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Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Expand Social Security Now!: How to Ensure Americans Get the Retirement They Deserve

Why Social Security is not only sustainable but should be substantially expanded

Social Security is bankrupting us. It’s outdated. It’s a Ponzi scheme. It’s stealing from young people. These are some of the biggest myths and lies about one of the most successful programs in our nation’s history. Three-quarters of Americans depend heavily on Social Security in their elderly years and nearly half would be living in poverty without it. But as important and popular as it is, Social Security has become a political football. A well-financed campaign—supported by conservatives, special interest groups, and even leading Democrats—has lobbied for cuts and significant “entitlement reform,” falsely proclaiming that Social Security is going broke. Policy expert Steven Hill argues that Social Security should not only be defended, it should be substantially expanded. Here he proposes how we can double the monthly benefit and how to pay for it by closing many of the tax loopholes and deductions that disproportionately favor the wealthy few.

Saturday, June 4, 2016

Social Video Content Delivery

Authors: Wang, Zhi, Liu, Jiangchuan, Zhu, Wenwu

This brief presents new architecture and strategies for distribution of social video content. A primary framework for socially-aware video delivery and a thorough overview of the possible approaches is provided. The book identifies the unique characteristics of socially-aware video access and social content propagation, revealing the design and integration of individual modules that are aimed at enhancing user experience in the social network context.

The change in video content generation, propagation, and consumption for online social networks, has significantly challenged the traditional video delivery paradigm. Given the massive amount of user-generated content shared in online social networks, users are now engaged as active participants in the social ecosystem rather than as passive receivers of media content. This revolution is being driven further by the deep penetration of 3G/4G wireless networks and smart mobile devices that are seamlessly integrated with online social networking and media-sharing services. Despite increasingly abundant bandwidth and computational resources, the ever-increasing volume of data created by user-generated video content–along with the boundless coverage of socialized sharing–presents unprecedented challenges.

Number of Illustrations and Tables

7 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour

Topics

Communications Engineering, Networks

Computer Communication Networks

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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Lynda - How to Serve Customers Using Social Media

Learn how to create a winning customer service strategy for social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Yelp, and TripAdvisor. By adapting customer service principles to the unique challenges of social media, you can ensure that your online service accurately reflects the organization’s brand. In this course, customer service expert Jeff Toister helps you develop communication guidelines for your reps. Then he helps you figure out what social media platforms and review sites your customers frequent, so you can listen intently, engage your fans, respond to complaints, and offer proactive service. Last, Jeff explains the value of online self-help options (from FAQs to online tutorials) and how to make them easy for your customers to use.

* Identifying key social media platforms
* Communicating with customers in your brand’s voice
* Listening and responding to customers on social media
* Listening to customer feedback on review sites
* Making self-service easy for customers

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Monday, May 23, 2016

i-Minds: How Cell Phones, Computers, Gaming, and Social Media are Changing our Brains, our Behavior, and the Evolution of our S

Many of us would no more go out without our cell phone than we would leave the house without clothes. We live our lives on social media, and PDAs, tablets, computers and other devices are completely integrated into our global culture. From connectedness to accessibility and instant access to information, a wealth of benefits accompanies this digital revolution. But what about the cost?

Weaving together history, popular literature, media and industry hype, sociology and psychology, and observations from over eighteen years of clinical practice and research, Dr. Mari Swingle explores the pervasive influence of i-technology. Engaging and entertaining yet scientifically rigorous, i-Minds demonstrates:

How constant connectivity is rapidly changing our brains What dangers are posed to children and adults alike in this brave new world The positive steps we can take to embrace new technology while protecting our well-being and steering our future in a more human direction

This extraordinary book is a virtually indispensable look at a revolution where the only constant is change—food for thought about which aspects of technology we should embrace, what we should unequivocally reject, and the many facets of the digital era that we should now be debating.

Dr. Mari K. Swingle is a neurotherapist and behavioral specialist who practices at the highly-regarded Swingle Clinic. She holds a BA in Visual Arts, an MA in language education, and an MA and PhD in clinical psychology, and has won numerous awards for her post-doctoral work on the effects of i-technology on brain function.

