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5 Agile Community Gems
By: Paula Cassin
Tags: Agile, Platform, Software Development, Innovation, Teamwork

Click on links below to see conversations in their entirety. If you’re not yet a member of our agile changemaker Slack Community, click here to join us first!

Do scrum masters need conflict resolution skills?

Using team meeting videos for performance coaching

Carl (Canada) plans to coach some executives on sub-optimal communication tactics they’re using.

He shares his approach using meeting recordings to do this in a positive way, and asks for feedback from the community.

When a team doesn’t follow through on retro actions

Marcel (Netherlands) asked what you’d do if a team committed to creating a social contract as part of a retrospective, but only 30% showed up to the session to do it.

Explore community suggestions, add your own.

What do you think? Contribute to the #03_help_and_advice channel on Slack.

New Team Activities:

Drawing the Status Quo

Thanks to Ferdinand Veldmans, Agile Coach, for sharing his retrospective activity to increase creativity and insights through drawing. It’s a good activity to use with a new team to discover where frustrations lie.

Check it out here: Draw the Status Quo. (You’ll also find it on the Mind Settlers Android app home screen.)

Agile Delegation

Uwe Malinowski, we appreciate this alternative to Delegation Poker, focused on delegation within self-organized teams or peer groups.

Check it out here: Agile Delegation. (You’ll also find it on the Mind Settlers Android app home screen.)

Join in

Would you like to contribute your experiences and actionable ideas? Head over to Slack and share them with the 3000+ Agility Scales and Shiftup Community. If you’re not yet a member of our agile changemaker Slack Community, click here to join us first.

And if you’d like to showcase actionable ideas in the Mind Settlers app like Uwe or Ferdinand, that’s great too.

Best of luck on your innovation adventures,

Paula C and the Agility Scales Team
BM & AziT’s Token Structure and Trading
By: Azit Alliance
Tags: Property Technology, Platform, Cryptocurrency, Token, Blockchain

How do BM & AziT tokens work together?

AziT is a blockchain-based, point integration platform for real estate and residential services. Azit provides a service that allows users to conveniently use points as they see fit for residential services related to real estate or community facilities by integrating points that can be used anywhere.

Welcome to AziT!

In the previous article, we explained what Blockchain Mileage(BM) and the AziT’s tokens and their structure. Today, we want to share how to trade BM and AziT tokens. It is important to understand how BM and AziT tokens work on the AziT platform, and what the benefit is when you exchange AziT tokens for BM. We hope that this article is helpful to our readers.

BM’s Pricing

The AziT Alliance aims to create a structure in which BM (Blockchain Mileage) and AziT tokens can easily be traded according to market principles. The value of BM will be set according to market supply and demand. Each of the partner companies will form a small market where transactions between BM and AziT tokens take place. The value of BM is determined by the supply and demand in this small market and the algorithm set on the platform.

The more active the trade in this small market, the more stable BM will be. BM, like cash, can be used as a payment source for each service. BM is limited in use, so its transaction price is lower than that of the more general-purpose AziT token.

For example, if you buy 10 AziT tokens from a cryptocurrency exchange, you will receive 10 AziT tokens because they are used much more often than BM. However, if you buy the same amount of BM, you will receive 11 BMs instead of 10 BMs because its transaction price is lower as mentioned above.

Trading through the platform

BM and AziT tokens from each partner company’s small market are not directly linked to the seller and buyer, but the AziT platform becomes the seller or buyer instead, automatically closing the deal at the price set by supply and demand and the algorithm.

For every BM and AziT token transaction that occurs on the AziT platform, a certain level of commission is generated for the purpose of the stable operation of the platform. Some of the generated commission is reinvested into the platform for marketing to help the partner company grow.
Entertainment platform SHOW Token 600,000 incinerators.
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Tags: Coins, Platform, Showgo, Blockchain

The SHOWGO Foundation, a blockchain-based entertainment platform, announced that it has incinerated 600,000 SHOWToken as an activity to revitalize the SHOWGO platform and increase the value of tokens.

SHOWGO has a total issue of 10 million, much less than 21 million Bitcoin issues, and is a project that aims to build all entertainment platforms, including music and sports.

SHOWGO is currently building various systems to improve and change various problems, including illegal alteration of music sources, irrationality in the distribution process, and protection of new creations, which are problems in the entertainment industry.

It is a structure in which contracts are carried out through smart contracts, and musicians and influencers will register their profiles through platform apps and proceed with contracts through smart contracts. Users who use tokens to sponsor musicians and influencers and watch ads on the platform can be rewarded with SHOW tokens.

