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Arguably the most important part of any presentation is the beginning. It sets the foundation for the rest of your talk. If you come across as a strong, entertaining speaker at the beginning of your presentation, people will be forgiving if your material gets a little more routine as the talk progresses. Most peoples' judgment is reserved for those first few seconds of the talk. So if you want to get people listening you need to hook them fast.
Think about it. How many times have you heard a speech that begins with, "I'm here to talk with you today about…." Or "Thanks for coming out to listen to my talk about…" or some variation of these intros. While they do get straight to the point, they do absolutely nothing to grab your audience, to rivet them so they'll listen, or in other words hook them. With that in mind, here are a few ways to get your audience's attention right off the bat.
Quote, Anecdote, Rhetorical Question
These are some of the most common ways to hook your audience. You must be sure to use a quote, anecdote, or rhetorical question that segues nicely into your material. If, for example, you were talking about the current recession, you could give an anecdote about the Great Depression and use it to underlie the point of your message. Or you could ask the rhetorical question: Just how similar is our current economic crisis to that of the 1930s? These types of lead ins will get people wondering, and help them tune in to what it is you're saying.
New Twist on the Familiar
Take a common story, quote, saying, or anecdote and change it. This will give your audience a new perspective on the familiar as well as grab their attention. If you handle the twist skillfully enough, you can actually make quite an impression. Let's say you were giving a presentation on nutrition in America. You could say something like, "To eat, or not to eat. That is the question." The bolder the twist, the better the reaction will be. However, you must make sure it makes sense and fits into your material. One of the best ways is to simply find popular aphorisms online and try switching the wording around.
Personal Story
This will help introduce you as a speaker and gives a personal take on the material. Part of what gives you credibility as a speaker is the authority you have to talk about a subject. A good way to do this, for example, could be to lead into your presentation with a personal story about how you got involved in the field, started your business, or became an expert on the subject. The key is to be either funny or endearing so people will trust you.
Audience Participation Exercise
This is useful as an icebreaker, but typically only works in small settings. The simplest example is to have everyone introduce themselves. However, you can get creative, depending on the setting. Often in classrooms teachers will have people work in pairs and find out 5 interesting facts.
The Screening Question
Also known as the "Show-of-hands Question," this gets the audience to participate, engages them in the material, and gives you, the speaker, an idea of how much the audience already knows.
With all of these options and a dash of creativity, you should be able to think of a good way to grab your audience's attention quickly.
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It's October which brings about the winds of change. The air is turning cooler, the leaves will begin to change color, and budding authors around the globe are about to change into energy drink consuming plunderers of the keyboard.
That's right novelists, it's almost NaNoWriMo time. I've partaken in the grueling marathon of 50,000 words in thirty days since 2009 - but I've only won once. That's almost 1400 words a day at the minimum in order to succeed and get your shiny badge and bragging rights.
Success is not guaranteed though. In fact, it feels like failure is. NaNo seems easy for anyone who considers themselves able to string a couple of stories together, but when the euphoria of "It's time for NaNo!" wears off and you're left with the idea of actually having 45K more to go, it's pretty easy to turn around and run away. In fact, I admit that in 2011 I completely imploded. About four days in, I threw my hands up and walked away.
This article from Psychology Today suggests that failures might actually shape us in a more definite way than success does. The assertion actually makes a lot of sense. Think about your latest success - what did you learn from that specific success. 2011 NaNoWriMo showed me all of the things I needed to do in order to have a better chance in 2012.
When I won in 2012, I knew it was because of two very big changes I made in light of the previous year - I outlined the entire novel and did word games with friends to give big boosts to my word count in a short time. In 2011, I took a very solo approach to NaNoWriMo despite that my friends we were working hard on theirs as well.
I can't do it alone.
Getting a 500 word boost in a matter of 20 or 30 minutes puts a huge dent in your daily goal. The task was less daunting when I had someone to work with.
Creating an outline meant I wasn't going to get bogged down in the direction of plot or "what happened then" questions. I had every move that each character was going to make down on the page, so all I had to do was create the story around it.
I honestly think that without my utter and complete NaNo meltdown in 2011, I would not have been able to "win" 2012 NaNo. I learned a lot in 2011 and I applied all of those "well, I'm not going to do that this year" thoughts, which I think helped me succeed. One might even say that my failure was the reason I succeeded.
What's going to be most interesting to me is competing again in 2013. Will the same drive push me to finish, or will I feel more complacent in succeeding? I wonder how much is to be said for being a back to back NaNoWriMo winner.
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Update: After putting my head together with some of the other operators, we determined a couple of other things that can improve your active listening skills.
When we bring on a new employee, the first thing they learn is customer service, and the most important skill we focus on is listening. Customer service is about being an active listener. You can't just "hear" what people are saying, you have to really be grabbing onto the words and turning them over in your head.
What does it take to be an active listener? There are a lot of rules to active listening but we break these skills down into basic steps. These steps have improved our customer service responses and our communication.
