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You may already know that email marketing has the highest ROI of any marketing channel.
But how can you take advantage of it?
For email marketing to work you need to build a list, get your emails delivered…
and then have your subscribers actually open your emails.
In this Email Marketing for beginners guide, I'm going to help you overcome all of these email marketing obstacles (and more).
Let's go.
Chapter-1: Email Marketing Basics. Chapter-2: Getting Started With Email Marketing. Chapter-3: Creating the Right Lead Magnet. Chapter-4: How To Build An Email Marketing List As Quickly As Possible. Chapter-5: How to Choose The Right Email Marketing Tool. Chapter-6: How To Increase Email Open & CTR Rates. Chapter-7: Advanced Tips And Strategies.
Chapter 1:
Email Marketing Basics.
In this chapter, I'll cover the fundamentals of email marketing.
First, you'll learn exactly what email marketing is.
I'll also explain why email marketing is so important for generating sales.
What is Email Marketing?
Email marketing can be defined in many different ways, but the best definition of what email marketing is can be found on Pat Flynn's Smart Passive Income:"Email marketing is the promotion of products and services to your audience via email. Successful, long-term email marketing depends on building trust with your audience."- Pat Flynn Click To Tweet
Why is Email Marketing Important?
The fact that you are reading this guide on email marketing tells me that you already know how effective email marketing is and why its important to the success of your online business.
But let's talk a bit more on why email marketing is important.
Email marketing has proven to be one of the most profitable marketing channels with an ROI of $38 for every $1 spent.
With that being said :
Email marketing has proven to be more profitable than social media.
Chapter 2:
Getting Started With Email Marketing.
Now its time to begin the journey of building a solid foundation with email marketing for your business,
Specifically, I am going to show you what you should do before you actually start collecting emails on your website.
If you skip this process the other strategies in this guide won't be as effective as they should…
Let's begin.
Define Your Audience
There's no way around it.
If you want to build a responsive and profitable email list, you will need to define the type of audience you are trying to get on your email list.
That way you will be able to speak to your audience through email in a more personal way which in the end will increase engagement and sales. (More on that later).
The first step of your list building game plan needs to start by DEFINING WHO EXACTLY your ideal target customer is
- What are their traits,
- their needs,
- their issues,
- their pain-points,
- their irrational fears,
- their aspirations,
- concerns,
- environment,
- Etc…
Sounds basic right? well, it is…
If you can answer these questions: congrats because you are ahead of most marketers online.
Your email marketing goals should be customer-centric because the main goal is to solve your ideal customer problems through email.
If you are having issues with finding out whats your audience biggest problem and struggles, try one of these strategies.
Customer Survey
There's no better way to find out what issues your customers are having than to ask them directly.
Ideally, you want to ask your prospects at least 4 questions in the survey:
For example, The questions don't have to be complex, you can keep it simple:
Using Survey Monkey you can easily create a survey in minutes.
Amazon product review.
There are a lot of positive reviews on amazon but when it comes to negative feedback, customers go all in…
This gives you a good insight into your audience problems:
Just search on amazon using a few search terms your audience might search for
Then select a product and sift through the reviews.
Pay attention to terms that keep appearing multiple times
By now you should have a clear idea on what issues your target audience is facing.
With that, let's move on to chapter 3
Chapter 3:
Creating The Right Lead Magnet.
Now that you have figured out your audience #1 problem its time to create a solution for it and offer it as a lead magnet to that audience.
Unlike creating a random lead magnet and giving it away. (which may or may not work).
With this method, you are sure that your lead magnet will work.
Because it's created around the problem-solution method.
Now, I am going to share with you a few proven lead magnet templates you can use.
#1: The eBook.
With the eBook lead magnet.
You will create an eBook with the solution to the problem you found in chapter 2.
Let's say my audience was in the weight loss space and they are having issues losing weight despite trying multiple products.
I would create a short eBook (about 20-30 pages) on how to lose a few pounds in 30-days.
Note: Your lead magnet doesn't have to be some "life-changing" solution. (Keep it simple)
Next, give your lead magnet a title. the title of lead magnet will determine how well it converts because its the first thing your audience will see.
Here's a few Headline formulas you can use:
- [Number] Proven [Actions/Ways] to [Achieve Desired Result]
- How To [Desired Outcome] (Without [Unpleasant Action])
- [Number or How to] Simple/Easy Ways to [Desired Outcome]
- The Ultimate Guide to [Achieve a Desired Outcome]
Heres an example of what the eBook lead magnet looks like.
#2: Checklist or CheatSheet
The checklist and cheatsheet lead magnet templates have been used a lot online.
In my opinion, almost every website has one.
But here's the truth:
Most website just offers a random cheatsheet that they think their audience will want.
The question is :
What's the right way to do it?
With all the work you have done in chapter 2, you have already done half the work which makes your lead magnet bullet-proof…
First, create a checklist breaking down the solution to the problem you found into simple "bite-size" tips.
The key to this is to make the tips on your checklist "stupid simple" so that anyone can follow them.
You can ask your self these questions to get your creative ideas flowing
- If I were telling my 5-year-old kid how to do this, what steps would I give him?
- How can I make this extremely easy and foolproof to implement?
If you need a few inspirations check out a few articles on Wiki-How
Finally, you will create your title. Again, your title should be compelling.
Include a few power words in your title to make it more compelling and emotional.
Pro Tip: Turn your most popular blog post into a checklist.
#3: Mini Email Course
This is one of my favorite email marketing lead magnets.
unlike most other lead magnets where your subscriber might never open your email after receiving that free gift. (harsh truth)
One of the best ways to give incredible value to your readers is through an email course.
Email courses are great because they:
- Are email: When someone offers you a bonus PDF, or a free e-book, you know you roll your eyes when you have to enter your email address just to download it. Email courses are email, so it just feels more natural to sign up for them.
- Are substantial: Which sounds more enticing to you: a single-page bonus PDF, or a whole email course?
- Are ongoing: Email courses keep delivering value as time goes on, and your readers start to look forward to your emails.
- Motivate your readers: If your readers are coming to you for help on something, they need you to motivate them to reach their goals. You could dump a 32-page ebook in their lap, or you could email them once a week with a small, manageable, challenge. The latter approach is going to get them more results.
With that, here's the process of creating your email course lead magnet.
First, break down the solution to the problem you're solving into steps…
What steps will someone need to take to get from point A (Problem) to point B (Solution)?
Next. Turn each step into a lesson…
So here's what the outline of each lesson should look like:
Finally, create a welcome email which subscriber will get once they sign up for your mini-email course.
This shouldn't be hard:
All you need to do is tell the subscribers what to expect and a few tips of how they should consume each lesson, that's it.
Here's an example of one of the best email course lead magnets ever!
#4: Video Tutorial
This is exactly as the name states.
The key here is to create a video tutorial showing your prospects how to solve the specific problem they are struggling with.
Your video doesn't have to be professionally produced.
A simple screencast video will work. Once you are delivering the solution to a problem.
Who wouldn't be interesting to learn how to solve their problem?
Also, the video tutorial can be in series or you can just do it in one video.
