First of all I have seen many examples where a group of learners is smarter about the topic to study than just the teacher alone.
Social learning also accelerates the personal learning and is more effective than self study alone. And it makes learning more sustainable.
If used with Web2.0 it can be turned into a continuous learning journey, where each learner can stay on the learning journey as long until the personal learning goal is reached. On top it is a highly flexible learning, where participants spend the time they can invest during the days, weeks, months as they wish.
I am just testing such a social learning environment in a free course on Linkedin Profile Best Practice at http://www.udemy.com: http://ude.my/uWKNlR.
This also offers me a practical way to learn and study more about social learning environments and journeys. It gives me first hand insight about learners using it and what works best and what does not.
My next speaking engagement will be titled:
Using open research method as one method of social learning on the basis of Google Docs by Peter Palme
It will be delivered on Saturday, 5th of February at 4 pm (EST) in the free online conference: Link to presentation
Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning CO11 on IT4ALL Moodle & WiZiQFeb 4-6, 2011
The conference will be of interest to educators, administrators, students, and community members who value the importance of integrating technology into the curriculum to improve instruction and learning. Online learning involves various skills on the part of the instructor and learner. These include social and communication skills, social networking, independent learning strategies, critical and higher order thinking skills, creativity, and effective online and face-to-face facilitation. In addition, there are may challenges that the educators, administrators, students, and community members face.
In this private research project, Peter shares the survey results with anyone who would like to use the data for his/her own analysis. The data is anonymous and there is a disclaimer on data privacy at the beginning of the survey.
I need to share a wow experience I recently had in informal learning – or was it even social learning ?
Since many years I am connected to Ian Shaw and I got to know Ian during my time at Nestlé. Ian is a great visionary
and inspiring professional leader in L&D.
Just recently he send out an email to his network about a wonderful free collection of 80 group process tools and ideas that help people work well together. It was written by Dr. Susan Marry and Annette Zera and is available as a free download without registration on http://www.gettingonbrilliantly.co.uk/Publication.html.
Reading through it I found some excellent group tools that I would use in group learning interventions such as:
1) Who rode the elephant – a good way to learn about the expertise of your colleagues – page 28: Would be helpful in setting a group learning event where expert knowledge sharing amongst participant is key
2) The three minute date – a good way to start idea sharing – page 35: Useful to stimulate innovative thinking and finding new options – exellent tool also for an explorative learning intervention where solutions to a problem are identified by the group.
3) Fish Bowl – powerful way to listen to stakeholders – page 46: A way to have a learning in a large group setting on a specific topic with two different perspective for example.
4) Mind Maps – building the picture of the interconnections related to the topic – page 49: A wonderful way to get a complete oversight of what the learnings are and how they relate to the topic
5) Brainstorming – page 68: always good to revisited this well-known tool before applying it again
6) Edward de Bono’s six hats – Looking at life from different perspectives -page 71: a great tool to work on innovative ideas from different perspectives
7) Solving other people’s problems – page 72: involving expert to come up with solution for own identified problems. A good way to get groups stuck on own problem solving to step outside comfort zone and deal with another group’s problem. It is a type of group or peer coaching exercise.
8) Making a commitment – page 95: a good way to get participants to commit to do follow up on their development actions decided during the interventions.
and large group interventions:
9) Open Space- self managed conference -page 121: needs a very good moderator and offers the participants to drive the topics they are interested in to share with others and get input. Helpful in Best-Practice-Sharing sessions and finding new ways forward
10) Appreciative Inquiry – page 122: learning about what works in your organisation, what you can learn from and improve further.
11) Future Search- to solve whole systems problems – page 125: works best when the diverse stakeholders of your system (organisation) are present
12) Knowledge Café – page 127: A good process for large groups to share information and insights on topics of mutual interest.
If you have any further suggestions please share within the comment section of this post. Thank you.
My favourite iGoogle Gadget for travelling is the Flight Status gadget. This way my family will be notified automatically about any delays while I am or my wife is flying. This is quite comfortable as the use of mobile devices is restricted during flights and while going through customs and control .