It plans to continue to increase demand by popularizing music and video streaming purchase services, limited edition auction shopping mall services, active and wide creator support services, and various user reward services.

http://www.nbntv.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=931216

Homepage : http://showgolive.com/

Medium: https://medium.com/@showgo_live

Blog : https://blog.naver.com/showgolive

Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/Showgo_office

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Showgolive-100164992348043
MISBLOC Platform #1
Tags: Medicine, Cryptocurrency, Projects, Platform, Blockchain

Hi there! In today’s post, we will mainly observe the MISBLOC platform, which includes the features, such as medical data generation, medical data utilization, and other additional services. The first functionality to be observed under this post is the medical data generation process. The functionality of MISBLOC is implemented in ‘ANAPATALK’, which is the main native application of MISBLOC. The ANAPATALK app consists of three steps,which are the generation of medical data, utilization of the generated medical data, and provision of additional services.

Medical Data Generation

The EMR that the patient receives on their personal devices has changed to the concept of PHR (Personal Health Record), which is the patient’s personal health information, also known and called MyData. My data PHR, in fact does not entail any sort of legal problems upon its exploitation, since it collects the consent of its users pre-conditionally. Thus, even if you post your PHR on the internet community or use it for commercial purposes, it is not a legally-binding matter, since it’s considered an act of personal free will.

MyData applies blockchain technology so that it enables the storage of data on the medical institutions’ servers and on patient’s personal devices, which is kept in the unmodifiable state (immune to forgery and alteration). The EMR is sent to the patient’s phone when the patient requests to download EMR records, reflecting the current general information delivery system as much as possible, rather than indiscriminately sharing the medical records of the first EMR records. However, information related to distribution, such as medical devices, medical products, and medicines, which are not EMR records, is automatically sent to mobile devices with the consent of patients so that information about which products were treated can be easily checked on mobile devices.

The medical institution will be compensated for providing healthcare information to the patient. When medical institutions issue EMRs to patients’ mobile device apps, they compensate them with tokens equivalent to the actual medical number, and whenever the number of views on this record rises, compensation is added to encourage the voluntary participation of medical institutions.
Building Sales Leads With Your Sweepstakes Giveaway
Tags: Giveaway, Marketing, Platform, Sweepstakes, Mobile

Using a text sweepstakes to build your sales leads is a great way to attract new customers. While running a sweepstakes will get your audience excited about your brand, you must design your campaign with a specific goal of getting sales if you want to drive ROI for your campaign.

Here is how to effectively use a sweepstakes to build your sales leads.

Go Big With the Right Prize

When it comes to getting entrants for sweepstakes, the prize is the key to creating buzz for your campaign. The right prize for a sales leads sweepstakes is one that is relevant to your business but also ensures that entrants are open to making future purchases after the sweepstakes has ended.

So learn what your audience wants to win most, such as a new car or dream experience, and give it to them as a prize for your sweepstakes. Don’t just guess; run a poll on social media to figure it out.

Pre-qualify Your Entrants As Potential Sales Leads

Once you have an awesome prize to give away, don’t just market it to any and everyone. Instead, pre-qualify your entrants by asking them a question during the entry process.

For example, if your business is a car dealership, you might ask one of the following questions as part of the entry form:

“Are you looking to test drive a new [INSERT MAKE MODEL]?”

“Have you recently searched for new or used cars online?”

“When do you plan to buy or lease your next vehicle?”

Our entry web form makes it easy to ask entrants for more information, including their email and phone number. This helps you create a list of potential sales leads who might like to hear from you once your promotion has ended.

Furthermore, it will help you to identify the traffic sources for your campaign that result in the most pre-qualified entrants.

Share Your Sweepstakes Via Social Media

Advertising your sweepstakes on social media is one of the best ways to directly tap into your audience to increase your sales leads. This is especially true if you have a business that can benefit from local lead generation.

Social media promotion means your sweepstakes entrants can invite their friends and family to enter. Your entrants’ word of mouth recommendations in favor of your brand will significantly boost the credibility of your business.

With pre-qualified sales leads as entrants to your sweepstakes, and their family and friends, you’ll be much more likely to make sales once your campaign ends.

Need help with sweepstakes or contest management? Call 305–505–5393 or email us with your questions.
HyperDragons’ first revolutionary update. Massive content is coming to preview.
Tags: Gaming, Gamenews, Platform, Hyperdragons, Mixmarvel

In order to bring the better gaming experience to community users, on this hot summer day, HyperDragons and HyperDragons Go! all will have an unprecedented update, massive content is coming, hurry up, let’s take a look at it first!

HyperDragons Go!

HyperDragons Go！ for ontology will have a new update. In the new version, the dragon will increase magic power value. During the battle, you need to consume the magic power value to release skills normally. At the same time, the new skill training system can make the dragon trainer synthesize dragon and synthesize skills. Different combinations of skill synthesis generate different gameplays.

