For those who live in Arlington, VA
Here’s a fun YouTube video about Arlington, VA. Arlington: The Rap
Interesting study
Perhaps rephrasing to “wordy PowerPoint Presentations and their effect on learning” From The Association for Psychological Science More Talk, Less Chalk: Lexically Sparse Slides Improve Recall of Taught Material Classroom use of presentation software, whereby information is simultaneously delivered verbally and visually, risks overloading students’ working memory and impairing learning. We compared traditional and lexically-sparseRead… Read more »
Work stress can make it difficult to focus on tasks at hand, how do you handle work stress?
Work stress can make it difficult to focus on tasks at hand, how do you handle work stress? Check out this website link: http://stress.lovetoknow.com/Work_Stress_Website I tend to do a few different things depending on the level of stress i am experiencing in my work environment. If the level of stress is low, I bicycle itRead… Read more »
First blog on upcoming Personal Democracy Forum conference
The draft I pointed to earlier on GovLoop is now up: Personal Democracy Forum ramp-up: from vulnerability and overload to rage, mistrust, and fear
Asia Location and City Branding
Branding a nation, location or city in Asia is not just advertising. AsiaPac cities must develop a global reputation of creating and adding value and yet concurrently command emotional resonance as part of their unique selling proposition. Those which do not invest enough to build the relevant and visible brand equity will not be effectiveRead… Read more »
Asia’s City Economic Development
Nineteenth-century San Francisco went from a rough-and-tumble boomtown to a Victorian city with cosmopolitan ambitions. Its development was controlled by a small group of oligarchs: miners, industrialists, financiers and real estate speculators who hoped to forge a world-class metropolis in a single generation, enriching themselves in the process. The private sector is made up ofRead… Read more »
Asia’s New Megacity Urbanisation
ADB reports that in 1950, the Asia and Pacific region was mostly rural with only 17% or 232.0 million of its 1.4 billion people living in towns or cities. The United Nations (UN) estimates that by 2030, 55% of 4.9 billion Asians, or 2.7 billion people, will live in urban areas. Starting in about 2015,Read… Read more »
Riding out the Great Asia Depression
2009 is the Year of the Ox, according to the Chinese zodiac. The Ox is the sign of prosperity through fortitude and hard work. Many Asians expect 2009 to be the Year of the Skinny Ox. Asia’s political leaders, civil service, businesses and citizens are preparing for the worst year since the 1997 Asian crisis.Read… Read more »
Asia’s Increasing Regionalism
Two of Asia’s problems are now reduced FDI inflows and too much trade export dependency on the US and Europe. In 2008, FDI inflows to Asia and Oceania decreased by 2.2 percent to US$313.5 billion. For South, East and South-East Asia, there was a marginal increase of 3.3% to US$256.1 billion. This region is theRead… Read more »
Web 2.0 creating multiple personality disorder?!
Loved Adam Arthur’s post just now about tools to manage social profiles, he suggests apps like ping.fm that have been very helpful and other new ones that I will have to try out. But this led me to a related question: How do you manage what “profile” to take on for any given tool /Read… Read more »