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  • My friend Martin Brown (isite) and I introduced the group to some of the basic principles of social media and gave them some hand-on exposure to some web 2.0 tools and techniques, including some hands-on practice.

    Building communities « pwcom 2.0 2009

  • The ability to influence players and to have a hand-on role is really what I love.

    Nick Mallett and Wayne Smith offer hope for England revival 2011

  • I'm calling on all 200,000 scientists who work for the federal government to do their part in their communities -- to speak at schools, to create hand-on learning opportunities through efforts like National Lab Day, and to help stoke that same curiosity in students which perhaps led them to pursue a career in science in the first place.

    CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2010 2010

  • Moreover, I will continue to do hand-on volunteer n' advocacy work.

    Inside the Child’s Mind: Understanding autism 2009

  • (Click on thumbnails for enlargement) This workshop consists of lecture and hand-on laboratory components, each lasting 90 minutes.

    Boing Boing: April 2, 2006 - April 8, 2006 Archives 2006

  • My management style is a hand-on approach, delegating authority and trust to my team.

    RBS Coutts CEO Maintains a Positive Outlook 2008

  • So there is an undeniable possibility that the optical scan vote in New Hampshire could have been manipulated by insiders at the outsourced companies that run the election there, or by anyone with hand-on access to the voting and tabulating machines.

    UPDATED Obama-Clinton: remarkable opscan v. handcount results 2008

  • There IS significant evidence of Hillary Clinton's 35 years of hand-on experience on the internet after all!

    Martin Lewis: Helping Ari Emanuel Understand The World Before Google 2008

  • Luckily by the last semester all the desk classes were done, so no desks, but unluckily I had a bunch of really hand-on art and design classes, mainly with stools to sit on (which should be illegal to make pregnant people sit on for reasons I shall NOT go into).

    How to Accomplish Your Dreams 2008

  • Other sources, of a diverse nature seem to confirm this, pointing out that, far from taking a hand-on approach to the day-to-day management of the war, the Tony Blair and his ministers, handicapped by their lack of military experience, are leaving too much to the generals.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Richard 2007

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