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WOMEN BEING UNDEREPRESENTED IN SPORT
Tags: Gender Equality, Womens Sport, Women, Sport, Mens Sport

Many women throughout their childhoods dreamt of being athletes, making money from playing a game and receiving recognition from fans. It wasn’t until later our generation realised that this representation of wanting to be on a team was entirely coming from men. Men’s teams in a variety of sports were being broadcasted a lot more than the women’s teams. So, automatically, the only way people saw a sporting career forming was if you were a man. What does this mean?

In many female’s eyes, sport was a man’s domain. They weren’t receiving the reassurance they needed to confirm that women were just as good, and deserved a place to show off their skill in front of the world.

But sport isn’t just for males, so many females regularly enjoy and are excellent at their chosen sports. It just isn’t shown enough. There have been fantastic gains on women’s sports through the years, believe the data when you see how much more females are appearing on sports channels. But it’s true that we can do a whole lot more, be a whole lot better.

Women can play all sports.

This is why ABC News has launched the 50:50 project. A plan to ensure equality and bring peace into the world of divided genders in sport.

Now nearly 40 percent of all sports have women participating in them. But how can you help? Gaining more female spectators from games on the television or just arriving at a stadium (once they open again) to support them, it all helps. Even the men can help out, they can stand for equality too, by watching these streamed female matches, we ensure that we continue to improve the amount of rights between these genders. Launching gender equality for many.
7 reasons why men (not all men) are frustrated by feminism
By: Elisabeth Lugie
Tags: Gender Equality, Gender Equity, Women, Womens Rights, Feminism

1. The privilege card is being cancelled

Does male privilege exist? If this question has been haunting you for a while then let me tell you that the answer is yes. Julien Real’s blog post titled, “Unpacking the Male Privilege Jockstrap” has listed 100 male privileges, at work, in executive position, in the household, as a result of social expectations, that I invite you to read.

2. They feel threatened

The privilege card is so normalized that taking it away feels like a threat. Because “some” men will be bothered by things that do not even affect them personally. A so-called friend of mine got mad at me when I told him that he should not ask a woman if she is on her period when she is upset.

3. They are scared to lose the control

There is a specific way that society describes the man. The word itself can be a synonym for power or courage. Be a man means you have to be strong; you have to overcome fear, you have to not only feel but be powerful. And how can you feel powerful without the ability to control? Domination must be imperative.

4. They used Gaslighting as their protection

“Not all men” is the most famous gaslight to shut down a victim’s mouth. Of course, it is not all men, the victim is talking about a particular experience, but have you taken the time to listen and validate this experience before defending yourself. What would you say if someone is talking about being attacked by thieves who threatened to kill him? “Not all thieves are bad?” Not all men we know, but not enough men you should know.

5. They think feminism is not addressing their issues.

Men can be oppressed, men are victim of rape, murder, and all types of crime, men are most likely to be suicidal. Men’s issues are as valid as women’s issue and they need to be addressed, they need to be discussed and fixed. But they cannot be brought on the table as a response to women’s issue. They need to be communicated separately.

6. They benefit from the feminization of poverty

Up to 2020, “some” men are thinking that their role in the house is to be a provider. Now imagine a system where primary needs are fulfilled for everyone and working is optional just to have more revenue. What would your role be in this household? There are a thousand reasons women want to have a man that does not imply providing. Love, affection, friendship, intimacy, etc. Besides cleaning and baby-sitting are jobs, discuss the payment if ever you intend to identify yourself as a provider.

7. Women will increase their standards

The bar is low for men when dating. I know in the narrative, or in television, we are supposed to be complicated. But in real life, show a woman some basic human decency and she will go crazy for you. You only have to be polite to be impressive, because what should be normal is so rare.
Connect Lab Collaborates with Oracle for Startups for the Women in Business Growth Lab Initiative
By: Connect Lab Africa
Tags: Gender Equality, Women, Africa, Tech, Incubation

Monday, 30 November 2020. Abuja Nigeria.

#WIBGrowthLab Call for Applications

Connect Lab, an African focused innovation lab, today announced that it will work with Oracle for Startups for the Women in Business Growth Lab initiative.

The Women in Business Growth Lab is a 3-month entrepreneurship development program for female-led early-stage startups designed to reduce the inequalities and barriers affecting women in business by accelerating progress in gender equality through entrepreneurship development, linking and learning, and access to finance.

The project will support 40 female-led startups leveraging on technology through the four program components; The Co-creation and Value Proposition Bootcamp, Incubation Programme, Women in Business Deal Day, and the Growth Mentorship Exchange.

