Sentences with phrase «make social calls»

However, Don wasn't making a social call.

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Calling it the «privacy paradox,» University of Michigan School of Information professor Cliff Lamp says in studying social computing he has found that people make a lot of noise when it comes to privacy, but push concerns aside in favor of convenience.

Smartphone and tablet battery technology is adequate for making calls, sending texts, checking social media and playing games, but all of these activities simultaneously can drain a battery by noon.

Exercise self - control (I make it a point to to logout of social accounts, but during days when I'm not as disciplined as I want to be, I use a site blocking tool called Cold Turkey.)

You can accomplish this with emails to their websites, making connections through networking and via social media and by making follow - up phone calls to anyone who responds.

Set times to make calls, answer personal emails, or check social media.

Facebook users got a real wake - up call this week, according to Mezrich, whose best - selling book was made into the movie «The Social Network.»

Facebook users got a real wake - up call this week, according to Ben Mezrich, whose best - selling book was made into the movie «The Social Network.»

TOMS launched an e-commerce platform for goods made by social entrepreneurs called «Marketplace.»

Google, though, brings in most of its advertising revenue through its dominant Internet search engine, a weapon that Facebook is trying to counter with a recently introduced feature, called Graph Search, which makes it easier for its users to find information within its social network.

The report also called for Chinese companies in Africa to make corporate social responsibility a priority and be fully aware and prepared for security and business risks.

To make sense of this, it's important for designers of those solutions to know how to take human interactions (emails, chats, phone calls, social media threads) and tag them, by identifying emotion and sentiment, and other markers so the computer «understands» humans better.

That makes sense, considering it is no stretch to call Chouinard, who founded Patagonia in 1973, a pioneer in the realm of corporate social responsibility.

«When I've tapped out social networking, non-client referral sources, client referrals, sponsored or hosted events, webinars, article placements and blogs, I'll make cold calls,» says John Thomas, a former director of business development in Dallas.

I'm the guy who gets the call to help professionals maximize the personal relationships that matter the most because they lack the social skills to make it happen on their own.

While many companies started out using social media to get the word out about products, the most successful have significantly expanded their efforts to engage their customers at every step of what we call the «customer corridor,» touch points that start when a potential customer first learns of a product and extend through the moment they opt to make repeat purchases.

The latest projections call for Social Security to run out of reserves by 2034, and if we don't want this to happen, a change will have to be made.

Using my Smart Calling ™ process, you can make your credibility statement stronger by gathering intelligence before the call about your prospect and customer, using online and offline sources, and Social Engineering which we covered in a recent article.

-- Introduce your business to thousands of potential customers in the entire market area of Cape Cod, the Islands, and the South Shore — Influence the buying decisions of thousands of potential customers — Speak to people who will make a decision to buy your product or service this week — Create a consistent flow of new customer opportunities via foot traffic, phone calls, website traffic, e-newsletter sign ups, social media engagement — Tell «the story» of your business — Differentiate your business from your competitors — Encourage customer loyalty — Educate past customers on why they should come back and do business with you again — Grow your market share — Make your business a household name and create top of mind awareness — Build the credibility of your business — Control the public's perception of your busimake a decision to buy your product or service this week — Create a consistent flow of new customer opportunities via foot traffic, phone calls, website traffic, e-newsletter sign ups, social media engagement — Tell «the story» of your business — Differentiate your business from your competitors — Encourage customer loyalty — Educate past customers on why they should come back and do business with you again — Grow your market share — Make your business a household name and create top of mind awareness — Build the credibility of your business — Control the public's perception of your busiMake your business a household name and create top of mind awareness — Build the credibility of your business — Control the public's perception of your business

(Ritholtz is no stranger to social media — TED Talks credits his Big Picture blog as one of «100 websites you should know and use,» while Matt Miller of Bloomberg says Ritholtz «consistently makes more sense than anyone else in media» and Randall Forsyth of Barron's calls The Big Picture «a must - read blog.»)

Survivors have taken to social media to make loud calls for gun control, which have been met with abuse and the spread of misinformation about the teenagers online.

There's been quite of a bit of mob mentality driving the marketplace as the retail trader can feel empowered making public market calls on social media.

Instead of getting on the phone making cold calls, reach out to potential clients on social media to help introduce your marketplace.

«And don't be fooled by unrealistic predictions of returns and claims made through press releases, spam email, telemarketing calls or posted online or in social media threads,» the agency said.

Make outbound prospecting campaigns (emails, hot calls, video - mails, social selling, events) to generate leads on well - identified niche markets to achieve your monthly & quarterly new revenue quota

Tentatively called SNS Pay, the platform will allow customers to make cryptocurrency purchases directly from their social media pages and chat apps,

Social selling no longer needs aggressive sales people making outbound calls, doing door - to - door marketing, or face - to - face client meetings.