(NEW) Clarify The Message
One of the best tools when speaking to a customer is the ability to clarify the message they are trying to send. You never want to make assumptions when trying to decide what a customer wants. Most of the time you will get that assumption wrong and have to go back to the customer. It's always better when you're not clear to make sure you understand. A lot of times a customer uses words or phrases that might not be what you would use. You can just repeat it back to them in another way. "It sounds like you need..." or "Let me make sure I understand..." are great ways to start.
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The Active Empathetic Listening (AEL) measure has eleven key items that test how well you sense, process, and respond when you listen to someone else. Sensing is the way you indicate you are taking in the information, processing is how well you construct the narrative delivered, and responding is how you ask questions to make sure you understand. Take the AEL test and find out where you stand as a great listener and how you can improve.
Focus on Understanding
Engage in communication with the goal of "understanding" instead of "understood". When your customer is speaking, it's best to focus on what the customer is saying, rather than trying to get a head start on how you're going to respond. Once someone in a conversation goes on the defensive, you are less likely to come to a resolution.
Give Your Undivided Attention to the Person Speaking
This may seem like common sense but devices like cell phones and the constant access to email are roadblocks to active listening. When a customer calls, disengage from the emails you're working on, the spreadsheet you are clicking through, or the text message that might be waiting on you. Engage fully in the conversation that is present and not the one that is waiting for you to type a response.
Play Pretend
The more I can act like I'm face to face with a customer, the better our conversation goes. Imagine the customer across from you and nod when you understand. Responding to the customer as you would if you were face to face, you will be an even better listener. I will smile while I speak and even nod my head as the customer tells me what's going on. It makes me feel like I truly understand the customer's needs.
It's not always easy to listen and even more so when we are immediately trying to figure out what we are going to say or have too many things going on at once. If we can just stop for a moment and become a more active listener, it will improve our communication with everyone.
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A few years ago, I was hanging out with some of my younger cousins and surprised the "country girls" by wearing a snazzy pair of zebra print purple heels. They asked me how I managed to walk in those shoes and I informed them that I "walk with authority."
It's amazing how a clothing change or a new pair of shoes can make you feel more confident. I wrote about success on the debate team being somewhat wrapped into my power shoes, but what are some other changes you can make in how you walk and move that can boost your confidence?
Carry Yourself Well
How you hold yourself plays a role in how you see yourself. So the first place to start in making changes to your body language is to hold yourself a little higher. To appear more confident, you need to act more confident.
Movements Send A Message
Any movement you make can send a message. These messages can be positive or negative, so one of the most important body language changes you can make is to be aware of how you're moving.
Your Hands and Arms Serve as a Door
The movements made with arms in communicating tells a lot about the openness of a speaker. Those who cross their arms "close the door" to others feeling welcome to chime in or discuss.
The good news - you can control your own body language. Remember you have complete control over the way you carry yourself which translates into the way you are perceived. How will you walk with authority today?
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David Kidd and Emanuele Castano released a study regarding fiction and how we experience empathy in others. David and Emanuele show a link between better empathetic skills and "literary" fiction. I can easily see how 'literary' fiction provides different perspectives on people than mainstream fiction. More research is needed to be conclusive, however I do believe as readers we should mix up the genres we read.
Reading is like working out for my brain. When I read non-fiction, I think. When I read business books, I get creative. When I read fiction, I relax (unless it's a tense scene). This is like changing which weights or exercise machine I'm on. I wouldn't stick to just dumbbells for my entire workout. Switch it up.
I also think it is important to pace yourself. Besides the fact that I get heavy lidded after reading for an hour, unless it's a story that I get sucked into, information overload can happen around 60 minutes of straight reading. You need to let that information percolate in your brain for a bit.
Maranda Gibson recently came to the realization that she hasn't learned anything in a long time. "I went to the bookstore and bought three different historical nonfiction novels about the founding of the United States and the Civil War. One is the published diary of a Baton Rouge girl that begins just as Louisiana succeeded from the Union and ends six years later."
"That's a lot of time to see such a historical event from the perspective of an insider. We often get the watered down, text book history version of slavery and states' rights. Reading a book like that helps you to remember and understand that for as long as there have been conflicts – there have been two sides of every story."
Social skills are derived from the way we interpret events and in reading any kind of book, whether it be your favorite romance novel or something like a diary of a Civil War survivor, you have to practice the interpretation of events to understand the story.
For Mary Williams, "Reading helps me take a break from my personal life. I like to read anything from suspense novels to science fiction. If I can place myself in the character's shoes, then it becomes hard for me to put the book down. A good book will allow me to become enveloped in the story and with the characters; almost as if for a moment their life becomes my own. After I'm done reading, I sometimes find myself thinking about situations the character was in and how I might have handled them. And of course, it helps ignite my imagination for my own creative writing."
Reading helps us to learn things, understand people, and escape. Not all genres are alike, and some may be more helpful than others. Do you read only one type of genre? What's your favorite genre to read?
