My feeling and my experience is that among individuals, investing is inherently a social activity.
The supermarket shop is perhaps not to be included in this: squeezing the Charmin is not really a social activity enjoyed by many.
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Eventually Kotler came to see marketing as being about the exchange of values between two parties and, as such, a social activity, not just a business one.
As a sport that was originally played as an after dinner game on the dining tables of 19th-century English homes, table tennis seems to have come full circle as a social activity.
There are indeed those to whom shopping is a social activity and those to whom it is a chore best done quickly if it is to be done at all.
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However, at the heart of this is an economic truth, assuming for a moment that shopping is indeed for some set of the population a social activity rather than a hunt for desirables.
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The exhibition also looks at the social impact of gaming, with photographs and comments from gamers and a look at how the internet has transformed gaming from a solitary pursuit to a social activity.
Collaboration is, at its root, a social activity.
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Away from the club, a main social activity of Tammy's became shopping with her friends.
The patios of the hotels and bars that line the boulevard are a hotbed of social activity.
They use a tStorm social brainstorm activity to continue the conversation beyond their team meetings and all-hands calls.
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By May, according to the agency's latest data, the NLRB's regional offices had received 113 complaints, called "charges, " from employees alleging a variety of illegal activity related to social-media practices and policies, compared with just a handful seven months earlier.
President Castro said the voting was being organised by social groups and was not a state activity.
The intention is to have a consistent level of activity on the social platform and engagement across the enterprise.
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Making activity streams work in a social network internal to a company is much easier than getting all the companies on the public social networks to play nicely together.
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Spokeswoman Katie Gladding, a sunny, fit blonde, recently assumed her post, with duties including a Web presence, some social-media activity, and personal appearances at community events and in stores.
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For a business to really do social media right, like any other marketing or customer service activity, it takes a significant investment.
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For example, OpenText Tempo Social is a collaboration tool, which has activity feeds, profiles and dashboards.
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Second, individuals are given a nominal boost based on their Klout scores, which is a third-party measure of social-media activity.
You could also check out Momento, an app that archives your social activity and lets you keep a personal diary.
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In select categories, namely seed and late stage, as well as the mobile and social sectors, investment activity became a bit feverish.
Play in the form of social and mobile gaming has become a mainstream activity, but it has the potential to be so much more.
Even without all the necessary cuts that should occur, a reconnection of social overhead capital to direct productive activity would reinvigorate the economies of the developed world and trigger the growth so desperately needed.
Users will be able to pause a game, select a few minutes of recorded video of their most recent activity, and instruct the clip to be uploaded to a social network.
He said that after CSC implemented a companywide social network, the ambient awareness created by activity stream like information flows helped current processes work better.
The game is designed to be very social, with a Facebook-style stream of activity of your friends, the ability to instant message friends, status updates, in-game messages and forums.
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Social Experience: Reading has traditionally been a solitary activity, which may explain the growing appeal of blog-reporting over traditional newspapers: through comments and follow-up posts, the text talks back.
While most of its analytics tools are behind a paywall, they do offer a complementary dashboard that allows you to manage social media activity for various accounts all in one place.
Last year 11.6 million Americans were subject to identity fraud, a 13% increase from 2010 that a Javelin Strategy report attributes to increases in social media activity and mobile usage.
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Among them are Fitbit, a pedometer that tracks daily sleep and activity and uses social networking and gaming to motivate its users.
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