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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33883517383077784702018-03-06T00:20:55.776-08:00Curious BusinessKylehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388351738307778470.post-10498724582568126662012-01-22T16:06:00.001-08:002012-01-22T16:08:35.226-08:00Who cares if you have 500,000 Fans on Facebook and 700,000 Followers on Twitter?
Note: This is a guest post by Will Fraser - Director of Marketing at YUPIQ
When was the last time Fans or Followers contributed to your bottom line or increased your stock price? There is no question that the most influential sales tool for any company is a referral; when a customer just can't help but tell their friends about how good their product is. We have all been around the preverbal water cooler when a friend mentions a great movie, a cool new place for food or tells us about the latest electronics. Oddly enough the next time we are in the market for these items we seem to tend towards our friend's suggestions.
In marketing we call this kind of behavior a referral and we know they are more trusted than any ad, expert opinion or celebrity endorsement we could ever buy. However, marketers have been slow to adapt this kind of thinking to work on the social web; the digital heartland of sharing, talking and referring.
The reason social media was created was to interact with your friends. This presents a huge opportunity where companies can gain far more than when Fans just submit photos of themselves to win a trip to Hawaii or whatever the next contest is. Through games and teamwork, it is possible to encourage followers (Brand Advocates) to have friend-to-friend conversations about your brand in a positive light whether it's for a contest, VIP Passes, Discounts or just general satisfaction.
It's true that 95% of people who "like" a page never return and never engaged with the brand again. However, by utilizing established social media communities, companies can encourage the conversation, reward advocates and get their online communities to finally contribute to the bottom line.
 Kylehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388351738307778470.post-90878015367364936592011-12-30T21:46:00.001-08:002011-12-30T21:50:24.096-08:00Simple and Imaginative
Giving an empty canvas as a gift is simple, but it's also infinitely imaginative. The canvas can become whatever the artist desires whether it be a bird flying over an ocean landscape or an old man sitting in central park. What's important to know is that the delivery of the story is fixed. You can control how the gift is received. You can create what it represents.

This is important because a product can mean something different to everyone that buys it. However, one thing is controllable – the story. Choose your story carefully, craft it diligently, it's you're edge.
 Kylehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388351738307778470.post-40116664975678808922011-12-21T12:54:00.001-08:002011-12-22T01:45:21.875-08:00'Roads are meant to be traveled'
Incorporated in 1914 is Kensington a small town in the Heart of Prince Edward Island. When traveling there in 2006, I learned that many people have never been to the west of the island a mere 30km or so. But why? Is it because without inspiration or purpose to travel there's no need to travel? As an economist would say "It's because people without a why have nowhere to go." I think not.

Roads are meant to inspire and challenge us to go further than we've ever ventured before. They're meant to facilitate our curiosity (arguably man's greatest gift) and challenge us to adapt. Traveling different and unexpected roads can be exhilarating and thrilling, but it can also be boring and lonely. It's in these times of boredom and loneliness we are forced to adapt and try different things. It's in these times that are the most beneficial because we discover things we never knew about ourselves; things that can change our lives forever.

Stay Curious.
 Kylehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388351738307778470.post-20474808548508063622011-10-18T22:42:00.001-07:002011-10-18T22:50:44.238-07:00Elephant's are not small

There's always something in every organization that is a topic for debate and conflict. People stress over the big elephant in the room because the core problem of it is never addressed. The issue could be a client, a boss, a structural issue – but if you start noticing the elephant's showing up more often, there's an opportunity to address it.

Start by articulating what's wrong with the current problem(s) and carry on by framing it as an opportunity to change.
 Kylehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388351738307778470.post-78368306094741069342011-10-10T14:44:00.001-07:002011-10-10T14:54:24.420-07:00Group Dynamics

Napoleon was such an effective strategist because he understood the power of teams. By decentralizing his military, he was able to create an environment where commanders could coordinate decisions with other commanders without waiting for Napoleon's go ahead. He fostered an environment where lateral coordination was key to giving his military the flexibility and precision of small troops, with the deadliness of a huge war machine.

Your organization can create a similar environment where teams excel. Teams not only perform better than individuals (in most cases) but they have the ability of turning people from uninspired employees into a group of superstars. However, many things needs to be in place first.
1. The organizational structure needs to be built or restructured to create an environment where teams thrive. Consider things like: How much autonomy should a team have? How often do they need to report back? Will teams work in separate groups, on separate projects? Will there be cross-conversation and cross help among teams? Will two teams work together on a project? Will a team be for the most part be a permanent engagement (like the partnership of two officers)?
2. Teams need to be built correctly. For example, a team of four will have a very difficult time being successful if they're all very chatty or if they're all very detail oriented. Instead, the best teams have complimenting traits like different approaches and different backgrounds. Some ways to go about building a team are by thinking about: professional specialization, detail-orientation, go-getters, big-picture thinkers, researchers, creativity, sales, beliefs, passions, culture, gender. The list goes on. Building a team is difficult because there are no cookie cutter solutions; in lieu of a framework, you need to adapt the criteria of your team based on situation.
3. Make sure your team understands all the issues, concerns and worries of all other team members before commencing work. Engaging in this activity allows every team member to understand each other's points of views, discuss what they're best at and prevent any future problems that may come up.
4. Set up a reward structure. One of the best approaches to this I've heard of is to reward the team members with nominal amounts of money, and ask them to buy gifts for other members of the team on the completion of successful projects.

What do you think is the most important aspect of a team?

 Kylehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388351738307778470.post-54462200284606140922011-10-04T00:09:00.001-07:002011-10-08T17:40:54.206-07:00Chasing ValueStart with a strong why. Be focused and communicate clearly. You'll soon learn that you never need to chase value again. Kylehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388351738307778470.post-8702669330542626322011-09-28T09:22:00.001-07:002011-09-28T09:32:45.157-07:00Stay on top of innovation
In order to constantly compete in business you need to constantly innovate, change and adapt to a variety of societal changes and trends. It's not an easy thing to do. But I've found a site that will help you solve those problems - it's called Springwise. Springwise is essentially crowdsourcing innovation, by compiling an entire database of the newest, latest coolest innovations from many different sectors around the world.

If you're in marketing, and want to see the latest innovations from gaming – it's here. Or maybe your in health-care and looking to see what kind of green, sustainable initiatives are happening around the world and how you can incorporate them – you'll find it here. My point is that this website is a valuable resource to any entrepreneur, business owner, or anyone that is looking for new ways to integrate innovation from other sectors.

If any part of you want's to cross-innovate or borrow ideas from a successful business but your not sure where to start, think Springwise.
 Kylehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388351738307778470.post-31820479435007204832011-09-25T09:38:00.001-07:002011-09-25T09:47:21.086-07:00Pay employees to quit.
As long as your job doesn't naturally come with a high turnover, take one from the notebook of Tony Hsieh of Zappos - pay employees to quit.

Zappos goes through am interview process similar to that of any other companies, it's tedious, it's expensive and it's challenging to figure out what employee is right for the company. To weed out people who are there just for the money, Zappos pays potential employees $3000 to quit one week into their training.Tony says employees who decide to stay (which is on average 97% of trainees) come back to the training session with a greater understanding of why they want to work with Zappos.

This approach to hiring is unique and ground-breaking but only a company with clear values and a enjoyable culture can pull it off. Maybe it's time to rethink how you do business.