In my opinion, the video series works better:
Because it gets subscribers to engage with your emails…
That way they will keep opening your future emails.
#5: List of Tools and Resources.
What if an influencer with a popular blog should offer you a list of the exact tools and resources he used to grow his blog.
I mean literally everything:
- Analytics Tools
- List Building Tools.
- Content Marketing tools
- SEO Tools
- Marketing Automation tools
- Web Hosting.
Would you be ready to give up your email to know what tools helped them with growth?
I don't know about you, but I'm in!
That's exactly what you will offer as your lead magnet.
This can be done in any niche.
If you are in cooking, you can offer recipes. You get the idea.
There are many other ways you can create lead magnets but these lead magnet examples are proven to convert.
Plus they are built to solve a specific problem (chapter 2)
So there is no guessing if they work.
Now it's time to start growing your email list.
Chapter 4:
How To Build An Email Marketing List As Quickly As Possible.
So you created your Lead magnet:
Now what?
In this chapter, I will show you how to position your lead magnet as something more valuable than just another free report or checklist.
Specifically, I will show you some of the most effective list building strategies. that's working right now.
In fact, you should be able to build an email list from scratch with these techniques.
Let's begin.
The Upside-Down HomePage.
I'm not sure who invented this technique but I learned it from Bryan harris.
Here's how it works:
The idea is to turn your homepage upside down.
So instead of having all the links and navigation at the top of your homepage:
You would put them at the footer of your homepage. (Or remove them completely).
So your homepage should look like this:
So as you can see there is only one action that someone can take when they land on this homepage.
It's actually two.
1- They can opt-in
2- They can leave
Using a tool like LeadPages or Clickfunnel you can set up an upside-down homepage.
Content Upgrades
If you are not using the content upgrade to grow your email list:
You need to start now.
There's no other way to put it.
This strategy is the easiest way to turn blog readers into email subscribers.
Here's how you execute this technique.
Login to your google analytics:
Find the page on your site that's driving the most traffic
Then create a bonus that will compliment that blog post.
The bonus can either be a few bonus tips, a checklist or an eBook.
Next, add the opt-in form at the end of your blog post for the bonus.
This technique is used on all articles published on Sumo blog.
This is proof that it works…
Pro Tip: Make the bonus easy to consume. No more than 2 pages.
Optimize "About" Page
Your website about page has more potential than you think.
Let me explain:
If you login to your google analytics and check the most visited pages on your site.
Your "About" page is in the top 5.
You can go check… I'll wait.
Ok, your back.
Was I right?
Now the question is:
How do you optimize your about page to grow your email list?
Here's the process :
First, you wanna ensure your "about me" convince visitors that they are in the right place.
So, for example, you would have something like this:
"If you struggle to lose weight, then you're in the right place."
Of course, you want to have something more captivating than that, but you get the point.
For example, Derek Halpern implements this technique on his about page.
The "Unique" Newsletter.
So you might be wondering :
What is a "Unique Newsletter"?
It's basically offering something unique to get someone to sign up for your newsletter.
When I say unique I mean unique.
For example, check out Noah Kagan's homepage.
As you can see Noah Kagan is not offering just another weekly newsletter.
instead, you're getting 85% of his hottest business hacks.
Isn't that something Unique?
He is also using the upside-down homepage technique.
Chapter 5:
How to Choose The Right Email Marketing Tool.
Now that you are implementing my proven list building techniques.
It's time to choose the right list building tools to increase your conversions and deliver your lead magnet.
No worries, I am going to share with you some of the best email marketing tools along with some features you can take advantage of to run your email marketing campaigns.
One of the most user-friendly autoresponders you can invest in.
At the same time, Convertkit still allows you to do most advanced stuff to build your list in a more strategic way.
For example, you are able to :
- Segment your list without creating multiple lists.
- User Click-triggers.
- Send Automated Emails base on Subscriber behavior.
- Create a visual automation workflow.
I have personally used ConvertKit before and one thing they really master is their software user interface. I must say no other email autoresponder offer such a Beginner-friendly UI.
Pricing:14-day free trial then $29/mo
Aweber is perfect if you just want to perform basic actions with email marketing such as sending broadcast messages or autoresponder sequences.
Also, you can do a few other stuff such with Aweber such as Split testing and
My favorite feature: The drag and drop email builder which makes your emails very responsive for mobile device.
Pricing:30-day free trial then $19/mo
I ain't gonna lie:
Active campaign is the master at Automation.
Whatever action that you want to automate with your email marketing campaigns Active Campaign has a feature for it. Trust me.
Also, you get access to CRM features which makes automation much easier.
My Favourite Feature: Automated SMS marketing.
You can add SMS messages as a step in your automation sequence…
Pricing: 14-day Free trial then $9/mo
MailChimp still remains one of the giants of email marketing tools.
One thing that mail chimp offers which I don't see in any other autoresponders are their free forever plan
It's not a trail. It's a free version which you can use as long as your email list size is under 2,000.
For persons on a budget, I would recommend using MailChimp.
Favorite feature: email templates. MailChimp has some of the best email templates that you can use.
Pricing: $9.99/mo for list over 2,000
Constant Contact.
It's another Email marketing software with a ton of pro features loaded inside.
Such as a drag and drop email editor.
Also, you can automatically resend emails to persons that didn't open your emails.
Favorite feature: Events:
Constant Contact is quite unique in this regard, being one of the few email marketing tools that allow you to manage event invitations, registrations, and tickets.
Pricing:30-day free trial then $20/mo
Chapter 6:
How To Increase Email Open & CTR Rates.
Are you ready to Skyrocket your email open rates?
you should be sending broadcast emails to your subscriber or automated email sequences.
But one of the issues in email marketing is that it's hard to get persons to open your emails and click-through to purchase your products.
But I got you covered,
because in this section, I share with you World-class techniques to get prospects to open your emails and click-through and buy your products or sign up for your webinar.
How to increase your email Open Rates.
If you can't get your emails opened by subscribers then not doing email marketing the right way.
Unfortunately, there is no specific tool that shows you exactly what to do to get your emails opened by subscribers.
Instead, you need to implement techniques in your email marketing campaigns which will get subscribers to open your emails as soon as they are delivered.
Speaking of:
Spam Filters are your Enemy.
Let's address the elephant in the room.
You already know that if your emails aren't being delivered the right way you won't get anyone opening them right?
But how do you ensure that your emails get delivered to the inbox?
Avoiding Spam filters!
One of the easiest ways to do this is to avoid using spam words in your email subject line and body copy.
Here are a few spam words you should avoid
- Don't delete
- Fast cash
- Free sample
- Giving away
- Multi-level marketing
- Promise
- Satisfaction
- Will not believe your eyes
- Billion dollars
- No catch
- Winning
Of course there are many more spam words you should avoid those are just a few to give you an idea.
List Segmentation.
Not many email marketers do this but it's crucial if you want to get high open rates.
Heres why:
Just like everyone else, I don't like receiving emails that I am not interested in, so I delete any emails that don't seem relevant to me.
Now, what does this have to do with email list segmentation?
