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From concerts to political campaigning – how can the metaverse transform society?
Political campaigns have moved from the streets and squares to social media in just a few decades. It would not be illogical if political campaigns' next move were into the metaverse.
Topic: Science Not Fiction,
By Elias Rosell, Political Editor for Norrtelje Tidning
The pandemic years were a bad time for live-music lovers and artists. But when concerts in the physical world were no longer possible, some artists went virtual. The American rapper Travis Scott held a concert inside the online video game Fortnite, reaching 45 million views.
The German carmaker BMW has created a virtual replica of its factory floor in the hopes that this will help increase productivity and safety among the factory employees.
On August 31st, 2022, the government of Seoul released a beta version of its virtual municipal world, Metaverse Seoul. The aim is to complete a metaverse environment with all administrative services by 2026.
Through augmented reality technology, the social media service Pinterest has created a feature allowing users to see how furniture would fit in a room before deciding what to buy.
These four examples, all mentioned in the consulting company McKinsey's report, Value creation in the metaverse, show how the metaverse is already being used today.
So, what is the metaverse? There does not seem to be a universally accepted definition. Still, it is often agreed to be a 3D world, made available through devices like virtual reality (VR) headsets, where users interact through an avatar.
The exact definition may be up for discussion – but there is no doubt that a lot of money is being invested in the metaverse as the next big thing. In 2021, venture capital and private equity funding into the metaverse reached $13 billion.
But there are some clouds on the horizon. Since Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg changed the company's name to Meta, they have invested billions of dollars in realising Zuckerberg's vision of the metaverse. But the company's main bet, the virtual reality game Horizon World, has struggled to attract players so far. At Meta, the project has been jokingly called MMH (make Mark happy), employees told the New York Times.
However, we should neither dismiss the company Meta nor the Metaverse as a concept. Even if these investments turn out badly in the short term, it does not have to exclude technology from being successful in the longer term. The dot-com bubble around the turn of the millennium did not stop the internet from changing the world, as several analysts have pointed out.
Enormous possibilities
There are, therefore, good reasons to consider how the metaverse operates now and what ways it could be used in the future. Let's, therefore, take a closer look at the four sectors representing the examples from the beginning of this article: entertainment, manufacturing, governance, and retail.
Let's start with entertainment.
Considering the great interest in metaverse concerts, it is no wild guess that this trend should grow even after the coronavirus pandemic. For example, the MTV Video Music Awards have already added a Best Metaverse Performance prize.
Theme parks are another obvious candidate for the metaverse. In 2005, the physical amusement park Astro World in Houston closed down. But now the park will be resurrected, and visitors will once again be able to ride their roller coasters – only in the metaverse.
From there, it is not far-fetched to say that other historical environments could also be recreated. For example, through virtual reality, some companies already allow visitors to see ancient Rome.
Regarding manufacturing and the metaverse, it is not unlikely that more companies will create virtual replicas of their factories in order to make production more efficient. They could also be used during the ongoing construction of a building to discuss solutions and optimise the process.
A consumer buying a car can test the car first in the metaverse, for example, to try different gadgets and, in that way, get the car properly equipped from the start. In addition, the metaverse can be used to train employees more efficiently and safely. The airline JetBlue uses this for training its technicians. An advantage of such preparation is that mistakes in the virtual world do not have real-world consequences, as the Association for Advancing Automation writes.
If we look at the public sector and politics, they have a long way to go.
"You're always going to get these outlier cities who want to be seen as leading edge, but many cities are just beginning to embrace social media; they have pretty bad websites", says Jonathan Reichental, former CIO for the City of Palo Alto, to Cities Today.
But Seoul is not alone in the metaverse. Barbados announced that it would open an embassy in the virtual world of Decentraland, although it is unclear exactly what this entails.
Political campaigns have moved from the streets and squares to social media in just a few decades. It would not be illogical if political campaigns' next move were into the metaverse. People may use their avatars to spread political messages in different virtual worlds. We have already begun to see glimpses of such a future. Already around 2007-2008, several politicians, including Barack Obama, set up campaign offices in the virtual world of Second Life. However, this was not an exclusively successful endeavor – the Democratic presidential nominee John Edwards had his office in Second Life attacked and plastered with Marxist/Leninist slogans.
There is more. In combination with smart contracts, blockchain could be used to create an e-voting system, enabling virtual worlds within the metaverse to be governed by direct democracy.
Looking at the fourth example from our introduction – retail – we can see several trends that should prove to be good growth opportunities. In a decade or so, it may be as obvious for retailers to have a virtual store that customers can experience in 3D as it is today to conduct sales on the website. Another possible development is for retail in the virtual and physical worlds to increasingly merge. Several famous manufacturers have started selling clothes in the metaverse – but trends can also emerge from the virtual world into the physical world, like a popular hat from the online game platform Roblox appearing on store shelves.
These are just a few examples of metaverse uses that are already or could soon be underway, not to mention how the metaverse could make education more fun, offer new financial services, personalise healthcare, enhance teamwork and collaboration and more.
The possibilities for innovations are boundless.
But not all of these will be realised. For the metaverse to become the next big thing, companies, consumers, developers, and organisations need the freedom to experiment with different technologies and applications.
Politicians should not interfere with creative pursuits or those things which entrepreneurs do better on their own; they do need to create much-needed laws protecting users in the metaverse.
There is no reason to be naive and believe that the crime and problems we see on the internet today will not also be mirrored in the metaverse. Both new and old problems will exist there, too. What if someone murders another person's avatar, which the person in question has used and identified with for years, for example? Could popular virtual worlds turn into monopoly markets? There are many issues for the EU to address when the Commission presents its initiative on virtual worlds in 2023. Otherwise, technology will move faster than legislation.
If we are alert to the risks, there are great opportunities in the metaverse.
Elias Rosell is an Earth Scientist who is working as a journalist. He often writes about environmental and energy issues. He now works as a political editor at Norrtelje Tidning and has previously worked as a research coordinator at the European Liberal Forum.
DISCLAIMER: Published by the European Liberal Forum. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the European Liberal Forum.


