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Division III glanceWhat's new: Division III is now a 17-team league made up of programs that competed in Division V and Division VI last season. The division features four conferences. Two teams from each conference will qualify for the playoffs.
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East: Bishop Brady (of Concord), Epping/Newmarket, Farmington/Nute (of Milton) and Raymond.
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South: Bow, Campbell (of Litchfield), Pelham and Somersworth.
West: Fall Mountain (of Langdon), Mascoma Valley (of Canaan), Newport and Stevens (of Claremont).
Players to watch: Jack Athanas, QB (Gilford); Eddie Bianco, RB (Mascoma); Vinni Bucci, MLB/OT/TE (Campbell); Elyjah Dejoie, RB/LB (Somersworth); Trevor Duquette, PK/TB/OLB (Campbell); Jamen Gunnison, RB (Farmington-Nute); Andrew Houde, QB (Newport); Kyle Kosoriek, RB (Mascoma); Hunter Kretschmar, DE/OT (Somersworth); Noah Ladd, DL (Stevens); Justin Marsh, DB (Mascoma); Nathaniel Napen, DL (Bow); Korey Parent, RB (Franklin); Donald Pellerin, RB/DB (Stevens); Shane Pierce, RB/DE (Mascoma); Mike Rich, SE (Sanborn); Joe Slattery, DB (Pelham); Jacob Valinski, LB Epping/Newmarket; Tyler Smith LB (Farmington/Nute).
Change at the top: Four teams will enter the season with first-year head coaches: Campbell (Greg Gush), Franklin (Jeff Kaplan), Gilford (Chris Marden) and Newfound (Shane Tucker).
Circle this date: Somersworth will play at Mascoma on Oct. 19. Each team finished as the runner-up in its division last year, and this game will likely have playoff implications for both.
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"It's going to be a little bit tougher to win a championship," Kershaw said. "And it's going to be quite a process to get there."
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Jules Bianchi: "It was good to be able to enjoy a dry race today because we were back on the pace we were showing earlier in the weekend in similar conditions. It was a little bit daunting to know we were planning a one stop strategy and would have to go so long on the Medium tyre, but my engineers and I kept in close contact and worked together to ensure we could manage the tyre life as we needed to. Although we had to be quite careful, in the end we got to 40 laps no problem, although it was good to switch to the Supersoft and be able to secure position. I think the result is quite pleasing and we are back where we need to be in terms of the competition. We hope for good things from our next step in Silverstone, where we will be aiming for a good performance in an important race for the Team."
Max Chilton: "We got a good start but struggled on the first lap, then after a few laps we were able to see that our strategy was going to play out well for us. We started on the Medium tyre and ran long for just under 40 laps. I was quite pleased with how well we were managing the tyres even late on in that stint, so a good job from my engineers who were working with me to achieve that, enabling me to still be able to push hard on the last few laps before we pitted for the Supersoft. The early part of the second stint worked well but later on I was struggling with the tyre wear and I wasn't able to defend my position from Pic. It was good to add to our tally of two-car finishes though and we can feel optimistic as we head towards a very important race for the Team and for me - our home race, the British Grand Prix."
Charles Pic: My start was ok but into the first corner I had to brake early to avoid hitting one of the cars ahead and lost a couple of places. We went onto the mediums for the second stint and they held up well. The car balance kept improving as we went through the race and we stuck to the plan, pitting for the last time on lap 37 so we could run a long final stint to the flag. With about ten laps left I caught and passed Chilton and was given the instruction to push to the flag. From that point I couldn't really gain on the car ahead so I just made sure we got to the end without any issues and finished the race 18th."
Giedo van der Garde: "Today wasn't a good day for me. I want to say sorry to Mark for the incident we had and I'll make sure I learn from the stewards' decision on the five-place penalty for the next race. Sometimes you make mistakes, but the important thing is to accept them, learn from them and move on. In the race itself I had a great start, passed four cars and was up to 17th by lap two. We'd started on the supersofts and the first set were done pretty quickly so we boxed on lap eight for a set of mediums and my pace on those for the first few laps was ok. I'm not sure why but not long into the stint the tyre temperatures started coming down and my laptimes dropped straight away. It was pretty frustrating as there was nothing I could do to get them to work so I just had to keep pushing on. On lap 33 I came back in for another set of mediums but then I had to box for the stop / go I had from the contact with Mark. The temperatures went straight up after the penalty and I had to come back in almost immediately so we could check the car and they found a visor tear-off in one of the radiators which had been causing problems for most of the race. Shortly after that I was heading towards the hairpin with Hulkenberg alongside. I moved over for him but he turned in in front of me in the braking zone and we made contact and that was the end of my race."
Esteban Gutierrez: "For the entire race the car was difficult to drive, and I was always pushing to the limit. Right from the start everyone was closing in. The first set of tyres was difficult to drive on and a one stop would have been impossible. When I came out from my second pit stop into the fist corner, I went over one of the bumps, the front locked up and I couldn't stop."
Nico Hulkenberg: "It's disappointing to finish a race like this. Lapping can be troublesome, but these guys are racing too and have things happenings in the race, the same as us. I lapped Giedo van der Garde and braked. At first I didn't feel anything until I came out of the corner and realised the car wasn't going straight, so we decided to stop. Even after we lost positions at the start of the race, we didn't really have the pace today. I was fighting for 14th and couldn't do much more. Of course this is not an ideal way to end a race, but in the end we wouldn't have gained much more."
