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RealCDP aims at reducing the confusion plaguing the Customer Data Platform industry

SAN JOSE, CA, USA, 4-Apr-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — The Customer Data Platform Institute today launched RealCDP, a program to reduce the confusion plaguing the Customer Data Platform industry.  RealCDP has two components:

  • RealCDP certification, a five point checklist of core capabilities needed to build a unified, sharable customer database.
  • CDPFinder templates and vendor information to help buyers find the right CDP for their needs

“The CDP industry faces two challenges,” said CDP Institute Founder David Raab. “First, many firms offering a CDP or CDP alternative fail to build the complete, shareable customer database that is the heart of the CDP concept.  Second, legitimate CDPs vary hugely in the additional features they provide, leaving buyers confused by the range of options.  These two programs address each challenge separately and, taken together, we hope they will make it easier for buyers to find the products they truly need – and avoid alternatives that will leave them disappointed.”

SOURCE: EuropaWire

Xverify opens an office in Dublin, Ireland

DUBLIN, 19-Mar-2019 — /EPR INTERNET NEWS/ — Xverify, a TowerData company, is addressing the needs of European email marketers for data quality, GDPR compliance and superior support by processing data within the European Union and opening an office in Dublin. Xverify is a leader in Email Verification services, and has verified more than 11 billion emails since 2011.

All data submitted to Xverify for Email Verification by European-based clients will now be processed on servers located within the EU, giving clients more oversight of their customers’ data. Xverify is fully compliant with European data security regulations including GDPR, and has been processing European data for more than 7 years.

Xverify has also opened a local office in Dublin with dedicated staff covering accounts based in the European Union.

“Email Verification is a vital tool for marketers around the world to ensure data cleanliness, improve deliverability and prevent fraud.” said Rob Huey, Xverify CEO. “We know that keeping the customer data of our clients within the European Union gives them peace of mind, and opening a Dublin office ensures they have a trusted representative they can call on their time.”

Xverify’s Email Verification allows marketers to identify undeliverable or risky emails on their marketing list or on their webforms in real-time thanks to a flexible API. By maintaining clean, accurate data, marketers are able to better reach their customers, avoid fraud and boost their sender reputation. Hundreds of companies around the world trust Xverify with their data verification needs everyday.

Xverify is an industry leader in email verification that helps digital marketers improve email deliverability by eliminating hard bounces, reducing spam complaints, and minimizing fraud in milliseconds. Validation can occur directly on your site in real time, or you can upload a list and get results. Make your email marketing more effective and improve delivery and response today.

SOURCE: EuropaWire

New Streaming and Radio Aggregator Social Platform to Launch at 2019 SXSW Tradeshow

Houston, Texas U.S.A., 2019-Mar-02 — /EPR INTERNET NEWS/ — Dousic Media Group (DMG), a Houston based Company with affiliated offices in Punjab and soon to be registered in Singapore, is set to launch its new Dousic Social Platform at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Music Festival in Austin, Texas between March 10th thru 13th, 2019, located at Booth No. 1239, Halls 2-5 in the Austin Convention, where the newly upgraded Dousic website and App will be unveiled.

Dousic is an interactive social media platform that engages users with a diverse discovery experience. In the Dousic community the public can personalize their content and creators can monetize their products.

“With Dousic we wanted to create a social media platform for people like photographers, models, authors and musicians, so that they have total control of their destiny by owning their brands and products via the website and the App. In addition, Dousic is a fully functioning social media platform giving users a wide variety of connectivity such as chat, audio or video calls, all in one convenient location”, said Michael Ferguson, DMG Executive Vice President/Founder.

DMG Founder and CEO, Brian Moore, emphasized that “the Indie Music Industry has been trying to find its footing for some time and from where I sit there is still a clear lack of understanding of how to ensure that Indie Creators get an even playing field and are being properly compensated. Accordingly, we have designed Dousic to give them back brand control and content ownership.”

Following on from SXSW, our future website and App enhancements will ensure Dousic is a place where Creators maintain full ownership and control, giving them stronger leverage when in negotiations with Record Labels.

Dousic’s Mission is to provide a global hub for an interactive and personalized entertainment experience. We are committed to helping Indie Creators reach their full potential.

Contact-Details:

Michael Dickens
Dousic Media Group
118 Vintage Park Blvd, Houston, TX 77070
832-318-6077
contactus@dousic.com

 

Mono Solutions’ new platform interface for easier and more efficient website production will enable a true do-it-with-me (DIWM) experience

COPENHAGEN, 14-Feb-2019 — /EPR INTERNET NEWS/ — Mono Solutions is proud to launch a completely new platform interface that will dramatically improve the overall user experience for even faster, easier and more efficient website production, as well as enable a true do-it-with-me (DIWM) experience for small businesses and their trusted service providers. As part of the new interface launch, Mono also announces the official launch of Mono Scheduling.

Watch our video to learn more about the new era of Mono.

THE ULTIMATE DIWM SOLUTION

The new Mono interface makes the platform ideal for SMBs and their digital service providers to work better together. Adaptable to different user skills and roles, the new interface will make it twice as fast for service providers to make advanced and unique website designs. At the same time, it is intuitive enough that business owners can easily update and manage their online presence themselves, offering greater flexibility and control.

“I am very proud of the new Mono interface – it is not just an interface improvement, it is a game changer. We see a growing need in the market for DIWM offerings where digital service providers and small businesses work more closely to ensure online success. Mono’s mission is to provide our partners with best in class technology and we truly look forward to working with our partners to embrace all the opportunities this new interface brings.”

– Louise Lachmann, CEO of Mono Solutions

INTRODUCING MONO SCHEDULING

With the launch of the new interface, Mono is also proud to announce the launch of Mono Scheduling, a native online appointment booking solution for small businesses.

“We see online appointment booking as a significant business driver for small businesses in many industries to meet consumer expectations. With Mono Scheduling our partners can offer their SMB clients the best online booking solution that matches their need for convenience and ideal budget. It was our vision to create a product tailored to these needs and I am very proud of the result”.

– Svenn Andersen, COO of Mono Solutions

Mono Scheduling features easy booking management, calendar synchronization, email and SMS reminders, and support for multiple languages, time zones and currencies. The solution drives an online wizard for seamless on-site appointment scheduling for website visitors, a dashboard with relevant statistics and unlimited access to all features including number of staff members, services and bookings. Learn more about Mono Scheduling.

EXPERIENCE THE NEW ERA OF MONO

Mono’s new interface offers digital service providers the ability to service small business owners at any level. It gives SMBs one single platform to work with to drive their business online and provides service providers with more products that enable recurring revenue beyond the website.

Mono will be exhibiting the new interface and Mono Scheduling at several conferences this spring, including LSA19 in Dana Point and SIINDA Localcomm in Dubai and London. It is also possible to book a demo with the Mono team.

