\”As a first step, each household’s electricity meter was replaced with a digital smart meter….. Smart meters record power consumption data on an internal memory chip at 15-minute intervals. Once a day these data are anonymized and transmitted via the power lines to an energy-data management system. \” | \”Some 100 households that were selected at random have been equipped with smart appliances from Miele. “These appliances automatically choose the lowest tariff for their operating cycle,” …\” | \”Another 13 households.. were fitted with combined heat and power units (micro-CHPs). In addition to producing hot water, these can also generate electricity. “If demand for power exceeds the amount currently on offer from the utility, the micro-CHPs can be activated via the gateway to feed electricity into the grid,”…\”
via E-DeMa, a smart meter field test in Germany – Smart Grid Watch – Siemens Global Weblogs.
Written by Erin BoykinIn November, Paul Steinbrueck and Chris Ford introduced a new Facebook Group called Beyond Empire Avenue (if your not sure what I’m talking about, please visit this post.) Today, he introduced Beyond Empire Avenue, the website.Now I, Erin Boykin, am excited to introduce you to a new resource called the Empire Avenue Resource Guide. The Guide:
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything on this blog, so I thought I’d share a little infographic that I made. When you think of customer service, does it annoy you? Anger you? Drive you nuts because you can’t get a hold of a human being? How does being transferred multiple times make you feel?
What is your over all feelings towards Customer Service, especially those blasted Automated Systems that tell you to push one for English or push two for Spanish. Sense when does America have to cater to any one specific minority group. You won’t find other European countries doing that. Either you learn their language or hire a translator.
Enough rambling, I hope that you enjoyed this little infographic that I put together. Hopefully it will shed some light on anyone with a business thinking about getting one of these cursed systems. Remember, Angry customers means that they’ll be more likely to find a competitor.
Save the company money? Not if customers are so furious with the system that they choose to go else where.
When you're writing a story and creating your first character, you've got to think vivid. Characters need to basically pop out of the page and seem real enough to the reader. Readers often times will put a book down if they can't connect to the Main Character.
In order to make the character seem real, you've got to know a thing or two about people.
At least 13 people have died and 40 more injured, according the charity Save the Children, which operates inside Myanmar.
So how is this put in to practice by his Virgin corporation?
This for example, was the email sent on 16th March 2009, to Virgin Unite.
Hello Virgin Team,
I'd submitted several suggestions to your website with no response and this was a follow to explain our work.
At the Ukrainian lunch in Davos, Richard Branson gave a talk suggesting that business should focus more on social problems.
Troy Media has published a new article about Empire Avenue on its site. The article features info, stories and opinions from Robert Lavigne and focuses specifically on the real-world results missions can produce for businesses. It also talks about what Tim Gorree has accomplished for Nokia through Empire Avenue.It’s great to hear more examples of how EAv is more than a game and helping organizations achieve their goals!Hopefully, EAv will start to Communicate “Social Media Rocket Fuel” themselves more often, and work on the issues that so often limit the success of missions like mission cheating and cumbersome communities which make it difficult to target missions to specific niches.What do you think of the article? What do you think of the effectiveness of Empire Avenue to produce real world business results?
via Article: Social media ‘missions’ drive traffic and yield real business results.