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TankSpot: So a lot of the stuff weve seen so far with Mists of Pandaria, with the focus on getting the War back into Warcraft etc, it seems like PvP is becoming a major focus. Is that accurate, or is that just the storyline that the game is taking?
J. Allen Brack: I dont think its accurate that were focusing more on PvP as to exclude PvE. I think there are definitely PvP elements that were introducing, but I think its much more about the story and the tone that were gonna have with the expansion as opposed to any kind of specific content or system decision.
TS: The Annual Pass was extremely successful. Are there any plans for a future Annual Pass after the 1-year term is up on the current one?
JAB: We havent talked about that. I think the WoW Annual Pass came out of just sort of thinking about the opportunity for Diablo coming out, and thinking theres gonna be a lot of loyal WoW players who want to play Diablo and thinking about how to make that a compelling offer. Will we do something like that in the future? Im sure we will. What is it? I have no idea. We havent really even started thinking about what that would be like.
I think people might say Hey, we need to do a Starcraft and WoW [annual pass]. I dont know that that makes too much sense. I think the venn diagram of overlap between Starcraft players and WoW players may be a little bit smaller than Diablo.
TS: World of Warcraft has been out for 7 ½ years now, and obviously in development even before that, but still extremely successful. How does the game having been around for so long, and so established at this point, affect the sort of design changes and direction you need to take the game?
JAB: I think that kind of goes back to how we ended up with Mists of Pandaria as this expansion. Weve done three expansions in a row where theres been a focus on a huge, malevolent evil -- a huge bad guy who wants to do terrible, terrible things to the player. We wanted to change the tone of that, and say Hey, were not gonna focus on this bad guy as the big uber. Were going to focus on a new land, and its about exploration, and its about adventuring in this new land. Its about whats over the next hill, in this new continent Ive never seen before? with the background story of we need to claim this territory, and we need to harvest resources from it, because we need to fuel our war machine back in Stormwind or Orgrimmar. So thats kind of going back to your first question about the PvP aspect of the storyline. Its much more about the land grab, and if you sort of think back to colonial times with the discovery of the new world and what happened there, thats the kind of pieces were thinking about.
TS: One of the things that was mentioned during the presentation earlier, Chris Metzen was talking about how the box product was going to basically be the theme thats been talked about so far with the voyage to Pandaria, and then content patches would be furthering the story beyond that. What kind of release timeline do you think that would be along the lines of? One of the things that had been talked about around patch 4.1 was the idea of smaller patches, more frequently and that kind of fell by the wayside with Dragon Soul and so on. Is that something you guys want to get back into?
JAB: Its definitely something that were interested in. I would love for us to be doing patches significantly more often. Right now were averaging about every 4 months. I would love for us to do more frequent patches than that. I think its kind of hard for a number of reasons, the biggest one being that weve got a lot of history of WoW, and theres a player expectation and a community expectation of What does it mean for us to release a patch?, but Im very interested in changing that dynamic and changing that expectation so that we can have big patches, we can have small patches, and we can have medium sized patches which we dont really do right now.
TS: And then obviously when you have a smaller patch people go Is this all that was in this patch? and then you have a big patch and theyre like Why did you wait so long? Ive been around the community a couple times myself, I know exactly what they do.
JAB: Yeah, thats exactly the kind of feedback we get.
TS: So PvE scenarios were talked about a little bit. Im still a little unclear on the idea. When they were originally announced it sounded almost like a public quest sort of thing, like out in the world youd come across these and have to do something, but from the presentation it sounds like theyre going to be instanced.
JAB: Yeah, theyre going to be queued. Youll queue up for them and theyll be instanced. The difference is, when you think about dungeons, sometimes well have a dungeon thats just a very small hole in the ground, and then you go in and youre in the dungeon. Our thought right now is that you wont have very many dungeon-type things -- youll actually have this area in the world that youll learn and have a quest from and maybe it becomes a scenario for you later on, or something in that area becomes a scenario for you later on. But you will queue and you will be matchmade with various players in order to complete scenarios.
The idea is that its a very small, kind of 20-minute little adventure that happens irrespective of role. So theres no real consideration for tank, or dps, or healer. Its just are there 3 people who want to do this 3 person scenario? Great! and theyre on their way to the scenario.
TS: So its more of a drop in/drop out, sort of instant Ive just logged in to World of Warcraft and would like to play sort of thing.
JAB: Yeah, exactly.
TS: Along those same lines it was mentioned that there was going to be a relationship between the scenarios and the Brewmasters, like finding Brewmasters out in the world.
JAB: So thats an example of a specific scenario, where you have that Brewmaster whos trying to make the special ale. Thats just one specific scenario. But theres a lot of different ideas that we have for scenarios. The thing that we talked about back in the day was like What if theres an invasion of Goldshire, and the gnolls are invading and you have to save the children while the gnolls invade in this little Goldshire scenario. Thats something we could definitely do. That doesnt really have anything to do necessarily with... like, whatever comes up that makes sense from a story perspective for a scenario and is going to be a fun adventure for players, we can do that with that system.
TS: It does seem like something that you guys can put together a lot quicker and easier in certain situations, so you guys can put them out more often. Thats the impression I got.
