Sentences with phrase «based social good»

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«Generally, when you are the basis for a platform, you don't want to scare away investment in your platform developers by competing with them... There is a vibrant ecosystem of game developers, headed by Zynga, who do a good job making successful social games already, and Facebook gets a cut of what those developers make, so there is currently no need for Facebook to step in and make games itself, either strategically or monetarily,» Hoskins recently explained via Quora.

At launch, Symphony provides cloud - based secure messaging, content and information that's relevant to making trading decisions, as well as the ability to create complex, interactive social networks on the trading floor.

Empire Avenue, a small social - media startup that's headquartered in Edmonton but based in, well, everywhere, is a perfect example.

Western - based global brands such as Starbucks and Unilever have done a remarkably good job at telling their social stories — think about 100,000 Opportunities and the Dove Self - Esteem Project.

Apart from skills and experience, the algorithm will attempt to match job - seekers and employers based on such variables as personality - as on the eHarmony site - as well as work and social and cultural values.

Clearly defining your goals can help you determine which email marketing solution is best for your business, says Simms Jenkins, author of The New Inbox: Why Email Marketing is the Digital Marketing Hub in a Social & Mobile World (Incisive Media, 2013) and chief executive of BrightWave Marketing, an Atlanta - based digital marketing agency.

Today, they earn money through their blog, as well as through remote gigs that they can work from their London flat or from the beach in Thailand: Sargent does leadership training and coaches private clients based on her expertise from her work as a business psychologist, and Farrugia takes on part - time social media management jobs.

Maloney says it's also important to tailor content for various social networks — a 140 - character tweet won't work so well on image - based Pinterest, for instance — and to speak to fans in that network's language.

New York - based StartApp is an insights driven mobile company that empowers app developers, social companies and other types of businesses to understand their users, better connect and engage with them, as well as improve monetization.

Professor Harry Kraemer at the Kellogg School of Management, author of Becoming the Best: Build a World - Class Organization Through Values - Based Leadership, tells me that being a social entrepreneur has very little to do with how much money you have or the number of people who report to you.

His book «The Accidental Billionaires» was the basis of «The Social Network» blockbuster, which won Aaron Sorkin a best adapted screenplay Oscar.

In Michigan, the Michigan Pathways to Better Health (MPBH) program, implemented by the Michigan Public Health Institute and the Michigan Department of Community Health, is using tablet - based checklists to collect demographic information in communities with the greatest health needs and assess behavioral health, and social service factors impacting each patient to get a fuller picture of social determinants of health.

Using social media tools, you can learn much about voters and candidates this way, as well as your customers and competitors on an ongoing basis.

If you can get them to share photos, even better, since image - based social shares get

You can create a schedule so that every single day, a certain number of times per day, your social media content that you've saved before will go out through buffer, and that way you can build your audience by curating great content, either from others, or, when you have good news about your own business, share through buffer on an ongoing basis.

If you can get them to share photos, even better, since image - based social shares get more attention in newsfeeds than text - based posts.

All sorts of social action apps have already sprung up, including Berlin - based «Refugees Welcome,» which has helped dozens of German citizens invite refugees into their homes, as well as «Mobile Justice,» an app related to the #BlackLivesMatter movement and giving users the ability to zap video footage from a phone directly to the American Civil Liberties Union.

What people are saying online about your brand — the good, the bad and the oftentimes inaccurate — makes all the difference when it comes to winning or losing customers, says Michael Fertik, founder and chief executive of Redwood City, Calif. - based online reputation management agency Reputation.com and co-author of Wild West 2.0: How to Protect and Restore Your Reputation on the Untamed Social Frontier (AMACOM, 2010).

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

Last month the Canadian high - tech lobby group Information and Communication Technology Council along with Music Canada jointly made the case for increased government support of arts education, especially music, on the basis that music students «performed better in general intelligence skills such as literacy, verbal memory, mathematics and IQ,» are more creative and have better social skills.

The search giant tops the list of companies with 1,000 or more employees in the U.S. for best place to work in 2015, according to social jobs and careers community Glassdoor, which ranks businesses based on employee reviews.

Based on Facebook's internal research and outside studies, he said that people are generally happier and have a better «well - being» when they use social media to connect «with people we care about.»

Other great features include multichannel support via phone, chat, and social networks as well as smart knowledge base suggestions, time tracking to know how long you're spending on tickets, integrated community forums, gamification for agents, mobile accessibility, and integration with more than 30 applications you may already be using.

We're looking for teams that can actually build a better social network, and we'll be judging teams primarily based upon their ability to execute.

I wrote an improvement of Alicia's email based on these concepts: — specificity of: target b2b and expected results — be educational with numbers and reference to a case study — do nt talk bad about outbound marketing, but tell him how to do it better — write even shorter to the point — social proof: drop big companies of other industries — scarcity: this email is sent to 10 competitors but we only work with the first per city

Second, the good teams all had high «average social sensitivity» — a fancy way of saying they were skilled at intuiting how others felt based on their tone of voice, their expressions and other nonverbal cues.

