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How to improve your Memory by Teaching and Practicing

Imagine if you had a bucket of water. And every time you attempted to fill the bucket, 90% of the water would leak out instantly. Every time, all you’d retain was a measly 10%. How many times would you keep filling the bucket?

The answer is simple: just once.

The first time you noticed the leak, you’d take action
You’d either fix the bucket or you’d get another bucket, wouldn’t you?

Yet that’s not at all the way we learn.
Almost all of us waste 90% of our time, resources and learning time, because we don’t understand a simple concept called the Learning Pyramid. The Learning Pyramid was developed way back in the 1960s by the NTL Institute in Bethel, Maine. And if you look at the pyramid you’ll see something really weird.

That weird thing is that you’re wasting time. You’re wasting resources. You’re just doing everything you can to prevent learning. And here’s why.
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Tips & Tricks: Five Ways to Avoid a Tech Career Crisis

5-ways-to-avoid-tech-career-crisis If you are taking a break from actively managing your IT career, just remember one word: Cobol.

While this ’50s-era programming language is still used today, it symbolizes the way a seemingly omnipresent technology can be in demand one moment and out of fashion the next.

Technology professionals understand that they work in an industry characterized by rapid-fire change, but techies sometimes fail to manage their careers appropriately. Too often, network administrators, programmers and others find themselves in a most uncomfortable position — laid off from a once-secure job with skills that are no longer as attractive to employers as they once were.
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SEO:5 Steps to Powerful Article Marketing

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Here’s 5 simple Steps to Powerful Article Marketing for all internet marketer, practice it to promote your products and see the results yourselves 🙂

Today, article marketing is probably one of the most powerful and inexpensive forms of online marketing available to small business owners and non-profits. For those not savvy with the term “article marketing,” here is a quick definition:

In exchange for a little sweat and focus, an article author (you) shares their wisdom and experience with the world by posting their short article of advice or insight to blogs, social media, and article publication sites. Within those articles are one-way links leading back to the author’s own website, raising the website’s “authority” karma with the search engines and increasing qualified web traffic. Continue reading SEO:5 Steps to Powerful Article Marketing

SEO:Top 10 Expert Link Building Tips and Trends for 2011

Link building is an extremely important part of SEO (Search Engine Optimization). The more websites you have linking into your site, the more credible your site appears to the search engines. Credible websites get awarded with higher search engine page result rankings which will allow more potential customers to see your Website, therefore increasing sales.

There are many ways to boost your link popularity. Here are some tips and trends from Search Engine Land to help you with link building this year. Continue reading SEO:Top 10 Expert Link Building Tips and Trends for 2011

Health Tips: Top 10 Natural Beauty Tips

Here’s Top 10 Natural Beauty Tips to keep a healthy and beautiful body 🙂
1. Brushing Up

Make body brushing a part of your daily routine. Scrubbing out dirt and grime is the least of its advantages. Body brushing tones and stimulates skin, helping with the natural drainage of the lymph glands. It also helps combat cellulite. When brushing, work towards the heart, up from your legs and thighs, and down from your neck. Oh, and remember, skin should be dry while body-brushing, so make sure you have a soft brush – you don’t want abrasions that are hard to explain!

2. Banana Rama

For a great homemade face softener, try this: mash a banana and apply it to your face. Leave on for ten minutes and wash off with lukewarm water. Your face feels like satin. Plus, it puts those over ripe gooey bananas to good use!

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How to Download / Save Video from Facebook without using software

Here’s a simple tip on how to download Facebook videos without using any software. You can actually obtain your Facebook video from cache folder on your Internet Browser by following the steps bellow 🙂

For Internet explorer Browser: If you are using internet explorer browser, watch full video from facebook,

1. After watching full video, go at Tools> internet options> settings> view files

2 .You will get a large size file with long name and unknown type there.

3. Copy and paste that file at desktop, this file is the video file in flv format

4. Rename it with flv extension, example abc.flv

5. Play and enjoy video at your PC with flv player

If you don’t have FLV player, download free FLV player from here

Wimpy-Desktop-FLVPlayer-FREE

For FireFox Browser: If you are using FireFox browser, you can get video in FLV format as above in similar manner but at different location, your downloaded video location is –

D:(or C:)> Documents and Settings> ADMIN (your Admin login)> Local Settings >Application Data> Mozilla> Firefox > Profiles (one by one)

Update: For new Firefox version, if you are not able to find “Application Data” after Local Settings, just add “\Application Data” on the address bar at Local setting folder. Here is the example – check

C:\Documents and Settings\HTC\Local Settings\Application Data

(edit C: and HTC with your harddrive and admin login name respectively. )

Find and play video same as given here.

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Thirteen Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Success by Brian Tracy

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Here’s 13 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Success by Brian Tracy.

1. The Law of Control: You feel good about yourself to the degree at which you feel you are in control of your own life.

2. The Law of Responsibility: You are completely responsible for everything you are and for everything you become and achieve.

3. The Law of Direction: Successful people have a clear sense of purpose and direction in every area of their lives.

4. The Law of Compensation: You are always fully compensated for whatever you do, positive or negative.

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Tips & Tricks: Simple Twitter Tips that Attract Clients and Partners

According to Mashable.com, a leading authority on social media, there are currently over 12 million users on Twitter. Another resource called istrategylabs.com reports that 46% of Twitter users are college grads, and another 17% have post graduate degrees. Furthermore, 47% are between age 18 and 34, and another 31% are between 35 and 49. Males and females are evenly ranked, with women accounting for 53% of users and men 47%. If your target market falls within these demographics, actively participating on Twitter is probably worth your while.

Twitter is simply a micro blogging service. What does that mean? It means that you write short updates (140 characters maximum) called “tweets” and send them out to your followers. And it is a marketer’s dream come true – it’s an easy way to stay in front of your target market and showcase your authority for free. Continue reading Tips & Tricks: Simple Twitter Tips that Attract Clients and Partners

Tips & Tricks: 20 Ways to Use LinkedIn Productively

Found this useful tips on 20 ways to use LinkedIn productively on webworkerdaily.com.. If the number of requests to join LinkedIn, the business networking network, that clog your email inbox is any indication, then you know it is becoming a legitimate business tool, and one that most professionals need to effectively leverage to boost their professional prospects. LinkedIn, in fact is a web worker`s best professional friend.

And although it`s just one of many such networks, LinkedIn, is in short a network for business opportunities. On LinkedIn, people don`t chat about music or what they did on Saturday night, but instead focus on opportunities and how the network can help you. And that`s a winning formula. Here are just some of the most common and productive uses of LinkedIn. :

1) Increase freelance work. If you`re a freelancer, or you want to be, getting work can sometimes be a challenge. Or perhaps you get a lot of work, but you want to focus more on quality work that gets you the highest pay per hour. Set up a profile that shows what you can do, your experience, what you have to offer. Link up with others you know, and you`ve got a free way to market your services. It could take awhile before the jobs start rolling in, but it can`t hurt to start now. Continue reading Tips & Tricks: 20 Ways to Use LinkedIn Productively