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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Annika Bansal – Entrepreneurs Need To Learn To Soar

TD Jakes is scheduled to receive the 2018 Xcel Award for Black Entrepreneurship this September, for his new motivational book, "SOAR." According to entrepreneur...

HealthyYOU Vending Supports Better Nutrition in Schools

The U.S. has made great progress in delivering healthier food options to our nation's school children over the past decade, with the passage of...

Skype 8.0 Launches on Desktops with HD Video

Microsoft's Skype 8.0 has launched on desktop nearly a year after the video-call platform's redesign was met with mixed reviews. The company is moving...

Estes Park Shuttle Van involved in Fatal I-25 Crash being Sued

In June, a fatal crash occurred on Interstate 25 south of Fort Collins, Colorado. The crash involved a van from a Larimer County shuttle...

4 Essentials for Building an In-House Video Team

Video is no longer an option when it comes to content marketing. With over 86% of online marketers utilizing video as a form of...

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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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