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New Health Law's Workplace Breast-Pumping Rule Praised
By Jennifer Ludden
Women's rights groups are torn over the new health law that President Obama signed.
They don't like the restrictions on funding for abortion, for example. Or the fact that some insurance policies will still be able to charge women more. But there's a little-known provision that's getting rave reviews: new mothers will have the right to pump breast milk at work.
Companies with 50 or more employees must provide a private location — not a bathroom — where mothers can take unpaid breaks as needed. It applies for the first year after a child is born.
Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) has been pushing for this for years. She says it "recognizes that most mothers simply must go back to work during a child's first year." Another supporter, Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) has touted it as a way to cut health costs, since studies show breast-fed babies have lower rates of some common illnesses.
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Despite failing to qualify for the Champions League, Manchester United continues to be the world's most valuable football brand, according to Brand Finance's annual Football 50 report.
20th Century Fox has teamed with the British football team Manchester United to help promote its upcoming films during the team's home games.
Sports e-retailer Fanatics has acquired Kitbag, a U.K.-based sports e-commerce company and wholly owned subsidiary of Findel for an undisclosed amount.
Manchester United and Columbia Sportswear have paired for a dual-branded line of outwear gear.
Manchester United's dedicated channel, MUTV, will now be available to fans in China for the first time in a new deal with digital media platform Sina Sports.
European sports brands such as FIFA, the Tour de France and Manchester United are taking a focused yet wide reaching approach to licensing strategies.
Manchester United has appointed South Korean footwear brand Sbenu as the club's official casual footwear partner in the country.
Manchester United has announced a new, global partnership with the IT services company HCL Technologies to develop a range of digital initiatives for fans.
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What advice do you have for recent graduates?
Asked at Hy-Vee, 4000 W. Sixth St. on May 22, 2010
"Just be patient."
"In a difficult job market, sometimes it's useful to stay in school a little bit longer and get a graduate degree, master's or Ph.D."
"When they're job hunting, dress professionally, be optimistic and work hard."
"To go on to school."
RoeDapple 6 years, 2 months ago
Your free ride is over, now it's time to start paying for it.
RoeDapple 6 years, 2 months ago
Did Yogi Berra say that?
yankeevet 6 years, 2 months ago
Hopefully you will find a decent paying job; which seem too be few and far between. My first job i was making 8 bucks an hour with my college degree. The guy next to me was a supervisor making 16 bucks an hour and only had a high school education. Then i found out he was the bosses' son....................
looza 6 years, 2 months ago
"welcome to McDonalds .... May I help you?"
Flap Doodle 6 years, 2 months ago
What the bcman said.
independant1 6 years, 2 months ago
Do something usefull with your life,
get me a beer
Bill Lee 6 years, 2 months ago
Duck and cover!
nobody1793 6 years, 2 months ago
Maddy Griffin 6 years, 2 months ago
Be sure to thank the parents! And stay away from the credit card offers.
Yoda51 6 years, 2 months ago
You can fold your diploma up and put it in a drawer. There are no guarantees of success. Knowledge is power. Gain some practical knowledge of how the world really works. If you're young and unencumbered, go out and experience life. Take some chances, travel light and keep an open mind. While education in and of itself is a good thing, a college degree is like having size 12 feet ~ it all depends on what you do with it.
Sigmund 6 years, 2 months ago
Wear sunscreen! If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xavFb4...
Bill Lee 6 years, 2 months ago
And floss regularly.
Flap Doodle 6 years, 2 months ago
Stick to calibers that begin with "4" for concealed carry handguns.
Richard Heckler 6 years, 2 months ago
Myths of the Deficit
By Marty Wolfson
Nearly 15 million people are officially counted as unemployed in the United States, and more than 6 million of these have been unemployed for more than 26 weeks. Another 11 million are the "hidden" unemployed: jobless workers who have given up looking for work and part-time workers who want full-time jobs.
The moral case for urgently addressing the unemployment issue is clear. The costs of unemployment, especially prolonged unemployment, are devastating. Self-worth is questioned, homes are lost, families stressed, communities disrupted. Across the land, the number one issue is jobs, jobs, jobs.
The economic case for how to address the jobs issue is also clear. As Keynes argued during the Great Depression, federal government spending can directly create jobs. And the $787 billion stimulus package approved by Congress in February 2009 did help pull the economy back from disaster, when it was shedding 20,000 jobs a day in late 2008 and early 2009.
But we still have a long way to go. To get back just to where we were when the recession began in December 2007, the economy would need to create 11.1 million jobs: 8.4 million to replace the jobs lost and 2.7 million to absorb new workers who have entered the labor market since then.