JAB: Yeah, I think thats something that wed love to do, is to figure out how to release scenarios a lot more frequently.
TS: It was mentioned in the presentation earlier that there would be 3 raid instances and 14 bosses, which is a very nice number Im personally very happy with as a raider. Is there anything more you can tell us about that? It seemed like it kind of got glossed over in the presentation.
JAB: Yeah, thats because we havent done a lot of the work yet, and so were reluctant to commit to a whole bunch because things may change for us, but were working on spawning out the dungeons, were working on spawning out the various raids, and building those out. Those take many, many, many months to be built out from an artists perspective. Then weve got all the itemization, and all the character art that has to happen, from weapons, and armor, and bosses, and trash mobs that we have to make and dress up in order to make that happen.
We also have a new raiding philosophy that we havent finished designing yet and havent really talked about. How lockouts are gonna work, how are valor point caps going to work, that type of stuff. We havent really spent all the time we need to really figure out what thats going to be for this expansion yet.
TS: So you are in discussions about possibly changing how the raid lockouts work?
JAB: Sure. I think were gonna look at how the 10/25 person lockout worked as a shared cooldown. Was that the right decision, or do we want to do something different? I dont really know what the right answer is yet. We havent decided.
TS: You also mentioned that youre doing LFR right out of the gate.
JAB: Yeah, so that was something that we thought would be really successful with 4.3. Were really happy with the performance of it. Were really happy with the idea of having this easier mode that you can just kind of get in, and be matchmade automatically, and go on and be successful with. And then having the normal mode for players to do and then the ultra heroic for the hardcore guys, and have special rewards for those and those type of achievements.
TS: Awesome. Yeah, just as a side note, tier 11 was one of my favorite tiers of raiding ever, and I actually think that it would have been almost perfect if there had been that LFR mode also because that would have given the more casual players a lot more to do.
JAB: Totally.
TS: So everything looks to be at least mostly along in development. One thing mentioned during the presentation was that 4 or 5 of the zones are already fully quested out. Does that mean we could be looking at a beta sometime soon?
JAB: It does, yeah. Were still trying to figure out when the beta is actually going to happen, what the rules for thats going to be, how were going to invite all the people that are going to be invited into the beta, but it is something that were interested in getting into players hands as soon as possible. Weve got zones that are fully quested out and we feel like weve got a couple in the pipe at this point. Were starting to think about when can beta be, what can be the timeframe for that? What do we need to do in order to get ready?
TS: That brings up another question. Like I mentioned earlier, there was like a million people who signed up for the annual pass. How does that go into beta?
JAB: <grinning> Uhh, I dont know today... <laughs> but I will be smarter later as we figure that out and kind of decide and discuss exactly how were going to do that. Its definitely going to be the largest beta weve ever done for any Warcraft expansion, so on one hand thats very exciting, on the other hand... how do we get a million people in? I have no idea right now, so thats definitely something were talking about. Well figure it out.
TS: Its almost like, How would you like to launch World of Warcraft again?
JAB: Yeah, its a pretty challenging prospect actually to think about that many people all wanting to play at once.
TS: One thing that a few of us have been talking about is the idea of World of Warcraft as an esport, especially since Starcraft 2 has been so immensely successful as an esport. Is that a direction that you see the game moving in at some point, or trying to help facilitate?
JAB: I think we do try to help facilitate it, and we do try to help have it grow. Its challenging because, from a design standpoint, we are not in the same league as Starcraft in terms of competitive [play]. Theres a lot more dials in Starcraft in terms of competitive tuning and that being what that game is about than there are in our game. So I think Starcraft will probably be a superior esport, but we definitely have interest in WoW as an esport. We do have the Blizzcon finals every year, we do have the qualifying tournaments, and we do have the WoW arena pass which allows players to instantly compete in a pure, even skill type basis for that stuff. So, its definitely something were excited about and try to invest time and energy into.
TS: Has there possibly been any thought along the lines of putting like a... well, now we have cross-realm matchmaking especially with the BattleTags system coming into place. Has there been any thought into putting in like a spectator mode in that sort of situation?
JAB: We have. Its challenging to do, and then it opens up all kinds of questions like How many spectators can you have? How does that work? How do you control yourself? Are you just a floating camera? So theres a lot of things that come up as ideas for what the potential challenges for that are. But yeah, we definitely would like to do that. Its something that Starcraft does better than most games out there. The replay system is incredible.
TS: Yeah, I actually cast Starcraft matches myself from time to time, so its something that for the record, Id love to push World of Warcraft in the esport direction.
JAB: Yeah, so I mean... like right now we have the videos as really the only way to do it because we really dont have the ability to kind of capture footage, and capture stuff in the way that Starcraft does, because Starcraft was engineered from the very beginning to have that. WoW was not, and so the technical hurdle on a replay-type system in the vein of Starcraft is crazy challenging.
TS: So the female Pandaren model looks great. Actually, the first thing I thought when I saw it was Well, that looks like a female Pandaren which Im pretty sure is what everybody was going for with making a female Pandaren, so...
JAB: Thats great to hear. Its one of those things where you talk about it and debate a lot in terms of where that right kind of balance is. Im super happy with the model as well. I think it turned out fantastically. Theres definitely a subjective element to it, if you think about What does a female Pandaren look like? Thats kind of a weird question to think about from an artistic perspective, so yeah. Im really happy.