If you'd like to hear about how this big idea got started from Tony – check out this short interview. http://bigthink.com/ideas/24388
 Kylehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388351738307778470.post-89538031855157512292011-09-21T09:43:00.001-07:002011-09-21T10:29:33.775-07:00A Happiness Culture
It's exactly how it sounds – happy. I had heard about this concept last week when I had the opportunity to listen to Bruce Poon Tip founder and CEO of Gap Adventurers. Bruce was enthusiastic and vibrant about the happiness culture, convincing my entire 2011 BCom class that this is the future of business. The concept of a happiness culture is to empower employees, owners and customers to actively change the world while making some money along the way.

It stems from this idea of the why culture, why we believe what we do. Bruce was able to articulate Gap Adventurers why through a quintuple bottom line approach: People, Planet, Profit, Passion, and Purpose. In order to have a culture of happiness all of these fundamental values need to be first met before anything else can happen. The result is one very happy company whose employees and customers both feel four things:

1) Perceived Progress – Whether it comes in the form of work or making an active difference in the communities tourists travel to.

2)Connectedness – A special bond those involved will share forever.

3) Perceived Control – Whether it's the freedom employees have or the choices tourists get to make on the trips.

4) Being part of something larger than yourself – Real difference is being made and it's powerful knowing what role one plays as a customer or employee in the bigger picture.

A happy workplace is more effective. Happy customers are more loyal. It speaks for itself. But if you need more convincing listen to a similar speech Bruce gave at SB'11.

http://www.sustainablelifemedia.com/digital_learning/event-video/building-happiness-how-values-and-culture-matter
 Kylehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388351738307778470.post-45116705975712052842011-09-16T19:49:00.001-07:002011-09-16T21:44:11.995-07:00The turkey problem.
The Turkey problem is a very old problem – one that turkeys and humans have faced forever. It was first introduced to me by pseudo philosopher Nassim Taleb in his book "The Black Swan". Let me give you an idea of what the problem is with a little chart I put together.

The problem the turkey faces is one of complacency. A turkey will live 1000 days eating hand fed grain and think that is how life will always be, then on the 1001 day the turkey gets killed by that same farmer that hand fed it. The turkey was putting so much faith in what it has always known, and has continued to think it knows until the time it dies.

This is a similar problem businesses face – even when things start to go wrong and look peculiar, we generally put so much faith in the past and what we think we know. When what we should be doing is re-evaluating the entire situation the company is currently in. In life things can change in an instant, and if you become complacent or succumb to "I know what I need to know" syndrome the future will create problems for you and not opportunities.
 Kylehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388351738307778470.post-90794684584242114452011-09-12T10:12:00.001-07:002011-09-12T10:14:25.895-07:00The Candle Problem
Karl Drucker a psychologist from the early 20th century is best known for his experiment The Candle problem. It's an experiment where people are given some tacks, a candle and a book of matches. The goal: You need to stick the candle to the wall and light it without the wax dripping on the table. How long does it take you to figure out the solution?

The solution is achieved by dumping the tacks out, tacking the box to the wall, putting the candle in the box and lighting the candle. It took most people who weren't incentivized 5 – 10 minutes before they discover the solution. When incentives were offered for the fastest times – it took people on average three and a half minutes longer!

In Drive Daniel Pink says "Rewards, by their very nature, narrow our focus. That's helpful when there's a clear path to a solution. They help us stare ahead and race faster. But "if-then" motivators are terrible for challenges like the candle problem."

When challenging others to do creative work – do not incentivize them. You cannot pay people more to think laterally or creatively, you just need to be able to facilitate that growth.
 Kylehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388351738307778470.post-55861961098573432942011-09-07T07:16:00.001-07:002011-09-07T22:10:09.362-07:00What monkeys have taught us.
In 1949 one day Harry F. Harlow and two colleagues chose to execute an experiment on monkeys. What they needed: Eight Rhesus Monkeys, two-weeks, and a simple mechanic puzzle. The puzzle they chose requires very little cognitive ability – so it's easy for me and you. For the thirteen pound lab monkey, it's a different story.

Here's the interesting part: Harlow wrote, "Unbidden by any outside urging and unprompted by the experimenters, the monkeys began playing with the puzzles with focus, determination, and what looked like enjoyment." Now a group of puzzle solving monkeys might not initially trigger any response other than cool, so what? Harlow's research made a big splash in the world of motivation. When you have monkeys solving a solution that did not lead to any immediate rewards like food, water or sex there is something else driving these monkeys. There's something else that drives humans too – and Harlow offered up a theory he called the third drive. The third drive is something that provides intrinsic reward to the individual working on the task – and we know from common knowledge that Harlow was on to something spectacular.

Fast-forward to present day – the knowledge era. Our workers are becoming increasingly capable and creative, and employers need to accommodate them. It's imperative that employers understand that in order to recruit and keep good people – that third drive needs to be satisfied. Motivating people to do work not because they are being externally rewarded for it (which many times is the wrong thing to do) but because as a leader you recognize and frame the situation to each individual that is best suited to their style of working/understanding.

How are you motivating your employees?
 Kylehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388351738307778470.post-57702805111994201232011-09-03T15:39:00.001-07:002011-09-03T21:54:57.054-07:00What's important?
As I start school in three days, I've been asking the question "In these next two years, what skill do I most want to walk away from school with"

I thought about which things I'm most looking forward to. And I came up with a list. As all good business students do.

1. Work-terms

2. Business competitions

3. Networking

4. Study abroad

5. Getting to learn

I asked myself what do all these have in common. I landed upon teams. Work-terms and business competitions are directly involved in team efforts. Teams enable me to accelerate my learning by tapping into people who are knowledgeable about things I'm not. Studying abroad falls into that networking category – and networking is more indirectly involved in teams – it is more of a long-term commitment to building working-relationships with people, similar to the type great teams facilitate among each other.

The benefit of working in a business is getting to work with others. Others who are there to help pick you up, motivate you and push you to succeed. Teams can achieve the impossible when individuals cannot. Great teams create a tapestry of ideas that encourages free growth among individuals. Individuals can only know what they know.

I want to walk away from business school with the ability to excel in teams if nothing else.

Question of the day: What one skill do you cherish the most?
 Kylehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388351738307778470.post-83150781259472967382011-09-01T15:53:00.001-07:002011-09-01T15:56:33.766-07:00Business is a stage
I have been at the Kayaking/Canoeing Nationals in Welland Ontario with my brother this past week. The racers here – like in any sport train year round. When they're not paddling they're in the gym. The ones who have the fastest times – train the most, and the ones who train the most win. An entire year of practicing comes down to a few big events that take place every summer – where everything you've practiced needs to be executed flawlessly – your legs need to work in unison with your arms, your strokes need to be fluid and unwavering.

Business is exactly like this – except you're on stage every single day. In order to achieve a truly exceptional brand every part of your business needs to understand one another. There needs to be a certain level of transparency between the different departments so each side can help to improve inefficiencies where there might be some. Every employee needs to understand the purpose and why behind their business and how they're helping to bring the bigger picture together.

Whether your kayaking or opening a business – know when your on stage and know what's expected of you when you are.
 Kylehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388351738307778470.post-49585812975613915122011-08-17T14:42:00.001-07:002011-08-17T14:44:06.536-07:00What are your customers saying…
How many times have you walked into Walmart and thought to yourself "It's not going to be cheaper anywhere else"? We know from another post that everything isn't actually cheaper in Wal-Mart, but they make us think this way through a 600 million dollar advertising budget. Walmart ideally wants their customers to cross-purchase, so those who buy only food, buy clothes and electronics as-well.