This partnership reiterates Oracle’s commitments to reaching startups and contributing to their evolution around the world through access to Oracle Cloud technology, mentoring and workshops, and business-enablement and support resources.

“Supporting diverse and underrepresented groups isn’t just the right decision ethically, it’s the right decision for advancing economic growth too”, said Bayo Sanni, Managing Director, Oracle Nigeria. “Women entrepreneurs can prove to be catalysts for positive change, and technology can help realise their dreams. Our collaboration with Connect Lab will aim to achieve exactly this.”

Through this partnership, Oracle for Startups will be supporting tech-enabled businesses in the Women in Business Growth Lab with;

• Free Oracle Cloud Credit worth $500 with an opportunity to apply for more.

• Mentoring and Virtual Resources

• Migration assistance and technical support

• Qualifying startups can level-up and access the company’s marketing, customer and product ecosystems to further boost their business.

Applications for the Women in Business Growth Lab has been extended to Wednesday 30 December 2020, as the Connect Lab continues its search for tech-enabled women-led startups in Nigeria. At the end of the program, Connect Lab will be awarding a $1500 equity-free grant to one impact-driven startup.

If you are a female-led startup founder, looking to grow and scale, please apply via this link.

https://bit.ly/wibgrowthlab

For inquiries or additional information, contact Mercy at molorunfemi@workandconnect.net.
More women on board leads to better company performance — but only if the socio-cultural context allows
By: Katie Hurley
Tags: Gender Equality, Boardroom Diversity, Boardroom, Women, Society

More women on board leads to better company performance — but only if the socio-cultural context allows

Firms with higher female board representation exhibit higher overall performance according to new research from Professors Samia Belaounia, Ran Tao, and Hong Zhao from NEOMA Business School.

The researchers found that this is even stronger in countries with greater gender equality, such as those in Scandinavia, where female directors’ presence significantly improves board efficiency. In contrast, they found that in countries with lower gender equality such as China, India, and Japan, female directors do not appear to have any real impact on firm performance.

Furthermore, a higher female representation goes with less earnings management and less excessive risk taking, only in the most egalitarian societies.

“Female directors in more gender equal societies possess greater skills and exert more influence due to better access to educational and professional opportunities and more amicable boardroom dynamics,” argue Professors Belaounia, Tao and Tao.

As a result, women in countries with lower gender equality may lack the educational and professional background and the social capital necessary for being effective on-board positions. As well as this, for female directors to exert influence in a male-dominated boardroom, their voices must be heard and considered seriously.

“If a society in general holds a biased attitude toward women, it is difficult to believe that female directors will have a voice among their male counterparts,” express Professors Belaounia, Tao and Zhao.

In recent years, there have been growing legislative efforts from countries to encourage female board representation through quota laws or recommendations in the codes of governance. These laws have provided women with more opportunities to participate in top-tier business activities, which can have a positive long-run effect on both gender equality and firm outcomes.

However, it is just as important that these laws should be accompanied by substantive measures aiming to provide women with an equal access to education and socio-economic opportunities, the researchers argue. Benefits of female directors in the boardroom may only be fully realized in a socio-cultural context with a high level of gender equality and a supporting institutional system.

This study used a multi-national panel comprising of 1986 public firms from 24 countries or areas spanning from 2007 to 2016, and is published in International Business Review as part of the research paper ‘Gender equality’s impact on female directors’ efficacy: A multi-country study’.
Why Discuss Feminism In Hushed Tones?
By: Isha Thakur
Tags: Gender Equality, Empowerment, Women, Society, Feminism

A man who said it the right way!

Models in the industry are often exploited by their agencies, with a promise of payment of dues which are held back by them over the due course of several months. Such are the situations that the models have to be available on call any time of the day, with no standardized pay or order to sustain their side of the story.

I have so many times on LinkedIn as well as newspapers have seen female achievers being described as “Female” achievers. The first female this or the first female that, while it’s important to acknowledge the milestone and the struggle that went behind being the first, later on, it shouldn’t be generalized as a female entrepreneur for example. The playing ground should be level, her job is of an entrepreneur, not a female entrepreneur.

It’s abundantly clear that our specific views on these issues are rooted deeply in our own personal and direct experiences, rather than in any data, research, or science surrounding the issues.

There are millions of people who both inwardly and outwardly do not support the idea that there should be equal rights and equal opportunities for men and women

There are thousands of people who feel we’ve already arrived at equality for men and women.

