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Here's a quick snapshot of what YOU have been talking about for the month of January 2014. Top five discussions/posts on our blog,Twitter, and Facebook.
– By Julie Yamamoto, Program Manager, The Greater IBM Connection
Here's a quick snapshot of what YOU have been talking about for the month of January 2014. Top five discussions/posts on our blog,Twitter, and Facebook.
|IBM Infographic Cartoon: So Your Parent is an IBMer (Survival Guide for Kids)
|(Replay) IBM Launches New Watson Group in Silicon Alley
|IBM Connect 2014 – Energizing Life's Work
|What Does IBM Watson Look Like? Generated Art Face the Wave of the Future?
|How Many Times Should You Try Before Success? (Infographic) – No 1 Top Tweet
|Jan 11 – 3 Things You Never Knew About #IBM #Creativity – #Games , #Art , and #Music
|Jan 14 – #IBM led the world in #patent issuances for the 21st year in a row #infographic
|(Tie) Jan 4 – #Coffee #Personality – What Does Your Favorite Coffee Say About You? #Infographic, Jan 4 – The no. 1 use of the #internet is #social & 94% go to #learn, Jan 19 – #Teamwork is the mother of invention
|10 each
|Jan 23 – No. 2 most popular Facebook post: #IBM conference call #cartoon
|(Tie) Jan 3 – Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do – Amelia Earhart quote, Jan 12 – RT/ @TheRealFredrikG: How to #work fast #infographic via @EntMagazine
|8 each
|Jan 7 – No. 4 on the @Greater_IBM 2013 countdown – Why IS #IBM Called Big Blue? The Uncertain History of a Colorful Nickname
|Jan 9 – No. 2 on the @Greater_IBM countdown for 2013: #Infographic – How to Identify an #IBMer
|Jan 23 – Greater IBMers, do you have a conference call today? The number 2 most popular Facebook post from 2013: #IBM conference call #cartoon
|Jan 15 – IBM CEO Ginni Rometty keynote speech at NRF (photo)
|Jan 10 – #IBM #Infographic #Cartoon for #FridayFun – So Your Parent is an IBMer (Survival Guide for Kids)
– By Julie Yamamoto, Program Manager, The Greater IBM Connection
Here's a quick summary of all our top 2013 posts across our blog, Twitter, and Facebook – thanks Greater IBMers!
|IBM CEO Ginni Rometty Shares Her Leadership Philosophy (Jan 10)
|Infographic: How to Identify An IBMer (June 17)
|Video Tour: Capturing the Character of the IBM Brand (March 21)
|Why IS IBM Called Big Blue? The Uncertain History of a Colorful Nickname (Jan 17)
|50 Years of Innovation: IBM Honors 2013 Fellows (April 3)
|How many times should you try before #success? #infographic (Dec 8) – (blog post link)
|Top 10 #skills to #succeed in the 21st century #workplace #Infographic (Dec 29) – (blog post link)
|How a 1995 #IBM decision changed your internet life today – reflections by Irving Wladawsky-Berger #tech (Apr 17) – (blog post link)
|How will technology improve our lives in the next 5 years #IBM5in5 (Dec 17) – (blog post link)
|Tie: Women in Technology: Consider Joining IBM #IBMjobs #hotjobs #tech (May 24) – (blog post link), #IBM is #4 on Forbes World's Most Powerful Brands – http://onforb.es/P8Bk63 (Nov 9)
|10 each
|IBM Smarter pumpkin (Oct 31 – Photo)
|Have a few calls today, Greater IBM? (Aug 21 – Conference Call Cartoon Photo)
|"Develop your own initiative. Do something no one else has done." — Thomas J Watson, Sr (Jan 4 – Photo Quote)
|Of the 50 Most Powerful Women in New York 2013, as voted by Crain's New York, look who is in the top spot (June 24 – Photo + Link)
|50 years of innovation: IBM honors eight new Fellows (Apr 3 – Photo + Link)
– Posted by Julie Yamamoto, Program Manager, The Greater IBM Connection
Companies are changing the way they work today. The combination of social, collaborative and mobile technology infused with behavioral science and analytics is incredibly powerful – especially when it is delivered in the cloud. IBM Connect 2014 will provide insights on how to apply these principles to your business.
As an added bonus for Dilbert fans, Dilbert creator Scott Adams will be speaking at the event.
Register now
Kevin Cavanaugh, Vice President of Engineering Smarter Workforce at IBM, shares his thoughts on why you should attend IBM Connect 2014
And if you aren't able to be in Orlando, don't let that stop you from joining in the conversation – learn more about how to get social
–Posted by Julie Yamamoto, Program Manager, The Greater IBM Connection
Fiscal performance alone cannot sustain future businesses. Success or failure will also be guided by societal relationship and environmental responsibility, says Jose Polackal, business development lead, government & education industry, IBM India.
We are now in a new era where the technological Zeitgeist is defined by how evolved social media is. And one way to look at it is this phenomenon called 'Social Business'. In the foreseeable future, social media will influence the performance of every business establishment and every government entity. Stakeholders (the consumers or the citizens), and not just shareholders, who are collaborating on social media are going to influence the business imperatives of every enterprise.
This means business has to concentrate more on three bottom lines – the triple bottom line being fiscal, societal and environmental and not the single bottom line. Fiscal performance alone cannot sustain future business; rather it will have to include societal relationship and environmental responsibility. Herein lies the importance of a social media strategy for every enterprise.
