Marketing para San Valentín #infografia #infographic #marketing #socialmedia

Hola: Una infografía sobre Marketing para San Valentín. Vía Un saludo



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Cómo debe ser un profesor 2.0 #infografia #infographic #socialmedia #education

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Brave Florists Pioneer Valentine’s Day Deliveries By Tractor, Drone

By gosh, it is florists’ sacred mission to get their blooms into the hands of their customers this Valentine’s Day, come hell or high snow. We heard about two pioneering petal-pushers who tried innovative new ways to get flowers out this week. One plan succeeded, but the other failed due to government intervention.

FlowerDeliveryExpress.com had tested its flower-delivery drone and was ready to introduce it on V-Day. They even put out promotional photos and made this video showing how it works, in case the concept of “a drone brings you flowers” wasn’t clear.

What is clear is that commercial applications for civilian drones aren’t legal yet, so the FAA stepped in and plucked the store’s plans to use them for flower delivery. Other businesses forced to stay in the prototype phase aimed to use unmanned aircraft to deliver beer and burritos.

It’s a great idea for times when roads are impassable, but the government just doesn’t have the regulations down yet.

Meanwhile, down in North Carolina, one florist decided to use a tricked-out love tractor to make deliveries in downtown Lexington. Outlying areas got their flowers by old-fashioned van, but the shop owner’s 11-year-old son drove the tractor to make deliveries in town. “We’re not letting anything stop us. We’re getting our flowers out one way or another,” the owner said proudly.

<a href="http://ift.tt/1eXJ1YR; target=”_blank”>Lexington florist delivering flowers by tractor [WGHP]

Local florist tests delivery by drone [Crain's Detroit]

by Laura Northrup via Consumerist

Former Pizza Hut And KFC Buildings Never Escape Their Roots

If this great nation has a massive supply of anything, it’s abandoned chain restaurant buildings. Fortunately, ingenious business owners find new uses for them, turning fast-food joints into ethnic restaurants and … well, pretty much anything with four walls into a payday loan place or a pawn shop.

We love finding collections of these, and one of our Flickr pool contributors, SchuminWeb, added a fab collection of them this week.

Enterprise Rent-A-Car – photo by SchuminWeb

They can shear off the roof, but this will always be a former Pizza Hut at heart. It’s all in the trapezoidal windows.

(Schuminweb)

This former KFC makes an adorable cupola-laden payday loan joint.

(SchuminWeb)

(SchuminWeb)

With a pretty paint job, this KFC in Virginia found new life as a Japanese steak house.

(SchuminWeb)

This auto loan store once housed a 7-Eleven.

(Used to be a Pizza Hut)

That reminded us of this post over on UTBAPH: Pizza Huts make fine, distinctive-looking pawn shops, too.

PREVIOUSLY:

What Happens To Pizza Huts When They Are No Longer Pizza Huts?

by Laura Northrup via Consumerist

Datos sobre la automoción en España #infografia #infographic

Hola: Una infografía con datos sobre la automoción en España. Un saludo



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Cómo eliminar la clausura suelo de tu hipoteca #infografia #infographic

Hola: Una infografía sobre cómo eliminar la clausura suelo de tu hipoteca. Vía Un saludo



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Cómo usan Twitter las asociaciones de pacientes #infografia #infographic #socialmedia #health

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Military Researchers Nearing The “Holy Grail” Of Ready-To-Eat Meals: Pizza

(me and the sysop)

The next time you’re staring down a cheesy, hot, delicious piece of pizza right, remind yourself to be thankful how easy you’ve got it. Not everyone has access to pizza wherever they are, including the U.S. military. But thanks to a stalwart team of researchers bent on bringing pizza to soldiers, that could change in the near future.

Scientists have been listening to the masses, who are clamoring for pizza as one of their options for meals ready to eat, or MREs, reports the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. These lightweight, individual field rations have been around since 1981 and are eaten by soldiers in combat zones or other places where a kitchen is impossible.

Pizza is known as the Holy Grail of MREs, and now researchers in a Massachusetts military lab say they’re closing on just the right formulation. No refrigeration or freezing required.

“You can basically take the pizza, leave it on the counter, packaged, for three years and it’d still be edible,” said a food scientist at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center.

Pizza is high on the list of requested items when soldiers are asked every year what they’d like to eat, she adds. She’s spent almost two years developing the recipe to oblige those requests.

It’s a tall order — moisture in tomato sauce, cheese and toppings end up sinking into the dough over time, making it gross and soggy and prime for bacteria.

Recent research has helped scientists figure out how to keep that from happening, partly by using ingredients called humectants — like sugar, salt and syrups — that bind to water and keep it out of the dough..

The real question is, how does it taste? The head of the taste lab says so far the latest prototype batch of pepperoni isn’t half bad.

“It pretty much tastes just like a typical pan pizza that you would make at home and take out of the oven or the toaster oven,” she said. “The only thing missing from that experience would be it’s not hot when you eat it. It’s room temperature.”

Still, even room temperature pizza is better than no pizza at all, am I right, or am I right? I’m right.

You can follow MBQ on Twitter where she will most definitely talk about pizza: @marybethquirk

Military food researchers say they’re near the holy grail: MRE pizza that lasts 3 years [Minneapolis Star-Tribune]

by Mary Beth Quirk via Consumerist

Groupon Offers Special Presidents Day Deal Featuring Former “President” Alexander Hamilton

(Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie)

Either Groupon is transcending the boundaries of ironic humor by pretending not to know that Alexander Hamilton — the handsomest face on all U.S. currency, in my humble opinion (#cheekbones) — or the company really thinks the first Secretary of the Treasury was a prez: It’s touting a deal that “features President Alexander Hamilton — undeniably one of our greatest presidents.”

On the one hand, Groupon often goes for the batty kind of humor that’s been part of its company’s email deals since the beginning. But this press release just seems so earnest that we can’t help but think maybe someone at the company needs a refresher course in U.S. history via a quick web search:

President Hamilton is best known for the fiscal sensibilities that led him to author economic policies, establish a national bank and control taxes. Customers can honor our money-minded commander-in-chief and find deals by searching Groupon.com for local deals all through President’s Day weekend.

And it gets even better! Through the magic of Twitter we came across an apparent reply from Groupon addressing the apparent confusion (thanks, Chris!):

My friend wrote to @Groupon to say that Alexander Hamilton was never president. Their spokesperson responded: http://t.co/FXalOn3tEF—

Chris Moody (@Chris_Moody) February 14, 2014

Ah yes, “opinions.” Those are exactly like historical facts. Marketing.

If this isn’t a “crazy like a fox” stunt to get us to write about Groupon, then we’re seriously concerned. And so should you be — it’s probably not the best idea to give your banking information to someone who thinks Hamilton was a president.

Also:

You can follow MBQ on Twitter if you like hearing how hot she thinks Alexander Hamilton is every time she gets a $10 bill in change: @marybethquirk

by Mary Beth Quirk via Consumerist

Aerolíneas y Big Data #infografia #infographic #tourism

Hola: Una infografía sobre Aerolíneas y Big Data. Un saludo



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