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Benny Joseph — A daring journalist, truthful citizen & a loyal son of the Motherland!
By: Nishant Netaji
Tags: Journalism, Patriotism, Responsible, Indian, Social

Benny Joseph

First of all, I wish he was in the national level covering issues that needs public attention and deserves justice at the central level. But anyways, unfortunately Kerala is blessed with so much of f**king rascals who day by day are proving that the God’s own country is just a tagline and nothing more. All that is happening is nasty exploitation by a nexus of bastards. It is at this circumstance that we need someone — someone with one hell of a spinal chord who gives no shit about the consequences, who communicates to the point with solid concrete information and above all, committed to see the result of each cases in favor of justice. Therefore, Benny Joseph.

I am not deviating this write-up towards to a point of conclusion that this man is the solution of all the problems that Kerala as a state is going through. That would be selfish. It is almost like running away from problems. All of us are equally responsible to ensure that our country moves in the right direction. But whatever Benny Joseph does or whenever I see his videos covering various issues, undoubtedly it makes me look inwards and I repent. I repent because it is when citizens like me remain ignorant and careless, group of greedy vultures get opportunity to loot the public money. I see myself as a socially irresponsible monkey with a heart ache where I realize that it is when we are silent, there is an opportunity for every greedy goon to dominate.

Benny Joseph is a role model, a reminder and I wish there is a Benny Joseph in every nook and corner of civil administration who are vigilant, fearless and of course someone with a deeper insight. Another adjective I add for Mr. Benny is that he is ferociously detached and all that he cares for is the truth. Come what may, serve the truth — a strong message endorsed by him!

I hope that there comes a day that I get to meet him in person and discuss that in what way the public can do its bit to ensure that justice prevails without sacrificing their current obligations. For what I have noticed is majority are in the rat race to earn their basic necessities and hence have no time for their involvement to do their bit as a responsible or vigilant citizen.

Personally am sad to convey that it is Indians themselves who contributed to the impoverishment of this nation. We as ignorants, we as selfish pigs who prefer to play in the mud and not be clean is what destroys India.

Benny Joseph — Jai Hind!
Mother Earth Is Healing & On This Earth Day, Let’s Pledge To Keep The Momentum
Tags: Social, Mother Earth, Nature, Earth Day

Mother Earth Is Healing & On This Earth Day, Let’s Pledge To Keep The Momentum ShareChat Follow Apr 22, 2020 · 3 min read

Amidst the lockdown, you must have read phrases like the Yamuna looks cleaner, Delhi sees blue skies, Mumbai beaches looks mesmerizing, Bengaluru looks love-stricken by lovely flowers. While we have been stuck to our houses, one fact we cannot overlook is Mother Earth is healing.

Nature has its ways of reminding us that it needs to preserve resources. Coronavirus pandemic has forced a majority of the population to stay indoors and nature is rejoicing this vacation. Social media is flooded with images and videos of birds, wildlife and aquatic species being spotted in various parts of the world.

But the big question here is, what happens after the lockdown is over? Do we go back and continue what we were doing earlier?

This Earth Day, let’s pledge not to take our planet for granted and work towards maintaining the natural resources we have been bestowed with. It can be anything- planting trees, conserving water, recycling or using reusable shopping bags.

Well, we can start this at our house itself! So, on this Earth Day, we would like to share a couple of cool little steps that you can practice to maintain our planet during and after the lockdown.

Plant more: You don’t need to be a perfect gardener to add some green to your house. There are plenty of plants that you can grow just using water like money plants, snake plants, Water Hyacinth, to name a few. One glance over online and you will be flooded with options!

Recycle: Don’t have plants at home right now? Don’t worry, let’s get ready for the post lockdown. Utilize this period to be a little creative. Let’s recycle those juice bottles you have been wanting to throw away for long and turn them into beautiful plant holders.

Walk to office or nearby places: The lockdown must have turned many of you into chefs and all the amazing food must have added a few calories. So why not contribute less to the pollution and ditch that bike ride or car ride to reach office (once you start going back to your workplace) or to the grocery store and walk instead? It is healthy — both for you and Earth!

Conserve water: The 20 seconds hand sanitizing every half an hour does not necessarily mean you keep the tap water running. Many Indian cities are already drying up. We do not want to waste any more water.

These are some of the simple things you can follow to keep our planet worth living. So, what are you going to pick up this earth day?
Free Yourself From Grants: 21 Crowdfunding Stories For You
Tags: Crowdfunding, Tips, Crowdsourcing, Artivism, Social

Free Yourself From Grants: 21 Crowdfunding Stories For You

This booklet is all about creating a solid, manageable and proper Crowdfunding and Crowdsourcing Campaign for Artivists. Nomadways Apr 22, 2020·2 min read

In 2019 our Anne took part in the “Tandem Europe” programme.

