Sentences with phrase «networking efforts like»

I also actively seek out conversations with moms and teachers at my kid's schools as well as on social networking efforts like Twitter and FaceBook.

Not exact matches

Discovery Communications, which owns networks like the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet, on Thursday became the latest TV company to invest in digital content in an effort to reach mobile viewers.

Some of Lee's efforts to improve training and step up Google's presence at historically black colleges have resulted in programs like Africans@Google, a group for employees of African descent, and the Black Googler Network.

(Example: A perk like membership in an exclusive private club might look odd from the outside, but a moment's reflection should reveal that an executive who is responsible for massive fundraising efforts genuinely needs to be part of the kind of clubs where he or she can network with the right sorts of people.)

People and companies alike aren't sure just what to do yet with anonymous social networks, but as Facebook (FB), Twitter (TWTR) and the like history shows, their usage will soon explode and companies will have to be in the wings, quick to leverage for marketing efforts.

Those who come up with clever ways of extracting information, like building a social network, or who expend the laborious effort to collect data from primary sources, should be able to profit handsomely from their exertions.

Just like businesses develop an objective for their social network marketing efforts, blogging and content writing should also be aimed at a specific, pre-defined target.

Long - term: Over Skipper's five - year run, ESPN laid out billions of dollars for sports rights for leagues like the NBA, in an effort to solidify its status as the dominant sports network — and to freeze out would - be challenges from Rupert Murdoch's Fox and Comcast's NBC.

Summer is nearly here, which means its time for America's major television networks to fire off the failed sitcoms for which they have no hope, and the low - effort, brain - numbing content that requires no effort — like rounding up «celebrities» and putting them in awkward situations.

Fate intervened in several unlikely ways in the two ensuing decades and then last fall, Weber, now a fixture in the national Farm to School Network, found himself waxing enthusiastic about local produce to a woman who was part of an effort called Homegrown Minneapolis, which would like to see more of that farmstead goodness put before MPS kids and other locals.

that, over the past six months, the agency has redoubled its efforts to reach business executives, commercial real estate developers, corporate site selectors, and other decision makers on social networks like Twitter and LinkedIn as part of a broader commitment to attracting and retaining businesses in the state.

I am sympathetic to his effort to credit Aristotle with something very like modern biological insights, and indeed, I find Leroi's arguments that Aristotle invented the concepts of metabolic networks and feedback control plausible.

What companies would like to know for sure, however, is whether or not their online networking efforts offer a good return on investment in terms of the bottom line regardless of whether they improve customer relations.

So efforts to look for trends in bee populations haven't had help from a coast - to - coast network of savvy amateurs like those who have long recorded birds.

Through regional networks in the U.S. like the Pediatric Neuromuscular Clinical Research (PNCR) Network and Project Cure, and international organizations such as the International Coordinating Committee (ICC) and TREAT - NMD, the SMA community has collaborated effectively on recruiting patients, establishing standards of care, standardizing outcome measures, and supporting multi-site clinical efforts, such as the Biomarkers for SMA (BforSMA) and the PNCR Network Natural History studies.

It's easy to advise singles that they need to put more effort into their searches, but what exactly does this look like for someone who hates networking events or bars, or feels uncomfortable making conversation?

The selective service screens all potential members on factors like age, sex, education and social network verification, in an effort to ensure the «authenticity, quality, and honesty» of its user base.

Suspense was one of network television's earliest series and, like many of the medium's first efforts, was adapted from a long - running radio program.

The show had excellent buzz but was surprisingly passed over, reportedly because CBS relies mostly on multi-camera comedy, and as a single - camera effort, the show was thought to be difficult to pair with the likes of «How I Met Your Mother» and «The Big Bang Theory» (this is why network television is nosediving, for the record...).

We should not be surprised, then, if this weekend sees both the Los Angeles and New York groups throwing their weight behind «The Social Network» — already cast, despite the patronage of a beleaguered middlebrow institution like the National Board of Review, as the cooler, more credible alternative to «The King's Speech» — in a concerted effort to keep the ball in its court.

New - age web - based social learning tools such as Wikis, Blogs, Podcasts, Videocasts and Media sharing sites such as YouTube, social networking sites like Facebook or LinkedIN, content aggregation and organization, such as RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds and tagging tools as well as social messaging sites like Twitter, can create collaborative knowledge with the concerted efforts of all learners.

The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations, leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and civic leaders, etc. — in other words, what conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (in this case, between government and individual schools).

Leading foundations, school networks, and nonprofits are putting it front and center in their efforts, and innovation - minded officials in states like Rhode Island are actively promoting it as a strategy for improving student success.