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Who's Irrational Now? The Same People That Always Were
A reader sent me this article in the Wall Street Journal (a Murdock production) about a study which gathered data confirming something I considered a given: that fundamentalist Christians believe in nonreligious paranormal events (Atlantis, the Loch Ness monster, ghosts) less so than do nonreligious people.
The Gallup Organization, under contract to Baylor's Institute for Studies of Religion, asked American adults a series of questions to gauge credulity. Do dreams foretell the future? Did ancient advanced civilizations such as Atlantis exist? Can places be haunted? Is it possible to communicate with the dead? Will creatures like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster someday be discovered by science?
The answers were added up to create an index of belief in occult and the paranormal. While 31% of people who never worship expressed strong belief in these things, only 8% of people who attend a house of worship more than once a week did.
Even among Christians, there were disparities. While 36% of those belonging to the United Church of Christ, Sen. Barack Obama's former denomination, expressed strong beliefs in the paranormal, only 14% of those belonging to the Assemblies of God, Sarah Palin's former denomination, did. In fact, the more traditional and evangelical the respondent, the less likely he was to believe in, for instance, the possibility of communicating with people who are dead.
This is not a new finding.
Indeed, it isn't. I recall reading the same study they reference years ago:
This is not a new finding. In his 1983 book "The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener," skeptic and science writer Martin Gardner cited the decline of traditional religious belief among the better educated as one of the causes for an increase in pseudoscience, cults and superstition. He referenced a 1980 study published in the magazine Skeptical Inquirer that showed irreligious college students to be by far the most likely to embrace paranormal beliefs, while born-again Christian college students were the least likely.
Of course they are, and the reason should be obvious. The more fundamentalist the Christian, the more binary their view of the world: something is either consistent with the teachings of Jesus Christ as written in the Holy Gospel of the Bible, or it isn't. Those things that aren't are rejected. Naturally, this is going to lead to the rejection of practically any other viewpoint or epistemology, the good and the bad, science and nonreligious pseudoscience alike. You'd get the same exact results polling a guy with brain damage who could say nothing but "no".
Oh, except for all that baseless nonsense about talking burning bushes, a virgin giving birth, and dead people coming back to life after being dead for days. Somehow those ideas, and the intellectual mess that comes with it are given a pass from being labeled "superstitious" because, well, just because. So the study tells us that people immersed in an exclusionary belief system reject other belief systems. Color me amazed.
Instead of recognizing this, Murdock's writer Mollie Ziegler Hemingway decides it somehow validates criticizing atheism through an attack on Bill Maher. Maher supposedly said the following:
"You can't be a rational person six days of the week and put on a suit and make rational decisions and go to work and, on one day of the week, go to a building and think you're drinking the blood of a 2,000-year-old space god"
Cute, and on point with regard to putting people following irrational belief systems in positions of power where their decisions will be influenced by said irrationality. But sadly, generally, his statement is wrong. How nice it would be if the world were that simple. However the same creationist that would be a nightmare as a biologist might do just fine as a carpenter or mathematician, where his religion and reality would rarely conflict. Compartmentalization is the norm in humanity, not the exception.
So it is with Bill Maher, who holds his share of goofy beliefs, mainly having to do with medicine (he's a Big Pharma conspiracy guy as well as a supporter of PETA). He does OK with science until it gets near that subject, and then he gets goofy, just like anyone with a hole of irrationality in their cognitive processes. It doesn't make him any less astute an observer of religious irrationality. In similar vein, a believer in a risen Jesus may have no trouble seeing Maher's medical irrationalities for what they are.
Ms. Hemingway hopes her readers won't notice this inherent contradiction in her argument, which is why, as so many do on the right these days (a la Coulter), she doesn't make it explicit. She's trying to give religion points in the "who is more rational" wars by implicating Maher as an irrational person. But the only way to do that is to claim that his one set of irrational views brands him entirely irrational on all others, which is exactly what Maher is wrong about. If Maher's PETA support merits the irrational badge, then so does your support of Jesus, Ms. Hemingway. If you can compartmentalize (which is obvious), then so can Maher. You can't have it both ways.
Oh, and Maher doesn't claim to base his entire life and view of reality on his pharmacrap the way you claim to with the Bible. So that sort of gives him a leg up on you, as it does for everyone who believes in bigfoot (fight over Michael Medved if you must), and similar cognitively isolated views. As long as the people who believe in Atlantis and martian abductions don't start thinking their beliefs can save them from death, while all others will burn in torment for all eternity, they're still more rational than you are. One doesn't have to be perfect to be superior.
Posted by ScienceAvenger at 3:10 PM
Hector said...
"...believe in nonreligious paranormal events (Atlantis, the Loch Ness monster, ghosts) less so than do nonreligious people. "
Only the last one of that list is paranormal. The other two are more mythical.
"The more fundamentalist the Christian, the more binary their view of the world: something is either consistent with the teachings of Jesus Christ as written in the Holy Gospel of the Bible, or it isn't. Those things that aren't are rejected."
I disagree with your analysis. Several items you and the article listed are ACCEPTABLE (ie, not "consistent" or "inconsistent") to a fundamentalist. Examples: Lochness monster, Bigfoot, Atlantis, communicating with the dead (remember the witch of Endor?), dreams foretelling the future (remember the story of Pharaoh?) And yet, according to the research, more atheists believe in these things than fundies. So, what you call "obvious," obviously isn't
ScienceAvenger said...
Hector,
It's obvious if you understand how fundamentalists view the world. All is permissible through Yahweh (which covers all your counterexamples), yet can be considered evil or impossible by other means. It matters not whether the issue is paranormal or mythical, or whether someone else considers it acceptable. All that matters is whether THEY consider it consistent with their religious views, and if it isn't, its gone. They aren't rejecting evolution or any of their other traditional hot issues per a rational analysis of the avalable evidence, so where's the basis for assuming they do so with Nessie?
All you are pointing out is that they are inconsistent in how they do this, which is true, but old news.
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The study compared people who often go to church and those who rarely go to church. It said nothing about atheists.
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It's hard to talk about the Christmas story without mentioning the city of Jesus' birth – Bethlehem.
I find it very fitting that Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Not only was it prophesied to be the place of Messiah's birth, but it also completes a biblical narrative that began back in Genesis. It is of interest to note that the name "Bethlehem" literally means in Hebrew "the house of bread." I say this is fitting that Jesus is born in the house of bread because certainly, Jesus offers us the bread of life. He is the spiritual manna which saves us from our spiritual hunger and sustains us along our spiritual journey. His body was beaten and broken and offered as a sacrifice for our sins. And Jesus, who is himself born in the house of bread, offers his body, which is the new spiritual house of God, as broken for us. He symbolizes this profound reality with the Lord's Supper and bread that is broken and given to his people. As we partake of communion and celebrate the broken body of Jesus, who was born in Bethlehem the house of bread, let us not forget Jesus, in his sacrifice on the cross, has become the true house of bread. He is the true and better Bethlehem, house of bread, and if anyone eats from him, he will never hunger again.