(Get back to our article on her joining the programme here)

It is tailor-made for people who work on creative solutions that make social innovation possible throughout the EU — cultural managers, artists, organisers and educators. People involved in culture and arts.

In this programme, the participants pair with someone from another country to create a joint project and explore the great practice of their work. Anne paired with Lisa from Raumpioniere, a Vienna based agency which provides a service range from participative processes for both rural and urban communities, cities, neighborhoods, event planning with focus on urban or rural topics and public space to Urban/Civic Crowdfunding.

The project: 21 Crowdsourcing Stories

Storytelling was involved in the idea since the beginning. If you have followed our previous publications, you may noticed that the plan was to get stories from people in our communities. However, the idea evolved after Lisa and Anne decided to address a current need: to discover more ways to fund our cultural projects. And since this is something Raumpioniere is quite experienced in, Lisa and Anne joined forces to show us how to do it!

The booklet has tips for each step.

This booklet presents how to launch a crowdsourcing or crowdfunding campaign in 21 steps. For each one of it, a suggested exercise will help you in finding out what you need to do to move further. There are 3 main chapters: Before launching your campaign, During your campaign and After it is finished. With such a clear timeline, it might be quite helpful to understand what deal of a preparation is needed; how active you need to be whilst crownsourcing and what happens afterwards.

>>Download here<<

Remember, this booklet is made to be downloaded for free — share it with your team, friends and community, too.
What Tic Tac Toe Can Teach You About Life
Tags: Lifestyle, Game Theory, Life Lessons, Competition, Social

A similar scenario can be seen in real life, where a person or a business tries to do their best in reaching a goal. Then there is another person or another business who tries to block whatever the other person is trying to achieve. Thus, the game changes and becomes a neverending series of interactions between the 2 parties, whose goals are now to make sure that the other party is not winning. Both players shifted their objectives and lost track of what the real goal is.

If we look back at the TTT game, the reason why players have to block each other is that there is only a limited amount of boxes that both players can fill out in one game. Thus, blocking each other becomes a very interesting move. Another reason why blocking is a compelling move is because of the time horizon of the game that is also limited to only 9 moves in one game. With these limitations in place, both players have to block each other in order to survive and continue on to the next round by getting a tie.

In real life, however, it should not be the case. As humans, we are eager to always compare our lives with other people. When a person is successful or trying to be successful, there will be others who try to bring them down. Why? Because people think that there is only a limited amount of time and there is only a limited amount of fish out there. Thus, bringing a competitor or other people down would bring a significant personal gain. Let me tell you, it is simply not true.

If we go back to the game one more time, after the first block, the first-mover objective would also shift to also blocking the second-mover simply to not let the other player win. So, we can expect a similar reaction in real life that blocking would lead to another blocking by that same player or others. Thus, the game also becomes a neverending cycle of war.
NATIONAL SPORTS DAY 2020
By: Tanisha Jain
Tags: Fitness, Sports, Health, Nationals, Social

-Speech

I extend my greetings to everyone. I am Xyz of — — and I’ll be delivering a speech on today’s occasion, National Sports Day.

It’s celebrated every year on 29th Aug with the prime motto of developing thoughts on how people perceive sports education.

A few decades ago, the notion that Sports would not add any extra benefit to a person’s life was crowd-pleasing. But that is not the case now. As the new generation starts to take over, one of their prime concerns is Sports and that should be because sports serve a lot more objectives than just giving us pleasure.

You might have already heard the phrase which I am going to tell you now-

'All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy’.

But why is it so popular? Why do we need to learn about physical activities? The reason is that it helps us build a healthier and happier life. Sports teaches us how to interact with people, communicate with them, collaborate as a team. Besides, it relieves stress and improves the quality of life.

With all those talking about why sports play an important part in our lives, let us now hear why 29th Aug is chosen to be celebrated as National Sports Day. It is done so to honor the birth anniversary of the legendary hockey player Major Dhyan Chand who is regarded as the nation’s greatest hockey player of all time.

On this day, every year, various sporting events such as marathons, competitions, championships are held across the country. Many schools organize tournaments at an intramural level to help bring out the hidden talents of students.

Practically and essentially we shouldn’t step out of the house right now. So what we can do is engage in some sort of sports activity with our family to make them and ourselves feel a little better in these times.

To sum up, National Sports Day is a fun and exciting day for everyone and I hope that you’re celebrating this day with a great deal of joy as we are. On that note, I’ll take your leave.

Stay home, stay safe.

Thank you
There is something in the blood…
By: Haiqa Masoud
Tags: Curiosity, Thinking, Science, Health, Social

According to clinical or biochemical definition the blood is a connective tissue that flow in closed blood vessels, connective tissue because it connects all the body by supplying oxygen ,nutrients hormones etc to their destination but the blood also has some social definition i.e center of feelings.