Add a support system to easily submit your questions and make communication smoother.

Add exploration coupons, greatly reducing exploration time and getting more treasure chests.

More user experience updates to improve your playing experience.

HyperDragons

HyperDragons, the version of Ethereum will be fully upgraded to HyperDragons Go!

Following HyperDragons Go’s new update, HyperDragons will also welcome a major version of the update, Ethereum players will be able to directly experience HyperDragons Go! gameplay, the mining power of the Ethereum dragon will be directly upgraded into the corresponding fighting power of the Go! version. Dragon trainers can seamlessly transfer your dragon to the new version, then the trainers will can experience more variety of dragons; however, affected by magic, all levels of dragons will be transformed into GEN 1 dragons except the GEN 0 dragons, trainers can level-up your dragons in new battles, participate in the new arena, to win a generous contest award.

Are you already feeling excited when you read this preview content? Don’t worry, much more detailed information is coming up, please stay tuned!

At the same time, the MixMarvel community representative alliance program has been officially launched. If you have any comments or suggestions about the new version, welcome to submit it to us through the MixMarvel community representative alliance. We will regularly announce the feedback from the community users, so stay tuned!

You can join our community in the following ways:

HyperDragons social media links:

Telegram:

Twitter：https://twitter.com/MixHyperDragons

Facebook： https://www.facebook.com/MixHyperDragons

Medium： https://medium.com/@hyperdragons

MixMarvel community：

MixMarvel Official Website: https://www.mixmarvel.com/

MixMarvel Twitter：https://twitter.com/MIXMARVELGAME

Official telegram Community：https://t.me/MixMarvelGlobal
The beginning of pili.
Tags: Pili, Marketplaces, Platform, Startup, Tech

The beginning of pili.

As every good idea, pili started by facing a problem: Romit, one of the co-founders, and his family moved into a new city and were looking for a painter. However, this turned out to be quite a challenge since there was no easy and quick way of finding someone with a clear indication about the price and quality beforehand. This is when we faced a question that we couldn’t stop asking ourselves:

Why is it so hard to find a good service provider in today’s digital age?

At the beginning of April of 2020, Koen, Romit and Lucas made the decision to turn the problem that we identified into a business, which we decided to call pili. The name originates from Hawaiian and alludes to the meaning of connection and being connected, which we identified as the single most important goal that we are chasing: Connecting service providers and customers within a trusted and safe environment.

How are we going to do that?

Our core value proposition is a two-sided marketplace that helps customers to easily find, compare, book and pay for services as well as service providers to promote their services in an easy and intuitive way. Furthermore, we are building an ecosystem around our core business, which has the sole objective to make life easier for service providers. We are intentionally choosing a collaborative approach because we deeply believe that this is the only sustainable way of building a business. In contrast to competitors within our market space, we fundamentally hold the belief that only such an approach will lead to long-term value for all users of our marketplace. In addition, we feel an ethical responsibility towards society in the most demanding challenge in recent history — Covid-19.

What is important to us?

We build our business around three core values: Trust, Transparency and Convenience. Every decision that we make has to contribute to one of those three values because we believe that this is the only way in which we can guarantee continuously value adding functionalities for our users. In our opinion, trust plays the single most important role for any business that operates digitally in today’s world where most decisions are based on reviews of others. This represents our most significant challenge: to develop our technology in a way that allows customers and service providers to trust each other and have meaningful interactions.

We are excited to continue this journey and are more motivated than ever to serve our users as well as we can. Stay tuned for more updates and stories about our startup.
Keepr3v1 (KPR3) Airdrop is now on.
Tags: Presales, Giveaway, Defi, Platform, Airdrop

Keepr3V1 is a community-governed DeFi platform focusing on Keeping, Staking, Lending and borrowing, Non Fungible Tokens. Keepr3V1 is a tool that connects all the relevant financial instruments in one platform. Fully decentralized, the project provides you with the necessary toolset to improve your crypto experience with a variety of features.

Total asset valuation is up to 150.000 USDT

Token detail:

Name: Keepr3V1

Symbol: KPR3

Total supply:200.000

Smart contract: 0x3acFbc4142Af5C17592c58C1d9b69B41F47F6ea3

Address: https://etherscan.io/token/0x3acfbc4142af5c17592c58c1d9b69b41f47f6ea3

❌❌❌ Warning: This is our official smart contract. Be careful and don’t fall into any scammer or send money to the fake contract.

