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Brain , Heart, Nerve

Cognitive Metaphors mentors interns to build solutions using a technology stack of popular web tools like Drupal,  Google Analytics, YouTube, Amazon Web Services, and Pentaho.

Our mentorship efforts are tuned to magnify the abilities of smart people to execute on good community/business models with the goal of building sustainable growth.

Communities By Defintion. Know How It Works...

 

** November 15, 2009  - Being blessed with a stable and fulfilling full-time job in Energy, I decided to switch my focus towards purely mentoring others. I have developed a training program over the last three years and am willing to take on any recent graduate or other individuals looking to get real world experience in building analytics centered web communities. My selfish goal is to have a number of padawans (interns) in varying skill levels to build out my architectural ideas for analytics based communities. Please email me at acgarcia21@yahoo.com if you are interested.  ** 

A Brain.

brain

We use our brains to figure out if our organization is moving in the right direction. We sift through disparate data sources like accounting, sales, operations, marketing, visits and other logistics. We look for patterns and trends. Then, we try, test, and measure strategies to make things better.

Pentaho offers an integrated set of tools for bringing disparate data together, slicing and dicing it, reporting it in useful visual representations, and even detecting hidden patterns.

A Heart.

heart

We must be show a lot of heart, a lot of passion in advocacy of the organizations that we are stakeholders in. It's this passion that attracts others to your cause and provides the energy needed for your community to thrive.

Drupal is a content management system which offers all the "community plumbing" you need to put your message, your passion out there on the internet for like-minded individuals to see and interact with. YouTube video compilations provide another channel to relay your message. These video compilations can be integrated into your Drupal site.

 The Nerve.

nerve

We do not work in a vacuum. An organizational nervous system senses changes in our external environment and triggers the brain and heart to act on it.

Google Analytics shows how people found your site, where they came from, what they looked at. It's the nervous system we use to measure if your online presence is growing and why. Amazon Web Services let's your computing resources grow as your community grows.

 

 

Timing

The Filipino college summer break goes from about the last week of March to the first week of June.

Who Is This For?

This wiki could serve a lot of folks including:

  • People who want to remotely or locally run a web internship without too much formaility.
  • Programmers looking for extra hands who can move your Drupal projects faster in exchange for some coordination and mentorship.
  • Programmers on the management track looking to get experience with managing / outsourcing.
  • Filipinos abroad looking for a general way to donate their expertise in computer science towards helping students in the Philippines

 

Filipino Drupal Web Internship Cookbook Wiki

"You say you want a revolution? Well, you know, we all want to change the world." - The Beatles

Abstract:

The Cognitive Metaphors Filipino Web Internship program started in 2006 with one student. In 2009, I took on 5 students to continue to build out web communities that I am passionate about using the Drupal content management system. My overall motivation is to leverage my talents and eventually create opportunities for my family back home in the town of Plaridel, Bulacan, Philippines. My grandfather, Emilio Garcia, once served as Mayor of Plaridel during the Japanese occupation in WWII, 1945.

The following is a cookbook that I hope others will follow to promote interest in Computer Science in the Philippines. Please feel free to adapt these ideas to the communities that you are most passionate about. Young people need many more opportunities to apply significant hours of supervised practice if they are to become proficient in this craft. Malcom Gladwell's Outliers claims you need 10,000 hours of practice to be really good in any endeavor you wish to master.

--Anthony