Melissa Thompson

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Melissa Thompson writes about a wide range of topics, revealing interesting things we didn't know before. She is a freelance USA Today producer, and a Technorati contributor.

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Social Media Mistakes Charitable Organizations are Still Making

Every business needs to be on social media, and that includes nonprofits. The goals and techniques may be different, but they still need to...

Finding Healthy Ways to Relieve Stress

Stress takes a huge toll on the body. Not only mentally but emotionally as well. For people who go through prolonged periods stress, it...

The truth about starting a home based business

Starting a business from home can be an ideal way to work around family commitments and a busy lifestyle. Not having to go out...

Are Tablets Ruining Our Toddlers’ Growth?

With the rise of the technological age, more and more children are becoming exposed to smartphones and tablets. With these devices becoming a prominent...

What’s the Secret to Managing Lower Back Pain?

Most people have experienced some degree of lower back pain at least once in their lives. In fact, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders...

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The Debt Collector’s AI Voice Agent: How Synthetic-Voice Dunning Calls Are Colliding With Decades-Old Consumer Protection Rules

Most consumers assume the friendly voice on a collection call belongs to a person following a script. It is often a script following a person. A synthetic voice, cloned or generated by an AI agent, working a call list on behalf of a collect

The Black Box in the Crossover: What Vehicle Event Data Recorders Capture in the Seconds Before a Fatal Pedestrian Crash

A pedestrian killed by a crossover has, on average, about 20 seconds of the driver's inputs sitting inside the car that hit them. Throttle position. Brake pressure. Steering angle. Whether the seat belt was buckled and whether stability con

When the CFO Leaves: How Growing Companies Keep the Books on Track

Most owners assume a CFO exit is mainly an HR headache. Post the job, run the search, backfill the seat. The seat is the easy part. What breaks first is the reporting cadence: the month-end close nobody owns, the covenant calculation that u

Frontline Supervisors Are Sinking Your Safety Program. Here’s the Fix

A single recordable injury can cost an employer tens of thousands of dollars before the lost-productivity ripple even begins, and most of those incidents trace back to a decision a frontline supervisor made, missed, or waved through, rather than to anything the safety director or the C-suite did or failed to do. The shift lead, […]
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