SOURCE: EuropaWire

bfound will use Mono Platform to offer digital marketing solutions like email marketing, simple personalization and SMB-friendly customer management in UAE

COPENHAGEN, 31-Jan-2019 — /EPR INTERNET NEWS/ — Mono Solutions is proud to announce our partnership with bfound, a provider of digital marketing solutions for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the Middle East.

The partnership provides bfound with the technology to provide small businesses in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with a professional digital presence, and extends Mono’s global partner base to the Middle East. The Mono Platform has enabled bfound with the opportunity to offer a wide variety of digital marketing solutions, including email marketing, simple personalization and SMB-friendly customer management.

With an established base of customers, bfound was searching for an SMB-friendly platform to help them build and manage websites at scale. In addition, bfound was focused on finding an established technology partner that was experienced within the small business segment, and already trusted by other local digital marketing providers around the world.

“From top notch performance to ease-of-use, the Mono Platform fulfilled all our needs in a digital marketing platform for small businesses in our market. In combination with their partner-first approach and helping us go-to-market with a website offering so quickly, we feel very confident that we will continue to have success in driving more business for small businesses across the Middle East .” says Erik Bjerlestam, CEO of bfound

With a strong partner-first approach, Mono is dedicated to empowering our partners with the best technology for a strong digital presence offering. To support bfound’s existing customer base in the Middle East, the Mono Platform was updated with Arabic language support as well as the ability for right-to-left writing. The addition of these critical features helped bfound to quickly go-to-market with competitive digital presence offering, including a professional website, Mono On-Site Engagements and Mono Email Marketing.

“Working with the bfound to begin offering digital presence offerings to small businesses in the Middle East has been a great experience. Their passion for helping their small business customers make the most out of their investment into digital marketing is truly admirable, and we look forward to support them in their expansion across the UAE and beyond. ” says Matt Matergia, Director of Business Development at Mono Solutions

Bfound launched on the Mono Platform in February 2018, and serves hundred of businesses across all verticals.

SOURCE: EuropaWire

Fonecta to use Mono Platform to expand its digital presence services

COPENHAGEN, 16-Jan-2019 — /EPR INTERNET NEWS/ — Mono Solutions is pleased to announce our newest partnership with Fonecta, the largest digital marketing service provider in Finland.

Fonecta was searching for an advanced Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform to strengthen and renew their suite of digital offerings for their SMB customers. With the addition of offerings from the Mono Platform, Fonecta will be able to expand their digital presence services to add customer engagement solutions, including native email marketing and simple on-site personalization, to help drive a real return-on-investment for their small business customers across Finland.

The Mono Platform came highly recommended by Fonecta’s sister companies, Herold and DTG, that are already operating on the Mono Platform in Austria and the Netherlands respectively. Previously using multiple platforms for websites, the Mono Platform will also allow Fonecta to streamline the fulfillment of digital presence services.

“With the Mono Platform, we are able to even better help our customers to create credibility among their own customers and to extend their visibility and presence online. Finally we have also found a platform that makes it possible to migrate websites from many different platforms into one.”  says Mika Salminen, Head of Product Development from Fonecta.

Designed to manage website and digital offerings at scale, Mono was chosen as Fonecta’s platform-of-choice for it’s intuitive user interface. The multi-site management tools built-in to the Mono Platform will also empower Fonecta to more efficiently and cost-effectively deliver a professional online presence for their small business customers.

“We’re honored to partner with Fonecta and help them bring the technology platform behind their digital presence offerings to the next level. Fonecta already serves thousand of small businesses across Finland, and with the adoption of the data-driven Mono Platform they can rest assured that they have an easy-to-use platform in place that will help their small business customers to succeed online.” says Tricia Score, Global Head of Sales.

Fonecta officially launched on the Mono Platform in November 2018, and will expand their digital portfolio throughout 2019 to focus on encouraging more engagement from business owners in managing their online presence. With Fonecta launching on the Mono Platform, the entire European Directories Group (EDSA) is now partnered with Mono Solutions.

SOURCE: EuropaWire

Code18 Interactive Launches Ecommerce Redesign for C.O. Bigelow Apothecaries

NEW YORK, NY, 2019-Jan-11 — /EPR INTERNET NEWS/ — New York digital agency Code18 Interactive gives America’s oldest apothecary, C.O. Bigelow, a website redesign that celebrates the legendary Greenwich Village pharmacy and its unique and unusual personal care remedies. The new site is fully responsive and built on the Magento 2 platform.

Code18 Interactive, a boutique digital agency based in New York City, announces the launch of a newly redesigned website for C.O. Bigelow Apothecaries (http://www.bigelowchemists.com). The highly customized and fully responsive Magento 2 website is a well-known ecommerce destination in the luxury beauty, skincare and personal health sector.

“Shopping at C.O. Bigelow’s retail store in New York City is a unique experience, and we wanted to reflect that authenticity in the online shopping experience,” says Code18 Interactive’s Creative Director Steve Pilon. “That’s why it was so important for the site to embrace and express the company’s rich history and heritage, while also offering customers a modern, user-friendly and engaging shopping experience.”

As the oldest apothecary in America, C.O. Bigelow produces their own world-famous line of products under the C.O. Bigelow brand. They also offer an artfully hand-picked selection of the best emerging brands and time-tested favorites in Beauty, Skin Care, Bath & Body, Hair Care, Fragrance, and more. “The C.O. Bigelow catalog is a treasure trove of thousands of the best and most effective beauty and skincare products from around the world,” says Steve Pilon. “In an age where the web is full of cookie-cutter websites, Bigelow’s distinct personality and flawless taste make them a standout above the rest.”

Among the 200+ brands that are showcased at C.O. Bigelow, you will find: Proraso, Marvis, Gülsha, GLAMGLOW, Jane Iredale, Deborah Lippman, Sol de Janeiro, Cannuka, Graffitti Collective, and more. The site also features a wide selection of popular natural and homeopathic remedies from companies such as Strepsils, Hylands, Badger Balm, Boiron, and Banale.

Code18 Interactive is a New York Digital Agency that caters to national Consumer and Media brands. The agency specializes in the design and development of enterprise-level WordPress and Magento 2 websites. They have the pleasure of working with many wonderful brands, including: GoGo squeeZ, Boursin Cheese, Public Radio International, Grove Atlantic Publishing, and others. The C.O. Bigelow ecommerce project was developed in partnership with Ecommerce Partners (http://ecommercepartners.net), an ecommerce agency also headquartered in New York.

For more information, please visit http://www.code18.com

Contact-Details: Steve Pilon
Code18 Interactive
175 Varick Street, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10014
404-585-2725

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Marketing workshop on Customer Data Platforms in Brussels on January 22nd 2019

BRUSSELS, 21-Dec-2018 — /EPR INTERNET NEWS/ — Today’s marketers have more data available than ever but struggle to pull it together in a usable format. Customer Data Platform (CDP) technology offers the promise to solve this problem by offering easy-to-deploy systems resulting in data unification and sharing. But marketers, technologists and executives rightly wonder: can CDP really deliver on this promise?

