carlin's post, edited the tech top 5 women post, sent it to Anne and Ed. Talked to Ed about what is next for me!<br />
<br />
2017-11-11: published women in STEM post! Then did research on entrepreneurship and human rights<br />
<br />
2017-11-14: looked at wordpress drafts, then worked on human rights and entrepreneurship blog post<br />
<br />
2017-11-15: edited the innovation in public sector post and women in tech companies post<br />
<br />
2017-11-16: worked on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
2017-11-17: edited women in tech companies post and continued to work on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
2017-11-18: worked on all three pieces that are currently in the works, edited blog posts, and made wiki pages for Anne<br />
<br />
2017-11-18: Blog Team Meeting about style and the Yoast plugin<br />
<br />
2017-11-21: explored idea of a post about entrepreneurship and the holidays, tried to find pictures for my posts that are pending, worked on editing the three posts that are in the works and getting them back to Anne for more feedback<br />
<br />
2017-11-22: edited all three of the pieces so they are extra good when Anne reads them<br />
<br />
2017-11-29: Began exploring a post for Anne about startups that make educational toys<br />
<br />
2017-11-30: Continued the startup toys post, finished and sent to Anne for editing<br />
<br />
2017-12-01: Edited and added to all pending posts: [[Start-Ups for the Season (Blog Post)]] [[An Unlikely Pair: Human Rights and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]] [[How the Tech Top Five Treat their Women Employees (Blog Post)]] [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-12-05: Found photos for all pending posts, set them up in word press, made edits<br />
<br />
2017-12-16: Last shift of the semester! Worked on getting out the posts, yay!<br />
<br />
[[Category:Work Log]]</div>Tayjacobe22http://www.edegan.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Tay_Jacobe_(Work_Log)&diff=21729Tay Jacobe (Work Log)2017-11-09T21:39:01Z<p>Tayjacobe22: </p>
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<div>===Fall 2017===<br />
<onlyinclude><br />
[[Taylor Jacobe]] [[Work Logs]] [[Tay Jacobe (Work Log)|(log page)]] <br />
<br />
2017-11-09: Reorganized work log. Continued researching blockchain and began a draft of a post that will explain the concept in simpler terms and discuss potential impacts of this new technology! Created graphs for the Fund of Funds post. Finished the post and put everything into wordpress.<br />
<br />
2017-11-08: Compiled a list of cities in Greater Cincinnati to use for data for blog post. Tried to educate myself on blockchain to eventually write a post about it<br />
<br />
2017-11-01: Tried to gather research to improve the VC FOF post. Edited and redrafted. Investigated other potential blog posts.<br />
<br />
2017-10-26: Worked on [[Fund of Funds in VC]] Blog post<br />
<br />
2017-10-25: Looked over summary and edited. Started working on a blog post on the role of fund of funds in venture capital by direction of Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
2017-10-23: Worked on a summary document for the Houston Innovation District project, verbal summaries of data analysis<br />
<br />
2017-10-19: Worked on Houston Innovation District more. All work is documented on the wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-10-18: Working on Houston Innovation District project. Figuring out what we've done and what needs to be done. McNair center servers went down, while I was working, so I lost a decent amount of work that I had been doing to summarize what we had and had to start over when it was rebooted. Cleaned up the wiki page and summarized where we are so far: what data we have & where it is, what data we are currently collecting, and what data we still want/need. Began working on collecting information about tax codes, incentives for development offered in Houston.<br />
<br />
2017-10-11: Worked on prep for [[Houston Innovation District]] project<br />
<br />
2017-10-06: Added more slides and edited. Updated wiki page with info.<br />
<br />
2017-10-05: Spent quite a while trying to figure out source data for patent data in slides for Augusta, then worked on cleaning up and adding to Augusta slides that were unfinished/not great, created cybersecurity slide<br />
<br />
2017-10-04: Continued working on Augusta project<br />
<br />
2017-09-27: Worked on data analysis and research for Augusta Project, looked into Augusta business news (there isn't very much of it!)<br />
<br />
2017-09-21: Continued preparation for [[Augusta Startup Ecosystem]] and [[Houston Innovation District]] Projects<br />
<br />
2017-09-20: Preliminary preparations for Augusta and Houston Projects<br />
</onlyinclude><br />
<br />
===Spring 2017===<br />
<br />
<br />
2017-01-18: Worked on the right to entrepreneurship post, talked to Anne about plans for the semester, looked in wordpress and marked spam comments on our blog posts.<br />
<br />
2017-01-20: Worked on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]] to investigate potential ways we could collaborate with other universities and improve our blog. Work meeting at 2pm.<br />
<br />
2017-01-23: Put the Right to Entrepreneurship post in wordpress (editing for readability and adding in links) and did more research on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]]<br />
<br />
2017-01-25: Brainstormed ideas for potential blog posts, ideas can be found on [[Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)]]. Also drafted tweets and put them in hootsuite.<br />
<br />
2017-01-27: Drafted tweets in hootsuite and did more exploring for potential blog post ideas. Right to entrepreneurship post was published!<br />
<br />
2017-01-30: Started writing a post about how Trump's Muslim ban may affect American entrepreneurship; it will be tabled until more concrete info is available. Updated wiki's blog post tally by going through and marking all published posts. Drafted tweets.<br />
<br />
2017-02-01: Drafted tweets. Did research on crowdfunding and social entrepreneurship, two topics I'd be interested in exploring for blog posts<br />
<br />
2017-02-03: Researched, edited, and re-drafted Ramee's blog post, [[Start-Up Visa (Blog Post)]].<br />
<br />
2017-02-08 Edited the Startup visa post in wordpress, did all of the SEO stuff, did more research on future blog posts. Came back from 4:30-6 - worked on crowdfunding post and talked to Ed about future projects<br />
<br />
2017-02-13: Researched [[Trump and Women in Entrepreneurship]] for the project on [[Women in Entrepreneurship (Issue Brief)]], worked on crowdfunding blog post, went through the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page and cleared out any outdated information/deleted duplicate pages, looked into research for [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-15: Finished first draft of [[Crowdfunding (Blog Post)]], looked into working on [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-17: To-dos and things covered in this shift: Crowdfunding post, women in entrepreneurship post, carried interest post, and proposal by Dr. Green<br />
<br />
2017-02-20: Same as above ^ working on these posts<br />
<br />
2017-02-22: Edited Eliza's post on Cincinnati. Finishing up crowdfunding post and women in entrepreneurship post. Started working on [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-24: Worked on editing the crowdfunding and women in entrepreneurship posts based on Ed's edits.<br />
<br />
2017-02-27: Mostly worked on the policy uncertainty piece. Briefly worked on women in entrepreneurship post, but need input from Carlin before we can do anything more!<br />
<br />
2017-03-03: Put crowdfunding post into WordPress. Waiting on Carlin's results before updating the women in entrepreneurship post. Doing more research on policy uncertainty<br />
<br />
2017-03-06: Started by investigating comments on WordPress blog posts (up until now, it seems we haven't been approving any comments even though some of them are good), worked on women's entrepreneurship post and put it into WordPress, worked on policy uncertainty and stock markets post and sent to a peer editor<br />
<br />
2017-03-08: Finished up women's entrepreneurship piece: ready for publishing. Edited Policy Uncertainty piece and sent on to Anne. Started editing [[Carried Interest Debate (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-03-10: Talked to Ed about Policy Uncertainty post. Made edits and revisions to Policy Uncertainty post based on Dr. Green, Ed, and Anne's comments. Also worked on Carried Interest piece<br />
<br />
2017-03-20: Peer edited Carried Interest Debate page, worked on policy uncertainty post and carried interest debate post. Also participate in Ed's session where we learned how to use sequel to make database tables.<br />
<br />
2017-03-22: Finished up [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]] and put it into WordPress. Still need to put in links but otherwise, it is ready to go!<br />
<br />
2017-03-24: Finished working on Policy Uncertainty in WordPress; it is ready to be published. Then worked on editing Anne's post on congress' attention toward innovation so that all of the readability measures in wordpress are met!<br />
<br />
2017-03-27: Finished Carried Interest post and put it into wordpress. Started a post on Mass Challenge. Looked through WordPress Comments and approved/marked as spam as necessary<br />
<br />
2017-03-29: Cleaned up the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page so that all published posts were marked as such. Worked on Mass Challenge post. Edited Iris' posts.<br />
<br />
2017-04-03: Worked on [[Mass Challenge (Blog Post)]] and [[Research Parks and Innovation Districts (Blog Post)]], observed Ed's workshop on sequel<br />
<br />
2017-04-07: Finished up first draft of MassChallenge post. Worked on Research parks/innovation district post<br />
<br />
2017-04-10: Edited Iris's posts.<br />
<br />
2017-05-09: Working from home on Research Parks & Innovation districts post. Made edits and sent to Anne<br />
<br />
2017-05-10: Finished RP and ID post based on Anne's suggestions. Put it into Wordpress.<br />
<br />
===Fall 2016===<br />
<br />
2017-09-08: Introductory exploration, talked to Anne, made my wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-09-09: Research on women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for potential blog post/series<br />
<br />
2017-09-12: Worked on blog post about [[Women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]], finished it, sent to Anne for first round of edits<br />
<br />
2017-09-13: Completed more research on women and innovation, but was uninspired and then sidetracked by the idea of a post about [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]. Did a lot of research on this for the rest of session<br />
<br />
2017-09-14: Worked on Innovation in Public Service piece, almost finished first draft<br />
<br />
2017-09-15: Met some other members on the team, talked to Ed and got some tips for how to improve on blog posts, made a wiki page for idea generation<br />
<br />
2017-09-16: Explored the McNair wiki page to further educate myself on entrepreneurship and innovation and continued to refine my two already-drafted blog posts based on Ed's suggestions<br />
<br />
2017-09-27: Back at it! Spent the day doing a project for Anne- making the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page for troubleshooting<br />
<br />
2017-09-28: Worked on Blog Post Best Practices again and talked to Anne and Ed about my Women blog post<br />
<br />
2017-09-29: Briefly worked on Women blog post, met with Anne and other bloggers to talk about editing. started editing the ClintonKaine and Entreprenruship blog post for readability qualities, and continued working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-09-30: Kept working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page and editing CK entrepreneurship article. Finished both (I think) and worked on Women piece for a while<br />
<br />
2017-10-03: Worked on women piece and editing blog posts for SEO/readability analysis<br />
<br />
2017-10-04: Got women piece to a place where I am happy with it!<br />
<br />
2017-10-05: Worked on Policy Innovation blog post: probably going to take a new approach<br />
<br />
2017-10-06: Finishing up new policy innovation blog post<br />
<br />
2017-10-07: Sent women blog post to Anne and Ed, looked through blog posts on the website and adjusted their settings in Yoast SEO for searchability, helped Ed do this for his new blog post.<br />
<br />
2017-10-12: Worked on women blog post based on Anne's comments.<br />
<br />
2017-10-13: Worked on women blog post and sent it to Ed for final approval, made a proposal for structuring the blog post process and sent it to Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
2017-10-18: worked on posts and Staff meeting at 5!<br />
<br />
2017-10-19: Met with Anne and Ed about blog structuring<br />
<br />
2017-10-20: Worked with Anne on blog structure wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-10-21: Make wiki page for blog structure [[Blog Team]], edited the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page<br />
<br />
2017-10-21: Met with blog team to talk about new structure!<br />
<br />
2017-10-24: Tried to finish women piece again lol<br />
<br />
2017-10-25: Began researching for next blog post- looking at statistics for tech companies and their hiring of women and maternity benefits.<br />
<br />
2017-10-26: more research on tech companies and women's benefits. Also peer-edited two of Meghana's posts<br />
<br />
2017-10-27: more research on benefits offered by tech companies. Google is cool!!<br />
<br />
2017-10-28: Happy Friday! Worked on the women's benefits in tech companies research and tried to find some articles for Ramee for twitter<br />
<br />
2017-10-31: Worked on a mix of the stuff from last week + making sure all of my blog posts work in our new organizational system<br />
<br />
2017-11-01: Finishing touches on the Women in STEM post, then worked on the women in top 5 tech companies research<br />
<br />
2017-11-02: Started drafting the tech women's benefits post<br />
<br />
2017-11-04:Put the women in STEM post into wordpress and worked on the tech women post<br />
<br />
2017-11-08: Peer edited Dylan's piece, worked on tech women post<br />
<br />
2017-11-10: Looked at Carlin's post, edited the tech top 5 women post, sent it to Anne and Ed. Talked to Ed about what is next for me!<br />
<br />
2017-11-11: published women in STEM post! Then did research on entrepreneurship and human rights<br />
<br />
2017-11-14: looked at wordpress drafts, then worked on human rights and entrepreneurship blog post<br />
<br />
2017-11-15: edited the innovation in public sector post and women in tech companies post<br />
<br />
2017-11-16: worked on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
2017-11-17: edited women in tech companies post and continued to work on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
2017-11-18: worked on all three pieces that are currently in the works, edited blog posts, and made wiki pages for Anne<br />
<br />
2017-11-18: Blog Team Meeting about style and the Yoast plugin<br />
<br />
2017-11-21: explored idea of a post about entrepreneurship and the holidays, tried to find pictures for my posts that are pending, worked on editing the three posts that are in the works and getting them back to Anne for more feedback<br />
<br />
2017-11-22: edited all three of the pieces so they are extra good when Anne reads them<br />
<br />
2017-11-29: Began exploring a post for Anne about startups that make educational toys<br />
<br />
2017-11-30: Continued the startup toys post, finished and sent to Anne for editing<br />
<br />
2017-12-01: Edited and added to all pending posts: [[Start-Ups for the Season (Blog Post)]] [[An Unlikely Pair: Human Rights and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]] [[How the Tech Top Five Treat their Women Employees (Blog Post)]] [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-12-05: Found photos for all pending posts, set them up in word press, made edits<br />
<br />
2017-12-16: Last shift of the semester! Worked on getting out the posts, yay!<br />
<br />
[[Category:Work Log]]</div>Tayjacobe22http://www.edegan.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Tay_Jacobe_(Work_Log)&diff=21724Tay Jacobe (Work Log)2017-11-09T19:51:32Z<p>Tayjacobe22: /* Fall 2017 */</p>
<hr />
<div>===Fall 2017===<br />
<onlyinclude><br />
[[Taylor Jacobe]] [[Work Logs]] [[Tay Jacobe (Work Log)|(log page)]] <br />
<br />
2017-11-09: Reorganized work log. Continued researching blockchain and began a draft of a post that will explain the concept in simpler terms and discuss potential impacts of this new technology!<br />
<br />
2017-11-08: Compiled a list of cities in Greater Cincinnati to use for data for blog post. Tried to educate myself on blockchain to eventually write a post about it<br />
<br />
2017-11-01: Tried to gather research to improve the VC FOF post. Edited and redrafted. Investigated other potential blog posts.<br />
<br />
2017-10-26: Worked on [[Fund of Funds in VC]] Blog post<br />
<br />
2017-10-25: Looked over summary and edited. Started working on a blog post on the role of fund of funds in venture capital by direction of Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
2017-10-23: Worked on a summary document for the Houston Innovation District project, verbal summaries of data analysis<br />
<br />
2017-10-19: Worked on Houston Innovation District more. All work is documented on the wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-10-18: Working on Houston Innovation District project. Figuring out what we've done and what needs to be done. McNair center servers went down, while I was working, so I lost a decent amount of work that I had been doing to summarize what we had and had to start over when it was rebooted. Cleaned up the wiki page and summarized where we are so far: what data we have & where it is, what data we are currently collecting, and what data we still want/need. Began working on collecting information about tax codes, incentives for development offered in Houston.<br />
<br />
2017-10-11: Worked on prep for [[Houston Innovation District]] project<br />
<br />
2017-10-06: Added more slides and edited. Updated wiki page with info.<br />
<br />
2017-10-05: Spent quite a while trying to figure out source data for patent data in slides for Augusta, then worked on cleaning up and adding to Augusta slides that were unfinished/not great, created cybersecurity slide<br />
<br />
2017-10-04: Continued working on Augusta project<br />
<br />
2017-09-27: Worked on data analysis and research for Augusta Project, looked into Augusta business news (there isn't very much of it!)<br />
<br />
2017-09-21: Continued preparation for [[Augusta Startup Ecosystem]] and [[Houston Innovation District]] Projects<br />
<br />
2017-09-20: Preliminary preparations for Augusta and Houston Projects<br />
</onlyinclude><br />
<br />
===Spring 2017===<br />
<br />
<br />
2017-01-18: Worked on the right to entrepreneurship post, talked to Anne about plans for the semester, looked in wordpress and marked spam comments on our blog posts.<br />
<br />
2017-01-20: Worked on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]] to investigate potential ways we could collaborate with other universities and improve our blog. Work meeting at 2pm.<br />
<br />
2017-01-23: Put the Right to Entrepreneurship post in wordpress (editing for readability and adding in links) and did more research on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]]<br />
<br />
2017-01-25: Brainstormed ideas for potential blog posts, ideas can be found on [[Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)]]. Also drafted tweets and put them in hootsuite.<br />
<br />
2017-01-27: Drafted tweets in hootsuite and did more exploring for potential blog post ideas. Right to entrepreneurship post was published!<br />
<br />
2017-01-30: Started writing a post about how Trump's Muslim ban may affect American entrepreneurship; it will be tabled until more concrete info is available. Updated wiki's blog post tally by going through and marking all published posts. Drafted tweets.<br />
<br />
2017-02-01: Drafted tweets. Did research on crowdfunding and social entrepreneurship, two topics I'd be interested in exploring for blog posts<br />
<br />
2017-02-03: Researched, edited, and re-drafted Ramee's blog post, [[Start-Up Visa (Blog Post)]].<br />
<br />
2017-02-08 Edited the Startup visa post in wordpress, did all of the SEO stuff, did more research on future blog posts. Came back from 4:30-6 - worked on crowdfunding post and talked to Ed about future projects<br />
<br />
2017-02-13: Researched [[Trump and Women in Entrepreneurship]] for the project on [[Women in Entrepreneurship (Issue Brief)]], worked on crowdfunding blog post, went through the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page and cleared out any outdated information/deleted duplicate pages, looked into research for [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-15: Finished first draft of [[Crowdfunding (Blog Post)]], looked into working on [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-17: To-dos and things covered in this shift: Crowdfunding post, women in entrepreneurship post, carried interest post, and proposal by Dr. Green<br />
<br />
2017-02-20: Same as above ^ working on these posts<br />
<br />
2017-02-22: Edited Eliza's post on Cincinnati. Finishing up crowdfunding post and women in entrepreneurship post. Started working on [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-24: Worked on editing the crowdfunding and women in entrepreneurship posts based on Ed's edits.<br />
<br />
2017-02-27: Mostly worked on the policy uncertainty piece. Briefly worked on women in entrepreneurship post, but need input from Carlin before we can do anything more!<br />
<br />
2017-03-03: Put crowdfunding post into WordPress. Waiting on Carlin's results before updating the women in entrepreneurship post. Doing more research on policy uncertainty<br />
<br />
2017-03-06: Started by investigating comments on WordPress blog posts (up until now, it seems we haven't been approving any comments even though some of them are good), worked on women's entrepreneurship post and put it into WordPress, worked on policy uncertainty and stock markets post and sent to a peer editor<br />
<br />
2017-03-08: Finished up women's entrepreneurship piece: ready for publishing. Edited Policy Uncertainty piece and sent on to Anne. Started editing [[Carried Interest Debate (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-03-10: Talked to Ed about Policy Uncertainty post. Made edits and revisions to Policy Uncertainty post based on Dr. Green, Ed, and Anne's comments. Also worked on Carried Interest piece<br />
<br />
2017-03-20: Peer edited Carried Interest Debate page, worked on policy uncertainty post and carried interest debate post. Also participate in Ed's session where we learned how to use sequel to make database tables.<br />
<br />
2017-03-22: Finished up [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]] and put it into WordPress. Still need to put in links but otherwise, it is ready to go!<br />
<br />
2017-03-24: Finished working on Policy Uncertainty in WordPress; it is ready to be published. Then worked on editing Anne's post on congress' attention toward innovation so that all of the readability measures in wordpress are met!<br />
<br />
2017-03-27: Finished Carried Interest post and put it into wordpress. Started a post on Mass Challenge. Looked through WordPress Comments and approved/marked as spam as necessary<br />
<br />
2017-03-29: Cleaned up the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page so that all published posts were marked as such. Worked on Mass Challenge post. Edited Iris' posts.<br />
<br />
2017-04-03: Worked on [[Mass Challenge (Blog Post)]] and [[Research Parks and Innovation Districts (Blog Post)]], observed Ed's workshop on sequel<br />
<br />
2017-04-07: Finished up first draft of MassChallenge post. Worked on Research parks/innovation district post<br />
<br />
2017-04-10: Edited Iris's posts.<br />
<br />
2017-05-09: Working from home on Research Parks & Innovation districts post. Made edits and sent to Anne<br />
<br />
2017-05-10: Finished RP and ID post based on Anne's suggestions. Put it into Wordpress.<br />
<br />
===Fall 2016===<br />
<br />
2017-09-08: Introductory exploration, talked to Anne, made my wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-09-09: Research on women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for potential blog post/series<br />
<br />
2017-09-12: Worked on blog post about [[Women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]], finished it, sent to Anne for first round of edits<br />
<br />
2017-09-13: Completed more research on women and innovation, but was uninspired and then sidetracked by the idea of a post about [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]. Did a lot of research on this for the rest of session<br />
<br />
2017-09-14: Worked on Innovation in Public Service piece, almost finished first draft<br />
<br />
2017-09-15: Met some other members on the team, talked to Ed and got some tips for how to improve on blog posts, made a wiki page for idea generation<br />
<br />
2017-09-16: Explored the McNair wiki page to further educate myself on entrepreneurship and innovation and continued to refine my two already-drafted blog posts based on Ed's suggestions<br />
<br />
2017-09-27: Back at it! Spent the day doing a project for Anne- making the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page for troubleshooting<br />
<br />
2017-09-28: Worked on Blog Post Best Practices again and talked to Anne and Ed about my Women blog post<br />
<br />
2017-09-29: Briefly worked on Women blog post, met with Anne and other bloggers to talk about editing. started editing the ClintonKaine and Entreprenruship blog post for readability qualities, and continued working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-09-30: Kept working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page and editing CK entrepreneurship article. Finished both (I think) and worked on Women piece for a while<br />
<br />
2017-10-03: Worked on women piece and editing blog posts for SEO/readability analysis<br />
<br />
2017-10-04: Got women piece to a place where I am happy with it!<br />
<br />
2017-10-05: Worked on Policy Innovation blog post: probably going to take a new approach<br />
<br />
2017-10-06: Finishing up new policy innovation blog post<br />
<br />
2017-10-07: Sent women blog post to Anne and Ed, looked through blog posts on the website and adjusted their settings in Yoast SEO for searchability, helped Ed do this for his new blog post.<br />
<br />
2017-10-12: Worked on women blog post based on Anne's comments.<br />
<br />
2017-10-13: Worked on women blog post and sent it to Ed for final approval, made a proposal for structuring the blog post process and sent it to Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
2017-10-18: worked on posts and Staff meeting at 5!<br />
<br />
2017-10-19: Met with Anne and Ed about blog structuring<br />
<br />
2017-10-20: Worked with Anne on blog structure wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-10-21: Make wiki page for blog structure [[Blog Team]], edited the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page<br />
<br />
2017-10-21: Met with blog team to talk about new structure!<br />
<br />
2017-10-24: Tried to finish women piece again lol<br />
<br />
2017-10-25: Began researching for next blog post- looking at statistics for tech companies and their hiring of women and maternity benefits.<br />
<br />
2017-10-26: more research on tech companies and women's benefits. Also peer-edited two of Meghana's posts<br />
<br />
2017-10-27: more research on benefits offered by tech companies. Google is cool!!<br />
<br />
2017-10-28: Happy Friday! Worked on the women's benefits in tech companies research and tried to find some articles for Ramee for twitter<br />
<br />
2017-10-31: Worked on a mix of the stuff from last week + making sure all of my blog posts work in our new organizational system<br />
<br />
2017-11-01: Finishing touches on the Women in STEM post, then worked on the women in top 5 tech companies research<br />
<br />
2017-11-02: Started drafting the tech women's benefits post<br />
<br />
2017-11-04:Put the women in STEM post into wordpress and worked on the tech women post<br />
<br />
2017-11-08: Peer edited Dylan's piece, worked on tech women post<br />
<br />
2017-11-10: Looked at Carlin's post, edited the tech top 5 women post, sent it to Anne and Ed. Talked to Ed about what is next for me!<br />
<br />
2017-11-11: published women in STEM post! Then did research on entrepreneurship and human rights<br />
<br />
2017-11-14: looked at wordpress drafts, then worked on human rights and entrepreneurship blog post<br />
<br />
2017-11-15: edited the innovation in public sector post and women in tech companies post<br />
<br />
2017-11-16: worked on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
2017-11-17: edited women in tech companies post and continued to work on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
2017-11-18: worked on all three pieces that are currently in the works, edited blog posts, and made wiki pages for Anne<br />
<br />
2017-11-18: Blog Team Meeting about style and the Yoast plugin<br />
<br />
2017-11-21: explored idea of a post about entrepreneurship and the holidays, tried to find pictures for my posts that are pending, worked on editing the three posts that are in the works and getting them back to Anne for more feedback<br />
<br />
2017-11-22: edited all three of the pieces so they are extra good when Anne reads them<br />
<br />
2017-11-29: Began exploring a post for Anne about startups that make educational toys<br />
<br />
2017-11-30: Continued the startup toys post, finished and sent to Anne for editing<br />
<br />
2017-12-01: Edited and added to all pending posts: [[Start-Ups for the Season (Blog Post)]] [[An Unlikely Pair: Human Rights and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]] [[How the Tech Top Five Treat their Women Employees (Blog Post)]] [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-12-05: Found photos for all pending posts, set them up in word press, made edits<br />
<br />
2017-12-16: Last shift of the semester! Worked on getting out the posts, yay!<br />
<br />
[[Category:Work Log]]</div>Tayjacobe22http://www.edegan.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Tay_Jacobe_(Work_Log)&diff=21723Tay Jacobe (Work Log)2017-11-09T19:44:32Z<p>Tayjacobe22: /* Fall 2016 */</p>
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<div>===Fall 2017===<br />
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[[Taylor Jacobe]] [[Work Logs]] [[Tay Jacobe (Work Log)|(log page)]] <br />
<br />
2017-09-20: Preliminary preparations for Augusta and Houston Projects<br />
<br />
2017-09-21: Continued preparation for [[Augusta Startup Ecosystem]] and [[Houston Innovation District]] Projects<br />
<br />
2017-09-27: Worked on data analysis and research for Augusta Project, looked into Augusta business news (there isn't very much of it!)<br />
<br />
2017-10-04: Continued working on Augusta project<br />
<br />
2017-10-05: Spent quite a while trying to figure out source data for patent data in slides for Augusta, then worked on cleaning up and adding to Augusta slides that were unfinished/not great, created cybersecurity slide<br />
<br />
2017-10-06: Added more slides and edited. Updated wiki page with info.<br />
<br />
2017-10-11: Worked on prep for [[Houston Innovation District]] project<br />
<br />
2017-10-18: Working on Houston Innovation District project. Figuring out what we've done and what needs to be done. McNair center servers went down, while I was working, so I lost a decent amount of work that I had been doing to summarize what we had and had to start over when it was rebooted. Cleaned up the wiki page and summarized where we are so far: what data we have & where it is, what data we are currently collecting, and what data we still want/need. Began working on collecting information about tax codes, incentives for development offered in Houston.<br />
<br />
2017-10-19: Worked on Houston Innovation District more. All work is documented on the wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-10-23: Worked on a summary document for the Houston Innovation District project, verbal summaries of data analysis<br />
<br />
2017-10-25: Looked over summary and edited. Started working on a blog post on the role of fund of funds in venture capital by direction of Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
2017-10-26: Worked on [[Fund of Funds in VC]] Blog post<br />
<br />
2017-11-01: Tried to gather research to improve the VC FOF post. Edited and redrafted. Investigated other potential blog posts.<br />
<br />
2017-11-08: Compiled a list of cities in Greater Cincinnati to use for data for blog post. Tried to educate myself on blockchain to eventually write a post about it<br />
</onlyinclude><br />
<br />
===Spring 2017===<br />
<br />
<br />
2017-01-18: Worked on the right to entrepreneurship post, talked to Anne about plans for the semester, looked in wordpress and marked spam comments on our blog posts.<br />
<br />
2017-01-20: Worked on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]] to investigate potential ways we could collaborate with other universities and improve our blog. Work meeting at 2pm.<br />
<br />
2017-01-23: Put the Right to Entrepreneurship post in wordpress (editing for readability and adding in links) and did more research on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]]<br />
<br />
2017-01-25: Brainstormed ideas for potential blog posts, ideas can be found on [[Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)]]. Also drafted tweets and put them in hootsuite.<br />
<br />
2017-01-27: Drafted tweets in hootsuite and did more exploring for potential blog post ideas. Right to entrepreneurship post was published!<br />
<br />
2017-01-30: Started writing a post about how Trump's Muslim ban may affect American entrepreneurship; it will be tabled until more concrete info is available. Updated wiki's blog post tally by going through and marking all published posts. Drafted tweets.<br />
<br />
2017-02-01: Drafted tweets. Did research on crowdfunding and social entrepreneurship, two topics I'd be interested in exploring for blog posts<br />
<br />
2017-02-03: Researched, edited, and re-drafted Ramee's blog post, [[Start-Up Visa (Blog Post)]].<br />
<br />
2017-02-08 Edited the Startup visa post in wordpress, did all of the SEO stuff, did more research on future blog posts. Came back from 4:30-6 - worked on crowdfunding post and talked to Ed about future projects<br />
<br />
2017-02-13: Researched [[Trump and Women in Entrepreneurship]] for the project on [[Women in Entrepreneurship (Issue Brief)]], worked on crowdfunding blog post, went through the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page and cleared out any outdated information/deleted duplicate pages, looked into research for [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-15: Finished first draft of [[Crowdfunding (Blog Post)]], looked into working on [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-17: To-dos and things covered in this shift: Crowdfunding post, women in entrepreneurship post, carried interest post, and proposal by Dr. Green<br />
<br />
2017-02-20: Same as above ^ working on these posts<br />
<br />
2017-02-22: Edited Eliza's post on Cincinnati. Finishing up crowdfunding post and women in entrepreneurship post. Started working on [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-24: Worked on editing the crowdfunding and women in entrepreneurship posts based on Ed's edits.<br />
<br />
2017-02-27: Mostly worked on the policy uncertainty piece. Briefly worked on women in entrepreneurship post, but need input from Carlin before we can do anything more!<br />
<br />
2017-03-03: Put crowdfunding post into WordPress. Waiting on Carlin's results before updating the women in entrepreneurship post. Doing more research on policy uncertainty<br />
<br />
2017-03-06: Started by investigating comments on WordPress blog posts (up until now, it seems we haven't been approving any comments even though some of them are good), worked on women's entrepreneurship post and put it into WordPress, worked on policy uncertainty and stock markets post and sent to a peer editor<br />
<br />
2017-03-08: Finished up women's entrepreneurship piece: ready for publishing. Edited Policy Uncertainty piece and sent on to Anne. Started editing [[Carried Interest Debate (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-03-10: Talked to Ed about Policy Uncertainty post. Made edits and revisions to Policy Uncertainty post based on Dr. Green, Ed, and Anne's comments. Also worked on Carried Interest piece<br />
<br />
2017-03-20: Peer edited Carried Interest Debate page, worked on policy uncertainty post and carried interest debate post. Also participate in Ed's session where we learned how to use sequel to make database tables.<br />
<br />
2017-03-22: Finished up [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]] and put it into WordPress. Still need to put in links but otherwise, it is ready to go!<br />
<br />
2017-03-24: Finished working on Policy Uncertainty in WordPress; it is ready to be published. Then worked on editing Anne's post on congress' attention toward innovation so that all of the readability measures in wordpress are met!<br />
<br />
2017-03-27: Finished Carried Interest post and put it into wordpress. Started a post on Mass Challenge. Looked through WordPress Comments and approved/marked as spam as necessary<br />
<br />
2017-03-29: Cleaned up the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page so that all published posts were marked as such. Worked on Mass Challenge post. Edited Iris' posts.<br />
<br />
2017-04-03: Worked on [[Mass Challenge (Blog Post)]] and [[Research Parks and Innovation Districts (Blog Post)]], observed Ed's workshop on sequel<br />
<br />
2017-04-07: Finished up first draft of MassChallenge post. Worked on Research parks/innovation district post<br />
<br />
2017-04-10: Edited Iris's posts.<br />
<br />
2017-05-09: Working from home on Research Parks & Innovation districts post. Made edits and sent to Anne<br />
<br />
2017-05-10: Finished RP and ID post based on Anne's suggestions. Put it into Wordpress.<br />
<br />
===Fall 2016===<br />
<br />
2017-09-08: Introductory exploration, talked to Anne, made my wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-09-09: Research on women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for potential blog post/series<br />
<br />
2017-09-12: Worked on blog post about [[Women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]], finished it, sent to Anne for first round of edits<br />
<br />
2017-09-13: Completed more research on women and innovation, but was uninspired and then sidetracked by the idea of a post about [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]. Did a lot of research on this for the rest of session<br />
<br />
2017-09-14: Worked on Innovation in Public Service piece, almost finished first draft<br />
<br />
2017-09-15: Met some other members on the team, talked to Ed and got some tips for how to improve on blog posts, made a wiki page for idea generation<br />
<br />
2017-09-16: Explored the McNair wiki page to further educate myself on entrepreneurship and innovation and continued to refine my two already-drafted blog posts based on Ed's suggestions<br />
<br />
2017-09-27: Back at it! Spent the day doing a project for Anne- making the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page for troubleshooting<br />
<br />
2017-09-28: Worked on Blog Post Best Practices again and talked to Anne and Ed about my Women blog post<br />
<br />
2017-09-29: Briefly worked on Women blog post, met with Anne and other bloggers to talk about editing. started editing the ClintonKaine and Entreprenruship blog post for readability qualities, and continued working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-09-30: Kept working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page and editing CK entrepreneurship article. Finished both (I think) and worked on Women piece for a while<br />
<br />
2017-10-03: Worked on women piece and editing blog posts for SEO/readability analysis<br />
<br />
2017-10-04: Got women piece to a place where I am happy with it!<br />
<br />
2017-10-05: Worked on Policy Innovation blog post: probably going to take a new approach<br />
<br />
2017-10-06: Finishing up new policy innovation blog post<br />
<br />
2017-10-07: Sent women blog post to Anne and Ed, looked through blog posts on the website and adjusted their settings in Yoast SEO for searchability, helped Ed do this for his new blog post.<br />
<br />
2017-10-12: Worked on women blog post based on Anne's comments.<br />
<br />
2017-10-13: Worked on women blog post and sent it to Ed for final approval, made a proposal for structuring the blog post process and sent it to Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
2017-10-18: worked on posts and Staff meeting at 5!<br />
<br />
2017-10-19: Met with Anne and Ed about blog structuring<br />
<br />
2017-10-20: Worked with Anne on blog structure wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-10-21: Make wiki page for blog structure [[Blog Team]], edited the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page<br />
<br />
2017-10-21: Met with blog team to talk about new structure!<br />
<br />
2017-10-24: Tried to finish women piece again lol<br />
<br />
2017-10-25: Began researching for next blog post- looking at statistics for tech companies and their hiring of women and maternity benefits.<br />
<br />
2017-10-26: more research on tech companies and women's benefits. Also peer-edited two of Meghana's posts<br />
<br />
2017-10-27: more research on benefits offered by tech companies. Google is cool!!<br />
<br />
2017-10-28: Happy Friday! Worked on the women's benefits in tech companies research and tried to find some articles for Ramee for twitter<br />
<br />
2017-10-31: Worked on a mix of the stuff from last week + making sure all of my blog posts work in our new organizational system<br />
<br />
2017-11-01: Finishing touches on the Women in STEM post, then worked on the women in top 5 tech companies research<br />
<br />
2017-11-02: Started drafting the tech women's benefits post<br />
<br />
2017-11-04:Put the women in STEM post into wordpress and worked on the tech women post<br />
<br />
2017-11-08: Peer edited Dylan's piece, worked on tech women post<br />
<br />
2017-11-10: Looked at Carlin's post, edited the tech top 5 women post, sent it to Anne and Ed. Talked to Ed about what is next for me!<br />
<br />
2017-11-11: published women in STEM post! Then did research on entrepreneurship and human rights<br />
<br />
2017-11-14: looked at wordpress drafts, then worked on human rights and entrepreneurship blog post<br />
<br />
2017-11-15: edited the innovation in public sector post and women in tech companies post<br />
<br />
2017-11-16: worked on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
2017-11-17: edited women in tech companies post and continued to work on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
2017-11-18: worked on all three pieces that are currently in the works, edited blog posts, and made wiki pages for Anne<br />
<br />
2017-11-18: Blog Team Meeting about style and the Yoast plugin<br />
<br />
2017-11-21: explored idea of a post about entrepreneurship and the holidays, tried to find pictures for my posts that are pending, worked on editing the three posts that are in the works and getting them back to Anne for more feedback<br />
<br />
2017-11-22: edited all three of the pieces so they are extra good when Anne reads them<br />
<br />
2017-11-29: Began exploring a post for Anne about startups that make educational toys<br />
<br />
2017-11-30: Continued the startup toys post, finished and sent to Anne for editing<br />
<br />
2017-12-01: Edited and added to all pending posts: [[Start-Ups for the Season (Blog Post)]] [[An Unlikely Pair: Human Rights and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]] [[How the Tech Top Five Treat their Women Employees (Blog Post)]] [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-12-05: Found photos for all pending posts, set them up in word press, made edits<br />
<br />
2017-12-16: Last shift of the semester! Worked on getting out the posts, yay!<br />
<br />
[[Category:Work Log]]</div>Tayjacobe22http://www.edegan.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Tay_Jacobe_(Work_Log)&diff=21722Tay Jacobe (Work Log)2017-11-09T19:36:36Z<p>Tayjacobe22: /* Spring 2017 */</p>
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<div>===Fall 2017===<br />
<onlyinclude><br />
[[Taylor Jacobe]] [[Work Logs]] [[Tay Jacobe (Work Log)|(log page)]] <br />
<br />
2017-09-20: Preliminary preparations for Augusta and Houston Projects<br />
<br />
2017-09-21: Continued preparation for [[Augusta Startup Ecosystem]] and [[Houston Innovation District]] Projects<br />
<br />
2017-09-27: Worked on data analysis and research for Augusta Project, looked into Augusta business news (there isn't very much of it!)<br />
<br />
2017-10-04: Continued working on Augusta project<br />
<br />
2017-10-05: Spent quite a while trying to figure out source data for patent data in slides for Augusta, then worked on cleaning up and adding to Augusta slides that were unfinished/not great, created cybersecurity slide<br />
<br />
2017-10-06: Added more slides and edited. Updated wiki page with info.<br />
<br />
2017-10-11: Worked on prep for [[Houston Innovation District]] project<br />
<br />
2017-10-18: Working on Houston Innovation District project. Figuring out what we've done and what needs to be done. McNair center servers went down, while I was working, so I lost a decent amount of work that I had been doing to summarize what we had and had to start over when it was rebooted. Cleaned up the wiki page and summarized where we are so far: what data we have & where it is, what data we are currently collecting, and what data we still want/need. Began working on collecting information about tax codes, incentives for development offered in Houston.<br />
<br />
2017-10-19: Worked on Houston Innovation District more. All work is documented on the wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-10-23: Worked on a summary document for the Houston Innovation District project, verbal summaries of data analysis<br />
<br />
2017-10-25: Looked over summary and edited. Started working on a blog post on the role of fund of funds in venture capital by direction of Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
2017-10-26: Worked on [[Fund of Funds in VC]] Blog post<br />
<br />
2017-11-01: Tried to gather research to improve the VC FOF post. Edited and redrafted. Investigated other potential blog posts.<br />
<br />
2017-11-08: Compiled a list of cities in Greater Cincinnati to use for data for blog post. Tried to educate myself on blockchain to eventually write a post about it<br />
</onlyinclude><br />
<br />
===Spring 2017===<br />
<br />
<br />
2017-01-18: Worked on the right to entrepreneurship post, talked to Anne about plans for the semester, looked in wordpress and marked spam comments on our blog posts.<br />
<br />
2017-01-20: Worked on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]] to investigate potential ways we could collaborate with other universities and improve our blog. Work meeting at 2pm.<br />
<br />
2017-01-23: Put the Right to Entrepreneurship post in wordpress (editing for readability and adding in links) and did more research on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]]<br />
<br />
2017-01-25: Brainstormed ideas for potential blog posts, ideas can be found on [[Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)]]. Also drafted tweets and put them in hootsuite.<br />
<br />
2017-01-27: Drafted tweets in hootsuite and did more exploring for potential blog post ideas. Right to entrepreneurship post was published!<br />
<br />
2017-01-30: Started writing a post about how Trump's Muslim ban may affect American entrepreneurship; it will be tabled until more concrete info is available. Updated wiki's blog post tally by going through and marking all published posts. Drafted tweets.<br />
<br />
2017-02-01: Drafted tweets. Did research on crowdfunding and social entrepreneurship, two topics I'd be interested in exploring for blog posts<br />
<br />
2017-02-03: Researched, edited, and re-drafted Ramee's blog post, [[Start-Up Visa (Blog Post)]].<br />
<br />
2017-02-08 Edited the Startup visa post in wordpress, did all of the SEO stuff, did more research on future blog posts. Came back from 4:30-6 - worked on crowdfunding post and talked to Ed about future projects<br />
<br />
2017-02-13: Researched [[Trump and Women in Entrepreneurship]] for the project on [[Women in Entrepreneurship (Issue Brief)]], worked on crowdfunding blog post, went through the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page and cleared out any outdated information/deleted duplicate pages, looked into research for [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-15: Finished first draft of [[Crowdfunding (Blog Post)]], looked into working on [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-17: To-dos and things covered in this shift: Crowdfunding post, women in entrepreneurship post, carried interest post, and proposal by Dr. Green<br />
<br />
2017-02-20: Same as above ^ working on these posts<br />
<br />
2017-02-22: Edited Eliza's post on Cincinnati. Finishing up crowdfunding post and women in entrepreneurship post. Started working on [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-02-24: Worked on editing the crowdfunding and women in entrepreneurship posts based on Ed's edits.<br />
<br />
2017-02-27: Mostly worked on the policy uncertainty piece. Briefly worked on women in entrepreneurship post, but need input from Carlin before we can do anything more!<br />
<br />
2017-03-03: Put crowdfunding post into WordPress. Waiting on Carlin's results before updating the women in entrepreneurship post. Doing more research on policy uncertainty<br />
<br />
2017-03-06: Started by investigating comments on WordPress blog posts (up until now, it seems we haven't been approving any comments even though some of them are good), worked on women's entrepreneurship post and put it into WordPress, worked on policy uncertainty and stock markets post and sent to a peer editor<br />
<br />
2017-03-08: Finished up women's entrepreneurship piece: ready for publishing. Edited Policy Uncertainty piece and sent on to Anne. Started editing [[Carried Interest Debate (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2017-03-10: Talked to Ed about Policy Uncertainty post. Made edits and revisions to Policy Uncertainty post based on Dr. Green, Ed, and Anne's comments. Also worked on Carried Interest piece<br />
<br />
2017-03-20: Peer edited Carried Interest Debate page, worked on policy uncertainty post and carried interest debate post. Also participate in Ed's session where we learned how to use sequel to make database tables.<br />
<br />
2017-03-22: Finished up [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]] and put it into WordPress. Still need to put in links but otherwise, it is ready to go!<br />
<br />
2017-03-24: Finished working on Policy Uncertainty in WordPress; it is ready to be published. Then worked on editing Anne's post on congress' attention toward innovation so that all of the readability measures in wordpress are met!<br />
<br />
2017-03-27: Finished Carried Interest post and put it into wordpress. Started a post on Mass Challenge. Looked through WordPress Comments and approved/marked as spam as necessary<br />