What iGoogle Gadgets do you use to make your travelling more pleasant and effective ?
I am researching on how to improve learning through collaboration and how to be more effective in using collaborative tools. I have published a number of blog posts around iGoogle Gadgets:
How to get the most out of my time while mobile ? How to be more effective in the knowledge driven economy and maintain a healthy work-life balance ? How to best collaborate with my wife, family and friends and my professional networks ?
The centerpiece of my collaborative platform is the iPhone 3G.
I spent quite a bit of time driving, so basically in the first phase of my learning is the main focus on how to best collaborate and being effective while driving.
As I am passionate about collective, collaborative and continuous learning I would appreciate any comments on what you would use the iPhone during driving to be more effective or what devices or software you would recommend to use to support the tasks listed above.
Very good recommendation about Linkedin. Good to see this rise in interest, but still I am surprised that not more people join. It is the tool to connect and offers the great opportunity to quickly join togehter to develop new businesses. Large companies have a lot of new products in the R&D pipeline but are not fast enough to bring this to market. I hope they will open up and embrace this new possibilities of Linkedin not only to recruit but to build faster and more successful business teams who bring new products to market.
My recommendation for you is to state your market insight, your technology insight or you operational insight in your profile.
Just a remark: Your insights should not reveal any confidential data. They should be broad. For market insight as an example it would be enough to just state the what market you dealt with (beer market in Germany) etc.
Peter Palme www.linkedin.com/in/peterpalme Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
Retweet This Page: Often I get asked what are the best practices in creating a compelling Linkedin Profile. My answer is that it depends on the target audience. Are you aiming to get hired or are you aiming to build a large network.
Did you ever wanted to know how attractive your profile is compared to others. Here is the opportunity for you to do an anonymous benchmark against other linkedin profiles.
New: Lindsey Pollak. The Global Spokesperson for Linkedin. She is an author, consultant, speaker and recognized expert on next generation career and workplace trends.
Chris Brogan The leading expert on social media and trust.
Dan Schawbel The leading expert on personal branding.
1) Guy Kawasaki Profile is the most visited on Linkedin. Guy recieved advise from Linkedin on his Profile makeover
2) Olivier Taupin. He is the founder of the largest group in Linkedin: Linkedin HR.
3) Ron Bates is the most connected person on Linkedin
4) Steven Burda has received the most recommendations on Linkedin.
5) Peter Palme: Consulted well known Headhunters for his profile makeover
He puts great emphasis on the catch line in the title – what is your true intend or mission instead of the job position and second he emphasizes his contribution in his summary – what he can do for the viewer of his profile.
“Picture this. You meet someone new. “What do you do?” she asks.
“I’m an architect,” you say.
“Oh, really?” she answers. “Have you designed any buildings I’ve seen?”
“Possibly,” you reply. “We did the new student center at the university…”
“Oh wow,” she says. “That’s a beautiful building…”
Without trying — without blowing your own horn — you’ve made a great impression.
Now picture this. You meet someone new. “What do you do?” he asks.
“I’m a passionate, innovative, dynamic provider of architectural services with a collaborative approach to creating and delivering outstanding world-class client and user experiences.”
All righty then.
Do you describe yourself differently – on your website, promotional materials, or especially on social media – than you do in person? Do you use cheesy clichés and overblown superlatives and breathless adjectives?
Do you write things about yourself you would never have the nerve to actually say?”
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As I am a big believer in the wisdom of the crowds I created a rating site for Linkedin Profiles on Google Moderator. Vote on any of the Profiles listed plus submit your own suggestions and spread the word to the crowd. Let’s see who are the role models of the best linkedin profiles.
Retweet This Page: Series 1: What are the best igoogle gadgets for learning to add to your personalized google page ?
It depends first of all on what you want to learn. There are plenty gadgets for language learning, gadgets on learning how to learn, how to use sign language, how stuff works, ….
For languages there are plenty of gadgets to support your learning.