Despite a pickup of economic activity recently, long-term projections are that the unemployment rate will fall only gradually over the next several years. The Congressional Budget Office forecast for the unemployment rate for 2012 is a stubbornly high 8%. So why are we not moving more aggressively to reduce unemployment?
The ideological opposition to government spending remains a major obstacle. There are those who see an increase in the role of government as something to be avoided at all costs—even if the cost is the jobs of the unemployed.
Even among those who are not subject to such ideological blinders, there is still a political argument that resonates strongly. The argument is that government spending to create jobs will create large budget deficits, which will have terrible consequences for the American people. Politicians, pundits, and other commentators—in a frenzied drumbeat of speeches, op-eds, and articles—have asserted that the most urgent priority now is to reduce the budget deficit.
It is important to note that this argument is focused on current policy, not just the long-term budgetary situation. There is room for debate about long-term budget deficits, but these are affected more by the explosive growth of health-care costs than by government discretionary spending to create jobs. Why, then, are people taken in by an argument that says it is more important to reduce the budget deficit now than for the government to spend money to create jobs?
Two myths constantly repeated in the public debate have contributed to this situation: http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2010/0510wolfson.html
Richard Heckler 6 years, 2 months ago
Bush/Cheney fraudulent scheme did away with 11 million jobs.... brilliant. Therefore it is the job of big government to create 11 million NEW jobs because big government negligence lost 11 million jobs.
Isn't it odd that the USA is the only country that has sent its' wealth creating ability abroad aka 15 million jobs both blue and white collar? AKA the Global Economy
The war is killing the economy. There is no need for the USA to be occupying countries because no county attacked the USA.
Suggestions: 1.Grads please demand that the government create 11 million jobs otherwise you will be heading to the Social Services depot for medicare and food stamps. It's not your fault.
Either go for higher degrees and/or learn a trade at Johnson County Community College.
Drop out and open a brewery like Chuck did.
Think about this. Most college grads I know are doing nothing connected to their college majors. However staying on campus is a healthy lifestyle.... be a career student.
Meanwhile: 'it will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the air force has to hold a cake stall to buy a bomber'
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it.
We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.
Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower
John Hamm 6 years, 2 months ago
Stay in school
kernal 6 years, 2 months ago
Here's a list of what will Not get you to the first interview: flip flops birkenstocks shorts or cut-offs tank top wrinkled Hawaiian shirt that's been wadded up in the bottom of your laundry basket 2 weeks ditto for the pants no shower in the past 24 hrs smacking gum noticible hangover Don't try to out dress the corporate CEO and CFO
Deja Coffin 6 years, 2 months ago
Nobody ever regrets going to college and getting a degree but so many regret not going to school. Do it now while you're young enough to enjoy all aspects of college life because it'll be ten times harder to go back to school when you're working full-time to provide for a family.
labmonkey 6 years, 2 months ago
It is a good thing to struggle for a few years out of school. When you do get a good job, you appreciate it more.
Don't constantly bitch when you get a job. Many entry-level people do this, and you look like nothing more than a whiny kid.
labmonkey 6 years, 2 months ago
Just a couple personal observations and lessons learned.
Monica Miller 6 years, 2 months ago
RUN!!!! Run like the wind!!!!!!!!!!!!
RoeDapple 6 years, 2 months ago
Ah, so this is why so many poster/bloggers claim such staggeringly high IQ's. They include the internet as part of their intelligence!
I even founded me a link to proove it. I so smart!
RoeDapple 6 years, 2 months ago
Someday grasshopper, you too ...
kantubek 6 years, 2 months ago
Shout Peace
Flap Doodle 6 years, 2 months ago
- Keep your bunker ready at all times.
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Today, my husband left for a two-week trip. Last night he gave the dog a treat of steak fat and gristle. My treat? I am on bed rest with my pregnancy and helpless to stop the rancid dog farts that are silent and smell like a burning septic tank exploded. FML
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fartingdogprego's comment : Thanks for those that understand! Hubby--great guy, went on this trip to get paternity leave later. Timing just sucks with bedrest (high blood pressure, just precaution, can't drive, walk the dog, clean, cook, work, etc) and a dummy move to give the dog food he's not used to. Texas is too hot to leave him outside. My mom helps in the am before work, and his mom is helping in the pm after work. Cooler with food they are making me and the laptop are making it bearable, and friends/hubby call all the time on the cell. Can get up to use the restroom as needed. Just sucks to be in bed or on the couch with a farting dog and not able to walk him and get some fresh air.