What are your customers saying about you? It's likely you don't have a 600 million dollar advertising budget to grow your business and you may not even have a $5000 advertising budget – so what can you do?

Figure out what you want to be known for. Do you want people to say "You will find no better key lime pie anywhere in the city" to their peers. Or do you want them to say "that business has so much personality and life – I enjoy shopping there".

Be unique. For $5000 I can think of a number of ways a business ranging from restaurants to chiropractor clinics can spread their realm of influence. Will it be time consuming? Yes. Will it be worth it? Definitely.

Lastly – make sure you have a good story.

Get out there and find out what your customers are saying about you. If you don't like it – then make a genuine commitment to change it.
 Kylehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388351738307778470.post-16963889460374178942011-08-14T16:23:00.001-07:002011-08-14T16:26:06.418-07:00Packaging means everything
In any major city there are always street performers and there always will be – some good and some bad. There are street performers who have been doing the same act for 10 years and others who try something new ever few months. What we don't see though is the constantly evolving act and performance. Street performers who do magic on the street may have been doing the same trick 10 years ago – but it never worked half as good as it does now. Why? Because over a 10 year period they have worked to improve the packaging of an otherwise average trick. Instead of a product they sell us on the story, the voice, and the performance. It's so easy for street performers to try new stories and different avenues of execution to see what works. They are constantly testing the audience to see which reactions work best – and if for two days they aren't getting much luck – they change it up~!

The great salesman re-evaluates and adapts after every pitch to see what works and what doesn't. He's still selling the same product but it's his packaging that evolves. It's the student running for president who goes from class to class – constantly changing and adapting his/her speech in hopes to gain votes. We might not like to admit it, but we're sold on packaging.

Companies seem to think that if their once or twice removed from the final sale (ie a manufacturer) that they seem to think their done. Packaging never rests. Anyone once, twice or a million times removed from the final sale should speak with those on the front lines and ask questions of them.

How can I improve my current story?

How can I make consumers love my product?

Does the packaging stand out on the shelf?

It's obvious that this is what's needed of people removed from the sale – but then why do so many companies get it wrong? This is why there will always be so many great closet wine producers – who will never get the recognition they deserve – because their packaging sucks.

Average products with great execution and packaging win.
 Kylehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388351738307778470.post-76464469649422241262011-08-10T13:32:00.001-07:002011-08-10T13:32:35.767-07:00Business games.
Video games are unanimous on every system: computer, console, phone and ipod. The phrase "Kids playing" makes us think of children playing video games just as it would bring soccer to mind.

Video games creators understand what drives consumer activity. Video games like Starcraft 2 and Battlefield 3 have entire leagues dedicated to them. Video game producers facilitate consumer zeal by offering weekly updates supported by ranking systems, achievements and medals. They build games to promote user generated content.

I believe in order to cater to the era of digital natives – companies need to understand and borrow ideas from video game developers. Foursquare has already done it with achievements and medals, facilitating any forward thinking restaurant owner. I believe restaurants, supermarkets and all small businesses can all borrow ideas from video games in order to drive consumer addiction – with or without platforms like foursquare. But once you start down this path – you can never falter, consumers will get bored.

Question of the day: Do you know of any companies that use achievements to drive consumers to them?
 Kylehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388351738307778470.post-36617315790724879682011-08-05T19:54:00.001-07:002011-08-05T19:56:38.779-07:00Focus on the best
Someone once said to me, "Kyle, when you think of the strengths and weaknesses of your business, consider the strengths as things that won't cost nearly as much money or time to do better."

Think of the student that is terrible at math – studying 4 hours a day only to achieve below average results. When studying dance for 4 hours a day will turn them into one of the worlds most accomplished dancers. Where should they allocate their time?

It's important to find partners that are different from you. Partners that are the ebony to your ivory, the accountant to your salesman, the eloquence to your analytical.

It's important to focus on the best customers - the 20% that give you 80% of your business

Keep doing what your best at. In fact – do more of it. Learn more of it. And source the stuff your not good at to others who are.
 Kylehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388351738307778470.post-37585909453372727232011-08-02T13:13:00.001-07:002011-08-02T13:13:35.905-07:00What are you doing differently
One of the people I look up to in the marketing world is Seth Godin. He talks the talk, walks the walk and leads by example.

If you have the chance – take a moment and listen to him speak in the video below. He challenges the current framework of organizations and says a shift needs to happen, where marketers should be in charge of product creation and that they shouldn't be afraid of saying a product isn't good enough.

http://advertising.yahoo.com/creative-showcase/creative-thinkers?video=Seth%20Godin
 Kylehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388351738307778470.post-26300958498647955242011-07-28T13:53:00.001-07:002011-07-28T13:53:48.447-07:00The fallacy of restaurants
While I was travelling Europe in the summer of 08 I had the chance to eat in some really great restaurants. One in particular I happened to walk by had a line of people wrapped down the street before they even opened. La Relais de Venise they call it. This restaurant sells only steak and fries for dinner. You sit down, you are then brought a salad followed by steak and fries. Choice is only available for wine (which is limited) and the dessert menu. They kept it simple.

Too many restaurants have too many choices. Restaurants have naturally low margins as it is but once you throw in too many entries it spells disaster. The restaurant with too many dishes plagues itself with inefficiencies and margins so low that the restaurant will go nowhere if it doesn't fail.

Some problems I see with having a large menu.

1)It's hard to manoeuvre customers to the most profitable items.

2)It's hard to create a menu that reduces inefficiencies by having complimenting food in different dishes.

3)It's hard to have and maintain quality on all aspects of your food.

Like any industry it's good to specify. It's ok to choose one theme with 5 different entries and master them. The thing about customers is when they try something really good in a restaurant once, they'll generally come back and order the same thing – because the risk of buying food and it being mediocre outweighs the risk of knowing the food they had last time kicks ass.

Shorten the menu, reduce inefficiencies and create higher margins. Quality food is better than too much food or too many choices.

Question of the day. What's your favourite restaurant?
 Kylehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388351738307778470.post-88439293674248131182011-07-26T12:52:00.001-07:002011-07-26T14:17:58.944-07:00Risk being different.
One shoe company released their latest in a series of Kenny Powers advertising campaigns – the latest in the pursuit of going viral. It's vulgar, hilarious and in my opinion advertising genius.

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This commercial might not speak to everyone – but it succeeds in every way they wanted it to. It went viral and has over 500,000 views since being released July 11th – it's given all their other commercials a huge increase in views. The media and blogging community has started talking about it – they've created so much buzz and publicity I cannot wait to see their quarterly revenues. K-Swiss has positioned itself as a cool shoe company for the younger generation and with all eyes on them, they just need to follow up to make big things happen.

Take risks like K-Swiss and sooner or later you will strike gold.
 Kylehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388351738307778470.post-7897339729462445082011-07-23T11:35:00.001-07:002011-07-23T11:44:49.785-07:00Be objective
"Be Objective" is a way of thinking any business leader should have installed on their biological hard-drive. Leaders cannot let their own prejudice get in the way of making the right decision. Let me give you a famous example of personal prejudice getting in the way.

