Posts Tagged ‘communication’

Information isn’t power. Information-sharing is.

Saturday, October 31, 2009 20:44 By GSerrano

The Internet, the network of networks, has revolutionized both human interaction and communication. Today, it is used to share information or to just be connected and stay social. The Internet ‘has drawn more than a billion people online.’
The Internet was conceived as ‘an open source structure not about profit.’ The primordial purpose of the Internet [...]

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Optoacoustics Surgical Communication System: A Better Way to Communicate between the Surgeons and the Technicians for Working in an MRI

Friday, September 4, 2009 20:18 By Robert

Communication between the doctors and technicians is often limited while performing an MRI scan on a patient. It is vital for the surgeons (who are at the gantry) and the technicians (who are in the control room) to effectively communicate between them in order to perform their work well. It’s difficult to use conventional headsets [...]

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Twitter: useless and futile most of the time

Thursday, August 13, 2009 20:07 By NARUTO

A study made by Pear Analytics indicated that 40,5% of the studied messages told “daily activities” cannot attract the Twitter community’s interest, something that the consultancy called “useless attempts” to denominate the category.
In second place, there were messages through where users talk amongst themselves, as if they used Twitter as an instantaneous communicator, according to [...]

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The Malcolm Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence: Tough but Necessary

Friday, May 29, 2009 18:25 By GSerrano

 

Quality is no longer an option in an ever-expanding and more demanding competitive world market. Excellence in organizational systems and practices is vital if the company is to become world-class. Quality management system flattens the communication structure in a bureaucratic set-up that has a lot of hierarchy. This results in useful communication. 
Without quality management, a [...]

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Classroom Learning is Better than Online Education

Tuesday, March 31, 2009 11:51 By GSerrano

Distance learning, a fairly recent trend in educational systems, suffers from a basic handicap – communication between mentor and student. Not that this kind of learning system shuns the more vital and dynamic interaction between teacher and learner, it is just that the very nature of distance learning poses limitations in implementing the full and [...]

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Is Student Feedback Effective in Distance Learning?

Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:57 By GSerrano

Giving feedback is essentially the same whether it is done over a distance education system or personally in a face-to-face manner. The objective is the same, as well as the content of the feedback. Both strategies rely on the same fact that some feedback will be given and that the sharing of advice is both [...]

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Inspired Followers

Saturday, March 28, 2009 14:14 By GSerrano

An inspiring leader communicates with the group. It is one thing to just lay out plans and give commands. It is another to enjoin the people to collectively carry out plans and create an atmosphere of responsibility and accountability. A good leader inspires people to move and act by clearly explaining the rudiments of plans [...]

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The Pitfalls and Loopholes of Employee Monitoring System

Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:03 By GSerrano

There are some common mistakes in instituting an employee monitoring system. It is a given that organizations should implement an effective and comprehensive employee monitoring program that is replete with logical components.
The biggest mistake that business organizations commit in this regard is not creating a company policy on it. Often, employee monitoring becomes just a [...]

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The Reality of Diversity in Organizations

Tuesday, March 24, 2009 22:07 By GSerrano

The matter of diversity such as gender or ethnic diversity is a palpable reality in any human organization. The group almost always has to deal with cultural differences among its members. Experts argue that in order for management and organizations to benefit from the inescapable certainty of diversity, workgroups must find effective means to integrate [...]

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Communications Cyborg: Paralysed Man Utters First Words

Thursday, November 27, 2008 0:39 By Anna

Advancements in technology have taken us so far that we are now able to look beyond galaxies almost to the brink of the universe. Researchers working in every field of development know that years of disappointment can follow with the greatest discoveries to help improve the quality of life.
One of those great discoveries was made [...]

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