Today, my parents met my fiancée's parents for the first time in a large family gathering two weeks before our formal wedding. Both sets of parents were telling funny stories about our pasts. My dad's story won. He told how I spent a week in jail earlier this year. FML
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Today, I met the man of my dreams. Beautiful, smart, academic, charming, a true gentlemen, totally my type. I am at a bar voted "the best gay bar in the world". FML
by V / 07/23/2010 at 3:39am / United States / Love
Today, while taking pictures by the pool, my friend wanted to use my camera. I told her to put the wrist strap on so it wouldn't fall into the pool. She dropped the camera while trying to put the strap on. FML
by Me. / 07/23/2010 at 1:58am / United States (Texas) / Geek
Today, while getting a lump in my private region examined by a very cute nurse, I got a massive erection. The smartest thing I could think to say at the time to her was: "I haven't been touched there in a very long time." FML
by Anonymous / 07/22/2010 at 8:39pm / United Kingdom (Gloucestershire) / Intimacy
Today, my father made his bellybutton talk. In front of my new boyfriend. FML
by coffee_princess / 07/22/2010 at 7:14pm / Canada (Quebec) / Love
Today, I lied to a group of 8 year olds about having a boyfriend. FML
by jennavankirk / 07/22/2010 at 7:08pm / United States / Love
Today, I put on some skimpy shorts and bent down to get something on the bottom shelf of the fridge to get my boyfriend's attention. On my way up, I slammed my head on the edge of the fridge. FML
by Nic / 07/22/2010 at 12:46pm / United States (Colorado) / Love
Today, I lifted up my blinds, only for them to detach from the wall, hit me on the head, knock a pile of paper over, spill a can of Pepsi, leave plaster all over the floor and a gaping hole in the wall above my window. FML
by Elliot / 07/22/2010 at 11:10am / United Kingdom (Lancashire) / Miscellaneous
Today, while lifeguarding, I saw someone in the wave-pool who appeared to be drowning. So, I jumped in to attempt to save him. Turns out he wasn't drowning, he only had one arm. He yelled at me. FML
by GuardOtto / 07/22/2010 at 10:48am / United States / Work
Today, my girlfriend's father sent me a text message that simply stated "You ruined my relationship with my daughter." I wanted to ask him for his blessing to marry his daughter. FML
by Anonymous / 07/22/2010 at 2:44am / United States (Ohio) / Love
Today, while having sex for our first time, my boyfriend decided to test out a theory he heard about, that conversation during sex makes it more enjoyable. His way of doing it? He looked me straight in the eye and asked "How 'bout them Brewers?" We're from Wisconsin. That's our local sports team. FML
by Anonymous / 07/22/2010 at 1:52am / United States (Wisconsin) / Intimacy
Today, my boyfriend was going down on me. After removing my underwear, he started singing "In the jungle, the mighty jungle..." FML
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Facebook buys Instagram
Facebook has put in an offer to buy Instagram, the popular photo-sharing site, for $1bn.
"I'm excited to share the news that we've agreed to acquire Instagram and that their talented team will be joining Facebook," said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, on the Facebook blog on the shock announcement on Easter Monday.
The deal, which is subject to the usual authority approvals in the US, shouldn't affect Instagram's independence, according to Zuckerberg:
"We believe these are different experiences that complement each other. But in order to do this well, we need to be mindful about keeping and building on Instagram's strengths and features rather than just trying to integrate everything into Facebook."
It is a message mirrored by the founders of Instagram, with co-founder Kevin Systrom, writing on their own blog: "The Instagram app will still be the same one you know and love. You'll still have all the same people you follow and that follow you.
"You'll still be able to share to other social networks. And you'll still have all the other features that make the app so fun and unique."
The deal will give Facebook a massive boost in the photo social stakes.
"For years, we've focused on building the best experience for sharing photos with your friends and family. Now, we'll be able to work even more closely with the Instagram team to also offer the best experiences for sharing beautiful mobile photos with people based on your interests," said Zuckerberg.
"We think the fact that Instagram is connected to other services beyond Facebook is an important part of the experience. We plan on keeping features like the ability to post to other social networks, the ability to not share your Instagrams on Facebook if you want, and the ability to have followers and follow people separately from your friends on Facebook."
The Facebook CEO was keen to lay praise on the 17-month-old company:
"We will try to learn from Instagram's experience to build similar features into our other products. At the same time, we will try to help Instagram continue to grow by using Facebook's strong engineering team and infrastructure."
