...CONCLUSIONS Paper Five Best Practices for Social Media Measurement How to link social media metrics to business results Insights from the webinar, Less Talk + More Action = Better Results, in the Measure What Matters: Redefining Marketing Success in the Digital Age series, presented in association with the American Marketing Association and SAS Featuring: Katie Delahaye Paine, CEO of KDPaine & Partners John Bastone, Global Customer and Media Intelligence Manager at SAS Five Best Practices for Social Media Measurement 1 If there’s anyone out there who still believes social media doesn’t warrant serious consideration, consider some basic facts: There are more than 750 million active users on Facebook, 140 million unique visitors to the site each month, 200 million registered Twitter users, and more than 100 million professionals on LinkedIn. That’s just for starters. In addition to social networking sites, there are blogs, comments on traditional media and e-commerce websites, review sites such as ConsumerSearch and Epinion, content-sharing sites such as YouTube and Flickr, and collaborative projects such as Wikipedia. Nearly half of Americans now get their news from the Web. One in five reads blogs. More than 80 percent of Americans use social media in some fashion each month. Some of those people just might be talking about your brand – and your competition. Some may be ambassadors and advocates, or they may just as easily be detractors and malcontents...
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...services delivered but by who delivers them. This latest evolution of FinTech, led by start-ups, poses challenges for regulators and market participants alike, particularly in balancing the potential benefits of innovation with the possible risks of new approaches. * Professor, Co-Director, Duke-HKU Asia America Institute in Transnational Law, and Member, Board of Management, Asian Institute of International Financial Law, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong. ** Senior Research Fellow, Asian Institute of International Financial Law, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong; and Founder, FinTech HK. *** CIFR King & Wood Mallesons Chair of International Financial Law, Scientia Professor, and Member, Centre for Law, Markets & Regulation, UNSW Australia. The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the the Hong Kong Research Grants Council Theme-based Research Scheme (Enhancing Hong Kong’s Future as a Leading International Financial Centre) and the Australian Research Council Linkage...
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...problem 15 2.2 Proposed Solution 16 2.2.1 Conclusion drawn from the Problem Area Discussed 19 2.3 Why the Problem should be studied? 19 2.4 Importance of Identified Problem 19 2.5 Nature of Challenges and Learning Capabilities 20 2.5.1 Domain challenge 20 2.5.2 Technical challenges 21 CHAPTER # 3 LITERATURE REVIEW 23 3.1. Domain Research 23 3.1.1 Commodity Trading 23 3.1.2 Algorithmic Trading 24 3.1.3 Advantage of using Algorithms in Algorithmic Trading 25 3.1.4 Web Application 25 3.2 Market Research 26 3.2.1 Similar Web Based Systems in the Market 27 3.2.1 Conclusions Derived from Market Research 29 3.2.2 Benefits of the Proposed System over Similar System Implemented 29 3.3 Services and Technology Growth in India 29 3.3.1 Internet Growth in India 30 3.2 Critical Evaluation of the Literature Review 30 CHAPTER # 4 RESEARCH METHODS 32 4.1 Primary Search 32 4.1.2 Questionnaires 32 4.1.2 Interview 37 4.2 Secondary Research 38 4.2.1 Research of Methodology Selection 39 4.2.2 Research of Web Application Development Platform 42 4.2.3 Database Research 44 4.2.4 System Architecture Research 47 CHAPTER # 5 (Part 1) ANALYSIS AND DESIGN 49 5.1 Analysis 49 5.1.1 Primary Analysis...
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...2012 Doing business in a more transparent world C O M PA R I N G R E G U L AT I O N F O R D O M E S T I C F I R M S I N 1 8 3 E C O N O M I E S © 2012 The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank 1818 H Street NW Washington, DC 20433 Telephone 202-473-1000 Internet www.worldbank.org All rights reserved. 1 2 3 4 08 07 06 05 A copublication of The World Bank and the International Finance Corporation. This volume is a product of the staff of the World Bank Group. The findings, interpretations and conclusions expressed in this volume do not necessarily reflect the views of the Executive Directors of The World Bank or the governments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work. Rights and Permissions The material in this publication is copyrighted. Copying and/or transmitting portions or all of this work without permission may be a violation of applicable law. The World Bank encourages dissemination of its work and will normally grant permission to reproduce portions of the work promptly. For permission to photocopy or reprint any part of this work, please send a request with complete information to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA; telephone: 978-750-8400; fax: 978-750-4470; Internet: www.copyright.com. All other queries on rights and licenses, including subsidiary rights, should be addressed to the Office of the Publisher, The World Bank, 1818...
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...Netherlands Andrew Light University of Washington Seattle USA Peter Kroes Delft University of Technology Delft the Netherlands Steven A. Moore University of Texas Austin USA ISBN 978-1-4020-6590-3 e-ISBN 978-1-4020-6591-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2007937486 © 2008 Springer Science + Business Media B.V. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 springer.com Contents List of Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Design in Engineering and Architecture: Towards an Integrated Philosophical Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter Kroes, Andrew Light, Steven A. Moore, and Pieter E. Vermaas Part I Engineering Design ix 1 Design, Use, and the Physical and Intentional Aspects of Technical Artifacts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maarten Franssen Designing is the Construction of Use Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wybo Houkes The Designer Fallacy and Technological Imagination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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