Token allocation:

Total supply: 200.000 KPR3

Presale: 100.000 KPR3 (50%)

Development: 30.000 KPR3 (15%)

Staking: 20.000 KPR3 (10%)

Burning:20.000 KPR3 (10%)

Team: 10.000 KPR3 (5%)

Public pool: 10.000 KPR3 (5%)

Community(Airdrop): 10.000 KPR3 (5%)

🏅🏅🏅 Our detail rules:

👉🏻 Join our telegram and say “Hello”

👉🏻 Follow our Twitter

👉🏻 Retweet the given link with hashtag #Airdrop

#Keepr3v1network #KPR3 #Upto150000USDT

(You can skip this step. If you continue, you will earn 0.2 KPR3)

👉🏻 Take a screen photo and give your twitter username.

(We will manually check again the detail, please submit

👉🏻 Submitted your ERC20 wallet.

🚀 1 KPR3 = 15 USD

You can get up to 0,5 KPR3 by joining our airdrop and 0,1 for each referral.

📪 Our social media:

Telegram: https://t.me/Keepr3V1

Twitter: https://twitter.com/keepr3v1

Medium: https://keepr3v1network.medium.com

Gifhub: https://github.com/Kpr3V1/Keepr3V1-Token

Website: http://www.keepr3v1.network

Email: info.contact@keepr3v1.network
Job Opening : Platform — Analyst — American Express, Phoenix, AZ
By: Wong Doyo
Tags: Analyst, Platform, Phoenix, Jobs, Job Hunting

Analyst — Product Development

Enterprise Digital Products & Platforms team affects digital transformation at American Express by creating world class digital products and scalable platforms through best in class Agile product management, analytics and testing to drive value to the enterprise.

Our focus is on delivering an ecosystem of products that enable fast, scalable and consistent product development. We Build and enhance digital precision marketing products enabling real time personalization of offers, messages and experience on Amex sites as well as offsite channels globally. In order to deliver on a personalized and consistent customer experience across channels, we transform how we approach design, data, event processing, analytics and more across the blue box.

We are looking for an Analyst — Product Development, who will support the Platform Owner in maintaining the health of and assist with any improvements to the platforms.

We are looking for someone who is strategic, highly organized with strong attention to detail, great communication skills and enjoys working at the intersection of tech and business.

In this role you will:

Work closely with our Platforms, Engineering, and Technology partners.

Communicate regularly with platform users as needed for platform announcements, compliance, user maintenance, and usage maintenance.

Measure and report on metrics related to platform usage levels, data ingestion, efficiency and performance.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

The candidate should be experienced in digital product development. Ideally having worked as a Product Analyst and/or Program Management role in liaison to a technology group.

Demonstrated organization, and planning skills applied in a fast-paced, multi-tasking environment

Advanced experience in Excel including pivot tables and basic VBA

Experience with JIRA and Confluence

Understanding of how data needs to be organized, accessed, monitored and controlled

Basic SQL and UNIX knowledge

Problem solving skills and ability to take independent responsibility of projects.

Outstanding oral and written communication skills with strong personal presence; active listening skills, summarization skills, and lateral thinking to uncover and react to emerging opportunities and drive collaboration and alignment.

A good balance of technical knowledge and business acumen with a customer-first mindset

Working knowledge of SAS

Shell Scripts/Perl

Hive and big data platform is a plus

Bachelor’s degree is required; Master’s level is a plus

Depending on factors such as business unit requirements, the nature of the position, cost and applicable laws, American Express may provide visa sponsorship for certain positions.

ReqID: 19012244

Schedule (Full-Time/Part-Time): Full-time

Date Posted: Jul 9, 2019, 1:01:51 PM

APPLY NOW : https://needhired.com/platform-analyst-american-express-9080a94f670c2cdc/
First Amendment — Freedom of Ads: I Wish
By: Khalid Al Madani
Tags: Economics, Platform, Ecosystem, Economy, Business

Disclaimer: This is indeed a fiction post (although, its underlying core is non-fiction). The conversations are the product of my imagination. The leaders (those alive & the ones that have passed away) have been selected for their unprecedented contribution to the business world.

Jobs: Clay nice to see you! Earth is finally sending its finest minds over here.

Christensen: Hi Steve, nice to see you too. Earth sent the finest mind almost a decade ago.

Jobs: You will enjoy it over here, but don’t look down.

Christensen: I already did and regret it.

Jobs: They need help; I wish if I can go down for a few minutes.

Christensen: A few minutes!

Jobs: I only need to talk to one person.

Robert, do you want to be remembered as someone who brought joy in people’s lives, or do you want to be remembered as the one who fought to liberate their economic destiny?

You, Bezos, Cook, Pichai, Nadella, Zuckerberg, and others, have enough authority, power, and capabilities to reshape the earth’s economic landscape. Instead, you guys are (economically) in a war against each other, over winning customers’ attention!