There are also thousands of people who believe we’re not at all there yet, and support continuing efforts to pave the way for equal rights for men and women.

So let’s see what it really means to be a feminist?

Understanding Feminism

Realize before Reacting!

It is synonyms with gender equality.

Why is it opposed?

Emma Watson when she was asked not to talk about Feminism

Many people fear that feminism will mean that men will eventually lose out — of power, influence, impact, authority, and control, and economic opportunities. Many people believe that feminists want to control the world and put men down. Many people fear that feminism will overturn time-honored traditions, religious beliefs, and established gender roles, and that feels scary and wrong. Many people fear that feminism will bring about negative shifts in relationships, marriage, society, culture, power and authority dynamics, and in business, job, and economic opportunities if and when women are on an equal footing with men.

As 2021 inches closer day by day, I progress a day closer to becoming a female professional in the tech industry. Over the course of my life, I have realized directly or indirectly that women are still struggling. While the corporate world has its “diversity hiring” in place, many other industries like the creative, entertainment, non-profit organizations fail to embrace this inclusion even to date.

We are so long into the century, and still have to question female authority and her abilities, we still have the reigns over her freedom, we still fail to respect and dignify her.

She means ALL women :)

It is important for society to understand,

we are not here to take your jobs, your riches, or your power, we are just here to take ours!😁
Yes, but that’s not the same.
By: Nils Sens
Tags: Gender Equality

Yes, but that’s not the same. Grammar is about convention. We can’t always demand to be treated exactly how we wish. Even if I’m special, the law treats me as determined & as everyone, not as I feel like it should treat me. I know that some say they feel like the law often favors majorities, and it’s true in many cases. But it has to. Because “individual laws" would quickly descend into chaos. Same with language. No problem with changing your names (if you remain legally identifiable that is), and the pronouns aren’t a big deal either. That’s tolerance. But if you invent new words and expect everyone to use it you have to ready for some flak. Because that’s a power game. There’s a difference between how you want to be treated and trying to create new rules for everyone. Try to pass a new law without a democratic majority…
Challenging Gender Stereotypes. The challenges encountered by women in…
By: البرنامج الإنمائي
Tags: Gender Equality, Women, Lebanon

Challenging Gender Stereotypes

The challenges encountered by women in society often make it difficult for them to break out of their traditional roles especially when facing a global pandemic and an economic crisis. Within the scope of integrating gender equality across economic growth in Lebanon, the UNDP implemented, with the support of Germany through KfW, a gender equality session in Kfardebian to raise awareness about the fundamental role women play in the economy in general and in the forestry sector in particular.

The interactive session introduced key concepts underlying gender equality, gender-based violence and gender gaps through real-life examples and daily behaviors. Participants highlighted some examples of gender stereotypes such as: “men have more power than women”, which may set boundaries to the roles of women, when in reality, they are indefinite and interchangeable.

Eliane Salame, a 21-year-old municipality police officer who’s participating in the forest activities expressed: “These roles are challenging because some people may frame them as unfeminine while I’m a strong believer that women can fit everywhere and do everything. it’s all about practice and improvement.”.”

Acknowledging that women have the same human rights as men is a main component of an equal society. The gender session touched upon these rights and questioned the structural barriers that may lead to gender inequality in the private and public spheres such as ongoing gender discrimination in national laws, persistent harmful traditional practices and patriarchal structures reinforcing women’s marginalization and exclusion. It also shed light on the role of men and boys in challenging the dominant social norms and shifting behaviors to achieve gender equality.

“We should see more women working in non-traditional jobs that the Lebanese people aren’t used to seeing them in yet,” said Charbel Bteich, athlete and biking champion. “During the forest activities, girls and boys have the same tasks, we help each other as a team to improve our environment and benefit from this job opportunity.”

The participants were given real life examples of the work that has been successfully accomplished by women in forest activities Lebanon, demonstrating that there are no limitations to the capabilities of women and girls.
Are You a FeMiNisT or a ShAm?
By: Miss Petite Sequoia
Tags: Gender Equality, Startup, Writing, Equality, Feminism

I was tired.

It was a constant phenomenon for HIM to be called for all the work and not me. We were both class captains and I could not understand why HE was the only one referred to as the class captain.

“It’s because he’s a boy……. that’s obvious”

“They probably feel he can do the job better and all….. you know…. cause he’s a boy”

“They are probably afraid…. you’ll stain the books with your blood or something….. Wait all girls menstruate right?”