With Facebook's focus on photos, Timelines, and being part of your life whatever part of "social" that is, the move by the company before IPO in June makes a lot more sense. Facebook already captures some 250 million photos a day, and with the addition of Instagram's 27 million users that number is going to grow.
What also makes sense is Zuckerberg's praise for the company. His social network paid double the market value for the photo-focused site with iPhone and Android app support. Last week, Instagram took $50m of funding, valuing the company at $500m.
The move also no doubt helps Facebook justify its expected $1bn valuation. After all, if it paid $1bn for Instagram it has got to be worth 100 times that, hasn't it?
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A well-known artist was detained by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents for more than three hours earlier this month after the agents found her sketching in her notebook near a CBP facility.
Leila Abdelrazaq, a U.S. citizen of Middle Eastern descent, was with two other U.S. citizens at a port of entry in the border town of Nogales, Arizona when the group apparently roused suspicion. According to a CBP "Situational Awareness" report that was obtained by the right-wing publication Judicial Watch, agents noticed that Abdelrazaq was "looking at the direction of vehicle primary and drawing sketches on a book."
Abdelrazaq, a graphic artist, found success earlier this year with her book Baddawi, which depicts the life of her father as a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon. In that book, Abdelrazaq incorporated motifs in black and white images, including traditional Palestinian embroidery, to provide a fuller picture of the cultural context.
Abdelrazaq and her companions told the CBP agents that they simply wanted "to see the border." But the agents were perhaps suspicious of Abdelrazaq's notebook — which a CBP report indicated contained writings in both English and Arabic.
Agents eventually took the three citizens to a "secondary" facility before releasing them more than three hours later. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and a Supervisory CBP Officer (SCBPO) later concluded that Abdelrazaq's notebook didn't contain any "derogatory information."
The end of the CBP report referenced the recent mass shooting in San Bernardino, during which two self-identified Muslims killed 14 people and wounded 22 others at a holiday party, and noted that "all personnel must be extra vigilant of their surroundings" in light of that tragedy.
The right-wing publication Judicial Watch jumped on the report, claiming that the incident was "distressing" and giving it the headline, "Team led by Middle Eastern Woman Caught Surveilling U.S. Facility on Mexican Border."
"Taking photographs of federal buildings, including a CBP facility, that are plainly visible from public spaces is a constitutional right," Christina Fialho, the Co-Executive Director of the immigrant advocacy group Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC) told ThinkProgress, though it's likely that Abdelrazaq's situation is a bit different because she was drawing what she saw in plain view. But Fialho also indicated that she has taken photos of immigration detention facilities and has "been asked to stop or intimidated in various ways."
Though the San Bernardino shooting was a serious tragedy, alarmist measures to ensure national security can hurt the civil liberties of people of Middle Eastern descent, particularly Muslim-Americans. Over the past several months, there has been an uptick of anti-Islam incidents, as Muslims have become victim to shootings, personal assaults, harassment, protests, and attacks on their houses of worship. They have also been increasingly racially profiled. Just recently, an Indian-American firearms instructor claimed that she was racially profiled at a Dick's Sporting Goods store after asking a question about ammunition. She was visited by the police two days later.
Abdelrazaq and her colleagues may be U.S. citizens — but citizenship hasn't stopped border agents from detaining or mishandling other people in the past. In August, a U.S.-born Texan doctor who travels to Mexico daily to meet with patients was detained for five days over citizenship concerns.
And even though the Fourth Amendment normally does not allow for citizens to be subjected to random search and seizures, the government exempted a 100-mile wide strip that wraps around the "external boundary" — the national border — of the United States, explaining that it was in the interest of national security to make Americans endure inspections.
One border agent grabbed a man out of his car after he refused to answer questions regarding where he was going. Another U.S. citizen was thrown to the ground by an agent, while a search of her car's trunk ultimately turned up nothing.
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|By Dana Gardner
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|May 30, 2014 08:00 AM EDT
The power of Big Data technology is being successfully applied to understanding such complex unknowns as consumer sentiment and even intent. And that understanding then vastly improves how retailers and myriad service providers manage their users' experiences -- increasingly in real time.
Fortunately, today's consumers are quite willing to share their intents and sentiments via social media, if you can gather and process the information. Hence the rapidly developing field of social customer relationship management, or Social CRM.
Part of the equation for making Social CRM effective comes from properly capturing the natural language knowledge delivered through the many social channels available to users. But even that is but a first step to being able to gain ever-deeper analysis, and rapidly and securely making those insights available where they pay off best.