TS: Is there any possibility of maybe the pre-Cataclysm player models getting some updates?
JAB: That is something thats been on our list and the list of the art director for many years. We would love to do that, because if you look at like the Cataclysm, or even the Burning Crusade -- the blood elf and the draenei models -- theyre just so much better than the original models. So we would definitely like to figure out a way to have the time to do that. One of the problems is our character models are probably one of the hardest things for us to do, because theyre your player, so everyone has a lot of opinions. Some of them are subjective, some of them are objective, and it just requires some of our most skilled artists that we have to do it.
TS: Yeah I actually played an orc back when there was the orc shoulder model bug, so there was like two months where I was like...
JAB: Sad panda.
TS: It just looked so incredibly wrong.
JAB: Sad panda has a whole new meaning now...
TS: You can actually play a sad panda if you want.
JAB: Yeah.
TS: Speaking of pandas actually, I had a level 85 Pandaren Monk that I was playing around on earlier, and I noticed that there was still a lot of like what is this world, where have we come to when I was questing around... as a Pandaren, who presumably would know what Pandaria was. Is that something that is just going to kind of happen, and is just kind of weird, and we kind of have to deal with?
JAB: Yeah, it is, because the idea that we have for the starting Pandaren is that they start their life, and they grew up on the turtle, and then they migrate to Pandaria. So native Pandarens, who are on Pandaria, will obviously have knowledge of the world, but you, as a new Pandaren, coming from having lived on the back of a turtle your entire life, dont have any knowledge of that traditional home.
TS: Is there anything new coming for the World of Warcraft Remote in the future? Personally I was looking at the Pet Battle system and going, I would love to play that on my iPhone or something like that.
JAB: I think thats a good idea. Its something that we definitely have talked about and I would love to do someday. We did introduce the guild chat as the most recent feature weve introduced to that. Pet Battle is definitely something weve talked about.
The background music makes it very difficult to hear what is being said.
Ugh. What's with the music. Can't hear anything else!
Great interview. But sadly, I have to agree with others about the music. It's nice on it's own, but not great as a background for the interview. Please, please consider lowering the volume or not putting it there at all... especially for us who don't come from English speaking countries and need to pay extra attention to understand the people you interviewed. Thanks.
And thank you for bringing us all the fresh news
Yeah, you need to tone down the -pH, very hard to hear him. As for the Pandaren being ignorant of Pandaria, I think of it like this; ethnically Chinese kid who grew up in America is just as lost in China as anyone else would be.
What's with the music ? Rly, tankspot ? rly ?!
Lots of interesting stuff here. But lets focus on the negative. I have worries when Blizz says they are going to focus on the exploration part of the game. When they redid the world for Cataclysm they attempted to do the same and failed miserably. To fill the void of the the old areas of Azeroth the placed in quest hubs for the new classes and for new players of any class. That was good for current players leveling alts as many of them made goblins or worgens, but what Blizz didnt do was make a real reason for anyone to occupy those areas afterwards.
Essentially they shrunk the world down to Stormwind and Ogrimmar. Before Cataclysm at least some of the population hung out in Iron Forge and Under City. Cata created a void three times the size of the one they were trying to fill. What good is exploration if you see it all the first time through. What good is all the effort put into a zone if there is no reason to go back to it. Most areas if you go to it, will be just you and a large handful of farming bots.
I just dont have faith that Blizzard will come up with anything to keep the areas populated, even in the Panderia zones. There looked to be hope when they said they would add events, but that was killed when they said they would be cued and instanced. In two expansions they managed to create an instanced world similar to the original Guild Wars in an open world. I don't see how they can keep saying the things they do and keep getting the opposite effect of their said efforts. Maybe instead of stealing good ideas from other games and ruining them by making them cued content, why not try stealing their game designers so that they can someone to come up with good ideas for them.
Haaang on. So the annoying music was intentional to prevent your questions from being audible?
-_-', no he's saying he's bad at interviews, meaning he hasn't had much practice on how to set up the audio to properly capture the voice of his interviewee's.
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But why not just post the interview without any music? Surely that's easier which means it's a more appropriate thing to do than adding music?
Why post the interview with no music? The question can be switched back that way; because he wanted to.
Lore's using Negative PH music, which is Mike B's music, in his video. Why he is using it is probably better for him to answer that; I personally think it's to give attention to Mike B's music myself, but in the end, it was Lore that decided to put the music there.
It'll be fine for some users; others may be thrown off like yourself. It's a hit/miss thing and he decided that he wanted to put music in. The quality of the interview was possibly lower but Lore might not have known just how much it would sound disjointed. To him, it might have sound fine and you could still hear it. To me, I did not have any problems or wasn't distracted by the music and heard what the answers were to the questions well enough, albeit the quality was a little poor.
It's a preference thing honestly.
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Hey guys, just wanted to check in and say that the music was put in by my choice since I was the one who actually edited the video. I apologize for some of the issue you guys have in hearing some of the interviews. Believe me when I say I did EVERYTHING possible to bump up the audio as loud as I possibly could in the editing software I use.
I even went as far as bringing down the music to -40db, but in the end I guess it wasn't enough. In the end I choose to leave the music in the piece because it was a format thing I used across the board with both Tankspot and Wowhead's videos, but will consider leaving it out the next time around.
