• 2012 Generation Google scholarship announcement
Sonjara is pleased to share the latest announcement of the 2012 Generation Google Scholarship, pulled from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) bulletin newsletter. |More


• Sonjara welcomes Juliejohn Knott
Sonjara is pleased to welcome Juliejohn Knott into the fold. |More


• Doonesbury had it right..
  

  By Julie-John Knott, Office Manager
  The Doonesbury comic strips professional college student Zonker Harris sports a t-shirt reading: The Truly Educated NEVER Graduate.  Not exactly the sentiment the parents of college students want to hear. |More

• Sonjara welcomes Tierno Bah!
  Sonjara, Inc. is pleased to welcome Tierno Bah into the ranks. |More
  
  
• Sonjara welcomes Jackie Weisman!
  Sonjara, Inc. is pleased to welcome Jackie Weisman to the Sonjara family.|More

• Sonjara wishes all a Happy Holiday!
  We at Sonjara wish you all a very happy & peaceful holiday season! |More
  
  
• Tech Age Girls - Part II
  By Siobhan Green, CEO
  As the previous announcement stated, we were blessed with a visit by three young women from Kyrghystan, courtesy of the IREX Tech Age (TAG) Program.|More

• Tech Age Girls from Kyrgyzstan Visit the United States
  Zina Kabylbek kyzy, a Tech Age Girls participant from Kyrgyzstan, saw a teacher at Webster Groves High School in St. Louis, Missouri...|More
  
  
• Modern Social Media isn't just for the Young.
  By Julie-John Knott, Office Manager
  Screen legend Kirk Douglas becomes oldest celebrity blogger with 4,414 online friends (Dec. 2008). Modern Social Media isn't just for the Young. Really, Really, truly. |More
  
  
• An Effective Social Good Communication Strategy?
  By Ashley Sargent, Technical Project Manager
  A good communications strategy should involve so much more than just a few links between customer and business.  | More
  
  
• Deep Insights Anytime, Anywhere Project
  STEM education research is about to get its own powerful search engine to assist researchers and funders in finding and analyzing information. |More
  
  
• What does it mean to be a green business?
  By Heather Patterson, Operations
  A claim of we're a green business is a nice label to sport. What does it really mean? What do most people think of when they hear the term?| More
  
  
• Sonjara Welcomes Larissa Goodin
  Sonjara, Inc. is pleased to welcome Larissa Goodin to the Sonjara family. |More
  
  
• Make your email more efficient.
  By Siobhan Green, CEO
  Here are 10 rules for improved email productivity. I amassed some of these from other people, as well as came up with a few of my own. I think of it as food for thought on managing a massive email load.| More
  
  
• How to stay connected in a virtual office environment. 
  By Reshma Joshi, Web Developer
  As mentioned by my colleagues in other blog posts, Sonjara has a great telecommute program and we all enjoy the flexibility and advantages of working from the convenience of our homes. |More
  
  
• Walk On
  By Janice Gallant, Web Developer
  In our primitive past, we humans spent most of our days foraging for food; today, we spend most of our day sitting at a desk. If we're good, we make time for some exercise at the gym and consider the fitness box to be checked.|More
  
  
• Copping the Elusive Feel
  By Andrew Green, President & Lead Developer
  Look and Feel. It's a phrase we throw around every day in web development without really thinking about what it means. Usually we are talking about the Look - the graphic design, branding and layout of the site, but what do we mean? | More
  
  
• Guerilla Project Management: Part One
  By Sonja Hubbard, Senior Technical Project Manager
  This is the first post in an occasional series looking at low-effort, high-impact project management practices that contribute to project success.
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• Flexible Hours - How did I live without them?
  By Janna Fountaine, Director of Contracts & Finance
  One of the many perks of working for a family/life friendly company, like Sonjara, is the ability to work non-traditional, flexible hours...| Read More..
  
  
• Our Convoluted Life Paths
  By Julie John Knott, Office Manager
  Well, what have you been *doing* for the last 15 years? always asks the recruiter once they see the ancient dates on my resume. An excellent question and one that takes me twenty minutes to answer, *if* I feel the person..
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• The Intangible Perks Don't Stop Here 
  By Heather Patterson, Director of Operations
  A business is a business is a business, you say? Well, sure it is. A for-profit business has to be run like it is expected to make a profit. | Read more...
  
  
• Backing up Your Data is a Waste of Time
  By Todd Akers, Director of Information Technology
  Backing up your data is a waste of time. Really. If you are backing up your data, you are wasting time. And resources.... | Read more...
  
  
• Flying the (Sort of) Web Friendly Skies
  By Stephanie DeMoss, Director of Research & Content
  Recently I took an impromptu cross-country trip to visit family and needed to work as much as possible while traveling. This meant working while at the airport and while on the plane. While I hoped there would be some WiFi availability, either free or for a fee, I planned for lots of offline work..
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• Internet in Africa: Dispelling the Myths
  By Siobhan Green, CEO
  In the collective imagination in the U.S., Africa is seen as the most technologically backwards in terms of access to and use of ICTs. We need to challenge this myth with some current facts, especially around Facebook.
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• Biking to Work
  By Sonja Hubbard, Senior Technical Project Manager
  Friday, May 20 is Bike to Work Day, celebrated each year, nationwide, by frequent, occasional, and first-time bicycle commuters alike. When you work in Information Technology and perform the majority of your work through telecommuting, commuting on your bike offers some special rewards, as well as some challenges. | Read more...

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