The best way to think of Facebook is as infrastructure the social infrastructure of the Internet.
We believe that the social infrastructure is so important to how this will develop.
But aside from an improved user experience, social infrastructure delivers a critical element to marketers: control.
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Beginning in the 1960s and 1970s, better social infrastructure improved health across a broad swath of the region.
The aim is to boost industrial investment and exports, while persuading the private sector to build social infrastructure that the states cannot afford.
The second way that social infrastructure gives marketers control is in the incredibly valuable sets of data that your social users bring to your site.
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Social infrastructure is the technology that makes Web properties social.
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Hitachi : Shigeru Azuhata explained how a large Japanese conglomerate focusing on the social infrastructure business can be committed to the conservation of resources and the preservation of ecosystems.
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Social business has evolved to the point to where marketers are taking back their brands and, by using social infrastructure, they are reaching, understanding and influencing their customers like never before.
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The Saudi Arabian government, for example, is addressing chronic youth unemployment problems with a social infrastructure program worth tens of billions of dollars, to improve housing, education, water management and health services.
The introduction of electric light-railway systems might bear some of the transportation load, but these need to be built from scratch, and within the context of a completely new social infrastructure.
While there is no social silver bullet to miraculously help brands navigate through new media, there is a powerful set of technologies that companies can employ to maintain control over their brands while catering to a social user-base: social infrastructure.
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"The government should deregulate the job sector and encourage market liquidity so that Japan can build a proper social infrastructure, " says Nambu, who adds that small- and home-office businesses should be promoted to give people a wider choice for their working styles.
The social and economic infrastructure for social entrepreneurship is quickly developing, involving some of the most sophisticated financial institutions in the world.
The entire social spending infrastructure diminishes personal responsibility and the cohesiveness of communities.
But so far only one area has expressed an interest in creating a Care Trust - the rest of the Health and Social Services infrastructure has remained solidly unimpressed by the idea.
There is hardly any substantial investment in agricultural productivity, social facilities, infrastructure, trade or development.
Apart from that, there is widespread development of critical social and physical infrastructure, and there is an increasing pool of well-educated, English-speaking, enterprising workers in most countries across the continent.
Second, Mr Fox needs the tax rises to pay for his other plans, such as increased spending on education, social services and infrastructure, as well as to revamp Pemex and reduce the government's dependence on ever-uncertain oil income.
It fears that creating a free market in rural land would prompt peasants to sell their holdings to pay their debts, sending an avalanche of landless farmers to cities that have no social-security infrastructure to deal with them.
Tackling corruption and tribalism would enable the government to invest in sorely needed economic infrastructure and social amenities.
Changes in zoning and building codes continue to transfer many infrastructure and social costs from the public to developers.
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For its part, Accel says it will continue to invest across cloud services and next generation infrastructure, social media and e-commerce, gaming, software and open mobile.
As head of state, it can feel perilous to choose between addressing issues as acute as massive unemployment, health crises, social unrest, feeble infrastructure and rampant corruption.
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After paying the bureaucrats, there is little money left for social welfare, education and infrastructure.
It means expanding the provision of essential services education, health, infrastructure, and social safety nets, especially for nutrition security.
Voters set priorities, among them defence, infrastructure and a social safety net.
Our enterprise support enables agricultural businesses to grow and thrive, provide agronomic training and literacy, health and other social programs, while building infrastructure in the countryside.
Companies that have an expertise in technology, for example, can collaborate with non-profits or social entrepreneurs to provide the infrastructure backbone that turn their ideas into reality.
Then resurrect it as a platform for true community engagement that functions as a hub for interaction with all customers and stakeholders, replete with media, public and private communities for ideation, customer advocacy, support, employee communication, vendor collaboration, training, media engagement and social media at the very infrastructure.
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