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• The important vitamin you could be lacking

  Lauren Swan Sports & Fitness

  ​Vitamin D3 is one of those supplements that many people forget they need and therefore rarely take, which can be a devastating combination when it comes to your immune system. Vitamin D3 has been proven to boost the strength of a person's immune system and can aid in sleeping habits, as well as energy levels. But what else does vitamin D3 have to offer? Why is it so important to not become deficient, particularly during the winter?

• Seriously! Stop using Facebook this way

  Mark MacDonald Marketing

  Social media has changed our lives. This month we say happy 10th birthday to Facebook. Time flies. Since Facebook has 1.2 billion active users, it assures that almost everyone is on it. It makes sense that a lot of businesses have a page that communicates to their customers. But why do people follow you? If we understand that, we'll understand how to get more followers and what content to develop.

• Seriously, churches! Stop using Facebook this way

  Mark MacDonald Religious Community

  This month we say happy 10th birthday to Facebook. Since Facebook has 1.2 billion active users, it assures that almost everyone is on it. It makes sense that a lot of churches have a page that communicates to their congregation. But why do people follow you? If we understand that, we'll understand how to get more followers and what content to develop.

• Experience and skills are no match for talent

  Mel Kleiman Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Human knowledge is now doubling every 3.7 years. This means 50 percent of what you now know will be out of date in less than four years. For this reason, it is no longer about hiring skills and/or experience. Today, it's all about hiring talent.

• Discharge marketing: Are you taking advantage of this opportunity?

  Jarod Carter Healthcare Administration

  At a time when hospitals are purchasing medical practices and requiring that physical therapy referrals now stay "in house," and even nonorthopedic practices are starting physician-owned PT clinics, marketing directly to the public has become ever more important.

• The role of antimicrobial peptides in inflammatory skin diseases

  Dr. Afsaneh Motamed-Khorasani Medical & Allied Healthcare

  Antimicrobial peptides play an important role in skin protection. The cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide (CAMP) is an important factor for skin's innate immune mechanism and plays a critical role in prevention of pathogen infection. Previous studies indicated that the production of CAMP was regulated by vitamin D3. But a new signaling mechanism, sphingosine 1-phosphate, could be useful in the development of new compounds or drugs that could be used to improve the innate immunity against the microbes.

• What Twitter can teach you about marketing — and no, you don’t…

  Marc Wayshak Marketing

  Jack Dorsey's brainchildren — Twitter and Square Reader — were both developed from "user narratives," descriptions that map out a user's day-to-day life and priorities. This simple but revolutionary idea challenges entrepreneurs to develop products that are designed to fill a specific need in a user's life. Similarly, marketing efforts can flourish when organizations understand their customers' backstories.

• 5 safety tips for your warehouse

  Mandy Gardner Distribution & Warehousing

  ​Warehouse management is a multifaceted industry whose success relies on many different elements, such as leadership, management software, architecture and warehouse layout. To make sure that your warehouse is as safe and hazard-free as possible, you should implement a few different systems that will bolster the overall safety rating of your building.

• Russia’s ambition for Sochi and the Winter Olympics

  Matt Falcus Transportation Technology & Automotive

  Russia's southern Black Sea resort city of Sochi is about to take the world stage with the Winter Olympics opening Feb. 6. Athletes and spectators will descend upon the city in the thousands, and it is hoped the two-week event will spark a revival in the region to throw off the post-Soviet image still being endured. But what of the challenges being faced in developing the required infrastructure to cope with such ambition?

• How to manage risk in complex projects

  Dr. David Hillson Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Some people say complex projects are not the same as other "ordinary" projects, and so they need to be managed differently. We need to develop flexibility and resilience at all levels in order to cope with the special risk challenges associated with complexity. When we consider the risk angle, there are three questions to answer: Are complex projects inherently different from other projects? Are complex projects exposed to different types of risk? Do these types of risk require managing differently?

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