Facebook as a CRM Solution
Why?
Many businesses already advertise on Facebook and use marketing automation on Facebook. Why not extend this to a more complete CRM solution?
How?
One solution is to have facebook develop it, which would have better integration but would also be a much more closed system (no integration with external automation services.) Another would be a 3rd party solution using the Facebook API. In either case, Facebook would have to allow individually identified Facebook users to be “visible” to the CRM.
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How to Free Your Creative Mind
Why?
Constraints help you be creative. When you have no constraints it becomes hard to create. Creativity is an expression of your mind and if you have external stimuli it helps. Constraints can provide that stimulus. They force your mind to react to them and help you free your creative abilities.
How?
An app and website for helping you exercise creativity with constraints where you can get or do the following:
1. Get a set of constraints and a goal to achieve within those constraints. This can be algorithmic or human created.
2. Publish your achievement for a given set of a goal and it’s constraints.
3. Create goal and constraints “sets” for others to try.
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Help Your Kids Self-Regulate How Much TV They Watch
Why?
A few benefits come to mind:
1. They will watch less TV.
2. You’ll have fewer arguments and fights with them.
3. They’ll learn to self-regulate.
How?
Have a system – a piece of paper will do, but an app on all your phones is also a good idea – where you write down what is your point of view on what and how much weekly TV is ok. They will use this to record each and every time they watch TV how long and what did they watch. Every time they’ll see what’s your accepted “allowance” is. Each week you’ll sit together and review last week’s results.
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Practice You Part in a Play or an Audition When You Don’t Have Someone to Help You
Why?
You are preparing for you part in a play or an audition, and there is no one who can help you by reading you the lines.
How?
An app that reads the lines to you aloud, waits for you to say your lines, then continues reading lines to you until you stop the process or the end of the text is reached. If it’s a known text then you just have to choose who you are playing in the scene. If not, you can take a photo of the text, the app will do some OCR and let you choose your part. The app can also have an animated head articulating the words it’s reading to you.
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Detect and Remember When Something Important Happened
Why?
When something is happening to us, either good and exhilarating or bad and tragic, we don’t usually take notice of the exact time it happened for understandable reasons. We might want to know that in the future: when exactly did he ask my hand in marriage, when did I saw the man hit the tree etc.
How?
Many nowadays have smartphones on them most of the time. Smartphones can record many useful things: sudden movements, sounds, vibrations, and maybe even heartbeats. These can help pinpointing the exact time something surprising happened.
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