<br />
2017-03-29: Cleaned up the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page so that all published posts were marked as such. Worked on Mass Challenge post. Edited Iris' posts.<br />
<br />
2017-04-03: Worked on [[Mass Challenge (Blog Post)]] and [[Research Parks and Innovation Districts (Blog Post)]], observed Ed's workshop on sequel<br />
<br />
2017-04-07: Finished up first draft of MassChallenge post. Worked on Research parks/innovation district post<br />
<br />
2017-04-10: Edited Iris's posts.<br />
<br />
2017-05-09: Working from home on Research Parks & Innovation districts post. Made edits and sent to Anne<br />
<br />
2017-05-10: Finished RP and ID post based on Anne's suggestions. Put it into Wordpress.<br />
<br />
===Fall 2016===<br />
<br />
09/08 4:00pm - Introductory exploration, talked to Anne, made my wiki page<br />
<br />
09/09 10:00am - Research on women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for potential blog post/series<br />
<br />
09/12 10:00am - Worked on blog post about [[Women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]], finished it, sent to Anne for first round of edits<br />
<br />
09/13 4:00pm - Completed more research on women and innovation, but was uninspired and then sidetracked by the idea of a post about [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]. Did a lot of research on this for the rest of session<br />
<br />
09/14 10:00am - Worked on Innovation in Public Service piece, almost finished first draft<br />
<br />
09/15 4:00pm - Met some other members on the team, talked to Ed and got some tips for how to improve on blog posts, made a wiki page for idea generation<br />
<br />
09/16 10:00am - Explored the McNair wiki page to further educate myself on entrepreneurship and innovation and continued to refine my two already-drafted blog posts based on Ed's suggestions<br />
<br />
Week of 09/18-09/24 - No work because on a trip to Barcelona for a leadership conference.<br />
<br />
09/27 4:00pm - Back at it! Spent the day doing a project for Anne- making the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page for troubleshooting<br />
<br />
09/28 10:00am - Worked on Blog Post Best Practices again and talked to Anne and Ed about my Women blog post<br />
<br />
09/29 4:00pm - Briefly worked on Women blog post, met with Anne and other bloggers to talk about editing. started editing the ClintonKaine and Entreprenruship blog post for readability qualities, and continued working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page<br />
<br />
09/30 10:00am - Kept working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page and editing CK entrepreneurship article. Finished both (I think) and worked on Women piece for a while<br />
<br />
10/03 10:00am - Worked on women piece and editing blog posts for SEO/readability analysis<br />
<br />
10/04 4:00pm - Got women piece to a place where I am happy with it!<br />
<br />
10/05 10:00am - Worked on Policy Innovation blog post: probably going to take a new approach<br />
<br />
10/06 4:00pm - Finishing up new policy innovation blog post<br />
<br />
10/07 10:00am - Sent women blog post to Anne and Ed, looked through blog posts on the website and adjusted their settings in Yoast SEO for searchability, helped Ed do this for his new blog post.<br />
<br />
10/12 10:00am - Worked on women blog post based on Anne's comments.<br />
<br />
10/13 4:00pm - Worked on women blog post and sent it to Ed for final approval, made a proposal for structuring the blog post process and sent it to Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
10/14 and 10/16 - Not at work because parents are in town!<br />
<br />
10/18 4:00pm - worked on posts and Staff meeting at 5!<br />
<br />
10/19 10:00am - Met with Anne and Ed about blog structuring<br />
<br />
10/20 4:00pm - Worked with Anne on blog structure wiki page<br />
<br />
10/21 11:00am - Make wiki page for blog structure [[Blog Team]], edited the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page<br />
<br />
10/21 3:00pm - Met with blog team to talk about new structure!<br />
<br />
10/24 10:00am - Tried to finish women piece again lol<br />
<br />
10/25 4:00pm - Began researching for next blog post- looking at statistics for tech companies and their hiring of women and maternity benefits.<br />
<br />
10/26 10:00am - more research on tech companies and women's benefits. Also peer-edited two of Meghana's posts<br />
<br />
10/27 4:00pm - more research on benefits offered by tech companies. Google is cool!!<br />
<br />
10/28 10:00am - Happy Friday! Worked on the women's benefits in tech companies research and tried to find some articles for Ramee for twitter<br />
<br />
10/31 10:00am - Worked on a mix of the stuff from last week + making sure all of my blog posts work in our new organizational system<br />
<br />
11/01 4:00pm - Finishing touches on the Women in STEM post, then worked on the women in top 5 tech companies research<br />
<br />
11/02 10:00am - Started drafting the tech women's benefits post<br />
<br />
11/04 10:00am - Put the women in STEM post into wordpress and worked on the tech women post<br />
<br />
11/08 4:00pm - Peer edited Dylan's piece, worked on tech women post<br />
<br />
11/10 4:00pm - Looked at Carlin's post, edited the tech top 5 women post, sent it to Anne and Ed. Talked to Ed about what is next for me!<br />
<br />
11/11 10:00am - published women in STEM post! Then did research on entrepreneurship and human rights<br />
<br />
11/14 10:00am - looked at wordpress drafts, then worked on human rights and entrepreneurship blog post<br />
<br />
11/15 4:00pm - edited the innovation in public sector post and women in tech companies post<br />
<br />
11/16 10:00am - worked on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
11/17 4:00pm - edited women in tech companies post and continued to work on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
11/18 10:00am - worked on all three pieces that are currently in the works, edited blog posts, and made wiki pages for Anne<br />
<br />
11/18 3:30pm - Blog Team Meeting about style and the Yoast plugin<br />
<br />
11/21 10:00am - explored idea of a post about entrepreneurship and the holidays, tried to find pictures for my posts that are pending<br />
<br />
11/21 2:20pm - worked on editing the three posts that are in the works and getting them back to Anne for more feedback<br />
<br />
11/22 1:00pm - edited all three of the pieces so they are extra good when Anne reads them<br />
<br />
11/29 4:00pm - Began exploring a post for Anne about startups that make educational toys<br />
<br />
11/30 10:00am - Continued the startup toys post, finished and sent to Anne for editing<br />
<br />
12/01 4:00pm - Edited and added to all pending posts: [[Start-Ups for the Season (Blog Post)]] [[An Unlikely Pair: Human Rights and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]] [[How the Tech Top Five Treat their Women Employees (Blog Post)]] [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
12/05 1:00pm - Found photos for all pending posts, set them up in word press, made edits<br />
<br />
12/16 3:00pm - Last shift of the semester! Worked on getting out the posts, yay!<br />
<br />
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<div>===Fall 2017===<br />
[[Taylor Jacobe]] [[Work Logs]] [[Tay Jacobe (Work Log)|(log page)]] <br />
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2017-09-20: Preliminary preparations for Augusta and Houston Projects<br />
<br />
2017-09-21: Continued preparation for [[Augusta Startup Ecosystem]] and [[Houston Innovation District]] Projects<br />
<br />
2017-09-27: Worked on data analysis and research for Augusta Project, looked into Augusta business news (there isn't very much of it!)<br />
<br />
2017-10-04: Continued working on Augusta project<br />
<br />
2017-10-05: Spent quite a while trying to figure out source data for patent data in slides for Augusta, then worked on cleaning up and adding to Augusta slides that were unfinished/not great, created cybersecurity slide<br />
<br />
2017-10-06: Added more slides and edited. Updated wiki page with info.<br />
<br />
2017-10-11: Worked on prep for [[Houston Innovation District]] project<br />
<br />
2017-10-18: Working on Houston Innovation District project. Figuring out what we've done and what needs to be done. McNair center servers went down, while I was working, so I lost a decent amount of work that I had been doing to summarize what we had and had to start over when it was rebooted. Cleaned up the wiki page and summarized where we are so far: what data we have & where it is, what data we are currently collecting, and what data we still want/need. Began working on collecting information about tax codes, incentives for development offered in Houston.<br />
<br />
2017-10-19: Worked on Houston Innovation District more. All work is documented on the wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-10-23: Worked on a summary document for the Houston Innovation District project, verbal summaries of data analysis<br />
<br />
2017-10-25: Looked over summary and edited. Started working on a blog post on the role of fund of funds in venture capital by direction of Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
2017-10-26: Worked on [[Fund of Funds in VC]] Blog post<br />
<br />
2017-11-01: Tried to gather research to improve the VC FOF post. Edited and redrafted. Investigated other potential blog posts.<br />
<br />
2017-11-08: Compiled a list of cities in Greater Cincinnati to use for data for blog post. Tried to educate myself on blockchain to eventually write a post about it<br />
</onlyinclude><br />
<br />
===Spring 2017===<br />
<br />
1/18 10-12 - Worked on the right to entrepreneurship post, talked to Anne about plans for the semester, looked in wordpress and marked spam comments on our blog posts.<br />
<br />
1/20 1-3:30 - Worked on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]] to investigate potential ways we could collaborate with other universities and improve our blog. Work meeting at 2pm.<br />
<br />
1/23 1-4:30 - Put the Right to Entrepreneurship post in wordpress (editing for readability and adding in links) and did more research on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]]<br />
<br />
1/25 10-12 - Brainstormed ideas for potential blog posts, ideas can be found on [[Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)]]. Also drafted tweets and put them in hootsuite.<br />
<br />
1/27 1-3:30 - Drafted tweets in hootsuite and did more exploring for potential blog post ideas. Right to entrepreneurship post was published!<br />
<br />
1/30 1-4:30 - Started writing a post about how Trump's Muslim ban may affect American entrepreneurship; it will be tabled until more concrete info is available. Updated wiki's blog post tally by going through and marking all published posts. Drafted tweets.<br />
<br />
2/1 10-12 - Drafted tweets. Did research on crowdfunding and social entrepreneurship, two topics I'd be interested in exploring for blog posts<br />
<br />
2/3 1-3:30 - Researched, edited, and re-drafted Ramee's blog post, [[Start-Up Visa (Blog Post)]].<br />
<br />
2/8 10-12 - Edited the Startup visa post in wordpress, did all of the SEO stuff, did more research on future blog posts. Came back from 4:30-6 - worked on crowdfunding post and talked to Ed about future projects<br />
<br />
2/13 1-4:30 - Researched [[Trump and Women in Entrepreneurship]] for the project on [[Women in Entrepreneurship (Issue Brief)]], worked on crowdfunding blog post, went through the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page and cleared out any outdated information/deleted duplicate pages, looked into research for [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2/15 10-12 - Finished first draft of [[Crowdfunding (Blog Post)]], looked into working on [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2/17 1-3:30 - To-dos and things covered in this shift: Crowdfunding post, women in entrepreneurship post, carried interest post, and proposal by Dr. Green<br />
<br />
2/20 1-3:30 - Same as above ^ working on these posts<br />
<br />
2/22 10-12 - Edited Eliza's post on Cincinnati. Finishing up crowdfunding post and women in entrepreneurship post. Started working on [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2/24 1-3:30 - Worked on editing the crowdfunding and women in entrepreneurship posts based on Ed's edits.<br />
<br />
2/27 1-4:30 - Mostly worked on the policy uncertainty piece. Briefly worked on women in entrepreneurship post, but need input from Carlin before we can do anything more!<br />
<br />
3/3 1-3:30 - Put crowdfunding post into WordPress. Waiting on Carlin's results before updating the women in entrepreneurship post. Doing more research on policy uncertainty<br />
<br />
3/6 1-4:30 - Started by investigating comments on WordPress blog posts (up until now, it seems we haven't been approving any comments even though some of them are good), worked on women's entrepreneurship post and put it into WordPress, worked on policy uncertainty and stock markets post and sent to a peer editor<br />
<br />
3/8 10-12 - Finished up women's entrepreneurship piece: ready for publishing. Edited Policy Uncertainty piece and sent on to Anne. Started editing [[Carried Interest Debate (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
3/10 1-3:30 - Talked to Ed about Policy Uncertainty post. Made edits and revisions to Policy Uncertainty post based on Dr. Green, Ed, and Anne's comments. Also worked on Carried Interest piece<br />
<br />
3/20 1-4:30 - Peer edited Carried Interest Debate page, worked on policy uncertainty post and carried interest debate post. Also participate in Ed's session where we learned how to use sequel to make database tables.<br />
<br />
3/22 10-12 - Finished up [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]] and put it into WordPress. Still need to put in links but otherwise, it is ready to go!<br />
<br />
3/24 1-3:30 - Finished working on Policy Uncertainty in WordPress; it is ready to be published. Then worked on editing Anne's post on congress' attention toward innovation so that all of the readability measures in wordpress are met!<br />
<br />
3/27 1-3:30 - Finished Carried Interest post and put it into wordpress. Started a post on Mass Challenge. Looked through WordPress Comments and approved/marked as spam as necessary<br />
<br />
3/29 10-12 - Cleaned up the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page so that all published posts were marked as such. Worked on Mass Challenge post. Edited Iris' posts.<br />
<br />
4/3 1-4:30 - Worked on [[Mass Challenge (Blog Post)]] and [[Research Parks and Innovation Districts (Blog Post)]], observed Ed's workshop on sequel<br />
<br />
4/7 1-3:30 - Finished up first draft of MassChallenge post. Worked on Research parks/innovation district post<br />
<br />
4/10 1:15-2:30 - Edited Iris's posts.<br />
<br />
5/9 1:30-2:45 - Working from home on Research Parks & Innovation districts post. Made edits and sent to Anne<br />
<br />
5/10 3:30-5 - Finished RP and ID post based on Anne's suggestions. Put it into Wordpress.<br />
<br />
===Fall 2016===<br />
<br />
09/08 4:00pm - Introductory exploration, talked to Anne, made my wiki page<br />
<br />
09/09 10:00am - Research on women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for potential blog post/series<br />
<br />
09/12 10:00am - Worked on blog post about [[Women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]], finished it, sent to Anne for first round of edits<br />
<br />
09/13 4:00pm - Completed more research on women and innovation, but was uninspired and then sidetracked by the idea of a post about [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]. Did a lot of research on this for the rest of session<br />
<br />
09/14 10:00am - Worked on Innovation in Public Service piece, almost finished first draft<br />
<br />
09/15 4:00pm - Met some other members on the team, talked to Ed and got some tips for how to improve on blog posts, made a wiki page for idea generation<br />
<br />
09/16 10:00am - Explored the McNair wiki page to further educate myself on entrepreneurship and innovation and continued to refine my two already-drafted blog posts based on Ed's suggestions<br />
<br />
Week of 09/18-09/24 - No work because on a trip to Barcelona for a leadership conference.<br />
<br />
09/27 4:00pm - Back at it! Spent the day doing a project for Anne- making the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page for troubleshooting<br />
<br />
09/28 10:00am - Worked on Blog Post Best Practices again and talked to Anne and Ed about my Women blog post<br />
<br />
09/29 4:00pm - Briefly worked on Women blog post, met with Anne and other bloggers to talk about editing. started editing the ClintonKaine and Entreprenruship blog post for readability qualities, and continued working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page<br />
<br />
09/30 10:00am - Kept working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page and editing CK entrepreneurship article. Finished both (I think) and worked on Women piece for a while<br />
<br />
10/03 10:00am - Worked on women piece and editing blog posts for SEO/readability analysis<br />
<br />
10/04 4:00pm - Got women piece to a place where I am happy with it!<br />
<br />
10/05 10:00am - Worked on Policy Innovation blog post: probably going to take a new approach<br />
<br />
10/06 4:00pm - Finishing up new policy innovation blog post<br />
<br />
10/07 10:00am - Sent women blog post to Anne and Ed, looked through blog posts on the website and adjusted their settings in Yoast SEO for searchability, helped Ed do this for his new blog post.<br />
<br />
10/12 10:00am - Worked on women blog post based on Anne's comments.<br />
<br />
10/13 4:00pm - Worked on women blog post and sent it to Ed for final approval, made a proposal for structuring the blog post process and sent it to Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
10/14 and 10/16 - Not at work because parents are in town!<br />
<br />
10/18 4:00pm - worked on posts and Staff meeting at 5!<br />
<br />
10/19 10:00am - Met with Anne and Ed about blog structuring<br />
<br />
10/20 4:00pm - Worked with Anne on blog structure wiki page<br />
<br />
10/21 11:00am - Make wiki page for blog structure [[Blog Team]], edited the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page<br />
<br />
10/21 3:00pm - Met with blog team to talk about new structure!<br />
<br />
10/24 10:00am - Tried to finish women piece again lol<br />
<br />
10/25 4:00pm - Began researching for next blog post- looking at statistics for tech companies and their hiring of women and maternity benefits.<br />
<br />
10/26 10:00am - more research on tech companies and women's benefits. Also peer-edited two of Meghana's posts<br />
<br />
10/27 4:00pm - more research on benefits offered by tech companies. Google is cool!!<br />
<br />
10/28 10:00am - Happy Friday! Worked on the women's benefits in tech companies research and tried to find some articles for Ramee for twitter<br />
<br />
10/31 10:00am - Worked on a mix of the stuff from last week + making sure all of my blog posts work in our new organizational system<br />
<br />
11/01 4:00pm - Finishing touches on the Women in STEM post, then worked on the women in top 5 tech companies research<br />
<br />
11/02 10:00am - Started drafting the tech women's benefits post<br />
<br />
11/04 10:00am - Put the women in STEM post into wordpress and worked on the tech women post<br />
<br />
11/08 4:00pm - Peer edited Dylan's piece, worked on tech women post<br />
<br />
11/10 4:00pm - Looked at Carlin's post, edited the tech top 5 women post, sent it to Anne and Ed. Talked to Ed about what is next for me!<br />
<br />
11/11 10:00am - published women in STEM post! Then did research on entrepreneurship and human rights<br />
<br />
11/14 10:00am - looked at wordpress drafts, then worked on human rights and entrepreneurship blog post<br />
<br />
11/15 4:00pm - edited the innovation in public sector post and women in tech companies post<br />
<br />
11/16 10:00am - worked on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
11/17 4:00pm - edited women in tech companies post and continued to work on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
11/18 10:00am - worked on all three pieces that are currently in the works, edited blog posts, and made wiki pages for Anne<br />
<br />
11/18 3:30pm - Blog Team Meeting about style and the Yoast plugin<br />
<br />
11/21 10:00am - explored idea of a post about entrepreneurship and the holidays, tried to find pictures for my posts that are pending<br />
<br />
11/21 2:20pm - worked on editing the three posts that are in the works and getting them back to Anne for more feedback<br />
<br />
11/22 1:00pm - edited all three of the pieces so they are extra good when Anne reads them<br />
<br />
11/29 4:00pm - Began exploring a post for Anne about startups that make educational toys<br />
<br />
11/30 10:00am - Continued the startup toys post, finished and sent to Anne for editing<br />
<br />
12/01 4:00pm - Edited and added to all pending posts: [[Start-Ups for the Season (Blog Post)]] [[An Unlikely Pair: Human Rights and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]] [[How the Tech Top Five Treat their Women Employees (Blog Post)]] [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
12/05 1:00pm - Found photos for all pending posts, set them up in word press, made edits<br />
<br />
12/16 3:00pm - Last shift of the semester! Worked on getting out the posts, yay!<br />
<br />
[[Category:Work Log]]</div>Tayjacobe22http://www.edegan.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Tay_Jacobe_(Work_Log)&diff=21717Tay Jacobe (Work Log)2017-11-09T19:20:13Z<p>Tayjacobe22: </p>
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<div>===Fall 2017===<br />
[[Taylor Jacobe]] [[Work Logs]] [[Tay Jacobe (Work Log)|(log page)]] <br />
<br />
<onlyinclude><br />
<br />
[[Tay Jacobe]] [[Work Logs]] [[Tay Jacobe (Work Log)|(log page)]]<br />
<br />
2017-09-20: Preliminary preparations for Augusta and Houston Projects<br />
<br />
2017-09-21: Continued preparation for [[Augusta Startup Ecosystem]] and [[Houston Innovation District]] Projects<br />
<br />
2017-09-27: Worked on data analysis and research for Augusta Project, looked into Augusta business news (there isn't very much of it!)<br />
<br />
2017-10-04: Continued working on Augusta project<br />
<br />
2017-10-05: Spent quite a while trying to figure out source data for patent data in slides for Augusta, then worked on cleaning up and adding to Augusta slides that were unfinished/not great, created cybersecurity slide<br />
<br />
2017-10-06: Added more slides and edited. Updated wiki page with info.<br />
<br />
2017-10-11: Worked on prep for [[Houston Innovation District]] project<br />
<br />
2017-10-18: Working on Houston Innovation District project. Figuring out what we've done and what needs to be done. McNair center servers went down, while I was working, so I lost a decent amount of work that I had been doing to summarize what we had and had to start over when it was rebooted. Cleaned up the wiki page and summarized where we are so far: what data we have & where it is, what data we are currently collecting, and what data we still want/need. Began working on collecting information about tax codes, incentives for development offered in Houston.<br />
<br />
2017-10-19: Worked on Houston Innovation District more. All work is documented on the wiki page<br />
<br />
2017-10-23: Worked on a summary document for the Houston Innovation District project, verbal summaries of data analysis<br />
<br />
2017-10-25: Looked over summary and edited. Started working on a blog post on the role of fund of funds in venture capital by direction of Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
2017-10-26: Worked on [[Fund of Funds in VC]] Blog post<br />
<br />
2017-11-01: Tried to gather research to improve the VC FOF post. Edited and redrafted. Investigated other potential blog posts.<br />
<br />
2017-11-08: Compiled a list of cities in Greater Cincinnati to use for data for blog post. Tried to educate myself on blockchain to eventually write a post about it<br />
</onlyinclude><br />
<br />
===Spring 2017===<br />
<br />
1/18 10-12 - Worked on the right to entrepreneurship post, talked to Anne about plans for the semester, looked in wordpress and marked spam comments on our blog posts.<br />
<br />
1/20 1-3:30 - Worked on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]] to investigate potential ways we could collaborate with other universities and improve our blog. Work meeting at 2pm.<br />
<br />
1/23 1-4:30 - Put the Right to Entrepreneurship post in wordpress (editing for readability and adding in links) and did more research on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]]<br />
<br />
1/25 10-12 - Brainstormed ideas for potential blog posts, ideas can be found on [[Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)]]. Also drafted tweets and put them in hootsuite.<br />
<br />
1/27 1-3:30 - Drafted tweets in hootsuite and did more exploring for potential blog post ideas. Right to entrepreneurship post was published!<br />
<br />
1/30 1-4:30 - Started writing a post about how Trump's Muslim ban may affect American entrepreneurship; it will be tabled until more concrete info is available. Updated wiki's blog post tally by going through and marking all published posts. Drafted tweets.<br />
<br />
2/1 10-12 - Drafted tweets. Did research on crowdfunding and social entrepreneurship, two topics I'd be interested in exploring for blog posts<br />
<br />
2/3 1-3:30 - Researched, edited, and re-drafted Ramee's blog post, [[Start-Up Visa (Blog Post)]].<br />
<br />
2/8 10-12 - Edited the Startup visa post in wordpress, did all of the SEO stuff, did more research on future blog posts. Came back from 4:30-6 - worked on crowdfunding post and talked to Ed about future projects<br />
<br />
2/13 1-4:30 - Researched [[Trump and Women in Entrepreneurship]] for the project on [[Women in Entrepreneurship (Issue Brief)]], worked on crowdfunding blog post, went through the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page and cleared out any outdated information/deleted duplicate pages, looked into research for [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2/15 10-12 - Finished first draft of [[Crowdfunding (Blog Post)]], looked into working on [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2/17 1-3:30 - To-dos and things covered in this shift: Crowdfunding post, women in entrepreneurship post, carried interest post, and proposal by Dr. Green<br />
<br />
2/20 1-3:30 - Same as above ^ working on these posts<br />
<br />
2/22 10-12 - Edited Eliza's post on Cincinnati. Finishing up crowdfunding post and women in entrepreneurship post. Started working on [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2/24 1-3:30 - Worked on editing the crowdfunding and women in entrepreneurship posts based on Ed's edits.<br />
<br />
2/27 1-4:30 - Mostly worked on the policy uncertainty piece. Briefly worked on women in entrepreneurship post, but need input from Carlin before we can do anything more!<br />
<br />
3/3 1-3:30 - Put crowdfunding post into WordPress. Waiting on Carlin's results before updating the women in entrepreneurship post. Doing more research on policy uncertainty<br />
<br />
3/6 1-4:30 - Started by investigating comments on WordPress blog posts (up until now, it seems we haven't been approving any comments even though some of them are good), worked on women's entrepreneurship post and put it into WordPress, worked on policy uncertainty and stock markets post and sent to a peer editor<br />
<br />
3/8 10-12 - Finished up women's entrepreneurship piece: ready for publishing. Edited Policy Uncertainty piece and sent on to Anne. Started editing [[Carried Interest Debate (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
3/10 1-3:30 - Talked to Ed about Policy Uncertainty post. Made edits and revisions to Policy Uncertainty post based on Dr. Green, Ed, and Anne's comments. Also worked on Carried Interest piece<br />
<br />
3/20 1-4:30 - Peer edited Carried Interest Debate page, worked on policy uncertainty post and carried interest debate post. Also participate in Ed's session where we learned how to use sequel to make database tables.<br />
<br />
3/22 10-12 - Finished up [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]] and put it into WordPress. Still need to put in links but otherwise, it is ready to go!<br />
<br />
3/24 1-3:30 - Finished working on Policy Uncertainty in WordPress; it is ready to be published. Then worked on editing Anne's post on congress' attention toward innovation so that all of the readability measures in wordpress are met!<br />
<br />
3/27 1-3:30 - Finished Carried Interest post and put it into wordpress. Started a post on Mass Challenge. Looked through WordPress Comments and approved/marked as spam as necessary<br />
<br />
3/29 10-12 - Cleaned up the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page so that all published posts were marked as such. Worked on Mass Challenge post. Edited Iris' posts.<br />
<br />
4/3 1-4:30 - Worked on [[Mass Challenge (Blog Post)]] and [[Research Parks and Innovation Districts (Blog Post)]], observed Ed's workshop on sequel<br />
<br />
4/7 1-3:30 - Finished up first draft of MassChallenge post. Worked on Research parks/innovation district post<br />
<br />
4/10 1:15-2:30 - Edited Iris's posts.<br />
<br />
5/9 1:30-2:45 - Working from home on Research Parks & Innovation districts post. Made edits and sent to Anne<br />
<br />
5/10 3:30-5 - Finished RP and ID post based on Anne's suggestions. Put it into Wordpress.<br />
<br />
===Fall 2016===<br />
<br />
09/08 4:00pm - Introductory exploration, talked to Anne, made my wiki page<br />
<br />
09/09 10:00am - Research on women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for potential blog post/series<br />
<br />
09/12 10:00am - Worked on blog post about [[Women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]], finished it, sent to Anne for first round of edits<br />
<br />
09/13 4:00pm - Completed more research on women and innovation, but was uninspired and then sidetracked by the idea of a post about [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]. Did a lot of research on this for the rest of session<br />
<br />
09/14 10:00am - Worked on Innovation in Public Service piece, almost finished first draft<br />
<br />
09/15 4:00pm - Met some other members on the team, talked to Ed and got some tips for how to improve on blog posts, made a wiki page for idea generation<br />
<br />
09/16 10:00am - Explored the McNair wiki page to further educate myself on entrepreneurship and innovation and continued to refine my two already-drafted blog posts based on Ed's suggestions<br />
<br />
Week of 09/18-09/24 - No work because on a trip to Barcelona for a leadership conference.<br />
<br />
09/27 4:00pm - Back at it! Spent the day doing a project for Anne- making the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page for troubleshooting<br />
<br />
09/28 10:00am - Worked on Blog Post Best Practices again and talked to Anne and Ed about my Women blog post<br />
<br />
09/29 4:00pm - Briefly worked on Women blog post, met with Anne and other bloggers to talk about editing. started editing the ClintonKaine and Entreprenruship blog post for readability qualities, and continued working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page<br />
<br />
09/30 10:00am - Kept working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page and editing CK entrepreneurship article. Finished both (I think) and worked on Women piece for a while<br />
<br />
10/03 10:00am - Worked on women piece and editing blog posts for SEO/readability analysis<br />
<br />
10/04 4:00pm - Got women piece to a place where I am happy with it!<br />
<br />
10/05 10:00am - Worked on Policy Innovation blog post: probably going to take a new approach<br />
<br />
10/06 4:00pm - Finishing up new policy innovation blog post<br />
<br />
10/07 10:00am - Sent women blog post to Anne and Ed, looked through blog posts on the website and adjusted their settings in Yoast SEO for searchability, helped Ed do this for his new blog post.<br />
<br />
10/12 10:00am - Worked on women blog post based on Anne's comments.<br />
<br />
10/13 4:00pm - Worked on women blog post and sent it to Ed for final approval, made a proposal for structuring the blog post process and sent it to Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
10/14 and 10/16 - Not at work because parents are in town!<br />
<br />
10/18 4:00pm - worked on posts and Staff meeting at 5!<br />
<br />
10/19 10:00am - Met with Anne and Ed about blog structuring<br />
<br />
10/20 4:00pm - Worked with Anne on blog structure wiki page<br />
<br />
10/21 11:00am - Make wiki page for blog structure [[Blog Team]], edited the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page<br />
<br />
10/21 3:00pm - Met with blog team to talk about new structure!<br />
<br />
10/24 10:00am - Tried to finish women piece again lol<br />
<br />
10/25 4:00pm - Began researching for next blog post- looking at statistics for tech companies and their hiring of women and maternity benefits.<br />
<br />
10/26 10:00am - more research on tech companies and women's benefits. Also peer-edited two of Meghana's posts<br />
<br />
10/27 4:00pm - more research on benefits offered by tech companies. Google is cool!!<br />
<br />
10/28 10:00am - Happy Friday! Worked on the women's benefits in tech companies research and tried to find some articles for Ramee for twitter<br />
<br />
10/31 10:00am - Worked on a mix of the stuff from last week + making sure all of my blog posts work in our new organizational system<br />
<br />
11/01 4:00pm - Finishing touches on the Women in STEM post, then worked on the women in top 5 tech companies research<br />
<br />
11/02 10:00am - Started drafting the tech women's benefits post<br />
<br />
11/04 10:00am - Put the women in STEM post into wordpress and worked on the tech women post<br />
<br />
11/08 4:00pm - Peer edited Dylan's piece, worked on tech women post<br />
<br />
11/10 4:00pm - Looked at Carlin's post, edited the tech top 5 women post, sent it to Anne and Ed. Talked to Ed about what is next for me!<br />
<br />
11/11 10:00am - published women in STEM post! Then did research on entrepreneurship and human rights<br />
<br />
11/14 10:00am - looked at wordpress drafts, then worked on human rights and entrepreneurship blog post<br />
<br />
11/15 4:00pm - edited the innovation in public sector post and women in tech companies post<br />
<br />
11/16 10:00am - worked on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
11/17 4:00pm - edited women in tech companies post and continued to work on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
11/18 10:00am - worked on all three pieces that are currently in the works, edited blog posts, and made wiki pages for Anne<br />
<br />
11/18 3:30pm - Blog Team Meeting about style and the Yoast plugin<br />
<br />
11/21 10:00am - explored idea of a post about entrepreneurship and the holidays, tried to find pictures for my posts that are pending<br />
<br />
11/21 2:20pm - worked on editing the three posts that are in the works and getting them back to Anne for more feedback<br />
<br />
11/22 1:00pm - edited all three of the pieces so they are extra good when Anne reads them<br />
<br />
11/29 4:00pm - Began exploring a post for Anne about startups that make educational toys<br />
<br />
11/30 10:00am - Continued the startup toys post, finished and sent to Anne for editing<br />
<br />
12/01 4:00pm - Edited and added to all pending posts: [[Start-Ups for the Season (Blog Post)]] [[An Unlikely Pair: Human Rights and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]] [[How the Tech Top Five Treat their Women Employees (Blog Post)]] [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
12/05 1:00pm - Found photos for all pending posts, set them up in word press, made edits<br />
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12/16 3:00pm - Last shift of the semester! Worked on getting out the posts, yay!<br />
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[[Tay Jacobe]] [[Work Logs]] [[Tay Jacobe (Work Log)|(log page)]]<br />
[[Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)]]<br />
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==FALL 2017==<br />
<br />
9/20 9:30-12 - Preliminary preparations for Augusta and Houston Projects<br />
<br />
9/21 1-4:30 - Continued preparation for [[Augusta Startup Ecosystem]] and [[Houston Innovation District]] Projects<br />
<br />
9/27 2-4:30 - Worked on data analysis and research for Augusta Project, looked into Augusta business news (there isn't very much of it!)<br />
<br />
10/4 9:30-12 - Continued working on Augusta project<br />
<br />
10/5 1-4:30 - Spent quite a while trying to figure out source data for patent data in slides for Augusta, then worked on cleaning up and adding to Augusta slides that were unfinished/not great, created cybersecurity slide<br />
<br />
10/6 10-12 - Added more slides and edited. Updated wiki page with info.<br />
<br />
10/11 9:30-12 - Worked on prep for [[Houston Innovation District]] project<br />
<br />
'''Week of 10/18- Can't log onto the RDP because I am using a rented laptop until my laptop is fixed'''<br />
<br />
10/18 2-4:30 - Working on Houston Innovation District project. Figuring out what we've done and what needs to be done. McNair center servers went down, while I was working, so I lost a decent amount of work that I had been doing to summarize what we had and had to start over when it was rebooted. Cleaned up the wiki page and summarized where we are so far: what data we have & where it is, what data we are currently collecting, and what data we still want/need. Began working on collecting information about tax codes, incentives for development offered in Houston.<br />
<br />
10/19 1-4:30 -Worked on Houston Innovation District more. All work is documented on the wiki page<br />
<br />
10/23 1-3 - Worked on a summary document for the Houston Innovation District project, verbal summaries of data analysis<br />
<br />
10/25 9:30-12 - Looked over summary and edited. Started working on a blog post on the role of fund of funds in venture capital by direction of Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
10/26 1-4:30 - Worked on [[Fund of Funds in VC]] Blog post<br />
<br />
11/1 9:30-12 - Tried to gather research to improve the VC FOF post. Edited and redrafted. Investigated other potential blog posts.<br />
<br />
11/8 9:30-12 - Compiled a list of cities in Greater Cincinnati to use for data for blog post. Tried to educate myself on blockchain to eventually write a post about it<br />
<br />
==PAST SEMESTERS:==<br />
<br />
===FALL 2016===<br />
<br />
09/08 4:00pm - Introductory exploration, talked to Anne, made my wiki page<br />
<br />
09/09 10:00am - Research on women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for potential blog post/series<br />
<br />
09/12 10:00am - Worked on blog post about [[Women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]], finished it, sent to Anne for first round of edits<br />
<br />
09/13 4:00pm - Completed more research on women and innovation, but was uninspired and then sidetracked by the idea of a post about [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]. Did a lot of research on this for the rest of session<br />
<br />
09/14 10:00am - Worked on Innovation in Public Service piece, almost finished first draft<br />
<br />
09/15 4:00pm - Met some other members on the team, talked to Ed and got some tips for how to improve on blog posts, made a wiki page for idea generation<br />
<br />
09/16 10:00am - Explored the McNair wiki page to further educate myself on entrepreneurship and innovation and continued to refine my two already-drafted blog posts based on Ed's suggestions<br />
<br />
Week of 09/18-09/24 - No work because on a trip to Barcelona for a leadership conference.<br />
<br />
09/27 4:00pm - Back at it! Spent the day doing a project for Anne- making the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page for troubleshooting<br />
<br />
09/28 10:00am - Worked on Blog Post Best Practices again and talked to Anne and Ed about my Women blog post<br />
<br />
09/29 4:00pm - Briefly worked on Women blog post, met with Anne and other bloggers to talk about editing. started editing the ClintonKaine and Entreprenruship blog post for readability qualities, and continued working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page<br />
<br />
09/30 10:00am - Kept working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page and editing CK entrepreneurship article. Finished both (I think) and worked on Women piece for a while<br />
<br />
10/03 10:00am - Worked on women piece and editing blog posts for SEO/readability analysis<br />
<br />
10/04 4:00pm - Got women piece to a place where I am happy with it!<br />
<br />
10/05 10:00am - Worked on Policy Innovation blog post: probably going to take a new approach<br />
<br />
10/06 4:00pm - Finishing up new policy innovation blog post<br />
<br />
10/07 10:00am - Sent women blog post to Anne and Ed, looked through blog posts on the website and adjusted their settings in Yoast SEO for searchability, helped Ed do this for his new blog post.<br />
<br />
10/12 10:00am - Worked on women blog post based on Anne's comments.<br />
<br />
10/13 4:00pm - Worked on women blog post and sent it to Ed for final approval, made a proposal for structuring the blog post process and sent it to Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
10/14 and 10/16 - Not at work because parents are in town!<br />
<br />
10/18 4:00pm - worked on posts and Staff meeting at 5!<br />
<br />
10/19 10:00am - Met with Anne and Ed about blog structuring<br />
<br />
10/20 4:00pm - Worked with Anne on blog structure wiki page<br />
<br />
10/21 11:00am - Make wiki page for blog structure [[Blog Team]], edited the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page<br />
<br />
10/21 3:00pm - Met with blog team to talk about new structure!<br />
<br />
10/24 10:00am - Tried to finish women piece again lol<br />
<br />
10/25 4:00pm - Began researching for next blog post- looking at statistics for tech companies and their hiring of women and maternity benefits.<br />
<br />
10/26 10:00am - more research on tech companies and women's benefits. Also peer-edited two of Meghana's posts<br />
<br />
10/27 4:00pm - more research on benefits offered by tech companies. Google is cool!!<br />
<br />
10/28 10:00am - Happy Friday! Worked on the women's benefits in tech companies research and tried to find some articles for Ramee for twitter<br />
<br />
10/31 10:00am - Worked on a mix of the stuff from last week + making sure all of my blog posts work in our new organizational system<br />
<br />
11/01 4:00pm - Finishing touches on the Women in STEM post, then worked on the women in top 5 tech companies research<br />
<br />
11/02 10:00am - Started drafting the tech women's benefits post<br />
<br />
11/04 10:00am - Put the women in STEM post into wordpress and worked on the tech women post<br />
<br />
11/08 4:00pm - Peer edited Dylan's piece, worked on tech women post<br />
<br />
11/10 4:00pm - Looked at Carlin's post, edited the tech top 5 women post, sent it to Anne and Ed. Talked to Ed about what is next for me!<br />
<br />
11/11 10:00am - published women in STEM post! Then did research on entrepreneurship and human rights<br />
<br />
11/14 10:00am - looked at wordpress drafts, then worked on human rights and entrepreneurship blog post<br />
<br />
11/15 4:00pm - edited the innovation in public sector post and women in tech companies post<br />
<br />
11/16 10:00am - worked on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
11/17 4:00pm - edited women in tech companies post and continued to work on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
11/18 10:00am - worked on all three pieces that are currently in the works, edited blog posts, and made wiki pages for Anne<br />
<br />
11/18 3:30pm - Blog Team Meeting about style and the Yoast plugin<br />
<br />
11/21 10:00am - explored idea of a post about entrepreneurship and the holidays, tried to find pictures for my posts that are pending<br />
<br />
11/21 2:20pm - worked on editing the three posts that are in the works and getting them back to Anne for more feedback<br />
<br />
11/22 1:00pm - edited all three of the pieces so they are extra good when Anne reads them<br />
<br />
11/29 4:00pm - Began exploring a post for Anne about startups that make educational toys<br />
<br />
11/30 10:00am - Continued the startup toys post, finished and sent to Anne for editing<br />
<br />
12/01 4:00pm - Edited and added to all pending posts: [[Start-Ups for the Season (Blog Post)]] [[An Unlikely Pair: Human Rights and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]] [[How the Tech Top Five Treat their Women Employees (Blog Post)]] [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
12/05 1:00pm - Found photos for all pending posts, set them up in word press, made edits<br />
<br />
12/16 3:00pm - Last shift of the semester! Worked on getting out the posts, yay!<br />
<br />
==SPRING 2017==<br />
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1/18 10-12 - Worked on the right to entrepreneurship post, talked to Anne about plans for the semester, looked in wordpress and marked spam comments on our blog posts.<br />
<br />
1/20 1-3:30 - Worked on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]] to investigate potential ways we could collaborate with other universities and improve our blog. Work meeting at 2pm.<br />
<br />
1/23 1-4:30 - Put the Right to Entrepreneurship post in wordpress (editing for readability and adding in links) and did more research on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]]<br />
<br />
1/25 10-12 - Brainstormed ideas for potential blog posts, ideas can be found on [[Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)]]. Also drafted tweets and put them in hootsuite.<br />
<br />
1/27 1-3:30 - Drafted tweets in hootsuite and did more exploring for potential blog post ideas. Right to entrepreneurship post was published!<br />
<br />
1/30 1-4:30 - Started writing a post about how Trump's Muslim ban may affect American entrepreneurship; it will be tabled until more concrete info is available. Updated wiki's blog post tally by going through and marking all published posts. Drafted tweets.<br />
<br />
2/1 10-12 - Drafted tweets. Did research on crowdfunding and social entrepreneurship, two topics I'd be interested in exploring for blog posts<br />
<br />
2/3 1-3:30 - Researched, edited, and re-drafted Ramee's blog post, [[Start-Up Visa (Blog Post)]].<br />
<br />
2/8 10-12 - Edited the Startup visa post in wordpress, did all of the SEO stuff, did more research on future blog posts. Came back from 4:30-6 - worked on crowdfunding post and talked to Ed about future projects<br />
<br />
2/13 1-4:30 - Researched [[Trump and Women in Entrepreneurship]] for the project on [[Women in Entrepreneurship (Issue Brief)]], worked on crowdfunding blog post, went through the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page and cleared out any outdated information/deleted duplicate pages, looked into research for [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2/15 10-12 - Finished first draft of [[Crowdfunding (Blog Post)]], looked into working on [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2/17 1-3:30 - To-dos and things covered in this shift: Crowdfunding post, women in entrepreneurship post, carried interest post, and proposal by Dr. Green<br />
<br />
2/20 1-3:30 - Same as above ^ working on these posts<br />
<br />
2/22 10-12 - Edited Eliza's post on Cincinnati. Finishing up crowdfunding post and women in entrepreneurship post. Started working on [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2/24 1-3:30 - Worked on editing the crowdfunding and women in entrepreneurship posts based on Ed's edits.<br />
<br />
2/27 1-4:30 - Mostly worked on the policy uncertainty piece. Briefly worked on women in entrepreneurship post, but need input from Carlin before we can do anything more!<br />
<br />
3/3 1-3:30 - Put crowdfunding post into WordPress. Waiting on Carlin's results before updating the women in entrepreneurship post. Doing more research on policy uncertainty<br />
<br />
3/6 1-4:30 - Started by investigating comments on WordPress blog posts (up until now, it seems we haven't been approving any comments even though some of them are good), worked on women's entrepreneurship post and put it into WordPress, worked on policy uncertainty and stock markets post and sent to a peer editor<br />
<br />
3/8 10-12 - Finished up women's entrepreneurship piece: ready for publishing. Edited Policy Uncertainty piece and sent on to Anne. Started editing [[Carried Interest Debate (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
3/10 1-3:30 - Talked to Ed about Policy Uncertainty post. Made edits and revisions to Policy Uncertainty post based on Dr. Green, Ed, and Anne's comments. Also worked on Carried Interest piece<br />
<br />
3/20 1-4:30 - Peer edited Carried Interest Debate page, worked on policy uncertainty post and carried interest debate post. Also participate in Ed's session where we learned how to use sequel to make database tables.<br />
<br />
3/22 10-12 - Finished up [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]] and put it into WordPress. Still need to put in links but otherwise, it is ready to go!<br />
<br />
3/24 1-3:30 - Finished working on Policy Uncertainty in WordPress; it is ready to be published. Then worked on editing Anne's post on congress' attention toward innovation so that all of the readability measures in wordpress are met!<br />
<br />
3/27 1-3:30 - Finished Carried Interest post and put it into wordpress. Started a post on Mass Challenge. Looked through WordPress Comments and approved/marked as spam as necessary<br />
<br />
3/29 10-12 - Cleaned up the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page so that all published posts were marked as such. Worked on Mass Challenge post. Edited Iris' posts.<br />
<br />
4/3 1-4:30 - Worked on [[Mass Challenge (Blog Post)]] and [[Research Parks and Innovation Districts (Blog Post)]], observed Ed's workshop on sequel<br />
<br />
4/7 1-3:30 - Finished up first draft of MassChallenge post. Worked on Research parks/innovation district post<br />
<br />
4/10 1:15-2:30 - Edited Iris's posts.<br />
<br />
5/9 1:30-2:45 - Working from home on Research Parks & Innovation districts post. Made edits and sent to Anne<br />
<br />
5/10 3:30-5 - Finished RP and ID post based on Anne's suggestions. Put it into Wordpress.<br />
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[[Tay Jacobe]] [[Work Logs]] [[Tay Jacobe (Work Log)|(log page)]]<br />
[[Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)]]<br />
<br />
==FALL 2017==<br />
<br />
9/20 9:30-12 - Preliminary preparations for Augusta and Houston Projects<br />
<br />
9/21 1-4:30 - Continued preparation for [[Augusta Startup Ecosystem]] and [[Houston Innovation District]] Projects<br />
<br />
9/27 2-4:30 - Worked on data analysis and research for Augusta Project, looked into Augusta business news (there isn't very much of it!)<br />
<br />
10/4 9:30-12 - Continued working on Augusta project<br />
<br />
10/5 1-4:30 - Spent quite a while trying to figure out source data for patent data in slides for Augusta, then worked on cleaning up and adding to Augusta slides that were unfinished/not great, created cybersecurity slide<br />
<br />
10/6 10-12 - Added more slides and edited. Updated wiki page with info.<br />
<br />
10/11 9:30-12 - Worked on prep for [[Houston Innovation District]] project<br />
<br />
'''Week of 10/18- Can't log onto the RDP because I am using a rented laptop until my laptop is fixed'''<br />
<br />
