The service is designed to increase interaction with writers and readers and draw more traffic to publisher websites.

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To my surprise, I saw a 1, 000 percent increase in the interaction on a link I posted, which had 130 likes and 30 reshares in just a few hours.

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And as she talks with each of them, she shares her findings from the ones she spoke with before so the quality of the ideas increase after each interaction.

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The closure of the local post office also led to far fewer opportunities for social interaction, with people reporting an increase in isolation and loneliness.

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But New England recently partnered with SessionM, a tech startup that helps increase user engagement, to turn that app into an engine of fan involvement and interaction.

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These avatars are designed for businesses to quickly and efficiently deploy state-of-the-art chat to answer customer questions instantly and accurately, decrease staff costs, increase sales and customer engagement, and find out what customers are really thinking by capturing the analytics of the interaction.

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