4 E’s of social media strategy

Watching the 40 second video embedded below, I learned about the 4 E’s of social media strategy:

# 1: Engage
# 2: Educate
# 3: Excite
# 4: Evangelize

Sanitation – a powerful health prevention tool

Reading this posting, I learned that sanitation is the most cost-effective health prevention tool in existence.

Solar charging device for mobile phones at city square in Belgrade

Via this posting, I learned that the solar charging device featured in the 3 minute video below was installed late last year in the Obrenovac city square. The structure features 16 ports and can support numerous types of mobile phones, charging them up for free within 10 to 15 minutes. Built-in batteries enable operation at night and during cloudy weather for up to a month without sunshine. An interesting innovation.

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12 life lessons from Forrest Gump

Via this tweet, I came across this posting with the following 12 life lessons from Forrest Gump:

# 1: Know what love is.

# 2: Be your best.
To be your best, start with getting to know yourself.

# 3: Love what you do.

# 4: Say what you need to say.

# 5: Explain things so people can understand them.
This means that you need to understand who people are, and what they know.
And it means that you need to be sure that people understand you.

# 6: Believe that you can.

# 7: We all have tragedy to overcome. You can too.

# 8: Your actions speak louder than your words.

# 9: Believe in God.

# 10: You define your destiny.
Defining your destiny is about being in touch with what you love.
It is about believing in yourself, having self confidence.
Take a stand for who you chose to be. You define your destiny.

# 11: Imagine, then be.

# 12: Listen to your heart.

6 principles of social commerce

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Tips on education from Howard Gardner

Via this posting by Joe Bower, I came across the very interesting 7½ minute video embedded below with Howard Gardner. Listening to Mr. Gardner, I learned the following:

# 1: Engage learners actively.

# 2: Make education learner-directed.

# 3: Accept that people learn differently, have different kinds of intellectual strengths.

# 4: Present material to a learner in a way in which the learner will find interesting and will be able to use his or her intelligences productively.

# 5: Encourage the learner to focus on a few priorities that he or she goes deeply into.

# 6: Highlight for learners - from the day they start learning a topic - the performances for which they're going to be accountable.

# 7: Let learners be active in giving feedback on performances. Let them increasingly assess themselves - say what's going well and what’s not going so well.

# 8: Continuously try out new things to make the way education is done better.