Thomas Edison is known as many things to many people – an inventor, a scientist, a businessman and in this case an enemy. I want to talk about the War of Currents he so famously lost. It all begins when Nikola Tesla invented AC current while working for Edison. Thomas Edison dismissed it for the ramblings of a mad-man supporting what he thought was much superior – his own invention DC current. Had Edison been objective he would of recognized the potential of AC and made millions partnering with Tesla – instead he made an enemy out of him. Edison wasted millions of dollars publicly slandering AC and in order to showcase it's deadliness he commissioned employees to invent the electric chair. Edison took extreme measures to try and fight an enemy he never should of had.

Small businesses need to be objective or they risk being mediocre. Everyday you need to ask yourself what are my competitors doing that I can learn from? What am I doing that I can do differently? What is not really working? Sometimes you'll find the best answer is changing the entire way you do business – if your selling mexican food and pizza in your restaurant – recognize that it will better for the business to specialize.

Be objective and you run the risk of being great. Choose not to be objective and you'll surely flounder.
 Kylehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388351738307778470.post-73088826604175974612011-07-20T14:30:00.001-07:002011-07-20T14:30:55.967-07:00Position makes sense.
Does it make sense to have a Christmas wrapping paper fixture positioned just inside the entrance? Not really. People don't buy wrapping paper until they buy gifts.
There's many little things a store can do to increase sales – you just need know where to start.
 Kylehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388351738307778470.post-11062032752267224512011-07-15T12:00:00.001-07:002011-07-15T12:39:23.139-07:00Using the crowd
Business is changing. Thomas Malone an MIT professor points out that "Kids who grew up with running water wouldn't know how to work a hand-pump and in this new world we're entering a lot of what's familiar will go the way of the hand pump." For example, companies that specialize in website design or graphic design may go the way of the hand pump. Why? Because as more and more digital natives come of age – designing websites will continue to get easier and easier. There will be more and more demand for the army of amateur website designers with no coding background, and less and less demand for the expensive website designers we know today. How do you harness the power of this big crowd? By organizing them and facilitating them.

Threadless is a Chicago based t-shirt company founded in 2000 by Jake Nickell and Jacob Dehart. At threadless they've figured out the secret of the crowd and as Jake says, "we just think about how we can create an environment that is very conducive to social and sharing independently of what the current tools are." Threadless enables the crowd to design and vote on t-shirts with the chance of earning some money. Other threadless users meet-up, talk and design stuff together. Threadless is cool and their members love being a part of the community.

Why is threadless so successful at crowdsourcing? Aside from two very passionate and altruistic founders they've picked the right model. They've chosen to create a crowd from people they knew on Dreamless (a forum where they first started). They then chose to allow people to vote on designs, which essentially sources the crowd to advertise for them. Lastly they use crowd-funding, the model of voting they use allows them to know which designs are winners and how many people want them. The result – every t-shirt since the conception of threadless has sold out.

Check out my interview with Jake Nickell below.

When you were in school, you were working full time and starting what is now threadless. How did you manage your time?

Yea, I was working full time, going to school part time and starting Threadless. I actually spent a lot of my time at work actually working on Threadless... it was good and bad, sure my boss probably wasn't happy about it, but I learned how to program that way and then I started programming at work as well. I'm a very fast worker so I was able to get my work done, manage school and still spend good chunks of time on Threadless. I was young and it was fairly easy to code till 3am and still make it to class in the morning :)

When skinnycorp was created, you and Dehart decided to leverage Threadless to advertise your websites design and marketing business. Did skinnycorp's marketing/ website design business start to fall on the backburner when you realized Threadless was going to be this monumental winner?

Unfortunately I think Threadless was actually what was on the back burner! We set it up to basically run itself. Eventually (2004) we realized we were spending 90% of our time on client work but Threadless was paying all the bills. So we fired all our clients and gave Threadless our full attention!

How have you taken the term "user innovation" and applied it to threadless?

We learned about "user innovation" in the summer of '04 and thought it described Threadless very well. But we haven't really done anything differently because of that.

What have you learned about taking on the right business partners like Insight Venture Partners?

In the case of VC partners, try to maintain as much control as you can and try to find people who can offer you more help than just money. In our case, Insight helped us figure out a lot of our logistic issues like shipping and international and has also helped us with a few key hires.

Knowing what you know now about crowdsourcing and community involvement, how do you approach new business ventures?

I'm very interested in businesses that see talented, passionate communities of people and provide some sort of value to them to make those communities even more meaningful and productive. I think that's a powerful place to be as a business because you become a part of something with a lot of built-in energy already.

Threadless was started before twitter and facebook – how have you used social media to build your business?

I see twitter and facebook as tools... "social" and sharing and all that has been around forever. Threadless started on a forum, which was one of the main social tools of the time. Psychologically, Threadless works very well socially ... if you are going to spend 6 hours as an artist, you are going to want to share what you created whether facebook and twitter exist or not. So we just think about how we can create an environment that is very conducive to social and sharing independently of what the current tools are. That said, there is minutia within the available tool sets that needs to be considered, so don't forget the details. But start with having awesome content.

How do you facilitate organic growth among your community/customers?

The previous answer gets to that a lot ... the best thing you can do is simply have content or a product worth sharing.

What are you most curious about?

What motivates people and how I can help people get motivated to create cool things that they are proud of.
There's a shifting economy of business towards user innovation and crowdsourcing. Threadless is just one example of many other businesses that are attempting to source the crowd. It's hard, don't over complicate it and make sure your attracting the people you want to your website. Know your crowd, and know that they have time constraints. Learn from threadless - where people can contribute six hours by creating a design or contribute 10 seconds by voting.

Got an example of crowdsourcing from other companies? Share it below.
 Kylehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388351738307778470.post-89710703641166143172011-07-14T11:46:00.001-07:002011-07-14T20:01:11.737-07:00Embrace your competition.
Competition is ubiquitous with business and for customers this means if we're determined we'll shop around. Instead of losing people to the act of shopping around, aim to make them a happier customer in the process, so next time they'll come back to you.

This Monday I spent my time in Victoria looking at rental units. What I found was a landlord who knows her customers. The prospective landlord knew I was walking, knew that I had six other places to look at and drove me to my next destination 4 km away. Elaine sensed I was determined to look at all of the rental units, and instead of letting me walk away she embraced the competition and aimed to put me first (an important relationship for tenant – landlord).

Elaine and Jeff Bezos the founder of amazon share an uncanny similarity - by embracing their competition they are putting their customers first. One facet of Jeff's monumental success is his ability to embrace competition. When he allowed 3rd parties to sell on Amazon many Wall Street analysts criticised the short term, but Jeff stuck to his guns and continued to put customers first. Word spread that amazon cares about you and today amazon is worth 95 billion dollars and holds the title as the most reputable company of 2011 in the world.

No matter your business – you need to understand consumers shop around, so think of ways to make an impression. If they do choose someone cheaper they'll soon realise that they're sacrificing too much of something else ie… customer service. They'll immediately think of the way you put them first and do business with you.