10/18 2-4:30 - Working on Houston Innovation District project. Figuring out what we've done and what needs to be done. McNair center servers went down, while I was working, so I lost a decent amount of work that I had been doing to summarize what we had and had to start over when it was rebooted. Cleaned up the wiki page and summarized where we are so far: what data we have & where it is, what data we are currently collecting, and what data we still want/need. Began working on collecting information about tax codes, incentives for development offered in Houston.<br />
<br />
10/19 1-4:30 -Worked on Houston Innovation District more. All work is documented on the wiki page<br />
<br />
10/23 1-3 - Worked on a summary document for the Houston Innovation District project, verbal summaries of data analysis<br />
<br />
10/25 9:30-12 - Looked over summary and edited. Started working on a blog post on the role of fund of funds in venture capital by direction of Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
10/26 1-4:30 - Worked on [[Fund of Funds in VC]] Blog post<br />
<br />
11/1 9:30-12 - Tried to gather research to improve the VC FOF post. Edited and redrafted. Investigated other potential blog posts.<br />
<br />
11/8 9:30-12 - Compiled a list of cities in Greater Cincinnati to use for data for blog post<br />
<br />
==PAST SEMESTERS:==<br />
<br />
===FALL 2016===<br />
<br />
09/08 4:00pm - Introductory exploration, talked to Anne, made my wiki page<br />
<br />
09/09 10:00am - Research on women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for potential blog post/series<br />
<br />
09/12 10:00am - Worked on blog post about [[Women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]], finished it, sent to Anne for first round of edits<br />
<br />
09/13 4:00pm - Completed more research on women and innovation, but was uninspired and then sidetracked by the idea of a post about [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]. Did a lot of research on this for the rest of session<br />
<br />
09/14 10:00am - Worked on Innovation in Public Service piece, almost finished first draft<br />
<br />
09/15 4:00pm - Met some other members on the team, talked to Ed and got some tips for how to improve on blog posts, made a wiki page for idea generation<br />
<br />
09/16 10:00am - Explored the McNair wiki page to further educate myself on entrepreneurship and innovation and continued to refine my two already-drafted blog posts based on Ed's suggestions<br />
<br />
Week of 09/18-09/24 - No work because on a trip to Barcelona for a leadership conference.<br />
<br />
09/27 4:00pm - Back at it! Spent the day doing a project for Anne- making the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page for troubleshooting<br />
<br />
09/28 10:00am - Worked on Blog Post Best Practices again and talked to Anne and Ed about my Women blog post<br />
<br />
09/29 4:00pm - Briefly worked on Women blog post, met with Anne and other bloggers to talk about editing. started editing the ClintonKaine and Entreprenruship blog post for readability qualities, and continued working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page<br />
<br />
09/30 10:00am - Kept working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page and editing CK entrepreneurship article. Finished both (I think) and worked on Women piece for a while<br />
<br />
10/03 10:00am - Worked on women piece and editing blog posts for SEO/readability analysis<br />
<br />
10/04 4:00pm - Got women piece to a place where I am happy with it!<br />
<br />
10/05 10:00am - Worked on Policy Innovation blog post: probably going to take a new approach<br />
<br />
10/06 4:00pm - Finishing up new policy innovation blog post<br />
<br />
10/07 10:00am - Sent women blog post to Anne and Ed, looked through blog posts on the website and adjusted their settings in Yoast SEO for searchability, helped Ed do this for his new blog post.<br />
<br />
10/12 10:00am - Worked on women blog post based on Anne's comments.<br />
<br />
10/13 4:00pm - Worked on women blog post and sent it to Ed for final approval, made a proposal for structuring the blog post process and sent it to Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
10/14 and 10/16 - Not at work because parents are in town!<br />
<br />
10/18 4:00pm - worked on posts and Staff meeting at 5!<br />
<br />
10/19 10:00am - Met with Anne and Ed about blog structuring<br />
<br />
10/20 4:00pm - Worked with Anne on blog structure wiki page<br />
<br />
10/21 11:00am - Make wiki page for blog structure [[Blog Team]], edited the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page<br />
<br />
10/21 3:00pm - Met with blog team to talk about new structure!<br />
<br />
10/24 10:00am - Tried to finish women piece again lol<br />
<br />
10/25 4:00pm - Began researching for next blog post- looking at statistics for tech companies and their hiring of women and maternity benefits.<br />
<br />
10/26 10:00am - more research on tech companies and women's benefits. Also peer-edited two of Meghana's posts<br />
<br />
10/27 4:00pm - more research on benefits offered by tech companies. Google is cool!!<br />
<br />
10/28 10:00am - Happy Friday! Worked on the women's benefits in tech companies research and tried to find some articles for Ramee for twitter<br />
<br />
10/31 10:00am - Worked on a mix of the stuff from last week + making sure all of my blog posts work in our new organizational system<br />
<br />
11/01 4:00pm - Finishing touches on the Women in STEM post, then worked on the women in top 5 tech companies research<br />
<br />
11/02 10:00am - Started drafting the tech women's benefits post<br />
<br />
11/04 10:00am - Put the women in STEM post into wordpress and worked on the tech women post<br />
<br />
11/08 4:00pm - Peer edited Dylan's piece, worked on tech women post<br />
<br />
11/10 4:00pm - Looked at Carlin's post, edited the tech top 5 women post, sent it to Anne and Ed. Talked to Ed about what is next for me!<br />
<br />
11/11 10:00am - published women in STEM post! Then did research on entrepreneurship and human rights<br />
<br />
11/14 10:00am - looked at wordpress drafts, then worked on human rights and entrepreneurship blog post<br />
<br />
11/15 4:00pm - edited the innovation in public sector post and women in tech companies post<br />
<br />
11/16 10:00am - worked on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
11/17 4:00pm - edited women in tech companies post and continued to work on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
11/18 10:00am - worked on all three pieces that are currently in the works, edited blog posts, and made wiki pages for Anne<br />
<br />
11/18 3:30pm - Blog Team Meeting about style and the Yoast plugin<br />
<br />
11/21 10:00am - explored idea of a post about entrepreneurship and the holidays, tried to find pictures for my posts that are pending<br />
<br />
11/21 2:20pm - worked on editing the three posts that are in the works and getting them back to Anne for more feedback<br />
<br />
11/22 1:00pm - edited all three of the pieces so they are extra good when Anne reads them<br />
<br />
11/29 4:00pm - Began exploring a post for Anne about startups that make educational toys<br />
<br />
11/30 10:00am - Continued the startup toys post, finished and sent to Anne for editing<br />
<br />
12/01 4:00pm - Edited and added to all pending posts: [[Start-Ups for the Season (Blog Post)]] [[An Unlikely Pair: Human Rights and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]] [[How the Tech Top Five Treat their Women Employees (Blog Post)]] [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
12/05 1:00pm - Found photos for all pending posts, set them up in word press, made edits<br />
<br />
12/16 3:00pm - Last shift of the semester! Worked on getting out the posts, yay!<br />
<br />
==SPRING 2017==<br />
<br />
1/18 10-12 - Worked on the right to entrepreneurship post, talked to Anne about plans for the semester, looked in wordpress and marked spam comments on our blog posts.<br />
<br />
1/20 1-3:30 - Worked on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]] to investigate potential ways we could collaborate with other universities and improve our blog. Work meeting at 2pm.<br />
<br />
1/23 1-4:30 - Put the Right to Entrepreneurship post in wordpress (editing for readability and adding in links) and did more research on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]]<br />
<br />
1/25 10-12 - Brainstormed ideas for potential blog posts, ideas can be found on [[Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)]]. Also drafted tweets and put them in hootsuite.<br />
<br />
1/27 1-3:30 - Drafted tweets in hootsuite and did more exploring for potential blog post ideas. Right to entrepreneurship post was published!<br />
<br />
1/30 1-4:30 - Started writing a post about how Trump's Muslim ban may affect American entrepreneurship; it will be tabled until more concrete info is available. Updated wiki's blog post tally by going through and marking all published posts. Drafted tweets.<br />
<br />
2/1 10-12 - Drafted tweets. Did research on crowdfunding and social entrepreneurship, two topics I'd be interested in exploring for blog posts<br />
<br />
2/3 1-3:30 - Researched, edited, and re-drafted Ramee's blog post, [[Start-Up Visa (Blog Post)]].<br />
<br />
2/8 10-12 - Edited the Startup visa post in wordpress, did all of the SEO stuff, did more research on future blog posts. Came back from 4:30-6 - worked on crowdfunding post and talked to Ed about future projects<br />
<br />
2/13 1-4:30 - Researched [[Trump and Women in Entrepreneurship]] for the project on [[Women in Entrepreneurship (Issue Brief)]], worked on crowdfunding blog post, went through the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page and cleared out any outdated information/deleted duplicate pages, looked into research for [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2/15 10-12 - Finished first draft of [[Crowdfunding (Blog Post)]], looked into working on [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2/17 1-3:30 - To-dos and things covered in this shift: Crowdfunding post, women in entrepreneurship post, carried interest post, and proposal by Dr. Green<br />
<br />
2/20 1-3:30 - Same as above ^ working on these posts<br />
<br />
2/22 10-12 - Edited Eliza's post on Cincinnati. Finishing up crowdfunding post and women in entrepreneurship post. Started working on [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2/24 1-3:30 - Worked on editing the crowdfunding and women in entrepreneurship posts based on Ed's edits.<br />
<br />
2/27 1-4:30 - Mostly worked on the policy uncertainty piece. Briefly worked on women in entrepreneurship post, but need input from Carlin before we can do anything more!<br />
<br />
3/3 1-3:30 - Put crowdfunding post into WordPress. Waiting on Carlin's results before updating the women in entrepreneurship post. Doing more research on policy uncertainty<br />
<br />
3/6 1-4:30 - Started by investigating comments on WordPress blog posts (up until now, it seems we haven't been approving any comments even though some of them are good), worked on women's entrepreneurship post and put it into WordPress, worked on policy uncertainty and stock markets post and sent to a peer editor<br />
<br />
3/8 10-12 - Finished up women's entrepreneurship piece: ready for publishing. Edited Policy Uncertainty piece and sent on to Anne. Started editing [[Carried Interest Debate (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
3/10 1-3:30 - Talked to Ed about Policy Uncertainty post. Made edits and revisions to Policy Uncertainty post based on Dr. Green, Ed, and Anne's comments. Also worked on Carried Interest piece<br />
<br />
3/20 1-4:30 - Peer edited Carried Interest Debate page, worked on policy uncertainty post and carried interest debate post. Also participate in Ed's session where we learned how to use sequel to make database tables.<br />
<br />
3/22 10-12 - Finished up [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]] and put it into WordPress. Still need to put in links but otherwise, it is ready to go!<br />
<br />
3/24 1-3:30 - Finished working on Policy Uncertainty in WordPress; it is ready to be published. Then worked on editing Anne's post on congress' attention toward innovation so that all of the readability measures in wordpress are met!<br />
<br />
3/27 1-3:30 - Finished Carried Interest post and put it into wordpress. Started a post on Mass Challenge. Looked through WordPress Comments and approved/marked as spam as necessary<br />
<br />
3/29 10-12 - Cleaned up the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page so that all published posts were marked as such. Worked on Mass Challenge post. Edited Iris' posts.<br />
<br />
4/3 1-4:30 - Worked on [[Mass Challenge (Blog Post)]] and [[Research Parks and Innovation Districts (Blog Post)]], observed Ed's workshop on sequel<br />
<br />
4/7 1-3:30 - Finished up first draft of MassChallenge post. Worked on Research parks/innovation district post<br />
<br />
4/10 1:15-2:30 - Edited Iris's posts.<br />
<br />
5/9 1:30-2:45 - Working from home on Research Parks & Innovation districts post. Made edits and sent to Anne<br />
<br />
5/10 3:30-5 - Finished RP and ID post based on Anne's suggestions. Put it into Wordpress.<br />
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[[Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)]]<br />
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==FALL 2017==<br />
<br />
9/20 9:30-12 - Preliminary preparations for Augusta and Houston Projects<br />
<br />
9/21 1-4:30 - Continued preparation for [[Augusta Startup Ecosystem]] and [[Houston Innovation District]] Projects<br />
<br />
9/27 2-4:30 - Worked on data analysis and research for Augusta Project, looked into Augusta business news (there isn't very much of it!)<br />
<br />
10/4 9:30-12 - Continued working on Augusta project<br />
<br />
10/5 1-4:30 - Spent quite a while trying to figure out source data for patent data in slides for Augusta, then worked on cleaning up and adding to Augusta slides that were unfinished/not great, created cybersecurity slide<br />
<br />
10/6 10-12 - Added more slides and edited. Updated wiki page with info.<br />
<br />
10/11 9:30-12 - Worked on prep for [[Houston Innovation District]] project<br />
<br />
'''Week of 10/18- Can't log onto the RDP because I am using a rented laptop until my laptop is fixed'''<br />
<br />
10/18 2-4:30 - Working on Houston Innovation District project. Figuring out what we've done and what needs to be done. McNair center servers went down, while I was working, so I lost a decent amount of work that I had been doing to summarize what we had and had to start over when it was rebooted. Cleaned up the wiki page and summarized where we are so far: what data we have & where it is, what data we are currently collecting, and what data we still want/need. Began working on collecting information about tax codes, incentives for development offered in Houston.<br />
<br />
10/19 1-4:30 -Worked on Houston Innovation District more. All work is documented on the wiki page<br />
<br />
10/23 1-3 - Worked on a summary document for the Houston Innovation District project, verbal summaries of data analysis<br />
<br />
10/25 9:30-12 - Looked over summary and edited. Started working on a blog post on the role of fund of funds in venture capital by direction of Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
10/26 1-4:30 - Worked on [[Fund of Funds in VC]] Blog post<br />
<br />
11/1 9:30-12 - Tried to gather research to improve the VC FOF post. Edited and redrafted. Investigated other potential blog posts.<br />
<br />
==PAST SEMESTERS:==<br />
<br />
===FALL 2016===<br />
<br />
09/08 4:00pm - Introductory exploration, talked to Anne, made my wiki page<br />
<br />
09/09 10:00am - Research on women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for potential blog post/series<br />
<br />
09/12 10:00am - Worked on blog post about [[Women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]], finished it, sent to Anne for first round of edits<br />
<br />
09/13 4:00pm - Completed more research on women and innovation, but was uninspired and then sidetracked by the idea of a post about [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]. Did a lot of research on this for the rest of session<br />
<br />
09/14 10:00am - Worked on Innovation in Public Service piece, almost finished first draft<br />
<br />
09/15 4:00pm - Met some other members on the team, talked to Ed and got some tips for how to improve on blog posts, made a wiki page for idea generation<br />
<br />
09/16 10:00am - Explored the McNair wiki page to further educate myself on entrepreneurship and innovation and continued to refine my two already-drafted blog posts based on Ed's suggestions<br />
<br />
Week of 09/18-09/24 - No work because on a trip to Barcelona for a leadership conference.<br />
<br />
09/27 4:00pm - Back at it! Spent the day doing a project for Anne- making the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page for troubleshooting<br />
<br />
09/28 10:00am - Worked on Blog Post Best Practices again and talked to Anne and Ed about my Women blog post<br />
<br />
09/29 4:00pm - Briefly worked on Women blog post, met with Anne and other bloggers to talk about editing. started editing the ClintonKaine and Entreprenruship blog post for readability qualities, and continued working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page<br />
<br />
09/30 10:00am - Kept working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page and editing CK entrepreneurship article. Finished both (I think) and worked on Women piece for a while<br />
<br />
10/03 10:00am - Worked on women piece and editing blog posts for SEO/readability analysis<br />
<br />
10/04 4:00pm - Got women piece to a place where I am happy with it!<br />
<br />
10/05 10:00am - Worked on Policy Innovation blog post: probably going to take a new approach<br />
<br />
10/06 4:00pm - Finishing up new policy innovation blog post<br />
<br />
10/07 10:00am - Sent women blog post to Anne and Ed, looked through blog posts on the website and adjusted their settings in Yoast SEO for searchability, helped Ed do this for his new blog post.<br />
<br />
10/12 10:00am - Worked on women blog post based on Anne's comments.<br />
<br />
10/13 4:00pm - Worked on women blog post and sent it to Ed for final approval, made a proposal for structuring the blog post process and sent it to Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
10/14 and 10/16 - Not at work because parents are in town!<br />
<br />
10/18 4:00pm - worked on posts and Staff meeting at 5!<br />
<br />
10/19 10:00am - Met with Anne and Ed about blog structuring<br />
<br />
10/20 4:00pm - Worked with Anne on blog structure wiki page<br />
<br />
10/21 11:00am - Make wiki page for blog structure [[Blog Team]], edited the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page<br />
<br />
10/21 3:00pm - Met with blog team to talk about new structure!<br />
<br />
10/24 10:00am - Tried to finish women piece again lol<br />
<br />
10/25 4:00pm - Began researching for next blog post- looking at statistics for tech companies and their hiring of women and maternity benefits.<br />
<br />
10/26 10:00am - more research on tech companies and women's benefits. Also peer-edited two of Meghana's posts<br />
<br />
10/27 4:00pm - more research on benefits offered by tech companies. Google is cool!!<br />
<br />
10/28 10:00am - Happy Friday! Worked on the women's benefits in tech companies research and tried to find some articles for Ramee for twitter<br />
<br />
10/31 10:00am - Worked on a mix of the stuff from last week + making sure all of my blog posts work in our new organizational system<br />
<br />
11/01 4:00pm - Finishing touches on the Women in STEM post, then worked on the women in top 5 tech companies research<br />
<br />
11/02 10:00am - Started drafting the tech women's benefits post<br />
<br />
11/04 10:00am - Put the women in STEM post into wordpress and worked on the tech women post<br />
<br />
11/08 4:00pm - Peer edited Dylan's piece, worked on tech women post<br />
<br />
11/10 4:00pm - Looked at Carlin's post, edited the tech top 5 women post, sent it to Anne and Ed. Talked to Ed about what is next for me!<br />
<br />
11/11 10:00am - published women in STEM post! Then did research on entrepreneurship and human rights<br />
<br />
11/14 10:00am - looked at wordpress drafts, then worked on human rights and entrepreneurship blog post<br />
<br />
11/15 4:00pm - edited the innovation in public sector post and women in tech companies post<br />
<br />
11/16 10:00am - worked on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
11/17 4:00pm - edited women in tech companies post and continued to work on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
11/18 10:00am - worked on all three pieces that are currently in the works, edited blog posts, and made wiki pages for Anne<br />
<br />
11/18 3:30pm - Blog Team Meeting about style and the Yoast plugin<br />
<br />
11/21 10:00am - explored idea of a post about entrepreneurship and the holidays, tried to find pictures for my posts that are pending<br />
<br />
11/21 2:20pm - worked on editing the three posts that are in the works and getting them back to Anne for more feedback<br />
<br />
11/22 1:00pm - edited all three of the pieces so they are extra good when Anne reads them<br />
<br />
11/29 4:00pm - Began exploring a post for Anne about startups that make educational toys<br />
<br />
11/30 10:00am - Continued the startup toys post, finished and sent to Anne for editing<br />
<br />
12/01 4:00pm - Edited and added to all pending posts: [[Start-Ups for the Season (Blog Post)]] [[An Unlikely Pair: Human Rights and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]] [[How the Tech Top Five Treat their Women Employees (Blog Post)]] [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
12/05 1:00pm - Found photos for all pending posts, set them up in word press, made edits<br />
<br />
12/16 3:00pm - Last shift of the semester! Worked on getting out the posts, yay!<br />
<br />
==SPRING 2017==<br />
<br />
1/18 10-12 - Worked on the right to entrepreneurship post, talked to Anne about plans for the semester, looked in wordpress and marked spam comments on our blog posts.<br />
<br />
1/20 1-3:30 - Worked on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]] to investigate potential ways we could collaborate with other universities and improve our blog. Work meeting at 2pm.<br />
<br />
1/23 1-4:30 - Put the Right to Entrepreneurship post in wordpress (editing for readability and adding in links) and did more research on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]]<br />
<br />
1/25 10-12 - Brainstormed ideas for potential blog posts, ideas can be found on [[Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)]]. Also drafted tweets and put them in hootsuite.<br />
<br />
1/27 1-3:30 - Drafted tweets in hootsuite and did more exploring for potential blog post ideas. Right to entrepreneurship post was published!<br />
<br />
1/30 1-4:30 - Started writing a post about how Trump's Muslim ban may affect American entrepreneurship; it will be tabled until more concrete info is available. Updated wiki's blog post tally by going through and marking all published posts. Drafted tweets.<br />
<br />
2/1 10-12 - Drafted tweets. Did research on crowdfunding and social entrepreneurship, two topics I'd be interested in exploring for blog posts<br />
<br />
2/3 1-3:30 - Researched, edited, and re-drafted Ramee's blog post, [[Start-Up Visa (Blog Post)]].<br />
<br />
2/8 10-12 - Edited the Startup visa post in wordpress, did all of the SEO stuff, did more research on future blog posts. Came back from 4:30-6 - worked on crowdfunding post and talked to Ed about future projects<br />
<br />
2/13 1-4:30 - Researched [[Trump and Women in Entrepreneurship]] for the project on [[Women in Entrepreneurship (Issue Brief)]], worked on crowdfunding blog post, went through the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page and cleared out any outdated information/deleted duplicate pages, looked into research for [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2/15 10-12 - Finished first draft of [[Crowdfunding (Blog Post)]], looked into working on [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2/17 1-3:30 - To-dos and things covered in this shift: Crowdfunding post, women in entrepreneurship post, carried interest post, and proposal by Dr. Green<br />
<br />
2/20 1-3:30 - Same as above ^ working on these posts<br />
<br />
2/22 10-12 - Edited Eliza's post on Cincinnati. Finishing up crowdfunding post and women in entrepreneurship post. Started working on [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2/24 1-3:30 - Worked on editing the crowdfunding and women in entrepreneurship posts based on Ed's edits.<br />
<br />
2/27 1-4:30 - Mostly worked on the policy uncertainty piece. Briefly worked on women in entrepreneurship post, but need input from Carlin before we can do anything more!<br />
<br />
3/3 1-3:30 - Put crowdfunding post into WordPress. Waiting on Carlin's results before updating the women in entrepreneurship post. Doing more research on policy uncertainty<br />
<br />
3/6 1-4:30 - Started by investigating comments on WordPress blog posts (up until now, it seems we haven't been approving any comments even though some of them are good), worked on women's entrepreneurship post and put it into WordPress, worked on policy uncertainty and stock markets post and sent to a peer editor<br />
<br />
3/8 10-12 - Finished up women's entrepreneurship piece: ready for publishing. Edited Policy Uncertainty piece and sent on to Anne. Started editing [[Carried Interest Debate (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
3/10 1-3:30 - Talked to Ed about Policy Uncertainty post. Made edits and revisions to Policy Uncertainty post based on Dr. Green, Ed, and Anne's comments. Also worked on Carried Interest piece<br />
<br />
3/20 1-4:30 - Peer edited Carried Interest Debate page, worked on policy uncertainty post and carried interest debate post. Also participate in Ed's session where we learned how to use sequel to make database tables.<br />
<br />
3/22 10-12 - Finished up [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]] and put it into WordPress. Still need to put in links but otherwise, it is ready to go!<br />
<br />
3/24 1-3:30 - Finished working on Policy Uncertainty in WordPress; it is ready to be published. Then worked on editing Anne's post on congress' attention toward innovation so that all of the readability measures in wordpress are met!<br />
<br />
3/27 1-3:30 - Finished Carried Interest post and put it into wordpress. Started a post on Mass Challenge. Looked through WordPress Comments and approved/marked as spam as necessary<br />
<br />
3/29 10-12 - Cleaned up the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page so that all published posts were marked as such. Worked on Mass Challenge post. Edited Iris' posts.<br />
<br />
4/3 1-4:30 - Worked on [[Mass Challenge (Blog Post)]] and [[Research Parks and Innovation Districts (Blog Post)]], observed Ed's workshop on sequel<br />
<br />
4/7 1-3:30 - Finished up first draft of MassChallenge post. Worked on Research parks/innovation district post<br />
<br />
4/10 1:15-2:30 - Edited Iris's posts.<br />
<br />
5/9 1:30-2:45 - Working from home on Research Parks & Innovation districts post. Made edits and sent to Anne<br />
<br />
5/10 3:30-5 - Finished RP and ID post based on Anne's suggestions. Put it into Wordpress.<br />
<br />
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[[Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)]]<br />
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==FALL 2017==<br />
<br />
9/20 9:30-12 - Preliminary preparations for Augusta and Houston Projects<br />
<br />
9/21 1-4:30 - Continued preparation for [[Augusta Startup Ecosystem]] and [[Houston Innovation District]] Projects<br />
<br />
9/27 2-4:30 - Worked on data analysis and research for Augusta Project, looked into Augusta business news (there isn't very much of it!)<br />
<br />
10/4 9:30-12 - Continued working on Augusta project<br />
<br />
10/5 1-4:30 - Spent quite a while trying to figure out source data for patent data in slides for Augusta, then worked on cleaning up and adding to Augusta slides that were unfinished/not great, created cybersecurity slide<br />
<br />
10/6 10-12 - Added more slides and edited. Updated wiki page with info.<br />
<br />
10/11 9:30-12 - Worked on prep for [[Houston Innovation District]] project<br />
<br />
'''Week of 10/18- Can't log onto the RDP because I am using a rented laptop until my laptop is fixed'''<br />
<br />
10/18 2-4:30 - Working on Houston Innovation District project. Figuring out what we've done and what needs to be done. McNair center servers went down, while I was working, so I lost a decent amount of work that I had been doing to summarize what we had and had to start over when it was rebooted. Cleaned up the wiki page and summarized where we are so far: what data we have & where it is, what data we are currently collecting, and what data we still want/need. Began working on collecting information about tax codes, incentives for development offered in Houston.<br />
<br />
10/19 1-4:30 -Worked on Houston Innovation District more. All work is documented on the wiki page<br />
<br />
10/23 1-3 - Worked on a summary document for the Houston Innovation District project, verbal summaries of data analysis<br />
<br />
10/25 9:30-12 - Looked over summary and edited. Started working on a blog post on the role of fund of funds in venture capital by direction of Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
10/26 1-4:30 - Worked on [[Fund of Funds in VC]] Blog post<br />
<br />
11/1 9:30-12 - Tried to gather research to improve the VC FOF post. Edited and redrafted.<br />
<br />
==PAST SEMESTERS:==<br />
<br />
===FALL 2016===<br />
<br />
09/08 4:00pm - Introductory exploration, talked to Anne, made my wiki page<br />
<br />
09/09 10:00am - Research on women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for potential blog post/series<br />
<br />
09/12 10:00am - Worked on blog post about [[Women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]], finished it, sent to Anne for first round of edits<br />
<br />
09/13 4:00pm - Completed more research on women and innovation, but was uninspired and then sidetracked by the idea of a post about [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]. Did a lot of research on this for the rest of session<br />
<br />
09/14 10:00am - Worked on Innovation in Public Service piece, almost finished first draft<br />
<br />
09/15 4:00pm - Met some other members on the team, talked to Ed and got some tips for how to improve on blog posts, made a wiki page for idea generation<br />
<br />
09/16 10:00am - Explored the McNair wiki page to further educate myself on entrepreneurship and innovation and continued to refine my two already-drafted blog posts based on Ed's suggestions<br />
<br />
Week of 09/18-09/24 - No work because on a trip to Barcelona for a leadership conference.<br />
<br />
09/27 4:00pm - Back at it! Spent the day doing a project for Anne- making the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page for troubleshooting<br />
<br />
09/28 10:00am - Worked on Blog Post Best Practices again and talked to Anne and Ed about my Women blog post<br />
<br />
09/29 4:00pm - Briefly worked on Women blog post, met with Anne and other bloggers to talk about editing. started editing the ClintonKaine and Entreprenruship blog post for readability qualities, and continued working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page<br />
<br />
09/30 10:00am - Kept working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page and editing CK entrepreneurship article. Finished both (I think) and worked on Women piece for a while<br />
<br />
10/03 10:00am - Worked on women piece and editing blog posts for SEO/readability analysis<br />
<br />
10/04 4:00pm - Got women piece to a place where I am happy with it!<br />
<br />
10/05 10:00am - Worked on Policy Innovation blog post: probably going to take a new approach<br />
<br />
10/06 4:00pm - Finishing up new policy innovation blog post<br />
<br />
10/07 10:00am - Sent women blog post to Anne and Ed, looked through blog posts on the website and adjusted their settings in Yoast SEO for searchability, helped Ed do this for his new blog post.<br />
<br />
10/12 10:00am - Worked on women blog post based on Anne's comments.<br />
<br />
10/13 4:00pm - Worked on women blog post and sent it to Ed for final approval, made a proposal for structuring the blog post process and sent it to Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
10/14 and 10/16 - Not at work because parents are in town!<br />
<br />
10/18 4:00pm - worked on posts and Staff meeting at 5!<br />
<br />
10/19 10:00am - Met with Anne and Ed about blog structuring<br />
<br />
10/20 4:00pm - Worked with Anne on blog structure wiki page<br />
<br />
10/21 11:00am - Make wiki page for blog structure [[Blog Team]], edited the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page<br />
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10/21 3:00pm - Met with blog team to talk about new structure!<br />
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10/24 10:00am - Tried to finish women piece again lol<br />
<br />
10/25 4:00pm - Began researching for next blog post- looking at statistics for tech companies and their hiring of women and maternity benefits.<br />
<br />
10/26 10:00am - more research on tech companies and women's benefits. Also peer-edited two of Meghana's posts<br />
<br />
10/27 4:00pm - more research on benefits offered by tech companies. Google is cool!!<br />
<br />
10/28 10:00am - Happy Friday! Worked on the women's benefits in tech companies research and tried to find some articles for Ramee for twitter<br />
<br />
10/31 10:00am - Worked on a mix of the stuff from last week + making sure all of my blog posts work in our new organizational system<br />
<br />
11/01 4:00pm - Finishing touches on the Women in STEM post, then worked on the women in top 5 tech companies research<br />
<br />
11/02 10:00am - Started drafting the tech women's benefits post<br />
<br />
11/04 10:00am - Put the women in STEM post into wordpress and worked on the tech women post<br />
<br />
11/08 4:00pm - Peer edited Dylan's piece, worked on tech women post<br />
<br />
11/10 4:00pm - Looked at Carlin's post, edited the tech top 5 women post, sent it to Anne and Ed. Talked to Ed about what is next for me!<br />
<br />
11/11 10:00am - published women in STEM post! Then did research on entrepreneurship and human rights<br />
<br />
11/14 10:00am - looked at wordpress drafts, then worked on human rights and entrepreneurship blog post<br />
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11/15 4:00pm - edited the innovation in public sector post and women in tech companies post<br />
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11/16 10:00am - worked on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
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11/17 4:00pm - edited women in tech companies post and continued to work on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
11/18 10:00am - worked on all three pieces that are currently in the works, edited blog posts, and made wiki pages for Anne<br />
<br />
11/18 3:30pm - Blog Team Meeting about style and the Yoast plugin<br />
<br />
11/21 10:00am - explored idea of a post about entrepreneurship and the holidays, tried to find pictures for my posts that are pending<br />
<br />
11/21 2:20pm - worked on editing the three posts that are in the works and getting them back to Anne for more feedback<br />
<br />
11/22 1:00pm - edited all three of the pieces so they are extra good when Anne reads them<br />
<br />
11/29 4:00pm - Began exploring a post for Anne about startups that make educational toys<br />
<br />
11/30 10:00am - Continued the startup toys post, finished and sent to Anne for editing<br />
<br />
12/01 4:00pm - Edited and added to all pending posts: [[Start-Ups for the Season (Blog Post)]] [[An Unlikely Pair: Human Rights and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]] [[How the Tech Top Five Treat their Women Employees (Blog Post)]] [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]<br />
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12/05 1:00pm - Found photos for all pending posts, set them up in word press, made edits<br />
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12/16 3:00pm - Last shift of the semester! Worked on getting out the posts, yay!<br />
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==SPRING 2017==<br />
<br />
1/18 10-12 - Worked on the right to entrepreneurship post, talked to Anne about plans for the semester, looked in wordpress and marked spam comments on our blog posts.<br />
<br />
1/20 1-3:30 - Worked on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]] to investigate potential ways we could collaborate with other universities and improve our blog. Work meeting at 2pm.<br />
<br />
1/23 1-4:30 - Put the Right to Entrepreneurship post in wordpress (editing for readability and adding in links) and did more research on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]]<br />
<br />
1/25 10-12 - Brainstormed ideas for potential blog posts, ideas can be found on [[Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)]]. Also drafted tweets and put them in hootsuite.<br />
<br />
1/27 1-3:30 - Drafted tweets in hootsuite and did more exploring for potential blog post ideas. Right to entrepreneurship post was published!<br />
<br />
1/30 1-4:30 - Started writing a post about how Trump's Muslim ban may affect American entrepreneurship; it will be tabled until more concrete info is available. Updated wiki's blog post tally by going through and marking all published posts. Drafted tweets.<br />
<br />
2/1 10-12 - Drafted tweets. Did research on crowdfunding and social entrepreneurship, two topics I'd be interested in exploring for blog posts<br />
<br />
2/3 1-3:30 - Researched, edited, and re-drafted Ramee's blog post, [[Start-Up Visa (Blog Post)]].<br />
<br />
2/8 10-12 - Edited the Startup visa post in wordpress, did all of the SEO stuff, did more research on future blog posts. Came back from 4:30-6 - worked on crowdfunding post and talked to Ed about future projects<br />
<br />
2/13 1-4:30 - Researched [[Trump and Women in Entrepreneurship]] for the project on [[Women in Entrepreneurship (Issue Brief)]], worked on crowdfunding blog post, went through the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page and cleared out any outdated information/deleted duplicate pages, looked into research for [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
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2/15 10-12 - Finished first draft of [[Crowdfunding (Blog Post)]], looked into working on [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2/17 1-3:30 - To-dos and things covered in this shift: Crowdfunding post, women in entrepreneurship post, carried interest post, and proposal by Dr. Green<br />
<br />
2/20 1-3:30 - Same as above ^ working on these posts<br />
<br />
2/22 10-12 - Edited Eliza's post on Cincinnati. Finishing up crowdfunding post and women in entrepreneurship post. Started working on [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2/24 1-3:30 - Worked on editing the crowdfunding and women in entrepreneurship posts based on Ed's edits.<br />
<br />
2/27 1-4:30 - Mostly worked on the policy uncertainty piece. Briefly worked on women in entrepreneurship post, but need input from Carlin before we can do anything more!<br />
<br />
3/3 1-3:30 - Put crowdfunding post into WordPress. Waiting on Carlin's results before updating the women in entrepreneurship post. Doing more research on policy uncertainty<br />
<br />
3/6 1-4:30 - Started by investigating comments on WordPress blog posts (up until now, it seems we haven't been approving any comments even though some of them are good), worked on women's entrepreneurship post and put it into WordPress, worked on policy uncertainty and stock markets post and sent to a peer editor<br />
<br />
3/8 10-12 - Finished up women's entrepreneurship piece: ready for publishing. Edited Policy Uncertainty piece and sent on to Anne. Started editing [[Carried Interest Debate (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
3/10 1-3:30 - Talked to Ed about Policy Uncertainty post. Made edits and revisions to Policy Uncertainty post based on Dr. Green, Ed, and Anne's comments. Also worked on Carried Interest piece<br />
<br />
3/20 1-4:30 - Peer edited Carried Interest Debate page, worked on policy uncertainty post and carried interest debate post. Also participate in Ed's session where we learned how to use sequel to make database tables.<br />
<br />
3/22 10-12 - Finished up [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]] and put it into WordPress. Still need to put in links but otherwise, it is ready to go!<br />
<br />
3/24 1-3:30 - Finished working on Policy Uncertainty in WordPress; it is ready to be published. Then worked on editing Anne's post on congress' attention toward innovation so that all of the readability measures in wordpress are met!<br />
<br />
3/27 1-3:30 - Finished Carried Interest post and put it into wordpress. Started a post on Mass Challenge. Looked through WordPress Comments and approved/marked as spam as necessary<br />
<br />
3/29 10-12 - Cleaned up the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page so that all published posts were marked as such. Worked on Mass Challenge post. Edited Iris' posts.<br />
<br />
4/3 1-4:30 - Worked on [[Mass Challenge (Blog Post)]] and [[Research Parks and Innovation Districts (Blog Post)]], observed Ed's workshop on sequel<br />
<br />
4/7 1-3:30 - Finished up first draft of MassChallenge post. Worked on Research parks/innovation district post<br />
<br />
4/10 1:15-2:30 - Edited Iris's posts.<br />
<br />
5/9 1:30-2:45 - Working from home on Research Parks & Innovation districts post. Made edits and sent to Anne<br />
<br />
5/10 3:30-5 - Finished RP and ID post based on Anne's suggestions. Put it into Wordpress.<br />
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[[Tay Jacobe]] [[Work Logs]] [[Tay Jacobe (Work Log)|(log page)]]<br />
[[Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)]]<br />
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==FALL 2017==<br />
<br />
9/20 9:30-12 - Preliminary preparations for Augusta and Houston Projects<br />
<br />
9/21 1-4:30 - Continued preparation for [[Augusta Startup Ecosystem]] and [[Houston Innovation District]] Projects<br />
<br />
9/27 2-4:30 - Worked on data analysis and research for Augusta Project, looked into Augusta business news (there isn't very much of it!)<br />
<br />
10/4 9:30-12 - Continued working on Augusta project<br />
<br />
10/5 1-4:30 - Spent quite a while trying to figure out source data for patent data in slides for Augusta, then worked on cleaning up and adding to Augusta slides that were unfinished/not great, created cybersecurity slide<br />
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10/6 10-12 - Added more slides and edited. Updated wiki page with info.<br />
<br />
10/11 9:30-12 - Worked on prep for [[Houston Innovation District]] project<br />
<br />
'''Week of 10/18- Can't log onto the RDP because I am using a rented laptop until my laptop is fixed'''<br />
<br />
10/18 2-4:30 - Working on Houston Innovation District project. Figuring out what we've done and what needs to be done. McNair center servers went down, while I was working, so I lost a decent amount of work that I had been doing to summarize what we had and had to start over when it was rebooted. Cleaned up the wiki page and summarized where we are so far: what data we have & where it is, what data we are currently collecting, and what data we still want/need. Began working on collecting information about tax codes, incentives for development offered in Houston.<br />
<br />
10/19 1-4:30 -Worked on Houston Innovation District more. All work is documented on the wiki page<br />
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10/23 1-3 - Worked on a summary document for the Houston Innovation District project, verbal summaries of data analysis<br />
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10/25 9:30-12 - Looked over summary and edited. Started working on a blog post on the role of fund of funds in venture capital by direction of Anne and Ed<br />
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10/26 1-4:30 - Worked on [[Fund of Funds in VC]] Blog post<br />
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==PAST SEMESTERS:==<br />
<br />
===FALL 2016===<br />
<br />
09/08 4:00pm - Introductory exploration, talked to Anne, made my wiki page<br />
<br />
09/09 10:00am - Research on women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for potential blog post/series<br />
<br />
09/12 10:00am - Worked on blog post about [[Women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]], finished it, sent to Anne for first round of edits<br />
<br />
09/13 4:00pm - Completed more research on women and innovation, but was uninspired and then sidetracked by the idea of a post about [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]. Did a lot of research on this for the rest of session<br />
<br />
09/14 10:00am - Worked on Innovation in Public Service piece, almost finished first draft<br />
<br />
09/15 4:00pm - Met some other members on the team, talked to Ed and got some tips for how to improve on blog posts, made a wiki page for idea generation<br />
<br />
09/16 10:00am - Explored the McNair wiki page to further educate myself on entrepreneurship and innovation and continued to refine my two already-drafted blog posts based on Ed's suggestions<br />
<br />
Week of 09/18-09/24 - No work because on a trip to Barcelona for a leadership conference.<br />
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09/27 4:00pm - Back at it! Spent the day doing a project for Anne- making the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page for troubleshooting<br />
<br />
09/28 10:00am - Worked on Blog Post Best Practices again and talked to Anne and Ed about my Women blog post<br />
<br />
09/29 4:00pm - Briefly worked on Women blog post, met with Anne and other bloggers to talk about editing. started editing the ClintonKaine and Entreprenruship blog post for readability qualities, and continued working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page<br />
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09/30 10:00am - Kept working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page and editing CK entrepreneurship article. Finished both (I think) and worked on Women piece for a while<br />
<br />
10/03 10:00am - Worked on women piece and editing blog posts for SEO/readability analysis<br />
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10/04 4:00pm - Got women piece to a place where I am happy with it!<br />
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10/05 10:00am - Worked on Policy Innovation blog post: probably going to take a new approach<br />
<br />
10/06 4:00pm - Finishing up new policy innovation blog post<br />
<br />
10/07 10:00am - Sent women blog post to Anne and Ed, looked through blog posts on the website and adjusted their settings in Yoast SEO for searchability, helped Ed do this for his new blog post.<br />
<br />
10/12 10:00am - Worked on women blog post based on Anne's comments.<br />
<br />
10/13 4:00pm - Worked on women blog post and sent it to Ed for final approval, made a proposal for structuring the blog post process and sent it to Anne and Ed<br />
<br />
10/14 and 10/16 - Not at work because parents are in town!<br />
<br />
10/18 4:00pm - worked on posts and Staff meeting at 5!<br />
<br />
10/19 10:00am - Met with Anne and Ed about blog structuring<br />
<br />
10/20 4:00pm - Worked with Anne on blog structure wiki page<br />
<br />
10/21 11:00am - Make wiki page for blog structure [[Blog Team]], edited the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page<br />
<br />
10/21 3:00pm - Met with blog team to talk about new structure!<br />
<br />
10/24 10:00am - Tried to finish women piece again lol<br />
<br />
10/25 4:00pm - Began researching for next blog post- looking at statistics for tech companies and their hiring of women and maternity benefits.<br />
<br />
10/26 10:00am - more research on tech companies and women's benefits. Also peer-edited two of Meghana's posts<br />
<br />
10/27 4:00pm - more research on benefits offered by tech companies. Google is cool!!<br />
<br />
10/28 10:00am - Happy Friday! Worked on the women's benefits in tech companies research and tried to find some articles for Ramee for twitter<br />
<br />
10/31 10:00am - Worked on a mix of the stuff from last week + making sure all of my blog posts work in our new organizational system<br />
<br />
11/01 4:00pm - Finishing touches on the Women in STEM post, then worked on the women in top 5 tech companies research<br />
<br />
11/02 10:00am - Started drafting the tech women's benefits post<br />
<br />
11/04 10:00am - Put the women in STEM post into wordpress and worked on the tech women post<br />
<br />
11/08 4:00pm - Peer edited Dylan's piece, worked on tech women post<br />
<br />
11/10 4:00pm - Looked at Carlin's post, edited the tech top 5 women post, sent it to Anne and Ed. Talked to Ed about what is next for me!<br />
<br />
11/11 10:00am - published women in STEM post! Then did research on entrepreneurship and human rights<br />
<br />
11/14 10:00am - looked at wordpress drafts, then worked on human rights and entrepreneurship blog post<br />
<br />
11/15 4:00pm - edited the innovation in public sector post and women in tech companies post<br />
<br />
11/16 10:00am - worked on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
11/17 4:00pm - edited women in tech companies post and continued to work on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
<br />
11/18 10:00am - worked on all three pieces that are currently in the works, edited blog posts, and made wiki pages for Anne<br />
<br />
11/18 3:30pm - Blog Team Meeting about style and the Yoast plugin<br />
<br />
11/21 10:00am - explored idea of a post about entrepreneurship and the holidays, tried to find pictures for my posts that are pending<br />
<br />
11/21 2:20pm - worked on editing the three posts that are in the works and getting them back to Anne for more feedback<br />
<br />
11/22 1:00pm - edited all three of the pieces so they are extra good when Anne reads them<br />
<br />
11/29 4:00pm - Began exploring a post for Anne about startups that make educational toys<br />
<br />
11/30 10:00am - Continued the startup toys post, finished and sent to Anne for editing<br />
<br />
12/01 4:00pm - Edited and added to all pending posts: [[Start-Ups for the Season (Blog Post)]] [[An Unlikely Pair: Human Rights and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]] [[How the Tech Top Five Treat their Women Employees (Blog Post)]] [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]<br />
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12/05 1:00pm - Found photos for all pending posts, set them up in word press, made edits<br />
<br />
12/16 3:00pm - Last shift of the semester! Worked on getting out the posts, yay!<br />
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==SPRING 2017==<br />
<br />
1/18 10-12 - Worked on the right to entrepreneurship post, talked to Anne about plans for the semester, looked in wordpress and marked spam comments on our blog posts.<br />
<br />
1/20 1-3:30 - Worked on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]] to investigate potential ways we could collaborate with other universities and improve our blog. Work meeting at 2pm.<br />
<br />
1/23 1-4:30 - Put the Right to Entrepreneurship post in wordpress (editing for readability and adding in links) and did more research on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]]<br />
