This year’s holiday shopping season is shaping up to be fertile ground for augmented reality to show its worth, as both Walmart and Target have crafted immersive experiences designed to engage shoppers in the coming weeks.
ICYMI Walmart is planning to transform twelve of its locations into reimagined “Town Centers” to become places where people will want to come to experience entertainment, dine, workout and engage in other community activities.
HT @OverDriveLibs Imagine you were on Shark Tank and you could promise to get your product on shelves and in catalogs at 16,000 high-traffic locations in the U.S., train a national network of product experts to recommend and showcase your product, add it to thousands of online catalogs, and offer programs to train children to appreciate and love it? This is what libraries do! There is a new Panorama Project focused on researching and analyzing the impact of library holdings and activities on retail sales.
ICYMI: While the 160 million non-library card holders in the U.S. may have access to a physical library, many are too time-poor to visit. Enter the digital content distributor Overdrive’s Instant Digital Card program, which has registered nearly 65,000 new users in the last 15 months. Via @Forbes
RT @CBCBook We Need Diverse Books has released their Must-Reads of 2018! Check out which YA titles from Contemporary, Graphic Novel & Poetry, Anthology, Historical, & Sci-Fi/Fantasy categories made the list!@diversebooks
HT @pronounced_ing Surprise the book lover in your life with the ultimate holiday gift–a character in a favorite author’s next novel named in his or her honor. Participating New York Times bestselling authors include Elin Hilderbrand, Curtis Sittenfeld, Celeste Ng, Anna Quindlen, Jami Attenberg, Laura Lippman and Emma Straub.
Or bid on autographed titles from Rebecca Traister, Ayelet Waldman, Dave Eggers, Michael Chabon, Meg Wolitzer, Emily St. John Mandel, Kevin Kwan, Liane Moriarty, and David Levithan.
Proceeds benefit Immigrant Families Together, an all-volunteer group. We have bonded out 53 detained mothers so far, and gotten them transport to wherever in the country their children are being held. From there we provide legal assistance, medical care, housing, groceries, and other kinds of ongoing support. 100 percent of the funds raised by Immigrant Families Together go directly and immediately to the families we serve.
RT @fams2gether This holiday season, buy a gift that will make a difference. @ColorWOborders can be a source of empathy for families that live free of the struggles that migrant families are enduring.
HT @nycmedialab Do you have an idea to solve a global development problem? Submit an application to USAID’s open innovation program, which tests new ideas and expands proven solutions to any global development challenge. Application open to anyone, anywhere, any time
RT @magicleap Apply for Magic Leap’s Independent Creator Program by Dec. 15 — up to $500K grants plus hardware and support for indie developers and their spatial computing app ideas.
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