Friday, May 20, 2016

Applying a Human Rights Approach to Social Work Research and Evaluation

Authors: Maschi, Tina

Introduces a human rights framework that can be applied to social work research
Offers guidance on developing and implementing a rights-based approach to social work research and evaluation
Advances the relationship between human rights and social justice and individual, family, and community well-being
Provides case examples

This brief introduces a human rights approach to social work research and evaluation, compares it to traditional research approaches, and explains how to apply it in real world social work research. The author draws from a human rights framework that incorporates dignity and respect for all persons, the universality and interrelatedness of rights (political, civil, social, economic, and cultural), nondiscrimination, participation, accountability, and transparency. To advance a human rights approach, it introduces a rights-based model that accentuates the use of mixed methods and participatory research and evaluation. This brief aims to increase competencies in how to apply a rights based approach to research decision-making process from the formulation of research questions, research and practice design, and participatory action strategies that advance human rights. It is a call to action for social workers to forge a rights-based research agenda that fosters empowerment.

Number of Illustrations and Tables

9 illustrations in colour

Topics

Social Work

Human Rights

Social Policy, Public Economics

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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Dispersing Power: Social Movements as Anti-State Forces

How do we create a society based on dignity? What is the role of the state and what are the possibilities of changing society through anti-state movements?… the most important practical and theoretical questions that have risen from the struggles in Latin America and the world in the last fifteen years or so…. The book is beautiful, exciting, stimulating…. Do read it and also give it your friends.

Monday, May 16, 2016

Prints & People: A Social History of Printed Pictures (Repost)

A Hyatt Mayor, “Prints & People: A Social History of Printed Pictures”
English | 1971 | ISBN: 0870991086 | PDF | pages: 497 | 71,2 mb

Why were prints made? Who bought them? How did print publishers attract new publics? What printmakers discovered new ways of seeing? In this book such questions and some of their answers begin almost with the invention of paper in China and extend across time and the world to a consideration of the possibilities in printmaking today, this side of expressionism and abstraction. Besides evaluating more than 700 prints as works of art, A. Hyatt Mayor’s far from conventional account of the medium points out precise effects of prints on literacy, commerce, science, fashions, religion, and political power—in short, it deals with prints’ effects upon people, placing the art itself in the stream of life. In this it differs from earlier histories that concentrate on artistic merit and bibliographic data but seem little aware of the significance of the exactly repeated image as a communications device.

In the wealth of illustrations, a number the author has chosen, the creations of obscure artists, are bound to astonish, no matter how wide the readers familiarity with prints may be. This is because the book is concerned above all with the work of innovators, not later refinings of their innovations by more celebrated hands.

Replete with information so precisely, even wittily, put that it will delight anyone, Prints and People is offered as the writing down of a professional lifetime of thought and experience—the author, now Curator Emeritus, having joined the Metropolitan Museums Department of Prints in 1932.

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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

The Journey to Tahrir: Revolution, Protest, and Social Change in Egypt

The toppling of Hosni Mubarak marked the beginning of a revolutionary restructuring of Egypt’s political and social order. Jeannie Sowers and Chris Toensing bring together updated essays from Middle East Report—the premier journal covering the region—that offer unrivaled analysis of the major social and political trends that underpinned these tumultuous events.

Starting with the momentous eighteen days of street protest that compelled Mubarak’s resignation, the volume moves back in time to plumb the state’s strategies of repression and examine the mounting dissent of workers, democracy advocates, anti-war activists, and social and environmental campaigners. Leading analysts of Egypt detail the demographic and economic trends that produced wealth for the few and impoverishment for the many. The collection brings clear-headed, first-hand understanding to bear on a moment of intense hope and uncertainty in the Arab world’s most populous nation.

Friday, April 29, 2016

Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Through Physical Activity 3rd Edition

Don Hellison, “Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Through Physical Activity-3rd Edition”
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0736094709 | PDF | pages: 224 | 2,9 mb

Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Through Physical Activity, now entering its third edition, attests to author Don Hellison’s ability to shape and develop character and responsibility in children. Perhaps the success of Hellison’s book can be attributed to his status not only as a highly respected scholar-activist but as a teacher in the trenches working with inner-city kids.

