Subtitled "texting in public", this app aims to get people hosting virtual chatrooms about any topic they like, encouraging visitors to contribute their thoughts and images.
What's unique about both Facebook and Google is the fact that both have a bottom-up, technically driven culture where they designate a specific amount of time for employees to work on projects they like, encouraging the engineers to take time to work creatively on new, non-initiative products that can spur creativity and new ideas or approaches that might not have otherwise been pursued.
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New data on maternal mortality looks like encouraging news but is hardly cause for celebration.
Washington too should consider additional steps like encouraging disinvestment by American companies.
To some, Mr. Jennings's efforts to combat bias sound like encouraging homosexuality.
Such campaigns seek to accomplish goals like encouraging the use of seat belts, discouraging driving while intoxicated or promoting tolerance.
While frustration was kept quiet before, it now sometimes results in inappropriate behavior at work, like encouraging colleagues to show dissent, she said.
The opposite of what I thought a personal trainer would be like: encouraging, motivating and realistic about what I can do with my schedule.
Being a self-sufficiency coordinator involved a maternal touch, like encouraging single mothers to continue their education, obtain prenatal care and find reliable child care.
"In cases like hers it's almost like encouraging a colleague rather than teaching a student," Ms. Robinson said in an interview.
