It is a moment of social exchange and communication, an affirmation and renewal of family, group or community identity.
It works wonders, especially in shops, even if it does turn the purchase of a baguette into a five-minute social exchange.
Engagement is getting a lot of attention these days, and is sexy because it focuses on the positive aspects of the social exchange happening in the workplace.
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But without any true exchange from merchant A to consumer B research shows that more and more consumers are beginning to miss the social exchange that is part of the buying process.
We use it to operate the cooperative but competitive system of social exchange that is a society: to charm, forgive, manipulate, bewitch, embroider, exaggerate, diminish, disparage to choose just some of the verbs from the key paragraph of Dr. Pagel's (beautifully written) book.
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Spreading the word about works, through such new efforts as the Social Impact 100 listing, compiled by the New York-based Social Impact Exchange, makes good sense.
Fellows invest in a woman-led for-profit social venture in exchange for equity and a board seat at the end of the training.
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The Department of Social Security will also be able to exchange information with overseas social security departments to combat international fraud rings.
Whether it is being sung spontaneously by rural people working in the field or travelling or performed more formally at one of more than a hundred traditional Hua er festivals held annually in these provinces, Hua er is an important vehicle for expressing personal feelings in a social setting and cultural exchange across ethnicities, as well as a popular rural entertainment.
The Securities and Exchange Commission needs to stop social media as a means of official corporate communication.
Recognizing the diversity of experiences at a national level, there should be an exchange of best practices concerning social policy responses to the crisis.
When a customer comes to your site and signs in via social login, for example, a cordial exchange occurs.
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Investing in international markets may involve additional risks, such as social and political instability, market illiquidity, exchange-rate fluctuations, a high level of volatility and limited regulation.
Mr. Weintraub will delve further into how brands can leverage Facebook and other forms of social advertising during his upcoming talk at Search Exchange, in Charlotte, North Carolina in July.
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It allows managers and co-workers to exchange feedback and recognition, using a social networking site type interface.
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What does employment mean when you have experts connected through social networks with well regarded reputation and a talent exchange?
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has authorized the use of social media channels for the disclosure of material, non-public information.
Kevin Systrom was passionate about photography and wanted to create a new, social-media-oriented way for people to exchange photos with friends and family.
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Losing their local currencies for the euro meant, in effect, a move to an exchange not related to local economic or social realities.
Since then, she has watched the information superhighway develop from a radical information exchange to a global marketing tool with massive social and political implications.
In fact, you may get not a penny more back in exchange for all the taxes you paid to Social Security, grueling work week after grueling work week, year after year.
They, along with other social media, have been officially deemed by the Securities and Exchange Commission to be acceptable venues for companies to disclose material information to investors.
It also functions as a social network, as users can leave messages for other drivers, exchange comments on posts and coordinate their drives with friends.
The market has expanded since then so that there are more than 200 mutual funds and roughly a half-dozen exchange-traded funds that invest using one or more social or environmental criteria.
The Vault stores written messages such as Bloomberg messages, Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, Notes, instant messages, social media and mobile messaging for about 540 clients who have stuffed 66 billion records, several petabytes, into the Vault.
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Partnerships that involve an equal exchange of ideas and allocation of resources toward shared business and social objectives are more important than ever.
Tons of false reports about water on the floor of the stock exchange, or other rumors amplified by the speed of the social web.
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Partnerships that involve an equal exchange of ideas and allocation of resources towards shared business and social objectives were seen by participants at BSR as being essential ingredients of social change.
And since price rationing allows individualism through personal valuation the social engineers have even engrossed themselves into the manipulation of the medium of exchange, or the money that we use to place value on the goods, services, resources, investments, interest, and wages that are critical to an economy.
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In 2012, Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange and Office will give way to more real-time, social communication cloud applications, which run on mobile devices and browsers.
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