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Levy Rivers

Scavenger Hunt Ideas - 0 views

  • A Picture Hunt Instead of looking for objects, you can have teams take pictures. Give one member of each group a camera (if you are hosting a party for kids, have one adult in each group carry a camera). Then send them out to find certain landmarks in the neighborhood. Have them take pictures of each item on the list.
  • Hunting for Information Rather than having teams look for objects, you can ask them to collect information. Teams can find dates on certain buildings, count the number of houses on a certain block, gather facts from historic landmarks, etc. To do this, map out a route that the teams will take. This is an inexpensive way for teams to collect information, learn and have fun at the same time.
  • Hunting for Sound Rather than looking for objects, have teams carry a tape recorder. Give them a list of different sounds to listen to. When they find the sound, they record it. Certain sounds might include the ringing of a bell, the ticking of a clock, a radio station jingle, etc. Set a certain time frame and see how many sounds teams can find in the allotted time.
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Best Demat Account For Small Investors | TechQY - 0 views

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    Full-service brokers with extensive technical proficiency and support, such as Kotak Securities, is highly recommended for beginners. This is because of their expertise and years of guidance in the field of trading that can provide you with immense knowledge and customer service in your trading journey. Let us look into the parameters and factors to help you decide the best Demat account for your investment.
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Professional UK Funeral Directors For You - 1 views

My friend's brother recently passed away and she wanted to give a good funeral for the beloved deceased. We thought of asking for professional help regarding this matter. We were able to find Funer...

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Levy Rivers

Digital Health Trends in 2015 - 0 views

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      The secondary medical devices < 8 bil investment > 64% increase in video visits Lifestyle device - hub for living Reimburse for chronic out of office support algorithmic secondary decisions convergence opportunities  clinical devices more and cheaper and connected 120 mil devices by 2018 70 % believe fitness should be a work concern risk management strategies 65% will want instant service option virtual visits weight remotely monitored and sent but the dr better customer relations will be improved through 4 bill is equal to the past three years - investment value based care - incentivised to produce 43 billion towards valued based care seamlessly integrated into lifestyle - partnerships trials using tactics of home connections  
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    The predictions for a positive year of growth and why those ideas make sense.
Levy Rivers

What's the Message for Marketing in Facebook's IPO Slide? | CMO Strategy - Advertising Age - 0 views

  • Facebook's sole function is engagement. It connects people with one another. Its $3 billion in revenue and $1 billion profit come from advertisers who believe that there must be ways for brands to profit from that engagement. They don't know how to do it yet. The two hypotheses they're testing are putting ads around it, and trying to actually host some of it via branded pages interspersed with people pages. There's no evidence that either yields much beyond nice-to-have benefit, and some experimenters (most recently GM) have given up trying, for now. Again, since Facebook makes money either way, I'd take a small piece of such failure and consider my life's work a success. But the bet on the inherent value of engagement is still a bet, and at $38 a share times however many zillions of shares got floated on the market, it's a huge one.
Nicole Smith

An Exciting Time for My Wife and I - 3 views

My wife and I were really excited buying our first home. However, with so many loan products in the market today, choosing the most suitable one for our requirement is quite a challenge. Thanks to ...