On January 22nd 2019, the Customer Data Platform Institute (CDPI) and partners NGDATA and Business & Decision, will host a marketing workshop intensive, “Making the Most of Customer Data Platforms,” to answer that question and provide a deep dive into this rapidly evolving martech sector, which is projected to exceed €200 million revenue in Europe by the start of the new year.

The workshop will be held at Tech.Lounge in Brussels from 10:00 to 15:00, followed by a panel debate and networking event sponsored by NGDATA and Business & Decision. The workshop will be led by David Raab, founder of the international Customer Data Platform Institute.

This workshop in Belgium is part of in a series of programs that are being hosted in Europe and UK during 2019 by the CDP Institute and its partners. The workshop is aimed at senior professionals in marketing, ecommerce, CRM and CX positions and will cover:

  • how CDP fits into the larger marketing data architecture, key benefits provided by CDPs, and an overview of the CDP industry and trends.
  • how CDP relates to business and marketing strategy, developing CDP use cases, and uncovering requirements for CDP success.
  • selecting the right CDP, including requirements definition, key differentiators, specific features to look for and running an effective selection process.
  • CDP deployment planning, including readiness checklists, overcoming organizational roadblocks, project planning, and finding the right deployment sequence.

Key takeaways include:

  • a checklist of marketing technology functions needed to benefit from CDP
  • mapping CDP use cases to CDP system requirements
  • 27 key CDP features and how to know which you need
  • toolkit of vendor selection techniques

Attendees who complete the CDPI workshop will receive a certificate of completion from the Customer Data Platform Institute. To register and to learn more about customer data platform technology and related news, visit: www.ngdata.com/company/events/.

David Raab is founder and CEO of the CDP Institute. He coined the term Customer Data Platform in 2013 and since then has been a leader in exploring and explaining how marketers can use CDPs to solve today’s most important marketing challenges.

SOURCE: EuropaWire

CDPI / b.telligent: Intensiv-Workshop zum Thema „Making the Most of Customer Data Platforms“ am 29. Januar einen

MÜNCHEN, 17-Dec-2018 — /EPR INTERNET NEWS/ — Marketer können heutzutage auf eine wahre Flut von Daten zugreifen, stehen jedoch mehr denn je vor der Schwierigkeit, diese in einem nutzbaren Format zusammenzufassen. Zukünftig wird es vor allem darauf ankommen, die Architektur von Marketing-Automation-Systemen weiterzuentwickeln, um schnell auf neue Herausforderungen reagieren zu können. Die Technologie der Customer Data Platform (CDP) verspricht, dieses Problem durch den Einsatz leicht zu verteilender Systeme zur Konsolidierung und gemeinsamen Nutzung von Daten und Ausspielung von Kampagnen in Echtzeit zu lösen. Marketer, IT-Experten und Manager fragen sich jedoch zu Recht: Kann CDP dieses Versprechen auch halten?

Um diese Frage zu beantworten, veranstaltet das Customer Data Platform Institute (CDPI) gemeinsam mit b.telligent am 29. Januar einen Intensiv-Workshop zum Thema „Making the Most of Customer Data Platforms“. Die Veranstaltung gewährt einen fundierten Einblick in einen sich rapide entwickelnden Sektor mit einem prognostizierten Umsatz von über 200 Mio. Euro in Europa in 2019.

Der Workshop wird von 12:30 Uhr bis 18 Uhr im Rilano Hotel München unter der Leitung von David M. Raab, Gründer des internationalen Customer Data Platform Institute, stattfinden.

Sebastian Amtage, Gründer und CEO von b.telligent erklärt: „Das CDP Institute (CDPI) ist ein Vorreiter in der Entwicklung sogenannter Customer Data Platforms. Kampagnen der Zukunft sind real-time auf das Verhalten Ihrer Kunden abgestimmt, dabei kommt es umso mehr auf die Integration in die Systemlandschaft an. b.telligent freut sich darauf, diesen Wandel an der Seite des CDPI mit der größtmöglichen Expertise zu begleiten“.

Das Event in München ist Teil einer Veranstaltungsreihe, die im Laufe von 2019 vom CDPI und seinen Partnern in Europa und Großbritannien ausgerichtet wird und der einzige in Deutschland. Der gemeinsam mit b.telligent veranstaltete Workshop richtet sich an Senior Professionals aus den Bereichen Marketing, E-Commerce, CRM und CX und wird sich mit folgenden Themen befassen:

  • Wie sich eine Customer Data Platform (CDP) in die allgemeine Marketing-Datenarchitektur einfügt, die Hauptnutzen von CDPs und ein Ãœberblick über die CDP-Branche und aktuelle Trends
  • Wie sich eine CDP in die Geschäfts- und Marketingstrategie einfügt, die Entwicklung von CDP-Anwendungsfällen sowie eine Darstellung der Anforderungen für den CDP-Erfolg.
  • Die Auswahl der passenden CDP, einschließlich von Anforderungsdefinition, Hauptunterscheidungsmerkmalen, speziellen Funktionen, auf die es ankommt, sowie dem Ablauf eines effektiven Auswahlprozesses.
  • CDP-Einführungsplanung, einschließlich einer Bereitschafts-Checkliste, die Ãœberwindung organisatorischer Hürden, Projektplanung sowie Festlegung der richtigen Deployment-Sequenz.

Das nehmen Teilnehmer aus dem Workshop mit:

  • Checkliste von Marketingtechnologiefunktionen für die bestmögliche Ausnutzung von CDP
  • Zuordnung von CDP-Anwendungsfällen zu CDP-Systemanforderungen
  • 27 Schlüsselfunktionen von CDP und wie man erkennt, welche man benötigt
  • Toolkit für die Anbieterbewertung und -auswahl

Teilnehmer, die den CDPI-Workshop in München absolvieren, bekommen eine Teilnahmebescheinigung vom Customer Data Platform Institute ausgestellt. Der Workshop wird in englischer Sprache stattfinden. Deutschsprachige Berater von b.telligent stehen jedoch bei Bedarf für die Übersetzung zur Verfügung. Für die Anmeldung und weitere Informationen zur Technologie der Customer Data Platform sowie relevante Neuigkeiten besuchen Sie die Website von b.telligent.

David Raab ist Gründer und CEO des CDP Institute. Er hat den Begriff Customer Data Platform 2013 geprägt und gehört seitdem zu den führenden Experten, die erforschen und erklären, wie Marketer durch den Einsatz von CDPs die wichtigsten Herausforderungen im Marketing lösen können.