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Setting Sales
Every day, hundreds of millions of people log into Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and a mind-bending array of other services, posting comments about their lives, their experiences and their interactions with companies. At the same time, businesses have discovered that social media offers a powerful way to connect with customers and strengthen relationships, hopefully benefitting the bottom line.
However, somewhere between opportunity and challenge lies the harsh reality that using these tools well—and deriving maximum business value and ROI—is no small feat. In many instances, social media redefines interactions and relationships in profound ways. For businesses, it's not enough to simply set up shop on various social media sites and expect success. Converting clicks into bucks means confronting a tangle of strategic and tactical considerations.
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"Social networking is about the authentic exchange of valuable content between people," observes Barry Libert, author of Social Nation: How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Attract Customers, Motivate Employees and Grow Your Business. "It's about the quality of the community, the authenticity of the content and the depth of the conversations among people." When it is used effectively, he says, social media "has a transformational impact on marketing, sales, support, collaboration and other facets of the enterprise."
Unfortunately, there's no simple way to tap into social media. Some companies have turned to Web 2.0 features on Web pages, allowing customers to submit and discuss ideas, vote on products and services, and rate them online. Others have extended Web functionality, including sales and customer support, to Facebook, or have turned to Twitter to microblog, monitor discussions and address issues promptly.
Some companies rely on social media tools—including blogs, wikis and discussions—to share information and ramp up a knowledge exchange. Still others are adding analytics applications to spot patterns and trends.
See also Five Ways to Unlock the Business Value of Social Media
To be sure, social media is changing the face of business—and IT. "Social networking channels have matured to the point where they offer compelling business value," observes Kelly Dempski, director of multichannel interactions at consulting firm Accenture, adding that social media is following the same trajectory as the Web.
"In 1996, companies knew they needed a Web page, but they couldn't figure out exactly what the value was," Dempski says. "By 2006, they got it. They weren't asking the question any longer." The goal, he added, is for "organizations to blend social media into the mainstream of business."
Setting Sales
Successful marketing and communication has always relied to a certain extent on human interaction and word of mouth. But interacting with customers, partners and employees has taken on a new meaning. eMarketer predicts that 88 percent of businesses with a hundred or more employees will adopt social media for marketing purposes by 2012.
What makes social media so powerful—and scary—is that a hot product or service can go viral within hours. Conversely, a customer revolt or backlash can materialize out of thin air. In the age of the Internet, it's nearly impossible to sweep an issue under the rug.
"Companies finally have a way to reach out to their audience," Dempski says. "For 'followers' or people who click the 'Like' button, communication is not perceived as spam. It's entirely welcome."
Using this medium effectively means connecting with the audience through feeds, microblog posts and other tools. It's also about offering promotions and incentives that bond customers with the brand. Stuart Crawford, senior advisor and partner at consulting firm Ulistic, puts it this way: "Social networking is very much a sales tool. Sales and marketing professionals can engage with their market and become a trusted resource." However, it's about soft sell rather than hard sell, he advises.
A prime example of this concept is Adagio Teas, a 12-year-old retailer that sells premium teas online and in Chicago area stores. The Website, which runs on a Linux server and uses Perl and Mason (the company builds all functionality in-house), offers a spate of social media features.
Customers can post product reviews and ratings, read blogs, participate in "Tea Chat" discussion groups, share information about teas with friends by inputting their Gmail address and password (the site automatically promotes "friend" selections and preferences.), and receive tweets for their order and shipment status. "Social media is at the center of the business," says CTO Ilya Kreymerman.
One thing that makes Adagio unusual is that the company doesn't filter reviews for the 200 teas and other products it sells. "Everything is displayed in real time," Kreymerman says. "Once a customer orders from us and has an account, [the customer] can post at the site."
This approach, which many companies avoid, actually benefits Adagio in a big way. "We're able to use the data as market research, he says. "We make decisions about which teas to offer and which to kill off based on a combination of sales and customer feedback."
Adagio has also tied together an array of other capabilities. For example, customers can create custom tea blends—which the site then shares with other customers. When another customer buys a blend, the creator receives points that lead to a gift certificate. This spurs competitions among customers.
Likewise, Adagio offers points and discounts for sending friends a free $5 gift certificate (once it's redeemed) via e-mail, Facebook and Twitter. Finally, the retailer provides a Facebook "Like" button for all its products, and it uses Twitter to engage customers more fully. "Our goal is to get people passionate enough to visit the Website regularly and talk about us with their friends," Kreymerman explains.
Learning a New Language
Sales and support are also at the center of Rosetta Stone's strategy. The provider of technology-based language learning systems has turned heavily to social media to market and sell its products. About two years ago, the company developed a set of goals and a road map for using social media: It established a dedicated social media department and launched a Facebook page during the summer of 2009.
"There is a huge word-of-mouth component to our business," states Jay Topper, senior vice president of customer success. "Social media is a perfect way to interact with customers and extend the brand." (See "What's Next for Customer Service?" on page 8.)
The Facebook page includes general information, embedded videos and demos, discussion and review threads, events and support. The latter feature provides an FAQ, a searchable database and a live chat function. In fact, Rosetta Stone has extended its Website functionality to Facebook through the use of Parature customer service software. "Facebook is simply another channel," Topper notes. "It's important to give customers a choice about how they interact."