Have u ever thought from where the feelings come from? The heart hasn’t a brain or some thinking sense then what does this means that, I don’t want to do this and that etc. why we use the word of WANT, even sometimes our mind is contradicting even we know that it would be hazardous etc. but why we do that, why we say I WANT ….

I think the word WANT belongs to heart. Let’s focus the nature, have u ever thought why the women is soft hearted than a male. Her kind behaviour affection and politeness, why is this more than a man?? It’s because the creator has added something in her blood and this is transfering to generations to generations.

Even a scientist conducted an experiment on a cat that he placed the food from some distance to her and let her to go to get that but there were hurdles in the way and those were electric shocks, the cat didn’t tolerate that and died after 3–4 shocks. Then he again experimented and this time instead of food he kept kittens and what did he see, that the cat crossed all the seven electric shocks and died very near to her kittens.

So, concluding this that there is something inside the blood that has its social value and is a reason of feelings — not yet discovered.
An Eternity in Social (The Monthly Blog)
By: Zeb Smith
Tags: F8, Social Media, Sri Lanka, Facebook, Social

An Eternity in Social (The Monthly Blog)

From Pinterest to Facebook, there’s a lot to be excited about with Digital and Social.

Facebook’s F8 Conference is all about change

The nuts and bolts of the conference are:

Facebook “prioritising” Privacy

Platform redesigns for Groups

A faster, lighter Messenger

And F5 — Facebook’s Twitter-esque platform for desktop users

These changes have the potential to be huge, with content shareability in Groups set to be a major point for advertisers and brands. With all of Facebook’s changes, it will take time for users to adopt updates and it’ll likely be a few months before we really understand behavioural shifts on the platform, still, it’s very exciting times for the platform.

Pinterest's IPO Soars as the company goes public

Pinterest's IPO Soars as the company goes public — As the company approaches ad revenue of $1 Billion USD it’s no wonder the company’s value is jumping. The growing success comes off the back of new Mobile placements and other benefits for advertisers. Advertisers are seeing below average CPM’s, long user dwell times and low overall competition, all fantastic elements that are pushing the company forwards.

Sri Lanka bans social media following terrorist attacks

The Sri Lankan government has moved forward on banning social media networks as a way to halt the spread of misinformation. Global commentators have mixed opinion on the move, with many wary that the suppression of speech may be lead to implicit authoritarianism and inhibits the notion of freedom of information through the internet.

Facebook adds “Map Cards”

Facebook adds “Map Cards”, helping to direct audiences to physical stores within Carousel Ads. A great step forward in physical sale attribution following digital exposure. There’s still a long way to go when it comes to accurate attribution modelling and privacy concerns will continue to play an integral role in closing the loop.

Facebook increases Brand Safety options
Cloud Logging Overview
By: Tudip Technologies
Tags: Testing, Mobile Application, It Services, Software Development, Social

Cloud Logging stores logs across all GCP products and provides us with the facilities like searching, monitoring and alerting capabilities.

It comes with an API to ingest customized log data from any data source. It’s fully managed service, so there are no hard drives to provision or to divisions to resize. It ingest application and system log data from thousands of sources simultaneously.

Logs are made up of entries created by google cloud services, third party applications or by your own code.

Message carried by the log entries are called the payload and it can be unstructured data or strings

Examples:

Details of a compute engine instance starting up, a new file being uploaded to a bucket, calling to a Machine learning API, or Anything your application writes to the standard or error outputs.

Each log entry indicated where it came from by including the name of the monitored resources.

Using the console’s log viewer, we can query logging data and can obtain the clear subset of logged entries of the project.

The query will let us to find entries for a given resource from different namespaces based on the log level and of course by timestamp

Viewing and searching logs

Navigate to Cloud Logs Explorer to configure which logs you view. Go to the Navigation menu > Logging > Logs Explorer.

Read more: https://tudip.com/blog-post/cloud-logging-overview/
The Rise of Network-Based, Social-Driven Apps
Tags: Venture Capital, Startup, Clubhouse, Networking, Social

All of a sudden, virtual-first social platforms have taken the tech world by storm. I’m pointing to two in particular — Clubhouse and Lunchclub — but there’s many, many more under the surface.

Why?

Let’s start with the obvious, first. For over a year and a quarter, Covid has prevented people from going outside and meeting up, but it doesn’t take away from their innate desire to network and feel like they’re connected. While Houseparty was trending at the beginning of lockdown, people have moved on to more sophisticated platforms. The second, less obvious answer, is that people are in need of smarter networking platforms, even if they haven’t realized it yet.

How well do they work?

Depends what your objective is. Each of these platform has a particular purpose, which can sometimes be used in unintended ways. While the initial intent to be on Clubhouse was to have intellectual discussions with people within your micro-community, it’s grown into a platform where the initial intent is to firstly be invited to it! (and then decide what you want to do once you’re there).