SOURCE: EuropaWire

SOULED OUT NAMED WINNER IN THE KNOT BEST OF WEDDINGS 2018

SOULED OUT IS: (L to R) Glenn Zeringue Jr. (Guitar), Ryan Lottinger (Saxophones), Matt “Spanky” Larose (Trombone), Evan Washington (Bass), Jared Price (Vocals), Dave Mouton (Saxophones), Colin McGibboney (Vocals), Blake Guidry (Keyboards, Vocals), AJ Gribble (Trumpet), Scott Pierce (Trumpet), Mac Carter (Drums) Not pictured: Lynell Cyprian (Vocals), Byron Santo (Sound Engineer)

Thirteenth Annual Best of Weddings Awards, from the #1 Wedding Planning Website, Honor the Top Wedding Vendors Across America

Lafayette, LA, 2018-Dec-11 — /EPR INTERNET NEWS/ — Souled Out is pleased to announce that they have been selected as a 2019 winner in The Knot Best of Weddings, an award representing the highest-rated wedding professionals as reviewed by real  couples, their families and wedding guests on The Knot, the leading online wedding brand and app. This is the first year Souled Out has been selected for The Knot Best of Weddings.

In 2018, only 3% of the approximately 300,000 local wedding professionals listed on TheKnot.com have received this distinguished accolade. In its thirteenth annual year, The Knot continues its longstanding tradition of supporting local wedding vendors with The Knot Best of Weddings 2019, an annual bycouples, for-couples guide to the top wedding professionals across the country. To determine the winners, The Knot assessed almost 3.6 million reviews across the various vendor categories—venues, musicians, florists, photographers, caterers and more. These winners represent the best of the best wedding professionals that a bride or groom would want to consider booking for their own unique wedding.

“We are just humbled to be recognized as one of the top Wedding Bands in the Louisiana area! Souled Out loves celebrating with our happy Couples, and we look forward to what 2019 brings us!” said David Mouton, owner & saxophonist of Souled Out Entertainment LLC. As the number one online wedding brand and app, The Knot has inspired approximately 25 million couples to plan a wedding that’s uniquely theirs. With a rich history of providing quality content and inspiration, The Knot is making it easier for couples to connect with and book just the right wedding professionals to create their perfect wedding day. Eight out of 10 couples come to The Knot where they can be connected to any of the approximately 300,000 local wedding professionals across the country. The Knot marries great technology with trusted content–and a little love–to make planning for the most important day of a person’s life easier and more enjoyable.

For more information about The Knot Best of Weddings and a complete list of winners, please visit https://www.theknot.com/vendors/best-of-weddings

About Souled Out
Souled Out is an eleven piece band hailing from across south Louisiana. Conceived in 2001, Souled Out has been entertaining audiences with its unique brand of interaction and choreography. Souled Out has entertained wedding receptions, corporate events, Mardi Gras krewes and nightclubs in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee and Texas. Souled Out has earned “Best Band” by the Tri-Parish Times on three separate occasions as voted for by their endearing fan base. Souled Out is a four time WeddingWire.com ‘Couples Choice’ Award Winner (2016, 2017, 2018) in addition to being named ‘Top Rated Online’ based on client reviews from various online wedding resources. In 2018, they were named “Best Cover Band” by The Times of Acadiana. As one writer recently pinned, “Souled Out is the band you’ve always wanted to see….but didn’t! When you attend a Souled Out performance, you’re forced to listen with your eyes wide open!”

If you’re looking to have a band that brings energy, great music AND performs in such way that it brings people together then Souled Out might be your band. Despite the fact that they’ve performed at well over a thousand weddings since 2001, Souled Out has developed a niche of being the band that not only entertains your guest but becomes the “life of the party”. Each and every reception performance is a very personal and unique experience for all of their clients. The goal at every event that we are honored to be a part of what is the vision that the client had during their planning process. Many clients that utilize Souled Out’s services didn’t want the “typical” band – they wanted much more and they choose Souled Out. Please visit Souled Out online at www.SouledOutLA.com and follow on social media: https://www.facebook.com/souled.out.54/ and @souledoutla on Twitter and Instagram

About The Knot
The Knot is the nation’s leading online wedding brand and app that seamlessly engages, matches and connects couples with the right products, services and local wedding professionals they need to plan and pull off their wedding. The trusted brand reaches a majority of engaged couples in the US through the #1 wedding website TheKnot.com, its mobile apps, The Knot national and local wedding magazines, and The Knot book series. The Knot has inspired approximately 25 million couples to plan a wedding that’s uniquely them. The Knot is the flagship brand of XO Group Inc. (NYSE: XOXO), which helps people navigate and enjoy life’s biggest moments—from getting married to moving in together and having a baby.

Please visit The Knot online at TheKnot.com and follow on social media: Facebook.com/TheKnot and @TheKnot on Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram.

Base Element, Cognigy partnership will enable the design and implementation of cutting-edge conversational AI solutions for clients and their brands

LONDON, 16-Nov-2018 — /EPR INTERNET NEWS/ — Base Element, a European digital agency, and Cognigy, a leading conversational AI platform software provider have entered to a strategic partnership agreement. This partnership will enable the design and implementation of cutting-edge conversational AI solutions for clients and their brands. The teaming up of Base Element and Cognigy will provide marketers with valuable tools to drive customer engagement and increase conversions, while maintaining meaningful relationships with their audiences through conversational AI interfaces.

“Brands are dynamic and living organisations. Conversing with their clients and prospects needs to be an organic process rather than just an engagement metric on a dashboard. It is a vital part of the customer experience,” Antonis Neocleous, Co-Founder and Director of Base Element, pointed out. “We have been deeply committed to enabling our clients to provide a consistent brand experience across touch points. Partnering with Cognigy, a pioneer in conversational AI technology, significantly supports this commitment.”

Cognigy’s partner ecosystem is at the heart of value creation for clients. They operate as a trusted advisor to both enable and guide clients to realize their potential and to assist them in implementing solutions to seize new opportunities. According to Cognigy’s spokesperson, “This includes understanding what it means to build a conversational practice, as well as how to configure, extend and maintain successful conversational AI projects. The team at Base Element know both the data and experience management space very well. We have a lot of confidence in what they can develop, execute and deliver.”

SOURCE: EuropaWire

David M. Raab, oprichter en CEO van het internationaal opererende Customer Data Platform Institute, een keynote presentatie verzorgen tijdens de DDMA Data Dag over de staat van de CDP markt wereldwijd en in Europa

AMSTERDAM, 15-Nov-2018 — /EPR INTERNET NEWS/ — Marketeers hebben vandaag de dag meer data tot hun beschikking dan ooit, maar worstelen om ze te combineren tot een bruikbare vorm. Customer Data Platform (CDP) technologie belooft dit probleem op te lossen in de vorm van makkelijk te implementeren systemen, die alle klantdata combineren en delen. Maar de vraag die marketeers, IT’ers en executives zich terecht stellen is: kan een CDP echt die beloften waarmaken?