“You’ll probably faint before you get all the work done with your weak stamina and all”

“They know you’ll still call for his assistance if they had called you”

“What’s all the fuss about? Just leave it for the big guys you know… you can’t handle this type of work”

I hit my desk with annoyance and walked up to the front of the class and shouted “You think HE can do all the work right? are you crazy? Girls are capable of doing what boys can do……Probably even better. I’M A FEMINIST!!!”

At one point in our lives or the other we, girls, have all claimed to be feminists and advocates to the equality of all sexes, and if the scenario explained above is concerned it was probably the right reaction, but the question here is “Are you really a FeMiNisT?”

Feminism is the belief in social, economic, and political equality of the sexes. For there to be equality that means the roles of both genders can be interchanged at all levels, at all times, but how many of us want to date a man that is Shorter than us, younger, poorer and probably someone that stays at home, jobless.

We all claim equality but we all know the initial shock on our faces when we hear a man is working as a professional nanny or a baby sitter or a Restaurant hostess at a High end restaurant.

We all chant the same rhyme “I am a FeMiNisT!” but most of us have had the familiar look on our faces when told to lift heavy objects and engage in other lucrative work when our male counterparts are just there, standing beside us

We all join the parade but deep down still expect him to open the car door, drag out our seats and many other things that we regard as ‘strictly male duties’ and don’t expect ourselves to do for HIM

It’s one thing to fight for equality and another thing to “cLaiM to be an aCtiVist” only when it suites us or when we have extra cash to spend on our OWN meals.

Whatever you are be true to yourself ( if and only if it doesn't hurt or discomfort other people) regardless of all the stares and comments, be it a person who actually has the passion for gender equality or someone who actually enjoys the way the world is going. Either way, don’t judge or discriminate someone who isn’t fighting for the same cause as you or has different beliefs because at the end, we are all different people from different backgrounds and diverse cultures running this same race: LIFE
How do you get 3 hours of your week back — every week?
By: Di Ye
Tags: Gender Equality, Productivity, Scheduling, Time Management, AI

When I was in college, I could focus 100% of my brain to the problems I loved solving. But ever since I entered the working world, so much of my brain is cluttered by random tasks, “Oh I forgot to respond to that email,” “Has that person responded to me yet?”, “I need to schedule that meeting.” Without even realizing it, I was letting hours of my time, but more importantly my attention slip away to scheduling meetings, picking times that made me seem busy enough but not so inaccessible the meeting would never happen. I wondered why we don’t all just use Calendly. The answer is that it feels impersonal and transactional.

We built Bobby to take advantage of technology that can actually save us time while keeping a bit of human flair in the equation.

As a quick recap, Bobby integrates with your calendar to automatically propose times and schedule the calendar event.

Every week Bobby already saves me 2–3 hours not having to check my calendar, convert time zones, and then type them all out into an email. I average about 10–15 meetings a week. I always tell people Bobby is an automated scheduler or a bot when adding Bobby to an email thread.

🙋 We know there’s a million of these little tasks out there and wanted to ask you to comment directly on what would be the most helpful:

What we’re imagining here is Bobby can reorganize internal / team meetings to maximize uninterrupted time for everybody.

Email Bobby and tell it you need 2 hours for project planning over the next three days and Bobby will block it off on your calendar.

Text Bobby a new to do item. Or reply to an email with “to do” and Bobby will add it to the list.

Or double down on just scheduling.

🙏 Let us know what you’d like in the comments below! If you comment below with your email along with your vote, we’ll give you access to Bobby for free.
Lisa Chesters: Working for equality
By: In Her Seat
Tags: Women In Politics, Gender Equality, Women In Leadership, Auspol, Canberra

Lisa Chesters: Working for equality

Almost 100 years ago, Edith Cowan became the first woman elected to an Australian parliament, in March 1921.

In Her Seat is asking as many currently serving female politicians as we can how they view gender equality, politics and their impact.

This is a non-partisan project that is soliciting contributions from women in all parties, or none at all, in every parliament.

Lisa Chesters is the Member for Bendigo in the Australian Parliament.

First elected in 2013, Lisa is the first woman to be the Member for Bendigo, an electorate which has existed since Federation.

Lisa was active in the union movement and Labor Party from university days, serving as the women’s officer of the National Union of Students. She then worked as an organiser for United Voice and held a range of positions in the Labor Party, including as head of the women’s policy committee.

In 2018, while serving, Lisa was diagnosed, and received treatment for, conjuctival melanoma, a form of eye cancer.

In Parliament, Lisa has been particularly vocal on issues relating to education, health, equality and inclusion.

