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Demand Curve: How to get social proof that grows your startup

TechCrunch

Demand Curve: How to double conversions on your startup’s homepage. This is called social proof, which is a physiological effect that influences your decisions every day, whether you know it or not. We’ve found that effectively using social proof can lead to up to 400% improvement in conversion.

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How to create a culture of innovation

CIO

This is how they get innovation to flourish.”. Prianka Nandy, chief information and technology officer at Special Olympics International, had no choice but to rethink how to innovate after in-person events were canceled during the pandemic. Bring customer-centricity into the conversation.

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Live video shopping startup Talkshoplive brings in another $6M

TechCrunch

Talkshoplive CEO Bryan Moore said he founded the company with his sister Tina in 2018, after he led social media efforts at Twentieth Television (previously known as Twentieth Century Fox) and CBS Television. Live commerce is today where social media was 15 years ago. Now, the company is looking at food, beauty, fashion, and sports.

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SAP poaches Microsoft exec as its new global head of AI

CIO

As part of Microsoft’s development team, Sun created Bing Predicts, the inference engine that provides the “favored to win” forecasts beneath search results for sporting fixtures and attempted to predict the 2016 US presidential election winner. Spoiler alert: it failed.) Sun replaces Feiyu Xu as SAP’s global head of AI.

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Okay, fine, I want Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg to fight

TechCrunch

He bought my favorite social network and made it bad. I have been part of numerous editorial conversations about how to write about a man who runs several exceptionally powerful companies, yet constantly talks out of his ass and cannot deliver on his promises. Elon Musk has disappointed me many times. So, I made a deal with myself.

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Social Media for Better Leadership and Learning

QAspire

Leadership in a connected world is a complex sport. Leadership that is social in approach when it comes to building communities, enabling engagement and participating in knowledge flows across the network (both inside the organization through corporate social tools as well as external social media).

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Higher-ed CIOs embrace academia’s AI challenges

CIO

Broadly speaking, it’s needed by researchers, in fields from medical studies to social sciences, and is a vital tool to keep universities running efficiently, assist professors with courses, predict academic failure in time to make changes, and give students the help they need with administration.