If you don't segment your list you will be sending subscribers irrelevant emails which will never get opened.
One of the best ways to segment your list is to tag subscribers when they sign up for your lead magnet.
So if you have an SEO blog and someone signs up for your link building lead magnet you would tag that persons as "interested in link building".
So everyone that signs up for that link building lead magnet should only receive emails about link building.
Moving on.
The Subject Line Is Everything.
You might be wondering why the subject line is everything:
Well, here's why?
Just like any other piece of content online, you only get one chance to win someones attention and it's with the subject line.
In short :
If your subject sucks, you lose that persons attention… For good.
So that means your emails won't get opened, even if your email body copy is the best.
The subject line is everything!
Now, how do Write subjects lines that get opened?
A few tips to use.
- Keep your subject lines Short and Sweet
- Write like you are talking to one person.
- Use numbers
- Use questions to pique the interest
- Create a Sense of Curiosity
- Make Email Subject Lines Relevant and Timely.
Sure-Fire Ways to Increase Email Click-Through Rates.
Once you implement the email open rates strategies you should be getting more persons opening your emails.
Now its time to get persons to click-through to purchase your products or sing up for a webinar or whatever action you want them to take.
Be Strategic With Your CTA
Your call to action determines if someone click-through to your website to perform the action you're trying to get them to take.
So if you want to increase your clickthrough rate, you need to be strategic with your CTA.
Heres a tip: use descriptive CTA,
When someone sees your CTA they know why they should click-through.
Focus On Buyer Interests
Just like segmenting your email list which gives you the ability to make every email relevant.
Focusing on the Buyers interest is the same, its all about writing emails around something the buyer is interested in…
Also write your emails in a personal tone will help a lot.
Chapter 7:
Advanced Tips And Strategies.
Optimize your Emails for Mobile Device.
With mobile device accounting for up to 41.9% of emails opened you need to ensure your emails are optimized for a mobile device.
Here a few strategies to ensure your emails are fully optimized for mobile:
Avoid using large images
Write short paragraphs
Use responsive email templates.
Follow those techniques and your emails will be optimized for mobile usage.
The Landing Page Formula For Conversions
If you want to ensure all your landing pages convert keep reading.
I will show you a formula that almost always works for any landing page, in any industry.
Heres the Formula.
Large headline -> Small Sub Headline-> Picture of The Lead magnet ->Optinform
For Example, here's what it looks like:
Use Popups where Relevant.
Not everyone likes popups.
But we all know that they work.
But only if you use them the right way.
The question is how do you use Pop-ups the right way?
Gald you ask.
The first thing you want to do is ensure that the pop-up that visitors see is relevant to the page that they are viewing.
So for example, if someone is reading a Copywriting Guide on your website.
The pop-up should look something like this:
If your website runs on WordPress you can use Thrive Leads to set specific popup for specific pages and blog post.
A/B Split Test All The Way.
Do you want to get more sales while increasing your email open rates?
There is no easier way than to do an A/B Split test of your emails.
Before we dive in let me point out that not all email marketing tools give you the option to split test your emails.
The first variable you should test is your subject lines.
Then you can move on to testing a few other variables like your email content, images, and CTA.
Email Marketing is still one of the most profitable marketing channels and will continue to dominate marketing in the future.
If you follow the strategies and techniques in this guide you will be able to build your email list and have a profitable online business.
also if you already have an email list but struggles to profit fro ti the strategies will also help you get around that roadblock.
leave a comment and let me know whats your #1 take away from this guide.
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Green Shoots of Economy
SUBHEAD: These 'Green Shoots' won't lead world economies out of woods. By Matthew Lynn on 5 May 2009 in Bloomberg News - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=a68fKnmA8S6k&refer=home Image above: "Green Shoots" stock photo from http://pix.ie/verysnappy/816406 Spring has arrived and everyone is fed up talking about the greatest depression since the 1930s. So now there are "green shoots" everywhere. On one day last week, Bloomberg carried 118 articles and research reports from many sources in which the most durable of horticultural metaphors was deployed. They weren't isolated cases. "I do indeed see green shoots for the European economy," Ewald Nowotny, a council member of the European Central Bank, said at a press conference in Vienna last week. "We're beginning to see some healthy signs -- the stirrings of what I call green shoots," Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher said last month. The trouble is, most of them are nonsense. Over the next few months, you are going to hear a whole series of increasingly ridiculous and bogus signals of recovery trumpeted as if they heralded the end of the recession. All will be meaningless. Here's a fool's guide to four types of "green shoots," all of which can be ignored by anyone trying to work out where the economy is going. One: It's no longer getting worse. "The economy has continued to contract, though the pace of contraction appears to be somewhat slower," the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee said in a statement last week in which it signaled that -- yup, you guessed it -- the emergence of all those "green shots" meant it didn't have to do much more to stimulate the economy. So, to get this straight, the economy is still falling off a cliff, only not falling quite so fast as it was a few months ago. It is, however, still getting smaller, which means everyone is getting poorer. At the risk of spoiling everyone's fun, there is a big difference between that and the economy actually starting to recover. Two: We applied the medicine, so stop complaining. "I am confident that the innovative policies being pursued by the Federal Reserve will facilitate and, indeed, expedite the recovery process," said the Fed's Fisher in the same speech in which he forecast the healthy emergence of those "green shoots." It is pretty much the same message pumped out by central bankers around the world: We have cut interest rates, printed money and pumped up demand. We have a computer in the basement that says when you do all of those things, the economy will start to recover. There is just one snag: What if you have the wrong diagnosis and the wrong cure? Just applying the medicine doesn't tell us anything, and certainly not that the patient is about to get up and start walking again. Three: The stock market says so. Indeed it does. The markets aren't so much spotting "green shoots" as a whole flowerbed of roses and tulips. Europe's Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index has erased all its losses from the early part of the year and shows every sign of kick-starting a new bull market. It climbed 13 percent in April, the biggest monthly gain since data for the index started in 1987. Most other major markets around the world have staged similar rallies. "All the things are in place for the bear market to have ended," Anthony Bolton, president of investments at Fidelity International, said in an interview. Again, there's a snag: The stock market doesn't have any more of a clue about what will happen than the rest of us. It has predicted at least 12 of the last two recoveries, and nine of the last five recessions, to paraphrase economist Paul Samuelson. One consequence of the credit crunch is that we should stop believing the markets are much good at predicting anything. After all, they didn't see the blow-up in the markets, and that was happening right under the noses of professional investors. There's no point in imagining the same people can spot a recovery now. Four: Business leaders are more optimistic. Some of the most respected names in business are blooming with confidence. Those "green shoots" are "turning into daffodils" Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Chief Economist Jim O'Neill said in an interview last week, after raising his forecast for global growth next year. Consumers want to "move on" from the economic decline, said Stuart Rose, chief executive officer of U.K. retailer Marks & Spencer Group Plc, as if the recession were just some tiresome psychological condition we could just snap out of. Ignore them. Business leaders are perennially optimistic. It is part of their job. To get to the top of a big company you have to be constantly "breaking new ground," "pushing the envelope" and "taking things to the next level." The gloomy realists don't make it to the board -- even though, of course, they are often right. Reality Intrudes. The reality is, no one knows where the global economy is going at the moment. We are living through the worst recession since World War II, but much has changed since then. It's time those "green shoots" were "nipped in the bud." To deploy a simile from a different part of the garden, "we're not out of the woods yet." And we won't be for a long time.
