FROM PASSION TO CAREER: WEB 2.0 & SOCIAL MEDIA

FROM A TRAINEE TO A TRAINER OF WEB 2.0 & SOCIAL MEDIA

This narrative article reflects on a personal milestone. Why? Because I’m chosen to become the lead trainer of a web 2.0 & social media workshop facilitated by Somalis for the first time. And it’s worth mentioning that I was one of the beneficiaries of this same training when it first came in Somalia in 2014, but at that time, Training Center in Communication (TCC) from Nairobi, Kenya was assisting its delivery. Fast forward 2 years, we have now developed the capacity to train our people: Somalis educating other Somalis, at least technologically.

How Nonprofits Can Leverage the Visual Power of Pinterest?

Pinterest allows Nonprofits marketers to leverage their brand’s awareness and engage with their audiences in a more visual way than other social media networks. Although in its early phase Pinterest was seen as a place for a female audience, the Pinterest audience and their interests have diversified, making it a valuable social media tool for marketers.

With Social Media, Consumers are the Rulers, not Businesses

Social network sites are disturbing well-established marketing principles. Companies are no longer in control of purchase transactions, consumers are. The well-known 4Ps (Product, Price, Place and Promotion) in marketing classes do not accurately showcase the reality of how customers purchase, rather 4Cs (Creating, Curating, Connecting, And Culture) tell us exactly what customers want companies to do.

Web 2.0 and Social Media Learning Opportunity, SomaliREN

SomaliREN in collaboration with the Training Centre in Communication (TCC), and CTA started hosting a 5-day Web 2.0 & Social Media Learning Opportunity on 22-26 September, 2014. Participants will be introduced to selected web 2.0 applications and will learn how to use them hands-on.

How to Learn in the 21st Century

At this time (the 21^st century), "memory and learning" research has reached at a level we can utilize for improving how we actually learn. This research field has developed certain specific strategies that enable us to create our own "specific tactical plan."

Memory Palace Technique, a Tool for Memory Athletes

The memory palace is a very ancient technique, which dates from the ancient Greeks and Latins. Orators in the Roman Senate used this technique to remember the concepts they had to develop in public. To be effective, this technique requires that the places in the palace be always the same and always in the same order.

How to Learn More by Studying Less?

Being intelligent within … (a) subject is often a factor (of) just how much exposure you have had to it. - Scott Young, a "Marco Polo" of Learning.

To learn more in less time, it only depends on motivating yourself. But, in the first place, Why do we fail to motivate ourselves?
This is because majority of learners use low-efficient study methods when they want to learn more; and this takes more of their time. In turn, this more-time-requirement leads to a tendency of preference for "ineffective study methods".

Therefore, what do we have to do to motivate ourselves?