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6 important things to know about how your brain learns

Feb08
by on February 8, 2015 at 7:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, LifeHacks

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This post originally appeared on the Crew blog. Whether you want to learn a new language, learn to cook, take up a musical instrument, or just get more out of the books you read, it helps to know how your brain learns. While everyone learns slightly differently, we do have similarities in the way our brains take in new information, and knowing how this works can help us choose the most efficient strategies for learning new things. Here are six things you should know about the brain’s learning systems. 1. We take in information better when it’s visual The brain…

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Collaborative problems: We’re not all social networkers

Feb08
by on February 8, 2015 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Social Media

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David Arnoux is Head of Growth and co-founder of Twoodo, helping teams organize using simple #hashtags. This post originally appeared on the Twoodo blog. We can stop arguing that only young people use social media: the average across all age groups is 72 percent (with 30 – 49 year olds also at 72 percent in their own right). So, not only are employees using it but so are (probably) most of your customers. It can be leveraged both ways to improve access to information, have discussions and allow for more accountability. But what about those who don’t like social media, and by extension, social…

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PR in the global economy: How media is different in Latin America vs. the US

Feb08
by on February 8, 2015 at 12:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Latin America, Social Media

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Conrad Egusa is the CEO of Publicize. He is happy to connect on LinkedIn here. Good PR strategy starts with good intelligence. You have to understand the value of the stories you want to tell. And you have to understand the publications you want to reach. And just as pitching a story to The Next Web isn’t the same as pitching it to the Wall Street Journal, there are also important, sweeping differences between the media cultures in different countries and even regions. Today, doing business on a globalized scale means being able to navigate those differences and cater a…

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PR in the global economy: How media is different in Latin America vs. the US

Feb08
by on February 8, 2015 at 12:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Latin America, Social Media

global strategy
Conrad Egusa is the CEO of Publicize. He is happy to connect on LinkedIn here. Good PR strategy starts with good intelligence. You have to understand the value of the stories you want to tell. And you have to understand the publications you want to reach. And just as pitching a story to The Next Web isn’t the same as pitching it to the Wall Street Journal, there are also important, sweeping differences between the media cultures in different countries and even regions. Today, doing business on a globalized scale means being able to navigate those differences and cater a…

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