Rosetta Stone has also turned to Twitter to address issues, questions and complaints; LinkedIn to facilitate hiring and human resources tasks; and YouTube to provide informational videos. "The idea is to create a more cohesive and recognizable brand," Topper points out. "With all the different social media components in place and a focus on market and customer research, it's like running a 24/7 focus group." In addition, Rosetta Stone culls data and runs it through analytics software to better understand customers, channels and behavior.
When social media is used effectively, "People feel as though they have a personal relationship with a company," author Libert explains. Through the use of polls, quizzes, games, customer reviews and discussion pages where the public can suggest new and better products, it's possible for an enterprise to get closer to customers than ever before and tap into "market research opportunities that weren't possible in the past," he notes.
In fact, Accenture's Dempski says that when all this data is plugged into an analytics program, it's possible to gain insights into the types of marketing initiatives and advertisements that work best. For example, a clothing designer might post photos of a new line of coats in both color and black-and-white. The firm might ask customers which ads are the most appealing and study the results based on the specifics of the photos overlaid with the customer's gender, age and geographic location. This might lead to different marketing campaigns for different market segments and for people in different geographic regions.
An organization might also examine activity around Facebook posts to understand the impact of a comment or thread. For instance, a post about blue jeans might elicit a large response from young women.
"If you're looking to launch a new product, you can essentially ask the question: 'If I want to sell more jeans to women this weekend, what do I need to post, what do I need to say and what is the optimal time to post the comment?'" Dempski says. "Based on past patterns, it's possible to maximize current results."
Picture-Perfect Connections
Social networking is also a valuable tool for managing employee communication and ratcheting up knowledge sharing. At Getty Images, a leading creator and distributor of still imagery, video and film footage, and multimedia products, the sharing of ideas and expertise spins a tight orbit around business success.
Getty Images has more than 1,800 employees spread across more than a hundred countries. In the past, it was difficult to share information and expertise across the company. "A lot of communication was driven by e-mail," notes Jennifer Fox, director of learning and development.
After researching how best-in-class companies are tapping into social networking, the company built a highly interactive environment that allows free-flowing conversations. Employees, through a dashboard called Mixer, view and share resources, including questions, comments, videos and expertise.
The company uses software from Socialtext to tie everything together. Employees, who establish their own profiles, use tagging and signaling (the latter is the equivalent of a tweet on Twitter or a status line update on Facebook) to complement blogs and wikis. "An employee with knowledge about a particular part of the business can tag himself or herself, and others can find this person when they need to tap into the expertise," Fox points out.
Employees also can post signals when they need assistance to translate a note, find a good hotel in Paris or understand a feature in the company's sales system. The signal stream creates new connections and a sense of collaboration, Fox says. In addition, employees can fully access Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and other social media services directly within their dashboard.
The business value of social media has transformed Getty Images. "A misconception about social networking is that it's distracting and takes the focus away from work," says Fox, "but the reality is that it builds relationships and creates a higher level of efficiency and engagement."
Author Libert adds: "A lot of organizations fail to understand that a two-way or multi-way conversation is far more powerful than a one-way communication. There's enormous value in connectedness."
Constructing a Better Social Net
Another company that has turned to social media to better manage internal relationships is Mota-Engil, a 20,000-employee global engineering and construction firm based in Lisbon, Portugal. The ability to interact and share information across 17 countries and multiple time zones serves as a foundation for the company's success, "People must be connected and able to exchange ideas and knowledge," says Innovation Manager António Meireles.
In the past, workers with know-how about construction practices and job sites were largely isolated from one another, so multiple employees and groups sometimes addressed the same problems independently—without knowing that others were involved with the same task.
With upward of 40 major projects in the works at any given moment, "It was necessary to bring all these people together to improve efficiency and innovation," Meireles says. "The only way this could happen is to have a virtual place for people to meet and interact."
When the company began exploring social media concepts in 2008, employees made one thing clear: "They didn't want the interaction to interfere with their ability to do their job, and they wanted the social interaction to be simple and straightforward," Meireles says. The result? The company developed a sophisticated social networking hub, using software from Telligent and WeListen.
Among other things, the environment provides tools to capture and share knowledge, a recognition system that includes rewards for participation and feedback, and sophisticated project management collaboration features. The centerpiece is a challenge model that lets any employee post a question or problem and lets others throughout the company respond.
Mota-Engil also uses sophisticated analytics and reporting tools that help executives better understand how to spur participation and innovation. The results appear online, and employees can see how various departments contribute to innovation.
Accenture's Dempski says that it's frequently difficult to quantify ROI from social media projects, but that doesn't negate their value. Many organizations undercommit and underinvest in this technology, he adds. "The lack of a Facebook fan page and a Twitter account doesn't mean that millions of people aren't talking about the organization," Dempski points out. "It just means that you can't monitor the discussion and capitalize on it."
Likewise, it's difficult to measure the ROI associated with innovation and knowledge sharing internally—or through connected business partners. Nevertheless, organizations typically find that social media improves both the quality and speed of project management and helps teams develop products and provide services at the speed of digital-age business. Combined with analytics, social media provides clues for how employees work and how knowledge flows through the organization. (See "Making Analytics Work" at left.)