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Levy Rivers

Users Demand Expertise at How-To Web Sites - New York Times - 0 views

  • Quamut is the latest brand to capitalize on what company executives said is a growing disinclination among Web users for amateur how-to advice. Whether that distaste can support a departure from Barnes &amp; Noble’s core business is a question investors will be considering.
  • Quamut differentiates itself from the long list of how-to sites like eHow, HowStuffWorks.com and, to a lesser degree, About.com (which is owned by The New York Times Company), with a somewhat novel twist: selling downloadable documents of its otherwise free conten
  • This is far from the first online publishing initiative for Barnes &amp; Noble, Mr. Weiss said. Among other efforts, the company in 2001 bought SparkNotes, an online study guide series, and helped oversee the expansion of that business into a wide range of topics. It also began printing and selling the guides in its stores
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  • Quamut pays a team of freelance writers to create those, which are vetted by the company’s editors. Those writers, Mr. Weiss said, are the other important difference between Quamut and sites that rely on self-proclaimed experts or site visitors for content. “We actually don’t believe in the wisdom of the crowd,” he said. “This is the old-fashioned publishing model.”
  • That model has established About.com as one of the most popular sites on the Web, and helped prop up the Times Company’s revenue. About, which offers a combination of how-to content and less pedagogical information involving urban legends or political humor, pays 721 freelancers to cover some 70,000 topics. Roughly 41 million people visited the site last month, according to comScore Networks, an increase of about 3 million from December.
  • Mr. Sinha, of the JMP Group, said the most successful how-to sites are likely to include expert advice, as well as advice from other readers and a format that allows questions and answers.
  • That is closer to the approach taken by Demand Media’s eHow, which is among the oldest of how-to sites. Investors poured about $30 million into the site during the online boom, only to see the business falter when advertising revenue dried up. After Demand bought eHow two years ago, it continued to build the site’s content with professionally written articles, but also allowed users to chime in with their own advice.
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    Division of B & N is trying to move into active space
Levy Rivers

Marketing Executives Networking Group Research Shows Companies Effectively Using Crowds... - 0 views

  • Crowdsourcing is a concept that encourages organizations to access ideas and expertise from an untapped knowledge base that often includes customers. The survey was conducted among MENG members in December of 2007 in order to gauge the opinions and experiences of its members regarding this topic. The majority of the members who responded to the survey were Chief Marketing Officers and VPs of Marketing.
  • Of particular interest is the way that these marketing executives view the effectiveness of crowdsourcing relative to internal R&amp;D staffs for new product and service development. Sixty-two percent of executives surveyed rated crowdsourcing and consumer collaboration as an effective or highly effective approach to new product and service development, while only 11 percent more rated an internal R&amp;D staff this way. This is a stunning development in the way executives consider approaching R&amp;D. Additionally, 63 percent rated employee ideas and contributions as effective or highly effective, while 60 percent did the same for sourcing ideas from functional experts accessible from business and knowledge networks. Rated lowest was the use of traditional consulting and professional services firms (54 percent).
Justin Rogers

Great Fun For My Sons - 1 views

My teenage sons love to stay home these days due to the home theatre that was installed by Vision Living last week. Instead of going out with friends and watch their favourite movies, they are invi...

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Emily Winter

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Levy Rivers

NPR boosts online offerings, seeks larger audience - 0 views

  • NPR also plans to overhaul its Web site and expand the tools for sharing its programs elsewhere over the next few months. And it is working to increase the flexibility of its popular "podcasts," audio downloads that have tripled in usage over the past two years.These digital initiatives are aimed at capturing and retaining audiences _ particularly younger people who aren't habitual radio listeners but who represent the future for fundraising at NPR's member stations.
Levy Rivers

B&N's Quamut Lures Publishers, Takes on About.com - 4/7/2008 - Publishers Weekly - 0 views

  • ut, Weiss said, “We’re hoping to catch up and replace [About] in as many categories as we can.” He also said Quamut offers publishers opportunities to revive backlist titles through licensing deals. The company has purchased content from Globe Pequot on fly fishing and from TFH Publications on pet care.
  • About, said its writers are “journalists and professionals.” The company trusts its writers to post content before it is reviewed by About’s editorial staff. Health information is the exception; a medical review board examines content before it is published. But everything else is created on a “publish-first model,” said Daecher, with writers “fact-checking themselves.”
  • Christopher Reggio, book publisher at TFH, said Quamut initiated the licensing deal. TFH created some content exclusively for Quamut, while other material came from its existing titles. It has already supplied Quamut with 50 articles and is in the process of providing 50 more. Now that the site has officially launched, Reggio is hoping that links to other TFH books for sale at BN.com will result in book sales. Weiss expects Quamut to drive traffic to BN.com and to boost book sales.
Levy Rivers

joannejacobs.net: We-Think: Leadbeater's presentation - 0 views

  • And for more commercial sites and social networking platforms, delivery of professional content, editing of user generated content and responding to the needs of the users generally involves the employment of staff for those roles. Further, the ongoing bug fixing and continuing development of functional components that improve the accessibility and accuracy of information presented is an ongoing cost - and a large one.
    • Levy Rivers
       