John Raymond Holsopple, age 87, of Versailles, passed away Wednesday morning, September 23, 2015, at the Good Shepherd Care Center in Versailles. He was born July 24, 1928, in Morgan County, a son of the late Lewis and Anna (Shantz) Holsopple.
John spent many years working with his family's farming operation. He attended the Mt. Zion and Cornerstone churches and most recently the Bethel Mennonite Church.
He enjoyed putting together puzzles and picking walnuts in the fall.
John is survived by many cousins and friends. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his brother, Walter W. Holsopple and his sister, Clara A. Holsopple.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Monday, September 28th, at the Bethel Mennonite Church with Pastor Dave Zapf officiating. Graveside services and interment will follow in the Mt. Zion Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m., Monday, at the church. Memorial contributions are suggested to the Mt. Zion Cemetery Association.
Mary Ida (Driver) Wenger, age 87, of Versailles, passed away Wednesday, August 19, 2015, at her home. She was born April 27, 1928, in Rockingham County, Virginia, a daughter of the late Wayne and Sophie (Swope) Driver.
On April 25, 1948, in Harrisonburg, Virginia, she was united in marriage to Norman Wenger, who preceded her in death on June 6, 2006.
Mary was a former member of the Mt. Zion/Cornerstone Church, where she taught Sunday school for many years. Later, she attended the Bethel Mennonite Church.
Mary was employed by various local establishments, including Lehman's Restaurant for twenty years, Barncraft, Save-A-Lot grocery store and was a cook at Morgan County R-II school for many years. She served as GMSA club leader for several years, was a youth sponsor with her husband, Norman, worked with YWAM for many years, was secretary for Lakeside Mennonite Camp, served as vice-president for WMSC of the South Central Conference of the Mennonite Church, worked in the prison ministry for many years and took part in mission outreach at the Coffee School. In her spare time, she enjoyed gardening, baking and quilting.
She is survived by her daughter, Joyce Ulrich of Dayton, Virginia; her foster son, James Pryor and wife Kathy of Elm Springs, Arkansas; three grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; brothers, Willard Driver and wife Betty of Bridgewater, Virginia and Lewis Driver of Franklin, West Virginia; sisters, Florence Heatwole and husband Nelson of Onego, West Virginia, Hannah Burkholder of Harrisonburg, Virginia, Ruth Kauffman of Portland, Oregon and Beulah Francis "Bootsie" Kenegy and husband Carroll of Portland, Oregon; several nieces, nephews and friends. In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by her brothers, Dan Driver, Roy Driver and John Driver.
A celebration of Mary's life will be held at 11:00 a.m., Monday, August 24th, at the Bethel Mennonite Church with Pastor Dave Zapf officiating. A private family graveside service will follow in the Mt. Zion Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m., Monday, at the church. Memorial contributions are suggested to the Mt. Zion Cemetery Association or Women in Mission Society at Bethel Mennonite Church.
Ruth Elizabeth Aeschbacher, age 100, of Jefferson City, formerly of the Versailles and Laurie area, passed away Saturday, March 28, 2015, at Adams Street Place in Jefferson City. She was born on July 10, 1914, the daughter of Thomas and Alpha Lehman, who preceded her in death.
On December 3, 1939, on the family farm near Versailles, she was married to Herbert Aeschbacher, who preceded her in death on April 5, 2000.
Ruth was an active member of the Bethel Mennonite Church near Fortuna and for many years graced the altar every Sunday morning with a beautiful bouquet of roses from her rose garden. She was also an active member of the Women's Missionary Society sewing many comforter and quilt tops. She was an avid quilter and also enjoyed gardening. She was an excellent cook and enjoyed cooking and spending time with her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She lived on the family farm near Versailles until 1978, when she and her husband sold the farm and moved to Laurie to be close to her eldest daughter Myrna and son-in-law Dave Sherman.
She is survived by one daughter, Elaine Ernst and her husband Don of California, Missouri; four grandsons, Mark (Melaine) Sherman of Laurie, Kirby (Angel) Ernst of Holts Summit, Missouri, Jay (Lisa) Ernst of New Bloomfield, Missouri and Scott Sherman of Kansas City, Missouri; six great-grandchildren, Madisen Sherman, Connor, Max, Macee, Alisa and Delainey Ernst and several nephews and nieces. In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by her eldest daughter, Myrna Sherman and son-in-law, Dave Sherman and two brothers, Tilman Lehman and Eldon Lehman.
A visitation will be held at the Bethel Mennonite Church near Fortuna on Saturday, April 4, 2015, from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. A celebration of Ruth's life will be held at 11:00 a.m., with graveside services and interment to follow in the Bethel Mennonite Church Cemetery. Those desiring may make contributions to Bethel Mennonite Church or Adams Street Activity Fund.


