Your Business and Social Media

By Doug

Dec

21

Facebook is by far one of the fastest growing sites on the web today.  And sites like Twitter and LinkedIn are not far behind.  But social media is not just for individuals looking to reconnect with old friends and make new ones, it is a great opportunity for businesses to advertise and increase their exposure.

An important part of maintaining a successful business in today’s modern society is building a strong online presence.  With millions of people globally that utilize social media on a daily basis, it is a great place to start and an important part of your overall online reputation management plan.

Advertising on popular social media sites may seem like an obvious way to start, and it can be a great way to draw business, but it is even more important and beneficial to create a business account.  By creating an account your customers can stay up-to-date about changes and make recommendations for your business.  They can also pass your pass your page along to their friends.  In addition this is a great way to advertise special sales and coupons.

Social media is a large part of everyday life for millions of people, as a result it should be a large part of your business’ overall online reputation management strategy.

Choosing Forensic Psychology

By Doug

Dec

19

Trying to pinpoint the type of person who is drawn to a career in psychology is probably a job for a psychology profiler. Understanding the qualities or character traits that lead one to want to help individuals or society as a whole by understanding and working with the human psyche is a job for experts with reams of data and years of experience.

It’s much easier to identify the skillsets and job interests that might draw someone to pursue a career in a specific branch of psychology . It is highly that those drawn to child psychology will have a different make up than those who study forensic psychology.

Looking at what is covered in forensic psychology courses is a good way to understand what makes a forensic psychologist. Coursework will prepare students to consult on trials, work in law enforcement and work with prisoners as well as at risk populations. It’s easy to see that these individuals have a desire to understand how criminal minds work or how to help victims. They may also want to help rehabilitate those who have been led astray. Many have a strong sense of justice and want to make sure that criminals are caught and punished, or at least locked away where they can do no further harm.

Why Get a Golf Degree?

By Doug

Dec

14

Since many people don’t even consider golf to be a real sport but rather a leisure activity, they would be greatly surprised to learn that people are entering colleges to earn golf degrees. what, they wonder, would be the purpose of such a degree and what is it doing being taught along with real subjects like business and law?

Golf has become a major industry both in the United States and around the world. In addition to countless courses, clubs, and tournaments, there is a supporting industry of manufacturers, instructors, and even journalists who focus on the game and its players. Those who obtain a golf degree are positioning themselves to play key roles in those organizations.

The actual degree being obtained is in golf management. It focuses on business and hospitality as well as the actual skills of the game. Students prepare to be professional players, coaches, course managers, tour directors and even sales managers. There are jobs available in marketing, accounting, human resources and sports journalism . Since most programs include an internship as part of the degree study, students get the opportunity to learn about management in real world situations that help them decide on their ultimate career path.

With jobs in golf continuing to grow, those with degrees will be ideally situated to fill those openings and combine a love of the game with the job of their dreams.

Spies Among Us in Washington D.C.

By Doug

Jul

2

In Washington D.C., the International Spy Museum is dedicated to espionage and provides a global perspective on an all-but-invisible profession that has shaped hisory and continues to have a significant impact with world events. Featuring the largest collection of international espionage artifacts ever displayed for the general public to see, some for the first time. Located at 800 F Street NW, next to a hotel Washington USA provides its visitors, you’ll be able walk to the museum and see artifacts that illuminate the work of famous spies and pivotal espionage actions.

You’ll get to bring to life the strategies and techniques by the men and women behind some of the most secretive espionage missions in the history of the world with
Operation Spy (OpSpy), which is not an exhibit but a live-action spy adventure. You don’t read about spies, you are the spy! You’ll have one hour to find a missing nuclear trigger, as you dive into an intense challenge combining live-action, themed environments, special effects, and hands-on activities such as cracking a safe, decoding messages and conducting a polygraph test of a suspect agent. This operation is for children ages 12 and up and is considered a separate experience at the International Spy Museum.