As of November 2012, Facebook had over 1.2 billion active users. There were over 500 million registered users in Google+ by the end of 2012. By the summer of 2013, Twitter had over 554 million active users. This social networking population is a significant subset of the 2.27 billion internet users in 2012, and on an average this is 20% of the world population.
This 20% of the world population may very well be controlling the consumer market (mainly the finished products) as they, probably, represent the population with the maximum buying power. Again, this 20% influence the governmental policies and the corporation and enterprise agenda for the future to a larger extent. This leads to the Pareto principle – 20% of the population chart out our future, and 80% follows.
Read the complete article, from timesofindia.indiatimes.com
– Posted by Khalid Raza
If you don't think you're awesome, who else will (besides your mother)? Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy. Sometimes we all need reminders to focus on achieving and showing our personal value to the world.
Do you get stuck in the internal chatter of: "I can't do it," "I must not make a mistake," "What if they don't like me?"
Here are 5 steps to help you improve your internal conversation so that you build your self confidence so your personal brand can shine.
X-IBMer and Social Butterfly Lorian Lipton coaches you with Self Worth Starts With These 5 Steps, from her blog The Digital Attitude: Becoming Eminent.
Greater IBM, what would you add to these? Have you got any tips to share?
– Posted by Lorian Lipton
How many times have you said, "I just don't have time!" And now, with the world at your fingertips, with the internet and global business buzzing by in nanoseconds, having time to get everything done seems more and more difficult to accomplish.
Sorry there will never be a 25th hour in your day But getting your priorities in order, making wise time choices, and being real with your self, can go a long way.
Here are 4 time management exercises to help you get control of your schedule. Who knows, maybe you can find the 25th hour. Read IBM's Social Butterfly, Lorian Lipton, as she makes you more productive with her 25 Hours In Your Day? 4 Tips To Get You There, from her blog The Digital Attitude: Becoming Eminent.
Greater IBM, what would you add to these? Have you got any tips to share?
– Posted by Lorian Lipton


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Cause of Baby Panda's Death Still Unknown
The National Zoo still doesn't know why a 6-day-old panda cub died at the zoo yesterday, officials said at a press conference this morning.
While the panda, who was determined during the necropsy to be female, had extra fluid in its body and an abnormal liver, it's not clear yet whether either issue was responsible for her death. Because the cub didn't show any outward physical trauma, it's unlikely that panda mother Mei Xiang accidentally crushed her cub as other pandas have, according to chief veterinarian Suzan Murray.
National zoo director Dennis Kelly said the zoo will examine differences between other zoos' panda programs to see if it can learn how to better, but that he didn't think the zoo's panda fertilization program contributed to the cub's death.
"Nothing suggests that in hindsight we would do anything differently," Kelly said.
Mei Xiang's behavior has changed since her cub's death, according to Murray, although the panda is still eating and interacting with zoo staff.
"She will slowly return to normal, but we're going to keep a watch on her," Kelly said.
Photo via Flickr user hinnosaar used under a Creative Commons license

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The lack of response so far may be due to the fact that so many other "give me a workout" threads are both currently running and seem to be asked every week.
So if you go through a couple of pages, you can see responses to similar requests.
For an overview of the multiple goals in fitness for a tennis player, check out Sports Fitness Advisor Tennis Training Section:
From the above, you'll see that the biggest ultimate goals will be to increase your speed and quickness on the court, increase your core strength to power your strokes, and work on your arms/upper body so as to avoid injury from a long season of ball bashing.
The Off Season Training Section
gives one workout regimen that should not be that hard to do.
If you are interested in using weights to increase your overall strength, you can begin with Complete, Annual Tennis Weight Training Program
Notice that rather than jumping into plyometric/power exercises, there is first emphasized a period of increasing overall muscle, tendon and ligament strength. This is not just to make your power training more powerful; the increase in strength will make you less likely to suffer injury doing plyometric work.
(I have to admit I think free weights provide advantages that machines do not, so that a three part program similar to the above, but using the following free weight exercises is better:
Tennis Weight Training - Exercises of Weight Training for Tennis
Notice that Sports Fitness Advisor stresses doing a rotator cuff/arm program throughout all phases of exercise to help prevent the all-too-common overuse injuries that plague tennis players. I think the thrower's ten is the best of these workouts that can be done 3x/week throughout your training:
It should be obvious after reading the above that you can't maximally train for strength, speed, endurance and power all at once. Going through the mutliple phases with a goal of peaking with speed and power at the end, with a firm foundation of leg, core and arm strength to prevent overuse injury, should be your goal.
Therefore as you get closer to the start of the season incorporate more of the following into your workouts:
Tennis Fitness - Medicine Ball Workout
High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT):
USTA agility drills:
As many questions undoubtedly will arise, having the following book available for reference would be a great idea:
Tennis Training: Enhancing On-court Performance
And for actual training blocks with very specific regimens, it is hard to beat Power Tennis Training
Finally, I think many have benefited from the P90X training. It's great attraction is that there is a regimen that you don't have to think/plan - just do it and you likely will be fitter than when you started.
It's just that you won't have the same leg/core/arm strength as the above regimen, and won't develop the same power and speed/quickness.
But it takes real dedication to keep going.
Good luck!
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