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Listen to Your Data: Lessons from a Multilingual Text Message Campaign

NTEN

What's hard is finding a customer who wants to be a guinea pig as we explore new avenues of outreach. Throughout their campaign, they've tested everything – from what time you should call your legislators to the best way to structure a text message – in English and in Spanish. RI4A quickly rectified the problem.

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Heat Listed

The Verge

By the early 1920s, Austin was a residential haven for upwardly mobile families, with structures designed by architects such as Frederick Schock and Frank Lloyd Wright. Unbeknownst to McDaniel, he was a sort of guinea pig, one of the first individuals to be put on Chicago’s “heat list.”. There was another problem, too.

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Worst of Museums for this Decade

Museum 2.0

We won't go down the looming problem of the lack of physicians our nation will be facing in the upcoming decades, but instead let's look at museum work. This problem becomes compounded by the fact that many museum professionals get paid lower wages and therefore likely delay retirement. Money is the regulatory mechanism in museums.

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Nigerian fintech Appzone raises $10M for expansion and proprietary technology

TechCrunch

However , they seem to be doing quite well compared with traditional banks that face challenges like legacy cost structures and a major lack of operational efficiency. Typically , African financial institutions rely on using foreign technology solutions to solve their problems. Appzone is a fintech software provider.

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How a fake “Real Oversight Board” is putting pressure on Facebook

The Verge

Last week I wrote about how Facebook’s vast size and monarchic corporate structure had contributed to a steady stream of controversies all summer. The problem with ‘civil’ is it’s a word that’s used by powerful people to silence less powerful people,” he said. I still think the Telepath founders have a lot of good ideas.