If you are a member of a teachers union or part of the US Department of Education, a parent or a student you will want to hear this podcast.  On March 2nd 2008 an interview with Teachers Unions Exposed highlighted the problems with the education system and teachers unions.

This is an eye opening podcast especially if you want to learn 80X faster and comprehend more. Howard Berg will enlighten you with speed learning techniques and share why our US education system is abysmal, it is a morass. Howard works on performance.

Howard is the 1990 Guinness book of world record holder for speed reading, he is the worlds fastest reader. It will become apparent to you that Howard is a smart man and is able to teach others with average intelligence how to learn. He learned how the brain works and was able to complete his school work must faster than other kids.

Howard has trained many students across the board who are consistently graduating from college before they are 18 years old….not only graduating college at a tender young age but doing so with 4.0 grades. Howard trains business people how to read and learn faster as well.

“Reading is not learning. Reading is just one of the blades in the Swiss Army knife….a big fat blade,” says Howard Berg. The average reader reads about 200 words per minute. The three different types of learning are literal, implied and inferential, and Howard gives the “dime story” to illustrate how the different types of learning are applied. Howard also goes into the Roosevelt story with the dime and how they found the cure for polio.

In order to make learning work we have to make it interesting, meaningful and significant. ABCOQ is an acronym that Howard describes in the studying habits that are required to understand and comprehend information.

Howard has started his own school systems where he is deploying his technology so they can run their own school and resell his learning programs. “Our US education system is in a morass,” says Berg. “28% of our high school seniors can’t read at the 8th grade level. 90% of the high school graduates in the state of Texas education agency cannot write a paragraph! The system is a morass and very political and the department of education does not want to improve the system because people want to keep their jobs,” according to Berg. “Most schools are interested in tests and attendance.”

The US education system is interested in creating jobs. They are interested in improving on test scores. Our teachers are in the standardization business and the testing business and not the education business. Howard Berg is interested in educating people.

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Click here for the interview with Chris Damsen, VP Business Development of Social Media Widget Economy Provider Netvibes.

If you want to get up to speed on the one of the latest trends and technologies on the Internet this is a great podcast you will enjoy. Chris Damsen and Netvibes are at the epicenter of the Widget Economy. Widgets are the “next big thing,” but not everyone is in love with them, there are some limitations. As Chris explains in our interview, widgets are simple to create (inexpensive too) and they have a lot of leverage since they can be distributed easily for the viral marketing and viral information distribution.

What Netvibes is doing well is allowing Netvibes users and developers to develop widgets on their open platform and on multiple other platforms like iGoogle, MS Live etc. What Chris was able to share is that there is a huge movement going on in the web and Netvibes is enabling the start page user experience to be a great one by allowing any type of content to be available or configured on one’s start page, probably the second most valuable piece of real estate just behind the e-mail inbox.

Netvibes is a Paris, France based company with millions of users visiting their web pages every month. Netvibes is rolling out a social media version of their platform on a new URL caller Ginger. Expect Ginger to get a lot of activity and the social media component of the widget economy will expand exponentially.

While we can create widgets on closed platforms but don’t you thing it would be easier to develop the widget once in an open environment to be shared across multiple platforms? Netvibes has a very robust solution now coupled with the social media component with global reach. Expect these guys to get gobbled up by one of the major players in the next year.

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If you don’t know about social media, this interview is for you.  If you know about social media this interview is for you too.  Not a lot of structure to the conversation however there are a lot of great nuggets to be learned about social media and the rules of engagement.

In this interview Jason is a twenty something and the perfect candidate that the Internet Marketers want a piece of. He is THE demographic, young, affluent and online. He is also in the business of social media, so he is tech savvy and knows the rules of engagement. He shares the rules of engagement in the social media space. It’s not too complicated we just have to be authentic.

He will help you get a really good feel for the “social media environment” and how to play and interact while you are there. Weather you are in Facebook, MySpace or Twitter, Jason provides a topical feel for what to expect and how to behave in these environments. Jason also bridges the gap of how marketers and businesses can engage users in social media without being a dork.

I checked out Jason’s profile on LinkedIn and pulled down a testimonial and it seems to be quite fitting. If there were a King of the Geeks, Jason would be his scheming but loyal Grand Vizier. His existence is a direct challenge to the presupposition that Pomona students are smarter than Oxy students. He could also be the exception that proves the rule. But on a more serious note, Jason is really a brilliant guy. He’s got almost bottomless knowledge of all things geeky, he’s a great writer and he’s easy to get along with. December 6, 2006
Teresa Valdez Klein, Project Manager, Communications & Blogging, Blog Business Summit

We ramble on about a bunch of different subjects all social media related. He shared with me that he would be happy to answer any questions and the best place to reach him is by e-mail. Make sure you remove the removeme from his e-mail address.
Jason Preston

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My SuccessGateway guest Blogger Tom McCarthy.  I get a lot of newsletters and e-mail from a lot of people.  Tom McCarthy is one newsletter I always read, he has information that sticks and is meaningful in my opinion and I wanted to share this with the My Success Gateway community.  Tom also has an excellent Tom McCarthy Website

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