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Did Previous Prosecutor Sabotage Tamir Rice Grand Jury? New Prosecutor Backs NAACP Request for Grand Jury Transcripts
Serving White Supremacy System. Prosecutor Acting Like a Defense Attorney for White Cops who Murder. What is white collective power? [Racist Suspect Timothy McGinty in video. Look at the Black probot in video to his left - a stage prop].
From [HERE] Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O'Malley supports plans to ask a judge to release portions of transcripts from the grand jury proceedings that led to no criminal charges against the officers involved in the death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice.
O'Malley told cleveland.com during an editorial board interview Thursday that he would back a petition by the Cleveland branch of the NAACP for the release of statements his predecessor, Timothy J. McGinty, made in December 2015 just before recommending that a grand jury not charge Timothy Loehmann or Frank Garmback. McGinty is white.
Advocates and lawyers representing the Rice family beleived that McGinty had a "pro-police bias" and did not want to prosecute the white cops.
On December 28, McGinty reported that the grand jury had decided not to indict Loehmann or Garmback, saying, "Given this perfect storm of human error, mistakes, and communications by all involved that day, the evidence did not indicate criminal conduct by police." The announcement prompted Rice's mother to release a statement accusing McGinty of mishandling the investigation, stating in part, "Prosecutor McGinty deliberately sabotaged the case, never advocating for my son, and acting instead like the police officers' defense attorney." [MORE]
Three expert witnesses who testified before the grand jury criticized the prosecutors behavior during the grand jury. Roger Clark, a retired LASD officer with expertise in police shootings, said that prosecutors at the hearing treated him with hostility and "disdain" for concluding that Loehmann and Garmback had acted recklessly; he also described the prosecutors' as using theatrics, like none he'd ever seen in previous grand jury proceedings, which he believed were intended to lead the grand jurors to the conclusion that the prosecutors wanted them to reach. Jeffrey Noble, another retired police officer and expert in use-of-force cases (who had himself used deadly force on the job), said he was attacked by prosecutors for saying that the officers never should have escalated the situation by rushing Rice, adding, "I've definitely never seen two prosecutors play defense attorney so well." And Jesse Wobrock, a biomechanics expert hired by the Rice family's lawyers, also described the prosecutors as "acting in a way like they were defense attorneys for the cops," and as having attacked him professionally for his testimony regarding the timing and significance of body movements by Loehmann and Rice, as seen on video footage of the shooting. (A spokesman for McGinty's office said the three experts were only presenting "one side" of the story, but he could not elaborate because prosecutors are bound by grand jury secrecy laws.) [MORE]
The petition, according to the NAACP, would also seek the grand jury's decision, but would not ask for the testimony of any witnesses.
"We have not taken it to a judge yet, but it's in the firing," O'Malley said.
The move could offer a rare glimpse into the secretive proceedings of grand juries in what is one of Cuyahoga County's most high-profile and controversial cases. It would also mark a reversal of McGinty's stance on the transcripts.
The NAACP's motion would go before Judge Nancy R. McDonnell, the judge assigned to oversee the grand jury that handled the case. O'Malley said that he would likely file a brief in support of the NAACP's request in the coming weeks. Cleveland NAACP co-president Michael Nelson said in a phone interview that the organization could file its petition as early as Friday.
Nelson said he is not looking for what either of the officers or any of six independent experts that were hired by prosecutors and attorneys for the boy's family told the grand jury.
Instead, Nelson wants to know exactly what McGinty or his lawyers told the grand jury at the end of the presentation of the evidence, and what the grand jury decided. The organization voted in January 2016 to petition for the transcripts, but Nelson said it was never filed.
The release of the transcripts would put to bed lingering suspicious on whether McGinty actually asked the grand jury to take a vote, Nelson said.
McGinty's office said in a January 2016 statement in response to a Cleveland Scene article that the grand jury voted that the shooting was objectionably reasonable, and was therefore never asked to vote on specific criminal charges.
Tamir had an airsoft pellet gun with its orange tip removed when Loehmann shot him Nov. 22, 2014 outside Cudell Recreation Center. Loehmann opened fire less than two seconds after Garmback drove their police cruiser within feet of a gazebo where Tamir had been standing.
A Cuyahoga County Probate Court judge in November approved a $6 million settlement between the city and the boy's family. The settlement is likely the largest the city has ever paid for a police-shooting case.
O'Malley stressed that his office does not plan to revisit the case unless new evidence comes to light. He is still working on an agreement with the Ohio Attorney General's Office to relinquish control of prosecuting fatal police-involved shootings in Cuyahoga County. If new evidence in Tamir's shooting turned up, he would ask for a special prosecutor to take over, O'Malley said.
O'Malley's support does not guarantee the documents will be released. Then-Prosecutor Bill Mason petitioned for the release of grand jury transcripts in the early 2000s after a grand jury investigation into sexual abuse allegations within the Cleveland Catholic Diocese turned up charges against a handful of priests out of more than 150 that were investigated. A judge found Mason could not prove that "special circumstances" existed that would warrant the release of the transcripts and no material was released.
McGinty's release before the grand jury's vote of three expert reports that concluded the shooting was objectively reasonable, written statements from the police officers and allowing the officers to testify before the grand jury and not cross-examine them stoked public debate over McGinty's handling of the process.
Limiting the request only to the the prosecutors' final statements to the grand jury would be "inadequate," Subodh Chandra, an attorney for who represented the Rice family in a wrongful death lawsuit against the city, said.
"It won't thoroughly demonstrate the one-sided nature of the proceedings conducted by the prosecutors in this case," Chandra said.
O'Malley defeated McGinty in the March Democratic primary. He campaigned against McGinty's handling of the case and pledged to support the NAACP's petition. He carried large majorities of Cleveland's black voting precincts.
The city in a hastily organized news conference on Friday announced that Loehmann and Garmback would face internal discipline for violating department policy after an internal investigation that dragged on for more than a year.
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Unlawful Dismissal and What You Should Know
Unlawful Dismissal and What You…
Though the concept of unfair dismissal or unlawful termination is not new in Malaysia, there have been numerous misconceptions about it. Though there has been increased awareness about the rights of employees in Malaysia, many still remain unclear. Below are several salient points on the matter.
Limitation period
From the time of dismissal, an employee has 60 days to file a complaint of unfair dismissal under Section 20 of the Industrial Relations Act 1967. As for those dismissed with notice, they are free to file the complaint any time during the notice period, but not later than 60 days from the expiry of his notice. If for any reason, the complaint is not filed within the limitation period, the complaint will be barred. If this happens, the complainant may look at other avenues in the civil courts. However, the damages and remedies awarded may differ.
Cases are not heard immediately at the Industrial Court
Anyone who wants to lodge a complaint on unfair dismissal must firstly do so at the Industrial Relations Department (IRD). Following this, the IRD will get both parties, the employer and employee to attend a reconciliation meeting with the hope of amicably settling the dispute. However, if there is no positive outcome, the IRD can then refer the matter to the Industrial Court. At times, it could take more than a year for a claim to be referred to the Industrial Court. This all depends on the number of backlog cases. Also, there is no guarantee the claim will be referred and those who are unhappy with the IRD's decision can apply for judicial review at the High Court.
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IRD meeting not a court hearing
The IRD officer does not have any power to decide on the merits of the complaint during the conciliation meeting. It must be remembered that the IRD meeting is not a court hearing and the IRD will not make any ruling or decision as to whether the dismissal is unfair. The purpose of the IRD meeting is to get parties to reach an amicable settlement. Section 54 of the Industrial Relations Act 1967 provides that no evidence shall be given of any conciliation meeting other than a written statement agreed to and signed by the parties. Parties should feel comfortable to discuss matters freely during the conciliation meeting.
Industrial Court fixes remedies
If it is found that an employee was unfairly dismissed, the Industrial Court will award either reinstatement and back dated wages or back dated wages and compensation in lieu of reinstatement. Back dated wages are meant to cover the period between the termination date and the award of the Industrial Court. However, they are capped at 24 months (confirmed employees) and 12 months (probationers). Compensation in lieu of reinstatement is usually awarded at the rate of 1 month for every year of service, but this is not a fixed formula and is still subject to the discretion of the Court. Any other monetary sum is also subject to discretionary deduction by the Court.The court will take into account various mitigation factors such as conduct of the employee and post-dismissal earnings. The monetary award given is meant to cover all losses relating to the termination, and employees cannot claim for additional damages for things like loss of future earnings, loss of reputation, or mental and emotional stress.
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All Industrial Court awards are public record
The public can access all Industrial Court awards through their website (mp.gov.my). Both employers and employees should be mindful that issues relating to the termination and all evidence adduced thereto may be easily accessible by third parties. They must remember that any unfavourable decision reached could be damaging to both the employee and the employer. This could be in terms of future job prospects or reputation in the market. With this in mind, both sides must weigh this against other relevant factors when determining whether an out of court settlement will be more beneficial. An out of court settlement is better as it is more confidential and if requested, the terms of the settlement will not be recorded in a Court award.
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$("#text_a").html('<textarea name = "text">".$text_user."</textarea>');

And if I put in textarea text with new line i get this error:
unterminated string literal

I get an error with this text:
First line...
Second line ...

A: Assuming that this is actually a PHP question, I normally use json_encode() to generate JavaScript strings. E.g.:
// Prints: var myString = "Hello\nWorld";
var myString = <?php echo json_encode("Hello\nWorld"); ?>;

Back into JavaScript, you probably want to avoid HTML injection and XSS attacks:
var myTextarea = $('<textarea name="text"></textarea>').text(<?php echo json_encode($text_user); ?>);
$("#text_a").html(myTextarea);

Addendum
A little test case that illustrates the need of proper escaping:
<?php

$text_user = '</textarea>Google><textarea>';

?><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

A: You are mixing PHP with javascript. Could be something like:
var text_user = "<?= nl2br(htmlentities($text_user)) ?>";
$("#text_a").html('<textarea name = "text">'+text_user+'</textarea>');

Concatenation operator in ecmascript is "+", not "." like in PHP.

