Focused on the United States, this book summarizes the secondary impacts of COVID-19 due to the increased use of technology. Establishing the global response of social distancing, mandates for non-essential business, and working from home, the book centers on the disparate guidance provided domestically at the state and local levels. Marginalized populations are highlighted to identify areas where technology facilitated access and reach or contributed to difficulties catapulted by digital literacy or digital access issues. To explain how people may have been empowered or left behind due to a new and unique reliance on technology, this book is structured based on the social determinants of health domains. Specifically, this book explains how technology was an umbrella domain that impacted every aspect of life during the pandemic including access, use, adoption, digital literacy, and digital equity, as well as privacy and security concerns. Given this book’s focus on the impacts to marginalized populations, there is a thread throughout the book related to the use of technology to perpetuate hate, discrimination, racism, and xenophobic behaviors that emerged as a twin pandemic during COVID-19. Part I explains the defining differences between primary and secondary impacts, as well as the unique guidelines adopted in each state. Part II of the book is focused on specific domains, where each chapter is dedicated to topics including economic stability through employment, education, healthcare, and the social/community context through access to services. Part III focuses on unique technological considerations related to COVID-19, such as mobile health-related apps and privacy or security issues that may have posed barriers to the adoption and use of technology. Finally, the book ends with a conclusion chapter, which explicitly explains the advantages and disadvantages of technology adoption during COVID-19. These exposed benefits and challenges will have implications for policies, disaster management practices, and interdisciplinary research.

It's the new normal. Now all of your employees are Twittering away and friending clients on Facebook. Not to mention customers--who feel obligated to update your Wikipedia entry with product complaints. In this new world, dealing with empowered employees and customers --Insurgents -- is only going to get more challenging. Employees are using this technology in the workplace and customers are using it in the marketplace, and neither obey the rules you set up. This chaos is your future as a manager. You could try to shut it down and shut it off. Or you can harness it and reap the business benefits. According to Josh Bernoff and Ted Schadler of Forrester Research (the organization that brought you Groundswell), your defense against insurgents is to enable them. At its heart, this is a book about how to scale the management of insurgency, both the innovation of insurgent employees and the energy of insurgent customers. The key is a process Forrester calls E Triple S, for the four elements of managing insurgents effectively: empowering, selecting, scaling, and socializing. While it's based in current trends, the core concept of Managing Insurgents -- that the next management and innovation challenge is harnessing individuals empowered by mobile, social, and connected technology -- is a new idea. In the wake of Groundswell, dozens of social-technology-for-business books cropped up. And there are plenty of books on improving your customer service. But there's no serious business book about management, marketing, and innovation in the throes of this trend. When Insurgency hits, it will be perceived not just as a sequel to Groundswell but as the start of a new management philosophy.

Empowered: The Womans Guide to Following Your Heart is the story of one womans journey to her greatest purpose in life. It is a book that you can read cover to cover, or pick up and read for a single dose of inspiration for your day. It chronicles a journey, though each experience can serve as an individual beacon of light for you to reflect on as you follow your own heart. It is full of guiding truths that will help to show you the way, through the sunshine and through the rain. It is a book that will keep you company, it is a book to keep by your side, it is a book that you can depend upon. Empowered: The Womans Guide to Following Your Heart can be anything that you want it to be. Whatever it may be for you, may it always inspire you to believe in your journey, in your dreams, in your heart and in yourself.

Empowering, Inspiring, Motivating, and Decision-Making are only four words that describe this great book.It tells what to do to make a difference in another woman's life. A big part of helping women reach their goals and dreams. This book is changes women's lives. The women's empowerment movement is HUGE, so don't get left BEHIND

Are you looking for a deeper understanding of how to create healthy relationships from a spiritual perspective? Advice and help with transforming even the most tricky relationships? Empowering Relationships is filled with powerful, effective and easy to use tools and techniques that will help you gain a better understanding of relationships and yourself in the process. Author, Australian Guru Shakti Durga, aims to empowering you to end relationship issues through gaining the ability to create more peace and happiness in your life than you ever thought possible. Her teachings are based on her own life experience of two divorces and now a long-term, deeply loving marriage of 12 years. She has also taught thousands, through her courses and seminars, how to successfully change every form of relationship, from marriages to workplaces. While her approach melds together the spiritual with the practical, it is accessible to people of any faith or background. She provides a set of tools that she has tested herself and knows they work. She also provides clear advice and explanations of how our relationships are impacted by the spiritual laws that govern everything and are common to all faiths and religions: - Learn how to fix marriage and workplace relationship patterns created by old stuck beliefs, emotions and energy - Discover how our thoughts, how we manage emotions, our past lives, karma, early childhood experiences and our own self-worth affect every relationship in our life - Become empowered to change your life through the knowledge to heal yourself and your relationships This book is for those who want to start playing an active role in improving their lives. It's time to gain the knowledge and ability to create the life you have always wanted.

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Reimagining intersectional research, this book addresses the urgent need to develop gender-just solutions that empower those who are experiencing environmental degradation in their communities.

In today’s rapidly evolving world, educating young people about HIV/AIDS is not just a matter of health; it is a moral imperative that empowers youth to make informed decisions, protect themselves, and become advocates for their own well-being and that of their communities. This book, Empowering Youth: Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Awareness Education for Students, was born out of a growing recognition of the role that education plays in combating the HIV/AIDS pandemic. While medical advancements have transformed the treatment and management of HIV, prevention through education remains one of the most effective tools in reducing the spread of the virus, particularly among young people.