This war is not just draining your finite resources; it is tearing apart your customers as well. Capital market’s quarterly spikes were never the main reason behind building our businesses. The iPhone was not an end in itself, neither placing a super personal computer inside customers’ pockets. Businesses are supposed to be means towards higher ends.

It is time to place a full-fledged ecosystem in customers and businesses’ pockets; giving businesses, free access to the demand side, and giving customers full control over their economic graph.

The duality of commoditizing the supply and controlling the demand side of the economy is imprisoning the untapped opportunities within the economic graph. Treating the economic graph as a commodity (i.e., extracting it, aggregating it, monetizing it) is too narrow of ambition with a diminishing proposition.

The economic graph must be empowered to drift freely and persistently be reinvigorated; allowing it to spontaneously hop-on-hop-off across businesses, markets, industries, and economies’ boundaries.

The economic graph is a derivative of the commercial behaviors (i.e., interweaving supply and demand). As such, you guys must build a new economic architecture that governs the proliferation of prudent commercial behaviors to continuously gives birth into the economic graph.

Robert, you thrived during the two eras; you saw how the economic graph was suffocated during the shelf-space scarcity era, and how it is getting trapped during this era of attention scarcity; the same force (the Internet) that divorced the economic graph from the limitations of the industrial age’s underlying units of economic, is once again chocking it (economic graph).
MOI Ecosystem Strengths
By: Moi Official
Tags: Digital Art, Platform, Intellectual Property, Ecosystem, Art

1. MOI provides a platform on which people purchase artworks or other items, communicate with others on exchanging their ideas on artworks, and are rewarded according to their contribution on the platform.

2. The MOI platform implements blockchain technology to provide information on authentic or counterfeit items for everyone, lowering the entry barrier for the general public. With information equality ensured, rational transactions can be made even in a non-contact environment with objective pricing through decentralization of the artwork trading market.

3. MOI provides opportunities and sponsorships for budding-yet-innovative developers or creators to relieve their entry barriers in the existing trading market. MOI ensures that the creators’ efforts are recognized and justly rewarded to address the inequality issues found in the current market situation.

4. The MOI platform supports the proof of sole or shared ownership of tangible assets through NFT technology, to enable the owners to reap profit from their assets through value appreciation or digitalized rental and sale.
Create Jira issue workflow step for Slack
Tags: Platform, Integration, Slack

Today we are excited to announce our latest feature to further reduce context switching and keep your team in sync. With our release this morning you can now include Jira in the steps of your workflow in Slack.

When Slack announced the open beta for workflow steps from apps we know immediately that creating issues in Jira would be a powerful addition for the 75% of workflow builders that are non-technical.

This zero-code integration provided with Jira Integration+will open up endless possibilities for teams working in Workflow Builder.

How it works

Navigate to Tools > Workflow builder in Slack Create a new workflow or choose our template “track a new bug” Configure the project in Jira and map your fields

4. Publish your workflow

5. Check out the results in Jira — this works for Jira Cloud, Server and Data Center.

The possibilities are endless, what will you build?

Let us know your ideas for workflows in Slack with integration to Jira. We can’t wait to see what you build!

Let us know what you are thinking the comments below…
Featurepreneur — a platform to turn your ideas into reality
By: Aishwarya Ramaswami
Tags: Benifits, Ideas, Platform, Opportunity, Machine Learning

Featurepreneur is a step towards creating a volunteering community in Machine Learning — where you can solve employers’ small ML problems and get appreciated with a small amount of money and a recommendation letter.

This initiative was created to motivate young minds to showcase their technical talents and skills and also be benefitted from the same.

Featurepreneur is actually a kind of marketplace where you can propose your idea which would benefit the employer or society in any way. There is also a ReqBank- the requirements bank where there is a pool of requirements posted by the one who needs the feature and you can also choose one out of them and work on it.

Technology Stack Required to be a part of Featurepreneur

The main domain concentrated is machine learning and deep learning or some trending technologies. Initial training will be provided for a newbie in those technology stacks if required.

A distinct attribute about featurepreneur

Featurepreneur is a voluntary based community. Anyone who is interested can work on a feature or propose new ideas in it. After completion of the feature, a certain amount will be paid to the developer based upon their work.

This is a platform where one can able to focus on learning by working on a feature rather than focusing on money, but will also be benefited by their work with the money they deserve at the end.

Benefits I earned for featurepreneur🎉

I am being a final year CSE student and intern at TactLabs, I got an opportunity to work in this featurepreneur. I completed some features and also benefited from it. Throughout the process, there was full of learning. In the end, I was also paid for the same at the end. This boosted my confidence that I could also work and develop products.

I would thank Mr. Raja CSP Raman who is a founder of Tactii and Tactlabs, Canada, and laid the basis for this platform. He is a successful entrepreneur who motivates young minds to reach their dreams.

