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Five Ways to Use Social Media to Reach People Who Don't Use Social Media - ReadWriteWeb

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How does one... mingle? | Ask Metafilter

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The whole jumping-into-a-conversation thing has never worked for me - I always feel like I'm a stranger crashing a private party.

Instead, I try to get myself acquainted with a less active person in the group and then merge into the larger group. The larger group is then much more accepting of you because you've got an "in" with someone who's already part of the main conversation.

Directions

1. Casually approach the group and discreetly introduce yourself to the person closest to you without drawing too much attention. Use a lower voice than the rest of the group. Do this without pulling the person out of the main group. If there's a gap in the group, place yourself there otherwise stand in a location where the other person doesn't have his/her back to the main group.

2. Ask your new acquaintance what the group is talking about.

2A. If you're familiar with the subject, chat with him/her for a few seconds and then merge your mini-conversation back into the whole. Mission accomplished!

2B. If you're not familiar with the subject, say you're not familiar with it but that it sounds interesting/lucrative/something a friend of yours would be into. Then mention something that you're interested in and could talk about.

3. The other person now has the opportunity to do 1 of 3 things: A) give you background on the main conversation, B) start up another topic for you and him/her to talk about, or C) talk about what you mentioned. Any option is a win-win

4. Continue your sidebar conversation for a bit while listening in on the main group. Join the main group with your sidebar topic or the main topic.
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Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm

SuperMemo; learning software that reminds and tests you at intervals so that you understand what you are forgetting, and can remind or relearn at the correct time to retain it.

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Precisely those things that seem to signal we're learning well — easy performance on drills, fluency during a lesson, even the subjective feeling that we know something — are misleading when it comes to predicting whether we will remember it in the future.
Wozniak has also invented a way to apply his learning system to his intake of unstructured information from books and articles, winnowing written material down to the type of discrete chunks that can be memorized, and then scheduling them for efficient learning. He selects a short section of what he's reading and copies it into the SuperMemo application, which predicts when he'll want to read it again so it sticks in his mind. He cuts and pastes completely unread material into the system, assigning it a priority. SuperMemo shuffles all his potential knowledge into a queue and presents it to him on a study screen when the time is right. Wozniak can look at a graph of what he's got lined up to learn and adjust the priority rankings if his goals change.
These techniques are designed to overcome steep learning curves through automated steps, like stairs on a hill. He calls it incremental reading, and it has come to dominate his intellectual life. Wozniak no longer wastes time worrying that he hasn't gotten to some article he wants to read; once it's loaded into the system, he trusts his algorithm to apportion it to his consciousness at the appropriate time.
We associate intelligence with pure talent, and academic learning with educational experiences dating far back in life. To master a difficult language, to become expert in a technical field, to make a scientific contribution in a new area — these seem like rare things. And so they are, but perhaps not for the reason we assume.
Even the basic demand for regularity can be daunting. If you skip a few days, the spacing effect, with its steady march of sealing knowledge in memory, begins to lose its force. Progress limps. When it comes to increasing intelligence, our brain is up to the task and our technology is up to the task. The problem lies in our temperament.

How to Develop a Social Media Plan for Your Business in 5 Steps

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Greasemonkey Scripts For the Social Media Addict - ReadWriteWeb

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26 Learning Games to Change the World | Mission to Learn

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Diigo Revamps Social Bookmarking Service with v3.0

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coComment - Join the conversation

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How to Think Before Speaking - wikiHow

The Mnemosyne Project has two aspects: * It's a sophisticated free flash-card tool which optimizes your learning process. * It's a research project into the nature of long-term memory.

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The Promise & Reality Of Mixing The Social Graph With Search Engines

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Google Will Be Beaten By Facebook, Mahalo: Scoble

what I think a lot of people are missing here is Scoble has a lot at stake here. ... he is at the top of the “influencer trust” food chain. Podtech is clearly on its way into the deadpool so he’s going to need a new gig soon.

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