Other interviews can be accessed here
Simulierte Beziehungen
By: Yves Zumbühl
Tags: Chatbots, Artificial Intelligence, Simulierte Beziehungen, Künstliche Intelligenz, Abhängigkeit

[1] Science und Web/Tech, „Mass Polyandry“, Marginal REVOLUTION, 16. Dezember 2020, https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/12/mass-polyandry.html.

[2] „Ying Wang of Microsoft Conversational AI and Virtual Being Xiaoice on Virtual Beings — YouTube“, zugegriffen 17. Dezember 2020, https://youtu.be/LLFVz6buGXo.

[3] Rachel L. Severson und Stephanie M. Carlson, „Behaving as or Behaving as If? Children’s Conceptions of Personified Robots and the Emergence of a New Ontological Category“, Neural Networks 23, Nr. 8–9 (Oktober 2010): 1099–1103, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2010.08.014.

[4] Sixth Tone, „The AI Girlfriend Seducing China’s Lonely Men“, Sixth Tone, 7. Dezember 2020, https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sixthtone.com%2Fnews%2F1006531%2F.
Ingredients to a WhatsApp Chatbot
By: Praveen Prashant
Tags: Chatbots, Conversational Ai, WhatsApp, Naturallanguageprocessing

The Basic Ingredients

WhatsApp Business API Server-Side Endpoint A Conversational AI Platform A WhatsApp Chatbot Builder (optional)

Firstly, you will need to procure a WhatsApp API. To do this, you would need to find a Licensed Facebook Partner. Currently, there are more than 100 companies that you can choose from. However, choosing the right partner can save you a lot of cost and time. These partners pitch to WhatsApp on your behalf to convince them that your requirement of Business API is valid on the basis of your business use case. Certain businesses are barred from obtaining a WhatsApp API, e.g. dating companies, liquor establishments. If everything goes well, you should ideally end up with a WhatsApp API enabled phone number. This process takes anywhere from a week to a month. Getting a Facebook verified green tick to your number can take much longer. Very few companies end up with a green tick, a good API partner can be crucial for this.

Secondly, you would need a hosted server endpoint for the messages to be delivered to you via a web-hook. You additionally, may require another endpoint to receive message delivery reports for the messages sent from you to the end-users. This can help you keep track of the messages that failed to get delivered. I recommend using a cloud platform like AWS or GCP for hosting the server.

Thirdly, and most importantly, you need to choose an appropriate conversational AI platform. A good AI platform should provide you with the following:

a. Natural Language Understanding

b. Text & Voice Support for Multiple Languages

c. Easy integration with your server

d. Scalability

e. Natural Language Generation (Bonus)

There are many platforms out there in the market today that can be of help. Some of the notable ones are Dialogflow, RASA, IBM Watson and Amazon Lex. Currently, none of these platforms support direct integration with WhatsApp, you will need to write some code to get these platforms hooked with your WhatsApp API. I will be sharing a simple integration tutorial shortly.

Fourthly, and the most easy way to get a WhatsApp chatbot up and running is to partner with a chatbot builder. An ideal chatbot builder should take responsibility for all the grunt work starting from applying for the WhatsApp API on your behalf to marketing your WhatsApp number to your target users. It should be able to do this while providing you with the state of the art conversational AI in multiple languages tailored to fit your business use case.
Los chatbots: los mejores aliados para tu e-commerce
By: Planeta Chatbot
Tags: Chatbots, Shopping, Español, Artificial Intelligence, E Commerce Business

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DialogFlow conditional response based on opening hours
By: Louis-Philippe Savard
Tags: Chatbots, Javascrip, Dialogflow, Automation

You want your Dialogflow chatbot to answer differently when your business is open? This pretty useful feature should be easy to implement but the documentation is not easy to find, so I created an easy tutorial.

One easy way to accomplish that would be to use integromat workflow, but in this tutorial we will avoid third party and create a Fulfillment in JavaScript in the inline editor.

In this example we have a chatbot for a telecom company that give the new Shaw Direct channel lineup. When the business is open we have a typical greeting, but if the business is closed we add a message with an image of the business hours.

First step: Create the intent

Let’s start by creating a welcome intent for the Get Started default Facebook greeting.

Now be sure to delete the default response and enable the fulfillment response.

Save your intent and go to your inline editor in the Fulfillment section of your chatbot. Now let’s add this code.