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I am amazed how often our customers are surprised to reach a real person on the first ring when calling AccuConference.
In this automatic world we live in, the "To better assist you, press 1 for billing, press 2 for account information, press 3 for sales, etc." is fooling no one. If you have to think about what button you fall into, your needs have already been minimized. It is especially cumbersome when you have to press * to repeat the options again.
Technology upgraded and offered us voice recognition "to better assist you." Well my mother was born and raised in Portugal. She does not have the ability to form the T-H (THA) sound. Voice recognition technology "assists" her into eventually yelling, with her heavy accent, the number TREE, TREE, TREE and then hearing "We're sorry, but we did not recognize your response."
When a customer reaches out by phone, having an automated system that does not guide them properly can make the first, second, third…impression one that is remembered, but remembered poorly.
With most automated systems, if you continuously press 0 enough you may get lucky and get an operator to assist. But, those systems are catching on to this workaround and now you hear, "We're sorry, but that is not a number we recognize." And worse, is when you choose a number that is not recognized and you hear the words "Goodbye"!
Unless you are the only game in town, then keeping the human spirit as your greeting is still a priority. At least it is here. When the company started in 2002, answering the phone on the first ring with a real human was a top priority, and it still is. At AccuConference, we answer the phone without making you wait.
This post was written by Debbie Vaught, an account manager here at AccuConference.
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An agenda is an important part of any large meeting running smoothly. When dealing with multiple speakers or parties on a conference call, assigning specific time increments to each speaker or Q&A session will keep everyone on track.
When I think of something that needs an agenda, I think of a large event that has multiple speakers and subject matters. An agenda, in my opinion, is to let me know who's speaking, how long they will have the floor, and give the main idea of what information they are going to present.
What makes an effective agenda?
Pick a type of agenda. Did you know there is more than one kind of agenda? I didn't until I started doing research for this post. The most popular agenda is called a "common agenda". This kind of agenda will call the meeting to order, offering a reading of the agenda, and then call for business matters to begin. The second most popular is a "priority agenda". This agenda places items of business in order of importance so that the highest priority items are sure to be addressed. Those are just two of the most popular ones, but there are a lot of different ways to arrange an agenda.
How detailed will your agenda need to be? First, consider if your agenda is going to be sent to just speakers or if all attendees will get a copy. You also need to decide just how deeply you will break out the agenda. Do you need to list every speaker or subject matter? A good rule is to break out the agenda when you will have two (or more) speakers and / or two (or more) subject matters. If you're doing a town hall type of conference where multiple speakers will weigh in on one topic, listing the speakers should be sufficient.
Have someone else look at it. Get a second pair of eyes on the agenda to make sure you didn't leave anything out or get your timezones mixed up. Since you'll be sending out your agenda with your invitation (right?) you don't want to have to update this document multiple times. Limit changes as much as you can, and letting a second person read over it will help.
Like most things when it comes to having successful conference and webinar events, the amount of time you spend planning will have a great effect on how attendees respond before, during, and after your conference is over.
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A couple months ago I won free personal training sessions. Well, my husband was actually the winner, but he graciously gave the personal training package to me because I've been wanting to get back in shape. Before I could even start my sessions, I had an initial interview with the personal trainer as well as a fitness assessment test. Talk about an eye opener. One part of the test was to jump rope for a minute. Seems easy enough, right? Well, if it's been a few years since you've really done any exercise, it's not as easy as you might think. I could only go 45 seconds before I had to stop. My heart was racing, my legs were burning, and I thought I was going to pass out. The fitness assessment gave me a reality check. I was really out of shape.
After the test, my personal trainer drew up my work out schedule and food management program. He likes to call it a "food management program" because "diet" sounds too restrictive to him. Now I'm about a month and a half into my personal training, and I can honestly say that I feel so much better in so many ways.
I'm Sleeping Better – Before I started working out, getting a good night's sleep was nearly impossible unless I took a sleeping aid like Unisom. But if I did that, I usually woke up groggy and tired. It was always a struggle to get out of bed. Now, I find myself not needing a sleep aid as often as I used to. Working out helps me burn the energy I get from the food I eat during the day. In turn, that helps me sleep much better than before.
I'm Stronger – Even after just 6 weeks, my strength has significantly improved. Just the other day I was lifting several 30 pound boxes and didn't feel too winded. If it was 6 weeks ago, that would have been a different story.
I'm Smarter – Ok, maybe my IQ didn't rocket to genius level, but I can tell that my thoughts are more clear and concise and I'm able to problem solve more efficiently. I'm sure it goes along with being able to sleep better, too.
I'm Eating Better – Yes, every now and then I'll cheat and have a slice of pizza or a reasonably sized bowl of fettuccine Alfredo. But for the most part, I'm eating more salads and veggies and have cut the carbs back as much as I can. Of course, I'm also a Type 1 Diabetic so I can't cut back too much.