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?Smuggling, the golden Art?
As a result of the electricity crisis, the only thing that illuminates the city is martyrs' pictures on the walls. Since last February people have again begun to live their ordinary lives in these two cities, and the connection with the outside world has been established, but this connection has become a way for cases of abuse and trafficking. The golden path brought wealth to War merchants and fame to the residents of Nubl and Al-Zahraa.
Nubl ,the road between Aleppo and Nubl and Al-Zahraa symbolizes the unyielding struggle of the Syrian army and its allies for breaking the siege of the two cities in the last February. But after a few months of freedom, many of the locals believe that they pay the cost of fame. This road is not simply for the movement of people and provision of living standards, but it has become a path for millions of Lira coming into the hands of war merchants, in the shadow of the wild battles and rockets that are still landing over their homes
Trucks carrying goods compete with cars of people on the road which is the main artery road between both cities of Aleppo and Idlib and goes through Fryn and the surrounding areas of Aleppo. Suppliers use it to supply fuel and food to areas under the control of terrorists and ISIS.
?History of the road?
First, one of the organizations (which offered no notable help in breaking the siege of the Syrian army) took full control of the road and hired a number of young people from Nubl and Al-Zahraa to prevent conflicts with local residents.
? A trip worthy of millions begins with a security check point?
In the business of smuggling which many Syrian smugglers have skillful specialty, you need a security checkpoint which looks to be covered in military appearance. In the beginning of their journey, people face a checkpoint at the entrance of the industrial area (south of Alzahraa) and another at the Crossroads named Kaffein (last town under the control of Kurdish forces before Meyer and then Nbl). These check points are supposed to make sure the cargo reaches areas dominated by terrorists. On the other hand, the Turkish delegation cross these Ajze checkpoints to get to Aleppo and other provinces.
In the next phase traders attributed to "Jerusalem Brigades" and "homeland defense" (of the Palestinians) and some other groups were there and led to the increasing expansion of smuggling in the region. Most locals reported that they transit cargo, fuel, sugar and flour to places outside the control of the central government.
Nubl and Al-Zahraa road is not only a shortcut to profitability but also a very cursory look at the goods would suffice to clearly observe the mass of Turkish goods, especially food and clothing.
An infestation, thanks to the merchants who are connected to influential officials, formed to take control of Turkish goods in the Syrian markets. Each of these merchants has a specific task, given encouragement and manufacturer expert in technical smuggling, so much so that even the Turkish chicken has a responsible businessman which is distinct and separate from the masters of food and textiles.
For optimum utilization of the golden road special stations were considered to take bribe as efficiently as they could. Depending on the type and quantity of cargo, trucks pay substantial sums to the authorities of these stations. This increased the market of creating new checkpoints, which have drawn many people to this increasingly growing competition. This has come to a point that one of the experienced organizations managed to rent out the Northern check point gate around Aleppo at a price of 30 million Liras (about 56 million US dollars), and after a short time, the checkpoint was rented for 65 million Liras (122 million US dollars) to another organization for a year.
?Till the Hereafter?
One of the veterans who fought alongside the Syrian army to break the siege can't do anything now but to sorrow and regret for the situation. Having recently been in a better state in terms of his health, he is hopeless with the situation to the point that he doesn't speak of anything but handing over the affairs to the Hereafter.
?Brilliance of martyrs?
The tragedy that locals have witnessed is not limited to stops and checkpoints. Columns in the two cities have been brightened only by pictures of martyrs. Some Merchants have also taken advantage of the electricity crisis and benefited considerably by controlling the hours of electricity and its price. Nubl and Al-Zahraa which are suppliers of water to their neighbors cannot meet their own water-related needs. Corruption in government offices and institutions from their neighboring areas spread over Nubl and Al-Zahraa and the ravage has caused all public service institutions to be forced to offer special services to profiteers in order to communicate with other institutions. As a native of the city has said "everyone is for himself and the only solution is to have someone to pull some string for you".


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Conflicting objectives of democracy promotion
Conflicting objectives challenge the effectiveness of democracy promotion. Scholars and practitioners have been widely acknowledging this as a matter of fact in democracy support. Any target country of democracy promotion faces a multitude of international actors who pursue diverging interests and aims. This project focused the emergence and consequences of conflicting objectives in democracy promotion.
Project Team:
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Sonja Grimm, University Konstanz
Time frame:
2010 - 2012 / completed
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Project description
The individualistic paths which democratisation can take aggravate this complex situation further: In general, democratisation does not follow one universal pattern, which could serve as a recipe for easy support from the outside. In each individual case democracy promoters have to rethink how, when and by which means democratisation can be supported. Faced with such complex realities, international actors often pursue democratisation under the umbrella of 'all good things go together'. However, the objective of democratisation is likely to compete with other objectives of foreign support of different international actors, sometimes also of the very same actor.
This project pursued two aims: (1) to systematise significant conflicts of objectives in democracy promotion, and (2) to analyse these conflicts of objectives in order to explore their consequences for the success of democracy promotion. Ten international scholars studied African, Asian, Middle Eastern and Latin American processes of political change and seeked to clarify the main purposes of democracy promotion policies. They focused their analysis on possible trade-offs between democracy promotion and other relevant areas of external support like security-building, peace-building, state-building, capacity-building and empowerment.
First Results:
The conceptual framework and findings from nine case studies are presented in the Special Issue "Do all good things go together? Conflicting objectives in democracy promotion", edited by Julia Leininger, Sonja Grimm and Tina Freyburg.
Do all good things go together? Conflicting objectives in democracy promotion
Leininger, Julia / Sonja Grimm / Tina Freyburg (eds.) (2012)
Democratization 19 (3), Special Issue
Not all good things go together: conflicting objectives in democracy promotion
Grimm, Sonja / Julia Leininger (2012)
in: Democratization 19 (3), Special Issue, 391-414
Demokratieförderung im Zeitalter Sozialer Medien: Risiken und Chancen
Breuer, Anita (2011)
Analysen und Stellungnahmen 14/2011
'Bringing the outside in': illustrations from Haiti and Mali for the re-conceptualization of democracy promotion
Leininger, Julia (2010)
in: Contemporary Politics 16 (1), 63 – 80
Demokratieförderung: kein Ende der Geschichte
Grävingholt, Jörn / Julia Leininger / Oliver Schlumberger (2009)
Analysen und Stellungnahmen 1/2009
Ohne Gewähr: Demokratieförderung in Zentralasien
Grävingholt, Jörn (2007)
in: Osteuropa 57 (8-9), 401-416
Current Publications
COVID-19: super-accelerator or game-changer for international (development) co-operation?Klingebiel, Stephan / Artemy Izmestiev
External Publications of 06 July 2020
Towards greening trade? Environmental provisions in emerging markets' preferential trade agreementsBerger, Axel / Dominique Blümer / Clara Brandi / Manjiao Chi
External Publications of 05 July 2020


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HELD ON THE OFFSHORE break of the same name, Mavericks is one of the world's most famous big wave surfing competitions. The contest is called at 24 hours notice, and can fall anytime during a November to March "watch period", as long as waves reach at least 20 feet.