I would strongly recommend young developers to use this platform to showcase their skills and get benefited by improving your career growth curve.😎😎
Orion Protocol is a DeFi platform that provides liquidity aggregation solutions.
By: Oleksandr Zinkevych
Tags: Orn, Defi, Platform, Trading, Orion Protocol

Orion Protocol is a DeFi platform that provides liquidity aggregation solutions. It aims to solve the problems in DeFi by aggregating the liquidity of the entire crypto market into a decentralized platform: liquidity problems — from every major centralized transaction. Thus, decentralized exchanges and liquidity pools collect liquidity.

The core of the Orion protocol is the ORN token. Payment, mortgage, participation, unlocking deals with discounts. ORN is required for all Orion protocol functions

The Orion protocol performs transactions in a decentralized manner and does not require storage supported by a unique liquidity aggregator that connects all major exchanges (centralized or decentralized).

Users only need to connect to a cold wallet (via MetaMask and other wallets) and then fulfill your orders between multiple connected exchanges — even exchanges where you don’t have an account. Always provide service at the best price and never give up your assets.

Based on peer-to-peer trading technology, we bring together traders (those who want to trade easily and efficiently across all cryptocurrency markets) and brokers (those who want guaranteed income from transaction fees by executing orders on behalf of traders). A real way of decentralization.

Twitter - https://twitter.com/orion_protocol

Telegram - https://t.me/orionprotocol

Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/orion-protocol

Github - https://github.com/orionprotocol
June 2020 Update of Project Firefly: Custom App Publishing and Custom Events
By: Colene Chow
Tags: Cloud Computing, Extensibility, Platform, Serverless, Project Firefly

Project Firefly is our framework for building custom cloud-native Adobe apps. Last month, we officially launched Firefly’s developer preview, and since then the team has continued to make improvements and enhancements to help you better extend the functionality of Adobe Experience Platform and Adobe Experience Cloud.

In this release of Firefly, you can now publish Firefly apps on Experience Cloud, along with the ability to harness the power of event-based integrations in your custom apps.

By combining home-grown and third-party technologies in Firefly, enterprise customers and partners can build apps that are tailored to their specific business and workflow needs. We hope these new features make it an even more powerful platform for you to address your unique business challenges. If you’re an enterprise user of Adobe, you can apply to take part in the developer preview of Firefly here, and read on for more details on everything new in this release.

Publishing Firefly apps on Adobe Experience Cloud

In this release of Project Firefly, you can now publish their custom Firefly applications on Adobe Experience Cloud. This means users will now be able to easily find your app right alongside their other Experience Cloud apps for easy use. Here’s how publishing works:
Smart-games.io — the future of gaming services
By: Smart Games
Tags: Tron, Platform, Gambling, Betting, Blockchain

Welcome to the world of cutting-edge 100% fair games based on an open-source Tron smart contract. The future that gamers have been waiting for is finally here: the project Smart-games is launching an innovative platform that will transform the industry.

For the past 100 years, the industry of gaming and betting has hardly changed. There have always been middlemen who would set the rules. The key problem was that those rules put users at a disadvantage compared to bookies, casinos, and game organizers. What’s more, the organizers who wrote the rules constantly broke them.

History has demonstrated that simple evolutionary developments are not enough to change market. A revolution is needed in order to create equal, fair and transparent conditions for all — and blockchain provides a perfect catalyst for this revolution.

The use of blockchain technology guarantees:

- 100% transparent and fair games;

- Minimal fees charged on playing games and any other transactions;

- More anonymity for gamers than ever before.

Smart-games is not just launching a new blockchain-based game. It’s a whole new aggregator that will include the most popular an interesting games. Exclusively on our platform, gamers will find the first real smart contract-based PvP games, allowing them to enjoy — and profit from — online games like Tic-tac-toe and Battleship.

Why is our platform different?

In the next couple of years Smart-games will attract large numbers of gamers who are now using services that have not implemented blockchain. They will be eager to switch to Smart-games because of one very special advantage that it offers.

Each game played, regardless of the bet size, will award user with the platform’s token. The number of issued tokens is finite and they are not subject to inflation. While playing their favorite games, the platform’s clients will become co-owners of Smart-games.

They more they play, the more tokens they will earn. What they do with the tokens is their choice: they can sell them on an exchange or keep them to receive dividends that the project will pay to all token holders in proportion to their stake. The scheme is made even more attractive by the fact that the dividends are paid not once in 12 months as it happens with stocks, but rather every 12 hours. All dividends will be paid out in TRON and sent to users’ wallets. This money can be immediately withdrawn, used to pay for goods and services, or exchanged for fiat or another cryptocurrency.

