The Cloud Dilemma - Is Your Cloud Provider Secure?

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In 2010, cloud adoption among US small medium businesses (SMBs) was just 5 percent—today, 37 percent are on the cloud, and the percentage will double by 2020, according to Forbes. In the EU, 12% of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) used public cloud computing in 2014, a survey by the European Commission’s Eurostat statistics service says.

How humans could evolve to survive in space | Lisa Nip

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If we hope to one day leave Earth and explore the universe, our bodies are going to have to get a lot better at surviving the harsh conditions of space. Using synthetic biology, Lisa Nip hopes to harness special powers from microbes on Earth -- such as the ability to withstand radiation -- to make humans more fit for exploring space. "We're approaching a time during which we'll have the capacity to decide our own genetic destiny," Nip says. "Augmenting the human body with new abilities is no longer a question of how, but of when."

Stop the Marketing Madness: How Email Marketers Can Create a Slam Dunk Campaign

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This month, 68 college basketball teams entered basketball’s biggest competition — the NCAA tournament. Supporters of the top teams tune in for a full month of madness, hoping their team will make it to the coveted final rounds. Even more basketball fans across the country build their brackets and watch games hoping their predictions will come true.

How to Engineer a Great Customer Experience

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Everybody’s talking about customer experience these days, but how many companies actually follow through to ensure that their customers are getting the best experience possible? And how are they doing that? Everybody’s heard the mantra, “You’ve got to think like the customer,” but unless you embed that into your company culture, and unless everybody from ... Read more

How to Renegotiate a Bad Deal

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Many viewed the deal to be a terrible one from the start. In December 2008, Richard M. Daley, then Chicago’s mayor, announced that his administration had agreed to lease the city’s parking meters for 75 years to a private company for nearly $1.2 billion in an attempt to tackle a budget shortfall of about $500
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Access the Total Value of Your Client List

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Access the Total Value of Your Client List
By Colleen Francis
When it comes to generating sales, there’s one source that tends to get overlooked: the client list. I am constantly amazed at the number of sales professionals and companies that do nothing to encourage repeat sales, up-sales and cross-sales within their own customer list.
As I write this, many of my clients are struggling with what they can do now to ensure they finish their selling year at or above target. My message to you is this: go back to your current client list.

Why gun violence can't be our new normal | Dan Gross

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It doesn't matter whether you love or hate guns; it's obvious that the US would be a safer place if there weren't thousands of them sold every day without background checks. Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, makes a passionate, personal appeal for something that more than 90 percent of Americans want: background checks for all gun sales. "For every great movement around the world, there's a moment where you can look back and say, 'That's when things really started to change,'" Gross says.

For NFL Players, a Win-Win Contract Only in Retrospect?

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How did the NFL Players association and team owners come to an eventual win-win negotiated agreement? In this article we explore the strategies each side used to get to an integrative solution even if that was not the ultimate goal.
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The beauty of human skin in every color | Angélica Dass

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Angélica Dass's photography challenges how we think about skin color and ethnic identity. In this personal talk, hear about the inspiration behind her portrait project, Humanæ, and her pursuit to document humanity's true colors rather than the untrue white, red, black and yellow associated with race.

20 Predictions for the Next 5 Years that Every Email Marketer Should Hear

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Read on for a futuristic look into Litmus’ Email Marketing in 2020 ebook, which features insights from MarketingSherpa’s own Daniel Burstein, Director of Editorial Content. See why marketers are agreeing that incredibly personalized and highly automated email is the future.

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