Is there room for more?

Short answer is, yes. Smart networking means that you’re getting something meaningful out of your very first interaction. It means that the process is so seamless, that it doesn’t even feel like networking. It means that the objectives of both parties are clearly stated at the outset, so there’s no room for low-level, random conversation.

Is NeonVest doing anything different?

We believe the best way to describe these relationships is like that of a mentor-mentee relationship. One-on-one conversations with domain experts, who can add direct value to you based on your specific context. There is always someone who gives and someone who gets, on our platform. We make the matches using a number of inputs, because we know our users the best. Every single user gets a different experience — that’s the beauty of it.

What We Do.

For domain experts, NeonVest provides mentorship opportunities, curated dealflow, and co-investor networking opportunities. If you’re interested in becoming an Expert VC, sign up here.

For founders (or budding founders), NeonVest connects them to unique, relevant domain experts on a regular basis, to get useful advice, tangible feedback and connections to people that matter. If you’re interested, sign up here. No long-term commitments.
N-Word in Singapore
Tags: Racism, Social Media, Singapore, Asia, Social

N-Word in Singapore

Singaporean?

Yes. Dad’s African, mom’s Chinese.

Do you feel Singaporean? Chinese? African?

Strangers see me as a foreigner.

I grew up, am really Singaporean. I’m stressed over school.

I speak mandarin. I’m more assimilated with Chinese people.

Dance and music helps me feel “black.” I know a little more history than others, but not enough.

Racism?

Older generation. They’ll speak in mandarin, hokkien. “Why is she here?” “She’s not welcome here.” My afro grabs attention. “Why is her hair so big?” “Does she wash it?”

Race as a plus?

Modelling. I’m “unique.” My godmother pushed my mom to audition for TNP New Face.

I’ve met beautiful people in the black community in Singapore. Others have wanted to know more about me, my culture.

The Tweet.

Because of hip-hop, the N-word has become so prevalent. If people say it in songs, I close one eye.

People come up to me and say, “What’s up, my N*gga?”

My friends Chris and Noreen retweeted it.

It’s respect not to say it in front of, to me. When you do it, there’s intent to piss me off.

I got a lot of love, but more hate.

SMRTFeedback said: it’s Singapore, black history, people don’t matter.

Africans in Singapore reached out to support me. People have messaged me to find out more, asked me to elaborate. I’m glad I helped.

I don’t represent black people. Some are okay with the N-word.

N-word = Homie?

I won’t think, “Is it ‘Nigga’ or ‘Nigger?’” Because of social media, people think it’s okay. I don’t find it welcoming. I think it does lift off negativity. I think it’d lift off more negativity just not using it.

Malays and Indians tend to use it more than Chinese. I’ve asked; they say it’s because they’re the minority in Singapore, they have more rights to say it.

Is Singapore less liable since we’ve less black people?

Elsewhere, you can get beat up for using the N-word.

I can’t entirely blame Singaporeans. They haven’t experienced the depth, don’t understand the pain that accompanies the N-word. But there’s social media. Everyone should know.

Is Singapore racially insensitive?

Even though we’re multiracial, yes. Because it’s socially unacceptable, they aren’t racially insensitive in front of others. I’ve seen looks. It’s a feeling.

The older generation, school tend to pass down racial stereotypes. Even if these stereotypes start off as “jokes,” they are repeated so much it sounds like people mean them.

How can we be less racist?

Education in schools. Respect.
Social good is better blockchain understanding
By: Kohei Kurihara
Tags: Data, Tech, Blockchain, Digital, Social

Reviewing and compile blockchain industry topic, updating market references and research environment.

Today, we are picking up the blockchain and social good impact.

South Korean SK Group has announced to cooperate with Ripple, to create blockchain-based donation platform. The platform will allow for direct, low-cost and peer-to-peer (P2P) foreign-currency transactions, instantly settling free of intermediary institutions.

Two separate tokens will be utilized. The Social Value Coin (SVC) will trade 1:1 to the won and be used for making the actual donations. The Social Value Power (SVP) will be distributed as compensation to those using the platform.

From Apps Run the World, In 2017, the top 10 Non Profit software vendors accounted for nearly 63% of the global Non Profit applications market which grew 6.7% to approach nearly $2.6 billion in license, maintenance and subscription revenues. Through their forecast period, the Non Profit applications market is expected to reach $3.4 billion by 2022, compared with $2.6 billion in 2017 at a compound annual growth rate of 5.2%.

In Europe, social good is the target of blockchain development field. At Horizon 2020, is to find projects using Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) that incorporate “blockchains for social good.”

Having formally embraced the developer community through the International Association of Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA) earlier this year, it would now appear that the EU are at a stage where they seek a wider, public roll out of the technology.