And so the next BriefingsDirect thought leader discussion brings together customer analytics services provider Attensity, with its natural-language processing (NLP) technology, and HP Vertica, with big data analytics capabilities, to explain how to effectively listen to the social web and rapidly gain valuable insights and actionable intelligence.
Our guests are Howard Lau, Chairman and CEO of Attensity, and Chris Selland, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at HP Vertica. The discussion is moderated by me, Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
Here are some excerpts:
Gardner: Sellers and marketers worldwide have always wanted to know what their customers are anticipating or what they want next. I guess we could go back hundreds of years with these questions.
But as someone said recently, it seems that the ability to know what customers want and how to respond to them rapidly has changed more in the last 5 years than in the past 500. Do you agree with that? And why is that the case? What's so new and different?
Lau: What has happened and emerged in the past 10 years or so, especially in the world of Twitter -- Twitter has been around since 2006 -- is that consumers are finding a voice to express their opinions about companies, products and brands. They can express their voice immediately through social channels.
That's one of the new emerging things where, not only are they finding their voice online, but they're also realizing that they're able to amplify that voice by connecting with their friends and their followers.
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Gardner: Why is that making such a big difference in how we know what customers want? I understand that the social part is new and innovative, but how is this changing marketing?
Lau: The way things have happened before is that companies, as they engage with consumers, controlled the conversation. Whether you fill in an online form or you call an 800 number for customer service or purchase, you're greeted initially with an automated prompt, and the whole prompt system navigates your engagement.
What makes Social CRM so unique and empowering for consumers is that, for the first time, it's transferring the control and ownership of the conversation to the consumer, the customer. What that means is that the customer now controls what they want to talk about, where they want to talk about it, and what channel they want to use to communicate their needs or issues.
They don't want to do it in a predefined form, where you check off boxes or answer specific prompts. They want to express their interests more organically and use the company's branded channels on Facebook and Twitter and non-branded channels on industry forums and communities. That's what's key about Social CRM and that's what's so unique about this new generation of products to analyze the social web.
Gardner: Let's go to Chris Selland. Chris, HP Vertica is dealing with a lot of organizations that are trying to do new and innovative things with marketing. Do you also agree that marketing and what we can do have shifted just dramatically in the last five years? Has it really changed the game?.
Selland: There's been a very dramatic shift in the last five years in marketing. That's driven, not exclusively, but certainly heavily, by what's been going on in the social-media world -- Twitter and other channels, Facebook, LinkedIn, and so forth.
It has had two impacts. First, it has amplified the voice of the customer. I always remember that commercial about I will tell two friends and she will tell two friends, and so on. Customer voice has always had an impact, but the impact of customer voice these days is dramatically amplified by social media.
The other thing that's really changed the game entirely is that now organizations that are seeking to understand their customers can no longer exclusively rely on internal data, and by internal data I mean things like customer relationship management (CRM).
In the past, when I, as a marketer, or any customer-facing exec running support or something else, wanted to understand my customer relationships, as long as we have had computers and applications had been able to look at something like my CRM system to see when my customer called the call center or when they bought something. Or I can view my transaction logs with them.
But what I haven't been able to look at and analyze is what they are doing when they're not interacting with me, when they are interacting with the world, or when my customer is tweeting or on Facebook. Obviously, there is a very rich vein of data there. There is also a lot of noise to screen through, but if you do it right, there is potentially a very rich vein of data to help enhance relationships.
As I said, companies can choose to ignore that, but generally that would be strategically disadvantageous to do. Most companies recognize that there's a tremendous amount of data out there that doesn't belong to me and that's not necessarily all about me, but I can certainly use it to understand my present and future customers better.
If you interview a typical consumer, when are you more truthful, when you are interacting directly with the company or when you are actually tweeting or making recommendations to your friends or liking something on Facebook, a lot of the real information is outside of the walls of traditional IT. That's what's really changed things dramatically as well.
Quite a challenge
Gardner: Of course, that's also provided quite a challenge when the information is in the form of sentiment or intent that we see through social interactions. It's more difficult to attain that and assess it.
Let's go back to Howard. What are some of the challenges when it comes to getting information, maybe through NLP in order to extend it into this analysis capability?
Lau: When people go online in a social realm, they don't think about their intent. They just express themselves. So the challenge is letting people communicate the way they choose to communicate and then try to figure out and infer what is their intent and their sentiment.
Trying to determine that is what we do using NLP in an effort to understand what the chatter is about and what the sentiment is about that chatter.
When you get down to what people are talking about, you have to understand from which domain they're talking.
Gardner: In doing so, have you developed limits in terms of what you can do with the technology? It seems like this is a fairly a vast amount of information?