I'm Losing Weight and Inches – So far I haven't dropped a lot of pounds, but I have lost a lot of inches. This means one thing. I'm gaining more muscle and becoming more toned. It's true when experts say you can't rely just on how much you weigh. If you're losing inches around your waist, your hips, and your arms then you are on the right path to becoming more fit.
Of course, not everyone likes going to the gym. Some may see it as a trivial routine or a chore. But there are different ways to get your exercise in. Maranda Gibson kills two birds with one stone. "Getting exercise doesn't always mean you have to leave the house. You can easily get your heart rate up by putting on your favorite songs and dancing around. As someone who is a neat freak at home, you can burn a good amount of calories by tackling those chores you've been putting off."
David Byrd takes a different approach with his personal fitness that keeps it interesting. "Since starting ballroom dance, I have lost 20 pounds and had to buy all new pants (my old ones were too big). In addition, I sleep better and think better. The nice thing about dance is that it's not like going to the gym and having to do repetitive exercises for an hour. It keeps me interested, especially since I get bored quickly."
Whether you're on the elliptical, vigorously cleaning house, or perfecting your dance moves, the most important thing is that you're being active. Find an activity that you enjoy and run with it (pun intended). Most likely you'll feel better, have more energy, and contribute to a healthier lifestyle.
Leading a successful conference call isn't just about getting a reliable conferencing service and calling into the conference. There are things that you have to do before it's ever time to call into your conference to ensure that it will be successful. As a leader, it's important that you do three things well before your next conference: pick a good date and time, get people to attend, and present compelling and thought provoking information.
Here are some tips from our e-book How to Plan, Setup, and Execute a Successful Webinar.
Pick the Right Date and Time
You'll never be able to pick the perfect time for everyone but what we suggest is picking a time that is good for most of your participants. We've found that the most popular times are right before or after lunch (10 AM and 1 PM in respective timezones) and meetings held on Tuesdays or Thursdays get the best turnouts. Avoid Monday meetings unless you need to get everyone ready for the week.
Send a Better Email Invite
The easiest and most common method to achieve getting the word out about your meeting is to send an email blast or calendar item directly to participants. The problem with this is that your emails will often get buried in other requests and notifications. Make your subject lines quick and focus on the who, what, and when. A good example: Marketing Webinar Featuring Bob - The Greatest Marketer Ever.
Bonus: Use registration pages and know who is going to attend your event. You can also use the system to send out reminders so that people remember to attend your event.
Create Great Presentations
You can pick the most popular time of day and send out the greatest invitation known to the invite world but if you aren't presenting something of worth then you won't get people to stick around for very long. Content is what your participants came to the presentation for, but there's a fine line between too much and not enough information on your slides. Keep the text to display to a minimum and use visuals to make your points. Remember the 10 / 20 / 30 rule from Guy Kawasaki - no more than ten total slides, twenty minutes of presenting, and thirty point font for your slides(to keep you from cramming too much information on a slide.)
Leading a conference call is more than just using the mute button when you should and sticking to your agenda. It's about what you do to plan the call, how you get people to participate, and presenting information your audience wants to hear.
You can get more great webinar tips by downloading and reading our ebook.
Okay, maybe "fun" is the wrong idea here. The words conference call are not exactly going to inspire anyone to think of a delightful day at the circus or spending a beautiful afternoon whirling around on your favorite roller coaster.
When people search for how to make a conference "fun", I think that they are looking for ways to make calls more effective. Implementing some of the rules on your next conference can help with the lack of effectiveness.
Rule #1 – Only Have Conferences When You Need To
This brings up a good question. What is "need to"? It's going to vary for you but Al Pittampalli, the author of The Modern Meeting Standard, says you should only have a meeting when there is something to decide. This isn't going to cover everything and it's not going to apply for all circumstances, but it is a good benchmark to start from.
Rule #2 – Consider Including Video Conferencing
Even if you're meeting with coworkers you've seen a number of times, integrating video conferencing can help increase the effectiveness of your meetings. A video element adds the ability to read non verbal communication to a meeting, as well as providing a way to keep everyone accountable. Not just for attendance, but for how well they are paying attention. If you see someone staring off into space or working on something else, you can call on them and bring them back to the topic at hand.
Rule #3 – Prepare for the Call
Finally, make sure you prepare for your meetings and conferences. No one wants to be in a meeting where the moderator is stumbling over their notes. When you prepare, you can get to the meet of the meeting quickly and efficiently. You don't want to waste anyone's time, and your participants will appreciate that. One way to prepare for your call is to write out your agenda and make sure you know what to say regarding each point.
Are you following these conference call rules? What rules can you contribute to make your conference calls more fun?
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Karl R. Bopp was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia from 1958 to 1970. Prior to his appointment as president, he was the Research Director of the Philadelphia Fed from 1942 to 1958. He was also the technical secretary for the Bretton Woods Monetary Conference in 1944 which later established the International Monetary Fund.
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Mobile World Congress is big, really big. 80000 people and 8 huge halls – plus many off site parties and events.