Op 23 januari 2019 hosten het Customer Data Platform Institute (CDPI) en Squadra Group de intensieve marketing workshop, “Making the Most of Customer Data Platforms,” om die vraag te beantwoorden en deelnemers mee te nemen in een deep dive in deze, zich zeer snel ontwikkelende, martech sector, die begin 2019 naar verwachting de €200 miljoen omzet in Europa zal overtreffen.

De workshop zal plaatsvinden in Seats to Meet Utrecht CS (Hoog Catharijne) van 12.00 uur tot 18.00 uur en zal geleid worden door David M. Raab, oprichter en CEO van het internationaal opererende Customer Data Platform Institute. De dag erna zal hij ook een keynote presentatie verzorgen tijdens de DDMA Data Dag over de staat van de CDP markt wereldwijd en in Europa.

SOURCE: EuropaWire

Sqribble-Eye-Popping eBooks Creator That Command Top Dollar With Authority

LONDON, UK, 2018-Nov-14 — /EPR INTERNET NEWS/ — Adeel Chowdhry a highly sought  after online entrepreneur and speaker with over ten years of experience in the digital industry has announced the launch of a new eBook creator called Sqribble.

Sqribble is powerful eBook creator that allows anyone to instantly create stunning eBooks and reports and fill it with awesome content at the push of a button.

More information can be found at https://trendfunnels.com/sqribble

The tool offers a collection of 60 professionally eye-grabbing designs across 15 profitable niche categories.

They are so well designed that each template comes with table of contents and professional page layouts that convert readers into loyal customer.

A list of examples is provided on the URL above so Business owners, Site owners, Authors, Writers, Publishers and Bloggers can see how they can just enter a URL from their website and watch Sqribble automatically fill pages with fresh, ready made content.

eBooks hit record high as 50% of Americans say they own a tablet or reader.

eBooks are taking over and are the best way to kick start your digital business today.

Sales for eBooks are growing, but have leveled off over the past couple of years. They are believed to comprise 25 to 30 percent of the general trade market with commercial fiction especially popular for eBooks.

“The proportion of Americans and British who reads eBooks is growing, but have completely replaced print books for electronic versions” said Mark.

The percentage of adults who read an eBook in the past has risen to 28% up from 23% at the end of the year.

Sqribble allows business owners and marketing professionals to quickly and easily create eBooks that can improve their lead generation and sales.

According to the latest research, eBooks can increase sales by up to 80%, which means business not harnessing its power are missing out.

eBooks can also be used with email marketing as a way to increase leads and get more visitors clicking through to the company website.

Even just using the word “eBook” in a email subject line can increase open rates.

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Global SAP Cloud Platform Services Market: Competition Matrix

DUBLIN 2, Ireland, 06-Nov-2018 — /EPR INTERNET NEWS/ — Increasing number of solutions in the entire cloud ecosystem has resulted in creation of a complex cloud environment. Shifting toward cloud platforms being a major focus, cloud customers are facing challenges in managing applications, integrating, workload management and other facets in the cloud computing space. In a bid to resolve cloud challenges, vendors such as SAP SE have created advanced cloud platform services that offer simplified process control and enhanced workload management using various services under the SAP cloud platform services portfolio.

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Fact.MR foresees that the sales of SAP cloud platform services are estimated to jump by 1.2x in 2018 over 2017, with the overall SAP cloud platform services market crossing a valuation of over US$ 160 Mn in the year. Fact.MR report envisages that the SAP cloud platform services market is likely to stay bullish on back of remarkable growth prospects in the following years, with growing small and large scale enterprises venturing into SAP cloud platform services to enhance business performance.

“To enhance global footprint and improve sales of SAP cloud platform services, participants such as SAP SE are entering into strategic collaborations and partnerships across major countries worldwide. Considering the present scenario of increasing partnerships it has been possible to develop new sales funnels for SAP cloud platform services, which in turn is expected to fuel the market valuation of SAP cloud platform services in the forthcoming years.” – Lead Analyst, Fact.MR IoT and Cloud Computing, ICT Domain

Few Takeaways Highlighted in the Report

  • End users of SAP cloud platform services continue to showcase higher preference for strategy and consulting services; POC (Proof of Concept) service likely to gain high traction
  • Small and medium enterprises to pave potential growth avenues for SAP cloud platform services vendors worldwide; large enterprises showcase a steadily growing inclination towards cloud services
  • IT and telecom industry account for a higher share of the SAP cloud platform services market in 2017 followed by BFSI sector
  • Consumer goods & retail and manufacturing sectors to showcase increasing preference in SAP cloud platform services in 2018
  • United States to remain an attractive market for SAP cloud platform services accounting for over 30% revenue share of the overall market in 2017

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Emerge as an Attractive End User

Small and medium scale enterprises are emerging as lucrative end users with respect to SAP cloud platform services adoption, says the report. Small and medium businesses are largely focusing on cloud computing services owing to relatively low cost associated with cloud computing as compared to on-premise deployment and SAP cloud platform services are no exception. The report estimates that the SAP cloud platform services market revenue generated from small and medium enterprises is likely to cross US$ 100 Mn by end of 2018.

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On the other hand, relatively lower revenue generation has been observed across large enterprises on account of early adoption of on-premise deployment that is pre-planned. Moreover, affordability quotient of on-premise deployment services by large enterprises is high as compared to SMEs. However, SAP cloud platform services are likely to gain higher traction across large enterprises in the future, according to the report.

Preeminence of Americas Region to Prevail in the SAP Cloud Platform Services Marketplace

Sales of SAP cloud platform services are likely to remain concentrated across Americas, particularly the United States. Macroeconomic factors such as significant economic growth and high GDP coupled with growing cloud computing infrastructure and presence of key SAP cloud platform services vendors have influenced sales in the country.

Countries in the Asia Pacific, particularly Japan, are likely to showcase increasing inclination toward use of SAP cloud platform services. The report projects that the demand for SAP cloud platform services across Japan, India, China and Australia is expected to grow at a stellar pace. Of these countries, albeit at a lower base apropos of revenue generation, India is likely to project potential growth prospects for SAP cloud platform services, according to Fact.MR report.

Overall, the outlook for SAP cloud platform services market remains bullish in the forthcoming years, with the market expanding at a value CAGR of 29.5% throughout the period of assessment, 2018-2028.

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Just For Diabetics Website Offers Hope for Pre-diabetics, Type 2 diabetics, and the Overweight

Research shows that the best time to take action to reverse pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes is when you are at the stage of managing these conditions.

Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2018-Nov-06 — /EPR INTERNET NEWS/ — November is world diabetes month. When people are diagnosed type 2 diabetic, the first line of defense is the use of prescription drugs in order to manage the diabetes. But what victims of pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes are not aware of is that research performed by Just For Diabetics website founder, Ernest Quansah, shows that when patients are managing their pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes, it is the best opportunity for them to reverse it and be weaned off the prescription drugs. The research results are evidence based. Many doctors and institutions now agree that this is the case. Recently, the University of British Columbia, in conjunction with Pharmasave, a drugstore chain, began offering obese people and type 2 diabetics a diet plan aimed at reversal of pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes. The cost of their plan is $500 a month. The diet plan calls for no consumption of refined sugar, potatoes, fruit, fruit juices, sweet drinks of any kind, rice, bread, and consumption of cooked vegetables for lunch, cooked chicken breast for dinner and so on. Many of the participants are seniors, the overweight, or obese. After several thousand of dollars spent, many participants lose weight and their doctors take them off their diabetes drugs.

Quansah’s program includes a specialized diabetes exercise regime along with vitamin therapy and a carefully designed tasty menu cycle. He himself completely reversed his severe case of type 2 diabetes after compiling this program, which was the culmination of thorough research. This research included the advice of several physicians. Quansah, founder of Just For Diabetics and the author of Diabetics Journey says: “For several years, I have been educating people about how type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes can be reversed through the program offered on my website. Now we see that one of Canada’s finest Universities and a drug store chain are doing the same.”

The website, justfordiabetics.com offers a free weight-loss program, a free diabetes reversal program, as well as an inexpensive paid program. The extensive program includes a full menu regime, exercise videos, tutorials, in addition to a cooking video demonstration, all for less than $180. Quansah wisely suggests that those on the program be monitored by their doctors.

Quansah’s research and findings have been published in the WebMD Diabetes magazine in the article “Secret recipe: How a Chef Cured His Type 2 Diabetes”, as well as on the WebMD website. There is hope for reversing pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes (the type that does not require insulin injections,) and for overcoming being overweight.

“Misinformation about type 2 diabetes is rampant. For diabetics to heal, they need a complete change of attitude and way of thinking. This means, they should not just accept managing their condition, but rather, understand that they can be healed. Further, complacency about pre-diabetes leads to full-blown diabetes, which can lead to heart disease, blindness, liver failure, impotence, limb amputations and early death,” cautions Quansah.

Quansah has been asked to be guest speaker at the Diabetes and Healthcare Conference being held in Helsinki, Norway, in November 2018 and to be keynote speaker at the Diabetes Care Conference being held in Malaysia in May of 2019. His speech topic will include how to help diabetics heal and resultantly reduce healthcare costs.

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Budapest-based Green Fox Academy starts its first coding bootcamp in Prague

BUDAPEST, Hungary, 29-Oct-2018 — /EPR INTERNET NEWS/ — By 2020 almost 500,000 ICT jobs may remain unfilled in Europe according to European Commission’s estimate. Coding bootcamps offer one way in which this issue can be addressed, by reeducating career changers looking to move into the IT industry. Budapest-based Green Fox Academy, who run Hungary’s first 4-month-long coding bootcamp course, has just started its first course in Prague, with 16 students. The teaching methods and course structure are the same as the courses which take place in Budapest.

While the unemployment rate in the Czech Republic is the lowest in Europe, it is notable that the labor market has a shortfall of 20,000 IT professionals. Coding bootcamps offer one way in which this shortage of developers can be addressed, and is one reason why Hungary’s first 4-month-long coding bootcamp, Budapest-based Green Fox Academy, has opened a new bootcamp in Prague primarily for career changers looking to move into the IT industry. “The lack of IT professionals is not a local but a regional tendency,” says Kristóf Bárdos, co-founder of Green Fox Academy. “Digital technologies are having a wide impact on all industries, entire professions are disappearing or being re-defined, and new jobs are being created. Digital skills are becoming vital in every industry.” Bootcamps can plug this gap by reeducating career changers.

Green Fox Academy started its first course in Budapest in 2015 with 21 students, and since then 380 students have graduated from the bootcamp. Green Fox Academy’s 10th cohort, with more than 80 students, begin their studies in Budapest this October, while in Prague the first course has just begun with 16 participants.

Green Fox Academy entered the Czech market with a local partner, Czechitas. This non-profit corporation organizes courses in programing, web development, graphic design or data analytics for girls and women. They have more than 4,000 graduates per year.

SOURCE: EuropaWire

Translation Works Full Review

NEW YORK, NY, USA, 2018-Sep-28 — /EPR INTERNET NEWS/ — If you are a particular individual at your home and a great curiosity it could happen the same thing that if you are or a Business boss looking for making your business grow up, you might think, “what is in common between these two cases?” two words: translation services.

If you are curious about the world, at some point you will come across with the languages, and if you have no fear, you can learn them, this process takes years, and something that can be of a great help is making many small requests of translation.

First of all, works made in translation enterprises are actually human translation works; it is not about better technology for translating, just highly trained personnel, so you will never find a digital translation remotely comparable to these ones.

What kind of works is made by translation agencies?
In this age of communication in the 21st century, there is the high possibility that you were trying to communicate with people across the globe, maybe because you are just trying to make new friends and the language barrier is a problem, only thing you need is to have letters translated.

Try to picture this funny example! Maybe your son, daughter or familiar at some point has a romantic engage with a person who does not manage your language and you want to know about that person as it is appropriate, you will need communication.

And this is where the works made by translation agencies make their appearance. For in all of these curious situations the help you need is as reachable as a translation request to one of these agencies.

A good way to improve your languages
Also and good too, if you decided to take the harder but also more passionate way that is to learn the language seriously, whichever it is, you will find yourself without knowing what does some words mean, so here you can use a bilingual dictionary or a digital translator, for more complicated or specific cases, we strongly advise you to hire small human translation works.

Did you start learning thank to a song you obsessed with? That can be an excellent way to start and to boost learning a language, to ask a translation agency to get the song translated for you. And this way you will keep on learning your language in a fantastic and fun way.

An excellent and economic way to open new doors
With the works made translation agencies, you are boosted to get access to the entire world, and help you to reach new horizons with languages, although you do not manage them by yourself. With the translations, you get to them and you can start becoming familiar with them.

Try to picture the next situation: you are reading on internet and you start learning about a culture that is so rich and abundant, that you feel identified with much if it and want to learn more. But then you see that much of its way to work is related to its language.

Translation Works for your business
In this new generation of the connections across the world, your employees and all of your company might need help with communicating with people across the globe, for you are willing to expand and make an excellent contract, do not worry, it is easy for us to translate business letters accurately.

It does not matter if your business is having a great impact and success or not, taking the translation way is an excellent and infallible way to expand and boost your business, and we strongly advise you to think about it and meditate it carefully.

It is possible that an experienced enterprise of the outside is extending the hand to you and you are not able to answer them properly due to not knowing how to communicate, do not let the language barrier stop you! This is your chance; hire a translation service for you to explore.