Smart-games makes gaming and betting even more exciting thanks to its unique user-friendly design and great customer support. Enjoy larger, more frequent winnings and earn dividends every 12 hours!

Website : https://smart-games.io/

Follow us on social media:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/smartgames_io

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SmartGames.io/

Telegram: https://t.me/SmartGames_io
New beginnings
By: Vishesh Chopra
Tags: Platform, Fellowship, Startup, Entrepreneurship, India

No one could have anticipated how 2020 would turn out. And yet here we are, a year down the line, alive and kicking (mostly).

India has arguably been one of the most impacted countries because of Covid-19, and as fears of a mutated strain are gripping nations, vaccines are being rolled out across the world.

Solutions are being iterated upon and released into the market at lightspeed. Supply chains reconfigured, businesses restructured, relationships reformed, technology on overdrive.

Gotta love human ingenuity.

But when it comes down to the ground level reality, Indians are mostly still playing catch up with the rest of the world. Problems that plagued Silicon Valley have bled into the Indian ecosystem which was traditionally robust and grounded. Though the barriers for entry have remained higher than other countries, it hasn’t stopped the average Indian from figuring out a jugaad.

India is a land of entrepreneurs of all kinds. Every corner, every street, every city and town and village filled with industrious folks who often display a knack for business when least expected. Hard work is a given for survival here, success often a byproduct. What the ecosystem lacks, however, is mentorship, community and platforms.

Platforms have existed for years. Malls for consumers and merchants; newspapers for subscribers and advertisers. IT and network effects have made Facebook, Github, Uber and many more possible. And, of course, Bitcoin too.

But what of the unbanked, the disconnected and the marginalized? Concentration of progress in pockets has made centralization of progress a self-fulfilling cycle in some parts while the rest remain largely ignored.

Draper Startup House Koramangala, situated in the middle of Bengaluru, is a startup platform trying to empower entrepreneurs and digital nomads in India. And through our fellowship we intend to figure out more gaps to fill and more problems to fix. And also fix them, if possible.

First cohort.

The most immediate one to fix, in my opinion, is search and discovery. Advertising and media has cluttered the world with dubious information and imagery, and trust in institutions has reduced over the past few years. There is a sore need for solutions that simplify life, and I’m trying to work on one through the fellowship.

As the world shrinks away from strangers and comes closer to known people and circles and communities in their vicinity, people will want a way to connect with each other online hyperlocally. It’s impractical to go knocking on everyone’s door in a small radius just to find someone new to speak to, and social networks are broken when it comes to discovering or approaching potential connections in nearby areas.

Dating app fatigue is plaguing people already, social media apps continue to push untouchable celebrities and influencers, and gaming is one of the few escapes from reality left for the average joe.

In the age of communication, serendipity is being lost.

It’s time to change search and discovery.
Why do decentralized and transparent solutions are on the rise?
Tags: Lcms, Decentralized, Platform, Projects

Why do decentralized and transparent solutions are on the rise? LCMS Follow Feb 2 · 1 min read

Have you ever thought about why product reviews are important, not to mention how useful they are? The importance of reviews can be explained with the following points:

Improved customer loyalty. Reviews from real customers strengthen the trust of other customers.

Reviews from real customers strengthen the trust of other customers. They provide arguments to those who are hesitant. User reviews often mention things that manufacturers won’t (either intentionally or out of pure ignorance). User reviews can also be very professional.

User reviews often mention things that manufacturers won’t (either intentionally or out of pure ignorance). User reviews can also be very professional. Improved brand and business reputation. Naturally, customers will trust things they are familiar with, be it a product or manufacturer. People are more likely to discuss their purchases with their family, colleagues or friends to share their opinions and get feedback.

We want reviews to work towards promoting genuine quality goods, and this is why we are building the LCMS project so that every user’s opinion is valued and considered!
MTN Nigeria Launches Robust Customer Engagement Platform.
Tags: Customer Success, Platform, Entrepreneur, Customer Engagement, Sme

MTN Nigeria has launched a new unified customer engagement platform, EnGauge, designed to enable small-to-medium enterprise business owners to seamlessly administer transactions with customers, potentially increasing their productivity significantly.

Developed in partnership with Ajua™, a leading African start-up, MTN EnGauge is an agile application that offers innovative customer management solutions, including digital payments using a unique USSD code, CRM tools, customer feedback channels, debt management and tracking, business, and product promotions through mobile and social media channels.

The solution is downloadable on the Google Play store and only available on the MTN network (for now) with a monthly subscription of N500 and a yearly subscription of N5,500. Following installation and registration, businesses are automatically provided with a unique USSD code that allows their customers to interact, transact and communicate with them in real-time.