//Establish Day of Week

var date = new Date(); function getWeekDay(date) {

var days = ['Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday'];

return days[date.getDay()];

}

var day = date.getDate();

var weekdate = (getWeekDay(date));

var hours = date.getHours() - 5; // set your offset from UTC Time here

//variables for business

var days = {

"Sunday": {

"openTime": 9,

"closeTime": 15

},

"Monday": {

"openTime": 7,

"closeTime": 17

},

"Tuesday": {

"openTime": 5,

"closeTime": 17

},

"Wednesday": {

"openTime": 7,

"closeTime": 17

},

"Thursday": {

"openTime": 7,

"closeTime": 21

},

"Friday": {

"openTime": 7,

"closeTime": 21

},

"Saturday": {

"openTime": 7,

"closeTime": 21

}

};

var theDay = days[weekdate];

var theTime = date.getHours();

//function statement

function openhours(agent) {

if (hours >= theDay.openTime && hours < theDay.closeTime) {

agent.add(`We are open`);

} else {

agent.add(`We are close`);

}

}

*Change your timezone (DialogFlow uses UTC) and your business hours.

Last step is to map your intent.

intentMap.set(‘Default Welcome Intent’, openhours);

You can now change your agent response however you want.
Happy Holidays from Botcopy. $200 value for you — enjoy.
By: Rob Lubow
Tags: Botcopy, Chatbots, Bots, Dialogflow, AI

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LINE TECHPULSE 2020 年度開發者大會重點整理
By: Iling Wu
Tags: Line, Ekyc, Chatbots, Ocr, Line Techpulse

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Freshchat: Customer messaging software built for scale
Tags: Startup, Freshchat, Chatbots, Messaging, Chat

Freshchat: Customer messaging software built for scale

Freshchat is a modern messaging software built for sales and customer engagement teams to talk to prospects and customers on the website, mobile app, or social pages. A leap from legacy live-chat, Freshchat helps businesses and its teams focus on a continuous and context-driven messaging experience. With features like campaigns, sales bot, integrated self-service, and intelligent message routing, expectations are set and met, and responses to visitors’ questions are smarter and faster.

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¿Cómo cambiar a una carrera de diseño de chatbots o de voz?
By: Brielle Nickoloff
Tags: Español, Design, Voice Assistant, Chatbot, AI

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Bots para preguntas frecuentes: ¿Qué son y cómo funcionan?
By: Rosmarbis Perez
Tags: Marketing, Chatbots, Español, FAQ, Business

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Часто задаваемые вопросы о чат-боте в Инстаграм | Boss.Direct
By: Чат-Бот В Инстаграм
Tags: Продвижение Инстаграм, Chatbots, Instagram Marketing, Чат Боты, Продажи В Инстаграм

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How Do Chatbots Streamline the Recruitment Process?
By: Akanksha Giradkar
Tags: Recruitment, Recruitment Marketing, Chatbots, Chatbot Development, Recruitment Agencies

Chatbots are finding applications in a myriad of businesses including recruitment and the HR space.

The reason behind popularity of chatbots among HR professionals are plenty and we have covered them in detail in our latest blog.

A chatbot essentially simplifies the hiring process and automates a lot of redundant tasks. Excited to know what a recruitment bot has in store for you? Head to the blog right away! 😃
Chatbot de Porsche: de experto en COVID a asistente del empleado
By: Planeta Chatbot
Tags: Covid 19, Español, Employment, Employee Engagement, Chatbot

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Recruitment Chatbots: What is the Hype all About?
By: Akanksha Giradkar
Tags: Recruitment, Chatbot Platforms, Recruitment Marketing, Chatbots, Recruitment Software

Recruitment chatbots have been quite a buzz lately! Companies are adapting to bot technology like never before, and it is slowly becoming a norm!

This might make you wonder whether the recruitment bots are worth it at all? Should you even invest in them, to begin with?

Well, we have put together a blog, that addresses this and several other questions that you may have regarding recruitment chatbots and their benefits.
Rasa Advanced Deployment: Part 2(Scaling pods and Cluster requirements)
Tags: Chatbots, Kubernetes, Docker, Rasa, Deployment

In the previous blog, we installed rasa in the VM. The installation is done with only one Pod for each deployment running in our application. When traffic increases, we will need to scale the application to keep up with user demand.

Scale Pods

Scaling is accomplished by changing the number of replicas in a Deployment.

Method 1:

On the VM, Issue this command to check how much pods we have for our deployments:

kubectl -n my-namespace get deployment

Here we have Ready 1/1 it means we have 1 pod for that deployment.