To learn new vocabulary in different languaes there are a number of gadgets:
English Vocabulary: Learn Words Gadget
To rely only on the Linkedin Help is not enough. To be successful with Linkedin further learning resources need to be consulted.
But first you need to know what you want to use linkedin for.
Getting hired through linked requires a differnet approach than to building your business relations.
2) How to makeover your Linkedin Profile
This is a must read article. Very visually explained how to makeover your profile. If you want to shine on Linkedin this is the place to start.
Crowdsourcing in Human Resources is my main research topic in 2009. Cash is king and so is the cashflow in most of the companies. There is no surprise if budgets are reduced for most of the binsess functions.
So how can one leverage what it is available to still implement most of the programs envisoned and needed ?
But first of all what is crowdsourcing and how does it work and what are the boundaries ?
In Wikipedia crowdsourcing is definded as “a neologism for the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people or community in the form of an open call. “
Real life examples of crowdsourcing are:
1) P&G involved an open network of scientist to find a technology to print picture on Pringles potato Chips.
2) O’Reilly Media iengaged volunteers to report on how their books were displayed on the shelves in bookstores.
There are plenty of real life examples here: The New Human Resource Wikinomics Wikipedia: Crowdsourcing 50+ crowdsourcing projects
Above these are business examples, but how could the Human Resources Function use crowdsourcing ?
A) The first item that comes to my mind is learning:
I have one word for you: youtube.
1) Stress Management presentation is an example. Google academy invites known experts and publishes the event on youtube.
Professor Jon Kabat-Zinn is the founder of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and developed a scientific sound Stress Management program. Click here to watch the video
2) My personal experience: My son loves the so called brick or lego films on youtube. Lego is known to children for its plastic building blocks. We wanted to make our own lego film and turned to Youtube for advise. It was a video created by a nine year old who was of tremendous help to us – unfortunately I did not keep the link.
Remark: The company needs to allow their employees the access to Youtube. This is still not the case for all companies.
In Youtube usually the work has already been done. It is just a matter of finding it. But one could think of inviting the crowd for example the Human Resources Learning & Development crowd to jointly identify useful free learning resources on the interent to a specific topic such as stress management, interview skills, etc….
Existing projects and groups: WikiEducator is a community project working collaboratively with the Free Culture Movement towards a free version of the education curriculum by 2015. Connecting Online C009: Sharing personal and professional online learning experiences. This is group of 465 members on the ning plattform.
a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute:
C) Workforce: Talent aquisition
Don Tapscott the best selling author of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything lectures on The Future of Staffing is Crowdsourcing
D) Workforce: Talent Assessment and Talent Pool and EmployabilityPotential talents could be identified through crowdsourcing projects for example in Commercial, Marketing, Public Affairs or Research & Development .
In Commercial future talents could be invited to develop a business plan for a new technology, market, etc.
In Public Affairs future talents could work on new campaigns for one of the businesses such as using Web 2.0 channels and tools.
In Research & Development future talents could work on new key challenges and develop new solutions.
There are a lot of opportunities to engage future talents and thus build a talent pool.
There are numerous benefits for the talents as well. The main benefit besides a potential job is experience.
In the early 1990s crisis I was representing the Fraunhofer Institute at an education and career fair in Germany. Number of students approached us with their CVs. Of these students who had their diplomas in hand there were a few who had not found a job even two years after graduation. And in these two years some of them had basically not collected any experience be it as an evening class teacher at a local night school or any other job related experiences. Would you hire a person that has two years of missing experiences in his or her CV ? My point here is that these crowdsourcing project would help to increase the employability of participants especially in a recession. With the internet this has become so easy now and shows that the internet is more than a large computer it is a society within the society and opens us to a whole new world to collect needed experiences.
Related Post: List of Developmental Assignments 2.0
If you have other crowdsourcing examples to share which would benefit the Human Resources Function please do not hesitate to write a comment or join me on the HRcrowdsourcing comunity.
I will continuously update this post with new examples as I go along on my research journey on crowdsourcing in 2009.