A: You can't have line breaks in the middle of a string, you either need:
$("#text_a").html('<textarea name="text">First line...\
Second line ...</textarea>');

Or better in my opinion, escape your newlines, like this:
$("#text_a").html('<textarea name="text">First line...\nSecond line ...</textarea>');

There are a few encoding options, for example:
$("#text_a").html('<textarea name = "text">".json_encode($text_user)."</textarea>');


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Researchers from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Romania recently published a study in Romanian Journal of Morphology and Embryology showing a connection between acute respiratory infection and inflammatory infiltration of the placenta.
Two specific cases were noted because the same acute respiratory illness was responsible for both fetal deaths. One woman was four months pregnant and the other term. The first mother suffered a septic abortion and the second suffered fetal death in the womb associated with pneumopathy. Neither of the women adhered to medical advice and refused treatment as prescribed by the attending physician.
Acute respiratory infections in pregnant women may increase the risk of spontaneous abortion or fetal death. Larger studies are needed to reinforce the findings, though 90 placentas were studied with acute inflammatory infiltration found in some placental samples.
Source: Sandu C, Folescu R, Pop E, Motoc AG. Hematogenous placental infection in acute respiratory infections. Rom J Morphol Embryol. 2013;54(1):157-61.


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This dad lost 92 pounds after he couldn't keep up with his kids on a hike
Published by Farah R. | Positive Outlooks
You can't deny that people who share their weight loss photos also inspire others to follow their weight loss journey. And this dad did just that!
Among the top reasons for weight gain are poor diet, lack of exercise, and health-related issues. We've all gone through these things at one point in our lives, however, some people linger in it for too long, causing them to end up overweight.
As we all know, being heavy has a lot of physical, mental, and emotional disadvantages. It can make a person feel weaker and less confident about themselves. But, there comes a time when an overweight person decides that enough is enough, and for this dad who was 292 pounds heavy, the prime motivating factor for him to lose weight was his children.
It all began after Jeremiah Peterson, 40, went hiking on a mountain lake with his three kids. Throughout the whole excursion, the father found himself constantly having to catch his breath and take breaks way before his 9, 7, and 6-year old children.
"Instead of remembering all the good memories we had made on this trip all I can remember is this one thing that kept playing in my head over and over again," Jeremiah wrote on his Instagram. "I found myself running out of breath and having to take breaks way before my 9, 7, and 6-year-old kids."
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Jeremiah's weight loss journey was far from easy. He put himself on a strict keto diet and ditched the carbs after discovering that he had an intolerance to gluten. He also followed an exercise regimen that involved two hours of hiking and one hour in the gym every single day.
He shared: "My transformation happened so fast because I did the workout program every day without any time off, which helped cut the fat so quickly. While I'm spending up to three hours exercising, a hike doesn't really feel like working out, before I would go home and drink beer to de-stress, but now hiking relaxes me in the same way. Going out in the mountains has made exercising so much better for me, I definitely couldn't have gone to the gym in the morning, then back at noon and the evening."
He wakes up at 5 in the morning to start his daily walk and is in bed by 10 pm. He says that with his new lifestyle, he feels more energized than ever.
Jeremiah after sharing his weight loss photos, believes that his poor diet choices are what led to his weight gain. He said: "The from drinking two beers a night and on the weekend having sugary desserts, carbs and processed foods my weight kept adding up."
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Obamacare numbers down for a second straight month in NM
March 18, 2014 Rob Port
IN NEED OF A SURGE: The number of people signing up for individual policies through Obamacare in New Mexico is still lagging, especially among young people.
By Rob Nikolewski │ New Mexico Watchdog
SANTA FE, N.M. — As the March 31 deadline for open enrollment bears down, the number of people in New Mexico signing up for individual policies under the Affordable Care Act fell for the second consecutive month.
Between Feb. 2 and March 1, 3,392 people in New Mexico enrolled, compared to 3,932 people who signed up the month before, a drop of 13.7 percent. The previous month saw a 41.8 percent decline when compared to December.
But Debra Hammer,spokeswoman for the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange, remains upbeat.
"We're seeing with this deadline coming up of March 31 — obviously, there was a big surge at the end of December — and we're expecting the same thing as people wait for the last two weeks," Hammer told New Mexico Watchdog. "We're seeing our website hits go up and our call center volume is at an all-time high."
Through March 1, 15,012 New Mexicans have signed up for individual policies:
The original goal when the NMHIX launched this past fall was to sign up 80,000 people across the state, but that was adjusted down to 50,000 after the infamous computer glitches that accompanied the rollout of the health-care law.
To get to 50,000 by the end of March would require an incredible surge — nearly 35,000 sign-ups in a month.
"We would like as many people as we can by March 31, obviously," Hammer said. "I think there is some realistic expectation that we're putting our projections based on how many people are eligible for the exchange. My understanding was that our goal was always to get 50,000 by the end of 2014."
Another concern about the latest data, compiled by the U.S. Health and Human Services Department, is the number of people between 18 and 34 signing up in New Mexico is stuck at 20 percent.
Without the so-called "young invincibles," the ACA won't be financially viable in the long run.
Nationally, it was hoped that up to 40 percent of the people signing up would be younger than 35, but the HHS numbers across the country are at 25 percent thus far, and the numbers in New Mexico are 5 percent lower.
In the past two months, NMHIX has been running an advertising campaign aimed at young people. But the New Mexico numbers show the largest segment of the population signing up individual policies is between the ages of 55 and 64 — 36 percent — and the second-largest segment is between 45 and 54.
"We are a little below the national average," Hammer said, "but we know that younger people can be procrastinators sometimes, so we're hoping more people sign up in the last two weeks … I feel we are going in the right direction."
NMHIX has budgeted $6 million to $7 million for an ad campaign and, since January, part of the ad blitz has been aimed at luring younger consumers to buy individual policies.
So what happens if people who don't already have health care refuse to sign up? Hammer said a penalty — $95 or 1 percent of a person's gross adjusted income, whichever is larger — would be enforced when people file their tax returns.
As for sign-ups by gender and the percentage of those signing up with federal subsidies, New Mexico's numbers closely track the national percentages:
President Obama has delayed implementation of certain aspects of the ACA. But, as of Monday, administration officials said there are no plans to delay the March 31 deadline for open enrollment. If eligible people fail to sign up by the end of the month they will have to wait until mid-November to sign up for individual policies.
Contact Rob Nikolewski at rnikolewski@watchdog.org and follow him on Twitter @robnikolewski
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BioWare Ends Anthem NEXT Project
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An Anthem Update on the BioWare Blog announces that the efforts to save Anthem revealed a year ago will cease, and they are no longer working on the Anthem NEXT update to resurrect the multiplayer action/RPG. They do say the current version of Anthem will remain available. This means the report Bloomberg from a couple of weeks ago turned out to be accurate in predicting the company was in the process of deciding the game's fate. BioWare's Christian Dailey explains that the stress of working remotely during COVID-19 factored into the decision to give up on the game. He says BioWare's focus going forward will be the next Dragon Age and Mass Effect games while continuing support Star Wars: The Old Republic:
In the spirit of transparency and closure we wanted to share that we've made the difficult decision to stop our new development work on Anthem (aka Anthem NEXT). We will, however, continue to keep the Anthem live service running as it exists today.