Binance charity foundation is aiming to make transparent donation process with blockchain power. BCF has already reached over 40,000 end beneficiaries with donations collected from more than 1,000 donors and many key industry players ever.

They expect to reach 170 schools and 100,000 kids under the Binance for Children initiative. For the Pink Care Token project, we will provide 50,000 girls with access to sanitary pads in Uganda by the end of the year.

Social good is the better understanding unlocked blockchain future power.

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Animation of objects along an SVG path using GSAP and animateMotion in React JS
By: Tudip Technologies
Tags: Cloud Computing, Mobile Application, It Services, Software Development, Social

Animation of objects along an SVG path using GSAP and animateMotion in React JS Tudip Technologies Aug 17·2 min read

In this blog, we are going to animate an object along an SVG path. We are going to achieve this via GSAP. Another way of doing this is the animateMotion element. We are going to discuss both one by one.

GSAP

The GreenSock Animation Platform (GSAP) can animate anything that JavaScript can touch (CSS properties, SVG, React, canvas, generic objects, whatever) and solves countless browser inconsistencies, all with blazing speed (up to 20x faster than jQuery). Visit the official website for details.

We will be animating a rectangular object on an SVG path in a React Js application.

First, we need to import gsap and MotionPathPlugin and then register the plugin.

import {MotionPathPlugin} from "gsap/MotionPathPlugin"; import gsap from 'gsap'; gsap.registerPlugin(MotionPathPlugin); /* register the MotionPath plugin */

We will be using the useEffect hook of the functional component to start the animation, as this will make sure that the node has been added to the DOM tree.

Our code will look something like –

useEffect(() => { gsap.to("#rect", { duration: 5, repeat: 12, repeatDelay: 3, yoyo: true, ease: "power1.inOut", motionPath:{ path: "#path", align: "#path", autoRotate: true, alignOrigin: [0.5, 0.5] } }); }, []);

gsap.to() -to define the destination values

Read more: We will be animating a rectangular object on an SVG path in a React Js application.

First, we need to import gsap and MotionPathPlugin and then register the plugin.

import {MotionPathPlugin} from "gsap/MotionPathPlugin"; import gsap from 'gsap'; gsap.registerPlugin(MotionPathPlugin); /* register the MotionPath plugin */

We will be using the useEffect hook of the functional component to start the animation, as this will make sure that the node has been added to the DOM tree.

Our code will look something like –

useEffect(() => { gsap.to("#rect", { duration: 5, repeat: 12, repeatDelay: 3, yoyo: true, ease: "power1.inOut", motionPath:{ path: "#path", align: "#path", autoRotate: true, alignOrigin: [0.5, 0.5] } }); }, []);

gsap.to() -to define the destination values

Read more: https://tudip.com/blog-post/animation-of-objects-along-an-svg-path-using-gsap-and-animatemotion-in-react-js/
Simplify Your Social Media Presence
By: Mark Alewine
Tags: Social Media Strategy, Social Media Marketing, Social Media, Social Media Management, Social

If social media feels like a drag on your time, then simplify it.

If you occupy any digital spaces, you know the feeling when you have been on them too long.

This feeling is especially true for social media. Your eyes glaze over, your brain starts to shut down, and all of a sudden you’re angry about something you have never actually cared about.

Social media is a complex beast for anyone, but it can feel particularly exhausting for time-strapped business owners who know they need this content. There is tremendous marketing potential in creating great posts that encourage engagement, but it can feel like a soul-sucking black hole for some business owners.

But here is a reality check. You started a business. You get to chose whether or not continuous social media posting is worth your time and energy.

And that’s okay.

If you’ve come to the point where you dread having to create the next Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, or Twitter post, then you have three options. You can scrape social media altogether (which we all want to do sometimes), you can farm out your social media management (which… *ahem*… you can check out http://markalewinewriting.com), or you can simplify.

Here’s what I mean. I manage the Facebook page of my home church in Maryville, TN. It’s a simple, forward-thinking church, so they don’t need posts that generate dozens of comments or likes. They need the Facebook page to be a reflection of what someone will experience when they interact with their welcoming community.

That’s it. Once you’ve established your content strategy and brand messaging (which… *ahem*… please refer again to the aforementioned http://markalewinewriting.com), your social media content can just be a continuation of that messaging. Simple, straightforward, and clear.

You know social media is important for the growth of your business. But part of being a business owner is earning the right to decide how you want your business to grow and how you want to invest your time. If social media feels like a drag, then simplify, simplify, simplify!
Socializing in the ‘Social Zone’
By: Rohit Keswani
Tags: Boredom, Comfort Zone, Strangers, Weekend, Social

A deeper dive into each one’s life, and you’re left with a number of different careers and the paths taken to get there. Amidst a majority of engineers, the group also consisted of a doctor, a teacher, and couple of participants having a background in Finance, among others. Although the initial guessing game brought out many more professions, that is, people we could only wish were present there!

