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• Engagement: How many click and conversions are a direct result of your employees’ advocacy efforts?
And once you’ve tracked these, make sure that your leadership sees and understands how this activity contributes to your brand’s reputation and bottom line. Their buy-in is key to how deeply connected employees feel to your mission.
While a big part of brand advocacy does fall within the realm of your outbound messaging and marketing efforts, your internal team can do a lot to amplify what you are already doing and contribute toward other new and innovative ways to share your company’s mission and value.
An early morning attack left a 14-year-old boy with more than eight stab wounds to his stomach, arms and back, police said.
Passaic police are investigating a stabbing early Saturday morning that left a 14-year-old boy hospitalized.
Deputy Police Chief Christopher Storzillo said the 4 a.m. attack at 81 Third Street left the boy with at least eight stab wounds to his stomach, arms and back. The boy is under heavy medication in ICU at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Paterson, but is in stable condition.
The suspect remains at large. Police are obtaining video from the scene and speaking with potential witnesses, Storzillo said.
Police at the moment have no description of the suspect, he said.
The Westgate attack, beyond being an emotionally and spiritually awful thing to come to terms with, has surely made us all think about many things we do not normally think about.
Yet, there is perhaps one understanding that has left me most pained in the witnessing: and that is the matter of leadership.
I know, and we all know, that the big plan from our government is to make sure we are never told what went on inside Westgate for those last two terrible days, what those last shoppers and workers lived through and why, and even who they were.
We have had to listen to the inhumanity of a speech saying those people aren’t really missing and will turn up in Kisumu, even as their families suffer the worst kind of loss - not for them the funerals, the coming together, the release of knowing the events were so awful, but their loved ones are honoured and now at p...
Three days of national mourning, but only for some of the victims: is the underway sign-off from our leadership.
One could think that maybe it’s some kind of supra-parental loving that means our government doesn’t want us to know how bad it was. But one doesn’t have to interrogate too many of the people who know to learn that, no, this is not a piece of protection for our feelings, and for the feelings of those families. The trut...
Those defence forces had advisors arrive with experience on how to handle the situation, but they refused all input. Why?
Instead, they used the wrong weaponry in an incredibly amateur, disorganised and unprofessional push that was the culmination of a catalogue of poor decision making and ineptitude in saving those last souls: is one part of the story. Are we supposed to believe that Kenyan national pride was a sacred cow above global ex...
Another story, beyond even that oddity, is the claim that our leadership just couldn’t bear to tell us the terrorists got away, so all the missing, still hiding, ended up, profoundly, hiding from the defence forces, and profoundly, killed by them?
With the space now left wide upon for that tale and that belief, which of us can emerge from this whole disaster with our faith in our own leadership not savaged? Really, not any of our government will now tell us the truth, or stand for the truth? Whatever that truth is, and whenever we get to it, we have to presume i...
We have a right to know what happened. For, whatever went on, at base, that saw people hurt, at least, we can learn from it: if we study it for the lessons.
As an alternative, ‘losing’ the lost and ‘losing’ the truth, is deliberate, and immoral. It hurts those families even more: we deny respect, and we undermine faith in our leadership, which may be the biggest blow of all those terrorists could have landed on us.
Do those terrorists get that too, to leave us divided and lying to one another?
The fact is that leaders who are driven by pride, leaders who think they are perfect and cannot own their mistakes, these people should never be left to lead us all. For, then, we all pay the price of their errors without ever anyone getting a chance for a better set of decisions next time.
Not every leader can be a true expert in all things. And at Westgate we needed those who have done nothing but study weaponry and structural engineering, hostage psychology and rescue tactics. To shrug off these learnings so we could have ‘our own go’ with never a mini-course on handling terrorist attacks and under ext...
Great leaders and great peoples know that greatness comes from drawing the best from within and from beyond too, from mustering all experience and knowhow to the one great cause, from knowing our weaknesses as well as our strengths, and being open to the very best ways of getting the very best sum.
And great leadership comes with honesty: and humility too.
