From an A-list celebrity tagging his new designer duds on Instagram to your next-door neighbor raving about her favorite new meal-delivery service on Facebook, most everyone uses social media to talk about brands. But how different generations of people create, consume and share this type of user-generated content varies widely. Source: Infographic: How Millennials and […]
Month: January 2017
Seriously, folks, worker engagement is the issue of 2017 for the local on-demand economy. The issue will change all our assumptions from round one of the “gig” era. A study from the Rockefeller Foundation and communications firm Cision suggests that when it comes to the gig economy, the news media is out of step with […]
Source: Didi seals strategic investment with 99, Brazil’s leading car-on-demand service provider | South China Morning Post
KODAKIT solves pain points for both photographers and companies alike by managing all operations and logistics end-to-end. Source: KODAKIT Launches Global On-Demand Photography Service for Businesses
The expansion of the gig economy can then give the Maker Movement a permanent home. Already, Upwork.com lists services such as glasswork and woodwork, showing that the non-technical side of the Maker Movement has a place in the gig economy. Even today in small towns across the U.S., craftworkers own small businesses and sell their […]
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announces a prize competition that challenges the public to create a technical solution (“tool”) that consumers can deploy to guard against security vulnerabilities in software on the Internet of Things (“IoT”) devices in their homes. The tool would, at a minimum, help protect consumers from security vulnerabilities caused by out-of-date […]
Slack, a popular collaboration tool with all the same challenges of every previous generation of groupware, is an example of an emerging organizational model in which information, especially about the customer, is of paramount importance. Every organization will need a customized collaboration tool because they are different groups of people. Here are several ways scientists […]
The chatbot is an information gatherer and entertainer. Think of it as the performer who covers the stage changes during a vaudeville show. While they tap dance (e.g. chat engagingly with the customer, collecting requirements and information), the backend of a marketing platform needs to be ready to customize messages and offers based on the […]
“The world of work is changing, whether we want to believe it or not,” Savino says. “We can stand by and do nothing…ignoring the fact that more and more people are taking these nontraditional pathways to compensation, and leave them in some gray limbo, or we can try and be creative.” Source: When Will Beleaguered […]
The city’s first self-driving car will hit the streets Tuesday after state transportation officials approved an application from Cambridge-ba Source: Self-driving car set to hit streets | Boston Herald