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"... P&G executives saw the value of predictability, understanding, control, and compassion in times of distressing organizational change.

... “People pay attention to those who control their outcomes. In an effort to predict and possibly influence what is going to happen to them, people gather information about those with power.” Further, people tend to interpret what they see the boss do in a negative light. Keltner and his colleagues report that when the top dog makes an ambiguous move (one that isn’t clearly good or bad for followers),
followers are most likely to construe it as a sign that something bad is going to happen to them. Related studies also show that when people down the pecking order feel threatened by their superiors, they become distracted from their work. They redirect their efforts to trying to figure out what is going on and to coping with their fear and anxiety—perhaps searching the web for insight or huddling with their peers to gossip, complain, and exchange emotional support. As a result, performance suffers."

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Two segments with a natural affinity for online shopping emerged across most product categories. The truly multichannel “24-hour shoppers” love shopping and use the Internet to explore new ideas as well as to look for goods and services. “Time-pressed optimizers” find the Web a quick and hassle-free way to buy the things they need. But several segments, each with distinct characteristics, are averse to shopping online. “Store-loving loyalists,” for instance, enjoy the experience of shopping in stores with family and friends. “Anxious store shoppers” are particularly nervous about products and prefer to evaluate them in person. The consumer segments that have positive attitudes about online shopping are much larger in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States than they are in France (despite the country’s relatively high broadband penetration) and Italy. Large consumer segments in France and Italy are preoccupied with prices, brands, and service but have no strong preference for shopping on- or offline.

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Windows is still the most popular operating system, and the method used to discover the login password is the easiest. The program used is called Ophcrack, and it is free. Ophcrack is based on Slackware, and uses rainbow tables to solve passwords up to 14 characters in length. The time required to solve a password? Generally 10 seconds. The expertise needed? None.

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No best practice method or text book is going to teach a midwife these subtleties, but the multitude of stories and of course actual experience are, as they deliver the uniqueness of experiences.

Reading a hundred stories, and attending a hundred births is going to do wonders to their ability.

Not only because these stories are the antithesis to “normal” or “average” or “best”, in that they cover so many different contexts and situations, but also because stories leave more of a memorable imprint in our minds (something to do with visual, narrative and emotion).

This post is about facilitation, pattern-recognition, decision-making, sense-making, context, uncertainty, narrative, adaptive behaviours in relation to birthing and midwives.

They learn to respond and adapt to uncertainty and rapidly changing situation (real rapid, by the minute).

These stories and experiences imprint a pattern in their mind and attach an emotion which has great impact for recall, and to also be able to take fragments from different stories and blend them to the situation at hand.

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This hyperawareness comes with several benefits. For starters, it allows young children to figure out the world at an incredibly fast pace. Although babies are born utterly helpless, within a few years they've mastered everything from language - a toddler learns 10 new words every day - to complex motor skills such as walking. According to this new view of the baby brain, many of the mental traits that used to seem like developmental shortcomings, such as infants' inability to focus their attention, are actually crucial assets in the learning process.

... the baby brain actually contains more brain cells, or neurons, than the adult brain: The instant we open our eyes, our neurons start the "pruning process," which involves the elimination of seemingly unnecessary neural connections. Furthermore, the distinct parts of the baby cortex - the center of sensation and higher thought - are better connected than the adult cortex, with more links between disparate regions. These anatomical differences aren't simply a sign of immaturity: They're an important tool that provides babies with the ability to assimilate vast amounts of information with ease.

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Enligt Ipredlagen kan operatörer bli tvungna att lämna ut användaruppgifter i syfte att spåra illegal fildelning. Men för en tid sedan meddelade Bahnhof att man inte kommer att lagra de uppgifterna.

Den nuvarande lagstiftningen innebär nämligen att det är frivilligt att lagra användaruppgifter. Förstörs de, så kan de heller inte lämnas ut och på så sätt kan Bahnhof kringgå den nya Ipredlagen. Även Tele- och internetbolaget All Tele har sagt att man tänker förstöra användaruppgifterna.