Kids in any situation will benefit from the thoroughly updated material in this edition, which presents practical, proven, easy-to-implement ideas for teaching personal and social responsibility (TPSR) in school, after school, and in alternative settings. It also supplies direction in teaching affective and social moral goals, an in-depth look into teaching character development and values, and a method for helping students develop personal and social responsibility.

Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Through Physical Activity offers much new material:

• Strategies for alternative schools, afterschool programs, and the emerging youth development movement

• Vignettes sprinkled throughout the chapters, written by TPSR instructors in various settings

• Several chapters that have been completely overhauled

• An expanded assessment chapter to help readers evaluate the impact of TPSR on their kids and apply the strategies

• One new chapter on combining responsibility-based youth development with teacher preparation in physical education

In addition, the book features “Kid Quotes” to help readers understand how kids respond to the TPSR approach, as well as forms and charts to help readers put the ideas and strategies to use.

The result is a field-tested book that is the accepted curricular model in the field—and a resource that will enable teachers to help their students grow into solid citizens both personally and socially.

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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

Instagram. Whisper. Yik Yak. Vine. YouTube. Kik. Ask.fm. Tinder. The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. What it is doing to an entire generation of young women is the subject of award-winning Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales’s riveting and explosive American Girls.

With extraordinary intimacy and precision, Sales captures what it feels like to be a girl in America today. From Montclair to Manhattan and Los Angeles, from Florida and Arizona to Texas and Kentucky, Sales crisscrossed the country, speaking to more than two hundred girls, ages thirteen to nineteen, and documenting a massive change in the way girls are growing up, a phenomenon that transcends race, geography, and household income. American Girls provides a disturbing portrait of the end of childhood as we know it and of the inexorable and ubiquitous experience of a new kind of adolescence—one dominated by new social and sexual norms, where a girl’s first crushes and experiences of longing and romance occur in an accelerated electronic environment; where issues of identity and self-esteem are magnified and transformed by social platforms that provide instantaneous judgment. What does it mean to be a girl in America in 2016? It means coming of age online in a hypersexualized culture that has normalized extreme behavior, from pornography to the casual exchange of nude photographs; a culture rife with a virulent new strain of sexism and a sometimes self-undermining notion of feminist empowerment; a culture in which teenagers are spending so much time on technology and social media that they are not developing basic communication skills. From beauty gurus to slut-shaming to a disconcerting trend of exhibitionism, Nancy Jo Sales provides a shocking window into the troubling world of today’s teenage girls.

Provocative and urgent, American Girls is destined to ignite a much-needed conversation about how we can help our daughters and sons negotiate unprecedented new challenges.

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

The Google Checklist: Marketing Edition 2016: SEO, Web Design, Paid Advertising, Social Media, PR

The world of Internet Marketing is fast paced and ever evolving. The difference in the way users interact with your business online is dramatically changing. The good news is that whatever your business, more of your customers are online than ever before, and their familiarity with the Internet means an increase in purchases, contact form submissions and bookings made over the web are higher than ever.

We here at HeartCMS spend all day, every day analysing, researching and achieving online marketing for businesses across the world in every possible industry. We have access to some great tools as Google Partners to understand what your users want from your website and our team of conversion specialists have the power to implement changes to get you that conversion rate you’ve been working hard for.

This book is here to help you make the most out of your website and online marketing in 2016 and help take your business to the next level by attracting more customers and gaining more leads from your online marketing. You’ll find case studies, best practice tips and plenty of recommendations guided by our extensive experience in every element of online marketing.

We Cover

Web Design (How to make your website Google and mobile freindly)

SEO (on-site, off-site and SEO/PR search engine optimisation)

Paid Advertising (Learn how to spend less and convert more on Google Adwords and Remarketing)

Social Media Marketing (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Pinterest and more)

Mobile Apps

About the Author

Amen Sharma managing director of HeartCMS already has two bestselling books to his name, The Google Checklist: Website Edition and 101 Ways to Get More Customers from the Internet in 2014.

In his role as managing director at HeartCMS, Amen and a team of 40 help over 400 small to medium size businesses a year with online marketing, web site design & app development. With the HQ Based in Nottingham, UK, Amen & the team travel around the UK to support small-medium size business get the most from their website