Both were well liked, effective in bipartisan efforts, and extraordinarily well wired into national networks of influence.

«The good news, however, is that, spurred in large part by President Obama's Race to the Top federal education grant contest and supported by a burgeoning network of reformers, more efforts like Pittsburgh's are now underway.»

Action Point: Make an effort to go to networking events, writing groups and conventions where you can meet people physically and build a network of like - minded supportive people.

The mission of HEART is to facilitate the rescue of companion pets scheduled for euthanasia in municipal shelters and to ensure their safety through the coordinated efforts of a network of like - minded rescue organizations.

March 2015 GoNOMAD continues our business partnership, the 360 Travel Network, an association of three sites and seven travel blogs, running content marketing campaigns for major brands like Trivago.com, Allianz Travel Insurance and Enterprise Rent - a-car, providing a full range of branding using display advertising, as well as content marketing, and a large - scale social media promotional effort.

In many ways, Titanfall seems like a template for something greater in the future but when we compare it to the other FPS» this year, when we look at the network stability, the balance and depth of gameplay and all the efforts of the late for the devs to introduce modes free of charge, Titanfall just stands head and shoulders above the rest.

The bulk of communication (and $ to support communication efforts) about climate change has occurred within and between the IPCC members and some policy makers, fewer media folks like yourself are in that network.

The news side of The Times has nine sports blogs; nine spanning fashion, lifestyles, health, dining and the like; four business blogs; four technology blogs (five if you include automobiles as a technology); and a potpourri of other great efforts, with four of my favorites being the Learning Network blog, Scientist at Work, the IHT Rendezvous blog on global news and Lens, run by the paper's photo staff.

Well specific species like tuna have nearly gained the status of charismatic megafauna, and efforts to protect thier stocks are worthy in concept, the truth is that the entire ocean is becoming depleted, and who knows how close to the networks unravelling we might be?

So existing organizations like the Evangelical Environmental Network, or Creation Justice Ministries, make sensible targets for such an effort.

At our best, we work like a tide that helps gather the climate movement around it, to enable it all to feel like one big wave rising, which is why in 2017 we continued to incubate numerous other efforts, create fellowships, grow a network of hundreds of affiliates, and build strategic capacity in key countries.

The effort can start with a bare bones network in the most vulnerable sites like the Pacific Northwest of the U.S., the sub-Arctic, and the coral triangle.

Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, attributes this decline to five factors: The economic collapse, a severe decrease in media coverage, weather events like «Snowmaggedon,» the efforts of the «denial industry» (the network of industry - funded think tanks and political advocacy groups that push skeptic views), and the «ClimateGate» debacle.

In an effort to counter this potential mass die - off, countries like Palau have started establishing the national networks of marine protected areas (MPAs) to protect their reefs from excessive predation and bleaching.

It makes little sense to engage tactics like blogs and social networking without a strategy to measure the end result of those efforts.

These efforts are small, but like the number of participants now engaged in our legal / library professional network, the potential for growth and impact is high.

In short, TwitClicks helps users to better determine who to focus their efforts on in their online strategy, whether it's determining who to network with, knowing how to refine their tweets for maximum effect, and the like.

Sometimes networking seems like very little return for the amount of time and effort.

There are several efforts to build a more decentralized internet — from attempts to build peer - to - peer wireless networks like Commotion or Open...

Recently the company has plowed resources into software, focusing on efforts — like its bid to build out a uniform, open networking protocol — to boost the nascent smart home industry and ensure that more devices connect to Nest products.

As an oversimplification of the current debate: Some would like to see an increase in block size which would enable more on - chain transactions per second; others would like to see the block size limit remain low in an effort to limit the cost of operating a full node while moving some types of payments above the base Bitcoin protocol to secondary layers such as the Lightning Network and sidechains.

Like Ethereum and even bitcoin network, it requires a cumulative effort from a larger community of developers to learn and trial efficient solutions and valid fixes.

Spotify first started its video efforts in 2015 by licensing video clips from existing networks like Comedy Central and ESPN along with some original video content, as pointed out by The Verge.

As your networking efforts progress, you'll learn that there are some great best practices like collecting contact information and sending follow up emails.

We're told that career success is built on professional networking which is fine unless you're someone that considers the time and effort networking takes to be about as enjoyable as going to the dentist or having dinner with relatives you really don't like.

«Partnering with Wepow highlights our continued effort to build a network of like - minded technology providers, focused on improving the way companies recruit, attract and retain talent.»

How much growth do you expect to achieve through your traditional, existing efforts, like trade shows and industry networking efforts?