Nu tänker alltså Tele 2 göra samma sak.

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While Susan Boyle became an overnight sensation, hers was not an overnight transformation. She's been practicing singing since she was 12. In her case, overnight lasted 35 years.

And she didn't do it alone. Susan Boyle had a voice coach, Fred O'Neil, who worked with her for years. And she had her mother. "She was the one who said I should enter Britain's Got Talent. We used to watch it together," she told the UK paper The Times, speaking about her mother who died in 2007, "She thought I would win . . . I am doing it as a tribute to my mum and I think she would be very proud."

In a study by two graduates of the University of Pennsylvania's Applied Positive Psychology Program, managers who provided frequent recognition and encouragement were rewarded with an increase in productivity of 31%. As a manager, your greatest tool is recognizing each employee's talents and encouraging that employee to use those talents.

"There is grace," a friend recently wrote to me, "in being molded by your own gifts."

To allow yourself to be molded by your gifts takes courage. By recognizing and encouraging the particular gifts of their employees, great managers increase the chance that those employees will be willing to stand there, exposed and authentic, while their audience rolls their eyes and sneers, expecting failure.

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If you are GM, argues Schweitzer, "You clearly don't want 29 percent market share, you want something much more complicated than that."

To combat this, Latham, among others, argues that what's often required is a "learning goal" - one where someone pledges to come up with, for example, five approaches to a thorny problem - rather than a performance goal that assumes that the problem will automatically be solved.

And whatever they are, goals need to be flexible when circumstances change. Francis Flynn, an organizational psychologist at Stanford, says he always tells his students that "the best goal you can have is to reevaluate your goals, semi-annually or annually, to make sure they remain rational."

Rather than reflexively relying on goals, argues Max Bazerman, a Harvard Business School professor and the fourth coauthor of "Goals Gone Wild," we might also be better off creating workplaces and schools that foster our own inherent interest in the work. "There are lots of organizations where people want to do well, and they don't need those goals," he says. Bazerman and others hold up Google as an example of a company that manages to do this, in part by explicitly setting aside time for employees to pursue their own projects and interests.

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Der raser i øjeblikket en intens krig på det danske marked for mobilt bredbånd, hvor alle mobilselskaberne kæmper om et marked i fartglad vækst. Telia ligger på en delt andenplads på dette marked ifølge den seneste halvårsstatistik fra IT- og Telestyrelsen. Mobilselskabet 3 topper foran Sonofon og Telia, mens TDC ligger sidst blandt de fire operatører.

Stofa går frem - også i danske kroner
Ifølge kvartalsrapporten gik Stofa-forretningen frem. Ganske vist faldt antallet af bredbåndskunder med 3.000 til 149.000, men tv-kunderne gik frem med 2.000 til i alt 211.000. Det var nok til at øge omsætningen med 3,4 procent målt i danske kroner.

Stofa er i øvrigt en del, som ikke længere indgår i kerneforretning hos Telia. For nylig kom det frem, at Telia går med planer om at frasælge forretningen.

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1. They think they don't know anyone
We live in a networked age and most of us are connected to more people than we realise. Take 10 minutes to write a list of work colleagues (past and present), industry contacts, friends, family, college alumni and social acquaintances.

2. They don't know how to introduce themselves

3. They sound self-promoting
One way to show (rather than tell) people how great you are is to have a few 'STAR' stories up your sleeve. STAR stands for Situation, Task, Achievements and Results; it's an easy way to tell a concise story that lets your talents and achievements speak for themselves. A

4. They don't know how to work a room or a contact
If you are going to an event, remember that there will be many others in the same situation — especially in a downturn — and that the purpose of the event is to circulate among people. Focus on the other person by asking them what they like about their job, how they got it and what they would do if they were not in their current role. Exchange cards and don't be embarrassed about moving on to the next person when the conversation is at a natural end.

