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Are your customers satisfied?
Customer satisfaction research might be a waste of time if you only try to find the areas you want to improve for existing customers: they are still customers! You can probably be more effective in improving the aspects that cause existing customers to go elsewhere – or, even more importantly, not even come to you!
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Research News on Brain-Measured Learning to Save Time
The following article explains that studying-results can be significantly improved not only by the brain-based methods I am a strong proponent for, but also by actual retention qualifiers. Using Brain Scans to Predict Future Test Performance Will a brain scan reveal how well you’ve studied for a big test? Researchers at Sandia National Laboratory have…
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Cookies
Regarding the new (European) law about cookies on websites I have this to say: while I am pro transparency, I believe that one should not force transparency. In order to deal with the problem of having to opt-in users I suggest you write a good disclaimer and wait until browsers solve the cookie opt-in problem…
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Attention
Because attention is so closely connected to our brain’s basic wiring, it can be difficult to recognize our own patterns of giving attention – patterns we’ve been absorbing since birth. Yet different cultures do allocate attention differently. For example: psychologist Richard E. Nisbett concluded (in his underwater scene study) that East Asians focus on relationships…
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Mantra 33 Consolidation
As you might already know, every year near my birthday I post the proclamation for myself for the coming year. When I was an old teenager I was spending serious time connecting to my mystic roots through meditation. When I was 18 I predicted my 31ste year would be my year of Money – I…
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Google Circles
While I personally really like the concept – and it is more usefull if all my communicationpartners are using it (remember the faith of Google Wave) – it has, as can be expected from Google, a highly technical cool-factor with an awesome potential; but I do feel there is a human factor called discipline that…
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Possible PhD research subject in the Education area.
Together with my Vision for Education and my life experience I hope to some day start working on my PhD dissertation & defense. Several years ago I have formulated my goal for this possible area of research. Here the extract: Aspects of Future Didactical Systems in Higher Vocational Education – a Roadmap for Change With…
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Ingredients for My Vision for Education
I have since I was 16 been very interested in assisting the transformation of the education system. My fundamental beliefs for this need are: Education should be brain-based – differentiated based on learning style. Education is life-long and should address all aspects of living (balance between: mental, physical, emotional, spiritual). Information is omnipresent and should…
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Time for internet-tech to get political.
The (political) power went from local to central. Now we get the post-bureaucratic age = local people empowered by global data & technology.
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What is the libertarian answer to non-rational actions?
If something where to be of “general interest”, everyone would comply voluntarily, but that is in many situations not the case; it has to be enforced by “higher authority”. Since I have learnt there is a difference between “general consensus” and “general interest”, I was stimulated to think about the question if there is (in…