The Internet and all things digital have amplified what consumers are saying and doing about the things that make them happy and the things that make them mad.
We go in cycles like this, and right now a lot of people are saying, oh, America is doing terribly and this and that, and what are we going to do.
Of course, saying you are going to do something and actually doing it are two very different things and result in two very different outcomes.
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Another compared it to being a large party you have to be aware that a lot of people are paying attention to what you are saying and doing.
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Is it worth every European you speak to scratching his or her head and saying: why are we doing this?
People are already saying: 'People are dying and what are you doing?
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The real problem is every time we speak we are not just saying something with a particular form and meaning, we are also doing something with people.
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But saying it and doing it, and doing it believably are three vastly different things.
That means a lot of data too on what people are doing, sharing, saying and where they go to.
As for the housing market and what home prices are doing nationally right now, Clear Capital, Zillow and Case-Shiller are all saying generally the same thing, despite offering slightly conflicting home price numbers.
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But when it comes to the brand world, saying it, doing it, and doing it believably so customers are truly engaged are three entirely different things.
It is not enough to pay lip service to supporting the troops while saying and doing things that destroy their morale and embolden those they are fighting.
It is like the auditors for the supermarket chain, Tesco, doing the audits and saying, overall, the books are in order but they know there is shoplifting going on somewhere yet cannot say exactly where.
Many of you are probably saying Apple and others appear to be doing well at the expense of RIM and Nokia.
"It's simply not fair and not right what some of them are doing by saying, I've got lots of sales here in the UK but I'm going to pay a sort of royalty fee to another company that I own in another country that has some special tax dispensation, " he said.
Green MSP Patrick Harvie welcomed the announcement of the Climate Justice Fund and called for more details of the Climate Justice Fund to be brought forward, saying it "must be additional to what the UK and Scottish governments are currently doing on international development".
So I'm saying, they are trying to turn these companies around and now they are getting hit for doing it.
We need to go out there and do what a lot of states are doing right now, which is saying, let's get a certain percentage of our energy from clean energy sources.
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Thus, the USSS cautions anyone from saying that online criminals are doing X because it may only reflect the activities of a certain subset and not the whole.
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And Tamerlan Tsarnaev's widow, Katherine Russell, issued a statement through her attorney's office saying she is "doing everything she can to assist with the investigation" and said she and her family are shocked and devastated.
One minute you are doing an "and finally" about an elephant roaming around the Irish countryside after saying goodbye to the circus, next minute there is a major political crisis at Stormont.
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