Lau: It's vast, and it's also very domain specific. There's different terminology based on the domain. For example, in the hospitality and travel industry, when you use the word "service," service means the service you are getting from the hotel or from the airline.
But when you use word "service" in the telecommunications space, that means something totally different. It means, your service plan, how many minutes you have, do you have text, and so forth.
So when you get down to what people are talking about, you have to understand from which domain they're talking, infer their meaning and understand their sentiments.
Gardner: So there is a difficult issue in terms of language issues and then there are also technology issues around scale and depth, but let's stick to the ones about NLP. What is it that Attensity does in order to solve that problem?
Ingesting data
Lau: First thing is that we ingest a tremendous amount of data. Most of it is social, but we also ingest company's internal emails, customer notes, employee notes, and online surveys.
Then, we analyze it and annotate it. Part of the annotation is trying to explain the meaning of a sentence or a sentence fragment. The way we do annotations is driven by our proprietary NLP technology.
One of the first things we do is figure out who is this person and what he's talking about. We're trying to find the right industry domain that they are talking about and then distill that into the actual meaning -- the intent, as well as the sentiment.
Gardner: Howard, tell me a little bit more about how your relationship with HP has evolved. You have been working with Vertica for a while. Tell us a little bit about why Vertica was of interest to you as you're trying to accomplish your goals with NLP.
Lau: With the annotations, we generate a lot of intelligence, a lot of metadata. Prior to our relationship with HP, we basically serviced the online surveys and certain internal notes and customer notes for corporations. As we embraced social, we had an explosion of content and annotations.
We're trying to find the right industry domain that they are talking about and then distill that into the actual meaning -- the intent, as well as the sentiment.
For us, our relationship with HP was indispensable. HAVEn is not just a product; it's a platform. And it's a platform that scales well, not just handling the process of injecting large amounts of data, but also creating stores, a large store for us, as well as customer stores for each of our clients.
There's absolutely no way we could have scaled our solution to address the continuing growth of the social realm without this relationship and partnership we have with HP and on the HAVEn platform.
Gardner: Just to be clear, HAVEn, of course, includes quite a few things. Maybe you could just help us understand which elements of HAVEn you're using and which ones are the most beneficial to you?
Lau: First, it's Vertica. We use Vertica for every customer we have for analytical tools. Vertica sits behind that. Then, for managing the whole ingestion and the storage of the documents that we get from the social space, we use Hadoop and HBase from Hadoop. That's how we embraced the HAVEn platform.
Gardner: Chris Selland, what is it about the Attensity use case that you think demonstrates some unique characteristics of Vertica and perhaps even more elements of HAVEn?
Complementary nature
Selland: First of all, it demonstrates the complementary nature of Vertica and Hadoop. The Vertica platform has been built to do very high-performance analytics on very large volumes of data. That's really what we're all about.
Obviously, Hadoop is also built to scale for very large volumes of data, and so we have bidirectional integration, actually huge integration and increasing convergence with Hadoop. Attensity is doing a great job of showing that.
Then, as we were talking about, it's just the massive volumes of data that they're managing. When you're in the realm of the social world, again, it's not just the volume. I always say that big data is not just big, but it's the velocity, the variety, the ability to ingest very fast, and interpret, analyze, and produce results very fast. That's really what the Vertica engine is all about, and it's doing that with very high performance.
It's a very important market segment for us, and it's great to have partners. Vertica is a platform. We rely on our partners to provide solutions to run our platforms. It's social CRM and social analytics and all the kinds of solutions we're looking to highlight. We love it when we have great partners like Attensity bringing those to market, being successful, and making our joint customers successful.
The Vertica platform has been built to do very high-performance analytics on very large volumes of data. That's really what we're all about.
Gardner: Of course, Howard, your customers are probably not so much concerned about what's going on underneath the hood, whether it's Vertica, HAVEn, or Hadoop. They're interested in getting results. I'd like to go back to that Social CRM aspect of our discussion and help people understand why that can be so beneficial, which then of course makes it clear why the technology that supports it is so important.
Can you give us any examples, Howard, of where people have used Social CRM, where they have leveraged NLP and Attensity and what that's done for them in real business terms?
Lau: Absolutely. Some of the industries we service include industries such as telecommunications, hospitality, travel, consumer electronics, financial services, and eCommerce. We provide the services, the tools for our customers and they implement them for very different use cases based on their priorities.
One of the leading prepaid mobile phone providers use Attensity's deep semantic approach to analyze sentiment about their service and alert the brand management teams to their unique voice of the customer (VoC).