<br />
1/25 10-12 - Brainstormed ideas for potential blog posts, ideas can be found on [[Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)]]. Also drafted tweets and put them in hootsuite.<br />
<br />
1/27 1-3:30 - Drafted tweets in hootsuite and did more exploring for potential blog post ideas. Right to entrepreneurship post was published!<br />
<br />
1/30 1-4:30 - Started writing a post about how Trump's Muslim ban may affect American entrepreneurship; it will be tabled until more concrete info is available. Updated wiki's blog post tally by going through and marking all published posts. Drafted tweets.<br />
<br />
2/1 10-12 - Drafted tweets. Did research on crowdfunding and social entrepreneurship, two topics I'd be interested in exploring for blog posts<br />
<br />
2/3 1-3:30 - Researched, edited, and re-drafted Ramee's blog post, [[Start-Up Visa (Blog Post)]].<br />
<br />
2/8 10-12 - Edited the Startup visa post in wordpress, did all of the SEO stuff, did more research on future blog posts. Came back from 4:30-6 - worked on crowdfunding post and talked to Ed about future projects<br />
<br />
2/13 1-4:30 - Researched [[Trump and Women in Entrepreneurship]] for the project on [[Women in Entrepreneurship (Issue Brief)]], worked on crowdfunding blog post, went through the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page and cleared out any outdated information/deleted duplicate pages, looked into research for [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
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2/15 10-12 - Finished first draft of [[Crowdfunding (Blog Post)]], looked into working on [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2/17 1-3:30 - To-dos and things covered in this shift: Crowdfunding post, women in entrepreneurship post, carried interest post, and proposal by Dr. Green<br />
<br />
2/20 1-3:30 - Same as above ^ working on these posts<br />
<br />
2/22 10-12 - Edited Eliza's post on Cincinnati. Finishing up crowdfunding post and women in entrepreneurship post. Started working on [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
2/24 1-3:30 - Worked on editing the crowdfunding and women in entrepreneurship posts based on Ed's edits.<br />
<br />
2/27 1-4:30 - Mostly worked on the policy uncertainty piece. Briefly worked on women in entrepreneurship post, but need input from Carlin before we can do anything more!<br />
<br />
3/3 1-3:30 - Put crowdfunding post into WordPress. Waiting on Carlin's results before updating the women in entrepreneurship post. Doing more research on policy uncertainty<br />
<br />
3/6 1-4:30 - Started by investigating comments on WordPress blog posts (up until now, it seems we haven't been approving any comments even though some of them are good), worked on women's entrepreneurship post and put it into WordPress, worked on policy uncertainty and stock markets post and sent to a peer editor<br />
<br />
3/8 10-12 - Finished up women's entrepreneurship piece: ready for publishing. Edited Policy Uncertainty piece and sent on to Anne. Started editing [[Carried Interest Debate (Blog Post)]]<br />
<br />
3/10 1-3:30 - Talked to Ed about Policy Uncertainty post. Made edits and revisions to Policy Uncertainty post based on Dr. Green, Ed, and Anne's comments. Also worked on Carried Interest piece<br />
<br />
3/20 1-4:30 - Peer edited Carried Interest Debate page, worked on policy uncertainty post and carried interest debate post. Also participate in Ed's session where we learned how to use sequel to make database tables.<br />
<br />
3/22 10-12 - Finished up [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]] and put it into WordPress. Still need to put in links but otherwise, it is ready to go!<br />
<br />
3/24 1-3:30 - Finished working on Policy Uncertainty in WordPress; it is ready to be published. Then worked on editing Anne's post on congress' attention toward innovation so that all of the readability measures in wordpress are met!<br />
<br />
3/27 1-3:30 - Finished Carried Interest post and put it into wordpress. Started a post on Mass Challenge. Looked through WordPress Comments and approved/marked as spam as necessary<br />
<br />
3/29 10-12 - Cleaned up the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page so that all published posts were marked as such. Worked on Mass Challenge post. Edited Iris' posts.<br />
<br />
4/3 1-4:30 - Worked on [[Mass Challenge (Blog Post)]] and [[Research Parks and Innovation Districts (Blog Post)]], observed Ed's workshop on sequel<br />
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4/7 1-3:30 - Finished up first draft of MassChallenge post. Worked on Research parks/innovation district post<br />
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4/10 1:15-2:30 - Edited Iris's posts.<br />
<br />
5/9 1:30-2:45 - Working from home on Research Parks & Innovation districts post. Made edits and sent to Anne<br />
<br />
5/10 3:30-5 - Finished RP and ID post based on Anne's suggestions. Put it into Wordpress.<br />
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[[Category:Work Log]]</div>Tayjacobe22http://www.edegan.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Fund_of_Funds_in_VC&diff=21063Fund of Funds in VC2017-10-25T15:16:39Z<p>Tayjacobe22: Created page with "{{BlogPost |Has title=Fund of Funds in VC |Has author=Taylor Jacobe |Has content status=Idea |Has graphics status=None |Has processing notes=Suggested by Anne }} Link to doc:..."</p>
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[[Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)]]<br />
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==FALL 2017==<br />
<br />
9/20 9:30-12 - Preliminary preparations for Augusta and Houston Projects<br />
<br />
9/21 1-4:30 - Continued preparation for [[Augusta Startup Ecosystem]] and [[Houston Innovation District]] Projects<br />
<br />
9/27 2-4:30 - Worked on data analysis and research for Augusta Project, looked into Augusta business news (there isn't very much of it!)<br />
<br />
10/4 9:30-12 - Continued working on Augusta project<br />
<br />
10/5 1-4:30 - Spent quite a while trying to figure out source data for patent data in slides for Augusta, then worked on cleaning up and adding to Augusta slides that were unfinished/not great, created cybersecurity slide<br />
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10/6 10-12 - Added more slides and edited. Updated wiki page with info.<br />
<br />
10/11 9:30-12 - Worked on prep for [[Houston Innovation District]] project<br />
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'''Week of 10/18- Can't log onto the RDP because I am using a rented laptop until my laptop is fixed'''<br />
<br />
10/18 2-4:30 - Working on Houston Innovation District project. Figuring out what we've done and what needs to be done. McNair center servers went down, while I was working, so I lost a decent amount of work that I had been doing to summarize what we had and had to start over when it was rebooted. Cleaned up the wiki page and summarized where we are so far: what data we have & where it is, what data we are currently collecting, and what data we still want/need. Began working on collecting information about tax codes, incentives for development offered in Houston.<br />
<br />
10/19 1-4:30 -Worked on Houston Innovation District more. All work is documented on the wiki page<br />
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10/23 1-3 - Worked on a summary document for the Houston Innovation District project, verbal summaries of data analysis<br />
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10/25 9:30-12 - Looked over summary and edited. Started working on a blog post on the role of fund of funds in venture capital by direction of Anne and Ed<br />
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==PAST SEMESTERS:==<br />
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===FALL 2016===<br />
<br />
09/08 4:00pm - Introductory exploration, talked to Anne, made my wiki page<br />
<br />
09/09 10:00am - Research on women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for potential blog post/series<br />
<br />
09/12 10:00am - Worked on blog post about [[Women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]], finished it, sent to Anne for first round of edits<br />
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09/13 4:00pm - Completed more research on women and innovation, but was uninspired and then sidetracked by the idea of a post about [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]. Did a lot of research on this for the rest of session<br />
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09/14 10:00am - Worked on Innovation in Public Service piece, almost finished first draft<br />
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09/15 4:00pm - Met some other members on the team, talked to Ed and got some tips for how to improve on blog posts, made a wiki page for idea generation<br />
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09/16 10:00am - Explored the McNair wiki page to further educate myself on entrepreneurship and innovation and continued to refine my two already-drafted blog posts based on Ed's suggestions<br />
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Week of 09/18-09/24 - No work because on a trip to Barcelona for a leadership conference.<br />
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09/27 4:00pm - Back at it! Spent the day doing a project for Anne- making the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page for troubleshooting<br />
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09/28 10:00am - Worked on Blog Post Best Practices again and talked to Anne and Ed about my Women blog post<br />
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09/29 4:00pm - Briefly worked on Women blog post, met with Anne and other bloggers to talk about editing. started editing the ClintonKaine and Entreprenruship blog post for readability qualities, and continued working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page<br />
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09/30 10:00am - Kept working on Blog Post Best Practices wiki page and editing CK entrepreneurship article. Finished both (I think) and worked on Women piece for a while<br />
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10/03 10:00am - Worked on women piece and editing blog posts for SEO/readability analysis<br />
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10/04 4:00pm - Got women piece to a place where I am happy with it!<br />
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10/05 10:00am - Worked on Policy Innovation blog post: probably going to take a new approach<br />
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10/06 4:00pm - Finishing up new policy innovation blog post<br />
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10/07 10:00am - Sent women blog post to Anne and Ed, looked through blog posts on the website and adjusted their settings in Yoast SEO for searchability, helped Ed do this for his new blog post.<br />
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10/12 10:00am - Worked on women blog post based on Anne's comments.<br />
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10/13 4:00pm - Worked on women blog post and sent it to Ed for final approval, made a proposal for structuring the blog post process and sent it to Anne and Ed<br />
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10/14 and 10/16 - Not at work because parents are in town!<br />
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10/18 4:00pm - worked on posts and Staff meeting at 5!<br />
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10/19 10:00am - Met with Anne and Ed about blog structuring<br />
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10/20 4:00pm - Worked with Anne on blog structure wiki page<br />
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10/21 11:00am - Make wiki page for blog structure [[Blog Team]], edited the [[Blog Post Best Practices]] page<br />
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10/21 3:00pm - Met with blog team to talk about new structure!<br />
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10/24 10:00am - Tried to finish women piece again lol<br />
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10/25 4:00pm - Began researching for next blog post- looking at statistics for tech companies and their hiring of women and maternity benefits.<br />
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10/26 10:00am - more research on tech companies and women's benefits. Also peer-edited two of Meghana's posts<br />
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10/27 4:00pm - more research on benefits offered by tech companies. Google is cool!!<br />
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10/28 10:00am - Happy Friday! Worked on the women's benefits in tech companies research and tried to find some articles for Ramee for twitter<br />
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10/31 10:00am - Worked on a mix of the stuff from last week + making sure all of my blog posts work in our new organizational system<br />
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11/01 4:00pm - Finishing touches on the Women in STEM post, then worked on the women in top 5 tech companies research<br />
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11/02 10:00am - Started drafting the tech women's benefits post<br />
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11/04 10:00am - Put the women in STEM post into wordpress and worked on the tech women post<br />
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11/08 4:00pm - Peer edited Dylan's piece, worked on tech women post<br />
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11/10 4:00pm - Looked at Carlin's post, edited the tech top 5 women post, sent it to Anne and Ed. Talked to Ed about what is next for me!<br />
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11/11 10:00am - published women in STEM post! Then did research on entrepreneurship and human rights<br />
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11/14 10:00am - looked at wordpress drafts, then worked on human rights and entrepreneurship blog post<br />
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11/15 4:00pm - edited the innovation in public sector post and women in tech companies post<br />
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11/16 10:00am - worked on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
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11/17 4:00pm - edited women in tech companies post and continued to work on entrepreneurship and human rights post<br />
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11/18 10:00am - worked on all three pieces that are currently in the works, edited blog posts, and made wiki pages for Anne<br />
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11/18 3:30pm - Blog Team Meeting about style and the Yoast plugin<br />
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11/21 10:00am - explored idea of a post about entrepreneurship and the holidays, tried to find pictures for my posts that are pending<br />
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11/21 2:20pm - worked on editing the three posts that are in the works and getting them back to Anne for more feedback<br />
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11/22 1:00pm - edited all three of the pieces so they are extra good when Anne reads them<br />
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11/29 4:00pm - Began exploring a post for Anne about startups that make educational toys<br />
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11/30 10:00am - Continued the startup toys post, finished and sent to Anne for editing<br />
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12/01 4:00pm - Edited and added to all pending posts: [[Start-Ups for the Season (Blog Post)]] [[An Unlikely Pair: Human Rights and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]] [[How the Tech Top Five Treat their Women Employees (Blog Post)]] [[Innovation in the Public Sector (Blog Post)]]<br />
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12/05 1:00pm - Found photos for all pending posts, set them up in word press, made edits<br />
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12/16 3:00pm - Last shift of the semester! Worked on getting out the posts, yay!<br />
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==SPRING 2017==<br />
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1/18 10-12 - Worked on the right to entrepreneurship post, talked to Anne about plans for the semester, looked in wordpress and marked spam comments on our blog posts.<br />
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1/20 1-3:30 - Worked on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]] to investigate potential ways we could collaborate with other universities and improve our blog. Work meeting at 2pm.<br />
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1/23 1-4:30 - Put the Right to Entrepreneurship post in wordpress (editing for readability and adding in links) and did more research on [[Comparable Programs to McNair Center]]<br />
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1/25 10-12 - Brainstormed ideas for potential blog posts, ideas can be found on [[Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)]]. Also drafted tweets and put them in hootsuite.<br />
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1/27 1-3:30 - Drafted tweets in hootsuite and did more exploring for potential blog post ideas. Right to entrepreneurship post was published!<br />
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1/30 1-4:30 - Started writing a post about how Trump's Muslim ban may affect American entrepreneurship; it will be tabled until more concrete info is available. Updated wiki's blog post tally by going through and marking all published posts. Drafted tweets.<br />
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2/1 10-12 - Drafted tweets. Did research on crowdfunding and social entrepreneurship, two topics I'd be interested in exploring for blog posts<br />
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2/3 1-3:30 - Researched, edited, and re-drafted Ramee's blog post, [[Start-Up Visa (Blog Post)]].<br />
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2/8 10-12 - Edited the Startup visa post in wordpress, did all of the SEO stuff, did more research on future blog posts. Came back from 4:30-6 - worked on crowdfunding post and talked to Ed about future projects<br />
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2/13 1-4:30 - Researched [[Trump and Women in Entrepreneurship]] for the project on [[Women in Entrepreneurship (Issue Brief)]], worked on crowdfunding blog post, went through the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page and cleared out any outdated information/deleted duplicate pages, looked into research for [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
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2/15 10-12 - Finished first draft of [[Crowdfunding (Blog Post)]], looked into working on [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]<br />
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2/17 1-3:30 - To-dos and things covered in this shift: Crowdfunding post, women in entrepreneurship post, carried interest post, and proposal by Dr. Green<br />
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2/20 1-3:30 - Same as above ^ working on these posts<br />
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2/22 10-12 - Edited Eliza's post on Cincinnati. Finishing up crowdfunding post and women in entrepreneurship post. Started working on [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]]<br />
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2/24 1-3:30 - Worked on editing the crowdfunding and women in entrepreneurship posts based on Ed's edits.<br />
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2/27 1-4:30 - Mostly worked on the policy uncertainty piece. Briefly worked on women in entrepreneurship post, but need input from Carlin before we can do anything more!<br />
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3/3 1-3:30 - Put crowdfunding post into WordPress. Waiting on Carlin's results before updating the women in entrepreneurship post. Doing more research on policy uncertainty<br />
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3/6 1-4:30 - Started by investigating comments on WordPress blog posts (up until now, it seems we haven't been approving any comments even though some of them are good), worked on women's entrepreneurship post and put it into WordPress, worked on policy uncertainty and stock markets post and sent to a peer editor<br />
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3/8 10-12 - Finished up women's entrepreneurship piece: ready for publishing. Edited Policy Uncertainty piece and sent on to Anne. Started editing [[Carried Interest Debate (Blog Post)]]<br />
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3/10 1-3:30 - Talked to Ed about Policy Uncertainty post. Made edits and revisions to Policy Uncertainty post based on Dr. Green, Ed, and Anne's comments. Also worked on Carried Interest piece<br />
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3/20 1-4:30 - Peer edited Carried Interest Debate page, worked on policy uncertainty post and carried interest debate post. Also participate in Ed's session where we learned how to use sequel to make database tables.<br />
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3/22 10-12 - Finished up [[Policy Uncertainty and Stock Markets (Blog Post)]] and put it into WordPress. Still need to put in links but otherwise, it is ready to go!<br />
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3/24 1-3:30 - Finished working on Policy Uncertainty in WordPress; it is ready to be published. Then worked on editing Anne's post on congress' attention toward innovation so that all of the readability measures in wordpress are met!<br />
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3/27 1-3:30 - Finished Carried Interest post and put it into wordpress. Started a post on Mass Challenge. Looked through WordPress Comments and approved/marked as spam as necessary<br />
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3/29 10-12 - Cleaned up the [[Writing Blog Posts]] page so that all published posts were marked as such. Worked on Mass Challenge post. Edited Iris' posts.<br />
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4/3 1-4:30 - Worked on [[Mass Challenge (Blog Post)]] and [[Research Parks and Innovation Districts (Blog Post)]], observed Ed's workshop on sequel<br />
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4/7 1-3:30 - Finished up first draft of MassChallenge post. Worked on Research parks/innovation district post<br />
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4/10 1:15-2:30 - Edited Iris's posts.<br />
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5/9 1:30-2:45 - Working from home on Research Parks & Innovation districts post. Made edits and sent to Anne<br />
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5/10 3:30-5 - Finished RP and ID post based on Anne's suggestions. Put it into Wordpress.<br />
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[[Category:Work Log]]</div>Tayjacobe22http://www.edegan.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Augusta_Startup_Ecosystem&diff=21058Augusta Startup Ecosystem2017-10-25T14:36:53Z<p>Tayjacobe22: </p>
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<div>{{McNair Projects<br />
|Has owner=Ben Baldazo, Dylan Dickens, Joe Reilly, Taylor Jacobe,<br />
|Has start date=9/20/2017<br />
|Has deadline=10/6/2017<br />
|Has notes=End product is slide deck<br />
|Has project status=Complete<br />
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=Update=<br />
We have created slides with key information and data summaries in Bulk/McNair/Projects/Innovation Districts/Augusta Startup Ecosystem/. This wiki has more information and sources for the information that is in the slides. Ed will be presenting to key players in Augusta during the week of 10/9/2017.<br />
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=General Description=<br />
Augusta, Georgia<br />
*US CyberCommand is going to locate their headquarters there, and in response, City of Augusta + Georgia want to ensure an ecosystem exists there to pull from <br />
**Needs recruits, programmers<br />
*University of Augusta is in the local area<br />
*Want to build a startup ecosystem around the headquarters<br />
*Find all of the important inno people in Georgia<br />
**How can we piece an ecosystem together?<br />
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=Powerpoint sources [sourced by slide]=<br />
==Entrepreneurship institutions are not drivers of the Augusta economy==<br />
*NOTE: Augusta's number of incubators should be 1, not zero: see http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Augusta_Startup_Ecosystem#Augusta_Incubators<br />
==Augusta's economics and research environment may be leveraged==<br />
*Skilled Workforce<br />
**see http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Augusta_Startup_Ecosystem#Educational_Attainment<br />
*Research Environment<br />
** R&D data from "Public Firms" excel file in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Augusta Startup Ecosystem\CompuStat. <br />
**Patent data ranking source: AugustaPatents.xlsx has a tab with filtered results to only include patents from organications with Inc./Incorporated<br />
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==Cities with similar profiles are outperforming Augusta==<br />
* VC Data Ranking in E:\McNair\Projects\Ecosystem\Ranking\RankingByEdv2.<br />
* % college grads: see http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Augusta_Startup_Ecosystem#Educational_Attainment)<br />
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==There are limited high-growth funding opportunities in Augusta==<br />
VC data source: see http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Augusta_Startup_Ecosystem#VC_Data_Summary<br />
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==Accelerator Programs slide==<br />
source: http://flashpoint.gatech.edu/<br />
==Partners for growth should be drawn from past sponsors of innovation==<br />
Sponsors from https://theclubhou.se/<br />
==Current Resources Indicate Potential==<br />
sources: https://theclubhou.se/ and http://www.augustainnovationzone.com/index.html<br />
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==Grants and contracts can provide funding to nascent businesses==<br />
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Data pulled from https://www.usaspending.gov/DownloadCenter/Pages/DataDownload.aspx. The file is "GeoAllGrantsFY16" in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Augusta Startup Ecosystem\All Federal Grants.<br />
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*NOTE: This data is filtered by Augusta, not Augusta University.<br />
*Pivot tables re-created in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Augusta Startup Ecosystem\All Federal Grants for Contracts & Grants.<br />
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==Public Firms—Potential for R&D Funding==<br />
source for R&D funding: <br />
*for all public firms, "Public Firms" excel file in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Augusta Startup Ecosystem\CompuStat (publicly traded firms). The data that appears is filtered by Augusta or Georgia. <br />
*for companies on NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, "Firms on NYSE NASDAQ AMEX yr 2016" excel file in the same folder.<br />
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==Tax Allocation, Enterprise, and Opportunity Zones Provide Incentives==<br />
*For more info on current resources, see this wiki page's section entitled "Augusta Economic Development Authority- Development Authority of Richmond County (DARC)"<br />
*Suggested resources are from http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/blog/research-parks-innovation-districts/ blog post<br />
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=Potential Corporate Headquarters / Branches=<br />
Potential way to see: look at donors to Augusta based Arts or Museums<br />
*Augusta Ballet support (scroll to bottom): http://www.augustaballet.org/support/<br />
**Only Corporate sponser is "Superior Office Systems"<br />
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=VC Data Summary=<br />
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Find Data here:<br />
There is a company level VC data file, with exits, deal type flags, dead/alive years, and round summary info in <br />
E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Augusta Startup Ecosystem<br />
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This file is '''PortCoMaster.txt'''.<br />
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Excel File with data filtered by Tay is '''Relevant VC Data'''<br />
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Relevant Cities from "E:\McNair\Projects\Ecosystem\Ranking\RankingByEdv2_ changes by DC v2.xlsx"<br />
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Transferred to "E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Augusta Startup Ecosystem\GA Cities from Ecosystem Rankings.xlsx"<br />
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Original text file as excel saved in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Augusta Startup Ecosystem as "Relevant VC Data original.<br />
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Augusta, Georgia: 7 Results- <br />
*NRF Distributors Inc, Keymarket Partners, Lexicor Medical Technology Inc, Keymarket III, Solo Cup Operating Corp, Joseph Kirschner Company Inc, and Sagamore Hill Broadcasting LLC. Only Sagamore Hill Broadcasting has received funding in the last 20 years, all the rest were earlier. '''Conclusion: Augusta's VC scene is not good at all. If only one company has been VC backed in the last 20 years, this is worrisome'''<br />
**Sagamore Hill Broadcasting owns and operates television-broadcasting stations in the Great Lakes and Southern US. It is a joint venture of the investment firm Duff Ackerman & Goodrich of San Francisco, California and former Benedek Broadcasting and Spartan Communications executive Louis Wall (who is also CEO of the group).<br />
*None are in the categories listed below<br />
*According to AngelList, there are 9 startups in Augusta GA noted in "Augusta Startups AngelList.txt"<br />
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Atlanta, Georgia: ~550 results- <br />
*200 of these are in the last decade; Atlanta is clearly attracting VC funding. How can we expand that success to Augusta? <br />
*Of those in the last decade, small proportion could be cybersecurity-related: <br />
**3 Internet Security and Transaction Services<br />
**10 Security/Firewalls/Encryption software<br />
**None of the other categories listed below<br />
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Charleston, South Carolina- ~30 results- <br />
*In general, these investments are far more recent than those in Augusta, with half of these results taking place within the last decade.<br />
*Only one Security/Firewalls/Encryption- PhishLabs<br />
*None of the other categories listed below<br />
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Other local areas<br />
*Athens, Georgia: 15 VC funded, 7 within last decade<br />
*Savannah, Georgia: 5 VC funded, 1 within last decade<br />
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Silicon Valley:<br />
Accelerators<br />
*Included these filters on '''Relevant VC Data''': CA for state and these cities: Campbell; Cupertino; Los Altos; Los Altos Hills; Los Gatos; Milpitas; Monte Sereno; Morgan Hill; Mountain View; Palo Alto; San Fransisco; San Jose; San Mateo; Santa Clara; Saratoga; Sunnyvale<br />
**this is the list of cities Wikipedia's page on Silicon Valley includes plus San Mateo and San Francisco ADD OTHER SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA CITIES FROM DIANA CARRANZA'S RANKING REPORT IN ECOSYSTEM>RANKING.<br />
*7520 VC funded, 4220 over last decade<br />
Incubators:<br />
*Searched for incubators on AngelList (saved to "AngelList Silicon Valley Incubators (unfiltered).txt") but the results were definitely more than just incubators so filtered to everything that had "incub" in its name or description and added back ycombinator (Saved to "AngelList Silicon Valley Incubators (filtered).txt")<br />
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Relevant industries (at the indsubgroup level) for cyber security might be:<br />
indsubgroup<br />
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Internet Security and Transaction Services<br />
Other Electronics Related (incl. alarm systems)<br />
Military Electronics (excluding communications)<br />
Security/Alarm/Sensors<br />
Security/FirewallsEncryption software<br />
Computer Security Services<br />
Defense Communications<br />
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Note that the original source data is in '''vcdb2''' and the script to make this data is '''augustavcdata.sql'''<br />
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==Recent Business News for Augusta==<br />
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*Building a new arena in Augusta, but unknown where the location will be: http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2017-09-26/regency-supporters-unmoved-arena-site-selection-presentation, http://www.wrdw.com/content/news/Coliseum-Authority-Meeting-a-Full-House-448078573.html<br />
* New Internship program to promote sticking in Augusta to work: "The Students2Work initiative aims to place 250 Richmond County high school students in internships throughout the Augusta area – to both improve the skills they have, and to develop new skills to better prepare them for the working world." http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2017-09-06/business-education-leaders-announce-job-internship-initiative-richmond<br />
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The demand for skilled workers takes on added gravity as the region braces for an expected economic spike spurred by cyber-related businesses.<br />
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=Tasks for Ben Baldazo, Joe Reilly and Dylan Dickens on September 26=<br />
#MOVE THIS ZIP CODE INFO TO NEW SECTION ON WIKI PAGE Determine which zip codes are associated with Augusta, Augusta University & Cyber command facility.<br />
#*Augusta: http://zipcode.org/city/GA/AUGUSTA<br />
#*Augusta U (zip: 30912) website: http://www.augusta.edu/<br />
#*Fort Gordon (houses the cyber command) Zip: 30905 | Website: http://www.gordon.army.mil/<br />
#Use Compustat to pull data on publicly traded firms in Augusta, Atlanta and Georgia.<br />
#*See E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Augusta Startup Ecosystem\Compustat (publicly traded firms)<br />
#**"Firms on NYSE NASDAQ AMEX yr 2016" restricted pull to those exchanges of publicly traded companies over the past year<br />
#**"Public Firms" pull from all of compustat that goes from Jan 2010 to Sept 2017<br />
#**Excel for both of these is likely filtered to Georgia or even Augusta<br />
#Data on Accelerators for Augusta, Atlanta, Georgia, and Silicon Valley:<br />
#*"E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Augusta Startup Ecosystem\Accelerators & Cohorts"<br />
##*Data includes list of accelerators in Georgia & the available information on cohort companies from Georgia<br />
##*Pulled from Accelerator_Data in E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Fall 2017 : ATDC, Atlanta Ventures, CyberLaunch, NeuroLaunch, Points of Light Accelerator. <br />
##*From http://www.acceleratorinfo.com/georgia.html: Startup Runway, TechStars Atlanta, Village Capital - HUB Grant Park, Georgia Tech - Flashpoint, Georgia Tech - VentureLab (Tech Transfer). This second list was not checked thoroughly yet.<br />
#*To find number in Silicon valley included provinces: Mountain View, Palo Alto, San Francisco, San Jose, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale<br />
#**Didn’t have data on number of incubators in SV but found angellist search: https://angel.co/companies?company_types[]=Incubator&locations[]=1681-Silicon+Valley,+CA<br />
#***The problem is that most of these aren’t incubators<br />
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#Grants Data:<br />
#*"E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Augusta Startup Ecosystem\NIH NSF Clinical Trials for Georgia by Zip"<br />
#*Some notes in the CKnotes.txt file<br />
#*Notes on sourcing of this data in<br />
#**http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/NSF_Data<br />
#**http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/NIH_Data<br />
#**http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/FDA_Trials_Data<br />
#**DOD and federal grant data all from https://www.usaspending.gov/DownloadCenter/Pages/DataDownload.aspx <br />
#Get data on all VC-backed firms in Augusta, Atlanta, and Georgia.<br />
#What data on cybersecurity startups is available from VenturExpert.<br />
# See Anne for further assignments.<br />
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=List of publicly traded firms in Georgia=<br />
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*Firms on NYSE NASDAQ AMEX yr 2016<br />
**An excel file list of publicly traded firms (on NYSE, NASDAQ, or American Stock Exchange), with their data for Jan 1 2016-Jan 1 2017, pulled from compustat (https://wrds-web.wharton.upenn.edu/wrds/ds/compm/funda/index.cfm?navId=84), can be found in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Augusta Startup Ecosystem. It's filtered to show only Georgia companies. It's called "Firms on...". The list files also appear in E:\McNair\Projects\Publicly Traded Firms Data.<br />
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*PublicFirms<br />
**excel and txt file of public traded firms with records since Jan 2010 across the entire compustat database. The excel file is filtered to augusta companies<br />
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* The files show (in order on the excel sheet)<br />
**at (total assets)<br />
**intan (intangible assets)<br />
**intano (other intangibles)<br />
**revt (total revenue in millions)<br />
**xrd (research and development expense)<br />
**exchg (stock exchange code)<br />
**address1<br />
**address2<br />
**city<br />
**zipcode<br />
**location (country)<br />
**naics (North American industry classification code)<br />
**state<br />
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*Directions for pulling general data from https://wrds-web.wharton.upenn.edu/wrds//ds/compm/funda/index.cfm?queryID=807962 with filters for Fundamentals Annual:<br />
**Best to do this in Internet explorer or Firefox so that once the file is completed, it can be downloaded directly (as opposed to Chrome)<br />
*Step 1: Choose a date range<br />
*Step 2: choose GVKEY. <br />
*Step 3: choose data items. In the search bar below, search for information you want. You can search either the abbreviation or the description itself. Once you choose a piece of information (i.e., Stock Exchange Code), a window pops up above Step 3 indicating that you can filter by these pieces of information, in addition to having them in your output file. To filter by Stock exchange, for example, click (in the Conditional Statements window) the drop down arrow, click "Stock Exchange Code". In the far right box, input the code that corresponds to each Stock Exchange (can only be found before Stock Exchange code is selected as a variable type in Step 3. If it's selected, deselect it, find it in the search box, and click on the question mark). To add more, click either "OR" or "AND" and add another code. Select all desired variables and all desired filters on those variables.<br />
*Step 4: <br />
**Output format: select tab-delimited text. <br />
**Compression type: Select none <br />
**Date format: choose either the first option or the last one.<br />
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=Documentation=<br />
'''E Drive Folder:'''<br />
"E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Augusta Startup Ecosystem"<br />
*Files located in above folder with data pull description:<br />
**"Firms on NYSE NASDAQ AMEX yr 2016" (both Excel and Text file): Fundamentals Annual for Jan 1 2017-Jan 1 2017, for firms traded on any of the following stock exchanges: NYSE, NASDAQ, American Stock Exchange. The variables pulled are listed in the above section<br />
'''Z Drive Folder:'''<br />
"Z:\Innovation Districts"<br />
*Code document: augusta.sql<br />
*table notes: augustaSQL_notes.txt<br />
'''Database:'''<br />
augusta<br />
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=Tentative Schedule=<br />
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Week of 9/25: Gather, compile, and synthesize data<br />
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Week of 10/1: Make recommendations, create slides and review with Ed<br />
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==Anticipated Paper Breakdown==<br />
#Needs/Wants for an Startup Ecosystem<br />
##Economic Factors<br />
##Social Factors<br />
##Environmental Factors<br />
##Government aid<br />
#Diagnosis of Augusta’s Current State<br />
##How does it fulfill and not fulfill the requirements of an innovation district?<br />
##What resources are available in Georgia as a whole that can be used in Augusta?<br />
#Recommendations for how to achieve a Startup Ecosystem in Augusta<br />
##What do we need in order to make a successful startup ecosystem in Augusta? (What is missing?)<br />
##What would it look like?<br />
##How do we make it happen?<br />
###Specific suggestions<br />
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=Zip Codes=<br />
*30901<br />
*30903<br />
*30907<br />
*30909<br />
*30999<br />
*30904<br />
*30905<br />
*30906<br />
*30912<br />
*30914<br />
*30916<br />
*30917<br />
*30919<br />
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=Georgia Accelerator Programs=<br />
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##*From Accelerator Data in E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Summer 2017\Veeral : ATDC, Atlanta Ventures, CyberLaunch, NeuroLaunch, Points of Light Accelerator. <br />
##*From http://www.acceleratorinfo.com/georgia.html: Startup Runway, TechStars Atlanta, Village Capital - HUB Grant Park, Georgia Tech - VentureLab (Tech Transfer).<br />
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=Georgia VC Firms=<br />
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=Resources Needed=<br />
[[File: Startup Ecosystems.png]]<br />
Elements of a Startup Ecosystem<br />
''Technical Skills''<br />
*'''Education rates of local population'''<br />
*Research on University of Augusta<br />
*How to attract human capital?<br />
''Risk Tolerance''<br />
*'''Local Economic Stability'''<br />
*'''City's Risk Preparedness'''<br />
''Availability of Capital''<br />
*'''VC, Equity'''<br />
''Visible Successes''<br />
*What has already happened there? How can we market the city to best attract human capital and create a city brand?<br />
''Collaborative Culture''<br />
*'''Proximity between innovators'''<br />
*'''Transportation availability'''<br />
*'''Accessibility to travelers'''<br />
''Regulatory Environment''<br />
*Potential for tax credits, types of incentives local government can offer<br />
''Experienced Mentors''<br />
*Who is already there who can act as a mentor?<br />
*Who can we attract there to act as a mentor?<br />
**'''Patent and R&D data for the area'''<br />
''Entrepreneurial Culture''<br />
*What creates a strong entrepreneurial culture and how can we bring that to Augusta?<br />
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=Educational Attainment=<br />
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*For Richmond County, Georgia, which includes Augusta, the US Census Bureau projects that: <br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 83.3% <br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 20.4% <br />
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Compared to the rest of the US:<br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 86.7%<br />
*Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 29.8%<br />
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*source: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/richmondcountygeorgia,US/PST045216<br />
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=Augusta Incubators=<br />
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*Clubhou.se: https://theclubhou.se/<br />
**Division of Hack Augusta, a community of entrerpeneurs<br />
**Offers coding classes in HTML, Javascript, etc.<br />
**Corporate Sponsors: <br />
****Booz Allen Hamilton (see below)<br />
**** Intelligenesis: In Augusta, according to https://theclubhou.se/corporate-sponsor-intelligenesis-llc/, they "provide exceptional technical expertise to meet customer mission challenges in Intelligence Analysis, Machine Learning/ Data Science, Analytics Development for Big Data, Software Lifecycle Support, and '''Research and Development'''"<br />
****ATDC<br />
****Mail Chimp<br />
****Georgia Power<br />
****Augusta Economic Development Authority<br />
****AT&T<br />
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=Augusta Innovation Zone=<br />
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*http://www.augustainnovationzone.com/index.html<br />
*Workspace opening in fall 2017<br />
*6 directors, among them: Deke Copenhaver, the mayor of Augusta from 2005-2014<br />
**As of Apr. 1, 2017, high demand: >200 people on waitlist<br />
***source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikemontgomery/2017/04/01/how-augusta-georgia-is-becoming-a-model-for-tech-innovation-in-small-cities/#1ffd417e1f43<br />
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==Deke Copenhaver==<br />
[http://chronicle.augusta.com/metro-latest-news-government/2014-12-27/copenhaver-served-mayor-nine-years-without-controversy| No Party; No Controversies]<br />
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=UNISYS presence=<br />
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*Has pledged to employ 700 Augustinians by 2019 in tech support for public sector and commercial clients.<br />
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=Booz Allen Hamilton presence=<br />
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*Corporate sponsor for The Clubhouse<br />
*In Augusta, "Booz Allen has a large footprint in Augusta which supports multiple clients across the Department of Defense, as well as the commercial market." It provides STEM &STEM education funding to Augusta community.<br />
**source: https://theclubhou.se/corporate-sponsor-booz-allen-hamilton/<br />
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=Augusta Economic Development Authority- Development Authority of Richmond County (DARC)=<br />
*Point of contact for economic development projects<br />
*Responsible for the recruitment of new businesses in the areas of industrial, manufacturing, distribution, corporate and regional headquarters, customer service centers, and assistance with other major economic development projects in the county.<br />
*Augusta Tomorrow, Inc- private corporation with representation from the City of Augusta and the City of North Augusta. The Augusta Tomorrow board identifies development and redevelopment needs particularly in the city center, seeks developers and actively works with the developers and the public sector to implement the projects. <br />
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==Tax Allocation Districts, Enterprise Zones, and Opportunity Zones==<br />
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Tax Allocation District<br />
*Incremental tax revenue collected in the district has gone into a fund to supplement funding by public and private sources for public improvements that spur private redevelopment activity. Tax exempt bonds may be issued to pay for infrastructure and other eligible redevelopment costs in partnership with private developers<br />
*Georgia’s version of tax increment financing, which allows a local government to capture tax revenues attributable to increases in property values within a prescribed development area and use those revenues for neighborhood improvement projects. Augusta currently has three TADs.<br />
*Link to map of where these districts are: http://www.augustaga.gov/DocumentCenter/View/7349<br />
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Enterprise Zones and Opportunity Zones<br />
*Enterprise Zones are designated geographical areas which suffer from disinvestment, underdeveloped, and general economic distress. In an effort to encourage revitalization in these distressed communities, Georgia law permits cities to create districts where ad velorum taxes are abated for up to 10 years and other incentives are provided to private employers who create five or more new jobs<br />
*Opportunity Zones, similar to Enterprise Zones, are designated geographic areas which suffer from economic distress. In order for an area to be designated as an OZ, under the DCA rules the area first has to be an Enterprise Zone or have an Urban Redevelopment Plan in place pursuant to the DOA website (http://www.dca.ga.gov/economic/DevelopmentTools/programs/opportunityZones.asp). Augusta Opportunity Zones are geographically identical to their Enterprise Zones. <br />
*Maps of Opportunity and Enterprise Zones: http://www.augustaga.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/2151 and http://www.augustaga.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/2152<br />
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=Georgia's Cyber Innovation and Training Lab=<br />
*$50 million cyberlab will bring together state government, academia, law enforcement and private-sector players in a bid to shore up the cyberworkforce and strengthen defenses<br />
*Partners: Augusta Economic Development, Augusta University Cyber Institute, City of Augusta, Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Georgia Department of Education, Georgia National Guard, Georgia Technology Authority, National Security Agency, Private-Sector Partners, Technical College System of Georgia, U.S. Army Cyber Command, U.S. Cyber School of Excellence, University System of Georgia<br />
*This is partly in prep for Cyber Command- "U.S. Army Cyber Command is expected to take up residence at nearby Fort Gordon in 2018 and is expected to be a key contributor to the state’s emerging cyberecosystem"<br />
*More info at- http://www.govtech.com/security/GT-OctoberNovember-2017-Georgias-Cyber-Innovation-and-Training-Lab-to-Strengthen-Security-Through-Collaboration.html<br />
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=Google Doc=<br />
Link to original Google doc from when this was a paper: https://docs.google.com/a/rice.edu/document/d/15EtmjxWLLta4SZEW4PlsqxXgA-yEuuZ3OE1Ciin2yHA/edit?usp=sharing</div>Tayjacobe22http://www.edegan.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Houston_Innovation_District&diff=21003Houston Innovation District2017-10-23T19:31:08Z<p>Tayjacobe22: </p>
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<div>{{McNair Projects<br />
|Has title=Houston Innovation District<br />
|Has owner=Ben Baldazo, Dylan Dickens, Joe Reilly, Taylor Jacobe,<br />
|Has start date=9/20/2017<br />
|Has deadline=10/27/2017<br />
|Has project status=Active<br />
}}<br />
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=Project Summary=<br />
Mayor of Houston has asked us to make recommendations about how to create an innovation district in Houston<br />
*Go through patent data, find people with patents<br />
*Find people who have done R&D work<br />
*Carve up the world of innovative people in terms of data<br />
