Sentences with phrase «networks built around»

What has changed, however, is that people now spend significant portions of their time on and within social networks built around their interests and relationships.

This device — a sort of bull ride for buildings — is one in a network built around the United States to advance natural disaster science with more realistic and sophisticated tests.

Affluence is a network built around introducing you to like - minded individuals all around the world.

Soundcloud is a social network built around sharing audio files.

The service started out as a quasi-private social network built around a user's phone contacts.

Not exact matches

Sitting around a long conference table, the players intently watched a presentation teaching them important lessons for their future — networking, resumé - building, formulating an elevator pitch.

Build a support network around you, celebrate progress toward the goals and continue to stretch and expand your thinking.

China, the world's second biggest economy, is looking to build what some policy experts call a «string of pearls» — a network of defense and commercial facilities — around the massive area.

«But over time we have turned that around, and we've built up a constructive relationship with groups like the Maquila Solidarity Network.»

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is buying a set of online advertising tools called Atlas from Microsoft in its latest attempt to build a more effective marketing system around its social network.

Facebook isn't just a social networking site, it is a way of staying on touch with people around the world, a place to bring people together and build communities, and a tool for sharing information.

The company eventually pivoted away from hardware, changed its name to Earn, and built a social network around cryptocurrency.

The GSEA competition provided Littlehale with a forum to meet and network with other entrepreneurs from around the world, and it also helped him build his confidence as an entrepreneur.

Being closely surrounded with mentors has changed how I approach all sorts of situations: what to say to the top executives to guarantee a meeting, how to build a strong network and use it regularly to strategically grow the company, how to start every day by visualizing and rehearsing events, how to constantly push everyone around me to their full potential, how to maintain confidence and cope with tremendous uncertainty and bad news, and on and on.

CI's subscription - based service, Lourakis says, is built around cellular transponders that relay GPS signals from a client firm's vehicles or parcels to CI's network software.

According to eMarketer, only 29 % of Indonesians have access to the internet and connection speeds are slow, largely thanks to challenging geography and a thinly spread population of around 255 million people, which makes it expensive to build a network using underwater cables.

One major concern in government circles seems to revolve around building a degree of centralization into official blockchain networks, which arguably tend toward decentralization as a result of their architecture.

The event brought together a diverse field of young thought leaders, ages 21 to 32, representing more than 20 countries from around the world, all with a common goal of building their brand, networking with peers and talking entrepreneurship.

We'll begin at 16.30 on Monday, 12 June, with business sessions followed by a gala dinner and entertainment, and conclude the next afternoon after a day packed with networking, breakout discussions, and engaging content built around interviews and conversations — no long speeches.

Redstone's truculence is reminiscent of her father Sumner, who built his media empire around Viacom cable networks MTV and Nickelodeon, later adding CBS and Paramount film studios.

Whether you're building a protocol on top of which others will build, or a dapp with which others will interface, there's no way around trying to build strong networks and partnerships.

Ripple's solution is built around the open and neutral Interledger Protocol and serves to power interoperable payments across different ledgers and networks.

Join our network of 100 + business leaders who share a passion around building San Antonio's startup ecosystem.

The agenda is packed with networking, breakout discussions, and engaging content built around interviews and conversations — no long speeches.

Hence, the gateway economy is about fostering secondary industries, attracting head office activity, building commercial clusters around the gateway, and creating an environment which captures the experience, skills and networks of the people coming through our ports, rather than simply facilitating their passage to other destinations.

Perhaps it was indeed a fear response, fear of losing your god and all the attendant social networks you have surely built around it?

That includes managing investments across the country based around the Church of England's network of parishes, schools, buildings, chaplaincies and dioceses.

The duo have reportedly envisioned an online network that would be built around faith - based programming, like The Bible miniseries and A.D..

So building belief networks around that (read: theology) is going to be weird — not because they are projections of mind, but because their is not god that they can experience or test.

The company imported around eight million bottles of wine last year, and has built a network of 400 wine shops across China.

• Networking — Build relationships with top organic produce innovators and experts from around the world.

We are a growing network of people working together to rebalance the planet by building strong forests and healthy communities around the world.

With average 30 % annual growth rate, VATS Liquor has built a multi channel distribution network serving consumers across the country including more than 500 chain stores, and 200 trial outlets in 28 provinces, cities and autonomous regions, with annual revenue around 2.1 billion RMB and a network of stores serving consumers all across the country.

The Science Teaching Network focuses on teacher professional development through a summer institute built around best practices in science instruction, including NGSS and local nature and science topics.

The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum's Science Teaching Network (STN) is a grant - funded program focusing on teacher professional development built around best practices in science instruction, including the Next Generation Science Standards and local nature and science topics.

The Lunch Box also shares best practices from around the United States — building a network of school food changemakers.

Today many political operatives create blogger networks to help build conversation and debate around a political party, issue area, or ideology.

Unlike general social networking sites, which create a common river of profiles in which everyone swims (think our individual networks of social connections as groups of rafters floating on the current), Ning has built a platform on which anyone can build a defined online community of people interacting around any issue or interest.

Democrats aligned with the NY Progressive Action Network, the new statewide organization built from Bernie Sanders activist groups around the state, will have its first interview with Gipson on August 7, said its treasurer - director Arthur Schwartz.

With this site, New York State is also pioneering the use of big data and social networking technologies to create transparency around building energy efficiency, drive innovation, and accelerate projects.

The expo is aimed at providing beyond price educational experience and an opportunity to network with primary minds in the field, as well as an international community of around 3000 building and construction professionals from every subspecialty.

In a recent survey of around 5,000 small businesses, the Federation of Small Businesses found that two out of five small firms thought a Post Bank built on the Post Office Network was a good idea and they would consider banking with it.

Building on his administration's valuable 311 program, he promised to make government more accessible by translating city websites into six languages, distributing more information via Twitter (follow @ 311nyc) and social networking sites, enabling users to fine - tune their usage of NYC.gov around their personal information needs, and creating a free iPhone application allowing people to submit quality - of - life complaints to 311 directly from their phone.

We effectively established NDRC as the leading redistricting organization, created a strong financial foundation, launched initial programmatic activity in key strategy areas, and began building a strong grassroots network around the country.

He says the roads also give insights into the history of a place: «You can see an incredible range, from the highly regular roads around Kansas City, for instance, to the haphazard, like immediately outside the Bay Area on the West Coast,» which reflects how the network was built up over time.

He abandoned plans to become an oncologist, skipped medical residency, and enrolled in business school instead — building a powerhouse network of hundreds of physicians, researchers, and drug company employees around the world to help him decipher Castleman.

Instead of building a supercomputer, the scientists built a virtual network called «stay@home» that uses the idle computing power of internet - connected desktops around the world.

Given this apparent failure of the status quo, Williams suggests a re-branding of graduation as a «life in recovery transition day,» built around a commitment to a long term recovery plan, and reinforced by the recovering person's support network.

«What we found is that we could reliably get around 80 percent of our electricity from these sources by building either a continental - scale transmission network or facilities that could store 12 hours» worth of the nation's electricity demand.»

The grant will help students link with global rice researchers and contribute to building a network among young scientists from around the world who can contribute to society through rice research.