Jeff and Elaine have found the secret sauce for success – learn from them.
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A little more than five years ago, a new challenger to J. Crew emerged promising radical transparency. A San Francisco startup, Everlane burst onto the scene with it's direct-to-consumer prices and promises of being able to trace your products. Such claims garnered a spot on Fast Co.'s 20146 "50 Most Innovative Companies" and the coveted exponential growth (Everlane earned $12M in 2013 and doubled that in 2014).
The marketing was brilliant. Buzzy slogans such as the aforementioned "Radical Transparency" and "ethical fashion," its clever infographics that showed the cost of everything and its effortless Cali cool style, made it the go-to brand for millennials. So much so that mainstay brands watched with grave concern.
But something seems amiss. For a company that promises such openness in an industry long know for its opaqueness, Everlane is rather secretive. Everlane won its adoring fan base through promises it had 'disrupted' the dark side of the fashion industry by shortened simplified supply chains and the ability to show exactly how and why each piece was priced as it was. Everlane's two main claims were its "world-class factories" and the fact it had cut out the middlemen.
It is the first point however which is increasingly under scrutiny. According to the brand, the "world-class factories" are "the very same ones that produce your favorite designer labels."
Yet somehow, as retail-focused website Racked noted in an article last year, "For all its talk of transparency, Everlane is extremely tightlipped about internal goings-on. Preysman was the only Everlane employee offered up for this story, and no one from the design or creative teams was made available to be interviewed. Repeated requests to visit the brand's New York office were declined."
What gives?
As eco-fashion pioneer, author and founder of the website Magnifeco points out, "A closer look at Everlane's website and marketing materials – complete with enormously vague language in place of definitive facts to support its claims of transparency and ethical production – reveals that there is almost certainly more at play in the Everlane model than meets the eye."
Which is to say, Everlane lists all the locations of the factories and what cities they are in, but doesn't list the name of the factories because of "trade secrets." Send up the red flag.
As a distraction, Everlane lists the weather in the cities as well as smiling employees at each factory. Instead of listing the factories by name they tell you what each factory produces such as "The Specialty Knits Factory" or "The Casual Wovens Factory." It's hard to believe a brand that proclaims radical transparency when they hide the most important piece. That's like
Somehow H&M is more transparent than Everlane. It identifies 98.5% of its first tier factories/suppliers by name and address, and even lists some of these factories' suppliers. Freaking H&M! The largest fast fashion conglomerate in the world...!
According to Everlane's founder Michael Preysman, Everlane has a relatively straightforward reason why the company can't release it's factories telling the Wall Street Journal in 2013 that the company withholds their names in order to prevent competitors from utilizing the factories that he and his team have "spent months finding." Preysman says he simply "doesn't want competitors moving in on his turf." We're not sure if we are buying it. It didn't work out so well for the most recent SF CEO to promise radical disruption while still maintaining company secrets.
Ultimately, we are huge fans of the concept and the idea. The fashion industry needs disrupting. Supply chains need to be simplified and we all have a right to know where our clothing came from. But to promise radical transparency, something no one insisted Everlane do, and yet be so evasive and opaque about where things are actually produced isn't right and goes against the company ethos of "Know your factories. Know your costs. Always ask why." Which is what we intend to do. We've reached out to Everlane to learn more and will update this article when we hear back.

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What is COMPOUNDING INTEREST and How It Can Benefit YOU!
By Molly Greaves
If read my posts regularly, you've probably noticed that I always say " if time is on your side." That's because when you're so lucky and don't even realize the opportunities you have to create a large abundance of wealth. That's because the sooner you start saving, the more time your money has to compound.
Compounding occurs when the money you invest earns money–such as interest in a savings account or returns on your 401(k) investments– and those earnings in turn earn money. In other words, the more you save now, the more compounding can increase your savings.
Let's apply it to real-life.
Start at 20, and set aside 15% of everything you earn (including gifts and such) and you will be in good shape at retirement. Wait until you're 40, and it will be 25% or more of every dollar earned. Wait until 50, and it will be 45% of every dollar earned.
You can look at it this way too. If you invest $1,000 per year in a tax-deferred account that earns 7% a year beginning at age 25, you will end up with $199,635. If you invest the same amount, starting at age 40, and you'll end up with only $63,249.


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A sense of identity is what defines the human being, what sets each person apart from the next, is the constitution of an individual. In the novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, the author uses information from personal experiences in Soviet prison camps, or gulags, to create a story explaining the identity of a fictional character named Ivan Denisovich Shukhov. As the reader imbibes passages delineating the life of this character, one can see how his environment strips him of his identity, how he preserves his individuality with dignity and etiquette, and how he has established bonds with those around him. The novel portrays one day in Shukhov's life, but it also describes exactly what and how his identity has become.
The environment of the gulag is harsh to the highest degree. Filled with political prisoners who had in some way opposed Stalin's regime, the prisoners feared not so much each other as the harsh guards, the fearsomely cold weather, and starvation. The gulag seems to try to strip Shukhov's identity from him, replacing his name with a sound and a number. "Shcha-854, the Tartar read out from the white patch on the the back of the black jacket" (Solzhenitsyn 7). As well as the...
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Affibody, GE Healthcare partner to build up Her2-targeted Family pet imaging agent GE Health care signed an contract with Affibody AB to collaborate on the advancement of a Her2-targeted PET imaging agent, which is scheduled to begin clinical trials later this year. These studies, if positive, could pave just how ultimately for better targeting of anti-Her2 treatments to those sufferers most likely to benefit.Function showcases potential technology and improvements in deep learning softwareUsing integrated molecular pathology to control incidental pancreatic cysts: an interview with Dr Ananya Das 'The partnership brings together the best of several specific offerings – GE Healthcare's market experience in the global PET market, industrialization and commercialization and Affibody's expertise in generating high-affinity binders and preliminary clinical data,' Marivi Mendizabal, Head of Analysis for GE Healthcare, Medical Diagnostics.However, they lose out on the potential calcium intake milk contains which contributes our joints and bones aswell. The good news is there are alternatives to milk that are calcium-rich as well. For example, one can go for enriched almond or soyamilk milk which contains nearly 300mg calcium in a single cup. Yogurt: Do you realize an 8-ounch serving of yogurt can offer your body as much as 400mg proteins? Yogurt has healthy bacteria which keeps our gut healthy and strong if we consume it on a daily basis. However, food professionals recommend taking nonfat yogurt for a nourishing and healthy snack.


