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Twitter’s advice to marketers, “push while the door is open”

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Successful Twitter marketers need to prepare in advance and be spontaneous, according to Twitter Dublin's Managing Director

Business

Could you be Twitter’s first platform evangelist in Europe?

Piers Dillon Scott8 years ago

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Twitter's Dublin office is looking for the company's first European evangelist to promote Twitter's mission with policy and law makers.

Social Media

Céad míle fáilte Twitter, welcome to Dublin

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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As Ireland celebrates St. Patrick's Day Twitter's Ireland staff set up the company's office in Dublin.

Brains Byte Back

The weekly podcast looking at how our brains, psychology, and society are impacted by the ever-evolving technology that surrounds us. Every Monday we bring you the best stories and guests from around the world relating to technology, psychology, and society.

It has been a stressful year and we are living in stressful times. In these moments, it is vital for us to exhibit strong emotional regulation to deal with the challenges of daily life. But what if this wasn’t a skill we developed as adults but instead as children through the use of video games. That is the mission of Mightier, a biofeedback video game platform designed to help children regulate their emotions.

Joining me to discuss how this technology works and how it was developed, we speak with developmental psychologist Jason Kahn, who is the founder and chief scientist at Mightier.

In this episode, we discuss how the company handles data and what it is showing us, how the technology was tested at Havard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital, and how data and video games can help us develop better habits in other areas of our lives.

We also discuss what games are available on the app, what is on the horizon for Mightier, and why Kahn believes a family first approach is key to successfully utilize this technology, before rolling it out in schools,