The ultimate help for your business with translations
If your employees are brave enough to take on new goals, you can start a program of language instruction, for helping your employees to manage themselves with the business language and improving their international communication with all kind of people and cultures.

After this, your employees would be qualified in the business communication across international frontiers, so you will start having branch offices in different countries and your brand will be much bigger and known across the entire globe.

Companies and enterprises like www.pangeanic.com are so often hired to establish this kind of procedures in businesses and they might be the key for yours. This translation and interpretation services jut might be what you need for having your office up to the universe.

Resuming: Translation works are your solution
The works made by translation enterprises are not as simple to explain as you might think, translation agencies can make an amazingly wide range of different works depending of your personal request or the needs of your business.

What you have read in this article are the just the basics about the working of the translations, for they are a great industry and it can take you to so many different areas that you would never imagine. It is strongly advisable for you to keep reading and learning.

Remember what works made by translation agencies
The translation agencies can save your business one day, so better take note of this! On it’s the simplest way, the works made by translation enterprises making use of the feeling, the human possibility of feeling the true meaning of the words, the expressions and sentences. This way, a human is totally able to translate in ways that are impossible to computers.

Picking up from a simple request made by you, from your home, you can upload and send any written doc, odt or pdf file you have in your computer and request it to be translated, the price will be determined by the quantity of words and the time you give them to have it done.

Then, if you have and want a letter to be translated, a song or even a poem, you can have it translated by them, and then, you can specify exactly how you want it to be done, you can ask them to get its intonation, metrics, rhymes, quantity of words and the formal or informal forms.

These lasts are important to have them in mind, for the polite expressions can be strongly marked in other languages more than in English, for example, in Spanish, there are two ways to say You, and they are “Tú” (in some places is “vos”) on its informal way, and “Usted” on its formal manner.

The next step and level of translation
If you are trying to complete your whole family genealogy, you will probably find old hand-written books, maybe they will be hard to read or even be in a different language if your ascendants were Italian, German, Swedish or similar.

Here the translation services can be of your all solution, for you can scan it and send all pages to a translation agency, you can ask them to just transcript into digital just like it is there, and just have it there if you want, but you can also ask it to be completely translated and presented to you, they will be contacting you for any doubt just to have it the best for you.

We can help you by translating your marketing material
If you are trying to boost a little business or an indie company, you will for sure need to make use of advertisements and marketing strategies for letting the world know about you, and if you decide to translate graphic design element for taking it across the cultures.

First of all it would be necessary to get translated your online marketing materials, look for a specific translation agency that counts with graphic designers for not only translating your advertisements, but having them exactly like they were before, nice looking but translated.

And then, you can ask a printer to take to reality all the digital marketing advertisements translated as a work made by translation enterprises and start putting your brand on the spotlights!

This will be just the beginning, once you have done this, you will start gaining fame among the people, and they will recognize your brand with a quick sight, it has no importance about where are they from, for your brand would have reached new horizons.

We strongly advise you to start thinking about hiring the new services, the works made by translation agencies and enterprises, you will have right what you need! And you can find anything you want, only thing you need to do is to read enough and find exactly the one you want!

There are plenty of translation agencies and companies in the United States and in the Internet, and the one you need does exist!

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Make best use of Online Banking and stop wasting time

NEW YORK, NY, USA, 2018-Sep-26 — /EPR INTERNET NEWS/ — Most of the systems we are already used to, we do not know how they work, for we are always thinking we know enough that they work and we trust them. But honestly, do you think you know enough about online banking? Here you will find some facts that might be useful for you to know!

Here you will find useful information you will better have on mind, and also excellent reasons for using online banking services and some advices for being always safe and security.

Sometimes if your internet connection is not that good, it might be hard for you to access to your bank through your conventional online banking portal, so these online banking apps and services might help you to access in an easier, lighter and safer way anytime you need!

Online Banking – When and how did it start working?
Did you know it? The first online banking systems that gave origin of the ones you use today EVERYDAY were introduced in the early 1980s in New York when four of the national banks started offering the revolutionary home banking services, allowing the clients and small businesses to have a quick online banking check.

On the same way, the online banking started also on the United Kingdom around those years when the Scotland Bank and the Nottingham Building Society provided the Homelink service for giving their users the opportunity of viewing bank moves on a computer.

But it was only until 1994 that the banks around the entire globe started using the internet for posting their advertises, and then in 1995 they started offering to the clients the possibility of managing their money online through a home computer, and this came to be the online banking of nowadays.

The greatest benefits of using the Online Banking
As everyone knows the major benefits of using online banking are mainly two: security and comfort. With the online banking services you can make all your money-related operations without needing cash or personally going to the bank.

Paying your services with no delay
These services might help you regardless of your bank, they will help you to manage all your bank moves for having an easy, confortable, secure and practical administration of your money, you can make routine pays like paying electricity, water and gas services without losing any time of your day.

Your pays to third ones can also be made much easier with these online banking services, for they will offer you an easy platform where you can quickly see and control your bank accounts.

Manage all your accounts and save your time and money
These services might also help you if you manage more than one bank account, so you can control your money in any of them more easily and in a more ordered way. You do not need to waste any passage fees anymore if you do not live close to any bank, you can make all your processes from your home computer or even with your Smartphone.

It is really easy to look by yourself if you prefer right now, on Google Play Store for these apps for the one you prefer the most, we just advice you to read enough about each app of services and be aware of the reviews to know if it is safe and if it has the functions you need.

Most of these online banking services also have apps you can download for always having a control of your money in your pocket. You can pay the balance of your telephones, your internet service and the rent of your home (if you have to) through online banking.

Risks and security advices while using online banking
If you are already an online banking user or you are considering being one, here are some advices to keep security, for there is no infallible system and you can help these to be safer and securer. What you can do is always good for making sure your security and your money’s.

Many online banking services keep you safe with logging you out every time you finish your operations, if you close the app or delay too long in doing something in it, it might close your account for your security, so you better remember always your user name and password.

It is not recommendable to have your password written in a paper or in any digital way inside your phone, always protect your device with a locking pattern, or even better, a password or a PIN code, these last two methods are more efficient and safer than the pattern that could stand marked on the screen of your smartphone.

Install a VPN app for your security
Sometimes when you connect to the public WiFi and start making your bank moves from your smartphone or laptop, there are hackers who are connected to the same network that you are, and they can hack your information even from your online banking accounts, everything you send could be intercepted by them.

The makers of the online banking services and apps nothing can do against that, but you can! There are some programs or apps that are known as VPN. What are the VPN programs and apps? The letters are for Virtual Protected Network, and it makes that all your information is encrypted and it makes it harder to be hacked and intercepted.

If you protect your phone and your laptop with VPN programs, the hackers will have it MUCH harder to intercept your data and force your online banking accounts.