With MTN Engauge, entrepreneurs can securely receive payment, track transactions with each of their customers, and glean valuable insights to serve them better based on their preferences and buying behaviour.

“MTN EnGauge is the ideal platform for business owners and entrepreneurs to thrive in the ‘new normal.’ Entrepreneurs have had to re-organise their core business models through backward and forward integration to maintain relevance. The EnGauge mobile application helps make this possible and seamless,” said Lynda Saint-Nwafor, Chief Enterprise Business Officer, MTN Nigeria.

To showcase the platform, MTN held a live demonstration session via Zoom, where business owners were presented with the benefits of adopting the solution.

“The fundamental engine of business growth is customers. By design, MTN EnGauge solves most of the challenges SMEs experience, from digitally engaging their customers to cash management,” said Kenfield Griffith, the Founder and CEO of Ajua. “With MTN as a partner and their reach across the continent, we believe MTN EnGauge will have a positive and impactful trajectory, driving transformational business growth for SMEs,” he added.

MTN EnGauge was launched to the Y’ello 200 in February, beneficiaries of MTN’s Revv Programme, thus fulfilling the telco giant’s promise that the SMEs will be first to enjoy solutions from her stable.
Network Effects and Virality are not the same — Re: Platforms
By: Grant Meglis
Tags: Network, Platform, Viral

Photo by JJ Ying on Unsplash

I’m reading the book Platform Revolution to better understand how platforms change markets. For the longest time, I thought that network effects and virality were the same thing. However, according to the authors:

“Virality is about attracting people who are off the platform and enticing them to join it, while network effects are about increasing value among people on-platform.” (23)

Listen to this blog post here! Network Effects and Virality

I had assumed that what attracts people into a network is the value they get from the network. But in fact, this oversimplifies the interaction between user and platform. The reason for joining could be the same as sticking around. But often, it isn’t.

Suppose a marketing initiative gives users $10 to refer a friend to join. Or, registering could require the user to input their contact list to the platform, to be used for more invites. These examples show virality to grow a network, but not value creation within a network. Just because a platform has a network and goes viral, does not mean that it adds value to users upon joining. Virality used to get more hype, with value coming from how fast you could grow. But now, the value of platforms comes from how they retain users just as much as obtaining users.

Network effects depend a lot on the platform itself. For YouTube, virality could be sharing a video link. But network effect benefits would be the improvement to the video recommendation algorithm coming from more behavioral data from more users. This recommendation keeps users coming back.

It’s possible that a platform has both virality and network effects, such as Facebook: people joined Facebook because of the viral effect of “Fear of Missing Out.” Our friends were connected, so we wanted in as well. Once online, people stayed on for additional features like Facebook Groups and Facebook Marketplace, which grew more valuable as more people joined. Now, the long-term value of Facebook is “active” users, not just “new” users. And activity comes from those valuing the service and going back for the network effects.

As I continue learning about platforms, I’ll pay more attention to the difference between why to join a network vs. why to stay on it.
Becoming a Digital Wealth Leader
By: Thomas Schornstein
Tags: Hybrid Wealth, Digital Transformation, Wealth Management, Platform, Fintech

Executive Summary

Now is the time for digital action — Although financial institutions have been talking about digitizing wealth management for several years, this has now become a strategic priority if they want to be able to show net revenue growth going forward. While the requirements of clients are relatively straightforward, digital solutions will change the way wealth managers meet these needs. This makes it critical for industry players to be able to prove their value-add via a level of automation they haven’t been able to achieve before.

Respond to evolving client needs — Given that the expectations of the next generation of clients are driven by their experiences with online retail offerings, wealth management providers need to deliver far greater levels of digital proficiency. Availability anytime, anywhere, as well as speed, ease of use, transparency and seamless omni-channel services and fair pricing are key success factors in today’s landscape.

Augment the role of client advisors — Client advisors will continue to play an important role in managing the overall client relationship in this new world of wealth management, combining the human touch with technology as an enabler to offer more customized and relevant solutions directly to individual clients. The digitization journey therefore needs to start by optimizing the processes of the most effective and productive client advisors — with the dual goal of improving time-to-market and customer experience. Wealth management firms also need to reduce the administrative workload of advisors by giving clients more control and functionality to be self-directed.

Turn higher value-add into more revenue — Once wealth management firms have implemented both internal and external efficiency measures, client advisors will be able to focus more time on maintaining close client contact. In turn, this should lead to more frequent discussions about other potential solutions that create greater revenue streams.

Get prepared to go digital — The success of digital transformation in wealth management is only possible if firms are ‘ready’ for it. Being prepared starts internally with a top-down process that crafts the ‘digital vision’. From here, suitable business and operational models are defined and formulated into the digital strategy.