5. They criticise the people or companies that laid them off

6. They forget to say thank-you

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Baba Shiv, a neuroeconomist at Stanford, supplied a group of people with Sobe Adrenaline Rush, an "energy" drink that was supposed to make them feel more alert and energetic. (The drink contained a potent brew of sugar and caffeine which, the bottle promised, would impart "superior functionality"). Some participants paid full price for the drinks, while others were offered a discount. The participants were then asked to solve a series of word puzzles. Shiv found that people who paid discounted prices consistently solved about thirty percent fewer puzzles than the people who paid full price for the drinks. The subjects were convinced that the stuff on sale was much less potent, even though all the drinks were identical.

Why did the cheaper energy drink prove less effective? According to Shiv, consumers typically suffer from a version of the placebo effect. Since we expect cheaper goods to be less effective, they generally are less effective, even if they are identical to more expensive products. This is why brand-name aspirin works better than generic aspirin, or why Coke tastes better than cheaper colas, even if most consumers can't tell the difference in blind taste tests. "We have these general beliefs about the world⎯for example, that cheaper products are of lower quality⎯and they translate into specific expectations about specific products," said Shiv. "Then, once these expectations are activated, they start to really impact our behavior.

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Det hela handlar om att bredbandsleverantörer allt oftare erbjuder subventionerad anslutning till fastighetsägare, mot att kunderna låses till en operatörs tjänster under lång tid. Teliasonera är enligt Mikael Ek den mest dominerande aktören inom sådana här exklusivitetsavtal och erbjuder gratis fiber till och i fastigheten samtidigt med förbehållet att de boende enbart kan använda Teliasoneras bredband, telefoni och tv. Avtalen kan vara så långa som 12 år.

I de flesta fall låter Teliasonera dessutom egna nätbolaget Skanova bygga anslutningen, i stället för att utnyttja de stadsnät som finns på många platser ute i landet.

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They found 17% of respondents said they listened to internet radio during the previous week, nearly a third more than last year's 13%.

According to Arbitron, availability of different music and a measure of control over what they hear are the primary reasons for nearly 40% of consumers to choose online radio. ...

By comparison, online radio listenership skews older, with 23% of potential listeners between 45 and 54 tuning in. That percentage is cut in half (12%) for 12-17 year olds and 11% for those between 18 and 24..

In fact, 32% of 12-24 year olds listen to the radio less in favor of listening to their portable music player. Although the majority of the public still doesn't own a portable media player, eventually it might be necessary to either find a new way to attract listeners or get a bigger percentage of a shrinking audience.

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An Ofcom-commissioned study into the politically vexed question of video traffic on the Internet, implies that the current technical and commercial Internet 'model' built around neutral traffic handling and non-discriminatory pricing is up to the job. So despite many claims to the contrary the report claims there is no need to develop systems which prioritise video traffic, at least in the core and backhaul. ...

The consultants claim they've concentrated on back-haul and core network performance, rather than access and, while they sound a warning about regulation constraining novel approaches, the main thrust of the report suggests that, given the expected 'Moores Law' cost per Mbit/s price improvements brought by next generation, fibre-based, packet-based carrier networks, there will be enough juice to accommodate video without ripping up the Internet rule-book.

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Twitter is the canary in the coal mine of public opinion -- for celebrities, politicians, and, of course, corporations. When European discount carrier Ryanair lashed out at "lunatic bloggers" after a Web designer reported a glitch on the airline's site, its online reputation dipped as low as its fares. Conversely, Mars got a sweet treat when it posted Skittles-related tweets on its Web site, learning immediately how people felt about the candy.

Twitter's explosion from microblogging curiosity to mass-media phenomenon has awakened a lot of companies to just how fast memes spread on the Internet today. Make a mistake like Ryanair's -- or Johnson & Johnson's offensive Motrin ads last winter -- and the response is brutal. Get it right like shoe retailer Zappos and bask in the love. How can you know if your canary is singing or dead? These tools will help you monitor not just Twitter but everywhere the online conversation involves your brand.

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In a national Harris Poll survey of 1,178 American youths (ages 8-18), ISU Assistant Professor of Psychology Douglas Gentile found nearly one in 10 of the gamers (8.5 percent) to be pathological players according to standards established for pathological gambling -- causing family, social, school or psychological damage because of their video game playing habits.