**Find their needs<br />
**Turn it into some sort of office space requirement<br />
**Try to find where this office space would be, what it would look like<br />
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=Data Summary=<br />
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Doc with summary of info: https://docs.google.com/a/rice.edu/document/d/17iorMk9KeQV5UJmzGFvBiwKk20sybvAJDeFvbkNzpfw/edit?usp=sharing<br />
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Info we have:<br />
*'''Startups''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Accelerators/Incubators''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Entrepreneurship Ecosystems''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Small Business''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''VC''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\VCData). VC locations have already been geocoded. For a final map, use info in "VC firms with address, basic sector info" to match sector and size with each VC firm. Bigger VC firms who invest in more relevant sectors should be emphasized more.<br />
*'''Patents in Houston''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem > HoustonPatents.txt)<br />
*'''Office Space''': Info on largest office spaces available (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data)<br />
*'''US median income''' for 2000 and (estimated) for 2015 (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data)<br />
*'''Educational Attainment''' (in section below)<br />
*15 best '''Cafes in Houston''' (Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Files to Geocode)<br />
*'''Houston Industry Breakdown''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem ["Houston Gross Area Product by Industry", "Houston employment share by industry" excel files and "Industry breakdown..." text file.])<br />
*'''Grant Data''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Texas Federal Grant Data. Can filter by county/city)<br />
*'''Sales''' (inProjects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Files to Geocode)<br />
*'''Preliminary map''': Dylan aggregated the geocoded data for VC Firms, Accelerators, Incubators, University Accelerators, Hubs, and startups into one CSV saved in the Houston Innovation Districts folder called VC Firms, Institutions, Startups Geocoded. Quickly put together this preliminary map as a starting point. The institutions, vc firms, and startups are blue dots, and I layered the bike lane shapefile as purple lines and park shapefile as green polygons on top. Shapefiles are in the Shapefiles folder in the Houston innovation District folder<br />
*'''Public Transportation''' maps in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data<br />
*'''Houston NSF grants located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem<br />
*Risk preparedness: '''Houston floodmap''': (at http://www.harriscountyfemt.org/). In a study published just before Harvey, predictive maps were shown to be largely inadequate for predicting flooding locations: https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/09/18/fema-flood-maps-missed-claims-harvey-houston/#32e295be9938<br />
*Used GDP and employment statistics for measurements of '''Stability of Houston's economy''' compared to other Metro areas. (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Predictability_of_Houston.27s_economy)<br />
*'''Government programs and benefits''' (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Houston_Development_Incentives_and_Regulations)<br />
*'''Crime and Safety''' (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Safety)<br />
*Yelp data on '''Cafes and restaurants''' within the 610 loop- (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Restaurants and Coffee)<br />
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Unknown:<br />
*Other R&D data in Houston<br />
*Competition<br />
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=Understanding Innovation Districts=<br />
*Factors relating to best Innovation Districts:<br />
[[File:Factors for innovation district.png]]<br />
Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/312173269_fig15_Figure-19-Key-success-factors-for-innovation-district-development<br />
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Data wanted is in '''bold'''<br />
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Optimize Land Use and Placemaking<br />
*''Flexibility, responding to market preferences''<br />
**'''Available office space/undeveloped land in Houston'''<br />
**'''Availability of capital'''<br />
***equity<br />
***VC<br />
***Investors of all kinds<br />
*''Infrastructure and land as a platform for experimentation''<br />
**'''Flexibility of space and infrastructure'''<br />
*''Placemaking to achieve critical mass of real estate and commercial activity and authentic sense of place''<br />
**Location, location, location<br />
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Strategy as a City of Innovation<br />
*''and leverage the regional innovation context''<br />
**''What we currently have going for us as a city- who is here and how can we leverage them?''<br />
***'''R&D Data'''<br />
***'''Patent Data'''<br />
*''Prioritize attention on city wide eco-system and development and networking''<br />
**'''Current Government benefits to improve innovation ecosystem'''<br />
**What would we ideally have to attract business<br />
*''Grow and support existing innovation firms and activity''<br />
*''Manage externalities that arise''<br />
**'''Houston's risk preparedness'''<br />
**'''Competition?'''<br />
*''Adapt through cycles''<br />
**'''Stability of Houston's economy data'''<br />
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Build the City's Innovation Brand<br />
*''Leverage city DNA and expertise in promoting innovation''<br />
**Where is Houston at the forefront?<br />
*''Develop innovation brand as a broad identity and shared narrative''<br />
**How can we market the city as an innovator? How do we gain that image?<br />
*''Invite others to feel and experience the innovation culture''<br />
**How accessibile is Houston?<br />
***'''Public transportation'''<br />
***'''Travel costs: flying, lodging'''<br />
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A thought: Houston's key capabilities seem to be in Oil/Gas/Energy and Medicine. Can we start by portraying Houston as a leading innovator in those areas? Innovation district can start with our core capabilities<br />
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=Location data=<br />
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*Information on largest office spaces available, and on US median income for 2000 and (estimated) for 2015 are located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data.<br />
*Office spaces for sale in the the zip codes listed below were compiled in "Office property listings..." in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data. Included is acreage/square footage and address. Listings under "office space" that looked like houses were removed.<br />
**Listings pulled from zip codes:<br />
***77002<br />
***77003<br />
***77004<br />
***77005<br />
***77006<br />
***77007<br />
***77008<br />
***77009<br />
***77019<br />
***77098<br />
***77030<br />
***77027<br />
***77025<br />
***77046<br />
***77024<br />
***77056<br />
***77057<br />
***77401<br />
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==Pulling Yelp Data==<br />
It seems entirely possible, though against the terms of service of yelp, to pull data from Houston centered searches for things like cafe's or bars. Peter J has done some work like this before with his "Chipotle" and "Starbucks" finder webapps and is working on creating a map / pulling the data from google or yelp to have the locations of all of these points of commerce within the 610 loop.<br />
*Note: Using yelp data (and regressing things like reviews, new businesses and locations) havard business was able to project (with 30% correlation) the economic growth on a granular scale: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/18-022_0bb9b749-f275-41ff-899c-afd9109568ee.pdf<br />
**We may be able to produce something similar but less developed using density of restaurants in houston to find entrepreneurial / growth hotspots<br />
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==Yelp API==<br />
Yelp does provide an API for 3rd party developers, and documentation is available [https://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation/v2/overview here].<br />
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However, the API limits the search results to 40 for any geographically oriented search. This is hardly a dataset, so we are going to crawl.<br />
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==Yelp Crawler==<br />
The code for the crawler can be found here:<br />
E:\McNair\Software\YelpCrawler\yelp_crawl.py<br />
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The script runs a search on Restaurants in Houston within the 610 Loop. There are 2615 results. The results are currently being compiled into text files, and the search will be rerun for coffeeshops. Stay tuned.<br />
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=Educational Attainment=<br />
*For the city of Houston, <br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 76.7%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 30.4%<br />
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*For Harris County,<br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 79.6%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 29.5% <br />
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*Compared to the rest of the US:<br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 83.3% 86.7%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 20.4% 29.8%<br />
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source: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/harriscountytexas,houstoncitytexas,US/PST045216<br />
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=Houston Development Incentives and Regulations=<br />
*'''Historic Sites:''' http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/historic_site_tax_exemption.html<br />
*'''Tax Abatements:''' Houston created a program that encourages new growth, new development, and new jobs: tax abatements. These abatements attempt to strengthen Houston’s existing competitive advantages, while augmenting Houston’s emerging markets. http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/tax_abatements.html. Projects that qualify have one of the following situations:<br />
**A developer builds in a declining part of Houston, a place where the project increases job opportunities, reduces poverty, or redevelops an area.<br />
**The rare situation when a developer requires an abatement to remain, expand, or locate, in Houston, a situation where Houston’s job and economic market is significantly strengthened by the developer’s presence.<br />
**A company invests in real estate that serves the public. Such an investment could provide affordable housing or rejuvenate a blighted area.<br />
*'''380 Agreements:''' To make loans and/or grants of public money and to provide personnel and/or services of the City of Houston for the purpose of promoting state or local economic development. Also accepts donations and contributions to fund this program. http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/380agreements.html. An eligible project must include:<br />
**construction of substantial new real property improvements of at least $2,500,000 in value, or extensive renovation of existing improvements, on land owned or to be acquired by the applicant; and documented equity investment of at least $500,000 ( loans to the project and guarantees of third party financing do not qualify);<br />
**and either: documented creation of at least 25 new full time jobs (40-hours per week), and retention of such jobs for a period of no less than five years; or creation of affordable housing or transitional housing, to be established by deed restrictions recorded in the Official Public Records of Real Property of the county in which the property is located. <br />
*'''Texas Enterprise Zones:''' Areas of underinvestment, places of distress targeted for rejuvenation. Terms:<br />
**This economic revival comes in the form of state sales and use tax refunds. These reimbursements are based on how much a company invests and the number of jobs a company creates. Job and investment requirements fall in the chart at http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/enterprise_zones.html<br />
**Besides these investment requirements, a municipality must nominate the company to the state government. The city of Houston may nominate 9 areas every 2 years.<br />
*'''Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones:''' Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones (TIRZs) are special zones created by City Council to attract new investment in an area. TIRZs help finance costs of redevelopment and encourage development in areas that would otherwise not attract sufficient market development in a timely manner. Taxes attributable to new improvements (tax increments) are set-aside in a fund to finance public improvements within the boundaries of the zone.<br />
**Map at http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/tirz.html<br />
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=Predictability/stability of Houston's economy=<br />
<br />
File listing Metro area GDP for Houston, DFW, Chicago, New York, and LA metro areas located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Houston stability measurements. <br />
*Standard deviation of monthly GDP for the last 16 years calculated for each metro area.<br />
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Also in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Houston stability measurements is "employment stability measures", which shows the variation in employment data since 1990 for the metro areas Houston, DFW, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.<br />
*Standard deviation of monthly employment totals, and monthly unemployment rates for the past 27 years calculated for each metro area<br />
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sources: <br />
*source for GDP data: https://www.bea.gov/itable/iTable.cfm?ReqID=70&step=1#reqid=70&step=1&isuri=1&7003=200&7035=-1&7004=naics&7006=16980,19100,26420,31080,35620&7001=2200&7036=-1&7002=2&7090=70&7007=-1&7093=levels<br />
*source for employment data: https://www.bls.gov/lau/metrossa.htm<br />
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=Safety=<br />
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==Houston police monthly archives==<br />
On http://www.houstontx.gov/police/cs/crime-stats-archives.htm, there's an excel file for each month's crime report. A crime report lists the street name, block range, offense time, hour, and location type of each crime. This is the only list of Houston crimes with their location that I can find. <br />
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An example entry is:<br />
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Date Hour Offense Type Beat Premise BlockRange StreetName Type Suffix # offenses<br />
1/22/2016 11 Robbery 10H10 Convenience Store 5200-5299 CANAL ST - 1<br />
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To geocode these, we can use the first number listed: for example, the above address would be geocoded as 5200 Canal St.<br />
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Unsure of how to collect large quantities of this data. Maps below contain relevant info but not in a downloadable format. Many large cities have comprehensive crime addresses listed on https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?tags=crime, but Houston doesn't.<br />
*Map of crimes in each area of Houston: https://www.crimereports.com/home/#!/dashboard?lat=29.73278125282416&lng=-95.31875610351562&zoom=12&incident_types=Assault%252CAssault%2520with%2520Deadly%2520Weapon%252CBreaking%2520%2526%2520Entering%252CDisorder%252CDrugs%252CHomicide%252CKidnapping%252CLiquor%252COther%2520Sexual%2520Offense%252CProperty%2520Crime%252CProperty%2520Crime%2520Commercial%252CProperty%2520Crime%2520Residential%252CQuality%2520of%2520Life%252CRobbery%252CSexual%2520Assault%252CSexual%2520Offense%252CTheft%252CTheft%2520from%2520Vehicle%252CTheft%2520of%2520Vehicle&start_date=2017-10-05&end_date=2017-10-19&days=sunday%252Cmonday%252Ctuesday%252Cwednesday%252Cthursday%252Cfriday%252Csaturday&start_time=0&end_time=23&include_sex_offenders=false&current_tab=map&shapeIds=&shape_id=false<br />
*Another map: https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/tx/houston/crime<br />
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This map shifts quite a bit depending on the time period you look at. I looked at Crime report data from Oct 5-19, 2017.<br />
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Most Dangerous Areas: <br />
#Midtown/Downtown by the intersection of 59 and 45: 65 total crimes in local area, 14 violent<br />
#Main Downtown: 61 total crimes in local area, 5 violent<br />
#Downtown by the intersection of 10 and 45: 47 total crimes reported in local area, 11 violent<br />
#Midtown, where Elgin becomes Westheimer: 49 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Museum District: 45 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Greater Third Ward: 30 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Wesleyan and Richmond: 30 total crimes in local area, 2 violent<br />
#East of downtown, but the Gus Wortham Golf Course: 27 total violent crimes in local area, 5 violent</div>Tayjacobe22http://www.edegan.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Houston_Innovation_District&diff=21000Houston Innovation District2017-10-23T18:16:45Z<p>Tayjacobe22: /* Data Summary */</p>
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<div>{{McNair Projects<br />
|Has title=Houston Innovation District<br />
|Has owner=Ben Baldazo, Dylan Dickens, Joe Reilly, Taylor Jacobe,<br />
|Has start date=9/20/2017<br />
|Has deadline=10/27/2017<br />
|Has project status=Active<br />
}}<br />
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=Project Summary=<br />
Mayor of Houston has asked us to make recommendations about how to create an innovation district in Houston<br />
*Go through patent data, find people with patents<br />
*Find people who have done R&D work<br />
*Carve up the world of innovative people in terms of data<br />
**Find their needs<br />
**Turn it into some sort of office space requirement<br />
**Try to find where this office space would be, what it would look like<br />
<br />
=Data Summary=<br />
<br />
Doc with summary of info: https://docs.google.com/a/rice.edu/document/d/17iorMk9KeQV5UJmzGFvBiwKk20sybvAJDeFvbkNzpfw/edit?usp=sharing<br />
<br />
Info we have:<br />
*'''Startups''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Accelerators/Incubators''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Entrepreneurship Ecosystems''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Small Business''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''VC''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\VCData). VC locations have already been geocoded. For a final map, use info in "VC firms with address, basic sector info" to match sector and size with each VC firm. Bigger VC firms who invest in more relevant sectors should be emphasized more.<br />
*'''Patents in Houston''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem > HoustonPatents.txt)<br />
*'''Office Space''': Info on largest office spaces available (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data)<br />
*'''US median income''' for 2000 and (estimated) for 2015 (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data)<br />
*'''Educational Attainment''' (in section below)<br />
*15 best '''Cafes in Houston''' (Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Files to Geocode)<br />
*'''Houston Industry Breakdown''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem ["Houston Gross Area Product by Industry", "Houston employment share by industry" excel files and "Industry breakdown..." text file.])<br />
*'''Grant Data''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Texas Federal Grant Data. Can filter by county/city)<br />
*'''Sales''' (inProjects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Files to Geocode)<br />
*'''Preliminary map''': Dylan aggregated the geocoded data for VC Firms, Accelerators, Incubators, University Accelerators, Hubs, and startups into one CSV saved in the Houston Innovation Districts folder called VC Firms, Institutions, Startups Geocoded. Quickly put together this preliminary map as a starting point. The institutions, vc firms, and startups are blue dots, and I layered the bike lane shapefile as purple lines and park shapefile as green polygons on top. Shapefiles are in the Shapefiles folder in the Houston innovation District folder<br />
*'''Public Transportation''' maps in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data<br />
*'''Houston NSF grants located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem<br />
*Risk preparedness: '''Houston floodmap''': (at http://www.harriscountyfemt.org/). In a study published just before Harvey, predictive maps were shown to be largely inadequate for predicting flooding locations: https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/09/18/fema-flood-maps-missed-claims-harvey-houston/#32e295be9938<br />
*Used GDP and employment statistics for measurements of '''Stability of Houston's economy''' compared to other Metro areas. (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Predictability_of_Houston.27s_economy)<br />
*'''Government programs and benefits''' (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Houston_Development_Incentives_and_Regulations)<br />
*'''Crime and Safety''' (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Safety)<br />
<br />
Info we are in the process of getting:<br />
*Yelp data on '''Cafes and restaurants''' within the 610 loop- Peter<br />
<br />
Unknown:<br />
*Other R&D data in Houston<br />
*Competition<br />
<br />
=Understanding Innovation Districts=<br />
*Factors relating to best Innovation Districts:<br />
[[File:Factors for innovation district.png]]<br />
Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/312173269_fig15_Figure-19-Key-success-factors-for-innovation-district-development<br />
<br />
Data wanted is in '''bold'''<br />
<br />
Optimize Land Use and Placemaking<br />
*''Flexibility, responding to market preferences''<br />
**'''Available office space/undeveloped land in Houston'''<br />
**'''Availability of capital'''<br />
***equity<br />
***VC<br />
***Investors of all kinds<br />
*''Infrastructure and land as a platform for experimentation''<br />
**'''Flexibility of space and infrastructure'''<br />
*''Placemaking to achieve critical mass of real estate and commercial activity and authentic sense of place''<br />
**Location, location, location<br />
<br />
Strategy as a City of Innovation<br />
*''and leverage the regional innovation context''<br />
**''What we currently have going for us as a city- who is here and how can we leverage them?''<br />
***'''R&D Data'''<br />
***'''Patent Data'''<br />
*''Prioritize attention on city wide eco-system and development and networking''<br />
**'''Current Government benefits to improve innovation ecosystem'''<br />
**What would we ideally have to attract business<br />
*''Grow and support existing innovation firms and activity''<br />
*''Manage externalities that arise''<br />
**'''Houston's risk preparedness'''<br />
**'''Competition?'''<br />
*''Adapt through cycles''<br />
**'''Stability of Houston's economy data'''<br />
<br />
Build the City's Innovation Brand<br />
*''Leverage city DNA and expertise in promoting innovation''<br />
**Where is Houston at the forefront?<br />
*''Develop innovation brand as a broad identity and shared narrative''<br />
**How can we market the city as an innovator? How do we gain that image?<br />
*''Invite others to feel and experience the innovation culture''<br />
**How accessibile is Houston?<br />
***'''Public transportation'''<br />
***'''Travel costs: flying, lodging'''<br />
<br />
A thought: Houston's key capabilities seem to be in Oil/Gas/Energy and Medicine. Can we start by portraying Houston as a leading innovator in those areas? Innovation district can start with our core capabilities<br />
<br />
=Location data=<br />
<br />
*Information on largest office spaces available, and on US median income for 2000 and (estimated) for 2015 are located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data.<br />
*Office spaces for sale in the the zip codes listed below were compiled in "Office property listings..." in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data. Included is acreage/square footage and address. Listings under "office space" that looked like houses were removed.<br />
**Listings pulled from zip codes:<br />
***77002<br />
***77003<br />
***77004<br />
***77005<br />
***77006<br />
***77007<br />
***77008<br />
***77009<br />
***77019<br />
***77098<br />
***77030<br />
***77027<br />
***77025<br />
***77046<br />
***77024<br />
***77056<br />
***77057<br />
***77401<br />
<br />
==Pulling Yelp Data==<br />
It seems entirely possible, though against the terms of service of yelp, to pull data from Houston centered searches for things like cafe's or bars. Peter J has done some work like this before with his "Chipotle" and "Starbucks" finder webapps and is working on creating a map / pulling the data from google or yelp to have the locations of all of these points of commerce within the 610 loop.<br />
*Note: Using yelp data (and regressing things like reviews, new businesses and locations) havard business was able to project (with 30% correlation) the economic growth on a granular scale: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/18-022_0bb9b749-f275-41ff-899c-afd9109568ee.pdf<br />
**We may be able to produce something similar but less developed using density of restaurants in houston to find entrepreneurial / growth hotspots<br />
<br />
==Yelp API==<br />
Yelp does provide an API for 3rd party developers, and documentation is available [https://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation/v2/overview here].<br />
<br />
However, the API limits the search results to 40 for any geographically oriented search. This is hardly a dataset, so we are going to crawl.<br />
<br />
==Yelp Crawler==<br />
The code for the crawler can be found here:<br />
E:\McNair\Software\YelpCrawler\yelp_crawl.py<br />
<br />
The script runs a search on Restaurants in Houston within the 610 Loop. There are 2615 results. The results are currently being compiled into text files, and the search will be rerun for coffeeshops. Stay tuned.<br />
<br />
=Educational Attainment=<br />
*For the city of Houston, <br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 76.7%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 30.4%<br />
<br />
*For Harris County,<br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 79.6%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 29.5% <br />
<br />
*Compared to the rest of the US:<br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 83.3% 86.7%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 20.4% 29.8%<br />
<br />
source: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/harriscountytexas,houstoncitytexas,US/PST045216<br />
<br />
=Houston Development Incentives and Regulations=<br />
*'''Historic Sites:''' http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/historic_site_tax_exemption.html<br />
*'''Tax Abatements:''' Houston created a program that encourages new growth, new development, and new jobs: tax abatements. These abatements attempt to strengthen Houston’s existing competitive advantages, while augmenting Houston’s emerging markets. http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/tax_abatements.html. Projects that qualify have one of the following situations:<br />
**A developer builds in a declining part of Houston, a place where the project increases job opportunities, reduces poverty, or redevelops an area.<br />
**The rare situation when a developer requires an abatement to remain, expand, or locate, in Houston, a situation where Houston’s job and economic market is significantly strengthened by the developer’s presence.<br />
**A company invests in real estate that serves the public. Such an investment could provide affordable housing or rejuvenate a blighted area.<br />
*'''380 Agreements:''' To make loans and/or grants of public money and to provide personnel and/or services of the City of Houston for the purpose of promoting state or local economic development. Also accepts donations and contributions to fund this program. http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/380agreements.html. An eligible project must include:<br />
**construction of substantial new real property improvements of at least $2,500,000 in value, or extensive renovation of existing improvements, on land owned or to be acquired by the applicant; and documented equity investment of at least $500,000 ( loans to the project and guarantees of third party financing do not qualify);<br />
**and either: documented creation of at least 25 new full time jobs (40-hours per week), and retention of such jobs for a period of no less than five years; or creation of affordable housing or transitional housing, to be established by deed restrictions recorded in the Official Public Records of Real Property of the county in which the property is located. <br />
*'''Texas Enterprise Zones:''' Areas of underinvestment, places of distress targeted for rejuvenation. Terms:<br />
**This economic revival comes in the form of state sales and use tax refunds. These reimbursements are based on how much a company invests and the number of jobs a company creates. Job and investment requirements fall in the chart at http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/enterprise_zones.html<br />
**Besides these investment requirements, a municipality must nominate the company to the state government. The city of Houston may nominate 9 areas every 2 years.<br />
*'''Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones:''' Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones (TIRZs) are special zones created by City Council to attract new investment in an area. TIRZs help finance costs of redevelopment and encourage development in areas that would otherwise not attract sufficient market development in a timely manner. Taxes attributable to new improvements (tax increments) are set-aside in a fund to finance public improvements within the boundaries of the zone.<br />
**Map at http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/tirz.html<br />
<br />
<br />
=Predictability/stability of Houston's economy=<br />
<br />
File listing Metro area GDP for Houston, DFW, Chicago, New York, and LA metro areas located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Houston stability measurements. <br />
*Standard deviation of monthly GDP for the last 16 years calculated for each metro area.<br />
<br />
<br />
Also in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Houston stability measurements is "employment stability measures", which shows the variation in employment data since 1990 for the metro areas Houston, DFW, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.<br />
*Standard deviation of monthly employment totals, and monthly unemployment rates for the past 27 years calculated for each metro area<br />
<br />
sources: <br />
*source for GDP data: https://www.bea.gov/itable/iTable.cfm?ReqID=70&step=1#reqid=70&step=1&isuri=1&7003=200&7035=-1&7004=naics&7006=16980,19100,26420,31080,35620&7001=2200&7036=-1&7002=2&7090=70&7007=-1&7093=levels<br />
*source for employment data: https://www.bls.gov/lau/metrossa.htm<br />
<br />
=Safety=<br />
<br />
==Houston police monthly archives==<br />
On http://www.houstontx.gov/police/cs/crime-stats-archives.htm, there's an excel file for each month's crime report. A crime report lists the street name, block range, offense time, hour, and location type of each crime. This is the only list of Houston crimes with their location that I can find. <br />
<br />
An example entry is:<br />
<br />
Date Hour Offense Type Beat Premise BlockRange StreetName Type Suffix # offenses<br />
1/22/2016 11 Robbery 10H10 Convenience Store 5200-5299 CANAL ST - 1<br />
<br />
<br />
To geocode these, we can use the first number listed: for example, the above address would be geocoded as 5200 Canal St.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Unsure of how to collect large quantities of this data. Maps below contain relevant info but not in a downloadable format. Many large cities have comprehensive crime addresses listed on https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?tags=crime, but Houston doesn't.<br />
*Map of crimes in each area of Houston: https://www.crimereports.com/home/#!/dashboard?lat=29.73278125282416&lng=-95.31875610351562&zoom=12&incident_types=Assault%252CAssault%2520with%2520Deadly%2520Weapon%252CBreaking%2520%2526%2520Entering%252CDisorder%252CDrugs%252CHomicide%252CKidnapping%252CLiquor%252COther%2520Sexual%2520Offense%252CProperty%2520Crime%252CProperty%2520Crime%2520Commercial%252CProperty%2520Crime%2520Residential%252CQuality%2520of%2520Life%252CRobbery%252CSexual%2520Assault%252CSexual%2520Offense%252CTheft%252CTheft%2520from%2520Vehicle%252CTheft%2520of%2520Vehicle&start_date=2017-10-05&end_date=2017-10-19&days=sunday%252Cmonday%252Ctuesday%252Cwednesday%252Cthursday%252Cfriday%252Csaturday&start_time=0&end_time=23&include_sex_offenders=false&current_tab=map&shapeIds=&shape_id=false<br />
*Another map: https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/tx/houston/crime<br />
<br />
This map shifts quite a bit depending on the time period you look at. I looked at Crime report data from Oct 5-19, 2017.<br />
<br />
Most Dangerous Areas: <br />
#Midtown/Downtown by the intersection of 59 and 45: 65 total crimes in local area, 14 violent<br />
#Main Downtown: 61 total crimes in local area, 5 violent<br />
#Downtown by the intersection of 10 and 45: 47 total crimes reported in local area, 11 violent<br />
#Midtown, where Elgin becomes Westheimer: 49 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Museum District: 45 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Greater Third Ward: 30 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Wesleyan and Richmond: 30 total crimes in local area, 2 violent<br />
#East of downtown, but the Gus Wortham Golf Course: 27 total violent crimes in local area, 5 violent</div>Tayjacobe22http://www.edegan.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Houston_Innovation_District&diff=20999Houston Innovation District2017-10-23T18:14:56Z<p>Tayjacobe22: </p>
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<div>{{McNair Projects<br />
|Has title=Houston Innovation District<br />
|Has owner=Ben Baldazo, Dylan Dickens, Joe Reilly, Taylor Jacobe,<br />
|Has start date=9/20/2017<br />
|Has deadline=10/27/2017<br />
|Has project status=Active<br />
}}<br />
<br />
=Project Summary=<br />
Mayor of Houston has asked us to make recommendations about how to create an innovation district in Houston<br />
*Go through patent data, find people with patents<br />
*Find people who have done R&D work<br />
*Carve up the world of innovative people in terms of data<br />
**Find their needs<br />
**Turn it into some sort of office space requirement<br />
**Try to find where this office space would be, what it would look like<br />
<br />
=Data Summary=<br />
<br />
Doc with summary of info: https://docs.google.com/a/rice.edu/document/d/17iorMk9KeQV5UJmzGFvBiwKk20sybvAJDeFvbkNzpfw/edit?usp=sharing<br />
<br />
Info we have:<br />
*'''Startups''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Accelerators/Incubators''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Entrepreneurship Ecosystems''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Small Business''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''VC''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\VCData). VC locations have already been geocoded. For a final map, use info in "VC firms with address, basic sector info" to match sector and size with each VC firm. Bigger VC firms who invest in more relevant sectors should be emphasized more.<br />
*'''Patents in Houston''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem > HoustonPatents.txt)<br />
*'''Office Space''': Info on largest office spaces available (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data)<br />
*'''US median income''' for 2000 and (estimated) for 2015 (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data)<br />
*'''Educational Attainment''' (in section below)<br />
*15 best '''Cafes in Houston''' (Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Files to Geocode)<br />
*'''Houston Industry Breakdown''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem ["Houston Gross Area Product by Industry", "Houston employment share by industry" excel files and "Industry breakdown..." text file.])<br />
*'''Grant Data''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Texas Federal Grant Data. Can filter by county/city)<br />
*'''Sales''' (inProjects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Files to Geocode)<br />
*'''Preliminary map''': Dylan aggregated the geocoded data for VC Firms, Accelerators, Incubators, University Accelerators, Hubs, and startups into one CSV saved in the Houston Innovation Districts folder called VC Firms, Institutions, Startups Geocoded. Quickly put together this preliminary map as a starting point. The institutions, vc firms, and startups are blue dots, and I layered the bike lane shapefile as purple lines and park shapefile as green polygons on top. Shapefiles are in the Shapefiles folder in the Houston innovation District folder<br />
*'''Public Transportation''' maps in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data<br />
*'''Houston NSF grants located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem<br />
*Risk preparedness: '''Houston floodmap''': (at http://www.harriscountyfemt.org/). In a study published just before Harvey, predictive maps were shown to be largely inadequate for predicting flooding locations: https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/09/18/fema-flood-maps-missed-claims-harvey-houston/#32e295be9938<br />
*Used GDP and employment statistics for measurements of '''Stability of Houston's economy''' compared to other Metro areas. (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Predictability_of_Houston.27s_economy)<br />
*'''Government programs and benefits''' (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Houston_Development_Incentives_and_Regulations)<br />
<br />
Info we are in the process of getting:<br />
*Yelp data on '''Cafes and restaurants''' within the 610 loop- Peter<br />
*'''Crime and Safety''' (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Safety)- We have maps and some summaries, but unsure of how to collect this data in an efficient manner. Needs help!<br />
<br />
Unknown:<br />
*Other R&D data in Houston<br />
*Competition<br />
<br />
=Understanding Innovation Districts=<br />
*Factors relating to best Innovation Districts:<br />
[[File:Factors for innovation district.png]]<br />
Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/312173269_fig15_Figure-19-Key-success-factors-for-innovation-district-development<br />
<br />
Data wanted is in '''bold'''<br />
<br />
Optimize Land Use and Placemaking<br />
*''Flexibility, responding to market preferences''<br />
**'''Available office space/undeveloped land in Houston'''<br />
**'''Availability of capital'''<br />
***equity<br />
***VC<br />
***Investors of all kinds<br />
*''Infrastructure and land as a platform for experimentation''<br />
**'''Flexibility of space and infrastructure'''<br />
*''Placemaking to achieve critical mass of real estate and commercial activity and authentic sense of place''<br />
**Location, location, location<br />
<br />
Strategy as a City of Innovation<br />
*''and leverage the regional innovation context''<br />
**''What we currently have going for us as a city- who is here and how can we leverage them?''<br />
***'''R&D Data'''<br />
***'''Patent Data'''<br />
*''Prioritize attention on city wide eco-system and development and networking''<br />
**'''Current Government benefits to improve innovation ecosystem'''<br />
**What would we ideally have to attract business<br />
*''Grow and support existing innovation firms and activity''<br />
*''Manage externalities that arise''<br />
**'''Houston's risk preparedness'''<br />
**'''Competition?'''<br />
*''Adapt through cycles''<br />
**'''Stability of Houston's economy data'''<br />
<br />
Build the City's Innovation Brand<br />
*''Leverage city DNA and expertise in promoting innovation''<br />
**Where is Houston at the forefront?<br />
*''Develop innovation brand as a broad identity and shared narrative''<br />
**How can we market the city as an innovator? How do we gain that image?<br />
*''Invite others to feel and experience the innovation culture''<br />
**How accessibile is Houston?<br />
***'''Public transportation'''<br />
***'''Travel costs: flying, lodging'''<br />
<br />
A thought: Houston's key capabilities seem to be in Oil/Gas/Energy and Medicine. Can we start by portraying Houston as a leading innovator in those areas? Innovation district can start with our core capabilities<br />
<br />
=Location data=<br />
<br />
*Information on largest office spaces available, and on US median income for 2000 and (estimated) for 2015 are located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data.<br />
*Office spaces for sale in the the zip codes listed below were compiled in "Office property listings..." in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data. Included is acreage/square footage and address. Listings under "office space" that looked like houses were removed.<br />
**Listings pulled from zip codes:<br />
***77002<br />
***77003<br />
***77004<br />
***77005<br />
***77006<br />
***77007<br />
***77008<br />
***77009<br />
***77019<br />
***77098<br />
***77030<br />
***77027<br />
***77025<br />
***77046<br />
***77024<br />
***77056<br />
***77057<br />
***77401<br />
<br />
==Pulling Yelp Data==<br />
It seems entirely possible, though against the terms of service of yelp, to pull data from Houston centered searches for things like cafe's or bars. Peter J has done some work like this before with his "Chipotle" and "Starbucks" finder webapps and is working on creating a map / pulling the data from google or yelp to have the locations of all of these points of commerce within the 610 loop.<br />
*Note: Using yelp data (and regressing things like reviews, new businesses and locations) havard business was able to project (with 30% correlation) the economic growth on a granular scale: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/18-022_0bb9b749-f275-41ff-899c-afd9109568ee.pdf<br />
**We may be able to produce something similar but less developed using density of restaurants in houston to find entrepreneurial / growth hotspots<br />
<br />
==Yelp API==<br />
Yelp does provide an API for 3rd party developers, and documentation is available [https://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation/v2/overview here].<br />
<br />
However, the API limits the search results to 40 for any geographically oriented search. This is hardly a dataset, so we are going to crawl.<br />
<br />
==Yelp Crawler==<br />
The code for the crawler can be found here:<br />
E:\McNair\Software\YelpCrawler\yelp_crawl.py<br />
<br />
The script runs a search on Restaurants in Houston within the 610 Loop. There are 2615 results. The results are currently being compiled into text files, and the search will be rerun for coffeeshops. Stay tuned.<br />
<br />
=Educational Attainment=<br />
*For the city of Houston, <br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 76.7%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 30.4%<br />
<br />
*For Harris County,<br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 79.6%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 29.5% <br />
<br />
*Compared to the rest of the US:<br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 83.3% 86.7%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 20.4% 29.8%<br />
<br />
source: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/harriscountytexas,houstoncitytexas,US/PST045216<br />
<br />
=Houston Development Incentives and Regulations=<br />
*'''Historic Sites:''' http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/historic_site_tax_exemption.html<br />
*'''Tax Abatements:''' Houston created a program that encourages new growth, new development, and new jobs: tax abatements. These abatements attempt to strengthen Houston’s existing competitive advantages, while augmenting Houston’s emerging markets. http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/tax_abatements.html. Projects that qualify have one of the following situations:<br />
**A developer builds in a declining part of Houston, a place where the project increases job opportunities, reduces poverty, or redevelops an area.<br />
**The rare situation when a developer requires an abatement to remain, expand, or locate, in Houston, a situation where Houston’s job and economic market is significantly strengthened by the developer’s presence.<br />
**A company invests in real estate that serves the public. Such an investment could provide affordable housing or rejuvenate a blighted area.<br />
*'''380 Agreements:''' To make loans and/or grants of public money and to provide personnel and/or services of the City of Houston for the purpose of promoting state or local economic development. Also accepts donations and contributions to fund this program. http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/380agreements.html. An eligible project must include:<br />
**construction of substantial new real property improvements of at least $2,500,000 in value, or extensive renovation of existing improvements, on land owned or to be acquired by the applicant; and documented equity investment of at least $500,000 ( loans to the project and guarantees of third party financing do not qualify);<br />
**and either: documented creation of at least 25 new full time jobs (40-hours per week), and retention of such jobs for a period of no less than five years; or creation of affordable housing or transitional housing, to be established by deed restrictions recorded in the Official Public Records of Real Property of the county in which the property is located. <br />
*'''Texas Enterprise Zones:''' Areas of underinvestment, places of distress targeted for rejuvenation. Terms:<br />
**This economic revival comes in the form of state sales and use tax refunds. These reimbursements are based on how much a company invests and the number of jobs a company creates. Job and investment requirements fall in the chart at http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/enterprise_zones.html<br />
**Besides these investment requirements, a municipality must nominate the company to the state government. The city of Houston may nominate 9 areas every 2 years.<br />
*'''Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones:''' Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones (TIRZs) are special zones created by City Council to attract new investment in an area. TIRZs help finance costs of redevelopment and encourage development in areas that would otherwise not attract sufficient market development in a timely manner. Taxes attributable to new improvements (tax increments) are set-aside in a fund to finance public improvements within the boundaries of the zone.<br />
**Map at http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/tirz.html<br />
<br />
<br />
=Predictability/stability of Houston's economy=<br />
<br />
File listing Metro area GDP for Houston, DFW, Chicago, New York, and LA metro areas located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Houston stability measurements. <br />
*Standard deviation of monthly GDP for the last 16 years calculated for each metro area.<br />
<br />
<br />
Also in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Houston stability measurements is "employment stability measures", which shows the variation in employment data since 1990 for the metro areas Houston, DFW, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.<br />
*Standard deviation of monthly employment totals, and monthly unemployment rates for the past 27 years calculated for each metro area<br />
<br />
sources: <br />
*source for GDP data: https://www.bea.gov/itable/iTable.cfm?ReqID=70&step=1#reqid=70&step=1&isuri=1&7003=200&7035=-1&7004=naics&7006=16980,19100,26420,31080,35620&7001=2200&7036=-1&7002=2&7090=70&7007=-1&7093=levels<br />
*source for employment data: https://www.bls.gov/lau/metrossa.htm<br />
<br />
=Safety=<br />
<br />
==Houston police monthly archives==<br />
On http://www.houstontx.gov/police/cs/crime-stats-archives.htm, there's an excel file for each month's crime report. A crime report lists the street name, block range, offense time, hour, and location type of each crime. This is the only list of Houston crimes with their location that I can find. <br />
<br />
An example entry is:<br />
<br />
Date Hour Offense Type Beat Premise BlockRange StreetName Type Suffix # offenses<br />
1/22/2016 11 Robbery 10H10 Convenience Store 5200-5299 CANAL ST - 1<br />
<br />
<br />
To geocode these, we can use the first number listed: for example, the above address would be geocoded as 5200 Canal St.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Unsure of how to collect large quantities of this data. Maps below contain relevant info but not in a downloadable format. Many large cities have comprehensive crime addresses listed on https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?tags=crime, but Houston doesn't.<br />
*Map of crimes in each area of Houston: https://www.crimereports.com/home/#!/dashboard?lat=29.73278125282416&lng=-95.31875610351562&zoom=12&incident_types=Assault%252CAssault%2520with%2520Deadly%2520Weapon%252CBreaking%2520%2526%2520Entering%252CDisorder%252CDrugs%252CHomicide%252CKidnapping%252CLiquor%252COther%2520Sexual%2520Offense%252CProperty%2520Crime%252CProperty%2520Crime%2520Commercial%252CProperty%2520Crime%2520Residential%252CQuality%2520of%2520Life%252CRobbery%252CSexual%2520Assault%252CSexual%2520Offense%252CTheft%252CTheft%2520from%2520Vehicle%252CTheft%2520of%2520Vehicle&start_date=2017-10-05&end_date=2017-10-19&days=sunday%252Cmonday%252Ctuesday%252Cwednesday%252Cthursday%252Cfriday%252Csaturday&start_time=0&end_time=23&include_sex_offenders=false&current_tab=map&shapeIds=&shape_id=false<br />
*Another map: https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/tx/houston/crime<br />
<br />
This map shifts quite a bit depending on the time period you look at. I looked at Crime report data from Oct 5-19, 2017.<br />
<br />
Most Dangerous Areas: <br />
#Midtown/Downtown by the intersection of 59 and 45: 65 total crimes in local area, 14 violent<br />
#Main Downtown: 61 total crimes in local area, 5 violent<br />
#Downtown by the intersection of 10 and 45: 47 total crimes reported in local area, 11 violent<br />
#Midtown, where Elgin becomes Westheimer: 49 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Museum District: 45 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Greater Third Ward: 30 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Wesleyan and Richmond: 30 total crimes in local area, 2 violent<br />
#East of downtown, but the Gus Wortham Golf Course: 27 total violent crimes in local area, 5 violent</div>Tayjacobe22http://www.edegan.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Houston_Innovation_District&diff=20931Houston Innovation District2017-10-19T20:57:28Z<p>Tayjacobe22: /* Data Summary */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{McNair Projects<br />