In spite of having good jobs relevant to their education, everyone had one thing in common - aspirations. Aspirations to take their hobbies and interests to higher levels, to go along with their chosen profession. From a biker willing to fulfill his dream of riding to Ladakh, to a guitarist teaming up with a band; or someone turning her passion of baking cookies into a business idea - it was all there to find out and indeed, so much to learn from.

A fun, extended introductory session was followed by a selection of games. After all, teaming up with strangers to win at games does teach you a lot about yourself, no matter how little the significance of winning them is. That’s because few of the participants were present to get out of their comfort zones, taking up a personal challenge and experiencing a new way of learning more about coexistence. Perhaps that’s the thing about growing up — we’re rather content with a small close-knit bunch of friends to hang out with.

It’s like when we as little kids used to attend birthday parties of our friends, we got introduced to other kids of the same age group and had a good time, not having to work too hard to gel with new faces. Perhaps the only difference in the adult world is the need of having such initiatives and platforms. Otherwise, as stated by our friends who organised the event, you never get a chance to meet and connect with new people from different walks of life; to change the dynamics of how our weekends are spent.
Why I choose to eat lunch alone at work (a.k.a. anti-social lunch club)
By: Laura Gouillon
Tags: Social, Introvert, Lifestyle, Work, Creative

For the majority of people, lunch is a great break in the middle of the day to stop, eat some yummy food, socialize with coworkers, and to catch a breather from hours of solitary and often silent focused work.

Not for me.

As a technical program manager, I’m hardly at my desk throughout the day and am constantly walking, talking, and listening to people, clients, coworkers, contacts, all in the effort of managing projects and syncing with team members!

It’s a lot of fun, it’s a particular kind of work, and in reality, it can be emotionally draining, especially for someone introverted (ambiverted at times) like myself.

When lunch time rolls around — aka whenever I have a free gap in my schedule in-between meetings— the last thing I want to do is smile, chit chat, talk, listen attentively, and ask questions. It’s not that I don’t like doing these things, it’s just that I do these things all day long regardless!

So if you’re feeling weird about wanting to eat lunch alone, remember, it’s up to you to choose how you want to spend your break times or meal times. If you need a recharge, or want to spend lunch time eating and glazing over mindless (or maybe educational) YouTube videos, you are more than welcome to!

The pressure of needing to eat lunch with coworkers is not easy to manage. But when you listen to your body and your mood, you’re doing yourself a favor by restoring your physical and mental energy in whichever way suits you. Whether it’s eating lunch alone, going to yoga, going for a walk or run, or sitting and reading a book for 30 minutes (one of my favorites), you choose!

If you still enjoy socializing with coworkers but don’t enjoy group lunches, consider inviting coworkers to have a 1:1 lunch together. Not only will this satiate your social desire, it will also give you a chance to anticipate the subject of conversation and to bond with your coworkers more deeply as you’ll be speaking 1:1.

If none of these options sound appealing to you, don’t worry.

Anti-social lunch club is always a good option :)

How do you spend your lunch times?
Netflix X Instagram
By: Social Strategy
Tags: Instagram, Netflix, Social Media, Social

Netflix X Instagram

As Instagram stories continue to grow at such a rapid rate, you can expect all brands to search for more effective ways to utilise the platform and to expand their reach.

This week we’ve understood that streaming giant Netflix has announced a new integration which will enable users to share the latest movie or TV shows they’re watching directly to the app.

Netflix X Instagram

As explained by TechCrunch:

“The feature will add the title’s custom art to a users’ Instagram Story, where it’ll remain visible for 24 hours. The Story can also be customized with other options, like a user poll, for example.”

As you can see in the image above, if the viewer has Netflix already installed on their device then there’ll be a ‘Watch on Netflix’ link at the top left of the image, enabling an easy call to action.

Social Strategy predict that this move will be trialled by a number of other companies, including Facebook who actually announced the Instagram Stories third-party integration process last May at its annual F8 conference, with Spotify, Musical.ly and GoPro among the initial small group of partners.

Full article: https://www.socialstrategy.media/netflixxinstagram

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Facebook Release Messenger ‘Unsend’ Feature
By: Social Strategy
Tags: Social Media Marketing, Social Media, Messenger, Facebook, Social

Facebook Release Messenger ‘Unsend’ Feature

A year ago, Facebook announced plans to roll out an ‘unsend’ message option to all Messenger users. This has now become a reality with the Facebook owned app launching this feature this week. The feature will allow users to retract previously sent Messenger communications within a 10-minute window.

Facebook Release Messenger ‘Unsend’ Feature

As Facebook explain, the process is pretty straight-forward:

“It’s simple. Tap on the message you want to remove and select the option to “Remove for Everyone”. The removed message will be replaced by text alerting everyone in the conversation the message was removed. You will have up to 10 minutes to remove a message after it is sent.”