So are our leaders to remain as gods, who shoot rocket blasters inside warehouse-sized buildings and are apparently surprised when they collapse? Or can we know, and learn, and forgive, the decisions that were poor, knowing they were not malicious, but that we shall all learn from them?
One thing for sure: we will never forgive them for ‘losing’ our lost as a cover up.
The writer is Consulting Editor at The Standard Group.
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Riot Games has just released some numbers about the active playerbase of League of Legends that are practically unbelievable. League of Legends now apparently boasts a trio of absolutely astonishing metrics. Riot reports that 27 million people play the game daily, while concurrent players peak at 7.5M. In total, 67 mil...
All of these are enormous jumps from the already huge numbers from over a year ago. Last we heard, the game had 12 million daily players with 5 million concurrent and 32 million monthly. These new stats represent enormous upswings in every category for what was already the most popular game in the world. For context, l...
For a game like League of Legends, 27M daily players with 67M monthly sounds almost too good to be true, but I've spoken with Riot PR who assured me these figures are accurate. Riot themselves should have a blog post out soon with additional context, I'm told.
League of Legends is a free-to-play title that pits teams of five against each other. Each player controls a character with special abilities, and must destroy towers, minions and other players in order to detonate the enemies "nexus" home base. The game has exploded in popularity the past few years, but now it seems t...
What's contributed to the massive increase? If we could say outright, we'd all be millionaire game designers, but there are clues. Over the past year, the popularity of League of Legend as a professional eSport has grown dramatically. Millions tuned in to watch the World Championship finals this year, and hundreds of t...
League's model also helps, to be sure. They're one of the golden examples of free-to-play working as intended, as the items they sell for real world cash can either be unlocked fairly easily in-game, or they're purely for cosmetic decoration. The game isn't pay-to-win, and constantly seeks feedback from its players to ...
It's interesting that League of Legends isn't just popular, but this level of unheard of popular, as it's not the easiest game to get into. There is a lot to learn when you're starting out between dozens of items, over a hundred champions and an infinite amount of in-game strategies that are impossible to ever fully ma...
With that said, it's incredibly fun once you get into it, and certainly addicting as seen by these impressive statistics. But still, even with the free-to-play model, the proper use of microtransactions, Riot's community involvement and the game being pretty damn good, numbers this high are just out of this world. I'm ...
Mr. Lu Zhe has been serving as Deputy General Manager and Director in China Jialing Industrial Co., Ltd. (Group) since May 30, 2013. He holds a Master's degree in Engineering. He is also serving as Director in Hunan Huanan Opto-electro Science And Technology Co., Ltd.
Mr. Ren Shu has been serving as Deputy General Manager in China Jialing Industrial Co., Ltd (Group). He is also Chairman of the Board in Chongqing Poolking Software Co., Ltd. and another company, as well as Director in two other companies. He used to serve as Director of the Company, as well as General Manager and Depu...
Mr. Shu Yuanxun has been serving as Deputy General Manager in China Jialing Industrial Co., Ltd.(Group) since August 2013. He is also Director in a Luoyang-based group company. He was Director, Head-Development and Planning and Assistant General Manager in the Company. He used to be Chairman of the Board in another mot...
Mr. Chen Weidong has been serving as Director in China Jialing Industrial Co., Ltd (Group) since April 13, 2016. He used to be Deputy General Manager in another company and General Manager in the Company.
Mr. Ni Erke has been serving as Director in China Jialing Industrial Co., Ltd (Group) since September 12, 2012. He is also Chief Accounting Officer and Director in a Chongqing-based company. He was Head of Finance, Assistant General Manager and Deputy General Manager in four other companies.
Ms. Xiao Xiaohong has been serving as Independent Director in China Jialing Industrial Co., Ltd (Group) since September 12, 2012. She is Professor in GuiZhou University of Finance and Economics, China.
A Fonterra farmer in Tasmania says one of his friesian cows has given birth to triplets - sired by two different bulls.
Fonterra supplier Andrew Carter told the Hobart Mercury newspaper that the calves were one full-blood friesian calf and two jersey-friesian crosses.
Mr Carter said a jersey bull and a friesian bull had been running with the cows on his farm at Ringarooma.