It's changed and grown over the years – this post reflects on those changes – and 2014 saw it join Cannes, CES and SXSW as a place for brands and agencies to go learn what's happening in Tech. Advertising has been the slightly poor relation in previous years, but its now clearly centre stage as the money ramps up – and the business models focus on ad revenue as the key monitisation.
Our 4Ps of Mobile Framework is now virtually vintage, but we still find it a good way to sort through the mélange of news, views, announcements and trends across mobile and social. So for Mobile Word Congress it's the perfect tool.
Starting with the Devices at the centre of everything; MWC has always been about devices – we can remember seeing the DoCoMO stand covered in the next seasons new phones, many brightly coloured or patterned depending on which fashion company they had partnered with that year.
Whilst Google and Apple don't show up, Samsung does and this year chose to announce significant new devices. The Galaxy S5 is the latest weapon in the war between Apple and Samsung for high end customers – those paying $500+ for a phone – often through a pricy monthly contract.
The screen on the S5 is a little bigger at 5.1 inches (the iPhone 5 is 4 inches) and has fingerprint scanner for locking the phone and authenticating PayPal transactions. We're told people were trying out the devices, locking them with their fingerprints then wandering off, leaving them useless for anyone else. Oh, and it's now waterproof.
Its an iteration of the hugely successful S4 and not that exciting; supporting our view that smartphones are now like the TV market – it's very hard to stand out with hardware. Just as it's hard to differentiate an LG from a Samsung in the TV department at John Lewis, it's now hard to differentiate a Samsung from a HTC etc in the phone section. Everyone makes the bezels as small as possible so their screens are as big as possible, and the only opportunity for 'design' is the rear. To be fair an iPhone remains instantly recognizable – it will be interesting to see what the iPhone 6 does to standout.
Sony launched nicely designed tablets and smartphones, like just about everything else using Android.
Even Nokia announced a new phone that uses Android – sort of. They have chosen to use a forked version (like Amazon does) that means Google isn't baked in, which must please their new owners Microsoft. They use their own Nokia appstore (it is relatively easy for developers to teak their android apps so they will work on these devices) and a range of MS products like Skype and Outlook. The interface is similar to the tiles that Windows Phone uses.
They are cheap, but are they cheap enough? Many OEMs see the low end market as the opportunity to go after and MWC was full of Chinese companies with good Android smartphones wholesaling at around $40. Firefox announced their own phone on their own OS that would sell for $25 – general view is that Android will probably get there first.
Mashable have a good round up of the main device news.
Wearables fit into Devices too and just like CES, everyone seems to have one on their stand. Samsung announced 3 new ones and their GearFit got lots of attention. With a curved screen and a heart rate sensor and we think it could trump the Nike Fuelband etc. But it is still most useful when paired with a phone, so again wearables peripherals.
Whilst Google didn't show up they did steal some headlines with a leak that they are developing a Nexus watch, to be announced in June. Along with the Apple entry into this space that everyone expects, we think people will wait and see. Watches are so much of a statement we don't think many will spend money on a Samsung etc that could look very dated against an Apple or Google device.
One other interesting fact about wearable – Ben Evans tweeted he had seen just one person Google Glass; when you have 80k mobile people it's odd that more people aren't wearing them. Maybe even the evangelists aren't that convinced?
We have long argued that social and mobile are essentially the same thing, and having Mark Zuckerberg keynote at MWC proves this. Of course he talked about WhatsApp and made the point that their reach is complimentary to FB and a key part of internet.org, which he focused on. This is the project to get the rest of the world on the internet and Zuck sees that providing free messaging, search etc is crucial for the worlds poor.
His plea for operators to allow this free access for Internet.org – and this basket of free services designed for everyone – rests on persuading them that this acts as a gateway drug or onramp to get people using data, that they will pay for.
Well worth watching the keynote video
WhatsApp dominated the news – both as people debate the valuation – with Zuckerberg arguing he got a bargain and because of their announcement that they will add voice services later this year
Location now seems like hygiene in mobile – its there and most people are finding ways to use it – but there is a long way to go. One of the first Addictive Ideas we hawked around the industry when we started was the idea of using mobile to validate credit card transactions abroad. When travelling we all get used to cards being declined because the UK fraud people decide it's unusual you are in Seoul or San Francisco. But whilst I may not take a while to know if my card is missing or has been cloned, I know when my phone has gone almost instantly.
So we approached banks, credit cards, their agencies and anyone we could think of. Zero interest. But now Mastercard are launching a similar solution. It's all about timing.
The Foursquare deal with Microsoft is seeing its first fruit with Cortana – the Micorsoft answer to Siri. The core use of Foursquare appears to be on the wane – of the 80k people at MWC just 2600 checked in.
Whilst QR codes are no longer fashionable, no one has told the Chinese who use them in lots of smart ways. WeChat enable people to follow someone by scanning their personal QR code and invite people to a group chat with one.