Attensity effectively measures the overall experience for each brand taking into account their different products and services to determine the accurate wants and needs of the customer. Their whole return-on-investment (ROI) story is how can they use what's going on in the social realm to manage their install base and minimize customer churn.
Focusing on that, they were able to achieve a 25 percent reduction in customer churn. Now, in the mobile telco space, that directly translates into a 25 percent increase in revenue. Keep in mind that this company is somewhere between half a billion to one billion dollars in revenue. That's a very sizable return on investment.
We also have other cases where we have an insurance company in the financial services space, and they focus on fraud detection. They use our technology, not only in social space, but also reviewing claims. They were able to reduce workers' compensation pretty dramatically, to a tune of over $25 million annually, just using our technology, and using our NLP to analyze the data and then figure out which ones they could go after to manage their fraud cost.
Looking toward the future
Gardner: Where do we go next with this, Howard? We have a capability to deal with large data and the variety of data. We certainly have a great treasure trove of information available from the social media and social web. Combining that with the traditional datasets in CRM, where do you go next? Are you looking for even more datasets and what do you have your eye on?
Lau: Getting more datasets is always helpful. The more you get, the more complete your analysis is, but the view right now is just analyzing big data. We are finding that, within that big data, there are tremendous amounts of individual voices. So the goal is to figure out where these individual voices are and how to build relationships with ones that are important to you.
I'm going to go back to a book that Malcolm Gladwell wrote way back called The Tipping Point. He talks about mavens and the influence of mavens. In the social chatter, there are all these people that have outside influence on other people. The next step in applying our NLP technology in the social realm is uncovering these mavens, so that companies can build relationships with these outside influencers. So that's one of the next things that we're really excited about.
Gardner: Tell us also where you are going in terms of services for business. Obviously we have talked about marketing, but are their other aspects -- maybe product development? How deeply does this extend into how it can influence a business, not just on the selling and marketing, but perhaps even knowing where their business should be going, a strategy level?
Having an analytical store where you can do what-if scenarios after the fact is incredibly useful for them.
Lau: When people hear about social, the first thing they do is listen, but there is a whole model for how people adopt business solutions in the social realm. We have a model we call LARA, and it stands for Listen, Analyze, Relate, and Act.
The first thing that a lot of companies do is become aware that they need to pay attention to what's being discussed socially. So they put out these listening posts and they use us to ingest all this information and analyze it for them. The benefit of that is sentiment analysis on companies, on brands, and products. They want this type of sentiment in real time, and we're able to deliver it in real time.
The next thing companies want to do is analyze the data they have accumulated, and it's for variety of different use cases. I mentioned fraud detection and customer churn. They also want to surface emerging trends. Having an analytical store where you can do what-if scenarios after the fact is incredibly useful for them.
Once they have the store of customer data and they've analyzed and segmented their customers, they want to define how they want to relate to the customers, in aggregate or in smaller segments.
The last and final thing they want to do as part of the whole consumer experience is figure out how to engage with the ones that are important to them.
As an example, if someone tweets that they like this phone, that's great sentiment. But if somebody else tweets that they don't like the service they're getting from this mobile phone provider, if that mobile phone provider is an Attensity customer, we actually take that tweet, route it into their customer-care organization, route it to the proper person, and respond to someone in the social realm.
This ability to kind of close that loop, from a person just tweeting generally to his friends about an experience, and then actually getting the customer to hear them and respond to them is incredibly powerful for organizations.
Following the path
Gardner: For companies that see the value here pretty readily, what steps should they take in order to be in the position to follow that path, that LARA path? Do they need to gather this data themselves? Should they try to ramp up how social media interactions are focused on their products or services? Are there any steps that companies should take in order to better leverage something like Attensity, that's built on something like Vertica, to get these really powerful insights? Howard?
Lau: That's part of the value that we bring. All the customer needs to do is recognize that social is important for them. We're not just talking about corporations that are in the B2C space, but also in the B2B. Once they have that recognition, we'll handle it for them afterwards.
Part of our products and services offering is that we ingest all this data for them, whether from the social sphere or in the companies emails or customer service notes. We ingest all that information, and they're all defined by one common trait, which is that they are unstructured data. We apply our NLP technology to provide an understanding of the big stream of data and then we create the analytical store for them.
All companies need to do is recognize the importance of wanting to hear their customers, listen to the customers, and ultimately, engage with them socially. They just have to have that motivation, and we will work with them as a partner to realize that solution for them.
Part of our products and services offering is that we ingest all this data for them, whether from the social sphere or in the companies emails or customer service notes.
