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		<title>Learning to Learn - Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning is a big topic and one that a lot of disagreement still exists over. Unfortunately, but the time there is general agreement, we&#8217;ll already be dead, so to get practical about it, we need to use what we know now as effectively as we can.
I wrote a piece called &#8216;Learning to Learn&#8216; that I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Structuring Persuasive Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the main points on this blog is that you need to be understood when you write or speak. This is a problem for many people whether they&#8217;re technically inclined or not. I recently came across a blog post at copyblogger.com that takes an interesting viewpoint on Persuasive Writing.
For many years, people talked about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you writing a Blog?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are, then you should learn from the best. I was looking over a search today and found a blog entry at hackademia.net called &#8220;Good writing makes the difference&#8221; which pointed me a Computerworld article by John Brandon on &#8220;The top 10 best-written blogs&#8220;. I&#8217;m looking at each blog to learn how to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Notes with Mind Maps</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the skills anyone needs to be comfortable with is taking good notes. People have many different ways to do it. Some scribble in a note book, some type into a notepad on their computer, some record them in a portable tape recorder. It doesn&#8217;t matter what way you do it, you need to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everyday Project Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter what you&#8217;re writing or speaking about, if it&#8217;s more than a few lines, it deserves some attention and some planning. That&#8217;s basic emphasis of my whole approach. it doesn&#8217;t require Microsoft Project or similar software and doesn&#8217;t require full-blown project management or a specialist like a certified PMP. You need something that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning to Learn</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all think we know how to learn, but many of the people I know have actually forgotten the skill involved. No one who is preparing to write or speak can afford to not be good at learning.
Some years ago, I wrote a piece for some of my colleagues and clients called &#8216;Learning to Learn&#8216;. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mindmapping</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thinking tools have always been a favorite topic of mine. I love good thinking tools. Problem is, so many of them just don&#8217;t live up to the hype. One of the major tools that has become part of my life is Mind Mapping (or Mindmapping).
I learned Mindmapping originally at a Systems Thinking Conference many years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freewriting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever heard the term &#8216;Freewriting&#8217;? I did it for many years before I learned what it was called. I don&#8217;t know where the term originated, but I&#8217;ve found it in a number of books and learned that English classes in many schools use it for daily writing practice.
Freewriting is a great way to get a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Short Written Communications</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Short written communications are so common, that many people treat them as unimportant. They&#8217;re anything but. They are often one of the things people use to assess your abilities. How trusted you are depends on what they see in your writing. Writing which is clumsy, disorganized, or loaded with misspellings will lead to the impression [...]]]></description>
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