He said while the calves had no monetary value to him, he could not help but feel attached to the mother and her babies.
The triplets do not have names.
"I can't think of any except Huey, Dewey, and Louie, but there's probably a copyright on that," Mr Carter said.
He said he would like to see the triplets go to a good home, but if not they would be sold to the bobby calf market.
Scottsdale vet Colleen Stewart said the cow must have ovulated three times, or twice, with one embryo splitting.
"I've only seen triplets once, but to have two different dads - it's very rare," she said.
As Hurricane Harvey continues to wreak havoc on Texas, celebrities are stepping up to do their part in contributing to relief efforts.
"The Blind Side" star Sandra Bullock showed off her kind side Tuesday by contributing a whopping $1 million to the Red Cross relief effort.
"There are no politics in eight feet of water," she told People. "There are human beings in eight feet of water."
Comedian Kevin Hart attempted to kick off a chain reaction of donations Monday with an Instagram video where he pledged $25,000 to the Red Cross and urged others to do the same.
"I think we've participated in a lot of challenges on the internet, some meaningful, some meaningless, but we've all done them," he said. "At this point, this is a serious matter. I think the people are in bad shape and they need help. I'm going to lead the charge and step up this way."
Hart called on his "Jumanji" co-star Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson, Steve Harvey, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Jerry Seinfeld, JAY-Z, Beyoncé and Justin Timberlake to make donations of their own and continue his challenge by tagging their other famous friends to keep the donations rolling.
Hip-hop singer Chris Brown was quick to jump on Hart's donation train, and pledged $100,000 to relief efforts.
"We need to come together. I'm donating $100,000," he said in a Twitter video. "It's for everybody out there in Texas for the relief in everything. So, I accept the challenge, man, and I implore and encourage everybody else who can change and make a change for this to please donate and help out."
Brown opted not to give to the Red Cross, as he is "skeptical" of the organization, and instead said that he would send his donation directly "to the people."
On Tuesday, the Kardashians announced they would collectively donate $500,000 to the efforts via both the Salvation Army and Red Cross.
"We have been watching the heartbreaking footage of the catastrophic flooding in Houston," Kris Jenner wrote on Twitter. "Our hearts go out to the people of Texas."
Matching Brown's whopping sum was country singer Chris Young, who pledged $100,000 of his own to a GoFundMe page benefiting the Red Cross.
"I have friends and family there and I'm almost certain my house down there may have to be torn down as it was in one of the areas that was hardest hit by winds and flooding," he wrote. "But that's the least of my concerns. I'm worried about the people there — my friends, family and neighbors — and I want to help."
Fellow country stars Lady Antebellum stepped up to the plate, too, and revealed that all proceeds from merchandise sales at their Saturday concert in Dallas would go toward hurricane relief.
Houston native Beyoncé said in a statement to the Houston Chronicle that she was working with her team at BeyGOOD to put together a plan of action to help, and rap star Drake wrote on Instagram that he was doing the same, and was working with DJ Future the Prince to "aid and assist the people of Texas in anyway (sic) w...
Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez also donated a combined $50,000 the cause.
"Our hearts are just breaking for all the families that are displaced," Lopez said in a video where she is sitting on A-Rod's lap. "It's just devastating and we just want to do our part to help."
Meanwhile, others like Ellen DeGeneres, "Hamilton" scribe Lin-Manuel Miranda and "The Office" actress Jenna Fischer urged their Twitter followers to donate by sharing links to various charities and organizations.
Harvey has claimed at least 10 lives, and the number is expected to rise as officials begin recovery efforts, according to the Houston Chronicle. Catastrophic flooding is expected to continue over southeast Texas for the next few days.
Freya Woods turning on St Oswald's Hospice's Light up a Life display.
A youngster helped light up a display to remembered lost loved ones, with a special tribute to her own younger brother.
More than 1,300 people came together to remember their loved ones at a special service in support of St Oswald’s Hospice’s Light up a Life campaign.
Now in its 15th year, Light up a Life has raised over £1.7m for St Oswald’s which provides specialist care to north east adults, young people and children.
