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In-app messaging: A great strategy to boost business during the age of…
Lisa Mulcahy MarketingAs a marketer, you want to provide your customers and clients ease and agility when it comes to purchasing products and services from your brand during the COVID-19 crisis. In-app messaging is an ideal tool to help you achieve this. Depending on your current products and services, you can use in-app messaging to pull new customers into your base, answer customer service questions, launch products, or make easier use of your products and services — the sky is truly the limit. Here are some key areas you can start with.
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‘Travel, as we knew it, is over,’ but hopes remain for a different…
Linchi Kwok Travel, Hospitality & Event ManagementAirbnb co-founder Brian Chesky talked about the future of travel in a recent CNBC interview. He stated: "Travel, as we knew it, is over. It doesn’t mean travel is over, just the travel we knew is over, and it’s never coming back. It’s just not." His statement made headlines, but he also suggested in the same interview: "… travel is going to come back. It’s just going to take a lot longer than, you know, we would have thought, and it’s going to be different."
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New swine flu, unrelated to COVID-19, may be on its way from China
Scott E. Rupp Medical & Allied HealthcareAs we continue to be overwhelmed by COVID-19, which originated in Wuhan, China, near the close of 2019, Chinese researchers have announced that they have identified a new strain of the swine flu that has the potential to become a pandemic. The flu is carried by pigs and can infect humans. A study of the new virus was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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‘Heart box’ may help increase number of transplants
Chelsea Adams Medical & Allied HealthcareMost organs are placed into "static cold storage" after being harvested. This method has been used since the 1960s and continues to be considered the gold standard for organ transport throughout much of the world. However, this method causes organs to use stored energy, which breaks down tissues quickly. A new Swedish study has presented another possible mode of transportation for donated heart organs. The new method involves a specially designed box that preserves hearts for longer than surgeons presumed possible.
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Elements of a recovery plan
William D. Pawlucy Association ManagementIn our first article, "The metrics guiding nonprofit recovery," we took a broad look at five key economic indicators to take action on. As a follow-up to the first article, we will now discuss the elements of a recovery plan. In order to plan properly, your organization needs data, your leaders to guide the conversations, stakeholders to inform the process, and a plan to address external urgencies. Use this as a short-term supplement and driver for change of your current long-term plan.
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5 tips to improve volunteer communication
Deborah Ike Religious CommunityAs your church reopens amid COVID-19, you may find that you need more volunteers. All the extra sanitizing, helping people adhere to social distancing guidelines, and more will require additional people to make services run smoothly. You may also need more volunteers to host online services, follow-up with online prayer requests, and to contact members who might need assistance during this time. Here are a few tips for improving communication with your volunteer teams.
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Does your business feel irrelevant? Here’s what you can do
Victoria Fann Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementThere are periods in a business owner's life when the products being sold or the services being offered grow stale and cease to feel relevant. Sometimes this can happen with the overall mission of a business. The tides turn. Interests change. Passion wanes. What's popular and trendy loses steam. It can feel daunting to even consider small changes, let alone do a major pivot. Perhaps staying relevant doesn't require reinventing your business. Maybe it’s more straightforward than that.
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Will the ‘beat China’ bill help the US win back pharmaceutical…
Bambi Majumdar ManufacturingThere has been a staggering 75% increase in U.S. imports of pharmaceuticals from China from 2010 to 2018. To help reverse this trend, some GOP U.S. Senators recently unveiled a bill to incentivize pharmaceutical companies and increase U.S. drug manufacturing. They worked to introduce the Bring Entrepreneurial Advancements to Consumers Here in North America (BEAT CHINA) Act. The goal is to reduce the country’s overdependence on China for critical medications and increase U.S. manufacturing of prescription drugs.
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Summer school looks different during the pandemic
Brian Stack EducationSummer school is underway in my New Hampshire high school, but it looks a little different from what we have offered in years past, although we have always offered a remote platform. For my school, an in-person summer school is just not practical due to our size, limited staffing resources, and lack of public transportation for students. For years we have relied on online platforms such as Edgenuity and VLACS to provide content and, in some cases, instructors. Our staff have always provided remote technology support. This year, we took a slightly different approach for summer offerings.
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Data shows cancer patients forego preventative care, use EDs more often
Chelsea Adams Medical & Allied HealthcareCancer patients with financial hardships are more likely to forego preventative care and are therefore more likely to seek care for pain, urinary tract infections, respiratory distress and other ailments in an emergency department. That's the result of a data analysis of more than 10,000 cancer survivors who responded to the National Health Interview Survey. While most of those who participated in the study had some form of health insurance, patients struggle to pay coinsurance, deductibles, copayments, and other out-of-pocket expenses, lead author Jason Zheng, Ph.D., said.