The International Spy Museum’s mission is to educate its visitors about espionage in a very engaging way, by providing context that fosters an understanding of espionages important role in and its impact on historic and current events. The Museum focuses on human intelligence and reveals the role spies have played throughout history. The presentations are nonbiased, apolitical and accurate. In addition there are several permanent exhibits such as the ‘Introduction to Espionage’, which is a ‘who-done-it’ exhibit featuring movies, film noir and literature that portray anything to do with spies, but you’ll leave with your preconceived ideas behind and you learn about the authentic tradecraft that has been used throughout time and around the world; with ‘The Secret History of History’, you’ll travel back through the centuries and get to trace the earliest moments of this profession; ‘School for Spies’, examines over 200 spy gadgets, weapons, bugs, cameras, vehicles and technologies; and in the ‘Spies Among Us’ exhibit, experience the storm clouds gathering as World War II draws near, and the fronts which concealed German and Russian spy rings operated right under our noses.

Hours are: 9am to 7pm and general admission is $18 for adults and $15 for children. Additional cost is added for OpSpy and other interactive activities, check website for details.

Fionn Downhill, A Featured Expert on Online Marketing Summit 23-City Tour, Speaking about Search Engine Optimization.

By Doug

Jun

1

Fionn Downhill is an experienced speaker and the CEO of SEO and online reputation management company Elixir Interactive. Fionn’s impressive presenter bio includes over 23 renowned search marketing events including Search Engine Strategies as well as the Online Marketing Summit (OMS) — which kicked-off its 23-City tour May 20th in Phoenix, Arizona.

OMS isn’t the typical summit. With its focus on education,speakers must adhere to strict guidelines aimed at closely limiting the self-promotion and advertising typically seen at many search marketing events.

Fionn Downhill’s presentation at OMS Phoenix this May offered interesting insight into digital asset optimization for search in 2010. To find out more about Fionn or other OMS speakers visit visit www.onlinemarketingsummit.com/speakers/

IPad is for the Consumption of Content

By Doug

May

9

There has been a lot of going ons about the IPad. Is it worth it? If you don’t have one yet, you may want to take a look at this video and find out some things about it. The main thing he likes to say about it in the video is that the IPad is for the Consumption of Content, not for the creation of it. You won’t want to write an essay on it, or even a blog post. You make up your own mind though.

Obama to Give Highschool Commencement Speach

By Doug

May

8

Obama is out there once again giving speeches. The biggest difference is that this time he is already president, although there are others. Last time his speeches were given at colleges, but this time it will be at a high school. This is not because he is moving down in the world, but because they won a contest in which the prize was him as their commencement speaker. This is part of his movement to show his support for exceptional schools and to provide support to those schools that need to improve.

South Korea Walks Fine Line on Sinking Ship

By Doug

May

6

With one of South Korea’s ships having been sank not very long ago, South Korea President, Mr. Lee must walk a fine line between kowtowing to his conservative base, and keeping the country stable enough that people still want to invest in the country. While he has a straight forward message about what they are going to do now, the situation is a little more complicated than it might seem on the surface.

Chopping Videos Are Hot

By Doug

Apr

29

Loving to cook is a good thing. Someone who can cook well is pretty much always appreciated. It looks it is also becoming a skill more and more people want to learn because as I was looking through some of the best videos on the web today I came across this one.


How To Use Your Guide Hand – The funniest videos clips are here

It has gotten a lot of hits, and is honestly a pretty good cooking video.

Ways to Use Video Conferencing in Classrooms

By Doug

Apr

25

As technology evolves, so too should education and what better way than to introduce technology into the classrooms both for the kids and for the teachers. There are a number of ways this can be done, but here is a list of five really good ones suggested by a young pioneer.

The Best Type of Writing for Films

By Doug

Apr

13

When movies changed from silent films to talkies, the whole style of writing also changed. It turns out that there is a very specific style of writing that is ideal for script writing in modern films, and there are a number of people who go to school for it under a different name. Here is the full story because she can put it much better than I can.

Leadership training saves lives

By Doug

Aug

27

The offshore oil and gas industry is notoriously dangerous, where death is an ever present danger for those out in the field.  However, changes and improvements in leadership training have helped to cut down on such deaths.  With executives at some of these companies getting the best training possible, workplace safety is slowly becoming better and better for their employees while still maintaining great levels of production.