But all the energy in physical is now around beacons and Apple have announced their specs for iBeacons, as they look at impose their usual command and control on the space. Whilst at this stage they are regulating the hardware we suspect there will be some restrictions on how the service is used. Apple doesn't want its customers to start getting spam everytime they come close to a Beacon and we think some best practice will be forthcoming.
And unsurprisingly the Internet of Things clichés were at MWC – what's more Physical than connecting your toothbrush to your smartphone?
Continuing the emerging markets focus, new research showed that there are 219 mobile money services in emerging markets – with 13 now having more than a million users.
Coming back closer to home Greggs now has a mobile loyalty scheme where food lovers can pay using their mobile. With Eat taking a slightly different approach working with Pouch from Weve, people are going to get more familiar with using their mobile in stores and this should drive more mobile transactions.
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Little-Known Cancer Drug May Be the Surprise Hit of FDA Meeting
The next big event in biotech starts Sept. 11, when U.S. drug reviewers put a promising but controversial cancer drug from IDEC Pharmaceuticals (IDPH) under the regulatory microscope.
But savvy investors looking to score might want to pay attention the day before to the Food and Drug Administration advisory panel meeting's opening act -- Matrix Pharmaceutical (MATX).
The small, Fremont, Calif.-based biotech firm will go in front of the cancer drug advisory panel Sept. 10 seeking approval for IntraDose, a novel treatment used to help patients dying from head and neck cancer, the sixth-leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S.
IntraDose has a very good shot at getting the thumbs-up from the FDA, based on the drug's efficacy and safety record, biotech observers say. And that should be good news for Matrix's stock, which is mostly ignored by investors and appears to be undervalued compared with many of its well-hyped rivals.
Matrix shares closed Friday at $8.97 per share, down almost 50% from their 52-week high in mid-January. The company sports a market value of just $234 million, puny compared with other biotech firms that have a single drug either approved or on the cusp of approval. "Matrix's data [for IntraDose] is some of the most rock-solid stuff that I have ever seen," says one normally skeptical biotech hedge fund manager who has a significant long position in the stock. Now, some caution is warranted. Like all biotech companies, there is a bear case to be made against Matrix and its chances at the FDA, and IntraDose will never be a blockbuster drug. But with estimated peak annual sales of about $100 million for IntraDose in the head and neck cancer market -- a figure that could grow substantially if the drug's use is expanded into other cancers -- Matrix is relatively low-risk. What's so special about IntraDose? The treatment is not really a new drug at all, but a first-of-its-kind combination of three existing drugs into a cancer-fighting gel that is injected directly into solid tumors. Normally, chemotherapy drugs are injected intravenously and work their way through the blood stream to find and kill cancer cells. This long journey limits their effectiveness. But because IntraDose is injected directly into the tumor, it's more potent and works longer, or at least that's the theory. IntraDose sounds so elegant and simple, so why is it the first injectable chemotherapy treatment used to treat tumors locally? The big hurdle is getting the cancer-fighting drug to actually stay inside the tumor. Matrix has apparently solved this problem by suspending the well-established chemotherapy drug Cisplatin inside a suspension of collagen gel, which forms a kind of goop that won't seep out of tumors. Added to this goop is epinephrine, which acts like a "chemical tourniquet" to clamp down on blood vessels around the tumor and further helps to keep the cancer-fighting drug inside. Like many biotech firms developing cancer treatments, Matrix has tested IntraDose on the sickest of the sick first. It is seeking approval to market the drug for use in "refractory" head and neck cancer patients. Simply put, these are patients who have exhausted all other medical options and are weeks or months away from dying. IntraDose is not a cure. Patients using the treatment still die and the company makes no claims about extending life. But 30% of patients in the company's late-stage test had their head and neck tumors either shrink significantly or disappear altogether, a significant amount for cancer research. Many of these tumors interfere with breathing or make swallowing difficult or impossible, so shrinking or destroying them makes patients much more comfortable. "There is a growing realization that drugs are needed not just to cure disease but to improve the quality of life of patients with no options," says a doctor/analyst at another hedge fund with a long position in Matrix. "IntraDose will get approved because the drug shows a clear benefit for patients without putting them at any extra risk." Stu Weisbrod, chief investment manager at the health care hedge fund Merlin Biomed Group, agrees. "IntraDose will get approved. It's a niche product, but the drug legitimizes Matrix's technology platform." Weisbrod is long Matrix. If Matrix does run into problems at the FDA advisory panel meeting, it will be because of the unusual way IntraDose was tested. Instead of analyzing its data to measure the survival of patients taking the product, the company uses a subjective measure of patient benefit. In its two late-stage tests, IntraDose failed to meet preset patient benefit goals, although the combined data from the tests did pass. FDA advisory panel meetings can be treacherous affairs because companies never know how independent reviewers will react to their data. Matrix bulls acknowledge that the company has some explaining to do, but the overall results should be strong enough for a positive recommendation. Matrix is already testing IntraDose to expand its use -- and revenue-generating potential. It would like doctors to use the product in less critically ill head-and-neck cancer patients, as well as with patients suffering from advanced liver, colon and breast cancer. The thought here is that surgeons, for example, could use IntraDose to shrink tumors before going in to remove them. IntraDose might also be equally beneficial to patients receiving radiation therapy for solid-tumor cancers. In this way, IntraDose could become part of a cancer cure, and not just a palliative treatment for terminally ill patients. But even if Matrix gets approval for limited use of IntraDose, the company's $234 million market value seems like a screaming deal compared to its peers. By comparison, Ilex Oncology (ILXO) shares sales of a single approved cancer drug, Campath, with two other companies but sports a market cap of $684 million. And let's not even talk about Imclone (IMCL) and its much-discussed experimental colon cancer drug, IMC-C225. This drug, not yet approved for use, seems to only marginally extend the lives of terminally ill patients, yet it's already pushed Imclone's market cap to a whopping $3.3 billion. So as the Sept. 10-11 cancer drug advisory committee approaches, the hordes will be watching IDEC, but smart biotech investors should pay attention to the meeting's opening act. Matrix may just steal the show.Select the service that is right for you!