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IF you ever wondered whether you are you descended from the Vikings or the Normans, now is the time to find out.
A network of academics led by Dr Catherine Swift of Mary Immaculate College, and Dr Turi King of the Department of Genetics, University of Leicester are using scientific techniques and the traditional tools of the historian in an attempt to identify what percentage of the Irish population are descended from Vikings.
Volunteers with certain surnames – including English, Stokes and Noonan, amongst many others – will be tested at Fennessey's pub, New Street, Sunday, October 21, at 12 noon.
In addition to Limerick, the study is also being replicated in Galway and Wexford to discover information on medieval patterns of migration and family movements between the major towns of Ireland.
They are also hoping to examine the extent to which the Vikings in different parts of the country intermarried with the native Irish. To do this, the group, have identified specific surnames which are found in the medieval records and townland names of Limerick city and county.
As the researchers are primarily interested in Y chromosomes, they will only collect samples from men. A swab of cheek cells will be taken to extract DNA from this. Various tests will be done on the Y chromosome DNA, and in some cases other parts of your DNA, to look at patterns of variation.
The information received will be kept strictly confidential and if it is ever published in scientific papers, it will be completely anonymous.
See leicestersurnamesproject.org.uk for the surnames of those they wish to apply.
Viking origins of Limerick.
The earliest record of vikings at Limerick is in 845, reported by the Annals of Ulster, and there are intermittent reports of vikings in the region later in the 9th century.[6] Permanent settlement on the site of modern Limerick had begun by 922.[7] In that year a Viking jarl or prince called Tomrair mac Ailchi—Thórir Helgason—led the Limerick fleet on raids along the River Shannon, from the lake of Lough Derg to the lake of Lough Ree, pillaging ecclesiastical settlements. Two years later, the Dublin vikings led by Gofraid ua Ímair attacked Limerick, but were driven off.[8] The war between Dublin and Limerick continued until 937 when the Dubliners, now led by Gofraid's son Amlaíb, captured Limerick's king Amlaíb Cenncairech and for some reason destroyed his fleet.[9] However, no battle is actually recorded and so a traditional interpretation has been that Amlaíb mac Gofraid was actually recruiting Amlaíb of Limerick for his upcoming conflict with Athelstan of England,[10] which would turn out be the famous Battle of Brunanburh. The 920s and 930s are regarded as the height of Norse power in Ireland and only Limerick rivaled Dublin during this time.
The last Norse king of Limerick was Ivar of Limerick, who features prominently as an enemy of Mathgamain mac Cennétig and later his famous brother Brian Boru in the Cogad Gáedel re Gallaib.[11] He and his allies were defeated by the Dál gCais, and after slaying Ivar Brian would annex Norse Limerick and begin to make it the new capital of his kingdom. The power of the Norsemen never recovered, and they reduced to the level of a minor clan; however, they often played pivotal parts in the endless power struggles of the next few centuries.
Brian Boru's son, Donough, was routed by Diarmait mac Maíl na mBó in the year 1058 when Limerick was burned, a punishment he repeated five years later. A year later Diarmait beat Donough again forcing him to flee overseas and installing Turlough instead.[12] Obviously Limerick was of great importance as evidenced by being a contentious issue between neighbouring chieftains and foreigners who burned and pillaged the city.[13] Brian Boru's sons were usually called Kings of north Munster though their reigns were rather disturbed until 1164 when Donnchad mac Briain became King of Munster. His reign was successful, founding monasteries and nunneries, constructing several monuments, including a church on the Rock of Cashel, and in his grant bestowing his Limerick Gothic palace to the church he styled himself King of Limerick.[13] However the Danes were still a powerful force who were able to obtain four sequential Danish bishops concentrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury not subservient to the See of Cashel.[13]
King John's Castle, built in the 13th century, lies alongside the River Shannon. Thomond Bridge (on the left of this photograph), from the 19th century, stands on the site of an earlier bridge.
The arrival of the Normans to the area in 1173 changed everything. Domnall Mór Ua Briain, the last styled King of Limerick, burned the City to the ground in 1174 in a bid to keep it from the hands of the new invaders. After he died in 1194, the Normans finally captured the area in 1195, under the leadership of Prince John. In 1197, King Richard I of England granted the city its first charter,[4] and its first Mayor, Adam Sarvant, ten years before London.[14] A castle, built on the orders of King John and bearing his name, was completed around 1200. Under the general peace imposed by Norman rule, Limerick prospered as a port and trading centre. By this time the city was divided into an area which became known as "English Town" on King's Island surrounded by high walls, while another settlement, named "Irish Town", where the Irish and Danes lived, had grown on the south bank of the river. Around 1395 construction started on walls around Irishtown that were not completed until the end of the 15th century.[15]
"Limerick is a very interesting location for our project as it is known to be a vital Viking trading centre," said Dr Swift.
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You've summed him up perfectly.
.. the gun 'battle lasted less than one minute
its easily timed watching the videos..
Harper hid in the closet after it had ended
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There's leadership and courage for you ..
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Diego, Manny and Sid return in this sequel to the hit animated movie Ice Age. This time around, the deep freeze is over, and the ice-covered earth is starting to melt, which will destroy the trio's cherished valley. The impending disaster prompts them to reunite and warn all the other beasts about the desperate situation.
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As the son of a Viking leader on the cusp of manhood, shy Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III faces a rite of passage: he must kill a dragon to prove his warrior mettle. But after downing a feared dragon, he realizes that he no longer wants to destroy it, and instead befriends the beast – which he names Toothless – much to the chagrin of his warrior father
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When the old-old-old-fashioned vampire Vlad arrives at the hotel for an impromptu family get-together, Hotel Transylvania is in for a collision of supernatural old-school and modern day cool.
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Gru is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to help deal with a powerful new super criminal.
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Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home -- meeting vegetarian sharks, surfer dude turtles, hypnotic jellyfish, hungry seagulls, and more along the way.
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Gru and his wife Lucy must stop former '80s child star Balthazar Bratt from achieving world domination.
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A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
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Set after the events of Continental Drift, Scrat's epic pursuit of his elusive acorn catapults him outside of Earth, where he accidentally sets off a series of cosmic events that transform and threaten the planet. To save themselves from peril, Manny, Sid, Diego, and the rest of the herd leave their home and embark on a quest full of thrills and spills, highs and lows, laughter and adventure while traveling to exotic new lands and encountering a host of colorful new characters.
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Follow the adventures of Belle, a bright young woman who finds herself in the castle of a prince who's been turned into a mysterious beast. With the help of the castle's enchanted staff, Belle soon learns the most important lesson of all -- that true beauty comes from within.
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Manny, Diego, and Sid embark upon another adventure after their continent is set adrift. Using an iceberg as a ship, they encounter sea creatures and battle pirates as they explore a new world.
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Princess Jasmine grows tired of being forced to remain in the palace, so she sneaks out into the marketplace, in disguise, where she meets street-urchin Aladdin. The couple falls in love, although Jasmine may only marry a prince. After being thrown in jail, Aladdin becomes embroiled in a plot to find a mysterious lamp, with which the evil Jafar hopes to rule the land.
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Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world as we know it.
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WALL·E is the last robot left on an Earth that has been overrun with garbage and all humans have fled to outer space. For 700 years he has continued to try and clean up the mess, but has developed some rather interesting human-like qualities. When a ship arrives with a sleek new type of robot, WALL·E thinks he's finally found a friend and stows away on the ship when it leaves.
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Tinkerbell wanders into the forbidden Winter woods and meets Periwinkle. Together they learn the secret of their wings and try to unite the warm fairies and the winter fairies to help Pixie Hollow.
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Cinderella has faith her dreams of a better life will come true. With help from her loyal mice friends and a wave of her Fairy Godmother's wand, Cinderella's rags are magically turned into a glorious gown and off she goes to the Royal Ball. But when the clock strikes midnight, the spell is broken, leaving a single glass slipper... the only key to the ultimate fairy-tale ending!
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Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rocky as Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage.
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So, is there a solution? The answer is simple, Firemin. You will see its effectiveness almost instantly and the best part is that it is completely free. To use Firemin; you will need to download the Firemin.exe file, decompress it and run Firemin.exe from the extracted folder.
Now we need to clear up some confusion about Firemin. Firstly, Firemin uses a safe API function called EmptyWorkingSet that basically forces the process (in this case Firemin) to use less memory. Other words, tells Firefox to give back some of the system memory it's hanging on to. For those of you who are a little more technically minded, you can read more about it here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682606%28v=vs.85%29.aspx. Using this function will sometimes result in a slight performance decrease measured in milliseconds , but I do mean slight, the chance of you noticing the performance decrease is almost zero.
Firemin is not one of a kind. There are similar "Firefox memory boosters" available; however, most of them are frauds (work mostly contain spyware and malware) or work using the Placebo function (if you think it will work, it will). Firemin does not contain any malware and actually do decrease Firefox memory usage, up to 95% (under 1MB in some cases). Firemin has not received any negative reviews and no side effects like browsers crashing have been reported, "knock on wood".
Even though Mozilla keeps claiming that they fixed their memory-leaking issues, it seems like this is not completely true. Maybe one day, but until then, Firemin will lend a friendly hand.
Firemin is a very simple utility and, for this reason, does not demand any installation utility. Simply unzip all files to any folder and run the executable file.
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On Saturday, Feb. 7, we spoke with Kristen of Oxford, Michigan. She is a member of Oxford High School's Robotics Team TORC #2137. Along with her teammates, Kristen helped organize a massive water drive in her community. We caught up with her in the parking lot of the Avery Aldridge Activity Center in Flint's North End. Here's what Kristen had to say.
Can you tell us what you're doing here today? Who's here and what's going on?
Kristen: We put together an effort to unite a bunch of other robotics teams to bring water to Flint today, so everyone was collecting for the past two weeks and all the teams have brought it up here and we're all unloading today.
How long have you been working on this?
Kristen: Two to three weeks. Two weeks for collection, three weeks to kind of put it into action.
How much water did you bring here today?
Kristen: Our team brought just under 3,000 [cases] and then the other teams brought 500, 1000. I'm not sure. A lot.
Can you describe the scene for us? Can you tell us what's going on here? This massive human chain.
Kristen: Yeah, so we've got a semi-truck that they're unloading with almost 3,000 cases of water, and we've got lines of teams all across Michigan. Teams from Armada, Sterling Heights, Howell all the way along this line into the building, so they're all passing it one by one, the good old assembly line way.
Tell us a little bit about your robotics team. What do you normally do as a team? Is this something that's pretty unusual for you?
Kristen: No, our team, we build robots. Our build season is from January to the end of February, but a lot of times even during the build season and off season we try to do as much community outreach as we can, so this kind of just started as an idea. Someone said it and was like, "Hey, we should do this," so we bounced around some ideas and then all of the sudden, we contacted other teams on Facebook and it ended up turning out a lot larger than we thought.
That's awesome.
Kristen: Yeah. Our whole Oxford community even came to help us load the semi, so it was crazy. Everyone really chipped in.
Did you help load the semi?
Kristen: Yes. Nine hours yesterday, I have bruises all over my body. And we're doing it again today.
So we've got a forklift here today but you didn't have one yesterday.
Kristen: No, the forklift at the factory that was donated for us to store it actually had no brakes so we could not use it. Everything was loaded by hand and by hand carts. Today we've got the forklift, but it still takes a lot of manpower to do the cases that are not on nice pallets, so it's awesome that all these teams came out. I could not be more thankful. It's crazy.
Yeah, of course. This is incredible.
Kristen: It is.
Can you talk about why you felt like this is something that you wanted to do? You're spending half of your weekend out here and you spent a lot of time preparing for this. Why was it so important for your team? Why did you want to get involved?
Kristen: We use water to build our robots, we use it to weld, we use it to do all kinds of things, but just living without water—no one on our team could even imagine living without water—so we really wanted to do something to help, we just didn't know what. Then this came, so we really worked hard to put all this together.
How much were you involved with the planning? Did you help organize a little bit?
Kristen: Yeah. It was kind of my idea and then I texted some of the mentors and they were like, "Yeah, we should do something." Then we kind of just were thinking, okay, well we could have the school do it, and then we presented it to our school board and they were like, "Okay we'll have the high school do it." Then we posted it on Facebook and a mom's Facebook group donated a bunch of cases and the fire department let us collect [there] and the library was a collection site, so it was a long planning process. We were on the phone til 3:00 AM some mornings, making fliers, getting the word out. It was a lot of effort.
It looks like that effort paid off big time.
Kristen: Yeah, I'm really excited. I'm just so impressed by everything everyone's doing.
Is there anything, any message for the Flint community that you want to share that you want them to know?
Kristen: I hope that they can be inspired that we're just one small team. We only have 40 kids and this just started as one idea. Get a bunch of engineers together, and I guess this happens.
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repercussions of Norman attacks; this particular woman was in dire need of
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TO: Executive Vice Presidents, Chancellors, Vice Presidents, Vice Chancellors, Vice Provosts, Deans, Directors and Heads of Schools, Divisions, Departments and Offices
DATE: December 16, 2014
FROM: Laurel Weldon, Interim Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
SUBJECT: Provost Fellow Appointment
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Jennifer Marston William as a Provost Fellow for 2015-2016. The Provost Fellows program was launched to provide faculty who have an interest and potential in university administration with opportunities to gain a general overview of the Provost's office including academic planning, budgets, shared governance, governmental relations, Board of Trustees meetings, strategic planning, research on faculty issues and student programs. Provost Fellows also participate in discussions about the challenges of higher education, the 21st century university, the changing professoriate, the changing student body, and the changing nature of teaching, learning, and scholarship. Professor William will provide assistance to the faculty affairs team, working on various projects including improving the process of nominating faculty for national and international awards.
Professor William holds a PhD in German Literature from Ohio State University and is currently Associate Professor and Assistant Head of the School of Languages and Cultures at Purdue.
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A few months ago, we wrote a post about the future of Web search. Specifically, we talked about a new feature that Google was experimenting with at the time. Well, that experiment has now hit prime time and Google has announced its "Search Wiki" offering officially.
From the official Google Blog:
Today we're launching SearchWiki, a way for you to customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. With just a single click you can move the results you like to the top or add a new site. You can also write notes attached to a particular site and remove results that you don't feel belong. These modifications will be shown to you every time you do the same search in the future. SearchWiki is available to signed-in Google users. We store your changes in your Google Account. If you are wondering if you are signed in, you can always check by noting if your username appears in the upper right-hand side of the page.
The changes you make only affect your own searches. But SearchWiki also is a great way to share your insights with other searchers. You can see how the community has collectively edited the search results by clicking on the "See all notes for this SearchWiki" link.
What's interesting about this feature is that it allows users to take more control over how they experience the Web. Google has become the de facto starting point on the Web for many users, and much like our mobile phones have erased our need/ability to remember phone numbers, Google is gradually eroding our need to remember URLs. The feature allows you to move the sites and search results you find most relevant up to the top of your search results pages, speeding up your Web surfing and making sure your favorite sites are easy to find. It's sort of like bookmarking your search results—if you find a result on say, page 8 of the results but want to make sure that result is easy to find again, you simply click the little "up" arrow to move the result to your front page. Similarly, you can demote results that you didn't find useful by clicking the little "down" arrow next to a particular result.
We've just begun playing around with this feature, and I'm curious to see how much we'll actually use it. Will it be one of those "nice-to-haves" that doesn't end up changing the game all that much? Or will we soon be asking ourselves, "What did we ever do without search Wiki?"
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"The best kind of friendships are fierce lady friendships where you aggressively believe in each other, defend each other, and think the other deserves the world."
I have learned so much about friendship over the last couple of years. Friendship is not easy, if I'm being honest. I mean, yeah sometimes it is. But a friendship, like any relationship, requires work, give-and-take, priority for it to work. Once I moved last year, I really began to understand that.
I used to never work at friendships. I had tons of friends and would just float around to whoever was close; I would switch out my friends depending on what was convenient for me. I think I had begun this unhealthy patten because I had grown close to some people and was really hurt by all of them. I put a wall up and was just done with anyone getting close to me.
Once I was in a relationship with Christ, though, I realized how important community and fellowship were, especially with other women! Not only did I need encouragement and prayer, but I needed to share that with others and learn to show grace and mercy like I was shown.
Several of the girls I first became close with, I'll admit, I'm not friends with them now. I believe it takes a while to develop and maintain healthy friendships. When I first decided to invest in friendships, I was still healing myself… I entered into friendships with no boundaries, where I was either being used somehow or I was trying to be there for someone, but I didn't know how to do that without putting expectations on the other person.
It took me a solid year to really make some good girlfriends! I'm so thankful for my core group of girls- they are so amazing! Since moving I have learned to accept that there will be ups and downs since communication naturally requires more work from six hours away. But the girls that have stuck by me through this have made it all worth it. Getting angry or sad and near tears, going through super happy and exciting times; I love that we get to go through this time together. I also think the honesty and growth in my friendships have gotten deeper because of the move and the effort needed to maintain the relationships.
All of this to say, when you find your people, DON'T let them go! Hold them close to your heart and treasure the memories you have with them! Lots of things that seem permanent in life are actually temporary and will come and go, but good girlfriends are a gift that will be with you forever. I don't know what life would be like without my girls and I hope I never find out! Love you all to pieces!
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Sharing is an ancient practice, perhaps as old as mankind. People like to tell stories, retell incidents and pass information to friends and family. The type of information would have been dependent on the generation and what it considered important. With the advent of the internet it became easier to find information. However, with the coming of social media, people truly started to share. In many ways social media has empowered people and given them a platform to express themselves.
What are they sharing?
People like to share all kinds of information and these can be broadly classified into groups.
- Entertaining and valuable information. This may include a funny story, an amusing quote or a piece of entertaining news. They also like to share information that would be useful to others.
- Then there are the shares that define the person. These are topics or issues that the person holds dear. This could include posts that support a good cause.
- Some shares strengthen relationships. These may include a quote that expresses emotions or perhaps a picture of a Starbucks coffee that they are hoping to share with a friend.
- People love to share information about a new or interesting product that interests them. They also like to talk about a great deal that a brand is offering.
While some people like to share so that their friends know that they keep up with the latest trends and fashion, others share when they find something interesting. The share button has kind of become like the water cooler at the office. Word of mouth recommendations are the best way to cement the brand identity of a business and to ensure that it is easily recognized.
Do fans click 'share' on your page?
The most important thing to remember about social media is that this is your grand chance to reach out to your target audiences. It is not the best place to bombard them with marketing messages. If you want to ensure that fans are motivated to click on the share button you need to keep some things in mind.
- You need to ensure that you post stories or information relevant and important to your audiences. If your products are aimed at teenagers then parenting stories may not be the best way to hold their attention. However if your brand sells child care products you need to offer information that would be useful to parents.
- Fun stories are always popularly just as long as they don't offend the sensibilities. You could also focus on stories that are relevant in the local area that your business may focus on.
- Keep your posts simple, with a touch of humor. If you are sharing information about a product or an offer, they add a touch of urgency to it. You should keep it exclusively for fans and for a limited period.
Storefront Social is a unique app that can help you set up a facebook storefront that will showcase your product line. You can control the language in which the content is offered and your customers can buy products and pay for them with multiple currencies as well as with PayPal. They can also share the products they like on your facebook store.