The official green light went up on Mavericks' website on Thursday afternoon. The invited surfers now have until 7 AM Saturday to get to the Mavericks break. Heats start at 8 AM local time, with finals planned for 1:30 PM and a trophy ceremony for 3 PM. The surfers will be competing for a $150,000 prize purse, the highest in Mavericks' history.
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El Cerrito spikes BHS boys volleyball
The Berkeley boys' volleyball team got a good look at league power El Cerrito on Tuesday, and it wasn't particularly pleasant for the 'Jackets. El Cerrito pounded them early and often, winning 15-1, 15-4, 15-7.
El Cerrito started the match with a 7-0 run, as the two-time defending ACCAL champs made it clear there would be no upset by the visiting 'Jackets. The Gauchos allowed Berkeley just one point in the first game, a Robin Roach serve that El Cerrito couldn't return over the net.
"I think in the first game my guys were a little shocked at the speed of (El Cerrito's) offense," Berkeley head coach Justin Caraway said. "Once we saw what we were up against, we calmed down and did a little better."
The 'Jackets didn't really recover until well into the second game, with the Gauchos out early again to a 9-0 lead. The streak was broken when an El Cerrito player went into the net on a spike attempt, and the 'Jackets managed three more points in the game before falling.
"We just got stuck in a few rotations and gave up a lot of points," Caraway said. "If we can limit them to one or two points per rotation, we'll have a chance to compete."
Berkeley had trouble getting any offense going, not a surprise since they have only one real offensive threat in Roach. The junior had six kills, a low total for him due to some poor passing by his teammates, and Berkeley had just two other kills in the match. Ed Peszewski, playing his first game for the 'Jackets, showed a spark on defense, getting four blocks in the match, including one on last year's league MVP, Michael Gonzalez. Gonzalez finished the match with 19 kills, 4 blocks and 6 digs.
The final game went back and forth as the Gaucho offense sputtered. Berkeley kept it close until they were down 5-4, but the Gauchos rolled out a 9-0 run to pretty much put the match away. The 'Jackets did show some signs of life, getting three points before El Cerrito could finish them.


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Political Science
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
As a research affiliate in 2019-20, Jake Bowers will continue working on the CASBS Causal Inference for Social Impact Lab (CISIL) and the CASBS Behavioral Insights Summer Workshop. CISIL aims to improve causal evaluation of public policies. The Behavioral Insights Summer Workshop aims to improve the policy relevance of training of graduate students in the social and behavioral sciences and increase learning between governmental behavioral insights units.
Bowers is an associate professor of political science and statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a fellow with the White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team, a fellow with the Office of Evaluation Sciences http://oes.gsa.gov/, and begins work as a fellow with the Brown Policy Lab (https://thepolicylab.brown.edu/) this fall. He is methods director and board member for the Evidence in Government and Politics network (http://egap.org) and co-founder of Research4Impact (http://r4impact.org). His research in applied statistics and political methodology focuses on questions about statistical inference for causal effects in both randomized field experiments and observational studies. Bowers was a CASBS fellow in 2018-19 and a research affiliate in 2017-18.
Visit the following website for more information about his work: http://jakebowers.org
Stanford University
Paul Brest is former dean and professor emeritus (active), at Stanford Law School, a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, faculty director of the Effective Philanthropy Learning Initiative at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, and co-director of the Stanford Law and Policy Lab. He was president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation from 2000 to 2012.
He is co-author of Money Well Spent: A Strategic Guide to Smart Philanthropy (Stanford University Press, 2018, 2nd ed.), Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Professional Judgment (Oxford University Press, 2010), and articles on constitutional law, philanthropy, and impact investing. His current courses include Problem Solving for Public Policy and Social Change and Advanced Topics in Philanthropy and Impact Investing. He created the online interactive course, Essentials of Nonprofit Strategy on Stanford's Lagunita platform and is the instructor in an online course, Essentials of Nonprofit Strategy, offered by Philanthropy University.
Brest is a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and holds honorary degrees from Northwestern University School of Law and Swarthmore College. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1969, he clerked for Judge Bailey Aldrich of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Justice John M. Harlan of the U.S. Supreme Court, and did civil rights litigation with the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund in Mississippi. Brest is a faculty fellow in 2019-20, and was a fellow at CASBS in 1983-84.
Public Affairs, Public Policy and Urban Studies
King County Government
During her year as research affiliate, Carrie Cihak will continue to co-lead CASBS's Causal Inference for Social Impact Lab (CISIL) with research affiliate Jake Bowers, thereby advancing evidence-informed policymaking practices that support sustained and meaningful collaboration between academic researchers and policymakers, including between Stanford University and King County. Cihak will also continue work to understand the science and evidence-base of belonging and develop strategies to enhance "civic muscle" in the Seattle region.
As Chief of Policy for the highest-ranking elected official of the 13th largest county in the United States, Cihak is responsible for identifying the highest priority policy areas and community outcomes for leadership focus and for developing and launching innovative solutions to issues that are complex, controversial and cross-sectoral. She is an architect of some of the administration's key initiatives such as Best Starts for Kids and the County's nationally-recognized work on equity and social justice. Prior to her work in Executive Constantine's administration, Cihak served for eight years as a senior-level analyst for the King County Council and as lead staff for the King County Board of Health. She is trained as a PhD-level (ABD—University of Michigan) economist specializing in Japan, and served as staff economist on international trade and finance for President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers. Cihak was a policy fellow at CASBS in 2017-18 and a research affiliate last year.
Stanford University
Shelley Correll is a faculty fellow and a member of the CASBS project "Addressing Sexual Violence Through Institutional Courage." Her research in this area seeks to understand how the actions of organizational leaders can reduce sexual violence in their organizations. More generally, Correll's research is focused on identifying and reducing the biases and barriers to gender equality in professional work. She is currently conducting research in partnership with several technology and other high-status companies (https://womensleadership.stanford.edu/corporate/members) to evaluate interventions designed to promote "small wins" that can be leveraged to produced large scale improvements in organizational inclusion and gender and other forms of diversity (Reducing gender biases in modern workplaces: A small wins approach to organizational change. and https://womensleadership.stanford.edu/research).
At Stanford, Correll is the Michelle Mercer and Bruce Golden Family Professor of Women's Leadership, professor of sociology, professor of organizational behavior (by courtesy), director of the Stanford VMware Women's Leadership Lab, and a member of the design team for the Social X-Change Initiative, an initiative dedicated to creating pathways from social science research to social impact.
Correll was a CASBS fellow in 2015-16.