As Facebook stated last April, they announced this feature after senior executives at the company got caught out when some tech journalists noticed that previously received messages has mysteriously disappeared from their Messenger inbox.

Soon after this, Facebook announced that they’ll, soon, release the feature to all Messengers users, allowing them to retract any sent messages within a 10-minute time frame. It took Messenger another seven months to reveal any additional information on this feature (which made Social Strategy believe that this feature was never in the works and Facebook merely made the announcement then had to catch up)

Bolivia, Lithuania, Poland and Colombia were the initial countries that trialled this update, and with great feedback, this is now available to everyone. Facebook’s official announcement was short and straight to the point, the feature is now out there.

Full article: https://www.socialstrategy.media/facebookrollsoutmessengerunsendfeaturetoallusers

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June Platform Updates
Tags: Creators, Social Media, Ethereum, Social

Hello, Sapiens! It’s a new month, so it’s time for another set of release notes. This is a very special edition of our updates because we haven’t made updates to the platform, but we released a brand new homepage to greet our visitors and better communicate the vision we’re building here.

You probably already saw the site on your way here but for those who missed it, please enjoy a simple walkthrough of our beloved site:

Please meet our new tagline: “The social community platform for creators”

We also built a beautiful story that’s set around campfires and designed to delight and intrigue visitors. We wanted to vividly communicate our vision for helping people establish new connections, have amazing conversations, and build strong bonds of community with each other.

Here and in the top navbar you’ll notice we’re seeking out a few kinds of people in the world:

Do you have a podcast with avid listeners hanging on your every word?

Do you make videos for an adoring audience?

Are you someone who knows how to rally people together online?

We’re looking for people with golden throats, the future Chloe Zhao, the digital movers and shakers who want a better way to congregate, collaborate, and converse online. If any of this sounds like you, fill out the form at the bottom of the site! We’re building something cool for you and need your help building a social community platform for the future!
How to integrate OpenEdge Payment in a .Net project?
By: Tudip Technologies
Tags: Testing, Mobile Application, It Services, Software Development, Social

In this blog, we’ll see the way to integrate OpenEdge card payment implementation in Asp.Net.

Introduction to OpenEdge

OpenEdge is a payment entryway that accepts credit card payments. OpenEdge provides payment process services to businesses in a secured and PCI compliant manner.

How to start?

Following are the APIs used for transaction processing:

PayField API

Transaction API

PayField:

We have to be compliant with the PCI Data security standards when processing or storing credit cards. PayField allows you to process transactions without passing any of the sensitive data through your servers, thus eliminating your need for PCI compliance.

This is accomplished through embedding the PayFields, which are hosted on servers, onto our website.

The PayFields are integrated seamlessly within an HTML element of your creation.

PayField is configured with an object containing three items:

Type: The PayField type

Element: The ID of the HTML element that you want the PayField integrated within.

Values: The preset value for the PayField. If your customer will be inputting data into the PayField (i.e. they will be inputting their address or credit card number) the value of the object is left blank.

We’ll see step by step process to integrate PayField API

Read more: https://tudip.com/blog-post/how-to-integrate-openedge-payment-in-a-net-project/
SOCIAL MEDIA AUTOMATION
By: Kamal Kushwaha
Tags: Automation, Social Media, Review, Media, Social

SOCIAL MEDIA AUTOMATION Review: The secret to generating ALL of the traffic you’ll ever need for your Online Business.

I am talking about thousands, tens of thousands… And probably hundreds of thousands of Converting website visitors…

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I’m going to reveal to you how to Automate your Business Across all social media Platforms for Maximum Profitability

More so you won’t need any of the following:

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Experience

Tech Skills

Or any additional investment of ANY kind. That means you can Automate Your Business easily across all social media platforms.

This is a proven Automation Method that grows businesses and generates income without any technical skills needed!

Social Media Automation

I Automate my Business across All Social Media Platforms without Any Technical skills required.

Well, now you have the chance to start doing the same.

That is because my friend has just launched Social Media Automation, which you can start using to receive a lot of visitors at virtually no cost for your Business…

Because Social Media Automation Video Course teaches how to go Viral easily with free Automation Apps to monetize your Business

Go here now and see how Social Media Automation makes your Business Visible across All social media platforms

The top marketers continue to dominate when it comes to viral viewership across social media platforms while the small guys are left to compete for the tiny scraps with millions of small businesses.

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Regardless if you have technical skills or not.

Regardless if you’ve struggled for years to get traffic.

That’s because Social Media Automation techniques for Viral viewership and traffic works for anyone on this planet earth.

Remember, it doesn’t matter the type of business you are into.