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noun \ˈjōnz\: a very strong desire for something or to do something
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slang : an avid desire or appetite for something : craving
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Is There Long-Term Brain Damage After Bypass Surgery? More Evidence Puts the Blame on Heart Disease Itself
Brain scientists and cardiac surgeons at Johns Hopkins have evidence from 227 heart bypass surgery patients that long-term memory losses and cognitive problems they experience are due to the underlying coronary artery disease itself and not ill after-effects from having used a heart-lung machine.
Researchers say their latest findings explain study results presented last year, which showed that the heart-lung machines – used to pump blood and supply the body with oxygen while the heart is stopped during surgery – did not cause postoperative long-term brain deficits.
"Our results hammer home the message that heart-lung machines are not to be blamed for cognitive declines observed years later in people who have had bypass surgery," says lead study investigator Ola A. Selnes, Ph.D., a professor in the Division of Cognitive Neuroscience in the neurology department at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
The new results stand in contrast to the impact of heart-lung machines on so-called "pumphead" syndrome, the temporary memory loss, impaired vision and slurred speech observed right after surgery in many heart bypass patients. According to another of the study's investigators, William A. Baumgartner, M.D., former cardiac surgeon in charge at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, the short-term syndrome led many surgeons and patients alike to assume that long-term losses must also be due to use of heart-lung machines, an assumption proven wrong by the latest evidence.
"Now we can assure these people that the disease, not the machine itself, is the cause of the problem," says Baumgartner, vice dean for clinical affairs and the Vincent L. Gott Professor in Cardiac Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Heart and Vascular Institute.
Neurologists on the study team say the results highlight the need for further research into the long-term consequences of cardiovascular disease on the brain, and the brain's complex network of tiny blood vessels.
"Neuroscientists do not yet have good measures on heart disease and how the burden of this disease impacts brain function," says study senior investigator and neurologist Guy McKhann, M.D., a professor at Johns Hopkins, who next plans brain imaging studies to look at changes before and after heart bypass surgery to determine if there are any early, even predictive signs of cognitive problems, and if surgery could fix them.
McKhann notes that previous studies have found some 50 percent of patients awaiting heart bypass surgery already have some early indication of brain damage.
"If we can eventually figure out how heart disease and declines in brain function are linked over the long term, then it is feasible to think that we can diagnose problems earlier and, ultimately, intervene and prevent, or even lessen, these cognitive problems," says McKhann.
During heart bypass surgery, more formally known as coronary artery bypass grafting, or CABG, blood vessels from other parts of the body are removed and re-attached to the heart to restore open blood flow when the natural blood supply becomes constrained from coronary arteries that are diseased and blocked. Patients often spend an hour or more connected to a heart-lung machine during the surgery.
Results of the new study, published in the August 2009 issue of Annals of Thoracic Surgery, showed no differences in brain impairment in those who had heart bypass surgery, including a group of 75 heart patients who had so-called off-pump bypass surgery, and another group of 99 heart patients who opted for drugs and arterial stents to keep their blood vessels open instead of bypass, with none requiring use of a heart-lung device.
But all 326 patients in the three groups were found to have experienced significant cognitive decline over the six-year study period on 16 different scores of verbal and visual memory when compared to 69 heart-healthy people who had no known risk factors for coronary artery disease.
The study, on heart patients from the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., region, is believed to be the first controlled study of its kind directly looking at the underlying causes of brain impairment, a phenomenon seen since the 1960s, when the CABG procedure was first introduced.
Adding to patients' fears was a 2001 report by researchers elsewhere, which found that 42 percent of heart bypass patients experienced some long-term cognitive impairment.