So, take a few minutes and project your future benefits, based on various scenarios, to help determine when it's best to start taking Social Security.

Chances are, you'll find a good chunk of those returning customers are coming via direct (entering the address or using a bookmark), social media (when you tweet or post about sales and specials), or email (permission - based marketing is a godsend, so don't ignore it... get those details early to keep everyone informed and in your funnel).

«Ever since Facebook became a «pay - to - play» social medium, small businesses especially are scurrying to figure out how to best spend their ad dollars,» says Aubrey Swanson, a Miami - based Social Media Manager and Owner of Auboom social medium, small businesses especially are scurrying to figure out how to best spend their ad dollars,» says Aubrey Swanson, a Miami - based Social Media Manager and Owner of Auboom Social Media Manager and Owner of Auboom Media.

«If they could pull it off it would be good for the ecosystem, but it's going to be tough,» said Adam Morley, Beijing - based product manager for Chinese social app Nice.

Software for Good, is a Minneapolis - based for - profit, public benefit corporation that develops software for organizations «working toward positive environmental and social change.»

The Creative Destruction Lab leverages the Rotman School's leading faculty and industry network as well as its location in the heart of Canada's business capital to accelerate massively scalable, technology - based ventures that have the potential to transform our social, industrial, and economic landscape.

Extremely well written... also motivational and covers beyond what the title suggests... You will learn that at the very least, 1/3 of people make purchasing decisions based on social responsibility.

Guy and I put our heads together to create a powerful online training course based on proven principles used by the best businesses out there that are crushing it in the social media space!

Voices of Social Change is a well produced, insightful podcast for anyone that wants to make a difference whether you need to be inspired or help getting started with your caused base business,

The good news is that these earnings can also count toward the calculation of your benefits: Social Security checks your earnings record each year and will increase your benefit, if appropriate, based on these additional earnings.5

«Planned markets are sick markets, markets that are always in crisis, because their most - important social function — facilitating selection between competing pools of capital on the basis of what way of doing things in the real world works best in practice, distinguishing between real capital formers and fools — has been disrupted by the planner's clumsy interference.

We know from various studies done in the social sciences in the past forty years, as well as from fifteen plus years of my being involved with personas, the trio of users / buyers / customers makes decisions based on much more than just content or information.

Overview: The Good Food Institute (GFI) seeks a graduate (or exceptional undergraduate) student in the social sciences who would like to apply their research skills to the context of consumer acceptance of plant - based and clean meat.

I had the believe that only visual - based niche will do well with the Pinterest until I discover that even a freelance writer can maximize his exposure in this social platform.

Social impact «residents» that have been placed in coworking centres by All Good Work include BASE, which develops co-living residences for young adults with learning differences; RiF, which supports refugees and asylum seekers arriving in New York City; and AdaptLab — a team that helps filmmakers with autism and learning differences to work on productions and gain valuable skills for sustainable employment.

Business professionals, buyers, investors, and analysts use the site to compare and select the best software and services based on peer reviews and synthesized social data.

This assumes that markets are not efficient i.e. based purely on fundamental data and as such psychology and social sciences are better served at explaining what is going on.

In the B2B world, the emergence of the Social Buyer is causing organizations to search for better ways to reach its» base of buyers.

One of the major outcomes of the recent advances in the social age is the resurgence of contextually - based persona development and its» role in helping to inform as well as shape strategy.

Determine topics that have performed well in your niche based on social media shares and comments

Unlike tools that only focus on opportunity - to - close, account - based marketing, or social selling, Datahug helps you target better, penetrate faster, sell more, and maximize customer revenue.

Whether or not there is a heaven, as reward, I would rather strive to a truly higher ideal, than live down to a common «social norm» that degrades us to mere animal status, living for our own pleasure and telling us that our more base desires are good, natural and should not be considered something to be overcome.

He repeats his description of the ways bad charity (the Great Society) drove out good charity (religiously based groups): It reinterpreted the causes of poverty as exclusively material and environmental; its bureaucracy tried to reach ever - larger numbers of poor people with a decreasingly personal strategy for fighting poverty; it dismissed the role of volunteers in favor of professional social workers; and it removed the incentives for work, saving, and marriage.

The universe is 13.7 billion years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism The earth is 4.5 billion years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism Life emerged from non-life (Biogenesis theory... cause and process unknown)- nothing to do with Atheism Life spread and diversified through evolution (best available explanation)- nothing to do with Atheism Man evolved from common ape ancestor (evolution science)- nothing to do with Atheism Consciousness is an emergent property of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Emotions, memories and intelligence are functions of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Morals are emergent qualities of social animals (natural science)- nothing to do with Atheism