Restaurant turns to Twitter to publicly shame customers who fail to keep reservations
You might want to think again before failing to keep a restaurant reservation after one eatery decided enough was enough and began publicly shaming no-shows on Twitter. Noah Ellis, the managing partner at the Vietnamese restaurant Red Medicine, said those people who booked a table but then never honoured their reservation ‘ruin restaurants’. ‘The a******* […]
Evaluating Telecommuting over Flexi Working Hours
Recently I was asked about the latest trends in mobile working also known as telecommuting. Some of my reflections are inspired by the outrage from Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer banned telecommuting. In most cases people were ranting and raving that her move was a throw back to the stone age. In most of the online […]
Facebook and the disintegration of the human
Is Facebook a boon or cause for concern for the mental health industry? According to a New York Times article by Jan Hoffman referencing a study of the Facebook profiles of 200 university students in the United States, approximately 30 percent of the students “posted updates that met the American Psychiatric Association’s criteria for a symptom of depression, reporting feelings […]
Video game found to help the blind navigate buildings
(Reuters) – A video game that uses a computer-generated layout of a building can help to prepare the blind to navigate the venue in real life by improving their spatial awareness, researchers said on Wednesday. The game, based in a building at a center for the blind in Newton, Massachusetts, uses audio cues to help […]
How to Stop New Trend in Cyber Bullying
Gabriella Van Rij is an International activist and author she discusses the cyber bullying trend and gives advice to the victims, parents and school officials on beating the bullying epidemic and helping prevent future “bullicides.” Gabriella’s 3-Step Program to Halt Bullying: 1. Become an Active Witness: “Children normally do not report incidents of bullying because […]