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Levy Rivers

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

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& barnes crowd expertise howto noble of project wisdom

shared by Levy Rivers on 14 Sep 08 - Cached
  • 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 & 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 & 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.
  • Levy Rivers on 14 Sep 08
     
    Division of B & N is trying to move into active space
melvinahebert

Barclays To Host Blockchains Hackathon To Assist Contracts Processing In Derivatives Ma... - 0 views

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Barclays To Host Blockchains Hackathon Assist Contracts Processing In Derivatives Market TechQY

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  • melvinahebert on 24 Jul 23
     
    Barclays, the U.K. banking behemoth, is challenging Barclays To Host Blockchains Hackathon developers to assist refurbish the worldwide derivatives market next month at a hackathon. Disclosed to the media this week, DerivHack will take place at Barclays' Rise accelerator spaces at the same time in New York and London on September 20 and 21, 2018. The ISDA (International Swaps and Derivatives Association), Thomson Reuters, and Deloitte are co-sponsoring the hackathon.
funeral director

Faster Search of Funeral Director in Glasgow Online - 1 views

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Levy Rivers

Twitter and Yammer Test Dot-Com Business Models - 0 views

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twitter yammer business monitor

shared by Levy Rivers on 21 Oct 08 - Cached
  • The two poles of the debate are apparent in the world of microblogging, where people use the Web or their cellphones to blast short updates on their activities to a group of virtual followers. Twitter, a start-up company in San Francisco that has become a household name, is the leading microblogging outfit. At least three million people have tried its free service, according to TwitDir, a directory service. But Twitter has absolutely no revenue — not even ads.
  • Twitter has drawn much attention in the tech world since the service began in 2006. When a user is logged in through the Web or a cellphone, it asks one simple question, “What are you doing?” Users answer in 140 characters or less. While some of these “tweets” have the profundity of haiku, most are mundane, like “Sure is pretty out tonight” or “My eyes itch. I am very aggravated.”
  • Yammer tweaks the question, asking, “What are you working on?” The goal, said its chief executive, David Sacks, is to make offices more productive. People on Yammer update colleagues on company events or ask work-related questions without clogging e-mail boxes with mass mailings.
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  • Early next year, Twitter plans to introduce several ways to bring in revenue. One idea is to charge companies that want to use Twitter as an official channel to talk with their customers and monitor what they are saying.
Levy Rivers

Design for Frugal Growth - 0 views

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leadership marketing strategy

shared by Levy Rivers on 15 Oct 08 - Cached
  • The control of costs had been its greatest strength. But it was now the greatest weakness. The company had spent so many years trying to reduce expenses that this imperative was hardwired into its practices, processes, and organizational design. When executives tried to shift gears, to expand into new markets and introduce new products, those old ways of doing business also had to change.
  • Meanwhile, consumers were growing increasingly sophisticated. They wanted more information about Amberville’s products. So did institutional customers, such as schools and restaurant chains. Some Amberville marketers saw the opportunity to build Web sites and use other online channels to connect directly with consumers. But these efforts faltered amid the sheer complexity of multiple product categories. And their failure led many people in the company to conclude that even the business units that were closest to Amberville customers had lost their market focus and speed.
Levy Rivers

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

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weed cook republic

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  • 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
      Levy Rivers on 05 Jan 15
       
      The key element is to push the mj to the point of just before burning.
Levy Rivers

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

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backlist quamut

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  • 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

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

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critique ibm piphanies

shared by Levy Rivers on 23 Apr 08 - Cached
  • 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
      Levy Rivers on 23 Apr 08
       
      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.
funeral director

Reliable and Trusted Lists of Funeral Directors - 1 views

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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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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Levy Rivers

Silverpop Takes Email Marketing Social - 0 views

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email networking silverpop social

shared by Levy Rivers on 04 Oct 08 - Cached
  • Silverpop's new Share-to-Social feature allows marketers to quickly turn emails into socially-enabled viral messages. With a click, marketers can place links within an email allowing recipients to easily post the message to their profile page on Facebook or MySpace, where friends can see the message, make comments and even post the email on their own profile pages.
  • One of our emails was posted on 50 different social network profile pages. That kind of customer endorsement turns our email 'push' marketing into a powerful 'pull' campaign."
  • And Silverpop's enhanced reporting capabilities enable marketers to identify which of their email messages have gone viral, allowing them to track message activity at a granular level and target future messages based on that information.
Levy Rivers

Editorial - The Gas Tax - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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obama economy

shared by Levy Rivers on 28 Dec 08 - Cached
  • They bought them because they wanted big cars — and because gas was cheap. If gas stays cheap, Americans would be less inclined to squeeze their families into a lithe fuel-efficient alternative.
    • Levy Rivers
      Levy Rivers on 28 Dec 08
       
      Because tax policy favored - SUV use
  • The recent infatuation with the Toyota Prius and other fuel-efficient cars could well come to a similar end. It took a gallon of gas at $4.10 to push the share of light trucks down to 45 percent in July. But as gasoline plummeted back to $1.60 a gallon, their share inched back up to 49 percent of auto sales in November.
Levy Rivers

Scavenger Hunt Ideas - 0 views

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scavenger methods reference

shared by Levy Rivers on 20 Sep 08 - Cached
  • 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.
Emily Winter

Affordable and Durable Retaining Wall - 1 views

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My Amazing Pergola - 1 views

I have always wanted to enhance the look of my dull backyard, but I have not decided yet how to do it until my sister visited me and told me about the beautiful pergolas in Adelaide built by Creati...

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Emily Winter

Well-built And Stunning Retaining Walls - 1 views

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Levy Rivers

Social Networking Demystified - What is it, and how does it work? | Vision Advertising - 0 views

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demystified socialnetworking marketing

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  • Let’s define social networking for those not familiar with it. “Social networking” is a technology-based means of communication utilizing the power and variety of the Internet to provide an infinite variety of tools and offerings
  • People can leverage these sites to create a sense of presence that even traditional marketing experts can appreciate: brand awareness, lead generation, information sharing and so on. And the real keys to success are the same as in traditional marketing: frequency, relevancy and cross-marketing, to name a few.
  • Critics claim that social networking is merely a gimmick. In reality, while it is true that social networking alone will not likely produce substantial leads in the absence of other critical methodologies, it IS true that combined with other methods, and when used regularly, social networking can, and has, produced excellent results.
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  • there is relatively NO barrier to entry
Levy Rivers

Dr. Tian Dayton: Developing Emotional Literacy: Learning to Talk Out Rather Than Act Ou... - 0 views

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conversation happiness

shared by Levy Rivers on 22 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Learning to talk out rather than act out our emotions is what separates human beings from the animal kingdom. It is a gift of the prefrontal cortex, that thinking part of our brain that was added, late in our evolution, to our "animal" or "reptilian" brain. The cortex allows us to think, hope and dream....to feel our most primitive feelings and translate them into words, music, poetry or plays. It's part of our power of reasoning.
Levy Rivers

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

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crowdsourcing

shared by Levy Rivers on 22 Apr 08 - Cached
  • 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&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&D staff this way. This is a stunning development in the way executives consider approaching R&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).
funeral director

Professional UK Funeral Directors For You - 1 views

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