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The World Economic Forum Names Hearsay Social CEO and Founder Clara Shih to the Young Global Leaders Class of 2013

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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) March 12, 2013

Hearsay Social, provider of the worlds most trusted social sales and marketing platform, announced today that its CEO and founder Clara Shih has been honored by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader (YGL). Joining her are William James Adams (aka will.i.am), the US singer and recording artist, whose i.am.angel Foundation transforms lives through education, inspiration, and opportunity; Chelsea Clinton, board member, Clinton Foundation and special correspondent for NBC News; and Nate Silver, the statistician who calculated Barack Obama had a 90% chance of winning the 2012 presidential election and crunched polling data to successfully predict the result in 50 out of 50 states. Past inductees into the Forum of Young Global Leaders include Salesforce.com CEO and founder Marc Benioff and Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

Ms. Shih was granted this prestigious honor for her industry leadership and innovation in transforming the way global companies do business on social media. Ms. Shih demonstrated this game-changing approach to social media in 2007, when she developed the first social business application, Faceforce, and subsequently authored the New York Times-featured bestseller, The Facebook Era, now used as a marketing textbook at Harvard Business School. She then founded Hearsay Social, the worlds most trusted social sales and marketing platform, empowering large companies to build stronger customer relationships, grow revenue, and bolster their brands across social networks.

Drawn from a pool of several thousand candidates, the 2013 YGLs were chosen by a committee, chaired by H.M. Queen Rania Al Abdullah of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The selection was based on the proven track record of the individual, his or her leadership experience, ability to overcome adversity, and commitment to society.

The Forum of Young Global Leaders provides a unique effort to engage the younger generation into the management of global affairs, working together and being integrated into the larger Forum community. The Young Global Leaders have an exceptional opportunity to improve the state of the world, Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum.

Recognition by the World Economic Forum is a humbling experience for me, said Ms. Shih. I believe in the transformative power of technology and am passionate about how social media will transform business-to-customer relationships worldwide. It is an honor to have the opportunity to share this passion with other leaders from around the world.

About Hearsay Social

The worlds largest companies, including Northwestern Mutual, Thrivent Financial, Farmers Insurance Group, and 24 Hour Fitness, use Hearsay Socials award-winning technology platform to achieve regulatory compliance, build stronger customer relationships, and bolster their brand across all the major social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, and foursquare. Hearsay Social, a SIFMA strategic partner, has raised $ 21M from Sequoia Capital, NEA, and top executives from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, and YouTube, and is headquartered in Silicon Valley with dedicated local presences in New York, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, Austin, and London.

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Obama and Romney: America’s Waiting For Plan To Rebuild Middle Class

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Hawthorne, CA (PRWEB) October 31, 2012

With the election a week away polls are showing that President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney are locked in a close race – a precise dead heat at 49-49 percent, according to the latest ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll (Oct. 25-28, 2012) from a random national sample of 1,259 voters. The biggest question in this presidential election has been which candidate can do the best job fixing the ailing national economy. College students are wondering which candidate has the best plan to save and rebuild the middle class. “I am really concerned about finding a good job after graduation and want to hear more about Obama’s and Romney’s job plans”, explains Mario Palma, a freshman at El Camino College. Some students have joined together and created their own jobs plan that both presidential candidates can use called SaveOurWorkforce.

Neither candidate President Barack Obama nor challenger Mitt Romney has addressed how they will discourage companies from outsourcing, according to college students. Ross Mazzolini, a sophomore at Texas Tech University explains, “A shrinking middle class affects young people the most and for several months students across the country have been working on a national jobs plan. We created a powerful solution that both candidates can support at SaveOurWorkforce.org.” He says the root cause of the shrinking middle class is that large companies making record profits have no incentive to keep jobs in America since outsourcing – sending jobs, goods and services outside of the United States – is invisible to the consumer. This ‘invisible outsourcing’ is the leading cause of the high levels of unemployment and can be solved by making it visible using newly available social networking tools with SaveOurWorkforce. The organization’s goal is to gives large companies incentive to keep jobs in America by providing a tool for consumers to easily monitor, encourage, and reward businesses that provide jobs to American families.

SaveOurWorkforce is made up of high school and college clubs that track and report the U.S. workforce size of the largest corporations in America and provide there database to the public free of charge on their website. The website tool Before-You-Buy, Verify” empowers consumers to direct their purchases towards companies that support the U.S. Workforce the most.