"Although the general public uses the word 'addiction,' clinicians often report it as pathological use," said Gentile, who is also director of research for the Minneapolis-based National Institute on Media and the Family. "This is the first study to tell us the national prevalence of pathological play among youth gamers, and it is almost 1 in 10."

"What we mean by pathological use is that something someone is doing -- in this case, playing video games -- is damaging to their functioning," Gentile said. "It's not simply doing it a lot. It has to harm functioning in multiple ways."

Gentile analyzed data collected in a January 2007 Harris Poll survey. He compared respondents' video game play habits to the symptoms established in The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders for pathological gambling. Gamers were classified as "pathological" if they exhibited at least six of 11 symptoms.

The pathological gamers in the study played video games 24 hours per week, about twice as much as non-pathological gamers.

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Facebook users avoid updating their status with information they don’t want everybody to see. Privacy is managed by choosing to exchange private messages instead of writing on public walls.

When the users are in touch with each other via closed groups, messages remain out of the sight of outsiders. The users interviewed in the study felt also that they could express themselves more freely if they approved only a limited number of people as their friends or if they defined their groups of friends more precisely.

The results of the study emphasize the meaning of trustworthiness. Several interviewees had simply decided to trust on other people not using the shared information in harmful ways.

Because a user cannot directly control what others are publishing about him on the site, it is important to pay attention to other users’ privacy needs, too. Users try to avoid publishing information that others might find negative or troublesome.

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Accenture conducted its survey of nearly 14,000 consumers across 13 countries to assess how people in different markets view and respond to broadcast content and how they are adapting to new content delivery methods and platforms.

Among the study's most significant findings:

* Viewing of all content - including television - is growing across all platforms;
* Opportunities in new media abound in emerging markets; and
* Consumers indicate a willingness to pay favoring subscription services.

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2016 tror Finnet att 100000 finnar ska surfa med virtuella datorer. Skärmen står hemma, men programmen körs i en virtuell del av en superdator hos operatören. Satsningen kommer att kosta minst 10 miljarder kronor.

... nu vänder sig Finnet, den finska organisationen för bredbandsoperatörer, mot privatkunderna. Fibernätets kapacitet ska ökas till mer än 100 Mbit/s, samtidigt som tillräckligt bra teknik för att köra och övervaka hemanvändares många olika program och operativsystem ska utvecklas.

Budgeten är 10 miljarder kronor över tio år. Det kommande året ska användas till analys av problemen, nästa år till tekniska experiment och 2012 ska användarundersökningar göras medan ett gränssnitt byggs upp. 2016 ska Supermatrix ha mer än 100000 användare.

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Mere end tre og en halv time om dagen sad gennemsnitsdanskeren foran TV-skærmen i første kvartal af 2009. Og selvom forbruget er faldet lidt igen i andet kvartal, ændrer det ikke på, at danskerne aldrig har set så meget TV, som vi indtil videre har gjort i 2009.

Nye fladskærmsfjernsyn, en voldsom stigning i antallet af TV-kanaler og en finanskrise, der holder folk hjemme i dagligstuen, lyder forklaringen fra TV-branchen, der for et par år siden bekymret så til, mens TV-forbruget faldt. Nu forventer man, at det rekordhøje niveau i 2008 og 2009 er kommet for at blive. ...

»Det slående er stabiliteten i højere grad end de små forskelle. Fordelingen er umådelig stabil, når man tænker på den stærke vækst af udbuddet af TV-kanaler de senere år. Lars Thunø, forskningschef i DR ...

I forrige uge brugte en gennemsnitsdansker 36 pct. af sin tid foran »tossekassen« på at se drama og fiktion (62 min om dagen), 14 pct. på at se nyheder (25 min), 11 pct. på aktualitet (20 min), 11 pct. på kultur og oplysning (20 min) og otte pct. på at se sport (14 min). Og sådan har fordelingen set ud i årevis med små variationer. De ældre ser flere nyheder, og de yngre generationer ser mere drama og fiktion.

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