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IMD Professor Stephane Garelli looks at the next 25 years of world competitiveness. Countries will become more compatible with each other as economic and social divergences narrow
Why IT Fumbles Analytics: IMD Professor Donald A. Marchand and Joe Peppard explain why tech projects should focus less on technology deployment and more on information.
Generating more energy and using it more efficiently are among the central issues of our time. IMD Professor Stuart Read describes how psychology persuaded customers to rethink their energy use
Thatcherism influenced much of the world’s economic policy in the two decades preceding the economic crisis. Perhaps now, a little Confucianism could help bring human nature back in check.
Cranfield student Chidi Ofoegbu has been named by The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, in partnership with the Schmidt Family Foundation, as one of eleven students, along with their academic mentors, selected for this unique and important Fellowship.
A solar cooker able to harness the sun’s energy to cook food and purify water has been developed by Cranfield University and COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad. The cooker will significantly improve the quality of life for rural communities in the developing world.
A new remote-controlled ‘boat’ being developed at Cranfield University for the Environment Agency could assist in the recovery of fish populations in UK rivers by improving migration routes and access to vital food and breeding grounds.
Cranfield University has joined forces with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Imperial College and London Business School in developing a global programme for postgraduate students to develop skills and innovative thinking required to map out a more sustainable economy.
Cranfield will be collaborating in a newly announced UK Centre which will be looking at innovative ways of using lasers in UK manufacturing, to replace 'conventional' tools.
Cranfield University has this week completed the grinding of mirror segments to be used for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) – the largest optical telescope in the world.
Researchers at the University of Warwick have been awarded £1.1 million to develop the statistics needed to pool the vast quantities of data generated by brain scans.
Ana Botin, CEO, Santander UK, will speak today (23 May) to around 100 guests, including staff and students, on the future of banking and also visit the Santander branch at the university.
Dr Shaheen Sardar Ali, Professor of Law at Warwick and Vice-Chair of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, who was included in the 100 most influential Pakistani women in 2012.
Economic sociologist Will Davies, from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick, has been awarded the Political Quarterly Bernard Crick Prize for best essay.
Engineering students at the University of Warwick are the only UK team to qualify for a place in a global competition to design and build a search and rescue robot.
The University of Warwick and the National Grid have launched a partnership to tackle global energy challenges as well local issues such as skills and employment in their communities.
Fresh from closing its purchase of newsreading app Pulse, LinkedIn has made another acquisition to dive deeper into the mobile space. TechCrunch has found out..
I first met Ankit Gupta, one of Pulse's founders, at a technology innovation competition in India many years ago. I keynoted at the event and had the pleasure of meeting Ankit, who went on to win the competition. We spent that ...
Putting the service more in line aesthetically with social networks like Facebook and Google+, the once job-oriented site LinkedIn has introduced a new navigation bar to its website.
Have you ever wished for a personal assistant who reminds you when your colleagues are celebrating new jobs or birthdays? Or have you wanted to quickly pull up the last conversations you had with people before you head ...
Our mobile audience has greatly evolved over the past year. Today, our mobile professionals span across the globe and represent a broad spectrum, from executives to young professionals and from road warriors to desk ...
The professional social network's navigation bar is now easier to use and more pleasant to behold. Read this article by Jennifer Van Grove on CNET News.
We know that LinkedIn members are some of the most engaged professionals online. After all, you are involved in millions of conversations across LinkedIn day after day. That's why we want to make it even easier for you to ...
You may have noticed that we've been on a mission to simplify LinkedIn. We hope you're enjoying a simpler and easier, yet elegant and engaging experience across your mobile and desktop experiences. From the ...
LinkedIn is a powerful social platform if used properly, when connections are cultivated repeatedly over time. Also: news on Twitter ad products and Pinterest.
Google's current homepage option, iGoogle, is retiring in November 2013, and it looks increasingly likely that Google Now is being groomed as a replacemen.
Do you use iGoogle? I don't. I played around with it once. I dragged a few widgets around the screen and thought, that's kinda neat. Now, what was I searching for again?
