article thumbnail

Exciting Social Enterprise Group I met at the Skoll World Forum

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Raja is a seasoned business executive with senior level experience in multinationals (Coca-Cola, B&W/BAT, BOC Group, Societe Generale) in Europe, Asia and in multiple Middle East/North African countries (MENA), as an entrepreneur and as Managing Director of one of the oldest retail groups in the MENA region.

SWF 140
article thumbnail

Big Data Means More Than Big Profits

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

And though they use the massive sets of data they collect to help create a better experience for their consumers (such as customized ads or tailored movie recommendations), their primary goal is to use what they learn to maximize profits. But can Big Data also create positive social change?

Profit 171
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Serendipity and Twitter

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Photo credit: Steve Francis So, I got to tell the TEDxVolcano attendees my personal experience of my favorite explosion, the Percheron Rocket: my first job out of school. Tags: SWF SWF10 Twitter TEDxVolcano BBC. Without Twitter, I wouldn't have been able to find out about this and make the offer. Opening doors to speaking gigs.

Twitter 118
article thumbnail

The Jing Project: Embed Screencasts Into Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The jing project is their first experiment in the Mac platform. Update about embedding from Laura Whitehead : Jing saves as an SWF, which is easily embedable using something called the SWF object. Get the bit of code you need here What is SWF? TechSmith is the maker of my favorite apps, Camtasia and SnagIt.

Jing 50
article thumbnail

Flickr As Presentation Tool: Screencast #2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After seeing Nancy White's experiment and discovering Amit Agarwal's excellent instructions for. I originaly produced this at 800x600 as a SWF with highest quality audio/video and the resulting file was a whooping 72,000 KB. In the end, I decided to produce as a SWF at 640x480 size with second to highest audio/video quality.