Explaining Value

Value is one of the most important elements that people look for in products, services, companies and, most commonly, other people. The thing with value is that it might not be as obvious as one would think. People often do not recognise value for what it is worth – it is more of a given than a gift. If you do not communicate your value to all who favours from it, you simply won’t be rewarded for it.
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MOOCs: Making Education a Responsibility Irrespective of Social Status

Any new technology replacing another is socially disruptive for better or for worse, more accurately, for better AND for worse. Free quality education, accessible by anyone anywhere is bound to have great social implications, especially since education has been so closely associated with the term “elite”. But if something shifts, tremendously, something else must take up the space left behind. We no longer have to stand in line, waiting to reach the soup lady, because that is our only dinner option. No, the line is gone and every person is provided an entire buffet. It is now up to us to dish up. MOOCs are busy blurring the cracks of social dividedness, and the value of one’s own education is becoming nothing short of a personal responsibility.
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Using Willpower to Create New Positive Habits

According to the book Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength, by research psychologist Roy F. Baumeister and science writer John Tierney, successful people use their willpower to modify negative habits and to develop new positive habits. This is interesting because habits are stored in a different part of the brain, called the “dorsal striatum”, which uses less energy. You benefit from these new positive habits, month after month, year after year, without depleting you precious daily willpower quota.
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eLearning Technology – The Pace of Learning

As individuals there are a variety of factors that influence our ability to understand concepts and these factors, whether it is poor attention span or unforeseen absenteeism, will influence our learning progress. Progress happens in time. To manage progress, we must manage the time that is granted to learners to make such progress. There are tools belonging to the eLearning methodology that accommodates individual learners in learning at their own pace.
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Is It Possible To Increase Your Own Willpower?

According to Baumeister you can indeed increase you own willpower because it works like a muscle, the more you use it, the more you have.
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Comparing Organisational Change to Social Rituals of Change

Organisation change management is a science in its own right and much has been written on the process of managing inter-company changes like the adopting of new systems such as task management software, or a change in the hierarchy of command. This article does not explain change management procedures in a step-by-step manner. This article is concerned with understanding the phenomenon of change in a business environment as compared to how we approach change in our social lives.
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The Secret to Success: Give More Than You Take

As humans, we are a social species. We need each other in order to survive because we trade, arrow heads for food, for example. A person’s value is determined by the society in which he or she operates. Success is then again determined by these value judgments and structures. The social perspective of value is most prominent in situations of trade.
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Content Marketing 101: Writing eBooks and White Papers

Creating an interesting eBook or handy White Paper, means going that step further in providing quality content to your users. So how do you go about writing your first eBook or White Paper?
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The Vocabulary of Leaders

We think in language. How we define our thoughts, feelings, pursuits and the way in which we communicate these to the outside world, is all dependent on the vocabulary at our disposal. In order to properly and healthily reason with oneself, one must have a sufficient vocabulary to do so.
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It's Tax Payer Appreciation Month

Are you the lucky recipient of a grant or a subsidy? You may not be aware of it but your grant was not funded by the government. No, it was funded by the single most unappreciated group in South Africa, the tax payer.
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Content Marketing 101: Marketing your blog

So you’ve set up your blog and set in motion your publishing schedule. The next step is to promote that content you worked so hard at creating. So where do we start?
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Get found locally on Google search

Local results appear for people who search for businesses and places near their location,
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One Twitter Follower Equals Ten Facebook Likes

“Facebook is for connecting with the people you went to school with and Twitter is for people you wish you had gone to school with”. When it comes to social media all platforms are equally important but the two biggest are Facebook and Twitter.
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