|Has title=Houston Innovation District<br />
|Has owner=Ben Baldazo, Dylan Dickens, Joe Reilly, Taylor Jacobe,<br />
|Has start date=9/20/2017<br />
|Has deadline=10/27/2017<br />
|Has project status=Active<br />
}}<br />
<br />
=Project Summary=<br />
Mayor of Houston has asked us to make recommendations about how to create an innovation district in Houston<br />
*Go through patent data, find people with patents<br />
*Find people who have done R&D work<br />
*Carve up the world of innovative people in terms of data<br />
**Find their needs<br />
**Turn it into some sort of office space requirement<br />
**Try to find where this office space would be, what it would look like<br />
<br />
=Data Summary=<br />
<br />
Info we have:<br />
*'''Startups''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Accelerators/Incubators''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Entrepreneurship Ecosystems''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Small Business''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''VC''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\VCData). VC locations have already been geocoded. For a final map, use info in "VC firms with address, basic sector info" to match sector and size with each VC firm. Bigger VC firms who invest in more relevant sectors should be emphasized more.<br />
*'''Patents in Houston''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem > HoustonPatents.txt)<br />
*'''Office Space''': Info on largest office spaces available (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data)<br />
*'''US median income''' for 2000 and (estimated) for 2015 (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data)<br />
*'''Educational Attainment''' (in section below)<br />
*15 best '''Cafes in Houston''' (Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Files to Geocode)<br />
*'''Houston Industry Breakdown''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem ["Houston Gross Area Product by Industry", "Houston employment share by industry" excel files and "Industry breakdown..." text file.])<br />
*'''Grant Data''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Texas Federal Grant Data. Can filter by county/city)<br />
*'''Sales''' (inProjects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Files to Geocode)<br />
*'''Preliminary map''': Dylan aggregated the geocoded data for VC Firms, Accelerators, Incubators, University Accelerators, Hubs, and startups into one CSV saved in the Houston Innovation Districts folder called VC Firms, Institutions, Startups Geocoded. Quickly put together this preliminary map as a starting point. The institutions, vc firms, and startups are blue dots, and I layered the bike lane shapefile as purple lines and park shapefile as green polygons on top. Shapefiles are in the Shapefiles folder in the Houston innovation District folder<br />
*'''Public Transportation''' maps in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data<br />
*'''Houston NSF grants located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem<br />
*Risk preparedness: '''Houston floodmap''': (at http://www.harriscountyfemt.org/). In a study published just before Harvey, predictive maps were shown to be largely inadequate for predicting flooding locations: https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/09/18/fema-flood-maps-missed-claims-harvey-houston/#32e295be9938<br />
*Used GDP and employment statistics for measurements of '''Stability of Houston's economy''' compared to other Metro areas. (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Predictability_of_Houston.27s_economy)<br />
*'''Government programs and benefits''' (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Houston_Development_Incentives_and_Regulations)<br />
<br />
Info we are in the process of getting:<br />
*Yelp data on '''Cafes and restaurants''' within the 610 loop- Peter<br />
*'''Crime and Safety''' (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Safety)- We have maps and some summaries, but unsure of how to collect this data in an efficient manner. Needs help!<br />
<br />
Unknown:<br />
*Other R&D data in Houston<br />
*Competition<br />
<br />
=Understanding Innovation Districts=<br />
*Factors relating to best Innovation Districts:<br />
[[File:Factors for innovation district.png]]<br />
Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/312173269_fig15_Figure-19-Key-success-factors-for-innovation-district-development<br />
<br />
Data wanted is in '''bold'''<br />
<br />
Optimize Land Use and Placemaking<br />
*''Flexibility, responding to market preferences''<br />
**'''Available office space/undeveloped land in Houston'''<br />
**'''Availability of capital'''<br />
***equity<br />
***VC<br />
***Investors of all kinds<br />
*''Infrastructure and land as a platform for experimentation''<br />
**'''Flexibility of space and infrastructure'''<br />
*''Placemaking to achieve critical mass of real estate and commercial activity and authentic sense of place''<br />
**Location, location, location<br />
<br />
Strategy as a City of Innovation<br />
*''and leverage the regional innovation context''<br />
**''What we currently have going for us as a city- who is here and how can we leverage them?''<br />
***'''R&D Data'''<br />
***'''Patent Data'''<br />
*''Prioritize attention on city wide eco-system and development and networking''<br />
**'''Current Government benefits to improve innovation ecosystem'''<br />
**What would we ideally have to attract business<br />
*''Grow and support existing innovation firms and activity''<br />
*''Manage externalities that arise''<br />
**'''Houston's risk preparedness'''<br />
**'''Competition?'''<br />
*''Adapt through cycles''<br />
**'''Stability of Houston's economy data'''<br />
<br />
Build the City's Innovation Brand<br />
*''Leverage city DNA and expertise in promoting innovation''<br />
**Where is Houston at the forefront?<br />
*''Develop innovation brand as a broad identity and shared narrative''<br />
**How can we market the city as an innovator? How do we gain that image?<br />
*''Invite others to feel and experience the innovation culture''<br />
**How accessibile is Houston?<br />
***'''Public transportation'''<br />
***'''Travel costs: flying, lodging'''<br />
<br />
A thought: Houston's key capabilities seem to be in Oil/Gas/Energy and Medicine. Can we start by portraying Houston as a leading innovator in those areas? Innovation district can start with our core capabilities<br />
<br />
=Location data=<br />
<br />
*Information on largest office spaces available, and on US median income for 2000 and (estimated) for 2015 are located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data.<br />
*Office spaces for sale in the the zip codes listed below were compiled in "Office property listings..." in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data. Included is acreage/square footage and address. Listings under "office space" that looked like houses were removed.<br />
**Listings pulled from zip codes:<br />
***77002<br />
***77003<br />
***77004<br />
***77005<br />
***77006<br />
***77007<br />
***77008<br />
***77009<br />
***77019<br />
***77098<br />
***77030<br />
***77027<br />
***77025<br />
***77046<br />
***77024<br />
***77056<br />
***77057<br />
***77401<br />
<br />
==Pulling Yelp Data==<br />
It seems entirely possible, though against the terms of service of yelp, to pull data from Houston centered searches for things like cafe's or bars. Peter J has done some work like this before with his "Chipotle" and "Starbucks" finder webapps and is working on creating a map / pulling the data from google or yelp to have the locations of all of these points of commerce within the 610 loop.<br />
*Note: Using yelp data (and regressing things like reviews, new businesses and locations) havard business was able to project (with 30% correlation) the economic growth on a granular scale: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/18-022_0bb9b749-f275-41ff-899c-afd9109568ee.pdf<br />
**We may be able to produce something similar but less developed using density of restaurants in houston to find entrepreneurial / growth hotspots<br />
<br />
=Educational Attainment=<br />
*For the city of Houston, <br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 76.7%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 30.4%<br />
<br />
*For Harris County,<br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 79.6%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 29.5% <br />
<br />
*Compared to the rest of the US:<br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 83.3% 86.7%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 20.4% 29.8%<br />
<br />
source: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/harriscountytexas,houstoncitytexas,US/PST045216<br />
<br />
=Houston Development Incentives and Regulations=<br />
*'''Historic Sites:''' http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/historic_site_tax_exemption.html<br />
*'''Tax Abatements:''' Houston created a program that encourages new growth, new development, and new jobs: tax abatements. These abatements attempt to strengthen Houston’s existing competitive advantages, while augmenting Houston’s emerging markets. http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/tax_abatements.html. Projects that qualify have one of the following situations:<br />
**A developer builds in a declining part of Houston, a place where the project increases job opportunities, reduces poverty, or redevelops an area.<br />
**The rare situation when a developer requires an abatement to remain, expand, or locate, in Houston, a situation where Houston’s job and economic market is significantly strengthened by the developer’s presence.<br />
**A company invests in real estate that serves the public. Such an investment could provide affordable housing or rejuvenate a blighted area.<br />
*'''380 Agreements:''' To make loans and/or grants of public money and to provide personnel and/or services of the City of Houston for the purpose of promoting state or local economic development. Also accepts donations and contributions to fund this program. http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/380agreements.html. An eligible project must include:<br />
**construction of substantial new real property improvements of at least $2,500,000 in value, or extensive renovation of existing improvements, on land owned or to be acquired by the applicant; and documented equity investment of at least $500,000 ( loans to the project and guarantees of third party financing do not qualify);<br />
**and either: documented creation of at least 25 new full time jobs (40-hours per week), and retention of such jobs for a period of no less than five years; or creation of affordable housing or transitional housing, to be established by deed restrictions recorded in the Official Public Records of Real Property of the county in which the property is located. <br />
*'''Texas Enterprise Zones:''' Areas of underinvestment, places of distress targeted for rejuvenation. Terms:<br />
**This economic revival comes in the form of state sales and use tax refunds. These reimbursements are based on how much a company invests and the number of jobs a company creates. Job and investment requirements fall in the chart at http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/enterprise_zones.html<br />
**Besides these investment requirements, a municipality must nominate the company to the state government. The city of Houston may nominate 9 areas every 2 years.<br />
*'''Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones:''' Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones (TIRZs) are special zones created by City Council to attract new investment in an area. TIRZs help finance costs of redevelopment and encourage development in areas that would otherwise not attract sufficient market development in a timely manner. Taxes attributable to new improvements (tax increments) are set-aside in a fund to finance public improvements within the boundaries of the zone.<br />
**Map at http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/tirz.html<br />
<br />
<br />
=Predictability of Houston's economy=<br />
<br />
File listing Metro area GDP for Houston, DFW, Chicago, New York, and LA metro areas located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Houston stability measurements. To measure differences in economic stability between these cities, I calculated the standard deviation of each city's GDP for the last 16 years.<br />
<br />
=Safety=<br />
Unsure of how to collect large quantities of this data. Maps below contain relevant info but not in a downloadable format.<br />
*Map of crimes in each area of Houston: https://www.crimereports.com/home/#!/dashboard?lat=29.73278125282416&lng=-95.31875610351562&zoom=12&incident_types=Assault%252CAssault%2520with%2520Deadly%2520Weapon%252CBreaking%2520%2526%2520Entering%252CDisorder%252CDrugs%252CHomicide%252CKidnapping%252CLiquor%252COther%2520Sexual%2520Offense%252CProperty%2520Crime%252CProperty%2520Crime%2520Commercial%252CProperty%2520Crime%2520Residential%252CQuality%2520of%2520Life%252CRobbery%252CSexual%2520Assault%252CSexual%2520Offense%252CTheft%252CTheft%2520from%2520Vehicle%252CTheft%2520of%2520Vehicle&start_date=2017-10-05&end_date=2017-10-19&days=sunday%252Cmonday%252Ctuesday%252Cwednesday%252Cthursday%252Cfriday%252Csaturday&start_time=0&end_time=23&include_sex_offenders=false&current_tab=map&shapeIds=&shape_id=false<br />
*Another map: https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/tx/houston/crime<br />
<br />
This map shifts quite a bit depending on the time period you look at. I looked at Crime report data from Oct 5-19, 2017.<br />
<br />
Most Dangerous Areas: <br />
#Midtown/Downtown by the intersection of 59 and 45: 65 total crimes in local area, 14 violent<br />
#Main Downtown: 61 total crimes in local area, 5 violent<br />
#Downtown by the intersection of 10 and 45: 47 total crimes reported in local area, 11 violent<br />
#Midtown, where Elgin becomes Westheimer: 49 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Museum District: 45 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Greater Third Ward: 30 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Wesleyan and Richmond: 30 total crimes in local area, 2 violent<br />
#East of downtown, but the Gus Wortham Golf Course: 27 total violent crimes in local area, 5 violent</div>Tayjacobe22http://www.edegan.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Houston_Innovation_District&diff=20930Houston Innovation District2017-10-19T20:56:34Z<p>Tayjacobe22: /* Safety */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{McNair Projects<br />
|Has title=Houston Innovation District<br />
|Has owner=Ben Baldazo, Dylan Dickens, Joe Reilly, Taylor Jacobe,<br />
|Has start date=9/20/2017<br />
|Has deadline=10/27/2017<br />
|Has project status=Active<br />
}}<br />
<br />
=Project Summary=<br />
Mayor of Houston has asked us to make recommendations about how to create an innovation district in Houston<br />
*Go through patent data, find people with patents<br />
*Find people who have done R&D work<br />
*Carve up the world of innovative people in terms of data<br />
**Find their needs<br />
**Turn it into some sort of office space requirement<br />
**Try to find where this office space would be, what it would look like<br />
<br />
=Data Summary=<br />
<br />
Info we have:<br />
*'''Startups''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Accelerators/Incubators''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Entrepreneurship Ecosystems''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Small Business''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''VC''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\VCData). VC locations have already been geocoded. For a final map, use info in "VC firms with address, basic sector info" to match sector and size with each VC firm. Bigger VC firms who invest in more relevant sectors should be emphasized more.<br />
*'''Patents in Houston''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem > HoustonPatents.txt)<br />
*'''Office Space''': Info on largest office spaces available (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data)<br />
*'''US median income''' for 2000 and (estimated) for 2015 (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data)<br />
*'''Educational Attainment''' (in section below)<br />
*15 best '''Cafes in Houston''' (Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Files to Geocode)<br />
*'''Houston Industry Breakdown''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem ["Houston Gross Area Product by Industry", "Houston employment share by industry" excel files and "Industry breakdown..." text file.])<br />
*'''Grant Data''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Texas Federal Grant Data. Can filter by county/city)<br />
*'''Sales''' (inProjects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Files to Geocode)<br />
*'''Preliminary map''': Dylan aggregated the geocoded data for VC Firms, Accelerators, Incubators, University Accelerators, Hubs, and startups into one CSV saved in the Houston Innovation Districts folder called VC Firms, Institutions, Startups Geocoded. Quickly put together this preliminary map as a starting point. The institutions, vc firms, and startups are blue dots, and I layered the bike lane shapefile as purple lines and park shapefile as green polygons on top. Shapefiles are in the Shapefiles folder in the Houston innovation District folder<br />
*'''Public Transportation''' maps in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data<br />
*'''Houston NSF grants located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem<br />
*Risk preparedness: '''Houston floodmap''': (at http://www.harriscountyfemt.org/). In a study published just before Harvey, predictive maps were shown to be largely inadequate for predicting flooding locations: https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/09/18/fema-flood-maps-missed-claims-harvey-houston/#32e295be9938<br />
*Used GDP and employment statistics for measurements of '''Stability of Houston's economy''' compared to other Metro areas. (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Predictability_of_Houston.27s_economy)<br />
*'''Government programs and benefits''' (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Houston_Development_Incentives_and_Regulations)<br />
*'''Crime and Safety''' (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Safety)<br />
<br />
Info we are in the process of getting:<br />
*Yelp data on '''Cafes and restaurants''' within the 610 loop- Peter<br />
<br />
Unknown:<br />
*Other R&D data in Houston<br />
*Competition<br />
<br />
=Understanding Innovation Districts=<br />
*Factors relating to best Innovation Districts:<br />
[[File:Factors for innovation district.png]]<br />
Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/312173269_fig15_Figure-19-Key-success-factors-for-innovation-district-development<br />
<br />
Data wanted is in '''bold'''<br />
<br />
Optimize Land Use and Placemaking<br />
*''Flexibility, responding to market preferences''<br />
**'''Available office space/undeveloped land in Houston'''<br />
**'''Availability of capital'''<br />
***equity<br />
***VC<br />
***Investors of all kinds<br />
*''Infrastructure and land as a platform for experimentation''<br />
**'''Flexibility of space and infrastructure'''<br />
*''Placemaking to achieve critical mass of real estate and commercial activity and authentic sense of place''<br />
**Location, location, location<br />
<br />
Strategy as a City of Innovation<br />
*''and leverage the regional innovation context''<br />
**''What we currently have going for us as a city- who is here and how can we leverage them?''<br />
***'''R&D Data'''<br />
***'''Patent Data'''<br />
*''Prioritize attention on city wide eco-system and development and networking''<br />
**'''Current Government benefits to improve innovation ecosystem'''<br />
**What would we ideally have to attract business<br />
*''Grow and support existing innovation firms and activity''<br />
*''Manage externalities that arise''<br />
**'''Houston's risk preparedness'''<br />
**'''Competition?'''<br />
*''Adapt through cycles''<br />
**'''Stability of Houston's economy data'''<br />
<br />
Build the City's Innovation Brand<br />
*''Leverage city DNA and expertise in promoting innovation''<br />
**Where is Houston at the forefront?<br />
*''Develop innovation brand as a broad identity and shared narrative''<br />
**How can we market the city as an innovator? How do we gain that image?<br />
*''Invite others to feel and experience the innovation culture''<br />
**How accessibile is Houston?<br />
***'''Public transportation'''<br />
***'''Travel costs: flying, lodging'''<br />
<br />
A thought: Houston's key capabilities seem to be in Oil/Gas/Energy and Medicine. Can we start by portraying Houston as a leading innovator in those areas? Innovation district can start with our core capabilities<br />
<br />
=Location data=<br />
<br />
*Information on largest office spaces available, and on US median income for 2000 and (estimated) for 2015 are located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data.<br />
*Office spaces for sale in the the zip codes listed below were compiled in "Office property listings..." in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data. Included is acreage/square footage and address. Listings under "office space" that looked like houses were removed.<br />
**Listings pulled from zip codes:<br />
***77002<br />
***77003<br />
***77004<br />
***77005<br />
***77006<br />
***77007<br />
***77008<br />
***77009<br />
***77019<br />
***77098<br />
***77030<br />
***77027<br />
***77025<br />
***77046<br />
***77024<br />
***77056<br />
***77057<br />
***77401<br />
<br />
==Pulling Yelp Data==<br />
It seems entirely possible, though against the terms of service of yelp, to pull data from Houston centered searches for things like cafe's or bars. Peter J has done some work like this before with his "Chipotle" and "Starbucks" finder webapps and is working on creating a map / pulling the data from google or yelp to have the locations of all of these points of commerce within the 610 loop.<br />
*Note: Using yelp data (and regressing things like reviews, new businesses and locations) havard business was able to project (with 30% correlation) the economic growth on a granular scale: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/18-022_0bb9b749-f275-41ff-899c-afd9109568ee.pdf<br />
**We may be able to produce something similar but less developed using density of restaurants in houston to find entrepreneurial / growth hotspots<br />
<br />
=Educational Attainment=<br />
*For the city of Houston, <br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 76.7%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 30.4%<br />
<br />
*For Harris County,<br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 79.6%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 29.5% <br />
<br />
*Compared to the rest of the US:<br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 83.3% 86.7%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 20.4% 29.8%<br />
<br />
source: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/harriscountytexas,houstoncitytexas,US/PST045216<br />
<br />
=Houston Development Incentives and Regulations=<br />
*'''Historic Sites:''' http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/historic_site_tax_exemption.html<br />
*'''Tax Abatements:''' Houston created a program that encourages new growth, new development, and new jobs: tax abatements. These abatements attempt to strengthen Houston’s existing competitive advantages, while augmenting Houston’s emerging markets. http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/tax_abatements.html. Projects that qualify have one of the following situations:<br />
**A developer builds in a declining part of Houston, a place where the project increases job opportunities, reduces poverty, or redevelops an area.<br />
**The rare situation when a developer requires an abatement to remain, expand, or locate, in Houston, a situation where Houston’s job and economic market is significantly strengthened by the developer’s presence.<br />
**A company invests in real estate that serves the public. Such an investment could provide affordable housing or rejuvenate a blighted area.<br />
*'''380 Agreements:''' To make loans and/or grants of public money and to provide personnel and/or services of the City of Houston for the purpose of promoting state or local economic development. Also accepts donations and contributions to fund this program. http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/380agreements.html. An eligible project must include:<br />
**construction of substantial new real property improvements of at least $2,500,000 in value, or extensive renovation of existing improvements, on land owned or to be acquired by the applicant; and documented equity investment of at least $500,000 ( loans to the project and guarantees of third party financing do not qualify);<br />
**and either: documented creation of at least 25 new full time jobs (40-hours per week), and retention of such jobs for a period of no less than five years; or creation of affordable housing or transitional housing, to be established by deed restrictions recorded in the Official Public Records of Real Property of the county in which the property is located. <br />
*'''Texas Enterprise Zones:''' Areas of underinvestment, places of distress targeted for rejuvenation. Terms:<br />
**This economic revival comes in the form of state sales and use tax refunds. These reimbursements are based on how much a company invests and the number of jobs a company creates. Job and investment requirements fall in the chart at http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/enterprise_zones.html<br />
**Besides these investment requirements, a municipality must nominate the company to the state government. The city of Houston may nominate 9 areas every 2 years.<br />
*'''Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones:''' Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones (TIRZs) are special zones created by City Council to attract new investment in an area. TIRZs help finance costs of redevelopment and encourage development in areas that would otherwise not attract sufficient market development in a timely manner. Taxes attributable to new improvements (tax increments) are set-aside in a fund to finance public improvements within the boundaries of the zone.<br />
**Map at http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/tirz.html<br />
<br />
<br />
=Predictability of Houston's economy=<br />
<br />
File listing Metro area GDP for Houston, DFW, Chicago, New York, and LA metro areas located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Houston stability measurements. To measure differences in economic stability between these cities, I calculated the standard deviation of each city's GDP for the last 16 years.<br />
<br />
=Safety=<br />
Unsure of how to collect large quantities of this data. Maps below contain relevant info but not in a downloadable format.<br />
*Map of crimes in each area of Houston: https://www.crimereports.com/home/#!/dashboard?lat=29.73278125282416&lng=-95.31875610351562&zoom=12&incident_types=Assault%252CAssault%2520with%2520Deadly%2520Weapon%252CBreaking%2520%2526%2520Entering%252CDisorder%252CDrugs%252CHomicide%252CKidnapping%252CLiquor%252COther%2520Sexual%2520Offense%252CProperty%2520Crime%252CProperty%2520Crime%2520Commercial%252CProperty%2520Crime%2520Residential%252CQuality%2520of%2520Life%252CRobbery%252CSexual%2520Assault%252CSexual%2520Offense%252CTheft%252CTheft%2520from%2520Vehicle%252CTheft%2520of%2520Vehicle&start_date=2017-10-05&end_date=2017-10-19&days=sunday%252Cmonday%252Ctuesday%252Cwednesday%252Cthursday%252Cfriday%252Csaturday&start_time=0&end_time=23&include_sex_offenders=false&current_tab=map&shapeIds=&shape_id=false<br />
*Another map: https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/tx/houston/crime<br />
<br />
This map shifts quite a bit depending on the time period you look at. I looked at Crime report data from Oct 5-19, 2017.<br />
<br />
Most Dangerous Areas: <br />
#Midtown/Downtown by the intersection of 59 and 45: 65 total crimes in local area, 14 violent<br />
#Main Downtown: 61 total crimes in local area, 5 violent<br />
#Downtown by the intersection of 10 and 45: 47 total crimes reported in local area, 11 violent<br />
#Midtown, where Elgin becomes Westheimer: 49 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Museum District: 45 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Greater Third Ward: 30 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Wesleyan and Richmond: 30 total crimes in local area, 2 violent<br />
#East of downtown, but the Gus Wortham Golf Course: 27 total violent crimes in local area, 5 violent</div>Tayjacobe22http://www.edegan.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Houston_Innovation_District&diff=20918Houston Innovation District2017-10-19T19:56:24Z<p>Tayjacobe22: /* Safety */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{McNair Projects<br />
|Has title=Houston Innovation District<br />
|Has owner=Ben Baldazo, Dylan Dickens, Joe Reilly, Taylor Jacobe,<br />
|Has start date=9/20/2017<br />
|Has deadline=10/27/2017<br />
|Has project status=Active<br />
}}<br />
<br />
=Project Summary=<br />
Mayor of Houston has asked us to make recommendations about how to create an innovation district in Houston<br />
*Go through patent data, find people with patents<br />
*Find people who have done R&D work<br />
*Carve up the world of innovative people in terms of data<br />
**Find their needs<br />
**Turn it into some sort of office space requirement<br />
**Try to find where this office space would be, what it would look like<br />
<br />
=Data Summary=<br />
<br />
Info we have:<br />
*'''Startups''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Accelerators/Incubators''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Entrepreneurship Ecosystems''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Small Business''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''VC''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\VCData). VC locations have already been geocoded. For a final map, use info in "VC firms with address, basic sector info" to match sector and size with each VC firm. Bigger VC firms who invest in more relevant sectors should be emphasized more.<br />
*'''Patents in Houston''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem > HoustonPatents.txt)<br />
*'''Office Space''': Info on largest office spaces available (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data)<br />
*'''US median income''' for 2000 and (estimated) for 2015 (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data)<br />
*'''Educational Attainment''' (in section below)<br />
*15 best '''Cafes in Houston''' (Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Files to Geocode)<br />
*'''Houston Industry Breakdown''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem ["Houston Gross Area Product by Industry", "Houston employment share by industry" excel files and "Industry breakdown..." text file.])<br />
*'''Grant Data''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Texas Federal Grant Data. Can filter by county/city)<br />
*'''Sales''' (inProjects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Files to Geocode)<br />
*'''Preliminary map''': Dylan aggregated the geocoded data for VC Firms, Accelerators, Incubators, University Accelerators, Hubs, and startups into one CSV saved in the Houston Innovation Districts folder called VC Firms, Institutions, Startups Geocoded. Quickly put together this preliminary map as a starting point. The institutions, vc firms, and startups are blue dots, and I layered the bike lane shapefile as purple lines and park shapefile as green polygons on top. Shapefiles are in the Shapefiles folder in the Houston innovation District folder<br />
*'''Public Transportation''' maps in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data<br />
*'''Houston NSF grants located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem<br />
*Risk preparedness: '''Houston floodmap''': (at http://www.harriscountyfemt.org/). In a study published just before Harvey, predictive maps were shown to be largely inadequate for predicting flooding locations: https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/09/18/fema-flood-maps-missed-claims-harvey-houston/#32e295be9938<br />
*Used GDP and employment statistics for measurements of '''Stability of Houston's economy''' compared to other Metro areas. (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Predictability_of_Houston.27s_economy)<br />
*'''Government programs and benefits''' (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Houston_Development_Incentives_and_Regulations)<br />
*'''Crime and Safety''' (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Safety)<br />
<br />
Info we are in the process of getting:<br />
*Yelp data on '''Cafes and restaurants''' within the 610 loop- Peter<br />
<br />
Unknown:<br />
*Other R&D data in Houston<br />
*Competition<br />
<br />
=Understanding Innovation Districts=<br />
*Factors relating to best Innovation Districts:<br />
[[File:Factors for innovation district.png]]<br />
Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/312173269_fig15_Figure-19-Key-success-factors-for-innovation-district-development<br />
<br />
Data wanted is in '''bold'''<br />
<br />
Optimize Land Use and Placemaking<br />
*''Flexibility, responding to market preferences''<br />
**'''Available office space/undeveloped land in Houston'''<br />
**'''Availability of capital'''<br />
***equity<br />
***VC<br />
***Investors of all kinds<br />
*''Infrastructure and land as a platform for experimentation''<br />
**'''Flexibility of space and infrastructure'''<br />
*''Placemaking to achieve critical mass of real estate and commercial activity and authentic sense of place''<br />
**Location, location, location<br />
<br />
Strategy as a City of Innovation<br />
*''and leverage the regional innovation context''<br />
**''What we currently have going for us as a city- who is here and how can we leverage them?''<br />
***'''R&D Data'''<br />
***'''Patent Data'''<br />
*''Prioritize attention on city wide eco-system and development and networking''<br />
**'''Current Government benefits to improve innovation ecosystem'''<br />
**What would we ideally have to attract business<br />
*''Grow and support existing innovation firms and activity''<br />
*''Manage externalities that arise''<br />
**'''Houston's risk preparedness'''<br />
**'''Competition?'''<br />
*''Adapt through cycles''<br />
**'''Stability of Houston's economy data'''<br />
<br />
Build the City's Innovation Brand<br />
*''Leverage city DNA and expertise in promoting innovation''<br />
**Where is Houston at the forefront?<br />
*''Develop innovation brand as a broad identity and shared narrative''<br />
**How can we market the city as an innovator? How do we gain that image?<br />
*''Invite others to feel and experience the innovation culture''<br />
**How accessibile is Houston?<br />
***'''Public transportation'''<br />
***'''Travel costs: flying, lodging'''<br />
<br />
A thought: Houston's key capabilities seem to be in Oil/Gas/Energy and Medicine. Can we start by portraying Houston as a leading innovator in those areas? Innovation district can start with our core capabilities<br />
<br />
=Location data=<br />
<br />
*Information on largest office spaces available, and on US median income for 2000 and (estimated) for 2015 are located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data.<br />
*Office spaces for sale in the the zip codes listed below were compiled in "Office property listings..." in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data. Included is acreage/square footage and address. Listings under "office space" that looked like houses were removed.<br />
**Listings pulled from zip codes:<br />
***77002<br />
***77003<br />
***77004<br />
***77005<br />
***77006<br />
***77007<br />
***77008<br />
***77009<br />
***77019<br />
***77098<br />
***77030<br />
***77027<br />
***77025<br />
***77046<br />
***77024<br />
***77056<br />
***77057<br />
***77401<br />
<br />
==Pulling Yelp Data==<br />
It seems entirely possible, though against the terms of service of yelp, to pull data from Houston centered searches for things like cafe's or bars. Peter J has done some work like this before with his "Chipotle" and "Starbucks" finder webapps and is working on creating a map / pulling the data from google or yelp to have the locations of all of these points of commerce within the 610 loop.<br />
*Note: Using yelp data (and regressing things like reviews, new businesses and locations) havard business was able to project (with 30% correlation) the economic growth on a granular scale: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/18-022_0bb9b749-f275-41ff-899c-afd9109568ee.pdf<br />
**We may be able to produce something similar but less developed using density of restaurants in houston to find entrepreneurial / growth hotspots<br />
<br />
=Educational Attainment=<br />
*For the city of Houston, <br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 76.7%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 30.4%<br />
<br />
*For Harris County,<br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 79.6%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 29.5% <br />
<br />
*Compared to the rest of the US:<br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 83.3% 86.7%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 20.4% 29.8%<br />
<br />
source: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/harriscountytexas,houstoncitytexas,US/PST045216<br />
<br />
=Houston Development Incentives and Regulations=<br />
*'''Historic Sites:''' http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/historic_site_tax_exemption.html<br />
*'''Tax Abatements:''' Houston created a program that encourages new growth, new development, and new jobs: tax abatements. These abatements attempt to strengthen Houston’s existing competitive advantages, while augmenting Houston’s emerging markets. http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/tax_abatements.html. Projects that qualify have one of the following situations:<br />
**A developer builds in a declining part of Houston, a place where the project increases job opportunities, reduces poverty, or redevelops an area.<br />
**The rare situation when a developer requires an abatement to remain, expand, or locate, in Houston, a situation where Houston’s job and economic market is significantly strengthened by the developer’s presence.<br />
**A company invests in real estate that serves the public. Such an investment could provide affordable housing or rejuvenate a blighted area.<br />
*'''380 Agreements:''' To make loans and/or grants of public money and to provide personnel and/or services of the City of Houston for the purpose of promoting state or local economic development. Also accepts donations and contributions to fund this program. http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/380agreements.html. An eligible project must include:<br />
**construction of substantial new real property improvements of at least $2,500,000 in value, or extensive renovation of existing improvements, on land owned or to be acquired by the applicant; and documented equity investment of at least $500,000 ( loans to the project and guarantees of third party financing do not qualify);<br />
**and either: documented creation of at least 25 new full time jobs (40-hours per week), and retention of such jobs for a period of no less than five years; or creation of affordable housing or transitional housing, to be established by deed restrictions recorded in the Official Public Records of Real Property of the county in which the property is located. <br />
*'''Texas Enterprise Zones:''' Areas of underinvestment, places of distress targeted for rejuvenation. Terms:<br />
**This economic revival comes in the form of state sales and use tax refunds. These reimbursements are based on how much a company invests and the number of jobs a company creates. Job and investment requirements fall in the chart at http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/enterprise_zones.html<br />
**Besides these investment requirements, a municipality must nominate the company to the state government. The city of Houston may nominate 9 areas every 2 years.<br />
*'''Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones:''' Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones (TIRZs) are special zones created by City Council to attract new investment in an area. TIRZs help finance costs of redevelopment and encourage development in areas that would otherwise not attract sufficient market development in a timely manner. Taxes attributable to new improvements (tax increments) are set-aside in a fund to finance public improvements within the boundaries of the zone.<br />
**Map at http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/tirz.html<br />
<br />
<br />
=Predictability of Houston's economy=<br />
<br />
File listing Metro area GDP for Houston, DFW, Chicago, New York, and LA metro areas located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Houston stability measurements. To measure differences in economic stability between these cities, I calculated the standard deviation of each city's GDP for the last 16 years.<br />
<br />
=Safety=<br />
*Map of crimes in each area of Houston: https://www.crimereports.com/home/#!/dashboard?lat=29.73278125282416&lng=-95.31875610351562&zoom=12&incident_types=Assault%252CAssault%2520with%2520Deadly%2520Weapon%252CBreaking%2520%2526%2520Entering%252CDisorder%252CDrugs%252CHomicide%252CKidnapping%252CLiquor%252COther%2520Sexual%2520Offense%252CProperty%2520Crime%252CProperty%2520Crime%2520Commercial%252CProperty%2520Crime%2520Residential%252CQuality%2520of%2520Life%252CRobbery%252CSexual%2520Assault%252CSexual%2520Offense%252CTheft%252CTheft%2520from%2520Vehicle%252CTheft%2520of%2520Vehicle&start_date=2017-10-05&end_date=2017-10-19&days=sunday%252Cmonday%252Ctuesday%252Cwednesday%252Cthursday%252Cfriday%252Csaturday&start_time=0&end_time=23&include_sex_offenders=false&current_tab=map&shapeIds=&shape_id=false<br />
<br />
<br />
This map shifts quite a bit depending on the time period you look at. I looked at Crime report data from Oct 5-19, 2017.<br />
<br />
Most Dangerous Areas: <br />
#Midtown/Downtown by the intersection of 59 and 45: 65 total crimes in local area, 14 violent<br />
#Main Downtown: 61 total crimes in local area, 5 violent<br />
#Downtown by the intersection of 10 and 45: 47 total crimes reported in local area, 11 violent<br />
#Midtown, where Elgin becomes Westheimer: 49 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Museum District: 45 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Greater Third Ward: 30 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Wesleyan and Richmond: 30 total crimes in local area, 2 violent<br />
#East of downtown, but the Gus Wortham Golf Course: 27 total violent crimes in local area, 5 violent<br />
<br />
walkability scores</div>Tayjacobe22http://www.edegan.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Houston_Innovation_District&diff=20917Houston Innovation District2017-10-19T19:53:17Z<p>Tayjacobe22: /* Understanding Innovation Districts */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{McNair Projects<br />
|Has title=Houston Innovation District<br />
|Has owner=Ben Baldazo, Dylan Dickens, Joe Reilly, Taylor Jacobe,<br />
|Has start date=9/20/2017<br />
|Has deadline=10/27/2017<br />
|Has project status=Active<br />
}}<br />
<br />
=Project Summary=<br />
Mayor of Houston has asked us to make recommendations about how to create an innovation district in Houston<br />
*Go through patent data, find people with patents<br />
*Find people who have done R&D work<br />
*Carve up the world of innovative people in terms of data<br />
**Find their needs<br />
**Turn it into some sort of office space requirement<br />
**Try to find where this office space would be, what it would look like<br />
<br />
=Data Summary=<br />
<br />
Info we have:<br />
*'''Startups''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Accelerators/Incubators''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Entrepreneurship Ecosystems''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Small Business''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''VC''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\VCData). VC locations have already been geocoded. For a final map, use info in "VC firms with address, basic sector info" to match sector and size with each VC firm. Bigger VC firms who invest in more relevant sectors should be emphasized more.<br />
*'''Patents in Houston''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem > HoustonPatents.txt)<br />
*'''Office Space''': Info on largest office spaces available (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data)<br />
*'''US median income''' for 2000 and (estimated) for 2015 (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data)<br />
*'''Educational Attainment''' (in section below)<br />
*15 best '''Cafes in Houston''' (Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Files to Geocode)<br />
*'''Houston Industry Breakdown''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem ["Houston Gross Area Product by Industry", "Houston employment share by industry" excel files and "Industry breakdown..." text file.])<br />
*'''Grant Data''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Texas Federal Grant Data. Can filter by county/city)<br />
*'''Sales''' (inProjects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Files to Geocode)<br />
*'''Preliminary map''': Dylan aggregated the geocoded data for VC Firms, Accelerators, Incubators, University Accelerators, Hubs, and startups into one CSV saved in the Houston Innovation Districts folder called VC Firms, Institutions, Startups Geocoded. Quickly put together this preliminary map as a starting point. The institutions, vc firms, and startups are blue dots, and I layered the bike lane shapefile as purple lines and park shapefile as green polygons on top. Shapefiles are in the Shapefiles folder in the Houston innovation District folder<br />
*'''Public Transportation''' maps in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data<br />
*'''Houston NSF grants located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem<br />
*Risk preparedness: '''Houston floodmap''': (at http://www.harriscountyfemt.org/). In a study published just before Harvey, predictive maps were shown to be largely inadequate for predicting flooding locations: https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/09/18/fema-flood-maps-missed-claims-harvey-houston/#32e295be9938<br />
*Used GDP and employment statistics for measurements of '''Stability of Houston's economy''' compared to other Metro areas. (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Predictability_of_Houston.27s_economy)<br />
*'''Government programs and benefits''' (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Houston_Development_Incentives_and_Regulations)<br />
*'''Crime and Safety''' (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Safety)<br />
<br />
Info we are in the process of getting:<br />
*Yelp data on '''Cafes and restaurants''' within the 610 loop- Peter<br />
<br />
Unknown:<br />
*Other R&D data in Houston<br />
*Competition<br />
<br />
=Understanding Innovation Districts=<br />
*Factors relating to best Innovation Districts:<br />
[[File:Factors for innovation district.png]]<br />
Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/312173269_fig15_Figure-19-Key-success-factors-for-innovation-district-development<br />
<br />
Data wanted is in '''bold'''<br />
<br />
Optimize Land Use and Placemaking<br />
*''Flexibility, responding to market preferences''<br />
**'''Available office space/undeveloped land in Houston'''<br />
**'''Availability of capital'''<br />
***equity<br />
***VC<br />
***Investors of all kinds<br />
*''Infrastructure and land as a platform for experimentation''<br />
**'''Flexibility of space and infrastructure'''<br />
*''Placemaking to achieve critical mass of real estate and commercial activity and authentic sense of place''<br />
**Location, location, location<br />
<br />
Strategy as a City of Innovation<br />
*''and leverage the regional innovation context''<br />
**''What we currently have going for us as a city- who is here and how can we leverage them?''<br />
***'''R&D Data'''<br />
***'''Patent Data'''<br />
*''Prioritize attention on city wide eco-system and development and networking''<br />
**'''Current Government benefits to improve innovation ecosystem'''<br />
**What would we ideally have to attract business<br />
*''Grow and support existing innovation firms and activity''<br />
*''Manage externalities that arise''<br />
**'''Houston's risk preparedness'''<br />
**'''Competition?'''<br />
*''Adapt through cycles''<br />
**'''Stability of Houston's economy data'''<br />
<br />
Build the City's Innovation Brand<br />
*''Leverage city DNA and expertise in promoting innovation''<br />
**Where is Houston at the forefront?<br />
*''Develop innovation brand as a broad identity and shared narrative''<br />
**How can we market the city as an innovator? How do we gain that image?<br />
*''Invite others to feel and experience the innovation culture''<br />
**How accessibile is Houston?<br />
***'''Public transportation'''<br />
***'''Travel costs: flying, lodging'''<br />
<br />
A thought: Houston's key capabilities seem to be in Oil/Gas/Energy and Medicine. Can we start by portraying Houston as a leading innovator in those areas? Innovation district can start with our core capabilities<br />
<br />
=Location data=<br />
<br />
*Information on largest office spaces available, and on US median income for 2000 and (estimated) for 2015 are located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data.<br />
*Office spaces for sale in the the zip codes listed below were compiled in "Office property listings..." in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data. Included is acreage/square footage and address. Listings under "office space" that looked like houses were removed.<br />
**Listings pulled from zip codes:<br />
***77002<br />
***77003<br />
***77004<br />
***77005<br />
***77006<br />
***77007<br />
***77008<br />
***77009<br />
***77019<br />
***77098<br />
***77030<br />
***77027<br />
***77025<br />
***77046<br />
***77024<br />
***77056<br />
***77057<br />
***77401<br />
<br />
==Pulling Yelp Data==<br />
It seems entirely possible, though against the terms of service of yelp, to pull data from Houston centered searches for things like cafe's or bars. Peter J has done some work like this before with his "Chipotle" and "Starbucks" finder webapps and is working on creating a map / pulling the data from google or yelp to have the locations of all of these points of commerce within the 610 loop.<br />
*Note: Using yelp data (and regressing things like reviews, new businesses and locations) havard business was able to project (with 30% correlation) the economic growth on a granular scale: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/18-022_0bb9b749-f275-41ff-899c-afd9109568ee.pdf<br />
**We may be able to produce something similar but less developed using density of restaurants in houston to find entrepreneurial / growth hotspots<br />
<br />
=Educational Attainment=<br />
*For the city of Houston, <br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 76.7%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 30.4%<br />
<br />
*For Harris County,<br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 79.6%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 29.5% <br />
<br />