      There is also the cost of verification - not from of the users uploading or composing the information onto the site. Not everyone as all that they post on the top of their mind.
Levy Rivers

E-piphanies - Enterprise 2.0 - Is IBM The Charlie Brown of Web 2.0? - 0 views

  • As usual, IBM is absolutely right in its observations, but eons late to the dance in Internet 2.0 terms. At this point, IBM is telling us that the earth orbits the sun, and not the other way around. And IBM will never catch up. I've said this before. All IBM will ever do is bolt collaboration tools onto their preexisting application suites--a clunky approach for which absolutely no one will have patience. What surprises me about Swisher and Perez is that they seem to buy into the idea that enterprise users will wait for the grumpy IT departments. Swisher writes: Still security and scaling issues remain paramount and startups that have pioneered these apps in the consumer space might lose business to big copycats like IBM and Microsoft. Puleease! Big copycats like IBM and Microsoft have been pouring out the same old blather about security and scaling while line-of-business chiefs are turning to their young hires and saying, "hey, how much is of those open source wiki things going to run me, and how fast can we set it up?"
    • Levy Rivers
       
      The truth of the matter is that IBM and MS never need to lead the way. They have large customer bases that will never let that happen. What they can and should do to have investments in smaller more agile firms that can move faster.
Levy Rivers

The Blurring Boundary between Consumer and Corporate Technologies | dub - 0 views

  • This blurring of business and consumer focused applications is called “consumerization” by technology research firms such as Gartner and executives at companies such as Microsoft. Consumerization posits that consumer technologies — including social networking tools, user generated content and wikis (web-based software that allows people to create content collaboratively) — are being increasingly adopted by corporate America
  • Experts at Wharton agree that consumer technology has been going corporate in recent years. Underlying this emerging trend are young and tech-savvy workers — called “digital natives”
  • conundrum to the traditional corporate technology department. Previously, companies dictated what software and hardware were used for work purposes. Today, choosing technology is becoming increasingly democratic as workers get more of a say
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  • “We have observed a convergence of technologies between these two segments [consumer and corporate] because the user needs have been converging,” says Christian Terwiesch, a professor of operations and information management at Wharton. For instance, workers are demanding that corporate technology — say a search tool within a company — be as user friendly as Google’s popular search site.
  • Spurring this convergence of corporate and consumer technology is the fact that the line between personal lives and work has blurred.
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When my father died, my mom and I were so depressed. We were so broken hearted that we cannot think clearly what to do or how to arrange a decent funeral for my father. So my aunt told me to get a...

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Levy Rivers

Do You Decarboxylate Your Weed Before You Cook With It? It Is Highly Recommended | Food... - 0 views

  • Gray explains the science thusly: "Raw cannabis contains a lot of THCA, which is nonreactive. When you smoke cannabis, it heats up to a certain temperature and loses a CO2 molecule and becomes THC, which has the psychoactive benefits that many users are looking for." Simply simmering cannabis in butter, or oil, isn't always enough to fully convert all of the THCA into THC, he continues. And so, the result is less than optimal: "You're going to make a very dull cannabutter," he says. The best method, Gray says, involves some added prep work. "So, instead of just, say, sticking your cannabis in butter or sticking it in oil, you should first grind it onto a baking sheet, stick it in your oven at 310-degrees Fahrenheit for about 10 to 18 minutes. That allows it to become psychoactive and it's ready to cook with."
    • Levy Rivers
       
      The key element is to push the mj to the point of just before burning.
Levy Rivers

The link between diabetes and heart disease | health enews - 0 views

    • Levy Rivers
       
      What are the exact metrics that describe - waist circumference, and the other items for tracking
  • So called metabolic syndrome – a combination of increased waist circumference, glucose intolerance, hypertension, low HDL and elevated triglycerides – is a common link between the development of both diabetes and heart disease. Thus, risk factors for heart disease must be evaluated in patients with diabetes.
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High Quality Retaining Walls - 1 views

I was planning to have my own retaining walls, but I have not found the best company that can readily make one for me. Good thing that I visited my friend's place and saw his well-built retaining w...

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