Most cities realize that their populations are diverse. To address this diversity, they generally invest a few minutes to install the Google Translate widget on their websites.  This is fine for general website visitors who come to see stale content boasting why this is a great place to live.  They can simply click on a button to read that content in their own language. Great!   But, what happens when your city needs to broadcast a message without relying on people to come to the site to get that update in their own language. This is where the breakdown
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Whether we “go back to our roots” or chart a bold new course may be themes and strategic directions that will be debated among social media company senior managers over the next 12 months. Fairly, or unfairly, big social, political, economic and some mental and physical health issues faced today have been blamed – to varying degrees – on the widespread presence and influence of social media. Issues such as internet addiction, cyberbullying, spreading hate speech, and many others that we read about every day. While external forces, whether traditional media, belief systems, charismatic leaders, books, films, cults etc, have
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Bangkok, Thailand, December 24, 2020 – NotifyMe, a sophisticated new notification solution, will play a key role in helping some of the world’s best badminton players stay COVID-19 safe and alert during the HSBC Badminton World Federation (BWF) World Tour Finals tournament to be held in Bangkok in January. Developed by If You Can – combining the expertise of employees in their U.S., Hong Kong, Thailand and Armenian offices – the NotifyMe app will be installed on the smartphones of the more than 1,000 visitors (players and their support teams) expected to attend the first major BWF tournament in Asia
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Since the coronavirus arrived on the scene, small businesses have been getting obliterated worldwide, and the lives of the proprietors along with them.  National and local governments have been enacting policies that have been a boon for big businesses and destructive for small businesses. It’s time for us normal people to step up and help the small businesses that define our communities and add to the character of what we call home.  We should limit our purchases via large algorithmically driven e-commerce platforms and get back to satisfying our needs as local as possible.  If we don’t, our options will
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Warning: This post is like a 3-hour slow-burn Scandanavian drama flick that could have just as well been a 1 hour TV show.  But, you’ll enjoy it anyway as I tell a few interesting professional stories and arrive a the point where I’m promoting my current product 🙂 Onward… As a former US Marine, I pride myself in being affiliated with the best of the best. I started my career at Andersen Consulting (“AC”), n.k.a. Accenture.  AC was considered ONE of the best, if not THE best, large scale systems integrators.  Ignore the scenes of fresh 22-year-old college grads rolling
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Low on funds?  Don’t let that crush your New Years’ plans.  We’re here to help. Thailand Treasure Hunts will start a series of treasure hunts with increasing reward sizes.  The inaugural treasure hunt will be announced soon.  The announcement for this first treasure hunt will be made exclusively on the NotifyMe app. So, to find out the details of how to win 10,000 baht by just walking around for a couple of hours, you need to get NotifyMe. Install the NotifyMe app by one of the following methods: If you’re viewing this on your computer, grab your smartphone and scan
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Loxley subsidiary K2 Venture Capital (K2VC) has joined hands with start-up IfYouCan to create the “CareChek” platform, which helps workplaces proactively manage Covid-19 risk among their workers by getting and analysing results quickly and accurately. Loxley Group established a working team to monitor and prevent the epidemic from spreading through implementing various measures, said Loxley director Vasant Chatikavanij. CareChek uses predictive analytics and big data analysis through data inputs such as self-reported symptoms, geo-location, demographic and medical research data to target employees who might be at a high risk of transmitting infection. This differs from pure contact tracing methodology, which
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NotifyMe is a notification platform engineered to solve problems plaguing virtually all organizations and businesses of every industry, most likely yours included. The Problem The problems are well known and, to date, not really solved by anyone, until now. Organizations of any size communicate with audiences who have their own language preferences as well as their own communication tools.  The problem isn’t small either.  A metropolitan city of any reasonable size will have over 100 languages spoken at home. And, with the plethora of apps available in the app markets, businesses struggle to get the word out via SMS, email,
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If You Can, a leading security and notification technology provider for individuals and organizations has just opened its new headquarters in Thailand. This milestone materializes the company’s long-term growth strategy in the country.  After successful business development growth and an increased workforce, the company has turned to Thailand to open its new headquarters. Located in Phrom Phong with a panoramic view of Bangkok, the office of an area of 200 m2 features an open space, meeting rooms, a multimedia corner, a relax zone as well as a full kitchen.   “We are delighted to announce the opening of our new office,”
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