On the VM, Issue this command to scale the pods:

kubectl -n my-namespace scale deployment my-release-rasa-production --replicas=2

-n my-namespace : Name of the namespace in which rasa is installed

my-release-rasa-production : Name of the deployment which you want to scale you can see the name in the above-given image.

— replicas=2 : It means we want 2 pods for our my-release-rasa-production deployment.

Let’s again check the pods are scaled.

We can see in my-release-rasa-production now we have 2 pods ready.

To scale it down issue this command

kubectl -n my-namespace scale deployment my-release-rasa-production --replicas=1

Note:

You can also use this command to restart any pod.

kubectl -n my-namespace scale deployment my-release-rasa-production --replicas=0

It will delete that pod now you can again initialize the new pod.

kubectl -n my-namespace scale deployment my-release-rasa-production --replicas=1

it will restart the my-release-rasa-production pod.

Method 2: Helm

We can define replicaCount in the “values.yml”

# rasa: Settings common for all Rasa containers

rasa:

versions:

# rasaProduction is the container which serves the production environment

rasaProduction:

# replicaCount of the Rasa Production container

replicaCount: 2

Now issue this command on VM

helm --namespace my-namespace upgrade --values values.yml my-release rasa-x/rasa-x

It will work in the same manner as the command-line method. But, here we can keep track of all the values defined in the values.yml file.

Cluster requirements

We can specify how much of each resource a container requires or is allowed to use in the values.yml of the helm chart, eg. for the rasa-production container if we want 2vcpu and 2GB ram then we can define this thing as follows.

Edit Values.yml file

rasa:

versions:

rasaProduction:

# resources which rasaProduction is required / allowed to use

resources:

requests:

cpu: "2000m"

memory: "2Gi"

Upgrade the installation

helm --namespace my-namespace upgrade --values values.yml my-release rasa-x/rasa-x

This will assign the resources as we have described in the values.yml.

That’s all for today in the series of advance deployment of the Rasa chatbot. Keep an eye on the series of this blog. Till then, Happy Coding!!!

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Sap CAI Chatbot + Amazon Alexa ile R3 Corda Blockchain Entegrasyonu- Part:2
Tags: Amazon Alexa, Corda, Sap, Blockchain, Chatbot

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ChatBot using Deep Learning and NLP — Introduction
Tags: Deep Learning, Seq2seq, Chatbots, NLP, Rnn

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The data set that we are going to use is the Cornell movie corpus. It’s a data set of more than 600 movies containing thousands of conversations between lots of characters. We’ll build a general chatbot that can have a general conversation with us like a friend, to talk about everyday life. Thats why movies are perfect because in movies you have a lot of random conversations, general conversations between friends. Our model can be trained on other more specific dataset like calender assistant or navigation assistant. These are some other applications of the chatbot.

Plan of Attack

1. Installation, setting up an environment, and getting the Dataset

In Windows Anaconda Prompt, create a virtual environment named ‘chatbot’, where we’ll install python 3.5 as there are some issues while executing with TensorFlow.

conda create -n chatbot python=3.5 anaconda

Activate the virtual environment ‘chatbot’

conda activate chatbot

Open Anaconda Navigator and select ‘chatbot’ channel. Create a new python file in Spyder.

Dataset: Cornell Movie-Dialogs Corpus

2. Data Preprocessing

Data processing is inevitable whenever you build an AI or whenever you build a model you have to make the data set compatible with the model you’re going to build. We’re going to build a neural network-based model and therefore the data will have to have a special format especially for the inputs. Besides we’ll have to clean the text because the less we clean it and simplify it the more difficult it will be for a model to train itself to talk like a human. So we’ll have to do a lot of data processing and do it efficiently so that we can get to the exciting parts 3 & 4.

3. Building the Seq2Seq model

Part 3 and Part 4 are where we get into the heart of the model and speaking of these two parts, part 3 will be building the Seq2Seq model. We will actually build a brain composed of an encoder and then a decoder and we will assemble all of them to build the final brain which will not be trained yet.

4. Training the Seq2Seq model

Speaking of training that leads us to part 4 where we’ll train this brain that we would have just made in part 3. So we’ll train it, set up a loss function get the optimizer, and then apply some stochastic gradient descent to update the weights of the neurons of the brain so that it improves its ability to talk with us.

5. Testing the Seq2Seq model

And finally part for the last part of this implementation we will test our Chatbot which is we will test the Seq2Seq model. Once we execute we will have an interface where we can ask some questions and then the chatbot will answer and we will just test the chatbot by observing its answers and see how it's capable of conversing with us.

