Sentences with phrase «about community as»

We are a small team of technologists, musicians, nerds, DJs and designers, who are equally as passionate about our community as we are about music.

So I was curious what others would write about community as I settled into the chapter of readings devoted to the topic of «Building Local Community» in my «Discovering Sense of Place» course book anthology.

By examining Twitter, the researchers didn't just learn about how people use the platform to express themselves — they learned about the community as a whole.

But whether at one time or the other, to speak of Jesus as Lord as to speak of a relationship in which he stood to the community, and was to say therefore as much about the community as about Him.

The event (the reading and the hearing) says as much about his community as it does about him.

But not with Alibaba, whose platform is as much about community as it is commerce.

Pure Barre is just as much about the community as it is the workout.

At Pure Barre, we are as much about the community as we are about the workout and seeing results.

One detects here a tendency on Royce's part to think and talk about communities as if they were supraindividual persons.

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It leads you to learn about yourself and learn that you can find as much about yourself and your community that you can in the Musee D'Orsay or jungles of Costa Rica.

As Mitra got similar results again and again (to date, Hole In The Wall experiments have been conducted in more than a hundred communities in India, Southeast Asia and Africa), he began to wonder about what else kids with digital resources could teach themselves.

I realize the issues we're talking about today aren't just issues for Facebook and our community — they're challenges for all of us as Americans.

She enjoys writing about marketing and SEO, as well as supporting small businesses in her local community.

A focus on quality, local products can help a small business succeed as communities are becoming more and more adamant about buying from small, local businesses.

It makes you stop and think as an entrepreneur about the community you're surrounded by.

«Since last week's approval, we have heard both support from the community, and concerns about how the pricing and reimbursement details will affect individual patients and caregivers, such as how it effects coverage of other Duchenne products, such as EXONDYS 51,» wrote Aronin in a blog post for a Duchenne patient advocacy site.

As COO David Lloyd explains, the tool will enable communities and other stakeholders to make more informed decisions about water management.

Don't worry, it's not as bad as the epic back and forth of the past few years, as Congress decided to impose burdensome new requirements, the small business community fought back, and then Congress (typically) fought childishly among themselves about how to pay for a repeal.

Through slow, grassroots methods such as community meetings and bill inserts, Ontario's utilities have largely succeeded in informing the province's residents about what smart meters are, and how to shift electricity demand to lower their bills.

But at an age when most Canadians are thinking about retirement, you seem to be getting even more active in the business community, as a mentor and private investor to at least six up - and - coming companies.

On top of all this, their website acts as a community portal, helping to clue people in about the changes they could be making to help themselves and the environment.

As Harvard's David Weinberger pointed out in a recent post, Reddit has always been a semi-autonomous community, one that operates with only a very loose set of rules about behavior.

«We see ourselves at Facebook as a community and culture of builders, so we like to see how people are thinking about things a little bit differently.»

As Western Australia prepares to have the Community Titles Bill introduced to parliament, join us for an indepth discussion and opportunity to hear about and learn what can be possible with such reform.

But as Gen Xers start preparing for their golden years, they should also spend time thinking about their own legacies and what they want to leave behind to their children and their communities.

I had a chance to speak with Thurman this week about the responsibilities we, as business leaders, have to our communities.

He once explained his bland wardrobe this way: «I really want to clear my life to make it so that I have to make as few decisions as possible about anything except how to best serve this community.»

And, as was made clear at the recent Starbucks Annual Meeting extravaganza in Seattle, nobody is more excited about community service and helping others than Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz.

«Beyond the shared workspace, we think about what they're doing as building a community.»

Much has been made during the current election cycle about which political party is best aligned with the interests of Corporate America, with some arguing that the Republican party is losing its status as the «party of business,» while Fortune «s Chris Matthews argued that Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson may actually be the best candidate for the business community this year.

In some cases it has to remove content because of a court order, but in other cases it will remove even relatively inoffensive images and posts — such as pictures of women breast - feeding their children, for example — because it breaches the site's community standards, or because someone complains about the content.

Science itself can drive our conversations about the importance of diversity, as it provides us with the data to understand how systemic bias and discrimination impact our communities and how best to change it.»

The focus of our marketing is always about building a community, and that is not as easy as it sounds.

In many indigenous cultures I have learned about, community members who want more resources than they can personally use are viewed as suffering from some kind of mental illness.

It's about all of these community groups, these activists, these non-profits, these local leaders as clergy saying, «Forget about Krasner.

Just as amazing as the fact that this is happening is the fact that we can watch it happen through live broadcasts set up by the ESA, NASA and Slooh, the online astronomy community, though there will be about a 27 - minute delay due to distance.

«I really want to clear my life to make it so that I have to make as few decisions as possible about anything except how to best serve this community.»

In the business community, Patagonia, the $ 575 - million outdoor apparel and gear maker based in Ventura, California, is about as far from Biggie Smalls as you can get.

Better World Books started 10 years ago with a campus book drive and since then has grown to be a $ 63 million company that sells books online collected from about 4,000 libraries as well as campus book drives and book drop boxes in communities around the U.S. With each book sold, the company donates another, along with a portion of the sale, to one of its nonprofit literacy partners.

The way Zuckerberg and Facebook may be thinking about user acquisition then has far less to do with simply adding more users, but rather giving communities the tools they need to build meaningful connections (under the assumption that they too will invite others to join the group, and subsequently Facebook as a platform).

The relative lack of minority employees at Twitter was particularly galling, say Luckie and Miley, because the platform had become such an important tool for the global black community, through a vibrant and dedicated subset of users known as Black Twitter — who speak to one another about the reality of blackness in America and who often contribute original reporting, spreading news through ad hoc hashtag communities like #BlackLivesMatter.

«As Nextdoor has become one of the places where neighbors talk about how to make their local communities better, it is natural for the issue of race to be discussed and debated,» Tolia writes in the post.

Typically, they look for ones who are passionate about a particular group on campus, such as the LGBT community or the Greek community, and encourage them to become Islands evangelists to that group.

Building a community as well as building a network is the best way to go about growing your business.

The tech community specifically is tight knit - rather than the «watch your back» mentality I've experienced on the west coast, Raleigh is much more about embracing others and working together as a unit to move forward rather than going after each other to advance.

And as we engage in outreach with the business community, as well as a range of stakeholders, the concern about inclusion comes up continuously.

Culture at MailChimp is all about developing and empowering our employees, creating community and maintaining that community as we grow.

But what I liked best about the book is how it engages with what I see as one of the most important and difficult social - policy questions of our time: How do we unstack the deck and, at the same time, get people to take ownership over improving their own lives and communities even when they reasonably believe that the deck is stacked against them?

Think about community service as a low - cost investment with a tremendous payback.

Bringing in close to $ 800 million in total sales over the course of a cookie season, the cookie program enables girls nationwide to think big as they take action in their communities on issues they're passionate about.