Since Anthem's launch, the team has been working hard to continually improve the game, releasing multiple updates that brought with them a variety of improvements and introduced new content to play. Towards the end of 2019 we expanded on that effort and started working on a more fundamental restructure of the game.
During the development we've provided updates revealing some of the team's work through blog posts and conversations with you on social media and it's been inspiring for us to see the positive reactions and feedback. I've been incredibly proud of the work the team has been doing, and excited to see and play each new build of the experience.
2020 was a year unlike any other however and while we continue to make progress against all our game projects at BioWare, working from home during the pandemic has had an impact on our productivity and not everything we had planned as a studio before COVID-19 can be accomplished without putting undue stress on our teams.
I know this will be disappointing to the community of Anthem players who have been excited to see the improvements we've been working on. It's also disappointing for the team who were doing brilliant work. And for me personally, Anthem is what brought me to BioWare, and the last two years have been some of the most challenging and rewarding experiences of my career.
Game development is hard. Decisions like these are not easy. Moving forward, we need to laser focus our efforts as a studio and strengthen the next Dragon Age, and Mass Effect titles while continuing to provide quality updates to Star Wars: The Old Republic.
To the Anthem community, thank you for your passion and creativity. Your feedback and suggestions most certainly help shape the team's direction, and on a personal note, your kindness and encouragement were much needed last year.
Please stay safe and be kind to each other. Strong alone, stronger together.
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I called this a Games as a Service (GAAS).
You called an MMO a GAAS and want some kind of investigatory credit or something?
That's what MMOs or online only games are basically by definition.
I never called MMOs a GAAS product.
"What is NOT a GAAS:
- World of Warcraft isn't a GAAS because vanilla WOW launched as a complete feature product where a player could experience the entire game from start to finish (up to level 60)."
Well you are 100% wrong on that one...
MMOs are the quintessential example of games as a service. Perhaps you should look it up.
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Is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi hiding in Baghuz? Where does ISIS go now?
An SDF militant searching an ISIS militant near Baghuz, Syria. Photo @ReutersWorld by @RodiSad
By Elijah J. Magnier: @ejmalrai
President Donald Trump will not be able to declare victory over ISIS in the next days because there are still between 1000 to 1500 militants and Emirs in Baghuz, a city bordering the Euphrates river. It is obvious these militants are not ready to surrender but most likely will fight to death, unless a deal is made – as happened before in Jarablus, Raqqah and Dabiq – to transfer them to another location. There are strong indications suggesting the presence of top leadership individuals in Baghuz, including Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Following a deal reached between ISIS and the US forces in Baghuz, the Kurdish forces engaged in a battle against ISIS in the area allowed civilians, ISIS families, wounded and ISIS fighters willing to surrender to leave the surrounded city.
According to a high ranking Iraqi official in the military Intelligence services, "there are strong indications ISIS top ranking leaders are in the city, probably including Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi".
The source relies on intelligence information collected from Iraqis in Baghuz collaborating with Iraqi intelligence services. According to the source, "there is a serious shortage of food and medicine in Baghuz forcing ISIS leadership to reduce the burden by asking civilians and families of militants to leave. The 1000 or 1500 militants remaining in the city can survive longer rationing what is left and are ready to fight to the death. Fighters get used to bombing and ISIS has enough experience in tunnel digging and the setup of underground shelters for command and control leadership and fighters to wait out an infantry assault".
The exit of civilians offers more freedom for artillery and air force bombing because it reduces civilian casualties. The departure of all civilians will be achieved in the next several days. Then, the assault against the city will resume.
The source reports that ISIS leader al-Baghdadi has not made any audio broadcasts since August last year. If he were outside the city, he would likely be sending supportive messages to encourage those among his men who have decided to fight and hold ground until death. If he is killed, wounded or incapable of moving out of his hiding hole, he won't be send any messages. The same would apply if he is among those surrounded in the Syrian city of Baghuz.
Media claim US-Coalition forces have discovered beheaded Yazidi women at Baghuz outskirt that most probably were sex-slaves captured in Iraq. Such mass murders can only have been triggered by ISIS religious leadership who have given orders to burn and kill everything that could distract militants from fighting or in fear of seeing women they regard as theirs claimed by the enemy. During Jahiliyyah (the pre-Islamic Arabia days of ignorance-0), it is said that Arabs used to entomb their women alive (the word in Arabic is: wa'ed) before any war for fear of seeing their women captured by the enemy. Thus, the exit of militants' families gives more incentives for the ISIS fighters who remain in Baghuz to fight until death, making it possible for them to move between positions and stay with their groups without the need to check at home after every bombing.
ISIS families said to media "they were expecting the UN to look after them once they leave Baghuz. But these, on their exit from Baghuz, found Kurds fighters who looked after them and transferred them to Qamishli for scrutiny and interrogation.
Trump doesn't want to keep ISIS families and militants under the protection of his occupation forces. Those who fled from Baghuz number about 20,000. Iraq doesn't mind taking back its own nationals. The Iraqi tribunal is very busy dealing with ISIS members and their families; many have been condemned to death or to life in prison, depending on their involvement with ISIS and their crimes committed against the Iraqi people. Thousands of these are foreigners, from over 64 nationalities. ISIS has committed massive crimes against Iraqis and Syrians. For example, in the Speicher massacre 1700 Iraqi cadets were killed by local tribes who joined ISIS after the fall of Mosul. Another massacre was discovered in Raqqah, where over 3500 bodies were found. ISIS killed tens of thousands of Iraqis and Syrians over the last four years of its governance.
The Iraqi Intelligence Unit dedicated to eliminating ISIS is very active in Iraq. It has arrested top ISIS leaders in recent days and dismantled the ISIS financial network worth hundreds of millions of dollars. ISIS operates many businesses to keep the cash flowing so as to be ready to invest in another uprising when the opportunity arises.
The battle to defeat ISIS will come to an end when ISIS loses its last stronghold in Syria. It is true that the Iraqi Counterterrorism unit, the Iraqi Army, the Federal Police, the Iraqi intelligence service and al-Hashd al-Shaabi are today stronger than ever and on alert against the re-emergence of ISIS or splinter or similar new groups. The time between 2010 and 2014 when the various security services were relaxed and disorganised is over and that the society that offered shelter to ISIS is no longer compact and ready to fall into the same trap again.
Nevertheless, Iraqi Intelligence services have noticed that most ISIS arrested or killed were directed towards the northern city of Mosul, where the first upraising started in 2014 and where all Sunni groups – not only ISIS – expelled Iraqi government forces. Mosul is home to the al-Had'ba' Mosque where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced his so-called Caliphate.
Even if Baghdadi is killed, the group will not cease to exist. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and then Abu Omar al-Baghdadi both led the group and were killed. Another leader will come forward even if the group needs some time to gather what remains of its leadership to elect a new leader, unless the same Baghdadi has already suggested a potential leader.
Baghdadi's demise in Baghuz will give Trump a victory he and his propaganda machine around him are expected to capitalise on even if he doesn't deserve it. ISIS held territory in the south of Syria, in Suweida, in Yarmouk, on the Lebanese-Syrian borders, in al-Qalamoun, in rural Hama, in Palmyra, in al-Badiya, in Deir-ezzour, al-bu Kamal, and along the west bank of the Euphrates. In all these areas, it was removed and defeated by the Syrian Army and its allies.