Ms Lucas also called for the recording and publishing of gender - specific violent crime data to be made a requirement for police, health and social services - the lack of which she said: «seriously obscures the extent to which women and girls are subjected to gendered violence».

When James characterized «reality» as made up of eaches and suches, of concrete particular facts and abstract relational concepts, he added a third element: «the whole body of other truths already in our possession» (P 96), the «ancient stock» of truths I have called our «social canon.»

The meal made it clear that the church was not simply another social agency doing a little good, but a people called to witness to God's presence in the world.

This early absorption of the individual in the social group is made clear in the Old Testament by the further fact that, at the start, there was no such experience as would be called now «personal religion.»

Nor do Christians understand Jesus Christ as some kind of Ayatollah, communicating a blueprint of an ideal society and calling upon his believers to make laws, pronounce judgment, and execute his will in the political, economic, and social spheres.

No other structure in the world can be called on to promise eternal salvation, and when such salvific claims are made in the name of some nation, race, social class, religion, or ideology, the church must fight such idolatry and blasphemy with all its means of persuasion, even to the point of martyrdom.

Worse still — and more to the point of my concern — the translation of the one Word of God into direct social and political terms has meant that the churches neglect the message for which they do have sole responsibility, that which constitutes their specific raison d'etre, and which no other agency in the world is called on or is competent to proclaim: the gospel of Holy Scripture which has the power to make people wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 3:15).

After checking to make sure the story was true, the coalition helped spread the word on social media about Vander Woude's message and received hundreds of calls in return, she said.

These are approaches to religion employed by «social scientists» who presumably refrain from making what are called value judgments.

Because all people do not respond to the preaching of the gospel and its concomitant call to discipleship, however, the gospel itself demands that Christians both encourage society to» «make serious and positive use of the social theories» of Jesus Christ and the Scriptures,» and help society to heal social injustices by loving our neighbors as ourselves.21 Toward this end, the church must first of all proclaim to the world the Bible's perfect rule not only for faith but also for practice.

Second, each moment of our lives makes its positive or negative contribution to God immediately upon its occurrence, as well as through the cumulative reality we call the «I.» Third, since God's consequent nature «passes back into the temporal world and qualifies this world, «157 our lives, being elements in God, also «reach back to influence the world» even apart from our direct social immortality.

Those who call our attention to contemporary social problems commonly try to heighten our concern by making often unjustified claims about the unprecedented nature of the challenges before us.

Usually called fiction or drama or myth, they make the all - important but invisible structure of social relationships and the hidden dynamics of life visible and understandable.

His analysis calls for reintegration of the history of science with social, economic and political history just as his philosophical proposals call for integration with current reasons for making science, technology and medicine more accessible and accountable.

A strong case has been made by F. J. E. Woodbridge that Plato not only does not seriously regard his «perfect state» as realizable, but that he means to make us see the error of imposing perfection too rigorously on human fallibility.3 Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward illustrates the utopia which becomes a persuasive call to radical social reforms.4 It also illustrates one of the functions of utopian thought as a medium of realistic criticism of the present.

I suspected when I first heard this claim that the Committee on the Status of Black Americans, loaded as it was with social scientists, had demolished a straw man, a bloodless construct so rigidly defined as to be meaningless in terms of the actual lives of the humans who inhabit the nation's ghettos and who, for the most part, make up what has come to be called the underclass.

If he or she wants to make what can be called a sacred space, the problem has nothing to do with age or with personal or social events.

Because much of the pioneering work in this type of research was done by members of the Frankfurt School of Social Research (notably H. Marcuse, M. Hochheimer, T. Adorno, W. Benjamin), known for so - called Critical Theory, the great variety of this research is distinguished from the administrative by calling it critical research, following the distinction made in 1941 by Paul Lazarsfeld, a pioneer of modern administrative research.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

The evangelical - moralist sector has gained access to the White House, the Supreme Court, the Congress; it has a near - monopoly on mass media religion news, popular religion, the production of religious celebrities; it makes clear its positions on what it calls social issues, and is engaged in calling for constitutional amendments and new laws and in protests in the public squares.

Some need to be made aware of the wider social context and called to feel concern there.

If you are on social media, try it on Twitter or Facebook (perhaps making a phone call after you check their profile).

Typically, I'd just call it a day and not «work» — waiting until I felt more social before posting this recipe but, I made a commitment to posting every day in March, so here I am telling you about how I don't want to blog but I am anyway.