Make no mistake: A well-designed social media strategy can pay enormous dividends. "Organizations that tap into [social media] effectively are able to boost their brand, simplify market research, streamline collaboration and put themselves on the forward edge of innovation," author Libert says. "Social media is here to stay, and organizations that learn how to tap into its business value have a distinct advantage."


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Wow, I have like 30 million in cap room available next season. Somebody's gonna get overpaid! lol
"I want ONLY 9 eyebrows in the starting lineup for the Hornets next year." I typed this before the draft lottery
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People's Basketball Sim League presents...
1995-96 Season
C Kevin Willis | PF Brian Grant | SF Jalen Rose | SG Michael Finley | PG Terrell Brandon
Key Reserves: Dikembe Mutombo | Todd Day
I will have like 32 million in cap space!
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PG: Luke Ridnour, Delonte West, Greg Minor
SG: Andre Iguodala, Mickael Pietrus
SF: Shareef Abdur-Rahim, Boris Diaw
PF: Charlie Villanueva, Ian Mahinimi, Amir Johnson
C: Eddy Curry, Mamadou Ndiaye, Adam Parada
So all.transactions in this off season is done at.day 170? the earliest day that we can deal them is.day 230?
HR Sim League - Washington Wizards
Any teams looking for a PF or PG in Free Agency? I am looking to move Othella Harrington and Khalid El-Amin. Both very solid players that can start and better than players available in FA. Both are on cheap contracts and I can take back more salary in a deal. PM me if your interested.
Scoring options:
1) Brian Scalabrine 3pt sky hook
2) Brian Scalabrine crossover
3) Brian Scalabrine spin and fade away
But he might play unselfish and sit on the bench until the playoffs, getting his other teammates involved.
Sig should be working now. DA BULLS!!
no he said it would be 1 point for any future changes. Im not sure if that means just if I change one of the pictures or if i change any of the names. But I really am not too concerned about the points. The sig was well worth it in my opinion.
I've got my sig, you inspired it. Ray Allen Makes It Rain, 3s that is, in the rainy city of Seattle.
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What is Synchronization in JavaSynchronization in Java is an important concept since Java is a multi-threaded language where multiple threads run in parallel to complete program execution. In multi-threaded environment synchronization of Java object or synchronization of Java class becomes extremely important. Synchronization in Java is possible by using Java keywords "synchronized" and "volatile". Concurrent access of shared objects in Java introduces to kind of errors: thread interference and memory consistency errors and to avoid these errors you need to properly synchronize your Java object to allow mutual exclusive access of critical section to two threads. By the way This Java Synchronization tutorial is in continuation of my article How HashMap works in Java and difference between HashMap and Hashtable in Java if you haven't read already you may find some useful information based on my experience in Java Collections.
Why do we need Synchronization in Java?
1) synchronized keyword in Java provides locking, which ensures mutual exclusive access of shared resource and prevent data race.
2) synchronized keyword also prevent reordering of code statement by compiler which can cause subtle concurrent issue if we don't use synchronized or volatile keyword.
3) synchronized keyword involve locking and unlocking. before entering into synchronized method or block thread needs to acquire the lock, at this point it reads data from main memory than cache and when it release the lock, it flushes write operation into main memory which eliminates memory inconsistency errors.
Synchronized keyword in Java
Example of Synchronized Method in Java
public class Counter{ private static int count = 0; public static synchronized int getCount(){ return count; } public synchoronized setCount(int count){ this.count = count; } }
Example of Synchronized Block in Java
public class Singleton{ private static volatile Singleton _instance; public static Singleton getInstance(){ if(_instance == null){ synchronized(Singleton.class){ if(_instance == null) _instance = new Singleton(); } } return _instance; }
Important points of synchronized keyword in Java
19. Do not synchronize on non final field on synchronized block in Java. because reference of non final field may change any time and then different thread might synchronizing on different objects i.e. no synchronization at all. example of synchronizing on non final field :
System.out.println("locking on :" + lock);
any if you write synchronized code like above in java you may get warning "Synchronization on non-final field" in IDE like Netbeans and InteliJ
20. Its not recommended to use String object as lock in java synchronized block because string is immutable object and literal string and interned string gets stored in String pool. so by any chance if any other part of code or any third party library used same String as there lock then they both will be locked on same object despite being completely unrelated which could result in unexpected behavior and bad performance. instead of String object its advised to use new Object() for Synchronization in Java on synchronized block.
private static final String LOCK = "lock"; //not recommended
private static final Object OBJ_LOCK = new Object(); //better
public void process() {
synchronized(LOCK) {
21. From Java library Calendar and SimpleDateFormat classes are not thread-safe and requires external synchronization in Java to be used in multi-threaded environment.
Update 1: Recently I have been reading several Java Synchronization and Concurrency articles in internet and I come across jeremymanson's blog which works in google and has worked on JSR 133 Java Memory Model, I would recommend some of this blog post for every java developer, he has covered certain details about concurrent programming , synchronization and volatility in simple and easy to understand language, here is the link atomicity, visibility and ordering.
Update 2: I am grateful to my readers, who has left some insightful comments on this post. They have shared lots of good information and experience and to provide them more exposure, I am including some of there comments on main article, to benefit new readers.