With the upcoming demise of iGoogle (see image above), I've decided to explore better options for what used to be the “Learn Chinese” iGoogle Page. The best new thing I've found is NetVibes. So I'm very happy to announce ...
The news of Google shutting down iGoogle (November, 2013 for existing users) has left people scrambling to find alternative start page services on the web. One alternative to iGoogle that I tried last fall is MyLinkCloud.
Jia Chen from RockYou invited me to talk about Google OpenSocial platforms, Orkut and iGoogle during his talk at Web 2.0 Expo this morning: Building an App for Social Platforms. It was a great sessions, with representative ...
Steve: I love the simplicity of my igoogle page: I have birthday reminders, sports scores I can open, weather, map access, news I can open, and search.
http://www.protopage.com In the beginning, Google created Google Personalized Homepages- and they saw it was good. Next they improved upon it and created.
For Chrome, there is actually an extension that makes this pretty easy. It automatically appears in the toolbar when RSS feeds are detected on the page. Default settings preview the feed before subscribing, but this can be ...
So what's going on with landing pages and does anyone really use them any more? Suddenly there have been two or three articles on some fairly major news sites about users' home pages or landing pages for browsers.
Paul George, Epic, Tim Curry, Amanda Bynes, Bridge Collapse, ...
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May 25 (Reuters) - Billionaire hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen is losing the financial support of Blackstone Group Inc , the largest outside investor in his embattled SAC Capital Advisors, which is yanking much of its client money, according to a letter reviewed by Reuters.
FRANKFURT, May 25 (Reuters) - Kion Group, the world's second biggest maker of fork lift trucks, would be ready for an initial public offering but is not in a rush, German paper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported, citing Kion's chief executive.
NACO, Mexico, May 25 (Reuters) - Mexican activist Maria Elena Borquez takes up a paintbrush and daubs a bright splotch of color on the rusted steel fence separating the small Mexican town of Naco from a neighboring town in the United States.
JAKARTA, May 25 (Reuters) - Between 35 and 40 percent of workers at Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc's Indonesian unit returned to work on Saturday to carry out maintenance work after a tunnel collapse that killed 28 people, a union official said.
JAKARTA, May 25 (Reuters) - Between 35 and 40 percent of workers at Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc's Indonesian unit returned to work on Saturday to carry out maintenance work after a training tunnel collapse that killed 28 people, a union official said.
LIMA, May 24 (Reuters) - Peruvian President Ollanta Humala said on Friday he will prioritize investments and speed up infrastructure projects after the economy hit a "bump in the road" with unexpectedly slow growth in the first quarter.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. May 24 (Reuters) - An unmanned Delta 4 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday to put a multi-use, broadband communications satellite into orbit for the U.S. military.
May 24 (Reuters) - US Airways Group and American Airlines, seeking approval for a merger that would create the world's largest airline, are warning lawmakers that a requirement to divest certain airport slots would lead to less service for small and medium-sized cities, sources close to the effort told Reuters.
We're happy to announce the first guest post on the Tagoras blog and thrilled that it comes from Maddie Grant of SocialFish. Enjoy! – Jeff Why do busy professionals turn to social media? For professional development, of ...
Online social workshop at the Social Learning Centre starts Monday 27 May. Organising a formal online social learning experience for the workplace is much more than just requiring people to use some social media tools in ...
Should I innovate and focus on my own fields of interest, or should I imitate and follow the trends? Conveniently, the field best equipped to answer this question, i.e. “social learning strategies and decision making”, was sixth of ...
Social Learning: a Namibian Experiment. Agaricus_bisporus_5112261430_8556037af0_b In Sub-Saharan Africa, innovative approaches are constantly being developed to address the region's acute education challenges.
Just contrast these social learning approaches with organisations views of knowledge, often locking training and learning up in rooms, hiding them away on systems. If an airport can have a library in the main concourse, why ...
Connecting Social Learning to e-Learning. Tweet. Nicole Miller. By Nicole Miller, Instructional Designer; See all posts by this author; October 23, 2012. Social media continues to grow worldwide. Facebook, Twitter and Yammer are becoming ...