Stanford University
Estelle Freedman's current research project expands upon the legal approach in her book Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation (Harvard University Press, 2015), by exploring digitized oral history collections as sources for understanding the personal history of assault, rape, and harassment. She is working on methodological and historical essays interpreting sexual memories, sexual silences, and the changing language of sexual trauma across diverse groups of narrators.
Freedman's past scholarship has focused on the histories of women, sexuality, feminism, and social movements. In addition to two books on the history of women's prison reform in the U.S., she is the author of No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women (Ballantine Books, 2002) and the co-author (with John D'Emilio) of Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America (University of Chicago Press, 2012), and the editor of the Essential Feminist Reader (Modern Library, 2007). She earned her BA at Barnard College, and MA and PhD degrees in U.S. history at Columbia University.
Freedman holds the Edgar E. Robinson chair in U.S. history at Stanford, where she co-founded the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She is a CASBS faculty fellow in 2019-20, participating as a member in the CASBS project "Addressing Sexual Violence Through Institutional Courage." and was a fellow at CASBS in 2009-10 and 2018-19.
For more information, you can find her CV at http://ebf.stanford.edu/cv.html
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robert Gibbons is Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management and professor in MIT's department of economics. His research and teaching concern the design and performance of organized activities, especially "relational contracts" (informal agreements so rooted in the parties' circumstances that they cannot be adjudicated by courts). Organized activities may occur not only within firms, but also between firms (e.g. supply relationships, alliances, joint ventures) or beyond firms (e.g. hospitals, schools, government agencies).
Since 2002, Gibbons has been co-principal investigator of MIT Sloan's Program on Innovation in Markets and Organizations and founding director of the working group in organizational economics at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was co-editor (with John Roberts) of The Handbook of Organizational Economics (Princeton University Press, 2013) and a board member of the Citicorp Behavioral Science Research Council (1994-2000) and of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (2000-06).
Since 2016, Gibbons and Woody Powell (Stanford University) have co-run a summer institute at CASBS on organizations and their effectiveness. As research affiliates in 2019-20, they will engage interested fellows with summer scholars who return for short stints at CASBS. Gibbons was a CASBS fellow in 1994-95 and 2014-15.
Stanford University
David Grusky is a CASBS faculty fellow. His research addresses the changing structure of late-industrial inequality and takes on such topics as the role of market failure in explaining income inequality, recent trends in economic and social mobility, the surprising persistence of extreme gender inequality, and new ways to improve the country's infrastructure for monitoring poverty, inequality, and mobility.
At Stanford University, Grusky is the Edward Ames Edmonds Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, professor of sociology, senior fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, faculty fellow of the Center for Population Health Sciences, director of the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, and coeditor of Pathways Magazine. Grusky is a former CASBS fellow (class of 1991-92) and was a faculty fellow in 2018-19.
Stanford University
Daniel E. Ho is the William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science, and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University. His scholarship centers on quantitative empirical legal studies, with a substantive focus on administrative law, regulatory policy, antidiscrimination law, and courts. He received his JD from Yale Law School and PhD in political science from Harvard University and clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams on the U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit. Ho served as president for the Society of Empirical Legal Studies (2011-12), co-editor of the Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization (2013-16). He directs the Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab (RegLab) at Stanford. Ho is a faculty fellow at CASBS and was a faculty fellow in 2018-19.
New America
John Irons, a research affiliate at CASBS, is a fellow at the think tank New America, a digital fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and is affiliated with the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at The New School. His current research interests are broad, and includes how technology is shaping market systems and work. While at CASBS, he will connect with the Creating a New Moral Political Economy project.
Prior to his current roles, he was most recently director of Inclusive Economies and Future of Work at the Ford Foundation, leading grant making teams supporting U.S. and global efforts to create economic opportunities and ensure that prosperity is widely shared. Before joining Ford, Irons was managing director of Global Markets at the Rockefeller Foundation, leading initiatives in the U.S. and globally with a focus on employment. Prior to that, Irons worked at several D.C.-based think tanks, and as a tenure track assistant professor of economics at Amherst College. He authored numerous reports and articles on a range of economic topics including tax and budget policy, labor markets, and macroeconomic policy; and has appeared in a variety ofmedia outlets.
Irons was awarded a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship, as well as a graduate fellowship from the Harvard/MIT Research Training Group in Positive Political Economy. He won several awards for his economics websites, including top‐5 awards from The Economist and Forbes. He served on the Committee on Electronic Publishing of the American Economic Association, and served on the board of nonprofit institutions, including the Coalition on Human Needs, and was elected to the Board of Governors of the National Economists Club in Washington D.C. Irons holds a BA with high honors in economics from Swarthmore College, and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Stanford University
Roberta Katz, a senior research scholar at CASBS, coordinates an interdisciplinary set of scholars who are examining the cultural norms and values of those born during and after the mid-1990s, an age group that has been denominated "Generation Z." The research will look closely at the traits that define the Generation Z culture, both in and outside the United States, and at the historical trends that have influenced the enculturation of members of this group.
Katz holds a PhD in anthropology as well as a law degree, and was previously the General Counsel of McCaw Cellular Corporation (now AT&T Wireless) and then of Netscape Corporation. For the past thirteen years, she has served under Stanford University Presidents John Hennessy and Marc Tessier-Lavigne as the associate vice president for strategic planning at Stanford. She also served as President Tessier-Lavigne's interim chief of staff until early 2017. Katz has been deeply involved in the facilitation of a variety of interdisciplinary research initiatives at Stanford, and she is a current member of the CASBS board of directors.
Political Science
Princeton University
Robert Keohane is professor of international affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (Princeton University Press, 1984/2005) and Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World (Psychology Press, 2002). He is co-author (with Joseph S. Nye, Jr.) of Power and Interdependence (Pearson Higher Ed, 1977/2012), and (with Gary King and Sidney Verba) of Designing Social Inquiry (Princeton University Press, 1994). He has served as the editor of International Organization and as president of the International Studies Association and the American Political Science Association. He won the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, 1989, the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, 2005, and the Balzan Prize in International Relations: History and Theory, 2017. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Sciences. He is also a Corresponding Member of the British Academy.
His current work focused on the comparative and international politics of climate change. Keohane is a research affiliate at CASBS in 2018-19, and was a fellow in 1977-78, 1987-88 and 2004-05.
Science Writer
New York Times
John Markoff is currently researching a biography of Stewart Brand, the creator of the Whole Earth Catalog. A research affiliate at CASBS, Markoff will be participating in projects focusing on the future of work and artificial intelligence.
In 2017-18 he was Berggruen Fellow at CASBS. In 2017 he joined the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, as a staff historian. Previously he was a reporter at The New York Times, beginning in March 1988 as the paper's national computer writer. He moved to Silicon Valley to write about technology in 1992. Prior to joining the Times, he worked for The San Francisco Examiner from 1985 to 1988. He reported for the New York Times Science Section from 2010 through 2015. He returned to the Business Section to cover Silicon Valley in 2016 and retired from the paper in December of 2016.
Markoff has written about technology and science since 1977. He reported on technology and the defense industry for The Pacific News Service in San Francisco from 1977 to 1981; he was a reporter at Infoworld from 1981 to 1983; he was the West Coast editor for Byte Magazine from 1984 to 1985 and wrote a column on personal computers for The San Jose Mercury from 1983 to 1985.
