Interesting Features at PWN for 12.21.15

News from the PWN Pipeline:

'Early access to professional networks will unclog the diversity pipeline in tech.'

Jessica Pliska, the CEO and Founder of The Opportunity Network, and Christina Lewis Halpern, Founder and Director of All Star Code, penned an article in the Huffington Post that emphasized the use of professional networks for all young engineering and computer science students in order to minimize the diversity gap in these fields. Pliska and Halpern suggest that pursuing connections through LinkedIn, professional blogs and Twitter, particularly at a young age, will increase their professional relationships with more senior tech leaders and their familiarity with building connections to promising opportunities.

'The 5 things your emails need to include to get people to read and respond.'

Aaron Orendorff put together an interesting article posted on Fast Company that proposes 5 crucial yet simple steps that will help ensure that recipients read and respond to your emails instead of ignoring them or worse, deleting them without reading the whole thing. Among his suggestions are offering a single action item per email and mindfully keeping the email brief.