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Class Activity about Blogging

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image courtesy: unsplash A poll was conducted using a  Mentimeter  to know the number of people in the class that have blogged before and just a small number of the class answer was "Yes". This was a bit of a surprise as   i  have always been someone that has been used to blogging though,  I  seldom do. The poll software used  showed  only  a few numbers of people had create d  a blog post before as  i   would have  assumed  the opposite would be the answer, this is one of the reasons professions like data analytics have become hot in the job market today as they give good insights to actual market data and not just assumptions.       What makes a compelling blog  post?   Everyone is an expert at something, and award-winning journalist and writing coach,  Starshine Rosell,  suggest in her  tutorial  video on  writing on compelling blogpost  on LinkedIn, that whate...

What is systems thinking

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  Photo coutesy:  andyroberts.com                                                                                         Systems thinking according to Derek Cabrera  — a Cornell University professor specializing in systems thinking — is the ability to find new ways of thinking to yield better solutions,  innovations,  and results. I guess you have heard of the famous saying    “The definition of insanity is  doing the same thing  over and over again and expecting a  different result .”  — Albert Einstein.   The four elements of systems thinking are: distinguish ideas from other ideas (distinctions), organize ideas into systems, relate ideas to one another, and look at ideas fr...