So that’s the plan of attack now let’s start implementing it.
How PCG Brands can leverage B2B Chatbots to win their Retailer’s Shelf Space
By: Sarthak Gupta
Tags: Kirana, Ecommerce, Fmcg, Chatbots, B2B

Every day, PCG Brands lose a chunk of their sales due to the inefficiencies in their sales teams.

While the traditional SFA technology of the last few decades has been able to boost sales, it hasn’t been able to do much about the above inefficiencies. However, things are changing with many forward-thinking Brands using intelligent virtual assistants creatively to reduce human error, cut costs, grow revenue, engage customers, and elevate customer service. Many Brands are inviting their Retailers to place orders and further engage with them through a 24*7*365 available virtual assistant.

A virtual assistant can not only engage with 1000s of retailers simultaneously, but it does so with higher efficiencies and lower costs. With the virtual assistant efficiently looking after repetitive and routine tasks, the sales teams can focus on more important activities such as relationship building and business development.

Below we’ll cover 9 features of a Virtual Sales Assistant that give added capabilities to a brand, increasing retailer engagement and boosting Sales.
Bounce Rate Optimization with Website Chatbot
By: Alishba Memon
Tags: Chatbot Website, Chatbots, Bots, Bounce Rate

Chatbots have become the most powerful community channel to connect at. Without a doubt, to make a conversion strategy impactful, most companies opt for a chatbot.

Due to the 24/7 availability of the chatbots, 51% of the users believe that chatbots are the best option for any query solving. Unlike human agents, chatbots can handle multiple applications. This also added the essence of charm in chatbots.

As people are afraid of scams and do not want to be fooled, so they trust chatbots because they have built a positive image on which most of the users’ trust. With the immediate responses, chatbots have reduced the bounce rate which is effective for the website in all ways.

Cellphone in a hand and person enjoying the edge of a chatbot for website

There is a most used chatbot for websites — the website chatbot which helps the websites to optimize bounce rates. Not only this but it is a sales-driven chatbot that increases the conversions.

Also, do you know the website chatbot can increase the engagement rate by 80%?

The website bot can reduce customer response time, reduce external resources, and provides a high conversion rate.
FoodBot: La Apuesta de CANIRAC Zacatecas hacia la Automatización de Restaurantes y Franquicias
By: Sergio Pérez
Tags: Pos, Ecommerce, Chatbots, Loyalty Program, Automation

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WhatsApp incluye el botón de compra en WhatsApp Business
By: Planeta Chatbot
Tags: Ecommerce, Chatbots, Español, Messaging, WhatsApp

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AI CHATBOTS to improve customer service costs
By: Enterprise Bot
Tags: Chatbots, Customer Service Cost, Customer Experience, Conversational Ai, Customer Service

Businesses spend nearly 1 trillion in customer service costs each year. Customer support executives spend most of their time in a day attending to repetitive queries. This not only drains the cost-efficiency of an organization but also leads to slow responses in cross-channel communications. Delayed responses impact the customer experience significantly causing a higher customer churn rate.

Per a study by Deloitte on the future of customer service, 56% of companies are already investing in Conversational AI to enhance their cross-channel interactions with customers.

AI and NLP-powered virtual assistants will help companies to slash their contact center costs significantly while improving customer experiences by sending instant, automated responses.

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Moreover, it is not only about automation or speeding up the process, but what holds more importance here is providing customers with natural, human-like, personalized responses.

AI chatbots shoot intelligent responses to customers based on historical data, and intent and contextual analysis to derive real business value by winning customer trust and loyalty. Let’s take a look at the infographic to understand how AI chatbots are reducing customer support costs by minimizing wait time, cutting down dependency on human agents, and promoting self-service:

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By: Warit Wanwithu
Tags: Linedevth, Chatbots, Line Api, Line Oa Store, Line Official Account

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The chatbots for building companies already produce www.bmbot.nl
By: Bmbot Nl
Tags: Chatbots, Building Chatbot, Building Materials

The chatbots for building companies already produce www.bmbot.nl You can even try a demo o their home page.
Rasa acaba con cinco mitos del aprendizaje automático y los chatbots
By: Cobus Greyling
Tags: Chatbots, Conversational UI, NLP, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

Estas conversaciones se pueden segmentar en diferentes intenciones. Y dentro de estas intenciones se pueden identificar las diferentes entidades. Es evidente que la recopilación y preparación son muy simples y aparentes.

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- I want to transfer [R100](amount) from my [savings](from_account) to my [credit card](to_account)

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