Health and Safety Executive show how deaths and serious injury are very low today.  In this previous year in fact no deaths were reported in any offshore locations.  The year before that showed the same figures.  Such findings are becoming a common and positive thing.   As for injuries, they are very low at the moment, the lowest they been for about twenty years.  There were only thirty cases this year, which is even less than what Health and Safety discovered last year in their research.

The cause for all these excellent findings?  Altering how management back onshore comprehended the safety of their offshore employees says Health and Safety Executive Ian Whewell.  Because most senior level executive got promoted through positions in departments like marketing not in engineering or other fields associated with offshore practices, they did not fully understand what serious hazards were involved in the business of drilling and how important workplace safety is, especially for their company.  Because management leaders have received the proper business training and injury was reduced, and as a result, so did production and morale.

Though the training was simple in nature, it made a great improvement in comprehension for those leaders with no experience outside of the cubicle environment where it is difficult to imagine the tragedies that can happen in offshore drilling.  The effect of such training seminars were immediate and obviously successful, seeping down into all areas of the bsiness.

Finding my way around Cambridge

By Doug

Aug

7

I checked out of my room at the Cambridge Hotel because I found a little apartment. I’m a little bit more acquainted with the city and my new job, and it’s only been 3 weeks. I’ve learned that there’s a whole College System at Cambridge University which is unique to Cambridge and also for Oxford. So, I’ll do my best to explain this uniqueness the only way I know how which is complicated, so stay with me, hang in there. I promise it won’t hurt.

Cambridge was founded in the 13th century, the first college that is. This period was a dark time for all of Europe which wasn’t too concerned about the education process. As centuries passed, other Colleges were added and they pretty much functioned as a University. Outsourcing teaching by these other Colleges, yes outsourcing just isn’t some new idea, became the status quo for a new upcoming University in Cambridge. These Colleges rented lecture halls, rented the professors and their lectures from the University for their students. In other words, it’s the Universities which employees professors, which gives the exams and which hands out the diplomas. It’s the Colleges that are to take care of accommodations, student administration and tutoring.

Have I lost you yet? Stick with me here, okay? All Colleges offer the same subjects and they compete with each other for students. They have different ways of tutoring, different qualities of buildings and the biggest difference between them is fees. Like Trinity Collegex will lure rich students because it can afford to ‘rent’ very qualified and highly recommended professors to help tutor. They’ll even get renowned professors from around the world that will tutor only up to 5 students. Now, the other Colleges will target the less affluent, but brighter student. It’s kind of like, who is a better student? The rich and dumb or the poor and smart? That’s enough for one day’s lesson. Come back tomorrow, refreshed and ready to hear about Cambridge University.

Gender Specific Teaching Styles in Independent Schools in Northumberland and Throughout the World

By Doug

Jul

15

There are many differences to the way men and women view and interpret the world around them, and such is true obviously of boys and girls.  This has a strong impact in the classroom, and teachers and administrators in independent schools in Northumberland, the UK and throughout the world are addressing this fact more than ever.  Now that it is a scientific fact that the anatomy of such senses, sight, and hearing and emotional response to the environment are anatomically, biologically different, the worry that it is a social or politically incorrect move to have some class coed and some gender specific, the benefits will fall on the children.  Boys and girls eyes are constructed differently, boys go for movement and girls focus on what is still.  This affects the way that the teacher should move around the room, simple but true.  Another way they differ is in the way the aural structure of the ear is ‘built’.

When someone raises their voice, a girl student will tend to hear it as yelling, signifying that they, or someone else just got in trouble.  For boys, no.  The female ear hears at a higher frequency, and is thus more sound sensitive.  Those teaching girl pupils should remain calm, talking relatively lower on the sound scale, while with boys the more enthusiastic and even excited one becomes, one captures and holds their attention.  Girls will respond to phrases of descriptions, to presentations in color and detail oriented.  Boys are also more attentive if they are moving around, there nervous system is built such that by staying in motion the blood flow increases in their brains and, they remain focused.  Girls on the other hand, when girls feel certain movements as a confrontational situation or a threat, the blood goes to their bellies and they feel nervous, decreasing their focus.  Girls work best seated and calm.  Boys love to take risks, sometimes beyond their ability level, whereas girls will often pass on the risks, and therefore miss out on all that they can achieve.  Learning should be maximized, and gender specific classes seek to do just that.