Savdhaan India - India Fights Back - 1st October 2014 : Ep 863
In episode 863 of Savdhaan India - India Fights Back 2, aired on 1st October 2014, Roshni commits suicide Shweta befriends a small town girl, Roshni, on social networking site and invites...
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SINGAPORE - The first President's Challenge networking event that brought together companies and social enterprises to see how they can work together for the social good went underway on Friday.
Get the full story from The Straits Times.
Here is the speech by President Dr Tony Tan at the President's Challenge Social Enterprise Corporte Networking event at the Grand Copthorne Hotel:
Mr Seah Kian Peng Deputy Speaker and Co-Chairman of the Social Enterprise Association
His Excellency Antony Phillipson High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to Singapore
Distinguished Guests
Ladies and Gentlemen
Good afternoon. It is indeed a pleasure for me to join you at the opening of the President's Challenge Social Enterprise Corporate Networking Event.
In 2012, I started the President's Challenge Social Enterprise Award to recognise social enterprises that made impactful contributions to our society. Through the award, the President's Challenge aims to inspire more individuals, particularly our youths, to develop business ventures that also serve social causes.
Social enterprises provide avenues for Singaporeans to address the special needs of disadvantaged groups or to address a social issue proactively. By tapping on the innovative energies, passion and initiative of entrepreneurs, new services addressing social needs can surface through social enterprises.
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First President's Challenge networking event brings companies, social enterprises together
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3-Oct-2014
Contact: Albert Ang press@inderscience.com Inderscience Publishers @inderscience
Social network analysis could improve knowledge sharing in the healthcare sector, according to research results published in the International Journal of Collaborative Enterprise.
Elizabeth Cudney, Steven Corns and Suzanna Long in the department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, in Rolla, Missouri, USA, explain how knowledge management systems (KMS) can be critical in capturing, retaining and communicating project results and staff knowledge. They can prevent knowledge drain and provide training as "lessons learned" following specific occurrences and the resolution of particular problems the staff face.
The team has focused on the development of a KMS using social network analysis (SNA) to see how this combination might improve methods for organizing and sharing knowledge within a large government healthcare organization. They identified the key people involved using a narrative approach to interview in focus groups formed from those who were early adopters of process improvement methods. This allowed them to understand how changes to the work environment and procedures were perceived. The results from this preliminary work then allowed the team to devise a Likert-style questionnaire, named for American administrator and organizational psychologist Rensis Likert who worked at the US Department of Agriculture in the 1940s. This questionnaire was then given to all users to help the team assimilate a broad perspective on how social networking affects knowledge sharing.
They performed a social networking mapping and analysis to characterize the relationships between the various players and the knowledge links between them. They found that improvements could be made if individuals identified by many members of staff were to form a tight, core, network of their own. This would rapidly increase the ability to disseminate information on projects because this core of individuals would all have many people in their own networks.
They also found that improvements in KMS abound if the "early adopters" also form a core network as they could disseminate new ideas much more rapidly too. An additional conclusion from the work is that if technical assistance is provided early this better facilitates the creation of connections for sharing information and networking opportunities. The team adds that as with education, a higher level of engagement and stimulation makes the system that much easier for the personnel involved to benefit from the information in the system.
"While these recommendations apply specifically to this healthcare organization, these recommendations are applicable for improving knowledge sharing in any large organization regardless of industry," the team concludes.
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Healthy knowledge management and social networking
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) October 02, 2014
Attendify's apps have been a hit with companies like Google, Bloomberg and AstraZeneca, boosting attendee engagement and encouraging participation by creating private social networking apps. Today Attendify is announcing Social Wall, a real-time display solution that shows photos, messages, likes, comments, and other social content created within Attendify powered mobile apps.
Attendifys Social Apps are a powerful driver for attendee engagement, we regularly see app adoption rates well over 80% and apps that see thousands of photos and messages shared over the course of an event says Michael Balyasny, Attendifys CEO. Making social content that attendees share in Attendify powered apps more accessible, and expanding the reach of the mobile experience to larger screens a natural fit continues Michael.
The new Social Wall works in concert with Attendifys private social networking apps by taking content and posting it in real-time to a customizable webpage thats designed to scale to any screen size. Event planners can use Social Wall on an unlimited number of screens to drive additional exposure to the content Attendees are already sharing within the app.
Social proof is vital to encouraging participation in any network or community says Michael, the new Social Wall amplifies content thats already being posted to Social Apps making the event experience more collaborative and helping further boost participation.
Attendifys Social Wall is available now as an add-on that can be unlocked instantly through Attendify Hub, the companys app management platform. Social Wall is designed to work with any screen, large or small and can be accessed through any web browser.
About Attendify: Attendify is a leading mobile event app platform that offers meeting and event planners an easy and accessible way to create and manage apps that drive attendee engagement at meetings and events. Attendify helps companies like Google, Bloomberg, AstraZeneca, Sage, Phillips, Autodesk and AOL create differentiating mobile experiences through an end-to-end platform. For more information or to get started building your app visit http://www.attendify.com.
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Today the Supreme Court granted cert in Rodriguez v. United States, a case on the duration of traffic stops. Heres the Question Presented from the cert petition:
This Court has held that, during an otherwise lawful traffic stop, asking a driver to exit a vehicle, conducting a drug sniff with a trained canine, or asking a few off-topic questions are de minimis intrusions on personal liberty that do not require reasonable suspicion of criminal activity in order to comport with the Fourth Amendment. This case poses the question of whether the same rule applies after the conclusion of the traffic stop, so that an officer may extend the already-completed stop for a canine sniff without reasonable suspicion or other lawful justification.
I wrote a post on Rodriguez back in February that Ill reprint below in light of the grant:
Imagine a police officer pulls over a car for a routine traffic violation, such as speeding or driving with a broken taillight. During the stop, the officer develops a hunch that there may be drugs in the car. He contacts a local K-9 unit and requests a trained drug-sniffing dog; when the unit arrives, another officer will walk the dog around the car to see if it alerts to drugs inside. Although the Supreme Court has held that the use of the dog is not a search, the length of a warrantless stop must be reasonable. The officer cant delay the driver forever.
This raises a question of Fourth Amendment law that has led to a lot of lower court litigation: If the officer has no reasonable suspicion that drugs are in the car that is, he only has a hunch how long can the traffic stop be delayed before the dog arrives and checks out the car?
This might seem like a really technical question. But its actually pretty important. If courts say that the police cant extend the stop even one second to bring over the dogs, then the dogs will only be used when they happen to be right there or some reasonable suspicion exists specifically justifying their use. On the other hand, if the courts say that the police can extend the stop for a long time, then the police will be free to bring out the dogs at routine traffic stops whenever they like.
Lower courts have generally answered the question by adopting a de minimis doctrine. Officers can extend the stop and wait for the dogs for a de minimis amount of time. But exactly how long is that?
Just yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held in United States v. Rodriguez that seven to eight minutes is de minimis. On the other hand, the Supreme Court of Nevada held a few months ago in State v. Beckman that nine minutes is too long.
These are just lower-court decisions, of course, and there is room to argue that duration alone isnt the only criteria for whether a stop was too long.
Plus, the Supreme Court has been reluctant to announce arbitrary-sounding time limits on Fourth Amendment searches and seizures. Off the top of my head, the only time it has suggested such limits is County of Riverside v. McLaughlin, and even then it did so only because an earlier decision that did not suggest a specific time limit had caused significant chaos in the lower courts in that specific context.
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Volokh Conspiracy: Supreme Court takes case on duration of traffic stops