*Compared to the rest of the US:<br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 83.3% 86.7%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 20.4% 29.8%<br />
<br />
source: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/harriscountytexas,houstoncitytexas,US/PST045216<br />
<br />
=Houston Development Incentives and Regulations=<br />
*'''Historic Sites:''' http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/historic_site_tax_exemption.html<br />
*'''Tax Abatements:''' Houston created a program that encourages new growth, new development, and new jobs: tax abatements. These abatements attempt to strengthen Houston’s existing competitive advantages, while augmenting Houston’s emerging markets. http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/tax_abatements.html. Projects that qualify have one of the following situations:<br />
**A developer builds in a declining part of Houston, a place where the project increases job opportunities, reduces poverty, or redevelops an area.<br />
**The rare situation when a developer requires an abatement to remain, expand, or locate, in Houston, a situation where Houston’s job and economic market is significantly strengthened by the developer’s presence.<br />
**A company invests in real estate that serves the public. Such an investment could provide affordable housing or rejuvenate a blighted area.<br />
*'''380 Agreements:''' To make loans and/or grants of public money and to provide personnel and/or services of the City of Houston for the purpose of promoting state or local economic development. Also accepts donations and contributions to fund this program. http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/380agreements.html. An eligible project must include:<br />
**construction of substantial new real property improvements of at least $2,500,000 in value, or extensive renovation of existing improvements, on land owned or to be acquired by the applicant; and documented equity investment of at least $500,000 ( loans to the project and guarantees of third party financing do not qualify);<br />
**and either: documented creation of at least 25 new full time jobs (40-hours per week), and retention of such jobs for a period of no less than five years; or creation of affordable housing or transitional housing, to be established by deed restrictions recorded in the Official Public Records of Real Property of the county in which the property is located. <br />
*'''Texas Enterprise Zones:''' Areas of underinvestment, places of distress targeted for rejuvenation. Terms:<br />
**This economic revival comes in the form of state sales and use tax refunds. These reimbursements are based on how much a company invests and the number of jobs a company creates. Job and investment requirements fall in the chart at http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/enterprise_zones.html<br />
**Besides these investment requirements, a municipality must nominate the company to the state government. The city of Houston may nominate 9 areas every 2 years.<br />
*'''Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones:''' Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones (TIRZs) are special zones created by City Council to attract new investment in an area. TIRZs help finance costs of redevelopment and encourage development in areas that would otherwise not attract sufficient market development in a timely manner. Taxes attributable to new improvements (tax increments) are set-aside in a fund to finance public improvements within the boundaries of the zone.<br />
**Map at http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/tirz.html<br />
<br />
<br />
=Predictability of Houston's economy=<br />
<br />
File listing Metro area GDP for Houston, DFW, Chicago, New York, and LA metro areas located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Houston stability measurements. To measure differences in economic stability between these cities, I calculated the standard deviation of each city's GDP for the last 16 years.<br />
<br />
=Safety=<br />
*Map of crimes in each area of Houston: https://www.crimereports.com/home/#!/dashboard?lat=29.73278125282416&lng=-95.31875610351562&zoom=12&incident_types=Assault%252CAssault%2520with%2520Deadly%2520Weapon%252CBreaking%2520%2526%2520Entering%252CDisorder%252CDrugs%252CHomicide%252CKidnapping%252CLiquor%252COther%2520Sexual%2520Offense%252CProperty%2520Crime%252CProperty%2520Crime%2520Commercial%252CProperty%2520Crime%2520Residential%252CQuality%2520of%2520Life%252CRobbery%252CSexual%2520Assault%252CSexual%2520Offense%252CTheft%252CTheft%2520from%2520Vehicle%252CTheft%2520of%2520Vehicle&start_date=2017-10-05&end_date=2017-10-19&days=sunday%252Cmonday%252Ctuesday%252Cwednesday%252Cthursday%252Cfriday%252Csaturday&start_time=0&end_time=23&include_sex_offenders=false&current_tab=map&shapeIds=&shape_id=false<br />
<br />
<br />
This map shifts quite a bit depending on the time period you look at. I looked at Crime report data from Oct 5-19, 2017.<br />
<br />
Most Dangerous Areas: <br />
#Midtown/Downtown by the intersection of 59 and 45: 65 total crimes in local area, 14 violent<br />
#Main Downtown: 61 total crimes in local area, 5 violent<br />
#Downtown by the intersection of 10 and 45: 47 total crimes reported in local area, 11 violent<br />
#Midtown, where Elgin becomes Westheimer: 49 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Museum District: 45 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Greater Third Ward: 30 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Wesleyan and Richmond: 30 total crimes in local area, 2 violent<br />
#East of downtown, but the Gus Wortham Golf Course: 27 total violent crimes in local area, 5 violent</div>Tayjacobe22http://www.edegan.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Houston_Innovation_District&diff=20911Houston Innovation District2017-10-19T19:29:48Z<p>Tayjacobe22: /* Safety */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{McNair Projects<br />
|Has title=Houston Innovation District<br />
|Has owner=Ben Baldazo, Dylan Dickens, Joe Reilly, Taylor Jacobe,<br />
|Has start date=9/20/2017<br />
|Has deadline=10/27/2017<br />
|Has project status=Active<br />
}}<br />
<br />
=Project Summary=<br />
Mayor of Houston has asked us to make recommendations about how to create an innovation district in Houston<br />
*Go through patent data, find people with patents<br />
*Find people who have done R&D work<br />
*Carve up the world of innovative people in terms of data<br />
**Find their needs<br />
**Turn it into some sort of office space requirement<br />
**Try to find where this office space would be, what it would look like<br />
<br />
=Data Summary=<br />
<br />
Info we have:<br />
*'''Startups''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Accelerators/Incubators''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Entrepreneurship Ecosystems''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Small Business''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''VC''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\VCData). VC locations have already been geocoded. For a final map, use info in "VC firms with address, basic sector info" to match sector and size with each VC firm. Bigger VC firms who invest in more relevant sectors should be emphasized more.<br />
*'''Patents in Houston''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem > HoustonPatents.txt)<br />
*'''Office Space''': Info on largest office spaces available (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data)<br />
*'''US median income''' for 2000 and (estimated) for 2015 (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data)<br />
*'''Educational Attainment''' (in section below)<br />
*15 best '''Cafes in Houston''' (Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Files to Geocode)<br />
*'''Houston Industry Breakdown''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem ["Houston Gross Area Product by Industry", "Houston employment share by industry" excel files and "Industry breakdown..." text file.])<br />
*'''Grant Data''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Texas Federal Grant Data. Can filter by county/city)<br />
*'''Sales''' (inProjects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Files to Geocode)<br />
*'''Preliminary map''': Dylan aggregated the geocoded data for VC Firms, Accelerators, Incubators, University Accelerators, Hubs, and startups into one CSV saved in the Houston Innovation Districts folder called VC Firms, Institutions, Startups Geocoded. Quickly put together this preliminary map as a starting point. The institutions, vc firms, and startups are blue dots, and I layered the bike lane shapefile as purple lines and park shapefile as green polygons on top. Shapefiles are in the Shapefiles folder in the Houston innovation District folder<br />
*'''Public Transportation''' maps in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data<br />
*'''Houston NSF grants located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem<br />
*Risk preparedness: '''Houston floodmap''': (at http://www.harriscountyfemt.org/). In a study published just before Harvey, predictive maps were shown to be largely inadequate for predicting flooding locations: https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/09/18/fema-flood-maps-missed-claims-harvey-houston/#32e295be9938<br />
*Used GDP and employment statistics for measurements of '''Stability of Houston's economy''' compared to other Metro areas. (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Predictability_of_Houston.27s_economy)<br />
*'''Government programs and benefits''' (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Houston_Development_Incentives_and_Regulations)<br />
*'''Crime and Safety''' (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Safety)<br />
<br />
Info we are in the process of getting:<br />
*Yelp data on '''Cafes and restaurants''' within the 610 loop- Peter<br />
<br />
Unknown:<br />
*Other R&D data in Houston<br />
*Competition<br />
<br />
=Understanding Innovation Districts=<br />
*Factors relating to best Innovation Districts:<br />
[[File:Factors for innovation district.png]]<br />
Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/312173269_fig15_Figure-19-Key-success-factors-for-innovation-district-development<br />
<br />
Data wanted is in '''bold'''<br />
<br />
Optimize Land Use and Placemaking<br />
*''Flexibility, responding to market preferences''<br />
**'''Available office space/undeveloped land in Houston'''<br />
**'''Availability of capital'''<br />
***equity<br />
***VC<br />
***Investors of all kinds<br />
*''Infrastructure and land as a platform for experimentation''<br />
**'''Flexibility of space and infrastructure'''<br />
**Zoning?<br />
*''Placemaking to achieve critical mass of real estate and commercial activity and authentic sense of place''<br />
**Location, location, location<br />
<br />
Strategy as a City of Innovation<br />
*''and leverage the regional innovation context''<br />
**''What we currently have going for us as a city- who is here and how can we leverage them?''<br />
***'''R&D Data'''<br />
***'''Patent Data'''<br />
*''Prioritize attention on city wide eco-system and development and networking''<br />
**'''Current Government benefits to improve innovation ecosystem'''<br />
**What would we ideally have to attract business?<br />
*''Grow and support existing innovation firms and activity''<br />
*''Manage externalities that arise''<br />
**'''Houston's risk preparedness'''<br />
**'''Competition?'''<br />
*''Adapt through cycles''<br />
**'''Predictability of Houston's economy data?'''<br />
<br />
Build the City's Innovation Brand<br />
*''Leverage city DNA and expertise in promoting innovation''<br />
**Where is Houston at the forefront?<br />
*''Develop innovation brand as a broad identity and shared narrative''<br />
**How can we market the city as an innovator? How do we gain that image?<br />
*''Invite others to feel and experience the innovation culture''<br />
**How accessibile is Houston?<br />
***'''Public transportation'''<br />
***'''Travel costs: flying, lodging'''<br />
<br />
A thought: Houston's key capabilities seem to be in Oil/Gas/Energy and Medicine. Can we start by portraying Houston as a leading innovator in those areas? Innovation district can start with our core capabilities<br />
<br />
=Location data=<br />
<br />
*Information on largest office spaces available, and on US median income for 2000 and (estimated) for 2015 are located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data.<br />
*Office spaces for sale in the the zip codes listed below were compiled in "Office property listings..." in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data. Included is acreage/square footage and address. Listings under "office space" that looked like houses were removed.<br />
**Listings pulled from zip codes:<br />
***77002<br />
***77003<br />
***77004<br />
***77005<br />
***77006<br />
***77007<br />
***77008<br />
***77009<br />
***77019<br />
***77098<br />
***77030<br />
***77027<br />
***77025<br />
***77046<br />
***77024<br />
***77056<br />
***77057<br />
***77401<br />
<br />
==Pulling Yelp Data==<br />
It seems entirely possible, though against the terms of service of yelp, to pull data from Houston centered searches for things like cafe's or bars. Peter J has done some work like this before with his "Chipotle" and "Starbucks" finder webapps and is working on creating a map / pulling the data from google or yelp to have the locations of all of these points of commerce within the 610 loop.<br />
*Note: Using yelp data (and regressing things like reviews, new businesses and locations) havard business was able to project (with 30% correlation) the economic growth on a granular scale: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/18-022_0bb9b749-f275-41ff-899c-afd9109568ee.pdf<br />
**We may be able to produce something similar but less developed using density of restaurants in houston to find entrepreneurial / growth hotspots<br />
<br />
=Educational Attainment=<br />
*For the city of Houston, <br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 76.7%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 30.4%<br />
<br />
*For Harris County,<br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 79.6%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 29.5% <br />
<br />
*Compared to the rest of the US:<br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 83.3% 86.7%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 20.4% 29.8%<br />
<br />
source: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/harriscountytexas,houstoncitytexas,US/PST045216<br />
<br />
=Houston Development Incentives and Regulations=<br />
*'''Historic Sites:''' http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/historic_site_tax_exemption.html<br />
*'''Tax Abatements:''' Houston created a program that encourages new growth, new development, and new jobs: tax abatements. These abatements attempt to strengthen Houston’s existing competitive advantages, while augmenting Houston’s emerging markets. http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/tax_abatements.html. Projects that qualify have one of the following situations:<br />
**A developer builds in a declining part of Houston, a place where the project increases job opportunities, reduces poverty, or redevelops an area.<br />
**The rare situation when a developer requires an abatement to remain, expand, or locate, in Houston, a situation where Houston’s job and economic market is significantly strengthened by the developer’s presence.<br />
**A company invests in real estate that serves the public. Such an investment could provide affordable housing or rejuvenate a blighted area.<br />
*'''380 Agreements:''' To make loans and/or grants of public money and to provide personnel and/or services of the City of Houston for the purpose of promoting state or local economic development. Also accepts donations and contributions to fund this program. http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/380agreements.html. An eligible project must include:<br />
**construction of substantial new real property improvements of at least $2,500,000 in value, or extensive renovation of existing improvements, on land owned or to be acquired by the applicant; and documented equity investment of at least $500,000 ( loans to the project and guarantees of third party financing do not qualify);<br />
**and either: documented creation of at least 25 new full time jobs (40-hours per week), and retention of such jobs for a period of no less than five years; or creation of affordable housing or transitional housing, to be established by deed restrictions recorded in the Official Public Records of Real Property of the county in which the property is located. <br />
*'''Texas Enterprise Zones:''' Areas of underinvestment, places of distress targeted for rejuvenation. Terms:<br />
**This economic revival comes in the form of state sales and use tax refunds. These reimbursements are based on how much a company invests and the number of jobs a company creates. Job and investment requirements fall in the chart at http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/enterprise_zones.html<br />
**Besides these investment requirements, a municipality must nominate the company to the state government. The city of Houston may nominate 9 areas every 2 years.<br />
*'''Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones:''' Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones (TIRZs) are special zones created by City Council to attract new investment in an area. TIRZs help finance costs of redevelopment and encourage development in areas that would otherwise not attract sufficient market development in a timely manner. Taxes attributable to new improvements (tax increments) are set-aside in a fund to finance public improvements within the boundaries of the zone.<br />
**Map at http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/tirz.html<br />
<br />
<br />
=Predictability of Houston's economy=<br />
<br />
File listing Metro area GDP for Houston, DFW, Chicago, New York, and LA metro areas located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Houston stability measurements. To measure differences in economic stability between these cities, I calculated the standard deviation of each city's GDP for the last 16 years.<br />
<br />
=Safety=<br />
*Map of crimes in each area of Houston: https://www.crimereports.com/home/#!/dashboard?lat=29.73278125282416&lng=-95.31875610351562&zoom=12&incident_types=Assault%252CAssault%2520with%2520Deadly%2520Weapon%252CBreaking%2520%2526%2520Entering%252CDisorder%252CDrugs%252CHomicide%252CKidnapping%252CLiquor%252COther%2520Sexual%2520Offense%252CProperty%2520Crime%252CProperty%2520Crime%2520Commercial%252CProperty%2520Crime%2520Residential%252CQuality%2520of%2520Life%252CRobbery%252CSexual%2520Assault%252CSexual%2520Offense%252CTheft%252CTheft%2520from%2520Vehicle%252CTheft%2520of%2520Vehicle&start_date=2017-10-05&end_date=2017-10-19&days=sunday%252Cmonday%252Ctuesday%252Cwednesday%252Cthursday%252Cfriday%252Csaturday&start_time=0&end_time=23&include_sex_offenders=false&current_tab=map&shapeIds=&shape_id=false<br />
<br />
<br />
This map shifts quite a bit depending on the time period you look at. I looked at Crime report data from Oct 5-19, 2017.<br />
<br />
Most Dangerous Areas: <br />
#Midtown/Downtown by the intersection of 59 and 45: 65 total crimes in local area, 14 violent<br />
#Main Downtown: 61 total crimes in local area, 5 violent<br />
#Downtown by the intersection of 10 and 45: 47 total crimes reported in local area, 11 violent<br />
#Midtown, where Elgin becomes Westheimer: 49 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Museum District: 45 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Greater Third Ward: 30 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Wesleyan and Richmond: 30 total crimes in local area, 2 violent<br />
#East of downtown, but the Gus Wortham Golf Course: 27 total violent crimes in local area, 5 violent</div>Tayjacobe22http://www.edegan.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Houston_Innovation_District&diff=20910Houston Innovation District2017-10-19T19:15:07Z<p>Tayjacobe22: /* Data Summary */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{McNair Projects<br />
|Has title=Houston Innovation District<br />
|Has owner=Ben Baldazo, Dylan Dickens, Joe Reilly, Taylor Jacobe,<br />
|Has start date=9/20/2017<br />
|Has deadline=10/27/2017<br />
|Has project status=Active<br />
}}<br />
<br />
=Project Summary=<br />
Mayor of Houston has asked us to make recommendations about how to create an innovation district in Houston<br />
*Go through patent data, find people with patents<br />
*Find people who have done R&D work<br />
*Carve up the world of innovative people in terms of data<br />
**Find their needs<br />
**Turn it into some sort of office space requirement<br />
**Try to find where this office space would be, what it would look like<br />
<br />
=Data Summary=<br />
<br />
Info we have:<br />
*'''Startups''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Accelerators/Incubators''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Entrepreneurship Ecosystems''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Small Business''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''VC''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\VCData). VC locations have already been geocoded. For a final map, use info in "VC firms with address, basic sector info" to match sector and size with each VC firm. Bigger VC firms who invest in more relevant sectors should be emphasized more.<br />
*'''Patents in Houston''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem > HoustonPatents.txt)<br />
*'''Office Space''': Info on largest office spaces available (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data)<br />
*'''US median income''' for 2000 and (estimated) for 2015 (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data)<br />
*'''Educational Attainment''' (in section below)<br />
*15 best '''Cafes in Houston''' (Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Files to Geocode)<br />
*'''Houston Industry Breakdown''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem ["Houston Gross Area Product by Industry", "Houston employment share by industry" excel files and "Industry breakdown..." text file.])<br />
*'''Grant Data''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Texas Federal Grant Data. Can filter by county/city)<br />
*'''Sales''' (inProjects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Files to Geocode)<br />
*'''Preliminary map''': Dylan aggregated the geocoded data for VC Firms, Accelerators, Incubators, University Accelerators, Hubs, and startups into one CSV saved in the Houston Innovation Districts folder called VC Firms, Institutions, Startups Geocoded. Quickly put together this preliminary map as a starting point. The institutions, vc firms, and startups are blue dots, and I layered the bike lane shapefile as purple lines and park shapefile as green polygons on top. Shapefiles are in the Shapefiles folder in the Houston innovation District folder<br />
*'''Public Transportation''' maps in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data<br />
*'''Houston NSF grants located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem<br />
*Risk preparedness: '''Houston floodmap''': (at http://www.harriscountyfemt.org/). In a study published just before Harvey, predictive maps were shown to be largely inadequate for predicting flooding locations: https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/09/18/fema-flood-maps-missed-claims-harvey-houston/#32e295be9938<br />
*Used GDP and employment statistics for measurements of '''Stability of Houston's economy''' compared to other Metro areas. (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Predictability_of_Houston.27s_economy)<br />
*'''Government programs and benefits''' (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Houston_Development_Incentives_and_Regulations)<br />
*'''Crime and Safety''' (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Safety)<br />
<br />
Info we are in the process of getting:<br />
*Yelp data on '''Cafes and restaurants''' within the 610 loop- Peter<br />
<br />
Unknown:<br />
*Other R&D data in Houston<br />
*Competition<br />
<br />
=Understanding Innovation Districts=<br />
*Factors relating to best Innovation Districts:<br />
[[File:Factors for innovation district.png]]<br />
Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/312173269_fig15_Figure-19-Key-success-factors-for-innovation-district-development<br />
<br />
Data wanted is in '''bold'''<br />
<br />
Optimize Land Use and Placemaking<br />
*''Flexibility, responding to market preferences''<br />
**'''Available office space/undeveloped land in Houston'''<br />
**'''Availability of capital'''<br />
***equity<br />
***VC<br />
***Investors of all kinds<br />
*''Infrastructure and land as a platform for experimentation''<br />
**'''Flexibility of space and infrastructure'''<br />
**Zoning?<br />
*''Placemaking to achieve critical mass of real estate and commercial activity and authentic sense of place''<br />
**Location, location, location<br />
<br />
Strategy as a City of Innovation<br />
*''and leverage the regional innovation context''<br />
**''What we currently have going for us as a city- who is here and how can we leverage them?''<br />
***'''R&D Data'''<br />
***'''Patent Data'''<br />
*''Prioritize attention on city wide eco-system and development and networking''<br />
**'''Current Government benefits to improve innovation ecosystem'''<br />
**What would we ideally have to attract business?<br />
*''Grow and support existing innovation firms and activity''<br />
*''Manage externalities that arise''<br />
**'''Houston's risk preparedness'''<br />
**'''Competition?'''<br />
*''Adapt through cycles''<br />
**'''Predictability of Houston's economy data?'''<br />
<br />
Build the City's Innovation Brand<br />
*''Leverage city DNA and expertise in promoting innovation''<br />
**Where is Houston at the forefront?<br />
*''Develop innovation brand as a broad identity and shared narrative''<br />
**How can we market the city as an innovator? How do we gain that image?<br />
*''Invite others to feel and experience the innovation culture''<br />
**How accessibile is Houston?<br />
***'''Public transportation'''<br />
***'''Travel costs: flying, lodging'''<br />
<br />
A thought: Houston's key capabilities seem to be in Oil/Gas/Energy and Medicine. Can we start by portraying Houston as a leading innovator in those areas? Innovation district can start with our core capabilities<br />
<br />
=Location data=<br />
<br />
*Information on largest office spaces available, and on US median income for 2000 and (estimated) for 2015 are located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data.<br />
*Office spaces for sale in the the zip codes listed below were compiled in "Office property listings..." in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data. Included is acreage/square footage and address. Listings under "office space" that looked like houses were removed.<br />
**Listings pulled from zip codes:<br />
***77002<br />
***77003<br />
***77004<br />
***77005<br />
***77006<br />
***77007<br />
***77008<br />
***77009<br />
***77019<br />
***77098<br />
***77030<br />
***77027<br />
***77025<br />
***77046<br />
***77024<br />
***77056<br />
***77057<br />
***77401<br />
<br />
==Pulling Yelp Data==<br />
It seems entirely possible, though against the terms of service of yelp, to pull data from Houston centered searches for things like cafe's or bars. Peter J has done some work like this before with his "Chipotle" and "Starbucks" finder webapps and is working on creating a map / pulling the data from google or yelp to have the locations of all of these points of commerce within the 610 loop.<br />
*Note: Using yelp data (and regressing things like reviews, new businesses and locations) havard business was able to project (with 30% correlation) the economic growth on a granular scale: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/18-022_0bb9b749-f275-41ff-899c-afd9109568ee.pdf<br />
**We may be able to produce something similar but less developed using density of restaurants in houston to find entrepreneurial / growth hotspots<br />
<br />
=Educational Attainment=<br />
*For the city of Houston, <br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 76.7%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 30.4%<br />
<br />
*For Harris County,<br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 79.6%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 29.5% <br />
<br />
*Compared to the rest of the US:<br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 83.3% 86.7%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 20.4% 29.8%<br />
<br />
source: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/harriscountytexas,houstoncitytexas,US/PST045216<br />
<br />
=Houston Development Incentives and Regulations=<br />
*'''Historic Sites:''' http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/historic_site_tax_exemption.html<br />
*'''Tax Abatements:''' Houston created a program that encourages new growth, new development, and new jobs: tax abatements. These abatements attempt to strengthen Houston’s existing competitive advantages, while augmenting Houston’s emerging markets. http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/tax_abatements.html. Projects that qualify have one of the following situations:<br />
**A developer builds in a declining part of Houston, a place where the project increases job opportunities, reduces poverty, or redevelops an area.<br />
**The rare situation when a developer requires an abatement to remain, expand, or locate, in Houston, a situation where Houston’s job and economic market is significantly strengthened by the developer’s presence.<br />
**A company invests in real estate that serves the public. Such an investment could provide affordable housing or rejuvenate a blighted area.<br />
*'''380 Agreements:''' To make loans and/or grants of public money and to provide personnel and/or services of the City of Houston for the purpose of promoting state or local economic development. Also accepts donations and contributions to fund this program. http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/380agreements.html. An eligible project must include:<br />
**construction of substantial new real property improvements of at least $2,500,000 in value, or extensive renovation of existing improvements, on land owned or to be acquired by the applicant; and documented equity investment of at least $500,000 ( loans to the project and guarantees of third party financing do not qualify);<br />
**and either: documented creation of at least 25 new full time jobs (40-hours per week), and retention of such jobs for a period of no less than five years; or creation of affordable housing or transitional housing, to be established by deed restrictions recorded in the Official Public Records of Real Property of the county in which the property is located. <br />
*'''Texas Enterprise Zones:''' Areas of underinvestment, places of distress targeted for rejuvenation. Terms:<br />
**This economic revival comes in the form of state sales and use tax refunds. These reimbursements are based on how much a company invests and the number of jobs a company creates. Job and investment requirements fall in the chart at http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/enterprise_zones.html<br />
**Besides these investment requirements, a municipality must nominate the company to the state government. The city of Houston may nominate 9 areas every 2 years.<br />
*'''Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones:''' Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones (TIRZs) are special zones created by City Council to attract new investment in an area. TIRZs help finance costs of redevelopment and encourage development in areas that would otherwise not attract sufficient market development in a timely manner. Taxes attributable to new improvements (tax increments) are set-aside in a fund to finance public improvements within the boundaries of the zone.<br />
**Map at http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/tirz.html<br />
<br />
<br />
=Predictability of Houston's economy=<br />
<br />
File listing Metro area GDP for Houston, DFW, Chicago, New York, and LA metro areas located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Houston stability measurements. To measure differences in economic stability between these cities, I calculated the standard deviation of each city's GDP for the last 16 years.<br />
<br />
=Safety=<br />
*Most Dangerous Areas: <br />
*Map of crimes in each area of Houston: https://www.crimereports.com/home/#!/dashboard?lat=29.73278125282416&lng=-95.31875610351562&zoom=12&incident_types=Assault%252CAssault%2520with%2520Deadly%2520Weapon%252CBreaking%2520%2526%2520Entering%252CDisorder%252CDrugs%252CHomicide%252CKidnapping%252CLiquor%252COther%2520Sexual%2520Offense%252CProperty%2520Crime%252CProperty%2520Crime%2520Commercial%252CProperty%2520Crime%2520Residential%252CQuality%2520of%2520Life%252CRobbery%252CSexual%2520Assault%252CSexual%2520Offense%252CTheft%252CTheft%2520from%2520Vehicle%252CTheft%2520of%2520Vehicle&start_date=2017-10-05&end_date=2017-10-19&days=sunday%252Cmonday%252Ctuesday%252Cwednesday%252Cthursday%252Cfriday%252Csaturday&start_time=0&end_time=23&include_sex_offenders=false&current_tab=map&shapeIds=&shape_id=false<br />
<br />
<br />
This map shifts quite a bit depending on the time period you look at. I looked at Crime report data from Oct 5-19, 2017. Results:<br />
#Midtown/Downtown by the intersection of 59 and 45: 65 total crimes in local area, 14 violent<br />
#Main Downtown: 61 total crimes in local area, 5 violent<br />
#Downtown by the intersection of 10 and 45: 47 total crimes reported in local area, 11 violent<br />
#Midtown, where Elgin becomes Westheimer: 49 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Museum District: 45 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Greater Third Ward: 30 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Wesleyan and Richmond: 30 total crimes in local area, 2 violent<br />
#East of downtown, but the Gus Wortham Golf Course: 27 total violent crimes in local area, 5 violent</div>Tayjacobe22http://www.edegan.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Houston_Innovation_District&diff=20908Houston Innovation District2017-10-19T19:13:03Z<p>Tayjacobe22: /* Data Summary */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{McNair Projects<br />
|Has title=Houston Innovation District<br />
|Has owner=Ben Baldazo, Dylan Dickens, Joe Reilly, Taylor Jacobe,<br />
|Has start date=9/20/2017<br />
|Has deadline=10/27/2017<br />
|Has project status=Active<br />
}}<br />
<br />
=Project Summary=<br />
Mayor of Houston has asked us to make recommendations about how to create an innovation district in Houston<br />
*Go through patent data, find people with patents<br />
*Find people who have done R&D work<br />
*Carve up the world of innovative people in terms of data<br />
**Find their needs<br />
**Turn it into some sort of office space requirement<br />
**Try to find where this office space would be, what it would look like<br />
<br />
=Data Summary=<br />
<br />
Info we have:<br />
*'''Startups''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Accelerators/Incubators''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Entrepreneurship Ecosystems''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Small Business''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''VC''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\VCData). VC locations have already been geocoded. For a final map, use info in "VC firms with address, basic sector info" to match sector and size with each VC firm. Bigger VC firms who invest in more relevant sectors should be emphasized more.<br />
*'''Patents in Houston''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem > HoustonPatents.txt)<br />
*'''Office Space''': Info on largest office spaces available (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data)<br />
*'''US median income''' for 2000 and (estimated) for 2015 (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data)<br />
*'''Educational Attainment''' (in section below)<br />
*15 best '''Cafes in Houston''' (Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Files to Geocode)<br />
*'''Houston Industry Breakdown''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem ["Houston Gross Area Product by Industry", "Houston employment share by industry" excel files and "Industry breakdown..." text file.])<br />
*'''Grant Data''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Texas Federal Grant Data. Can filter by county/city)<br />
*'''Sales''' (inProjects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Files to Geocode)<br />
*'''Preliminary map''': Dylan aggregated the geocoded data for VC Firms, Accelerators, Incubators, University Accelerators, Hubs, and startups into one CSV saved in the Houston Innovation Districts folder called VC Firms, Institutions, Startups Geocoded. Quickly put together this preliminary map as a starting point. The institutions, vc firms, and startups are blue dots, and I layered the bike lane shapefile as purple lines and park shapefile as green polygons on top. Shapefiles are in the Shapefiles folder in the Houston innovation District folder<br />
*'''Public Transportation''' maps in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data<br />
*'''Houston NSF grants located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem<br />
*Risk preparedness: '''Houston floodmap''': (at http://www.harriscountyfemt.org/). In a study published just before Harvey, predictive maps were shown to be largely inadequate for predicting flooding locations: https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/09/18/fema-flood-maps-missed-claims-harvey-houston/#32e295be9938<br />
*Used GDP and employment statistics for measurements of '''Stability of Houston's economy''' compared to other Metro areas. (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Predictability_of_Houston.27s_economy)<br />
*'''Government programs and benefits''' (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Houston_Development_Incentives_and_Regulations)<br />
*'''Crime and Safety''' (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Safety)<br />
<br />
Info we are in the process of getting:<br />
*Yelp data on '''Cafes and restaurants''' within the 610 loop- Peter<br />
<br />
Unknown:<br />
*Other R&D data in Houston<br />
*Risk preparedness- other than flooding<br />
*Competition<br />
<br />
=Understanding Innovation Districts=<br />
*Factors relating to best Innovation Districts:<br />
[[File:Factors for innovation district.png]]<br />
Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/312173269_fig15_Figure-19-Key-success-factors-for-innovation-district-development<br />
<br />
Data wanted is in '''bold'''<br />
<br />
Optimize Land Use and Placemaking<br />
*''Flexibility, responding to market preferences''<br />
**'''Available office space/undeveloped land in Houston'''<br />
**'''Availability of capital'''<br />
***equity<br />
***VC<br />
***Investors of all kinds<br />
*''Infrastructure and land as a platform for experimentation''<br />
**'''Flexibility of space and infrastructure'''<br />
**Zoning?<br />
*''Placemaking to achieve critical mass of real estate and commercial activity and authentic sense of place''<br />
**Location, location, location<br />
<br />
Strategy as a City of Innovation<br />
*''and leverage the regional innovation context''<br />
**''What we currently have going for us as a city- who is here and how can we leverage them?''<br />
***'''R&D Data'''<br />
***'''Patent Data'''<br />
*''Prioritize attention on city wide eco-system and development and networking''<br />
**'''Current Government benefits to improve innovation ecosystem'''<br />
**What would we ideally have to attract business?<br />
*''Grow and support existing innovation firms and activity''<br />
*''Manage externalities that arise''<br />
**'''Houston's risk preparedness'''<br />
**'''Competition?'''<br />
*''Adapt through cycles''<br />
**'''Predictability of Houston's economy data?'''<br />
<br />
Build the City's Innovation Brand<br />
*''Leverage city DNA and expertise in promoting innovation''<br />
**Where is Houston at the forefront?<br />
*''Develop innovation brand as a broad identity and shared narrative''<br />
**How can we market the city as an innovator? How do we gain that image?<br />
*''Invite others to feel and experience the innovation culture''<br />
**How accessibile is Houston?<br />
***'''Public transportation'''<br />
***'''Travel costs: flying, lodging'''<br />
<br />
A thought: Houston's key capabilities seem to be in Oil/Gas/Energy and Medicine. Can we start by portraying Houston as a leading innovator in those areas? Innovation district can start with our core capabilities<br />
<br />
=Location data=<br />
<br />
*Information on largest office spaces available, and on US median income for 2000 and (estimated) for 2015 are located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data.<br />
*Office spaces for sale in the the zip codes listed below were compiled in "Office property listings..." in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data. Included is acreage/square footage and address. Listings under "office space" that looked like houses were removed.<br />
**Listings pulled from zip codes:<br />
***77002<br />
***77003<br />
***77004<br />
***77005<br />
***77006<br />
***77007<br />
***77008<br />
***77009<br />
***77019<br />
***77098<br />
***77030<br />
***77027<br />
***77025<br />
***77046<br />
***77024<br />
***77056<br />
***77057<br />
***77401<br />
<br />
==Pulling Yelp Data==<br />
It seems entirely possible, though against the terms of service of yelp, to pull data from Houston centered searches for things like cafe's or bars. Peter J has done some work like this before with his "Chipotle" and "Starbucks" finder webapps and is working on creating a map / pulling the data from google or yelp to have the locations of all of these points of commerce within the 610 loop.<br />
*Note: Using yelp data (and regressing things like reviews, new businesses and locations) havard business was able to project (with 30% correlation) the economic growth on a granular scale: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/18-022_0bb9b749-f275-41ff-899c-afd9109568ee.pdf<br />
**We may be able to produce something similar but less developed using density of restaurants in houston to find entrepreneurial / growth hotspots<br />
<br />
=Educational Attainment=<br />
*For the city of Houston, <br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 76.7%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 30.4%<br />
<br />
*For Harris County,<br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 79.6%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 29.5% <br />
<br />
*Compared to the rest of the US:<br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 83.3% 86.7%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 20.4% 29.8%<br />
<br />
source: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/harriscountytexas,houstoncitytexas,US/PST045216<br />
<br />
=Houston Development Incentives and Regulations=<br />
*'''Historic Sites:''' http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/historic_site_tax_exemption.html<br />
*'''Tax Abatements:''' Houston created a program that encourages new growth, new development, and new jobs: tax abatements. These abatements attempt to strengthen Houston’s existing competitive advantages, while augmenting Houston’s emerging markets. http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/tax_abatements.html. Projects that qualify have one of the following situations:<br />
**A developer builds in a declining part of Houston, a place where the project increases job opportunities, reduces poverty, or redevelops an area.<br />
**The rare situation when a developer requires an abatement to remain, expand, or locate, in Houston, a situation where Houston’s job and economic market is significantly strengthened by the developer’s presence.<br />
**A company invests in real estate that serves the public. Such an investment could provide affordable housing or rejuvenate a blighted area.<br />
*'''380 Agreements:''' To make loans and/or grants of public money and to provide personnel and/or services of the City of Houston for the purpose of promoting state or local economic development. Also accepts donations and contributions to fund this program. http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/380agreements.html. An eligible project must include:<br />
**construction of substantial new real property improvements of at least $2,500,000 in value, or extensive renovation of existing improvements, on land owned or to be acquired by the applicant; and documented equity investment of at least $500,000 ( loans to the project and guarantees of third party financing do not qualify);<br />
**and either: documented creation of at least 25 new full time jobs (40-hours per week), and retention of such jobs for a period of no less than five years; or creation of affordable housing or transitional housing, to be established by deed restrictions recorded in the Official Public Records of Real Property of the county in which the property is located. <br />
*'''Texas Enterprise Zones:''' Areas of underinvestment, places of distress targeted for rejuvenation. Terms:<br />
**This economic revival comes in the form of state sales and use tax refunds. These reimbursements are based on how much a company invests and the number of jobs a company creates. Job and investment requirements fall in the chart at http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/enterprise_zones.html<br />
**Besides these investment requirements, a municipality must nominate the company to the state government. The city of Houston may nominate 9 areas every 2 years.<br />
*'''Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones:''' Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones (TIRZs) are special zones created by City Council to attract new investment in an area. TIRZs help finance costs of redevelopment and encourage development in areas that would otherwise not attract sufficient market development in a timely manner. Taxes attributable to new improvements (tax increments) are set-aside in a fund to finance public improvements within the boundaries of the zone.<br />
**Map at http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/tirz.html<br />
<br />
<br />
=Predictability of Houston's economy=<br />
<br />
File listing Metro area GDP for Houston, DFW, Chicago, New York, and LA metro areas located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Houston stability measurements. To measure differences in economic stability between these cities, I calculated the standard deviation of each city's GDP for the last 16 years.<br />
<br />
=Safety=<br />
*Most Dangerous Areas: <br />
*Map of crimes in each area of Houston: https://www.crimereports.com/home/#!/dashboard?lat=29.73278125282416&lng=-95.31875610351562&zoom=12&incident_types=Assault%252CAssault%2520with%2520Deadly%2520Weapon%252CBreaking%2520%2526%2520Entering%252CDisorder%252CDrugs%252CHomicide%252CKidnapping%252CLiquor%252COther%2520Sexual%2520Offense%252CProperty%2520Crime%252CProperty%2520Crime%2520Commercial%252CProperty%2520Crime%2520Residential%252CQuality%2520of%2520Life%252CRobbery%252CSexual%2520Assault%252CSexual%2520Offense%252CTheft%252CTheft%2520from%2520Vehicle%252CTheft%2520of%2520Vehicle&start_date=2017-10-05&end_date=2017-10-19&days=sunday%252Cmonday%252Ctuesday%252Cwednesday%252Cthursday%252Cfriday%252Csaturday&start_time=0&end_time=23&include_sex_offenders=false&current_tab=map&shapeIds=&shape_id=false<br />
<br />
<br />
This map shifts quite a bit depending on the time period you look at. I looked at Crime report data from Oct 5-19, 2017. Results:<br />
#Midtown/Downtown by the intersection of 59 and 45: 65 total crimes in local area, 14 violent<br />
#Main Downtown: 61 total crimes in local area, 5 violent<br />
#Downtown by the intersection of 10 and 45: 47 total crimes reported in local area, 11 violent<br />
#Midtown, where Elgin becomes Westheimer: 49 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Museum District: 45 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Greater Third Ward: 30 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Wesleyan and Richmond: 30 total crimes in local area, 2 violent<br />
#East of downtown, but the Gus Wortham Golf Course: 27 total violent crimes in local area, 5 violent</div>Tayjacobe22http://www.edegan.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Houston_Innovation_District&diff=20906Houston Innovation District2017-10-19T19:12:07Z<p>Tayjacobe22: /* Data Summary */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{McNair Projects<br />
|Has title=Houston Innovation District<br />
|Has owner=Ben Baldazo, Dylan Dickens, Joe Reilly, Taylor Jacobe,<br />
|Has start date=9/20/2017<br />
|Has deadline=10/27/2017<br />
|Has project status=Active<br />
}}<br />
<br />
=Project Summary=<br />
Mayor of Houston has asked us to make recommendations about how to create an innovation district in Houston<br />
*Go through patent data, find people with patents<br />
*Find people who have done R&D work<br />
*Carve up the world of innovative people in terms of data<br />
**Find their needs<br />
**Turn it into some sort of office space requirement<br />
**Try to find where this office space would be, what it would look like<br />
<br />
=Data Summary=<br />
<br />
Info we have:<br />
*'''Startups''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Accelerators/Incubators''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Entrepreneurship Ecosystems''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Small Business''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''VC''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\VCData). VC locations have already been geocoded. For a final map, use info in "VC firms with address, basic sector info" to match sector and size with each VC firm. Bigger VC firms who invest in more relevant sectors should be emphasized more.<br />
*'''Patents in Houston''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem > HoustonPatents.txt)<br />
*'''Office Space''': Info on largest office spaces available (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data)<br />
*'''US median income''' for 2000 and (estimated) for 2015 (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data)<br />
*'''Educational Attainment''' (in section below)<br />
*15 best '''Cafes in Houston''' (Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Files to Geocode)<br />
*'''Houston Industry Breakdown''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem ["Houston Gross Area Product by Industry", "Houston employment share by industry" excel files and "Industry breakdown..." text file.])<br />
*'''Grant Data''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Texas Federal Grant Data. Can filter by county/city)<br />
*'''Sales''' (inProjects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Files to Geocode)<br />
*'''Preliminary map''': Dylan aggregated the geocoded data for VC Firms, Accelerators, Incubators, University Accelerators, Hubs, and startups into one CSV saved in the Houston Innovation Districts folder called VC Firms, Institutions, Startups Geocoded. Quickly put together this preliminary map as a starting point. The institutions, vc firms, and startups are blue dots, and I layered the bike lane shapefile as purple lines and park shapefile as green polygons on top. Shapefiles are in the Shapefiles folder in the Houston innovation District folder<br />
*'''Public Transportation''' maps in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data<br />
