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Hi Ebechukwu, It was my pleasure. There's a lot that goes to creating brand ambassadors; the obvious place to start being with a good product, seamless experience and impeccable customer service. On the marketing side, here are a few things you can do:- Encouraging user generated content and tapping into your customers creativity, remember to reward them!- Nurture your relationships with your customers and offer value at every point you come in contact with them, you can think of the kind of information you share on SM, or in your e-mail marketing campaigns, etc. P.S. people also like personalised messages- Ask for feedback and take the feedback - make them feel heard and like they are an active and useful part of your brand. - Create an online community
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Off shore wind energy in your context should refer to the use of winds blown from the land towards the water bodies. It is important to evaluate the amount of offshore wind energy we have available.
Every project is feasible depending on the necessity, emergency and cost of the projects. Offshore winds utilisation is not a profitable one for Africa.
Of course, offshore wind energy is set to grow. At the moment only about 1.7 Tera Watts are mobilised on an average using windmills. Wherever need be, the resources could be better utilized. It is not Africa's priority and shouldn't be.
What Africans could do is research and optimistic analysis of such a project, bringing it to lower scales could be better. For example, having a team of mechanical and electrical engineering students designing local windmills in localities to assist with increasing access to electricity (this is the end of point of wind energy utilisation).
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I think this is a bit dangerous. Attempting to ascertain sentimental correlations and apply them to huge financial decisions may work in certain contexts and you could definitely train a model with 99% training accuracy on this task, but future situations that are dependent on complex human action can never be adequately represented by a numerical parameterization and a finite state machine. If the model is not large enough, we will not learn all the possible combinations of interactions. If it is too large, then we only learn the context of our training dataset. That being said, you could do both and get good results during training. Personally, I do not have extensive NLP experience or Bayesian experience in production, but their fundamentals suggest that they would learn this type of model well independently or in conjunction. Naïve Bayes is good for state estimation-based decision making, and NLP can be used to model language and extract sentiment. However, these models depend completely on the input dataset that one utilizes, and the chosen labels (if using a supervised method) that are often subjective. Using data from the internet is also dangerous because it is next to impossible to have humans annotate every piece of training data without spending a large amount of money, and learning from problematic input data can lead to problematic situations.To make this less vague, take the 2016 example where Tay, a chatbot made by Microsoft and trained on Twitter data, became extremely racist in less than a day of online training (https://twitter.com/geraldmellor/status/712880710328139776). Attempting to determine causation in a data driven sense is a slippery slope, and until AI solves the data-driven generalization problem (which I believe may be never) I wouldn't build a system like this in production until I could guarantee significant human supervision and have looked at the ethical implications on those who do not financially benefit from the proposed system.
Ifueko Igbinedion
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A major decision for me was majoring in Computer Science, I always had an interest in biology and medicine but knew that CS could be leveraged to enhance these fields even further. Also choosing to focus on research vs. software engineering internships in undergrad really gave me a strong research foundation that helped me in my successful admission to PhD programs!As for advice, if you want to do a PhD, I would suggest you start looking into research opportunities or programs on campus as soon as possible or look into AI residency programs. It's hard to admit students into PhD programs without research experience and I find that many students put this off until later.
Chinasa T. Okolo
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The use or existence of renewable energy is not directly related to carbon emissions. Ghana had a 3.54% carbon footprint in 2016, while Africa's global compounded carbon footprint is expected to be 3.8% by 2021. This means that Africa's contribution to the total of 76% of CO2 emissions is extremely small.
Renewable energy sources are more of a convenience factor than a global concern. In remote villages, using a solar-paneled lamp at night is easier and safer than using a kerosene lamp. How much more expensive is kerosene today compared to 20 years ago?
Renewable energy will not be able to replace conventional energy. Take note that the amount of fossil fuels used to manufacture an electric car's battery is greater than the amount used to drive 60 (average fuel consumption) cars over a 100km road.
For a family, having a well dug within their property is safer and easier than having the kids run to the streams at night out of a rampant fear of watercraft. Renewable energy sources play an important role.
How many years do we need to wait for geothermal sources?
Is electricity, by the way, not derived from a renewable source? Dams are used to generate electricity from naturally flowing streams that are fed by an inland flow of water.
The more living things die, the more biomass there is. Renewables will always be a question, as old as recycling and as new as 7th generation electric vehicles.
I am ready to learn more from you.
Loic Bethel Dje
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Collaborations are a beautiful way to cut across someone else’s following or clientele. She might want to look into that, Instagram ads also work in getting attention, that will mean she has great content already to draw people in enough to make enquires and pay for her service.We often take word of mouth for granted, its still a very effective way of getting clients and its best when its from a client who has tried your product or paid for your services. Always offer get service so your customers can be your town criers. You can ask they please put in word for you in their circles as well.
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Hello Boma, Another great thing about digital, it's all in the the data. You're able to see instantly if people are engaging with your posts, or are taking the required action you need. It's not always about the target audience though, it can be your content strategy that needs to be changed. Unless your product or the market change significantly, I don't think there is ever a reason to completely change your audience as that is often tied to the kind of product you are providing, most times you are looking at a more focused segment of the audience as oppose to a complete change - for example, I started off targeting black women for my makeup line, but now I have a new product that will make your eyes pop and look bigger, so whilst I am marketing generally to black women, I want to further target black women who have small eyes. Unless you reached the wrong target audience from the start, then you need a complete overhaul.
Toyin Jolapamo
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Hello David, I'm glad you did. Social media marketing isn't better for one type of business, it may be easier for B2Cs because you have a physical product or service to sell, however in terms of value being created, I don't think anyone is better.
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