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Starbucks and McDonalds, not Google or Nokia, will decide the future of wireless charging

Ciaran Treacy9 years ago

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The future of wireless charging won't be decided by Nokia or Google, but by the likes of McDonalds or Starbucks.

Business

Social brands, beware the amateur ‘hacktivist’ with bad intentions

Shane O'Leary9 years ago

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Poor customer service or misguided marketing campaigns can be the ruin of brands, so should companies be afraid of the wrath of the social web?

Social Media

Here’s what not to do: Four great examples of social media fails

Susie Francis9 years ago

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With great power comes great responsibility. Somebody famous once said that. With almost a third of the world’s population connected to the internet, it’s crucial that brands maintain a strict level of responsibility when communicating. As a warning, here are four examples of when a company has failed utterly.

McDonald's Timeline for brands mock by VITRO

Social Media

Facebook Timeline for brands may be unveiled later this month

Darren McCarra10 years ago

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Facebook may unveil Timeline for brand pages later this month according to a report from Ad Age. Facebook first introduced Timeline at its f8 developer conference in September of last year, which became available but optional to all personal profile pages that December.

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It is the start of 2022, and with every new year comes the loft ambitions of new year’s resolutions.

If one of your resolutions is to spend less time on your phone, or looking at screens, then you are in the right place, because in this episode we will look at digital detoxes and how you can implement them.

To do this, we are speaking with Andrew Selepak, a Social Media Professor at the University of Florida.

In this episode we discuss what a digital detox is and what technology it usually involves, how a digital detox can be realistically implemented without it negatively impacting our work, or even social connections, and the parallels between digital detoxes and food diets.

Selepak shares why going cold turkey with a digital detox is unlikely to be successful, why vacations are a good setting to implement a partial digital detox, and why turning off notifications and removing social media apps is the best way to start a detox.

He also explains why our use of technology shouldn’t be seen necessarily as an addiction, like a drug, but a tool that needs to be the correct way.

Additionally Selepak shares how a non-self imposed detox from his phone during a trip in Ireland taught him the importance of disconnecting, and how many of us fall into the trap of taking numerous pictures on holiday, with the ambition of posting on social media, instead of experiencing the trip in the present moment.

And finally, we discuss the role meditation can play to help limit our time with technology.