He has also been a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley School of Journalism and an adjunct faculty member of the Stanford Graduate Program on Journalism.
The Times nominated him for a Pulitzer Prize in 1995, 1998 and 2000. The San Francisco Examiner nominated him for a Pulitzer in 1987. In 2005, with a group of Times reporters, he received the Loeb Award for business journalism. In 2007 he shared the Society of American Business Editors and Writers Breaking News award. In 2013 he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting as part of a New York Times project on labor and automation.
In 2007 he became a member of the International Media Council at the World Economic Forum. Also in 2007, he was named a fellow of the Society of Professional Journalists, the organization's highest honor.
In June of 2010 the New York Times presented him with the Nathaniel Nash Award, which is given annually for foreign and business reporting.
Markoff is the author or co-author of the following: The High Cost of High Tech (Harper & Row, 1985); Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier with Katie Hafner Simon & Schuster, 1991); Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw (Hyperion, 1996), co-authored with Tsutomu Shimomura; What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture shaped the Personal Computer Industry (Viking Books, 2005); Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots (HarperCollins Ecco, 2015).
Born in Oakland, California, Markoff grew up in Palo Alto, California and graduated from Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, in 1971. He attended graduate school at the University of Oregon and received an MA in sociology in 1976.
Political Science
Stanford University
Josiah Ober (CASBS fellow, 2004–05 and CASBS board member, 2014-17) is a faculty fellow in 2019-20. Ober holds the Constantine Mitsotakis Chair in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, where he divides his time and academic appointment between the departments of classics and political science. He teaches courses on topics conjoining history, classical philosophy, and political theory, institutions, values, and practices.
Before coming to Stanford, Ober taught at Princeton University (1990-2006) and at Montana State University (1980-1990). His academic work focuses on the history, theory, and practice of self-governing organizations (ancient and modern), on the circulation of social and technical knowledge in democratic societies, and on the interplay between political philosophy and culture. He is author of a number of books, including, recently, Demopolis: Democracy before Liberalism in Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2017), The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece (Princeton University Press, 2015), and Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens (Princeton University Press, 2008). His books have been translated into French, German, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Turkish, and Chinese.
He is currently working on a book on "deliberation, strategy, and choice in ancient Greek social thought," and on a project on ancient and modern urbanization and economic development. A recent interview, focusing on his work on democratic theory, can be found here: https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/interviews/makes-democracy-intrinsically-valuable-talking-josiah-ober/
Oxford University
Sarah Ogilvie, a research affiliate at CASBS, is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. She is a linguist, lexicographer, and computer scientist who works at the intersection of technology and the social sciences. She is director of the Dictionary Lab at Oxford and her books include Words of the World: A Global History of the OED and Keeping Languages Alive (Cambridge University Press, 2012). Before Oxford, she taught linguistics at Stanford and Cambridge Universities, and worked at Amazon's innovation lab in Silicon Valley.
Ogilvie's research at CASBS focuses on the language, cultural norms, and values of those born during and after the mid-1990s, an age group that has been called "Generation Z" or the "iGeneration". The iGen Project is hosted by CASBS and funded by the Knight Foundation. Its interdisciplinary research team comprises Ogilvie, Roberta Katz, Linda Woodhead, and Jane Shaw. Ogilvie was a Berggruen fellow at CASBS in 2017-18.
For more information, visit her webpage: http://www.hmc.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-sarah-ogilvie/
Stanford University
Nate Persily's scholarship focuses on voting rights, political parties, campaign finance, redistricting, and election administration. His current work, for which he has been honored as an Andrew Carnegie and CASBS fellow (class of 2017-18), examines the impact of changing technology on political communication, campaigns, and election administration. He is currently writing a book expanding on the subject he explored in a recent article in the Journal of Democracy, "Can Democracy Survive the Internet?" In addition, he currently co-chairs Social Science One (with Harvard professor and CASBS board of directors member Gary King), an international effort to examine the impact of social media on democracy by providing Facebook data, in a secure, privacy-protected format, to social scientists around the world.
Persily is the James B. McClatchy Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, with appointments in the departments of political science, communication, and FSI. He also is the founding co-director of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center and (with Frank Fukuyama) the Project on Democracy and the Internet. He also serves on the Kofi Annan Commission on Elections and Democracy in the Digital Age. He is co-author of the leading election law casebook, The Law of Democracy (Foundation Press, 2016). He has served as a special master or court-appointed expert to craft legislative districting plans for many states, as the senior research director for the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, and on a panel of the National Academy of Sciences evaluating the state of U.S. voting technology. He received a BA/MA in political science from Yale University, a JD from Stanford University where he was president of the Stanford Law Review, and a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Persily is a faculty fellow in 2019-20. His website is www.persily.com and Twitter handle is @persily
Stanford University
Walter W. Powell is professor of education and (by courtesy) sociology, organizational behavior, management science and engineering, and communication, and co-director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at Stanford University. He has been an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute since 1999. Powell works in the areas of organization theory, economic sociology, and the sociology of science. His most recent books include The Emergence of Organizations and Markets (Princeton University Press, 2012), with John Padgett, and The Nonprofit Sector (Stanford University Press, forthcoming), with Patricia Bromley, He received his PhD in sociology from SUNY Stony Brook, and before joining the Stanford faculty in 1999, previously taught at Yale, MIT, and the University of Arizona.
Powell is a faculty fellow in 2019-20, and was a fellow at CASBS in 1986-87, 2008-09 and a faculty fellow in 2018-19. He directs, with Bob Gibbons, the CASBS summer institute on organizations and their effectiveness.
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Oxford University
Jane Shaw is a modern historian at the University of Oxford, where she is Principal of Harris Manchester College. Her research interests are in the areas of modern religion, the arts, and the impact of technology on society. She is the author of several books including Miracles in Enlightenment England (Yale University Press, 2006) and Octavia, Daughter of God: The Story of Female Messiah and her Followers (Yale University Press, 2011).
She is a member of two research teams at CASBS: (1) The New Moral Economy and Artificial Intelligence. She is especially looking at the interplay between AI and religion. The other members of the interdisciplinary research team are Margaret Levi, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Roberta Katz, and John Markoff.
(2) The iGen Project, funded by the Knight Foundation, on the language, cultural norms, and values of those born during and after the mid-1990s, an age group that has been called "Generation Z" or the "iGeneration". The other members of the interdisciplinary research team are Sarah Ogilvie, Roberta Katz, and Linda Woodhead.
Stanford University
Claude M. Steele is an American social psychologist and a professor of psychology at Stanford University. He is best known for his work on stereotype threat and its application to minority student academic performance. His earlier work dealt with research on the self (e.g., self-image, self-affirmation) as well as the role of self-regulation in addictive behaviors. In 2010, he released his book, Whistling Vivaldi and Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us (W. W. Norton & Company, 2011), summarizing years of research on stereotype threat and the underperformance of minority students in higher education.
