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• The pros and cons of online schooling for pre-teens

  Ginger Abbot Education

  The pandemic has impacted almost every area of our lives. Work has changed, with many adults now working from home or pursuing freelance options. Many students are learning virtually or doing hybrid classes on alternating weekdays. Each household with working parents and online students has developed differing opinions about whether online schooling should continue after the pandemic is over. Now that they’re adjusted, some parents might wonder whether their kids should keep learning online. Here’s what to consider before making a long-term decision.

• Infographic: The rise of Bitcoin

  Bruce L. Gordon Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Ah, Bitcoin. Whether you are a believer or not, there is no doubt that it has been on the rise lately. The question to many is — why? Bitcoin first came on the scene in 2009 — right at the fall of the housing market crisis. While there were then some ups and downs, Bitcoin didn’t hit the stratosphere until 2017, when it jumped from $1,000 to over $19,000. The year 2018 brought on a big crash, especially with a number of fraudulent ICOs (initial coin offerings). All that said, Bitcoin is back. Every day it seems it’s hitting new records — even briefly crossing the $60,000 line.

• The importance of communicating with retail store associates about your…

  Katie McCarron Retail

  When it comes to growing sales through retail stores, manufacturers have countless avenues to invest time and resources — execute awareness-building campaigns, develop exciting point of sale, or increase promotional frequency and depth, to name a few. When executed well, any of these programs can have a valuable effect on sales, but it is important to never overlook the importance of partnering with retail store associates to ensure they are fully educated about your product, its use cases and typical customer questions. Here are four reasons that you should be investing time and resources in educating retail store associates.

• Relationship-building based on trust and mutual respect

  Mark S. Miller Education

  Relationship-building is an intriguing, yet tricky concept. Some people make friends easily and are naturally talkative and friendly; others are more tentative and introverted and have great difficulty making friends. Based on your vocation, developing relationships or interacting with people on a daily basis might be a matter of necessity, not choice. For teachers, relationship-building is a constant challenge. Teachers not only interact with their colleagues, administrators, and parents, but also students each day in their classrooms, hallways, and communities.

• What’s the BIG Idea? Episode 1: Sydney Guerrero on business development…

  Hank Boyer Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  In this episode of What’s the BIG Idea? we visit with Sydney Guerrero, Vice President of Busines Development for Orion Innovation, an $850 million global IT leader in digital transformation and product development services.

• Healthy buildings: Construction’s answer to health crises

  Mike Floeck Construction & Building Materials

  After 12 months of living under the shadow of a global pandemic, burnout about the topic of health is spreading contagiously. If we’re not actively working to keep others healthy, however, we’re likely to experience future, large-scale outbreaks. The buildings in which we live, work and thrive can be more effective at protecting us from harm and preventing the spread of disease by incorporating intelligent design elements. Check out the infographic in this article to learn more about the features that make healthy buildings so healthy, and about the benefits they offer to those who live and work within them.

• Making the switch to a pistol red dot instantly and effortlessly

  Mike Ox Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

  Red dot sights on pistols, also called micro red dots or micro red dot sights (MDRS), are all the rage right now for defensive use after proving their effectiveness in the shooting sports for the last several years. They are almost as big of a game-changer on pistols as they were on long guns. On most targets, you can keep your focus on your target, put the red dot where you want your bullet to go, and the bullet will go there. They negate many of the aiming advantages of a longer slide, make shooting easier for shooters with visual confusion and they can be easier to track in recoil than iron sights.

• Change to adapt: How businesses will respond to post-pandemic travels

  Linchi Kwok Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

  Hospitality and tourism companies are ready for the long-awaited travel recovery in 2021. Many have begun hiring. The hospitality sector alone added 355,000 new jobs in February, making up most of the nonfarm payroll gains in the market. Airlines, too, are preparing for recovery; they have resumed hiring and training and plan to buy new airplanes. Post-pandemic travel, however, will very likely look different from what we knew about travel. COVID-19's devastating impact on the hospitality and tourism industry may have changed how these businesses operate forever.

• How can we raise the quality of teacher crowdsourcing resources?

  Brian Stack Education

  As a society, we have developed quite the appetite for information that is received by way of "crowdsourcing," which can be loosely defined by sites like Google as the practice of obtaining information or input into a task or project by enlisting the services of a large number of people, either paid or unpaid, typically via the internet. For all the benefits of the strategy, there is one significant drawback that has become an increasing problem for those who use it: How do you filter out the good information from the junk? If we are to continue using this strategy in our field, we must as a profession figure out how to raise the bar for educators on crowdsourcing resources.

• Here are the most oddly named towns in America

  Dave G. Houser Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

  Virtually every state in the union has one. We're talking oddly named towns. Veteran road-trippers have probably come across some of them — like Chugwater, Wyoming; Intercourse, Pennsylvania; or Waterproof, Louisiana. But some names are rather Bland (Missouri), even Boring (Oregon) or downright Dull (Ohio) compared to some of the truly nutty names we’ve uncovered. Some towns are named for things we eat, like Chili (Wisconsin), Chicken (Alaska), Spuds and Two Egg (Florida), Fries (Virginia), Bacon (Texas) or Sandwich (Massachusetts). And we say Whynot (North Carolina and Mississippi)?

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