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I was reading through my first post for "Just Be God's" and it was a different time to be sure. My social life and work life were not at all related to "serving" or "ministry", and I had the time and energy to really commit to church as a hobby. It was/is the best way I know how to care for and be cared for by others. What I needed at the time.
Then there is this other world, the serving and caring for others world. This world where you work your booty off as a teacher or minister or counselor or chaplain, and get paid to think about religion and spiritual things and help people. This world where you hear true, intense, and terrible stories that you wish weren't a part of the human condition. Where there is little to no separation between home and work. For some, this may sound awesome. It is.
But is it?
When I wrote about asking God for a sign, and committing to going to church and seeking spiritual things, I had a special space for it. I made special space for it. It wasn't my everything, but it was for everything. When religion and spirituality become everything, it's like I need to find a special space where it isn't or where it's different. I have to create space to grow for myself, where I do not have to support others or hold their spiritual space.
Is this wrong? Or is this right?
I've been reading a book called "Proverbs of Ashes" and it's blowing my mind. It takes a lot of simple Christian ideas that a lot of people live by, and says, "That might not be the healthiest thing to teach people (especially the marginalized, abused, and women)."
Sure, to make meaning of suffering (once removed), as a closeness to Christ or as a way to help others or as a learning experience, is nice, but is that what God wants for us? If you wouldn't tell that to a person during their suffering, why would that work after the suffering?
In a very trivial sense, there may be people dying in their ministries because they believe, and have been taught, this is what God wants. God wants suffering? Exhaustion? Workaholics? God wants us to lie to ourselves and say we love it? Rejoice in our suffering?
Or does God desire that you have the space to love and serve and be loved and served? I hope for the latter God.


