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3 ways to effectively explain your creative process to your colleagues

May08
by on May 8, 2019 at 5:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Podium


As an amateur designer and as someone who has worked with designers in marketing positions previously, I came to understand that designers of all sorts have their own creative process and each one is a little bit different. And that’s okay. Learning this as someone managing the designer‘s projects (in a project coordinator role) and when creating on my own helped me better understand how to work with these individuals. But I also realized many others didn’t understand how they work and that would often create friction within the workplace. As a web designer, have you ever been asked to…

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3 practical questions all marketers should ask their virtual assistants

May08
by on May 8, 2019 at 2:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, Podium


Just a few short years ago, marketing teams looked to the “cutting-edge” technology of the time to engage with customers more efficiently: IVRs. These tools served a useful purpose, providing quick answers to straightforward questions and slashing wait times—but they’re no longer cutting it. IVRs can only address a handful of questions and concerns, and make the customers bend their ways to interact with them, leaving those with unresolved problems more annoyed than they were to begin with.   On the other end of the spectrum are chatbots. At their prime, chatbots took over the digital channels and promised to…

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Antimatter breakthrough indicates the universe is hiding something

May07
by on May 7, 2019 at 9:03 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


Scientists from Italy and Switzerland recently performed an experiment demonstrating that antimatter, like matter, has the characteristics of both waves and particles. This means antimatter fits within the established theory of quantum mechanics – making its rarity all the more curious. The Big Bang, by all scientific accounts, should have exploded forth equal parts matter and antimatter when it poofed the universe into existence. Unfortunately antimatter is incredibly hard to find. So where did it all go? Scientists searching for the missing material (anti-material?) have so far come up with few answers. But the research team’s experiment yields some hope that trend…

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