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Real Life Vs. Social Media Life
By: Jenn Taylor, Mom Of
Tags: Cell Phone Life, Social Media, Social

My life as people see it on social media isn’t the same as my real life. Not because I try to embellish because I feel I’m genuine with what I post on social media. It’s just very two dimensional in a 3D world. It’s the tip of the iceberg, the part I want to show, my best foot forward.

Here’s a short film on Real life vs. Facebook life. It’s funny and probably more true than we admit. It made me LOL. (See how I threw in an acronym?) Another post by EarthPorn on Instagram photos was pretty great too. Never judge other people by what you think you see. Never compare yourself to anyone first of all because that’s silly. You are you which is exceptional on its own plus you really don’t know anyone’s whole story. Wouldn’t it be nice to have just a fraction of your life count? Or to have editing abilities in life as you do in a picture? Actually, it wouldn’t. I love my life — even the bits and pieces that make me crazy because it lets me appreciate the great stuff even more. My past challenges and mistakes have helped me become the person I am today and I like that person.

Just like I don’t post every picture I take (hello selfie hell!!), I don’t let everyone in on all the parts of my life. It’s something I’m working on actually. I want to be warmer in my writing, more open in my sharing. More relatable, more real, more ME. I’m a runner, I work as a Program Supervisor for a small non-profit recruiting and training foster parents, I have a HUGE, amazing, fantastic, crazy family, I’m a minimalist, I love the outdoors, I enjoy writing (always wanted to make a living writing actually), just because I have lots of kids doesn’t mean I like everyone else’s, I have a past, there are things I’m afraid of (heights), I acutely feel failure, relationships are extremely important to me but I have few, I came from dysfunction. I’m just me with my story but it’s mine in all it’s flawed, broken glory.

Be patient with people, complain less, say thank you more, let people know you appreciate them, share yourself, love unconditionally and wholeheartedly. Know that everyone has a story to tell — learn as many of them as you can.
Time to make life social again
By: Marek Piotr Romanowicz
Tags: Covid 19, Roadtrip, Social

Engineering systems that make our lives easier can be complex, machine learning models that govern what we see contain even billions of parameters, yet human psychology is probably even more intricate. Having been living in various forms of social distancing and quarantines over the past few months, we can easily forget how important interactions with other humans are. Do you still remember how hard it is to coordinate with another human or form a well-functioning relationship?

Getting out of the Covid social black hole

In the past two months I had the opportunity to experience again how social complexity increases exponentially with the number of people and diversity of personalities. We drove 3500 miles from New York to Los Angeles and lived together for another few weeks in a group of up to 12 people. Imagine the number of different characters interacting with each other and living in the same space, must be tough right? Yet being a super social person, I would not have traded it for anything else.

One may think that coexisting with others, making living arrangements and social plans is easy. After all every each of us went through college being generally active and having made plenty of friends. Yet unexpectedly things usually go south after graduation. All of a sudden it becomes so hard to even see the same people at a more regular cadence. There is one significant difference — life in college is constrained by the university environment while life afterwards is not. In the same fashion as one being able to move to any other city in the world after graduation, one can make million plans in their limited spare time that they need to optimize it.
THE 16 THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT SOCIAL NETWORKS
By: Giulio Virduci
Tags: Social Media, Social Network, Social Networking, Social

1. Every generation accuse the following ones to be lazy, weak and/or dissolute.

2. When someone accuse you of being “narrow-minded”, it is simply because you don’t agree with him/her.

3. If someone accuse you to go against the “common sense”, be sure everything this someone does or says fits perfectly in the definition of “common sense”.

4. An aphorism may prove a point as well as another aphorism may prove its opposite.

5. When you’re not sure about who actually said something, just write down it was by “A.Einstein” or “Oscar Wilde”. Nobody is going to check.

6. Write down “in my humble opinion” first, and then you can say whatever the hell you want: it doesn’t matter how unscientific, discriminatory or stupid.

7. When you do a grammar mistake, don’t blame the autocorrect (it’s not what people do anymore). Just self-diagnose yourself with dyslexia.

8. Good-looking users will get more engagement than the average, but don’t you dare to say that loud.

9. “Motivational quotes” never really motivated anyone.

10. Everybody has got “haters” to whom dedicate at least a weekly post.

11. Write down more than 6 words, and be sure there will be something that someone may find offensive

12. Despite the vaste majority of people say they’re uninterested in physical appearances, photo filters are overly used.

13. If you get some weird message by some creepy guy, don’t block him! Keep chatting, then screenshot and post it. “Name and shame” are the best for getting engagement!

14. People that tell you to “think with your own mind”, usually spread theories they read in some blog (or watched on Youtube).

15. When you see “Media don’t cover this” as a premise to a news, usually that news either is all over the place, or is a total bullshit.

16. Last but not the least: mocking the average social network user (even writing down semi-serious lists), won’t make you any smarter.