Nicole C. Baratta

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Austin, TX

Nicole C. Baratta (Engard) is a Senior Content Strategist at Red Hat. She received her MLIS from Drexel University and her BA from Juniata College. Nicole volunteers as the Director of ChickTech Austin. Nicole is known for many different publications including her books “Library Mashups", "More Library Mashups", and "Practical Open Source Software for Libraries". Nicole can be reached at ncbaratta@gmail.com.

Open Source Sensei People's Choice Award 2013 Moderator's Choice Award 2016 Author Founding Member Open education Wordpress Community Manager Geek Contributor Club

Authored Content

Marketing openness: Does sharing have a stigma?

The first steps to addressing your impostor syndrome

I've heard the term "impostor syndrome" tossed around a lot lately, and while I understand what it means in broad strokes, it wasn't until Christina Keelan's keynote at the…

5 keys to hacking your community. What works?

One of the many great keynotes given at the Community Leadership Summit ( CLS) this year was by Rod Martin of Mautic, creator of marketing automation software. Rod spoke to us…

4 ways to share power, not hoard it

For the past few years the Community Leadership Summit ( CLS) has taken place the weekend before OSCON. I've never had the opportunity to attend before, but this year OSCON…

How to start a ChickTech chapter

At last year's OSCON I was lucky enough to stumble across the ChickTech booth. I had heard of women in tech organizations before, but hadn't heard of ChickTech. When I asked…

Drupal creator on saving the open web

Can we save the open web? Dries Buytaert, creator of Drupal, talked to a group during SxSW Interactive about how he began the content management service (CMS) Drupal in his…

SxSW panel on the value of open source

One question I get often is: "How can I build a business around something I'm giving away for free?" So, I wanted to attend the panel at SxSW this year called Don't open…