Mike Young

This book reviews the effects of the professional use of social media on science and scholarship, providing practical tips, tools, and guidelines for platforms, practices, and routines on social media for academics. Through concise case studies from researchers worldwide, it illustrates the diverse and often unexpected ways social media enhances academic work, from building collaborative networks and expanding audience reach to creating real-world impact. Coverage includes established platforms like LinkedIn and X (formerly Twitter), emerging spaces such as Bluesky, and creative academic applications of platforms like Reddit and WhatsApp. At its core, this guide emphasises intentional engagement over self-promotion, focusing on meaningful communication, community development, and knowledge sharing. It introduces the Researcher’s Social Media Compass, a framework to help you align your online activity with your professional aims, values, and resources. Social Media for Research Impact is of interest to researchers at all career stages, as well as research managers, advisors, and communication professionals who support research visibility and collaboration through social media.

In the summer of 2008, Mike Young found himself jobless and completely broke; just twelve months earlier he was a millionaire. The struggle was real. But so was the commitment to create an ideal lifestyle and never go back to a traditional 9-to-5 job. He wanted a life of entrepreneurial freedom; the ability to work when, where, and with whom he wanted.Little did he know that it would take almost a decade and over $200,000 invested in self-education, business, marketing, and branding programs before he'd successfully build the business and life of his dreams.Mike's Makeover MethodTM streamlines the unnecessarily complex task of building a recognizable, successful, sustainable brand and reveals the psychology behind achieving massive success in any industry. It transformed his business and saved his life, and it's now changing the game for his clients as well.Included in this book are detailed walkthroughs of his trademarked process: - The Makeover Mindset- The Makeover Model - The Makeover Strategy - The Makeover Image - The Makeover Influence - The Makeover Engine In addition to making over the brands of his clients, he's made over every aspect of his own life, including his mindset, business model, and daily routines. His straightforward, implementable lessons learned will allow you to bypass the many missteps he made along the way. If you've taken all the courses, read all the books, bought all the software, and are still struggling because your business just isn't working and you can't figure out why, this book was written for you

Today, even the largest development organizations are turning to agile methodologies, seeking major productivity and quality improvements. However, large-scale agile development is difficult, and publicly available case studies have been scarce. Now, three agile pioneers at Hewlett-Packard present a candid, start-to-finish insider’s look at how they’ve succeeded with agile in one of the company’s most mission-critical software environments: firmware for HP LaserJet printers. This book tells the story of an extraordinary experiment and journey. Could agile principles be applied to re-architect an enormous legacy code base? Could agile enable both timely delivery and ongoing innovation? Could it really be applied to 400+ developers distributed across four states, three continents, and four business units? Could it go beyond delivering incremental gains, to meet the stretch goal of 10x developer productivity improvements? It could, and it did—but getting there was not easy. Writing for both managers and technologists, the authors candidly discuss both their successes and failures, presenting actionable lessons for other development organizations, as well as approaches that have proven themselves repeatedly in HP’s challenging environment. They not only illuminate the potential benefits of agile in large-scale development, they also systematically show how these benefits can actually be achieved. Coverage includes: • Tightly linking agile methods and enterprise architecture with business objectives • Focusing agile practices on your worst development pain points to get the most bang for your buck • Abandoning classic agile methods that don’t work at the largest scale • Employing agile methods to establish a new architecture • Using metrics as a “conversation starter” around agile process improvements • Leveraging continuous integration and quality systems to reduce costs, accelerate schedules, and automate the delivery pipeline • Taming the planning beast with “light-touch” agile planning and lightweight long-range forecasting • Implementing effective project management and ensuring accountability in large agile projects • Managing tradeoffs associated with key decisions about organizational structure • Overcoming U.S./India cultural differences that can complicate offshore development • Selecting tools to support quantum leaps in productivity in your organization • Using change management disciplines to support greater enterprise agility

A simplified guide to the ASP (Active Server Pages) language used commonly to make websites and communicate with databases, search records and display them to the user. Learn from over 50 scripts the essential art of this powerful programming language. Only the knowledge of HTML is needed before starting. A great way to add more skills to your CV. Can be used at home, or in the classroom, also as part of an IT course such as BTEC in computing or a HNC/HND.

This book reviews the effects of the professional use of social media on science and scholarship, providing practical tips, tools, and guidelines for platforms, practices, and routines on social media for academics. Through concise case studies from researchers worldwide, it illustrates the diverse and often unexpected ways social media enhances academic work, from building collaborative networks and expanding audience reach to creating real-world impact. Coverage includes established platforms like LinkedIn and X (formerly Twitter), emerging spaces such as Bluesky, and creative academic applications of platforms like Reddit and WhatsApp. At its core, this guide emphasises intentional engagement over self-promotion, focusing on meaningful communication, community development, and knowledge sharing. It introduces the Researcher’s Social Media Compass, a framework to help you align your online activity with your professional aims, values, and resources. Social Media for Research Impact is of interest to researchers at all career stages, as well as research managers, advisors, and communication professionals who support research visibility and collaboration through social media.