In March I participated in the workshop “Social Learning in Business” run by Harold Jarche of the Social Learning Centre. With DynaMind's focus on social learning I was excited to join a group who would be discussing just ...
... might think that this is a joke. It's not. So ok, Facebook wasn't created for educational purposes, but you 'd be surprised of how the social affordances of this versatile tool can generate great potentials for social learning.
This past Friday I was a panelist for the “Faculty Face Off” session at American University's Social Learning Summit – a 2.5 day conference organized by AU's Social Media Club that looks at the current and emerging role, ...
We just finished a month-long workshop at the Social Learning Centre which involved over 50 participants from many countries. The workshop was on social learning in business, and followed on from previous ones like the ...
Good talent management software enables companies and even midsize businesses to discover, study and recruit top talent in the market these days. It aligns or builds up the talent recruited to the key goals of the companies, ...
Jason Corsello didn't just turn out to be a great analyst and one of the original HR bloggers, but he's now honing his knowledge to be a real strategist in modern marketing plying his trade leading strategy and marketing for ...
Responsible for developing and implementing a talent management strategy working at the holding company level and supporting subsidiary companies and joint ventures at various stages of business development. Ensures ...
Entertainment Industry job search results for Credence Talent, job title Talent Management Intern, this Part TimeUnpaid Internship located in West Hollywood, CA was posted 5/21/2013 5:57:00 PM.
Anyone who tracks advanced trends in talent management knows that many of them originated in the Silicon Valley. However, you probably also know that many of the publicized practices that …
UNT System. Talent Management Analyst Department Overview DO NOT APPLY TO THIS POSTING. ANY APPLICATIONS ATTACHED TO THIS POSTING WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED FOR EMPLOYMENT FOR THESE ...
UNT System. Talent Management Specialist Department Overview DO NOT APPLY TO THIS POSTING. ANY APPLICATIONS ATTACHED TO THIS POSTING WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED FOR EMPLOYMENT FOR THESE ...
Following a year in development including various stages of beta-testing and further fine-tuning, the resourcingpod applicant tracking and talent management system has finally been launched to customers.
n reading the November 2012 address by Cynthia Trudell of PepsiCo to the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University, I found it.
(Reuters) - Billionaire hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen is losing the financial support of Blackstone Group Inc, the largest outside investor in his embattled SAC Capital Advisors, which is yanking much of its client money, according to a letter reviewed by Reuters.
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang criticized the European Union over its plans to investigate alleged anti-competitive behavior by Chinese mobile telecom equipment makers and to impose punitive import duties on solar panels from China, state media reported.
(Reuters) - News Corp said on Friday it will write down the value of its Australian and U.S. publishing assets by up to $1.4 billion, as the company prepares to split its business between its newspaper and entertainment operations.
(Reuters) - US Airways Group and American Airlines , seeking approval for a merger that would create the world's largest airline, are warning lawmakers that a requirement to divest certain airport slots would lead to less service for small and medium-sized cities, sources close to the effort told Reuters.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The stock market's break in its recent rally this week left investors wondering if they're seeing a turning point or just a blip in the upward path.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said there is mounting evidence that Bank of America Corp , Wells Fargo and Co and other banks violated the terms of a settlement designed to end mortgage servicing abuses.
(Reuters) - The former chief executive of a failed U.S. bank in Norfolk, Virginia, and three others were convicted Friday of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and other charges in connection with a scheme to conceal loan losses that contributed to the bank's collapse in 2011.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - General Growth Properties Inc has paired with Brookfield Office Properties Inc to bid for an expensive New York building in what could mark the No. 2 U.S. mall owner's entry into a new segment of the retail real estate market, according to two sources familiar with the deal.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The stock market's break in its recent rally this week left investors wondering if they're seeing a turning point or just a blip in the upward path.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An influential senator expressed strong concerns on Friday about Japanese company SoftBank Corp's plan to buy 70 percent of Sprint Nextel , warning it could expose the United States to Chinese cyber attacks.
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