World Humanitarian Day
set annually for August 19th was originally designated to recognize
humanitarian personnel and those who had lost their lives working for
humanitarian causes. It’s origin was a direct result of a massive
bombing attack of Iraq by America and its allies, escalating on March
21, 2003. Known in military parlance as "Shock ‘n Awe," and taken from
Sun Tzu’s "The Art of War"
(544-496 BC), it’s a military doctrine based on the use of overwhelming
power to paralyze an adversary’s perception of the battlefield and
destroy its will to fight back.
"Wannabe" Movie Debuts On Facebook vs Theaters Starring Academy Award Winner Octavia Spencer?
Posted in: Today's Chili"Wannabe" is a comedy film starring Craig Robert Young, Octavia Spencer,
Matt Dallas, Tate Taylor, Adam Huss, written by Craig Robert Young and
Richard Keith and directed by Richard Keith. It’s being promoted as one
of the only films to be released on Facebook.
However, while that may be true, if one was to research the movie on the Internet, it is evident this flick was first produced back in 2005?
Yes, tweets are known for their brevity. 140 characters or less is the
constraint Twitter imposes on the Twitterati’s bon mots. However if you
look closely at their terms of service, they’ve never restricted the
actual size of a tweet, nor how far it could be thrust into space. And
this summer, Iberia Airlines has used those loopholes to not only issue
the world’s biggest tweet but also to show to the world, the skies the
limit as to how far a tweet can go.
XeeMe (pronounced
"see me") in its simplest form is an aggregator of one’s social
networks. The service is an offshoot of Society3, a social media
technology and service provider founded by serial entrepreneur Axel
Schultze. As a social media solution, XeeMe helps brands and highly
connected individuals to organize their social presence while they grow
their networks and influence.
Social Media Solutions For Casinos Is Better Bet Than Traditional Marketing
Posted in: Today's ChiliCasinos need to up their game when it comes to rolling the dice on
social media’s 4 R’s – Reputation, Relationships, Recommendations &
Reach. While a tad behind the curve, casinos are catching up with the
hospitality industry at large with their management of social media
initiatives. Today, there are platforms, tools and marketing techniques
that can help create a customer experience that can distinguish a casino
brand from the pack, while far exceeding traditional marketing results.
O-rings. They’re those small, looped elastomers that mechanics and
photography hobbyists always seem to say they need when they’re in the
middle of some project. I was pretty much blown away by how useful these little buggers were, which led me to think about what the world would be like without o-rings–and let me just say, it wasn’t pretty.
If Charles Dickens was alive today, he might have been inclined to
create a fictionalized version of the malevolent brothers the likes of
Charles and David Koch (pronounced Coke). While these two modern-day
rogues have deviously shown how elections can be manipulated, helped
create a radical extremist group, despoiled a number of ecosystems and
are hell-bent on demonizing the current leader of the free world — the
Koch brothers run one of the largest U.S.companies (bigger than Coke), but one that
most folks never heard of.