How Do You Feel Right Now?

Change This is quite a unique on-line service. It engages thought leaders to write provocative opinions on any topic with the purpose of changing and enhancing people's view. The material is always high quality and available in a .pdf file to download and there is no advertising. How they keep it together I don't know. I think there their latest release is very insightful "...In November of last year, we sent out a survey to gauge the mood of ChangeThis readers and see if they could help provide some solutions and encouragement for ourselves and each other. After many months of immense change, both in the country as a whole and within our small company, we have finally finished sifting through those responses

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What Social Media Is and What Social Media Is Not

This post touches upon what I feel social media is and isn’t. It does not matter what your purpose is for using social media. The key elements are and always will be the same. Your desired outcome is dictated by the basic fundamentals of the core of what social media is. This post touches upon the most important ones. I could have went on and on with this list, but I don't think that was needed to drive home what I'm trying to get across. Please feel free to add to it by leaving your thoughts and opinions in the comments.

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KM is change - and how to do it with stories

Here is a presentation from Slideshare on change that is interesting

KM is change - and how to do it with stories

View more presentations from ShawnCallahan. (tags: storytelling narrative)

Plasticity of the brain - an interview

This interview is very interesting - particularly if you have kids, If you like it, check out the next post...

Neuroscience: What is Brain Plasticity?

Neuroscience has changed considerably in the past 20 years. An example of change over period is the concept of brain plasticity. Brain plasticity refers to the brain’s ability to rewire itself, relocating information processing functions to different brain areas and/or neural networks. Two decades ago, it was believed that brain networks were static after its initial formation period. Now that belief has changed. The study of brain plasticity has profound implications in human learning and behaviour, and as such, for mental health. To better understand this concept, let’s take a quick tour of the human brain, neural networks, and the plastic potential therein.

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