Follow carefully all of these advises and your online banking account, passwords, and information will never be hacked! You can then research by yourself and keep reading for having enough knowledge about the system of online anti-hacking security you are willing to install and make use of.

At this moment me do not recommend you one specific VPN app or program, we just let you know about its existence and we strongly advise you to start researching about them, so you can find exactly the one you need for your phone, or your laptop.

Do not waste any time or disk space on installing a program that is too heavy and has too many features that you do not actually need, just look for the program you do need.

It is also recommendable that you read carefully every contract of terms and conditions and politic privacy of the apps you install and the programs you use in your laptop for applying the online banking services.

Benefits of online banking
If you have no fear to innovate and start tasting the great advantages of adapting to the new technologies, then, you will make good to start trying new systems of online banking like apps and webpages that are quick and easy to access, you will see in your own experience the next benefits:

First of all, you will reduce the time spent in executing financial operations. Only thing you need to do is to be connected to the internet from your home, your office or any mobile web (remember to use VPM systems to protect data), and then you will have all your money in your hand, easily manageable.

Have your bank at the reach of your hand
Make your bank moves from everywhere you are, you can do it from your laptop or your smartphone, only thing you need to do is to have internet access and then you can review your account state, transfer money and pay fees. Usually, these mobile online banking services are free and the only charge you could get is with your mobile company and the kind of plan you have contracted.

You can make more than one banking operation: moves, credit card pays, pay of services, recharge your air time and according to specialists, 20 per cent of people access to online banking through internet through these kind of mobile devices.

Keep the control of everything easily
You can have control of your money and account pays, and then stop losing any more time visiting the bank, with online banking aside of avoiding the printed account states, you can pay your accounts and maintain all your pay registries in only one place and very easy to find. If you prefer, you can also program automatic pays using your credit or debit card, like the pays of your services of water, electricity and telephone.

Stay safe with your money
Security with your operations is supported by your username and your personal unique password (and this is one you can change periodically), and also you have the token, that is a numeric code that changes every 60 seconds, and that you have to introduce to connect to the online banking.

Many online banking methods also work with security images, which are unique and are impossible to be identified or distinguished by a computer, so it cannot be violated with robotic systems.

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Study: Contemporary forms of racism and bigotry on social media platforms

SOUTHAMPTON, 20-Sep-2018 — /EPR Internet News/ — As social media has experienced considerable exponential growth-rate over the past decade, sadly the same has occurred with online hate speech. Clear evidence of this picture is the fact that different international organisations, including the United Nations Human Rights Council, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance, and national governments across Europe; namely the UK, Germany, France and Italy, have demanded that the large corporations behind the major social media platforms do more to address this issue. In fact, recent sociological research reveals that, while more needs to be done at the corporate level, there is also other actions that could be taken by national governments and educational bodies towards changing this picture in the near future.

To this end, Dr Luiz Valerio P. Trindade, has undertaken a four-year qualitative study addressing the social impacts of hate speech, racism and bigotry on social media platforms. Based on that, he has developed key recommendations that could stem the practice and help to prevent this phenomenon taking place and laying the foundations for reducing their occurrence in the years to come. With research revealing that even individual Facebook posts with racist and hate content can continue to engage users for up to 3 years after the initial publication, far from being just one moment of instant communication, hateful posts have a life spam that surprisingly extends over a long period. Perhaps more worryingly, the research evidences that social media is held to be a ‘No Man’s Land’ by the proponents of hate and bigotry, suggesting that these people feel at ease to convey their ideologies believing that authorities cannot reach them.

Dr Trindade has developed clear public policy recommendations that could make a difference towards promoting change in users’ behaviour on social media, such as:

  • Discussing the consequences of online hate speech with secondary school pupils and helping them to develop a clear understanding of the real life’s impacts and consequences of this practice. This is critical because social media is widely used by the 13-17 years-old age group, with over 1.8 million users of this age in the UK alone and 172 million globally.
  • Educational campaigns at national level to highlight the fact that online life is not detached from offline and that, in fact, they are intertwined.
  • Working to ensure that the large corporations behind the major social media platforms have effective and faster processes to remove inappropriate content that’s been flagged up by their users or spotted by their powerful algorithms.
  • Calling for these corporations to clearly highlight to their users that their platforms are not a safe paradise for them to convey racist views or promote bigotry exempt of consequences. Instead, these corporations need to set out clearly that identification data could be disclosed to the authorities, who could then hold them to accountable for their online attitudes.

Dr Trindade, PhD in Sociology by the University of Southampton says, “The increasing trend of construction and dissemination of hate speech, bigotry, misogyny and racism are apparently becoming the ‘new normal’ in the digital landscape across several European countries and also in the UK. Moreover, rather than fading away soon after publication, derogatory posts oftentimes become powerful magnets attracting several new users for the same conversation for up to three years, what can potentially increase the initial harm caused to the victim of the verbal abuse”.

SOURCE: EuropaWire

DURGA KONE, COMAKEIT’S EVP & HEAD OF GLOBAL SALES: “COMAKEIT IS IDEALLY POSITIONED TO LEVERAGE THE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF DIGITAL DISRUPTION”

BAARN, Netherlands, 17-Sep-2018 — /EPR Internet News/ — coMakeIT strengthened its executive management team through the addition of Durga Prakash Kone, as Executive Vice President & Head of Global Sales. Durga is a seasoned technology professional with an outstanding track record of enabling the success of various globally renowned IT businesses.

Over the past two and a half decades, Durga held senior leadership roles at Tech Mahindra, HCL Technologies, Satyam, and Intelligroup (NTT Data), and was instrumental in scaling their business across North America, EMEA, APJ, and India. His core competencies include Strategic Sales, Business Development, Channel Sales, and building product partner ecosystems. In his previous assignment, Durga played a key role in building the SAP Alliance & Ecosystems business globally for Tech Mahindra.

As EVP & Head of Global Sales, Durga will drive coMakeIT’s Global Sales & Ecosystem Strategy. Speaking on the occasion, he stated:

“coMakeIT is ideally positioned to leverage the challenges and opportunities of digital disruption. With its unique co-creation model of building software IP, and a strong portfolio of product engineering and application modernization services, coMakeIT is on the cusp of exponential growth, and I am excited to be a part of its next phase of evolution.”

With its exclusive focus on serving the continuously evolving needs of software-driven businesses, coMakeIT is relied upon as a strategic partner by numerous innovative software companies from Netherlands, UK, and Australia, in diverse domains including BFSI, Logistics, Fleet Management, ERP, and Education etc. coMakeIT is investing to build and further enhance its capabilities in application modernization, which has enormous potential across varied domains and geographies including ANZ, and North America. coMakeIT also offers advanced capabilities in emerging technologies, which help its customers accelerate their product innovation and reduce the risk of technology adoption.

SOURCE: EuropaWire