Nancy C. Roberts & Associates

06/02/2022

https://floorburnsbook.com/
Coming soon: the book-on-tape version, narrated by - ME! This was a dream of a life-time, reading an audio book, and I can't think of a better book to have had the pleasure to voice. Deeply felt, extraordinary research, and a new view of Syracuse even for lifetime citizens. But meanwhile - get a copy and read it for yourself!

“If you were a fan of Friday Night Lights, you know…it wasn’t really a sports story, but the story of a town... In Central New York, the same can be said for Floor Burns, a new book…about the passions of Parochial League basketball…”

06/02/2022

Recollections from Beyond the Grave Ghostwalk - June 3rd & 4th, 10th and 11th.
I'll be channeling Mrs. Sally Knapp, of the Hazard and Sedgewick families, wife of the "dreamy" Martin Knapp - all round bad boy!

09/04/2020

Another podcast interview for "Interviews with Innovators." This time with an innovator who introduces a new all-electric low speed truck to the market - with an interesting new innovation!

04/22/2020

Gregg Tripoli, Executive Director of the Onondaga Historical Association, talks with us about "Process Innovation for Non-Profits."

04/22/2020

Here's the next interview on "Interviews with Innovators." This time, Gregg Tripoli, Executive Director of the Onondaga Historical Association talks with us about "Process Innovation for Non-Profits."

04/09/2020

A new podcast dedicated to original thinkers, trend explorers, and tireless entrepreneurs. We'll be talking with visionaries from all fields - tech, design, automotives, not-for-profits - if there's a new idea, we want to hear about it! This episode: Meet Bob Romano, CEO and founder of Intelligent-Data. Your company's cybersecurity is their #1 interest.

07/12/2019

Every so often a photo is magic...

07/12/2019

Nature amazes.

07/01/2019

We've been working on the NYS Drone Film Festival - now in its third year at the GREAT New York State Fair! Enter your drone films or photographs - and maybe you'll take home a gold medal. Enter at:
https://filmfreeway.com/NYSDroneFilmFestival
Learn more at www.dronefilmsfest.com

03/01/2019

Counter-intuitive - but interesting!
"Long live Comic Sans. Research shows that uglier, difficult-to-read fonts, help people retain material better. People recall significantly more of what they read when the font is unfamiliar, hard to read, or particularly small. Subjects received the same reading material in different fonts. Those given the harder-to-read fonts recalled 14% more. The findings are in line with other research showing that the harder a topic is to learn, the easier it will be to remember. The struggle to understand makes a stronger impression on your memory. It may seem counter-intuitive, but imagine skimming through text that is scrawled by hand or in an ornate script—it's almost impossible. You have to read each word, meaning you’ll recall a lot more. The scientists behind the research even argue that changing the fonts in teaching materials would greatly improve student performance across the board. Sorry, design team, but I've decided to change all the exercises on Curious lessons to be written in Lucida Calligraphy. " (H/T: curious.com)

11/17/2018

We’re getting ready to attend the Drone Expo and Racing event at the Expo Center, NYS Fair Grounds! We’ll be sharing video from the 2018 NYS Fair Drone Film Festival.