Good comprehensive article about synchronized keyword in Java. to be honest I have never read all these details about synchronized block or method at one place. you may want to highlight some limitation of synchronized keyword in Java which is addressed by explicit locking using new concurrent package and Lock interface :
1. synchronized keyword doesn't allow separate locks for reading and writing. as we know that multiple thread can read without affecting thread-safety of class, synchronized keyword suffer performance due to contention in case of multiple reader and one or few writer.
2. if one thread is waiting for lock then there is no way to time out, thread can wait indefinitely for lock.
@George wrote
Just my 2 cents on your great list of Java Synchronization facts and best practices :
2) java.util.concurrent package different locking mechanism than provided by synchronized keyword, they mostly used ReentrantLock, which internally use CAS operations, volatile variables and atomic variables to get better performance.
4) Prefer ReentrantLock over synchronized keyword, it provides more control on lock acquisition, lock release and better performance compared to synchronized keyword.
Having said that, I must say, lots of good information.
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Greetings from the Ohio Christmas Tree Association! As we approach the Christmas season, tree growers here in Ohio are making plans for our annual Christmas tree harvest. We as tree growers have worked many hours shearing/shaping our trees to provide you with your perfect Christmas tree.
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Benjamin Neuenschwander, 77, of Culbertson, Nebraska passed away on Thursday, November 22, 2012 at Bryan LGH Medical Center in Lincoln, Nebraska. He was born on February 14, 1935 in Sugar Creek Township, Ohio to Amos A. and Lavina Celesta (Amstutz) Neuenschwander. He was married on August 1, 1955 at Eden Missionary Church in rural Wauneta, Nebraska to Joyce Rousselle.
He graduated from Geneva High School in 1952 before continuing his education at Fort Wayne Bible College in Fort Wayne. He then worked at Salem Children's Home until moving to Nebraska in 1960. He was a carpenter in the area for many years owning his own business Ben's Carpentry. He also taught carpentry classes in the community. He delivered the McCook Gazette to residents for eleven years. He also served as a member of the Culbertson School Board for 12 years.
He was a member of the Evangelical Free Church in McCook, Nebraska. Many Sundays, he would greet churchgoers with a smile and a warm handshake as they arrived on Sunday mornings. In his spare time, he enjoyed woodworking, watching sports, playing games and telling jokes with family and friends. He also enjoyed meeting often with his friends for coffee time.
He is survived by three daughters, Sandy Harms of Hayes Center, Nebraska; Celesta (John) Rhodes of Riley Township, Michigan; and Sonja Greene of Sacramento, California; two brothers, Lloyd (Carol) Neuenschwander of Berne; and Denver (Bert) Neuenschwander of Geneva; two sisters, Estelle Nussbaum of Berne; and Lorene (Dwight) Brenneman of Lancaster, Pennsylvania; three sister-in laws, Iola (Don) Egle of Bella Vista, Arkansas; and Ruby Neuenschwander; and Marieda Neuenschwander, both of Berne; six grandchildren, Jody (Aaron) Greene-Warren; Jarrad Greene; Benjamin Rhodes; Zachary Rhodes; Aimee (Mitch) Hazlitt; and Drew Harms; son-in-law, Jeff Greene; as well as many nieces, nephews, cousins; his E-Free Church family; and many dear friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife; father and mother-in-law, Edward and Esther Rousselle; three brothers, Ellis, Wilbert and Joe Neuenschwander; and son-in-law, Alan Harms.
Visitation was from 1:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Monday, November 26 at Carpenter Breland Funeral Home in McCook, Nebraska. The family was present to greet friends from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. A memorial service was held at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, November 27 at the Evangelical Free Church in McCook, Nebraska. Officiating was Rev. Bruce Lester. A private family inurnment will be held at the Culbertson Cemetery at a later date.
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The song Jump is crap. The solo is great but this song is what made me not like the 1984 album. Don't get me wrong it is a great pop song, but to hear Van Halen do it it sounds like they sold out to the pop culture.
January 06, 2014 at 10:38pm
Amazing song by Jeff Beck. Maybe he can get his guitar to sound like that ....not many (if anyone) else can. Just AMAZING !!!
Wish I could hear the version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps that Harrison played with Gary Moore. I didn't know they ever played together. Would love to hear that. Gary Moore is my all time favorite guitar player.
April 22, 2014 at 11:33am
Here you go classicrockguy:
November 22, 2013 at 5:29pm
Interestingly, Eddie is innovative in every song he writes. and Jump not only did well but is still popular, and the video only cost 2 grand to make. to top it off Alex is a genius drummer on this track. All in all, a good days work.


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Before last weekend's German Grand Prix the Ferrari driver stated that he wasn't interested in taking part in the session, which is an extension from the scheduled Young Driver Test during which Pirelli will fine-tune their tyre specifications for the rest of the reason.
"It's not a very safe thing racing on the same track with the same tyres. I don't have the feeling [that] I want to go," the two-time World Champion said on Thursday, 4 July.
"I don't intend to go."
After he was told that the Ferrari would be allowed to do more than just tyre tests, however, the Spaniard had a change of heart.
"When we arrived here on Thursday, the Silverstone test did not seem that important, because the race drivers were only meant to be testing the tyres, but, having heard what the FIA had to say, it's been confirmed that we can test updates and this makes it a much more sensible proposition," he said.
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