East of the Euphrates, ISIS was given a safe haven for years under the watchful eyes of US-coalition forces and with the consent of Abu Ivanka al-Amriki (also known as Donald Trump). To the east of the Euphrates, the Kurds offered thousands of martyrs to clear the area of ISIS fighters. The victory over ISIS cannot be said to belong to the US establishment that played only a small role in fighting ISIS in Syria.
But is ISIS defeated? ISIS women coming out of Baghuz are now speaking publicly; it is striking to notice how proud these women are, emerging from ISIS last stronghold more defiant than ever, publicly using the same language they would use within the Caliphate. The ISIS slogan "Baqiya" (remaining) is present at their lips and their faith in the eventual victory of their men is robust. They still uphold the ideology of ISIS, an ideology that won't die with Baghdadi but can be expected to persist for years to come.
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Best B2B Social Media Campaigns to Inspire Your Own in 2020 (examples from Hubspot, Shopify, and more)
Here are ten examples of B2B social media campaigns to inspire your own.
It's more important than ever for B2B brands and companies to leverage the power of social media in 2020.
Doing so can help achieve crucial goals such as driving conversions, building leads, and increasing brand awareness.
This isn't just wishful thinking. 75% of B2B customers use social media to make purchasing decisions.
This means that B2B social media campaigns really help knock goals out of the ballpark — when done right.
That's why we gathered a list of ten brands that took social media to the bank, to show you what great B2B social media campaigns look like.
Best B2B social media campaign examples for 2020
The campaigns we gathered include:
Bonus: See a dozen more B2B examples in our 2020 Guide to B2B Social Media Strategy. 🙌
Let's jump in.
1. HubSpot
HubSpot provides some of the most comprehensive resources for social media and digital marketing on the Internet — as well as a suite of products for inbound sales. So it should be no shock that they're also one of the best success stories for the power of B2B social media marketing.
CEO and co-founder of Hubspot, Brian Halligan, even says that digital marketing was more crucial in their early stages than sales were.
"[We got] the marketing going earlier than the sales," Halligan said in an interview for Hubspot Academy in 2016.
"Once you get that machine working and you're pretty sure you can stick a dollar in and get three or five dollars out, then you pour on the gas for sales and marketing and add to them quickly."
Their focus on providing excellent resources to their consumer directly via their digital marketing campaigns was groundbreaking. The result was explosive growth in sales from $255,000 in revenue in 2007 to $15.6 million in 2010 to earning $513 million in total yearly revenue for 2018.
One example of their great digital marketing campaigns was when Hubspot wanted to target marketers from small- to medium-sized businesses on LinkedIn. To do so, they created sponsored content to appear alongside their target audience's newsfeed. The initiative allowed them to both inform their clients as well as bring in new leads.
The results were 400% more leads with their target audience than other platforms. They were also able to gain instant insights on what was working and what they needed to tweak for their next campaign.
2. Drift
Drift is a "conversational marketing" platform. That means they use chatbots and customized marketing to help businesses connect with potential customers, gather leads, and convert sales. They want to become the "Amazon of B2B" and it's easy to see that happening. They're one of the most successful B2B brands in the tech industry, having raised $47 million in its first three years and another $60 million in 2018.
How did they do it? Simple: Transparent and creative marketing tactics.
For example, Drift doesn't have a transparency dashboard like other B2B companies that shares insights on revenue and employee work. Instead, they encourage their employees to regularly post about their work on social media — no matter what stage its in.
Another great example of their marketing savvy is their Soofa sign (a brand of electronic signs) campaign outside of Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta. Unlike most businesses, they didn't just create a flashy ad graphic and throw it up on the sign to hope it generates leads. Instead, they blasted their electronic sign campaign on LinkedIn in order to increase impressions and engagement.
The results by the numbers:
200,000+ impressions of the Soofa sign at Super Bowl LIII
700+ engagement
50+ users commenting on the post
All with a Soofa sign and a LinkedIn post.
Shopify is an e-commerce and point-of-sale platform for brands and businesses to make sales online. While they have a large catalogue of great content to help brands get started with their digital marketing needs, where Shopify really shines is with their video content library. The e-commerce platform has leveraged video marketing for enormous growth and lead generation.
A few numbers as of 2019:
17.9 million views on YouTube
200,000+ YouTube subscribers across 5 channels
Nearly 3.5 million followers on Facebook
Shopify has also integrated a multichannel approach to their video marketing, increasing their reach through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and Snapchat. They take an intentional approach to their video content too — providing informative and substantive video content to help inform their audience.
They also lean into a culture of experimentation when it comes to their social media marketing efforts. For example, they once tried to publish a video a day for three months on their Facebook page to see what would happen. While the output and workload was immense, it resulted in one of their most successful videos on Facebook with more than 1 million views.
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"It was a three-minute video of how to start a t-shirt store in under ten minutes," says Shopify's longtime videographer Matt Wiebe. "And it just killed it. We had so many people watching that video and signing up for the free trial."
4. Upwork
Upwork is a freelancing platform that connects businesses and brands with freelancers of all stripes (copywriters, graphic designers, illustrators, etc.). In 2018, they decided to get bold and cheeky with their "Hey World" marketing campaign. The premise was simple: Create marketing hyper-targeted to real life people.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson got offered help for his 2020 presidential campaign.
Elon Musk got offered help for a personal assistant.
Donald Trump got offered help for a social media strategist.
Using social media as well as traditional ad tactics like billboards and other physical ad placements, Upwork's "Hey World" campaigned reached millions by tapping into their target audience's love for pop culture. This resulted in a 10% increase of Fortune 500 companies using Upwork since the campaign launched.
5. Dropbox for Business
The cloud storage platform partnered with marketing agency Transmission in order to scale up their lead generation efforts, as well as focus on a new target audience (marketers) — and they had their work cut out for them. Marketing to marketers is notoriously difficult. Plus, they knew that marketers had limited knowledge of the benefits Dropbox for Business could provide for them.
However, through good audience research, they also discovered that marketing teams often attributed "personality clashes" and communication hiccups as reasons for project delays.
Dropbox created Marketing Dynamix, a personality assessment tool that helped marketers understand their team and how they can improve processes with the knowledge.
They then took this product and promoted it extensively on YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat. They relied on GIFs, videos, and graphics in order to create engagement and build awareness for the product.
The results were phenomenal:
29:1 return on investment (ROI)
2,207 marketing qualified leads (MQLs)
12 million impressions
36,000 engagements on Twitter alone
68,000 clicks
Transmission and Dropbox even won LinkedIn's 2018 Marketing Award for the "Best Lead Generation (Over 200 Employees)" category for their work.
6. IDA Ireland
IDA Ireland is an inward investment promotion agency. They're focused on bringing foreign investors to establish business in the European country. That's why they launched the "Ireland, Right Place Right Time" campaign.
The goals of the campaign:
Increase awareness of Ireland's investment boons such as lucrative policies and diverse range of talent
Promote IDA Ireland's offerings to investors including facilitating site visits and providing crucial data points on the country's markets