Steele is elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Science Board, the National Academy of Education, and the American Philosophical Society. He currently serves as the chair of the Russell Sage Foundation board of directors, and also serves on the board of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He is a fellow for both the American Institutes for Research and the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and serves on the advisory council of the MIT Media Lab.
Steele has served in several major academic leadership positions as the executive vice chancellor and provost at UC Berkeley, the I. James Quillen Dean for the School of Education at Stanford University, and as the 21st provost of Columbia University. Steele was a fellow in the class of 1994-95 and served as the director of CASBS from 2005 to 2009.
Stanford University
Abraham Verghese, a faculty fellow, launched the Stanford Presence Center to focus on the human connection in medicine. Housed within the Stanford School of Medicine, Presence seeks to add the social science dimensions to a multidisciplinary focus on balancing high touch and high tech for the equitable and inclusive experience of medicine. Their research aims include: understanding the human experience of patients, physicians and caregivers and how it relates to medical error and outcomes; and how to leverage technology for the human experience of medicine. Through collaboration with CASBS fellows, Presence explores these issues using insights from sociology, psychology, political science, organizational economics, and other disciplines that historically have honed their cutting edge at CASBS.
Verghese's career combines the roles of physician, teacher, and author with frequent bylines in newspapers and magazines across the world. A highly sought after public speaker, Verghese is also a regular focus of attention in media — both medical and general — ranging from National Public Radio, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the New York Times to The Guardian and The Times of India. He is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Cutting for Stone (Knopf, 2009).
At Stanford's School of Medicine, Verghese is the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor, and vice chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine. He is a physician trained in internal medicine and infectious diseases. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, and in September 2016, Verghese received the National Humanities Medal from then President Obama.
University of Lancaster
Linda Woodhead is a research affiliate in 2019-20. She is part of the "iGen Project", based at CASBS, that is writing up research on post-millennials in the US and UK. The research reveals how this generation of digital sophisticates is re-assembling values, identities and beliefs in a context of disillusionment.
Woodhead is a sociologist of religion, beliefs and values. Much of her work has looked at the decline of Christian influence (especially in liberal democracies) and the rise of alternative beliefs, values and rituals – both spiritual and non-religious. Her latest book is That Was the Church That Was: How the Church of England lost the English People (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016, with Andrew Brown).
Woodhead is professor of sociology of religion at Lancaster University, UK. She studied at Cambridge University. She was a fellow at CASBS in 2018-19.


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It's an exciting time in Havana. And design is an important element as private enterprise rises, encouraging fresh perspectives. See how a young, energetic generation is reinventing the grand old city in some uniquely stylish and resourceful ways. Your guides will be the designers themselves and noted specialists providing the inside story of this impressive moment in Cuban design. We invite you to join us on this special trip devoted to introducing the hottest young designers and the history of great design on the island.
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The hearty flavors of fall favorites make this whole-wheat pasta dish a colorful way to celebrate the season. We pair up our Whole-Wheat Orecchiette with diced sweet potatoes, fresh kale and earthy shiitake mushrooms.
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Quick cooling without the noiseThe new design of this GREE air conditioning unit has reduced to a minimum height, so it allows installation above door openings and windows. It has a very powerful 1.5 horsepower motor that will provide quick and quiet cooling. You can adjust the temperature according to your preference by using the controller. The ventilation control and auto air swing will definitely help in spreading that Siberian wind breeze within any space faster than you could say "airconditioning". And since the aircon works in silence, you can enjoy the cool breeze without the irritating noise.
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Your experience begins with a 25 Clay Shoot at the purpose built facilities which features both 12 and 20 gauge shotguns. Laid out over different traps, this is ideally suited for first timers and experienced shooters alike.
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Machar's replacement as vice president confirms signs of serious divisions within the opposition.
PIC: Riek Machar has not been seen in Juba since the clashes earlier this month. (AFP)
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir announced on Monday that former rebel leader Riek Machar had been replaced as vice president, confirming signs of serious divisions within the opposition.
Kiir said he had appointed Taban Deng Gai to the post on the "recommendation of the top leadership of the SPLM/A (IO)" -- the group Machar heads and which engaged in clashes with government forces in Juba in early July.
Last week Machar said he had fired Deng as minister of mines -- a post that was within Machar's powers to appoint.
Then around 100 SPLM/A (IO) members came out to name Deng as the movement's leader and by extension the first vice president, because Machar's absence from the capital meant the post was effectively vacant.
Machar has not been seen in Juba since the clashes earlier this month and has accused the president of trying to have him killed.
President Salva Kiir and his now former deputy Riek Machar
In reaction to the show of support for Deng, the "political bureau" of the ex-rebel movement said Sunday it condemned "in the strongest terms possible the attempt to destabilise the SPLM/A (IO) and destroy the (2015) peace agreement."
It accused Deng of having a "personal vendetta" against Machar and his supporters of having been "coerced" by the Kiir's camp.
Machar and Kiir fell out in 2013, little more than two years after South Sudan became independent, when Kiir accused his vice president of plotting against him.
The result was a civil war that killed tens of thousands of people.
The latest is a series of peace agreements was sealed in August 2015. Deng was the chief negotiator for the SPLM/A (IO).
Kiir had given Machar a deadline of Saturday to return to Juba.
But Machar has refused to come back until the deployment of a neutral force of African troops -- a plan approved by the African Union but rejected by Kiir.


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We used to visit the kid friendly Mondeor Restaurant at the Cape Garden Centre in Somerset West (close to Monkey Town) quite a bit in the past. Unfortunately though, the restaurant changed ownership and honestly – the change did not go all that smoothly and resulted in a restaurant that is a lot different in tone from what it used to be.
Nevertheless, politics and people aside, the venue itself remains a great one for those of us with small kids, and so if you are looking for a bright and breezy spot complete with entertainment for small children, then Mondeor still nicely fits the bill.
As always, if you are going to visit and the weather is good, make sure to pack in your kids' swimming costumes – they might not forgive you otherwise!
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Oh, and yes, as is tradition, the girls did their sand art.
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SOUTH Africa's University of Johannesburg (UJ) has honoured Zambian law professor Muna Ndulo for his scholarly works. Prof Ndulo was on November 15 awarded in absentia with the 2018 Vice-Chancellor's Distinguished Award for Global Excellence and Stature. The annual award celebrates and honours an international scholar for their outstanding contributions to promotion of international scholarship and global collaboration in advancing the University of Johannesburg's goal towards Global Excellence and Stature.
"The award is in recognition of your exemplary championship of global excellence as evidence by your scholarly contributions and leadership in various political and legal associations and mission, globally," read the UJ statement.
Prof Ndulo's award was received on his behalf by the University's Dean of the Faculty of Law, Prof Letlhokwa Mpedi.
And later in an interview, Prof Ndulo said: "I am humbled by the recognition and thank the University of Johannesburg for the honour. I dedicate it to all those men and women who dedicate their lives to the struggle for an Africa that respects human rights and human dignity. To be treated as a human being, is the undying quest of the human spirit as Augustine of Hippo said; 'Justice is the end of society. What are societies without justice but robber bands on a large scale?"