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16 Feb 07

Studies Show Evidence for Psychic Intuition | MindHacks.Org

  • A University College London (UCL) study has found that you are more likely to perform well if you do not think too hard and instead trust your instincts. Appearing in the journal Current Biology, the research shows that instinctive snap decisions are sometimes more reliable than decisions taken using higher-level cognitive processes.
26 Oct 06

Tinderbox - Spark

  • Our current consumer trends framework, for example, couches the most recent consumer developments in the long-evolving transition from traditional culture to consumer culture. The advantage is that rather than blithely exclaiming something like "open source consuming" to be the next big thing, we can explain why and how this happened - information we believe is a must for all interested in successfully engaging such trends.



30 Sep 06

Eric Blue's Blog: Digital Enlightenment: Using the Internet for Research, Learning, and Education

  • I've been using the Internet since 1993. But, it wasn't until a few years ago that I truly started using the net for research purposes. One of my key interests is philosophy, and I've learned quickly that it's helpful to have easy access to a wide variety and volume of information. I've been collecting a comprehensive list of online resources including links, ebooks, summaries, courseware, research tools, search engines, multimedia, and software that are really applicable to many fields of study.
25 Sep 06

Corporate eLearning Development

  • A large part of my schtick on Learning2.0 revolves around the perception of CHAOS.  One of my favorite non-elearning blogs is Innovation Creators by Rod Boothby.   His post titled Organized Chaos has a great picture.  The big picture is starting to come together for me, and I was going to wait until I had it drawn before posting again but I felt moved to link up to Rod's image and comment.

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  • Frederick found 3,000 plus subjects -- mostly university students across the U.S. – to answer his three CRT questions, as well as to respond to a survey on financial gambles and other risk-based decisions. The CRT, which he describes as functioning like an IQ test, tends to elicit impulsive, erroneous answers. Here’s one sample question: A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? The intuitive answer is 10 cents. The correct answer is 5 cents.

E-Learning (elearning) Guru: 100's of Articles & White papers & Tools

  • Brent is an e-learning guru over at Intel and a prophet for Learning2.0 (eg, Wikis) stuff. I met him at the eLearning DevCon conference... officially when during my keynote I asked if anyone was blogging in real time and he was the only one who was. He’s been blogging for a year already but his blog is "new" to me. Great style, energy, wide swash of innovation but most with links back to e-learning. In fact, I think this is now my FAVORITE blog.
11 Sep 06

Hot! Fresh! Delivered to You!

  • This tutorial will introduce you to new tools that are now available from online services like EBSCO, ProQuest, and your favorite professional journals and websites, that allow you to subscribe and see the latest articles and updates on your topics of choice from many different sources -- all delivered to you in one place! The "hunter-gatherer" approach to professional reading could be a thing of the past -- why not try delivery?
25 Aug 06

Social Edge - Why do people give?

  • Figuring out why people give is a key factor in maximizing the gift a donor will give to your organization. You can build lasting relationships by understanding donor’s motives, needs and expectations. Different types of gifts and ways of giving will appeal to donors who are motivated in different ways. If you wish to adopt a donor centered philanthropy program, your job is to try to determine what motivates your prospects.

    Over the years I have come across seven basic motivations for giving. Rarely do donors have only one reason they give to an organization, and the closer you come to figuring out all the reasons that apply to your prospects the more you can tailor your cultivation, your ask and your stewardship.

MarketingSherpa > SPECIAL REPORT: MarketingSherpa's Practical Podcasting Guide for Marketers


  • Invented in August 2004, podcasts are one of the fastest-growing media channels in history -- from the podcasters' side anyway.

    The good news is millions listen to podcasts. The bad news is so many podcasters are broadcasting that the average podcaster gets a few hundred listeners (if they're lucky.)

    Should you be considering launching a podcast as a marketing campaign? Or perhaps sponsoring a third-party podcast? Here's MarketingSherpa's handy 101 guide to get you started:

  • Podcasting is about to celebrate its second birthday and
    we don't know of a marketer out there who isn't at least mulling over the possibilities.

    Here's our handy guide, including:
    o Surprising data on listener demographics
    o 3 Mistakes to avoid
    o 5 Rules for podcast content
    o 4 Tips to create commercials that get results

    Plus, loads of handy hotlinks for vendors, blogs and info:
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20 Aug 06

Open Sources | InfoWorld | Money and happiness | August 16, 2006 06:27 AM | By Matt Asay

  • Jonathan Clements, who writes the "Getting Going" (Personal Finance) column in the WSJ, is one of my favorite columnists. Today is no different, as he records the results of a survey I encountered a few months ago, but didn't have time to blog. The survey/research analyzes personal incomes and how they relate to happiness.



    The verdict? Money can't buy you love (thus spake the Beatles), nor can it buy you happiness.

Happiness Is Mostly Genetic - Forbes.com

  • NEW YORK - Unhappy? Blame biology. Then cheer yourself up by finding a job with a shorter commute.




    As economists, psychologists and biologists try to determine what makes a person happy or unhappy, one factor stands out as especially powerful. To a large degree, it seems, happiness is inherited.


Pew Research Center: Are We Happy Yet?

  • Americans have always had a thing about happiness. We all have certain unalienable rights, declares our Declaration of Independence, among them "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

Wired News: Scientists Meditate on Happiness


  • Generally people with happy temperaments exhibit a high ratio of activity in the left prefrontal cortex, an area associated with happiness, joy and enthusiasm. Those who are prone to anxiety, fear and depression exhibit a higher ratio of activity in the right prefrontal cortex.




    But the degree to which the left side of Ricard's brain lit up far surpassed 150 other subjects Davidson had measured. No one knows whether Ricard might have exhibited the same results before he became a monk. But given that his readings were off the chart for happiness, Richardson believes that studying the minds of meditating monks can help us learn how meditation can mold our brains to develop happier and less-afflicted temperaments.

Happiness Excerpt

  • "How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive for all they do," observed William James (1902, p. 76). Understandably so, for one's state of happiness or unhappiness colors everything. People who are happy perceive the world as safer, make decisions more easily, rate job applicants more favorably, are more cooperative, and live healthier and more energized and satisfied lives (Lyukomirsky & others, 2002; Myers, 1993).
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