Gardner: Chris Selland, I'm thinking that organizations that are sophisticated about this will go to a company like Attensity and get some great value, but eventually they're going to want to try to get that holistic view of analysis. That means that, not only would they leverage what services and insights that Attensity could provide to them, but they're going to want to share and correlate and integrate that with what they have going on internally and across many other systems.
Is there something about HAVEn that we should bring out for them in terms of open standards and integration capabilities that allows, over time, for more and more of these different data activities to relate to one another, so that we do get a whole greater than the sum of the parts?
Selland: HAVEn certainly provides a very broad platform of which, as we mentioned, Vertica is obviously a key part, the V in the middle. Yes is the short answer. The solutions ultimately need to be part of a much broader data architecture and strategy around how to leverage all sorts of different types of data, that's not even necessarily customer data.
Just to give you an example and to make that tangible, there was an airline that I was engaged with not too long ago, probably about a year-and-a-half ago at this point. I can't name them, but it's a well-known airline, and it was one that didn't have a particularly good reputation for customer service.
They were working on their social-media strategy and trying to figure out how to make customers who were tweeting unhappily that they hated the airline say nicer things -- so how to analyze and respond more quickly.
What they quickly discovered was the reason so many of these customers were angry and saying they hated the airline was that their flight wasn't on time. What they also realized was they had an awful lot of data on their maintenance operation, and sensor data from the planes, and so on from their fleet.
Predictive maintenance
They saw that by maybe doing a better job of predictive maintenance, keeping their flights on time, and keeping their fleets better maintained, they would actually have much more impact on customer satisfaction than responding to the tweet from the customer who was stranded, which kind of makes sense, if you think about it.
I just bring that example out because that's an example of data that has nothing to do with the customer. It might be a sensor on an engine, or it might be a performance data of some sort, but it's related obviously to customer satisfaction.
So ultimately, yes, there needs to be a data infrastructure and a data strategy that spans the different solutions. It's not to say you don't absolutely still need Social CRM solutions and all sorts of different solutions, predictive maintenance solutions and operational, financial analytic solutions, but ultimately the data infrastructure needs to be unified.
That's really where this is going next. In many leading organizations that's where it's going already, which is, these solutions absolutely play a key role, but they can't be 24/7. So there needs to be an infrastructure and a strategy behind them that is very, very holistic.
What he's driving towards is a world where it's really the Internet of Things, where everything is wired to the Internet and they broadcast messages or communicate messages related to their purpose and their focus.
We're talking about the competitive bar moving here, and that's the direction that the competitive bar is going to continue to move in.
Gardner: Howard, do you have any reaction to what Chris has said in terms of seeing a value of a holistic data architecture, not only from what Attensity can do, but extending it across many aspects of business?
Lau: I totally agree with what Chris just said. What he's driving towards is a world where it's really the Internet of Things, where everything is wired to the Internet and they broadcast messages or communicate messages related to their purpose and their focus.
Where we provide our value is that before we get to the world of Internet of Things, there is the Internet of People. People need to express themselves the way they normally do. Where we add value is trying to understand, distill the customers in a person's voice, and have that complement the future of the Internet of Things.
I totally agree that having an integrated architecture, integrated approach to data management, big data management is crucial going forward.
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Heres another of Patricks amazing "news" articles.. have a read:
Nintendo Snags 3 Million Online
People love their Mario Kart and Animal Crossing.
by Patrick Klepek, 01/24/2006
Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection has only been running since November when Mario Kart DS was released, but since Tony Hawk's American Sk8land and Animal Crossing: Wild World have hit, Nintendo has reportedly picked up an impressive three million online users worldwide, says GamesIndustry.Biz.
Nintendo of Europe general manager David Yarnton confirmed the news yesterday, and again mentioned Nintendo's much flaunted figure of 50% of Mario Kart DS players in the US hopping into the online arena within the first week.
Nintendo DS should be just the beginning for the company's online plans; Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection is already part of Revolution's promised features. Online Mario Kart and Animal Crossing is great, but let's hope they can work on the interface a bit before it becomes a console standard.
Now this seems like pretty amazing news, its actually quite a fabrication. If you visit the "source" link here at GamesIndustry.Biz:
The UK boss says 3 million "connections".. which is substantially different to 3 million users.
To even assume 1 in 3 DS owners are playing Wifi online, is a little over the top in anyones eyes. I think people dont carefully think about the ramifications of spewing out numbers. Its clearly a big marketing binge to try an pickup DS sales again (since they slumped last month).
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