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WannaCry Virus: Just The Beginning! What's Next?
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The infamous Wannacry virus has been still making it's rounds around the world. But even though the spread may be decreasing thanks to efforts by Microsoft and others, this isn't the last we'll see of this kind of virus. In fact, a new virus called EternalRocks is already starting to spread. This one uses seven different exploits found in the NSA leaks, as opposed to a couple in Wannacry. There are some things you can do to protect yourself though, which I'll also discuss.


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Time Warp > Nasty Nas – 1991 Demo Tape
July 17, 2009
Apparently this has been floating around for a bit meaning I missed it then so I'm glad I got my hands on it this time. I don't think it needs much explanation, it is Nas after all.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed legislation requiring the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and other federal agencies to approve or reject natural gas pipelines within a strict time limit or see the project automatically approved, over the threat of a presidential veto.
H.R. 161, the Natural Gas Pipeline Permitting Reform Act, passed in a 253-169 vote, attracting little Democratic support amid concerns about putting "rushed" deadlines on a process that may involve a consideration range of complex issues, such as environmental, safety and eminent domain concerns.
Under the terms of the bill, FERC would have 12 months after receiving a complete application to make a decision on whether to approve or deny a natural gas pipeline certificate for any project.
It would also codify FERC's requirement that any other agencies required to issue a license, permit or other type of approval for that pipeline would have an additional 90 days — able to be extended to 120 days, at FERC's discretion — once FERC issues its final environmental document on the project to make their own permitting decisions.
If either FERC or any subsequent licensing authorities miss their deadline, approval would be granted automatically. Delays to permitting have risen over the last decade, and the average processing time for an interstate natural gas pipeline project is now nearly 19 months, according to House Republicans, citing a February 2013 Government Accountability Office report.
A previous, nearly identical version of the bill passed the House in the last Congress in a similarly divided 252-165 vote, but was never taken up by the then-Democratic Senate.
The White House has already issued a veto threat against the latest bill, as it did for the previous version, saying that although it recognizes the need for more energy infrastructure and for timely consideration of project applications, it could not support that "rigid, unworkable timeframes" required by the bill.