Sentence examples for consumer organizing from inspiring English sources

Kelley, the longtime leader of the National Consumers League, was a path-breaker in conducting social and statistical research to expose workplace abuses and in developing strategies -- such as factory inspections and consumer organizing - - to pressure state legislatures and Congress to improve working conditions. 5. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935).

This question was posed to me not by a despotic ruler in the Middle East but by the highly-respected CEO of a multinational company who was worried about the prospect of his employees or consumers organizing against him, thereby rendering him powerless.

[C3.] Google Buys Photo Technology Firm Google said that it had acquired Picasa, which makes technology to help consumers organize and display photos online.

As shopping swings into gear for the holidays, a new service called Slice aims to help consumers organize and track their purchases electronically.

Google Inc., the Internet search engine, said yesterday that it had acquired Picasa Inc., which makes technology to help consumers organize and display photos online.

Hooray for brand communities those groups of ardent consumers organized around a brand's lifestyle (think Harley-Davidson devotees and Playstation gamers).

Central to the company's turnaround, and to its subsequent success, was Harley's commitment to building a brand community: a group of ardent consumers organized around the lifestyle, activities, and ethos of the brand.

KeepIdeas helps consumers organize and collaborate on decisions in the cloud.

Payment technology solution provider First Data has acquired mobile gift card platform Gyft, a previous TechCrunch Disrupt battlefield company which offers a mobile app that lets consumers organize, shop for and send gift cards to others.

More eloquently than any professional media scholar, the journalist Evan Eisenberg made people see--in his book, The Recording Angel--that among the uses of sound recording, convenience is only the most obvious. 1 In a chapter titled "Ceremonies of a Solitary," for instance, Eisenberg details how recording media help consumers organize individualized rituals tailored to their schedules.

Online health records is a rapidly growing segment of the health 2.0 world Google Health, Microsoft's HealthVault, WebMD, Aetna's SmartSource (via a partnership with Healthline), and Revolution Health (now part of Waterfront Media), are just a few of the many online platforms that let consumers organize their health records online in a secure portal.