*'''Houston NSF grants located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem<br />
*Risk preparedness: '''Houston floodmap''': (at http://www.harriscountyfemt.org/). In a study published just before Harvey, predictive maps were shown to be largely inadequate for predicting flooding locations: https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/09/18/fema-flood-maps-missed-claims-harvey-houston/#32e295be9938<br />
*Used GDP and employment statistics for measurements of '''Stability of Houston's economy''' compared to other Metro areas. (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Predictability_of_Houston.27s_economy)<br />
*'''Government programs and benefits''' (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Houston_Development_Incentives_and_Regulations)<br />
*'''Safety''' (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Safety)<br />
<br />
Info we are in the process of getting:<br />
*Yelp data on '''Cafes and restaurants''' within the 610 loop- Peter<br />
<br />
Unknown:<br />
*Other R&D data in Houston<br />
*Risk preparedness- other than flooding<br />
*Competition<br />
<br />
=Understanding Innovation Districts=<br />
*Factors relating to best Innovation Districts:<br />
[[File:Factors for innovation district.png]]<br />
Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/312173269_fig15_Figure-19-Key-success-factors-for-innovation-district-development<br />
<br />
Data wanted is in '''bold'''<br />
<br />
Optimize Land Use and Placemaking<br />
*''Flexibility, responding to market preferences''<br />
**'''Available office space/undeveloped land in Houston'''<br />
**'''Availability of capital'''<br />
***equity<br />
***VC<br />
***Investors of all kinds<br />
*''Infrastructure and land as a platform for experimentation''<br />
**'''Flexibility of space and infrastructure'''<br />
**Zoning?<br />
*''Placemaking to achieve critical mass of real estate and commercial activity and authentic sense of place''<br />
**Location, location, location<br />
<br />
Strategy as a City of Innovation<br />
*''and leverage the regional innovation context''<br />
**''What we currently have going for us as a city- who is here and how can we leverage them?''<br />
***'''R&D Data'''<br />
***'''Patent Data'''<br />
*''Prioritize attention on city wide eco-system and development and networking''<br />
**'''Current Government benefits to improve innovation ecosystem'''<br />
**What would we ideally have to attract business?<br />
*''Grow and support existing innovation firms and activity''<br />
*''Manage externalities that arise''<br />
**'''Houston's risk preparedness'''<br />
**'''Competition?'''<br />
*''Adapt through cycles''<br />
**'''Predictability of Houston's economy data?'''<br />
<br />
Build the City's Innovation Brand<br />
*''Leverage city DNA and expertise in promoting innovation''<br />
**Where is Houston at the forefront?<br />
*''Develop innovation brand as a broad identity and shared narrative''<br />
**How can we market the city as an innovator? How do we gain that image?<br />
*''Invite others to feel and experience the innovation culture''<br />
**How accessibile is Houston?<br />
***'''Public transportation'''<br />
***'''Travel costs: flying, lodging'''<br />
<br />
A thought: Houston's key capabilities seem to be in Oil/Gas/Energy and Medicine. Can we start by portraying Houston as a leading innovator in those areas? Innovation district can start with our core capabilities<br />
<br />
=Location data=<br />
<br />
*Information on largest office spaces available, and on US median income for 2000 and (estimated) for 2015 are located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data.<br />
*Office spaces for sale in the the zip codes listed below were compiled in "Office property listings..." in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data. Included is acreage/square footage and address. Listings under "office space" that looked like houses were removed.<br />
**Listings pulled from zip codes:<br />
***77002<br />
***77003<br />
***77004<br />
***77005<br />
***77006<br />
***77007<br />
***77008<br />
***77009<br />
***77019<br />
***77098<br />
***77030<br />
***77027<br />
***77025<br />
***77046<br />
***77024<br />
***77056<br />
***77057<br />
***77401<br />
<br />
==Pulling Yelp Data==<br />
It seems entirely possible, though against the terms of service of yelp, to pull data from Houston centered searches for things like cafe's or bars. Peter J has done some work like this before with his "Chipotle" and "Starbucks" finder webapps and is working on creating a map / pulling the data from google or yelp to have the locations of all of these points of commerce within the 610 loop.<br />
*Note: Using yelp data (and regressing things like reviews, new businesses and locations) havard business was able to project (with 30% correlation) the economic growth on a granular scale: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/18-022_0bb9b749-f275-41ff-899c-afd9109568ee.pdf<br />
**We may be able to produce something similar but less developed using density of restaurants in houston to find entrepreneurial / growth hotspots<br />
<br />
=Educational Attainment=<br />
*For the city of Houston, <br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 76.7%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 30.4%<br />
<br />
*For Harris County,<br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 79.6%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 29.5% <br />
<br />
*Compared to the rest of the US:<br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 83.3% 86.7%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 20.4% 29.8%<br />
<br />
source: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/harriscountytexas,houstoncitytexas,US/PST045216<br />
<br />
=Houston Development Incentives and Regulations=<br />
*'''Historic Sites:''' http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/historic_site_tax_exemption.html<br />
*'''Tax Abatements:''' Houston created a program that encourages new growth, new development, and new jobs: tax abatements. These abatements attempt to strengthen Houston’s existing competitive advantages, while augmenting Houston’s emerging markets. http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/tax_abatements.html. Projects that qualify have one of the following situations:<br />
**A developer builds in a declining part of Houston, a place where the project increases job opportunities, reduces poverty, or redevelops an area.<br />
**The rare situation when a developer requires an abatement to remain, expand, or locate, in Houston, a situation where Houston’s job and economic market is significantly strengthened by the developer’s presence.<br />
**A company invests in real estate that serves the public. Such an investment could provide affordable housing or rejuvenate a blighted area.<br />
*'''380 Agreements:''' To make loans and/or grants of public money and to provide personnel and/or services of the City of Houston for the purpose of promoting state or local economic development. Also accepts donations and contributions to fund this program. http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/380agreements.html. An eligible project must include:<br />
**construction of substantial new real property improvements of at least $2,500,000 in value, or extensive renovation of existing improvements, on land owned or to be acquired by the applicant; and documented equity investment of at least $500,000 ( loans to the project and guarantees of third party financing do not qualify);<br />
**and either: documented creation of at least 25 new full time jobs (40-hours per week), and retention of such jobs for a period of no less than five years; or creation of affordable housing or transitional housing, to be established by deed restrictions recorded in the Official Public Records of Real Property of the county in which the property is located. <br />
*'''Texas Enterprise Zones:''' Areas of underinvestment, places of distress targeted for rejuvenation. Terms:<br />
**This economic revival comes in the form of state sales and use tax refunds. These reimbursements are based on how much a company invests and the number of jobs a company creates. Job and investment requirements fall in the chart at http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/enterprise_zones.html<br />
**Besides these investment requirements, a municipality must nominate the company to the state government. The city of Houston may nominate 9 areas every 2 years.<br />
*'''Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones:''' Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones (TIRZs) are special zones created by City Council to attract new investment in an area. TIRZs help finance costs of redevelopment and encourage development in areas that would otherwise not attract sufficient market development in a timely manner. Taxes attributable to new improvements (tax increments) are set-aside in a fund to finance public improvements within the boundaries of the zone.<br />
**Map at http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/tirz.html<br />
<br />
<br />
=Predictability of Houston's economy=<br />
<br />
File listing Metro area GDP for Houston, DFW, Chicago, New York, and LA metro areas located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Houston stability measurements. To measure differences in economic stability between these cities, I calculated the standard deviation of each city's GDP for the last 16 years.<br />
<br />
=Safety=<br />
*Most Dangerous Areas: <br />
*Map of crimes in each area of Houston: https://www.crimereports.com/home/#!/dashboard?lat=29.73278125282416&lng=-95.31875610351562&zoom=12&incident_types=Assault%252CAssault%2520with%2520Deadly%2520Weapon%252CBreaking%2520%2526%2520Entering%252CDisorder%252CDrugs%252CHomicide%252CKidnapping%252CLiquor%252COther%2520Sexual%2520Offense%252CProperty%2520Crime%252CProperty%2520Crime%2520Commercial%252CProperty%2520Crime%2520Residential%252CQuality%2520of%2520Life%252CRobbery%252CSexual%2520Assault%252CSexual%2520Offense%252CTheft%252CTheft%2520from%2520Vehicle%252CTheft%2520of%2520Vehicle&start_date=2017-10-05&end_date=2017-10-19&days=sunday%252Cmonday%252Ctuesday%252Cwednesday%252Cthursday%252Cfriday%252Csaturday&start_time=0&end_time=23&include_sex_offenders=false&current_tab=map&shapeIds=&shape_id=false<br />
<br />
<br />
This map shifts quite a bit depending on the time period you look at. I looked at Crime report data from Oct 5-19, 2017. Results:<br />
#Midtown/Downtown by the intersection of 59 and 45: 65 total crimes in local area, 14 violent<br />
#Main Downtown: 61 total crimes in local area, 5 violent<br />
#Downtown by the intersection of 10 and 45: 47 total crimes reported in local area, 11 violent<br />
#Midtown, where Elgin becomes Westheimer: 49 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Museum District: 45 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Greater Third Ward: 30 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Wesleyan and Richmond: 30 total crimes in local area, 2 violent<br />
#East of downtown, but the Gus Wortham Golf Course: 27 total violent crimes in local area, 5 violent</div>Tayjacobe22http://www.edegan.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Houston_Innovation_District&diff=20904Houston Innovation District2017-10-19T19:11:12Z<p>Tayjacobe22: /* Safety */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{McNair Projects<br />
|Has title=Houston Innovation District<br />
|Has owner=Ben Baldazo, Dylan Dickens, Joe Reilly, Taylor Jacobe,<br />
|Has start date=9/20/2017<br />
|Has deadline=10/27/2017<br />
|Has project status=Active<br />
}}<br />
<br />
=Project Summary=<br />
Mayor of Houston has asked us to make recommendations about how to create an innovation district in Houston<br />
*Go through patent data, find people with patents<br />
*Find people who have done R&D work<br />
*Carve up the world of innovative people in terms of data<br />
**Find their needs<br />
**Turn it into some sort of office space requirement<br />
**Try to find where this office space would be, what it would look like<br />
<br />
=Data Summary=<br />
<br />
Info we have:<br />
*'''Startups''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Accelerators/Incubators''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Entrepreneurship Ecosystems''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Small Business''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''VC''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\VCData). VC locations have already been geocoded. For a final map, use info in "VC firms with address, basic sector info" to match sector and size with each VC firm. Bigger VC firms who invest in more relevant sectors should be emphasized more.<br />
*'''Patents in Houston''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem > HoustonPatents.txt)<br />
*'''Office Space''': Info on largest office spaces available (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data)<br />
*'''US median income''' for 2000 and (estimated) for 2015 (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data)<br />
*'''Educational Attainment''' (in section below)<br />
*15 best '''Cafes in Houston''' (Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Files to Geocode)<br />
*'''Houston Industry Breakdown''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem ["Houston Gross Area Product by Industry", "Houston employment share by industry" excel files and "Industry breakdown..." text file.])<br />
*'''Grant Data''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Texas Federal Grant Data. Can filter by county/city)<br />
*'''Sales''' (inProjects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Files to Geocode)<br />
*'''Preliminary map''': Dylan aggregated the geocoded data for VC Firms, Accelerators, Incubators, University Accelerators, Hubs, and startups into one CSV saved in the Houston Innovation Districts folder called VC Firms, Institutions, Startups Geocoded. Quickly put together this preliminary map as a starting point. The institutions, vc firms, and startups are blue dots, and I layered the bike lane shapefile as purple lines and park shapefile as green polygons on top. Shapefiles are in the Shapefiles folder in the Houston innovation District folder<br />
*'''Public Transportation''' maps in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data<br />
*'''Houston NSF grants located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem<br />
*Risk preparedness: '''Houston floodmap''': (at http://www.harriscountyfemt.org/). In a study published just before Harvey, predictive maps were shown to be largely inadequate for predicting flooding locations: https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/09/18/fema-flood-maps-missed-claims-harvey-houston/#32e295be9938<br />
*Used GDP and employment statistics for measurements of '''Stability of Houston's economy''' compared to other Metro areas. (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Predictability_of_Houston.27s_economy)<br />
*'''Government programs and benefits''' (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Houston_Development_Incentives_and_Regulations)<br />
*'''Safety''' (at<br />
<br />
Info we are in the process of getting:<br />
*Yelp data on '''Cafes and restaurants''' within the 610 loop- Peter<br />
<br />
Unknown:<br />
*Other R&D data in Houston<br />
*Risk preparedness- other than flooding<br />
*Competition<br />
<br />
=Understanding Innovation Districts=<br />
*Factors relating to best Innovation Districts:<br />
[[File:Factors for innovation district.png]]<br />
Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/312173269_fig15_Figure-19-Key-success-factors-for-innovation-district-development<br />
<br />
Data wanted is in '''bold'''<br />
<br />
Optimize Land Use and Placemaking<br />
*''Flexibility, responding to market preferences''<br />
**'''Available office space/undeveloped land in Houston'''<br />
**'''Availability of capital'''<br />
***equity<br />
***VC<br />
***Investors of all kinds<br />
*''Infrastructure and land as a platform for experimentation''<br />
**'''Flexibility of space and infrastructure'''<br />
**Zoning?<br />
*''Placemaking to achieve critical mass of real estate and commercial activity and authentic sense of place''<br />
**Location, location, location<br />
<br />
Strategy as a City of Innovation<br />
*''and leverage the regional innovation context''<br />
**''What we currently have going for us as a city- who is here and how can we leverage them?''<br />
***'''R&D Data'''<br />
***'''Patent Data'''<br />
*''Prioritize attention on city wide eco-system and development and networking''<br />
**'''Current Government benefits to improve innovation ecosystem'''<br />
**What would we ideally have to attract business?<br />
*''Grow and support existing innovation firms and activity''<br />
*''Manage externalities that arise''<br />
**'''Houston's risk preparedness'''<br />
**'''Competition?'''<br />
*''Adapt through cycles''<br />
**'''Predictability of Houston's economy data?'''<br />
<br />
Build the City's Innovation Brand<br />
*''Leverage city DNA and expertise in promoting innovation''<br />
**Where is Houston at the forefront?<br />
*''Develop innovation brand as a broad identity and shared narrative''<br />
**How can we market the city as an innovator? How do we gain that image?<br />
*''Invite others to feel and experience the innovation culture''<br />
**How accessibile is Houston?<br />
***'''Public transportation'''<br />
***'''Travel costs: flying, lodging'''<br />
<br />
A thought: Houston's key capabilities seem to be in Oil/Gas/Energy and Medicine. Can we start by portraying Houston as a leading innovator in those areas? Innovation district can start with our core capabilities<br />
<br />
=Location data=<br />
<br />
*Information on largest office spaces available, and on US median income for 2000 and (estimated) for 2015 are located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data.<br />
*Office spaces for sale in the the zip codes listed below were compiled in "Office property listings..." in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data. Included is acreage/square footage and address. Listings under "office space" that looked like houses were removed.<br />
**Listings pulled from zip codes:<br />
***77002<br />
***77003<br />
***77004<br />
***77005<br />
***77006<br />
***77007<br />
***77008<br />
***77009<br />
***77019<br />
***77098<br />
***77030<br />
***77027<br />
***77025<br />
***77046<br />
***77024<br />
***77056<br />
***77057<br />
***77401<br />
<br />
==Pulling Yelp Data==<br />
It seems entirely possible, though against the terms of service of yelp, to pull data from Houston centered searches for things like cafe's or bars. Peter J has done some work like this before with his "Chipotle" and "Starbucks" finder webapps and is working on creating a map / pulling the data from google or yelp to have the locations of all of these points of commerce within the 610 loop.<br />
*Note: Using yelp data (and regressing things like reviews, new businesses and locations) havard business was able to project (with 30% correlation) the economic growth on a granular scale: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/18-022_0bb9b749-f275-41ff-899c-afd9109568ee.pdf<br />
**We may be able to produce something similar but less developed using density of restaurants in houston to find entrepreneurial / growth hotspots<br />
<br />
=Educational Attainment=<br />
*For the city of Houston, <br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 76.7%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 30.4%<br />
<br />
*For Harris County,<br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 79.6%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 29.5% <br />
<br />
*Compared to the rest of the US:<br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 83.3% 86.7%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 20.4% 29.8%<br />
<br />
source: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/harriscountytexas,houstoncitytexas,US/PST045216<br />
<br />
=Houston Development Incentives and Regulations=<br />
*'''Historic Sites:''' http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/historic_site_tax_exemption.html<br />
*'''Tax Abatements:''' Houston created a program that encourages new growth, new development, and new jobs: tax abatements. These abatements attempt to strengthen Houston’s existing competitive advantages, while augmenting Houston’s emerging markets. http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/tax_abatements.html. Projects that qualify have one of the following situations:<br />
**A developer builds in a declining part of Houston, a place where the project increases job opportunities, reduces poverty, or redevelops an area.<br />
**The rare situation when a developer requires an abatement to remain, expand, or locate, in Houston, a situation where Houston’s job and economic market is significantly strengthened by the developer’s presence.<br />
**A company invests in real estate that serves the public. Such an investment could provide affordable housing or rejuvenate a blighted area.<br />
*'''380 Agreements:''' To make loans and/or grants of public money and to provide personnel and/or services of the City of Houston for the purpose of promoting state or local economic development. Also accepts donations and contributions to fund this program. http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/380agreements.html. An eligible project must include:<br />
**construction of substantial new real property improvements of at least $2,500,000 in value, or extensive renovation of existing improvements, on land owned or to be acquired by the applicant; and documented equity investment of at least $500,000 ( loans to the project and guarantees of third party financing do not qualify);<br />
**and either: documented creation of at least 25 new full time jobs (40-hours per week), and retention of such jobs for a period of no less than five years; or creation of affordable housing or transitional housing, to be established by deed restrictions recorded in the Official Public Records of Real Property of the county in which the property is located. <br />
*'''Texas Enterprise Zones:''' Areas of underinvestment, places of distress targeted for rejuvenation. Terms:<br />
**This economic revival comes in the form of state sales and use tax refunds. These reimbursements are based on how much a company invests and the number of jobs a company creates. Job and investment requirements fall in the chart at http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/enterprise_zones.html<br />
**Besides these investment requirements, a municipality must nominate the company to the state government. The city of Houston may nominate 9 areas every 2 years.<br />
*'''Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones:''' Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones (TIRZs) are special zones created by City Council to attract new investment in an area. TIRZs help finance costs of redevelopment and encourage development in areas that would otherwise not attract sufficient market development in a timely manner. Taxes attributable to new improvements (tax increments) are set-aside in a fund to finance public improvements within the boundaries of the zone.<br />
**Map at http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/tirz.html<br />
<br />
<br />
=Predictability of Houston's economy=<br />
<br />
File listing Metro area GDP for Houston, DFW, Chicago, New York, and LA metro areas located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Houston stability measurements. To measure differences in economic stability between these cities, I calculated the standard deviation of each city's GDP for the last 16 years.<br />
<br />
=Safety=<br />
*Most Dangerous Areas: <br />
*Map of crimes in each area of Houston: https://www.crimereports.com/home/#!/dashboard?lat=29.73278125282416&lng=-95.31875610351562&zoom=12&incident_types=Assault%252CAssault%2520with%2520Deadly%2520Weapon%252CBreaking%2520%2526%2520Entering%252CDisorder%252CDrugs%252CHomicide%252CKidnapping%252CLiquor%252COther%2520Sexual%2520Offense%252CProperty%2520Crime%252CProperty%2520Crime%2520Commercial%252CProperty%2520Crime%2520Residential%252CQuality%2520of%2520Life%252CRobbery%252CSexual%2520Assault%252CSexual%2520Offense%252CTheft%252CTheft%2520from%2520Vehicle%252CTheft%2520of%2520Vehicle&start_date=2017-10-05&end_date=2017-10-19&days=sunday%252Cmonday%252Ctuesday%252Cwednesday%252Cthursday%252Cfriday%252Csaturday&start_time=0&end_time=23&include_sex_offenders=false&current_tab=map&shapeIds=&shape_id=false<br />
<br />
<br />
This map shifts quite a bit depending on the time period you look at. I looked at Crime report data from Oct 5-19, 2017. Results:<br />
#Midtown/Downtown by the intersection of 59 and 45: 65 total crimes in local area, 14 violent<br />
#Main Downtown: 61 total crimes in local area, 5 violent<br />
#Downtown by the intersection of 10 and 45: 47 total crimes reported in local area, 11 violent<br />
#Midtown, where Elgin becomes Westheimer: 49 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Museum District: 45 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Greater Third Ward: 30 total crimes in local area, 10 violent<br />
#Wesleyan and Richmond: 30 total crimes in local area, 2 violent<br />
#East of downtown, but the Gus Wortham Golf Course: 27 total violent crimes in local area, 5 violent</div>Tayjacobe22http://www.edegan.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Houston_Innovation_District&diff=20902Houston Innovation District2017-10-19T18:54:32Z<p>Tayjacobe22: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{McNair Projects<br />
|Has title=Houston Innovation District<br />
|Has owner=Ben Baldazo, Dylan Dickens, Joe Reilly, Taylor Jacobe,<br />
|Has start date=9/20/2017<br />
|Has deadline=10/27/2017<br />
|Has project status=Active<br />
}}<br />
<br />
=Project Summary=<br />
Mayor of Houston has asked us to make recommendations about how to create an innovation district in Houston<br />
*Go through patent data, find people with patents<br />
*Find people who have done R&D work<br />
*Carve up the world of innovative people in terms of data<br />
**Find their needs<br />
**Turn it into some sort of office space requirement<br />
**Try to find where this office space would be, what it would look like<br />
<br />
=Data Summary=<br />
<br />
Info we have:<br />
*'''Startups''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Accelerators/Incubators''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Entrepreneurship Ecosystems''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Small Business''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''VC''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\VCData). VC locations have already been geocoded. For a final map, use info in "VC firms with address, basic sector info" to match sector and size with each VC firm. Bigger VC firms who invest in more relevant sectors should be emphasized more.<br />
*'''Patents in Houston''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem > HoustonPatents.txt)<br />
*'''Office Space''': Info on largest office spaces available (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data)<br />
*'''US median income''' for 2000 and (estimated) for 2015 (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data)<br />
*'''Educational Attainment''' (in section below)<br />
*15 best '''Cafes in Houston''' (Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Files to Geocode)<br />
*'''Houston Industry Breakdown''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem ["Houston Gross Area Product by Industry", "Houston employment share by industry" excel files and "Industry breakdown..." text file.])<br />
*'''Grant Data''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Texas Federal Grant Data. Can filter by county/city)<br />
*'''Sales''' (inProjects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Files to Geocode)<br />
*'''Preliminary map''': Dylan aggregated the geocoded data for VC Firms, Accelerators, Incubators, University Accelerators, Hubs, and startups into one CSV saved in the Houston Innovation Districts folder called VC Firms, Institutions, Startups Geocoded. Quickly put together this preliminary map as a starting point. The institutions, vc firms, and startups are blue dots, and I layered the bike lane shapefile as purple lines and park shapefile as green polygons on top. Shapefiles are in the Shapefiles folder in the Houston innovation District folder<br />
*'''Public Transportation''' maps in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data<br />
*'''Houston NSF grants located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem<br />
*Risk preparedness: '''Houston floodmap''': (at http://www.harriscountyfemt.org/). In a study published just before Harvey, predictive maps were shown to be largely inadequate for predicting flooding locations: https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/09/18/fema-flood-maps-missed-claims-harvey-houston/#32e295be9938<br />
*Used GDP and employment statistics for measurements of '''Stability of Houston's economy''' compared to other Metro areas. (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Predictability_of_Houston.27s_economy)<br />
*'''Government programs and benefits''' (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Houston_Development_Incentives_and_Regulations)<br />
*'''Safety''' (at<br />
<br />
Info we are in the process of getting:<br />
*Yelp data on '''Cafes and restaurants''' within the 610 loop- Peter<br />
<br />
Unknown:<br />
*Other R&D data in Houston<br />
*Risk preparedness- other than flooding<br />
*Competition<br />
<br />
=Understanding Innovation Districts=<br />
*Factors relating to best Innovation Districts:<br />
[[File:Factors for innovation district.png]]<br />
Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/312173269_fig15_Figure-19-Key-success-factors-for-innovation-district-development<br />
<br />
Data wanted is in '''bold'''<br />
<br />
Optimize Land Use and Placemaking<br />
*''Flexibility, responding to market preferences''<br />
**'''Available office space/undeveloped land in Houston'''<br />
**'''Availability of capital'''<br />
***equity<br />
***VC<br />
***Investors of all kinds<br />
*''Infrastructure and land as a platform for experimentation''<br />
**'''Flexibility of space and infrastructure'''<br />
**Zoning?<br />
*''Placemaking to achieve critical mass of real estate and commercial activity and authentic sense of place''<br />
**Location, location, location<br />
<br />
Strategy as a City of Innovation<br />
*''and leverage the regional innovation context''<br />
**''What we currently have going for us as a city- who is here and how can we leverage them?''<br />
***'''R&D Data'''<br />
***'''Patent Data'''<br />
*''Prioritize attention on city wide eco-system and development and networking''<br />
**'''Current Government benefits to improve innovation ecosystem'''<br />
**What would we ideally have to attract business?<br />
*''Grow and support existing innovation firms and activity''<br />
*''Manage externalities that arise''<br />
**'''Houston's risk preparedness'''<br />
**'''Competition?'''<br />
*''Adapt through cycles''<br />
**'''Predictability of Houston's economy data?'''<br />
<br />
Build the City's Innovation Brand<br />
*''Leverage city DNA and expertise in promoting innovation''<br />
**Where is Houston at the forefront?<br />
*''Develop innovation brand as a broad identity and shared narrative''<br />
**How can we market the city as an innovator? How do we gain that image?<br />
*''Invite others to feel and experience the innovation culture''<br />
**How accessibile is Houston?<br />
***'''Public transportation'''<br />
***'''Travel costs: flying, lodging'''<br />
<br />
A thought: Houston's key capabilities seem to be in Oil/Gas/Energy and Medicine. Can we start by portraying Houston as a leading innovator in those areas? Innovation district can start with our core capabilities<br />
<br />
=Location data=<br />
<br />
*Information on largest office spaces available, and on US median income for 2000 and (estimated) for 2015 are located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data.<br />
*Office spaces for sale in the the zip codes listed below were compiled in "Office property listings..." in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data. Included is acreage/square footage and address. Listings under "office space" that looked like houses were removed.<br />
**Listings pulled from zip codes:<br />
***77002<br />
***77003<br />
***77004<br />
***77005<br />
***77006<br />
***77007<br />
***77008<br />
***77009<br />
***77019<br />
***77098<br />
***77030<br />
***77027<br />
***77025<br />
***77046<br />
***77024<br />
***77056<br />
***77057<br />
***77401<br />
<br />
==Pulling Yelp Data==<br />
It seems entirely possible, though against the terms of service of yelp, to pull data from Houston centered searches for things like cafe's or bars. Peter J has done some work like this before with his "Chipotle" and "Starbucks" finder webapps and is working on creating a map / pulling the data from google or yelp to have the locations of all of these points of commerce within the 610 loop.<br />
*Note: Using yelp data (and regressing things like reviews, new businesses and locations) havard business was able to project (with 30% correlation) the economic growth on a granular scale: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/18-022_0bb9b749-f275-41ff-899c-afd9109568ee.pdf<br />
**We may be able to produce something similar but less developed using density of restaurants in houston to find entrepreneurial / growth hotspots<br />
<br />
=Educational Attainment=<br />
*For the city of Houston, <br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 76.7%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 30.4%<br />
<br />
*For Harris County,<br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 79.6%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 29.5% <br />
<br />
*Compared to the rest of the US:<br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 83.3% 86.7%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 20.4% 29.8%<br />
<br />
source: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/harriscountytexas,houstoncitytexas,US/PST045216<br />
<br />
=Houston Development Incentives and Regulations=<br />
*'''Historic Sites:''' http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/historic_site_tax_exemption.html<br />
*'''Tax Abatements:''' Houston created a program that encourages new growth, new development, and new jobs: tax abatements. These abatements attempt to strengthen Houston’s existing competitive advantages, while augmenting Houston’s emerging markets. http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/tax_abatements.html. Projects that qualify have one of the following situations:<br />
**A developer builds in a declining part of Houston, a place where the project increases job opportunities, reduces poverty, or redevelops an area.<br />
**The rare situation when a developer requires an abatement to remain, expand, or locate, in Houston, a situation where Houston’s job and economic market is significantly strengthened by the developer’s presence.<br />
**A company invests in real estate that serves the public. Such an investment could provide affordable housing or rejuvenate a blighted area.<br />
*'''380 Agreements:''' To make loans and/or grants of public money and to provide personnel and/or services of the City of Houston for the purpose of promoting state or local economic development. Also accepts donations and contributions to fund this program. http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/380agreements.html. An eligible project must include:<br />
**construction of substantial new real property improvements of at least $2,500,000 in value, or extensive renovation of existing improvements, on land owned or to be acquired by the applicant; and documented equity investment of at least $500,000 ( loans to the project and guarantees of third party financing do not qualify);<br />
**and either: documented creation of at least 25 new full time jobs (40-hours per week), and retention of such jobs for a period of no less than five years; or creation of affordable housing or transitional housing, to be established by deed restrictions recorded in the Official Public Records of Real Property of the county in which the property is located. <br />
*'''Texas Enterprise Zones:''' Areas of underinvestment, places of distress targeted for rejuvenation. Terms:<br />
**This economic revival comes in the form of state sales and use tax refunds. These reimbursements are based on how much a company invests and the number of jobs a company creates. Job and investment requirements fall in the chart at http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/enterprise_zones.html<br />
**Besides these investment requirements, a municipality must nominate the company to the state government. The city of Houston may nominate 9 areas every 2 years.<br />
*'''Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones:''' Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones (TIRZs) are special zones created by City Council to attract new investment in an area. TIRZs help finance costs of redevelopment and encourage development in areas that would otherwise not attract sufficient market development in a timely manner. Taxes attributable to new improvements (tax increments) are set-aside in a fund to finance public improvements within the boundaries of the zone.<br />
**Map at http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/tirz.html<br />
<br />
<br />
=Predictability of Houston's economy=<br />
<br />
File listing Metro area GDP for Houston, DFW, Chicago, New York, and LA metro areas located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Houston stability measurements. To measure differences in economic stability between these cities, I calculated the standard deviation of each city's GDP for the last 16 years.<br />
<br />
=Safety=<br />
*Most Dangerous Areas:<br />
#Midtown/Downtown by the intersection of 59 and 45: 65 total crimes in local area, 14 violent<br />
#Main Downtown: 61 total crimes in local area, 5violent<br />
#Downtown by the intersection of 10 and 45: 47 total crimes reported in local area, 11 violent<br />
#<br />
*Map of crimes in each area of Houston: https://www.crimereports.com/home/#!/dashboard?lat=29.73278125282416&lng=-95.31875610351562&zoom=12&incident_types=Assault%252CAssault%2520with%2520Deadly%2520Weapon%252CBreaking%2520%2526%2520Entering%252CDisorder%252CDrugs%252CHomicide%252CKidnapping%252CLiquor%252COther%2520Sexual%2520Offense%252CProperty%2520Crime%252CProperty%2520Crime%2520Commercial%252CProperty%2520Crime%2520Residential%252CQuality%2520of%2520Life%252CRobbery%252CSexual%2520Assault%252CSexual%2520Offense%252CTheft%252CTheft%2520from%2520Vehicle%252CTheft%2520of%2520Vehicle&start_date=2017-10-05&end_date=2017-10-19&days=sunday%252Cmonday%252Ctuesday%252Cwednesday%252Cthursday%252Cfriday%252Csaturday&start_time=0&end_time=23&include_sex_offenders=false&current_tab=map&shapeIds=&shape_id=false</div>Tayjacobe22http://www.edegan.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Houston_Innovation_District&diff=20901Houston Innovation District2017-10-19T18:22:53Z<p>Tayjacobe22: /* Data Summary */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{McNair Projects<br />
|Has title=Houston Innovation District<br />
|Has owner=Ben Baldazo, Dylan Dickens, Joe Reilly, Taylor Jacobe,<br />
|Has start date=9/20/2017<br />
|Has deadline=10/27/2017<br />
|Has project status=Active<br />
}}<br />
<br />
=Project Summary=<br />
Mayor of Houston has asked us to make recommendations about how to create an innovation district in Houston<br />
*Go through patent data, find people with patents<br />
*Find people who have done R&D work<br />
*Carve up the world of innovative people in terms of data<br />
**Find their needs<br />
**Turn it into some sort of office space requirement<br />
**Try to find where this office space would be, what it would look like<br />
<br />
=Data Summary=<br />
<br />
Info we have:<br />
*'''Startups''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Accelerators/Incubators''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Entrepreneurship Ecosystems''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''Small Business''' (in [[Houston Entrepreneurship]])<br />
*'''VC''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\VCData). VC locations have already been geocoded. For a final map, use info in "VC firms with address, basic sector info" to match sector and size with each VC firm. Bigger VC firms who invest in more relevant sectors should be emphasized more.<br />
*'''Patents in Houston''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem > HoustonPatents.txt)<br />
*'''Office Space''': Info on largest office spaces available (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data)<br />
*'''US median income''' for 2000 and (estimated) for 2015 (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data)<br />
*'''Educational Attainment''' (in section below)<br />
*15 best '''Cafes in Houston''' (Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Files to Geocode)<br />
*'''Houston Industry Breakdown''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem ["Houston Gross Area Product by Industry", "Houston employment share by industry" excel files and "Industry breakdown..." text file.])<br />
*'''Grant Data''' (in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Texas Federal Grant Data. Can filter by county/city)<br />
*'''Sales''' (inProjects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Files to Geocode)<br />
*'''Preliminary map''': Dylan aggregated the geocoded data for VC Firms, Accelerators, Incubators, University Accelerators, Hubs, and startups into one CSV saved in the Houston Innovation Districts folder called VC Firms, Institutions, Startups Geocoded. Quickly put together this preliminary map as a starting point. The institutions, vc firms, and startups are blue dots, and I layered the bike lane shapefile as purple lines and park shapefile as green polygons on top. Shapefiles are in the Shapefiles folder in the Houston innovation District folder<br />
*'''Public Transportation''' maps in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data<br />
*'''Houston NSF grants located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem<br />
*Risk preparedness: '''Houston floodmap''': (at http://www.harriscountyfemt.org/). In a study published just before Harvey, predictive maps were shown to be largely inadequate for predicting flooding locations: https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/09/18/fema-flood-maps-missed-claims-harvey-houston/#32e295be9938<br />
*Used GDP and employment statistics for measurements of '''Stability of Houston's economy''' compared to other Metro areas. (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Predictability_of_Houston.27s_economy)<br />
*'''Government programs and benefits''' (at http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/Houston_Innovation_District#Houston_Development_Incentives_and_Regulations)<br />
<br />
Info we are in the process of getting:<br />
*Yelp data on '''Cafes and restaurants''' within the 610 loop- Peter<br />
<br />
Unknown:<br />
*Other R&D data in Houston<br />
*Risk preparedness- other than flooding<br />
*Competition<br />
<br />
=Understanding Innovation Districts=<br />
*Factors relating to best Innovation Districts:<br />
[[File:Factors for innovation district.png]]<br />
Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/312173269_fig15_Figure-19-Key-success-factors-for-innovation-district-development<br />
<br />
Data wanted is in '''bold'''<br />
<br />
Optimize Land Use and Placemaking<br />
*''Flexibility, responding to market preferences''<br />
**'''Available office space/undeveloped land in Houston'''<br />
**'''Availability of capital'''<br />
***equity<br />
***VC<br />
***Investors of all kinds<br />
*''Infrastructure and land as a platform for experimentation''<br />
**'''Flexibility of space and infrastructure'''<br />
**Zoning?<br />
*''Placemaking to achieve critical mass of real estate and commercial activity and authentic sense of place''<br />
**Location, location, location<br />
<br />
Strategy as a City of Innovation<br />
*''and leverage the regional innovation context''<br />
**''What we currently have going for us as a city- who is here and how can we leverage them?''<br />
***'''R&D Data'''<br />
***'''Patent Data'''<br />
*''Prioritize attention on city wide eco-system and development and networking''<br />
**'''Current Government benefits to improve innovation ecosystem'''<br />
**What would we ideally have to attract business?<br />
*''Grow and support existing innovation firms and activity''<br />
*''Manage externalities that arise''<br />
**'''Houston's risk preparedness'''<br />
**'''Competition?'''<br />
*''Adapt through cycles''<br />
**'''Predictability of Houston's economy data?'''<br />
<br />
Build the City's Innovation Brand<br />
*''Leverage city DNA and expertise in promoting innovation''<br />
**Where is Houston at the forefront?<br />
*''Develop innovation brand as a broad identity and shared narrative''<br />
**How can we market the city as an innovator? How do we gain that image?<br />
*''Invite others to feel and experience the innovation culture''<br />
**How accessibile is Houston?<br />
***'''Public transportation'''<br />
***'''Travel costs: flying, lodging'''<br />
<br />
A thought: Houston's key capabilities seem to be in Oil/Gas/Energy and Medicine. Can we start by portraying Houston as a leading innovator in those areas? Innovation district can start with our core capabilities<br />
<br />
=Location data=<br />
<br />
*Information on largest office spaces available, and on US median income for 2000 and (estimated) for 2015 are located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data.<br />
*Office spaces for sale in the the zip codes listed below were compiled in "Office property listings..." in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data. Included is acreage/square footage and address. Listings under "office space" that looked like houses were removed.<br />
**Listings pulled from zip codes:<br />
***77002<br />
***77003<br />
***77004<br />
***77005<br />
***77006<br />
***77007<br />
***77008<br />
***77009<br />
***77019<br />
***77098<br />
***77030<br />
***77027<br />
***77025<br />
***77046<br />
***77024<br />
***77056<br />
***77057<br />
***77401<br />
<br />
==Pulling Yelp Data==<br />
It seems entirely possible, though against the terms of service of yelp, to pull data from Houston centered searches for things like cafe's or bars. Peter J has done some work like this before with his "Chipotle" and "Starbucks" finder webapps and is working on creating a map / pulling the data from google or yelp to have the locations of all of these points of commerce within the 610 loop.<br />
*Note: Using yelp data (and regressing things like reviews, new businesses and locations) havard business was able to project (with 30% correlation) the economic growth on a granular scale: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/18-022_0bb9b749-f275-41ff-899c-afd9109568ee.pdf<br />
**We may be able to produce something similar but less developed using density of restaurants in houston to find entrepreneurial / growth hotspots<br />
<br />
=Educational Attainment=<br />
*For the city of Houston, <br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 76.7%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 30.4%<br />
<br />
*For Harris County,<br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 79.6%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 29.5% <br />
<br />
*Compared to the rest of the US:<br />
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 83.3% 86.7%<br />
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 20.4% 29.8%<br />
<br />
source: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/harriscountytexas,houstoncitytexas,US/PST045216<br />
<br />
=Houston Development Incentives and Regulations=<br />
*'''Historic Sites:''' http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/historic_site_tax_exemption.html<br />
*'''Tax Abatements:''' Houston created a program that encourages new growth, new development, and new jobs: tax abatements. These abatements attempt to strengthen Houston’s existing competitive advantages, while augmenting Houston’s emerging markets. http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/tax_abatements.html. Projects that qualify have one of the following situations:<br />
**A developer builds in a declining part of Houston, a place where the project increases job opportunities, reduces poverty, or redevelops an area.<br />
**The rare situation when a developer requires an abatement to remain, expand, or locate, in Houston, a situation where Houston’s job and economic market is significantly strengthened by the developer’s presence.<br />
**A company invests in real estate that serves the public. Such an investment could provide affordable housing or rejuvenate a blighted area.<br />
*'''380 Agreements:''' To make loans and/or grants of public money and to provide personnel and/or services of the City of Houston for the purpose of promoting state or local economic development. Also accepts donations and contributions to fund this program. http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/380agreements.html. An eligible project must include:<br />
**construction of substantial new real property improvements of at least $2,500,000 in value, or extensive renovation of existing improvements, on land owned or to be acquired by the applicant; and documented equity investment of at least $500,000 ( loans to the project and guarantees of third party financing do not qualify);<br />
**and either: documented creation of at least 25 new full time jobs (40-hours per week), and retention of such jobs for a period of no less than five years; or creation of affordable housing or transitional housing, to be established by deed restrictions recorded in the Official Public Records of Real Property of the county in which the property is located. <br />
*'''Texas Enterprise Zones:''' Areas of underinvestment, places of distress targeted for rejuvenation. Terms:<br />
**This economic revival comes in the form of state sales and use tax refunds. These reimbursements are based on how much a company invests and the number of jobs a company creates. Job and investment requirements fall in the chart at http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/enterprise_zones.html<br />
**Besides these investment requirements, a municipality must nominate the company to the state government. The city of Houston may nominate 9 areas every 2 years.<br />
*'''Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones:''' Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones (TIRZs) are special zones created by City Council to attract new investment in an area. TIRZs help finance costs of redevelopment and encourage development in areas that would otherwise not attract sufficient market development in a timely manner. Taxes attributable to new improvements (tax increments) are set-aside in a fund to finance public improvements within the boundaries of the zone.<br />
**Map at http://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/tirz.html<br />
<br />
<br />
=Predictability of Houston's economy=<br />
<br />
File listing Metro area GDP for Houston, DFW, Chicago, New York, and LA metro areas located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Houston stability measurements. To measure differences in economic stability between these cities, I calculated the standard deviation of each city's GDP for the last 16 years.</div>Tayjacobe22