McKhann says CABG has "really evolved" along with heart disease treatment since the heart bypass machines and restorative procedure were first introduced, with procedure volumes peaking in the 1990s, but dropping afterwards, as physicians and patients began opting for less-invasive procedures. According to the latest estimates from the American Heart Association, roughly 469,000 CABG procedures were performed in the United States in 2005 on some 261,000 patients.
He points out that the procedure remains in widespread practice as patients considered safe to have the CABG procedure are getting older and sicker. People as old as 80, he says, are now candidates for CABG.
"With these new data, patients can now more accurately and confidently weigh the risks and benefits of bypass surgery against off-pump surgery or even more conservative options," says McKhann.
All study participants underwent an hour-long series of cognitive tests five times and during regularly scheduled annual study visits. In one test of verbal memory, patients had to memorize 15 words in a specific order and within 30 minutes. In another test of visual memory, patients had to trace on paper a complex diagram, which was then taken away, and then redraw the diagram from scratch.
Funding support for this study was provided by the U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, a member of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and the Dana Foundation.
Besides McKhann, Baumgartner, and Selnes, other researchers involved in this study, conducted from 1997 through 2008, were Maura Grega, M.S.N.; Maryanne Bailey, M.P.H.; Luu D. Pham, M.Sc.; and Scott Zeger, Ph.D.
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We have quite strong server with 1Gbit/sec bandwidth. If we will get that average stream is 300kbit/sec, it means that we can support ~3,5k connections (1Gbit * 1024 * 1024 / 300 kbit). Is it correct? But actually, when we have more than 500 connections on server, time to time we get connection rejects. Any ideas?
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Sources say detectives are searching in Mexico for the man who allegedly stabbed a soccer coach to death on a Manhattan street.
25-year-old Michael Jones was found on West 14th Street near Fifth Avenue Sunday morning with multiple stab wounds on his neck and body.
Sources say police are focusing on a Queens man, Orlando Orea, who they say bought a one-way ticket to Mexico with cash Tuesday morning.
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Read Our Full Review >>Grandpa's Workshop is a fun educational app for young children including early math concepts.
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This dancing Grandpa and his whacky tools are ready for fun projects in the workshop! Created by the makers of the wildly popular "Grandma's Garden", Grandpa's Workshop includes seven action-packed mini-games loaded with educational content for kids ages 2-6. Plus, your kids will get to choose parts to build their own colorful clubhouse and watch educational videos of real tools in action!FRONT PAGE EDUCATION FEATURE - App Store, Oct-Nov 2012
1. Spot the Difference. One of those tricky tools is sillier than usual... can you spot the one that is different?
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- Colors: orange, purple, brown, red, green, yellow, blue, pink, black, gray
- Measuring: measure items in units 1-12
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Song of the Day – "Chapter 1: The Doctor" by King Richard's Sunday Best
With a heavy dose of cello and harmonized vocals, KRSB (cool little acronym huh?) create a polished gem that certainly lives up to the album's title "Greatest Hits," which is in fact not a greatest hits album. Saying exactly why this song captivates the way it does is a bit difficult for me, as nothing really jumps out of the song besides a strong feeling for a good melody and the strong vocals brought by each of the three singing members on this song. This sugary indie-pop song or thrash polka as the band chooses to describe themselves really hits its high points near the end of the song where the lead and harmonies in the vocals separate, providing a pleasant backing for the strong vocals of Evan Tyor which provide the song with an added sense of urgency and emotion that the song otherwise lacks. And they carry this idea through, climaxing in the section where all instruments drop off and the listener is left one on one with Mr. Tyor's vocals before the band makes it triumphant return.
King Richard's Sunday Best, an Atlanta based band, is still chugging along today, recording and playing around the distance of the different colleges they all attend. Recently the band graced the stage at a private event, a retirement party which I totally crashed (well sort of). Luckily for you, word on the street is that these guys are coming to the WUOG lobby in the near future, who knows maybe even January 12th for some quality Live in the Lobby action. In the meantime, enjoy "Chapter 1″ of Greatest Hits which very well might be a fairly accurate collection of their greatest hits.
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Primetime Emmy nominations announced: Mad Men leads way with 19 nominations
LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Mad Men," the sharply observed drama of a changing 1960s America, captured 19 Emmy nominations Thursday morning to lead the series pack, with the melodramatic miniseries "Mildred Pierce" starring Kate Winslet grabbing a top 21 bids.
"Mad Men" has a chance to repeat for a fourth consecutive year as best drama. "Modern Family," last year's top comedy series, was the most-nominated sitcom with 17 bids.
Other leading nominees include the Prohibition-era drama "Boardwalk Empire" with 18 nominations, "Saturday Night Live" with 16 and sex-and-swords fantasy "Game of Thrones" and the sitcom "30 Rock" with 13 bids each.
"OK, keep it together," a surprised nominations co-announcer Melissa McCarthy said when she realized she was a nominee for her sitcom "Mike & Molly."
The controversial sitcom "The Kennedys," which was dropped by the History channel and given a second chance by the lesser-known ReelzChannel, received 10 nominations, including best miniseries.
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