After all, Amazon's investment comes through its Alexa Fund, a pretty clear indication that it sees DefinedCrowd's services as a valuable resource for its massively popular smart assistant.
Seven mental health professionals identified service users as a valuable source of knowledge, seeing this input as a positive aspect of user involvement.
"They perform a valuable service as far as breast cancer screenings, cervical cancer screenings, parenting classes, many things that benefit our state that we're sorely in need of".
In essence, content providers and ISPs have the same goal: maximizing Internet consumption and making their services as valuable as possible.
The success of PatientsLikeMe will depend on how well the company can maintain the tension inherent in its offer patients receive a valuable, free service as long as they agree to give up a fair amount of personal information and privacy in return.
Described by media commentators as a major educational service and a valuable resource for researchers of politics and history, the C-SPAN Video Library has also had a major role in media and opposition research in several U.S. political campaigns.
Trusts can learn from how the best customer service businesses treat complaints – as a valuable source of intelligence on where to improve; as an opportunity to win back the customer's loyalty and as a means of genuinely apologising for any failures in service.
Service learning is recognized as a valuable pedagogy involving experiential learning, reflection, and reciprocal learning.
Amazon has invested in its Prime program continuously, adding feature after feature in an obvious bid to make the service appear as valuable as possible.
In the broader fight against protectionism and financial over-regulation in Europe, it relies on an informal alliance with another country that also has a big financial-services industry, as well as a valuable seat at the negotiating table: Britain.In any case, it is unlikely that Britain could get similar treatment.