Entertainment on the night included Robsons Choice, Voices of Hope Choir, The Longbenton Community Choir, the Newcastle Concert Band and St Oswald’s Children and Young Adults Team Leader Rebekah Hoskins.
Freya Woods, from Whitley Bay, turned on the remembrance tree lights at the service, where each light shone in memory of a loved one.
The ten-year-old and her family were remembering their brother and son Will, aged five, who died suddenly in June 2014 from a rare and aggressive childhood cancer called Burkitt’s Lymphoma.
Freya and her mother Louise accessed bereavement support from St Oswald’s Family Support Service.
Louise said: “The service was quite simply beautiful.
“We were so proud of Freya but without St Oswald’s we would be lost. You are all amazing.
Davina Radford, Chaplain at St Oswald’s, said: “Thank you to everyone who attended our Newcastle Light up a Life Service, and to the wonderful band and singers for their entertainment as well as the lovely readers.
If you would like to take part in Light up a Life and receive a personalised card and memory star, visit www.stoswaldsuk.org/light-up-a-life-2015 or call their fundraising team on 0191 246 9123.
TAGUM CITY -- Opening round victories in chess kicked off on Monday, February 4, the ambitious quest of the 249-strong Cagayan de Oro delegation to challenge reigning champion Davao City for the overall supremacy of the 2019 Batang Pinoy Mindanao Qualifying Leg at the Davao del Norte Sports and Tourism Complex here.
Warming up ablazing, Santiago Lumancas Jr. and the Canino sisters, Rhea and Rhuelle, won their respective board matches in rapid chess competition, while David Rey Ancheta contented himself to start with a draw.
“It’s a good sign for Team CDO hopefully mahuman ang rapid chess (6 rounds) karong adlawa nga adunay gold,” said city sports chief Jaymar Rivera as he quashed early fear of disqualification in some events, saying that resolving paper works is underway, and that, all athletes from the City of Gold can play.
“Naay minor glitches we don’t know asang dapita pero na settle na especially sa atong dancesport tanan sila makadula,” added Arbs Calido of the city sports office.
Cagayan de Oro is pinning its hope for first gold in the hands of the Grade 5 pupil Rhuelle “Tawing” Canino, who is a consistent source of medals for the Philippines in the ASEAN chess.
“May silat sa laro pero wala na yatang makakatalo kay Canino sa kanyang age bracket,” quipped Philippine Star ace reporter Joey Villar at the press room.
The medal-rich centerpiece events in swimming and athletics will start on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively, even as eliminations games in boxing, arnis and taekwondo wherein Cagayan de Oro has solid chances of winning already went into full throttle.
On Sunday’s opening of the multifarious sports conclave, Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) chairman William “Butch” Ramirez said that everything is in place and the situation is back to normal in Davao del Norte after reports of floods caused by heavy rains.
“Pasensiya na rin dahil magiging mahigpit ang security measure na i-implement ng Tagum City LGU para maging segurado ang seguridad ng mga bata,” said Ramirez.
Even that the recent bombing incidents in Jolo and Zamboanga have a “chilling” effect elsewhere in the country, Davao Norte Governor Anthony del Rosario said the province is well-prepared but could not be complacent.
“Nakapaghanda na tayo ng matagalan may mga tao tayong nagmamasid sa paligid para segurado,” was del Rosario’s assurance.
Some 729 athletes from all over Mindanao are tipped to go all out in a bid to book their respective slots in the national finals that would be staged either in Tagbilaran City or Ormoc City in October.
A total of 765 gold, 765 silver and 1,063 bronze medals will be disputed in this eight-day battle that features the best Mindanao athletes 15 years and below.
Disney is betting big on streaming.
Disney is banking hard on becoming a competitor in the streaming service game, with Disney chairman-CEO Bob Iger calling it the company’s “biggest priority” in 2019. A new report shows how the service plans on doing just that. Mainly, by relying on its own movies.
In a large report from Variety, industry leaders went into their ongoing plans to compete with streaming services like Netflix and Hulu (which Disney may gain a majority stake in if its acquisition of Fox assets goes through). Iger shared more information on the streaming service, set to launch in 2019 that will featur...

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