Boost their social media reach to connect with their target audience (foreign direct investors)
To do so, IDA Ireland leveraged LinkedIn ads to foster engagement with their audience and convert users into leads. LinkedIn employed a range of paid solutions to reach their audience across the platform, including Sponsored Content ads, Conversion Tracking with the LinkedIn Insight Tag, LinkedIn native Lead Gen Forms, and Dynamic Ads.
The results were fantastic. By the end of 2018, the agency saw a 25% increase in social media engagement, and a combined top-of-funnel reach of more than 800,000 prospects.
How about lower in the funnel? Well, the social media campaign directly led to 237 foreign direct investment decisions — not to mention the creation of more than 20,000 jobs. Now THAT'S a B2B social media win.
7. Cisco
It's a bird! No, it's a plane. Wait, it's … SuperSmart?
While Cisco's cyber-defense superhero probably won't be getting a Marvel movie soon, she's a great example of how a B2B brand can engage audiences while providing valuable information — all in a unique way.
Cisco's goal was simple: Teach their audience about the importance of cybersecurity. They could do something typical (e.g. create a blog post, infographic).
Instead, they made a graphic novel that helped show the importance of cybersecurity without being alarmist about it.
They also offered the graphic novel in six different languages. This allowed it to be more easily and widely shared on social media.
Can SuperSmart save the day again in our #security Graphic Novel? Follow her journey: https://t.co/G9EW7QiQub pic.twitter.com/KdaLJzKczJ
— Cisco (@Cisco) February 8, 2016
This is a great example of how a brand can push the boundaries of typical inbound marketing tactics. In doing so, Cisco created something unique that got users to share their material on social media — and bring in more leads as a result.
8. Airtable
Airtable is a cloud-based service that's changing the way people think about and use spreadsheets. The product allows users to collaborate, file, and organize everything in one convenient, aesthetically pleasing place.
It's no surprise then that their Instagram presence is just as clean and organized.
Airtable recognizes that prospects are more likely to see paid ads than organic posts. Their solution? They use their Instagram profile as a landing page. There are only 10 public posts, but their paid team actively runs ads with the Instagram placement.
When users see their ads and click through to their account, here's what they find:
What their feed lacks in quantity, it makes up in quality.
Additionally, their organic content reflects the same aesthetic as their paid ads. It's visually pleasant, cohesive, and cements their creative values in the customer's mind.
While Airtable keeps the focus on paid ads instead of organic posts, they do publish to Instagram Stories more frequently. They use this channel to share fun behind-the-scenes content about the staff.
In addition to humanizing the brand and connecting with audiences through frequent posting, Airtable also preserves the polished grid on their profile page.
Although Airtable hasn't shared any metrics relating to the success of their Instagram campaign, their other numbers speak for themselves. Airtable's CEO has disclosed that they've grown 400% in the last year alone and their valuation is $1.1 billion. They've also generated quite a bit of buzz in the press.
Move over, Excel.
9. QuickBooks
The accounting software for small businesses, developed and distributed by financial software powerhouse Intuit, is now in the third year of its "Backing You" campaign. Partnering with GIPHY and Danny Devito (yes, we're serious), the campaign highlights all the ways Quickbooks works to save small business owners money and time.
"Backing You" is a massive, multi-channel awareness effort that Quickbooks rolled out in two parts. The campaign won
First – the videos featuring Devito.
A 30-second anthem video plus several others that spotlight real small business owners launched as commercials online and on television. An additional mini-series called "Danny Teaches," made up of 15-second videos in which Devito demos the simplicity of the QuickBooks platform, completes the video component of the campaign.
Second – the GIFs.
Partnering with GIPHY, Quickbooks created a searchable library of GIFs, made specifically with their customers in mind – small business owners. Targeting business-related search terms and celebratory words and phrases, the partnership aims to further raise campaign awareness by reaching people who are already talking about the topic of small business solutions.
The Danny Devito GIFs, created when the first leg of the campaign launched, had already generated over 15 million views as of January 2019, when the GIPHY partnership was announced. Since then, they've added more GIFs and stickers, which have over 500 million views.
QuickBooks VP of Global Marketing, Dan McCarthy, explained the mission behind using GIFs as such an integral part of the campaign: "Given the popularity of communicating through GIFs, we wanted to bring a sense of community to the self-employed and small business community, which our new campaign with GIPHY provides."
Of course, you don't need the comedic stylings of Danny Devito to pull off a campaign like this. Star power and the novelty of GIFs are only part of the equation.
"Backing You" is a truly customer-centric campaign. It celebrates small business owners and offers solutions to their problems at the same time.
10. Shutterstock
The well-known stock photo site went viral with their Fyrestock video at the beginning of 2019. Racking up over 2 million views in the first week alone, the video parodies the promo video for the PR disaster that was Fyre Festival.
The kicker? They did it all with their own stock footage. Just over $2,000 worth of it, to be exact, earning Shutterstock the award for Best Limited Budget Campaign in The Drum's 2019 B2B Awards.
Of course, that was the whole point of the video. Leveraging the sensation surrounding Fyre Festival to go viral was just icing on the cake.
The Fyrestock video is part of Shutterstock's larger, global campaign "It's not stock, it's Shutterstock," the goal of which is to shift perception around stock imagery.
Through a series of promotional videos using other cultural touchstones like Game of Thrones and Stranger Things, the campaign aims to prove that content created with stock footage and imagery can be both low-budget and high-quality. The tongue-in-cheek nature of the videos adds to their entertainment value, making them both more memorable and more shareable.
Shutterstock incorporates the campaign across their website, too, presenting a consistent brand message: high-quality, low-cost, endless creative possibilities.
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Need help with your B2B social media campaign?
If you're getting started with your own B2B social media campaign, be sure to check out our articles on the topic below:
B2B Social Media Strategy: The Complete Guide & Best Tips for 2020
How to Set B2B Social Media Budgets (Formula + Examples)
6-Step Social Media Strategy Framework
If you're just getting started — or if you already have a few campaigns under your belt — we'd love to hear from you: Drop us a line if you have any questions or if you just want to show off that sweet campaign you ran. We might feature it in a future article.
What makes a successful B2B social media campaign?
A successful B2B social media campaign follows the same steps as setting an effective social media strategy. Consider the who, where, when, what, and how, starting with intentional business goals.
Set specific, measurable goals. What do you hope to accomplish? Awareness? Measure the additional reach, followers, and traffic. Leads? Measure the number of leads, conversion rate, and acquisition cost.
Clearly outline your target audiences. Who do you need to impact to hit your goals? Your social media campaign will perform stronger if your audience is more specific.
Develop a content strategy for each chosen social media channel. What type of media will you produce? What cadence? Make sure your content is funny, useful, beautiful, and/or inspiring.
Allocate paid promotion to amplify your content. Move beyond organic reach by boosting campaign posts to your target audience. Managing an event campaign? You can reach a conference audience by promoting tweets against the event hashtag.
Monitor and adjust throughout the campaign. After your campaign goes live, pay close attention to qualitative and quantitative metrics. From a qualitative standpoint, who is engaging with your content or filling out forms—are they qualified? What's the sentiment of post comments? Are people reacting positively, negatively, or neutral? From a quantitative standpoint, how do the KPIs each week look against the initial assumptions? Are the leading indicators like engagement and clickthrough rate pointing to a good outcome?
Josh Krakauer
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