Twitter

I’ve had a twitter account for quite awhile now but never used it. Recently I’ve started to read more articles about the positives using twitter can bring – so I’ve started tweeting (how daft does that sound? I still believe if I ‘sit’ then I’ve ‘sat’ so if I ‘twit’ then surely I must have’****’). I’ve also started to follow other twitter users – I’m starting to get it now…

Click on the icon above to go to my twitter page.

 

Do you use twitter? What do you think of it? What positives from using twitter have you had?

Statements to make you think....

• Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall
  • trendhunter.com - culture of innovation

• A Movement is not an Organisation. When a Movement stops it becomes an Organisation
  • Radio 2 - National Scouting Leader

• Persistence trumps talent - The world if filled with talented people who didn't persist, who gave up...... and were passed by people with less talent but with more grit and persistence
  • Dan Pink - Career Advice 08

Oscar Wilde Quotes

 

·        Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

·        One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

·        Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

·        We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

·        We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

·        I can resist anything but temptation.

·        Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

·        We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

·        What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

• There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Spoilt for choice in the College Sweet shop

The playing field in Further Education is changing. The Governments agenda is to address the skills gaps and to raise the skills of the nations work force. This agenda has been driven from the Lord Leitch report 'World Class Skills' December 2006.

College's are increasing their engagement with employers to draw down employer responsive funding. College's are positioning themselves as providers of choice with employers, but are they? Are college's truly offering employer what they want or simply directing them towards funded provision?

What are your thoughts/experiences/perceptions of the Governments Train to Gain programme?

Statements to make you think....

• Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall
  • trendhunter.com - culture of innovation

• A Movement is not an Organisation. When a Movement stops it becomes an Organisation
  • Radio 2 - National Scouting Leader

• Persistence trumps talent - The world if filled with talented people who didn't persist, who gave up...... and were passed by people with less talent but with more grit and persistence
  • Dan Pink - Career Advice 08

Changing perception

The current government education funding agenda is positioning Further Education as the prime source of training for employers. For years FE has shied away from these markets as non priority, but FE is now faced without many options but to engage this market and ultimately grow this provision for their establishment. What barriers or areas of concern do you think employers have with Further Education?

Wii Fit

Is this simply a way of maximising profits for Nintendo? It seems that each time they have a product in demand, wii consoles, wii play and now wii fit there is a massive short supply of product. Looking on-line highlights all those suppliers that are now able to charge, in some instances, more than twice the RRP. I'm sure this is yet another consumer trap - loads of pre launch hype, huge demand, low level of stock to give the consumer the pressure of sourcing the latest must have item. SORT IT OUT NINTENDO!!!!!

 

• Check out this link and look at the second story further evidence about brand domination.
• http://www.wiiwii.tv/category/statistics/