Communications Preference Profile

The all-new Communication Preference Profile is a quick and easy inventory that identifies four habitual communication styles: People, Action, Content, and Technology. After answering the 20 questions, you will learn about your strengths as a communicator and your opportunities for improvement.This inventory is also useful when taken with your work team. Your team will learn about each others' communication strengths (and challenges) and how to work together more effectively to accomplish its team and organizations' goals.The twenty- item, self-contained format allows for easy administration. Self-scoring answer form, preference grid, and interpretation sheet provide participants with immediate feedback about communication preferences.

The way people persuade or influence others is about to change forever. This book moves away from the traditional hit-and-miss methods of persuasion, by applying real science to this fundamental business and life skill. From a business perspective, the very practical process described in this book allows anyone to rapidly create a truly persuasive message, that is very easy to understand, and highly influential. Because this proven methodology can be used to create very real business success, it will become essential reading for leaders, managers, marketeers and salesmen. Additionally, the techniques described in this book can be used for almost any endeavour. For instance, you can apply these easy-to- use techniques to develop a winning presentation for a multi-billion dollar contract, or you can use the same types of approach to communicate more effectively with your spouse. This is the power of the universal principles described in this book.

Papers from a November 2002 conference focus on the design, analysis, implementation, and exploitation of new concepts, technologies, and applications related to high-performance networks on a local scale. Contributors are networking researchers, engineers, and practitioners in industry, academia, and government. Themes include ad hoc networks, network performance, quality of service, network security, traffic characterization, and wireless networks, as well as network management, multimedia, Web services optimization, differentiated services, mobility management, and high-speed and wireless local networks. Specific topics are analysis of a dynamically reconfigurable network processor, reliable group communication in an ad hoc network, and safety critical middleware for avionics applications. There is no subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Books about Resources in Education

Books about Personal Wireless Communications

The SOURCE BOOK is a reference volume that provides readers with current information on the latest resources in leadership development. The fourth in a series, the 1992-1993 edition offers two new sections along with updates to previous editions & can serve as a useful adjunct to existing SOURCE BOOKS or as a valuable reference on its own. Organized so that information is easily accessible, it contains the following sections: Courses & Programs; Leadership Technologies (a new section on instruments, simulations, & exercises); Annotated Bibliography; Films & Videos; Resource Persons in Leadership Education; Resource Organizations in Leadership Education; & Index. As a tool for creating or implementing development programs, the SOURCE BOOK is especially valuable to teachers & co-curricular staff in colleges & universities as well as human-resource professionals, management consultants, organization-development professionals, public service consultants, & the public service community. Order from CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEADERSHIP, P.O. Box 26300, Greensboro, NC 27438-6300; 915-545-2805; FAX 919-288-3999.

The four-volume set LNCS 6946-6949 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2011, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in September 2011. The 47 papers included in the first volume are organized in topical sections on accessibility, affective HCI, computer-mediated communication, computer-supported cooperative work, evaluation, finding and retrieving, fun/aesthetic design, gestures, and HCI in the classroom.

Christin Emrich zeigt, dass die Ganzheitlichkeit des Multi-Channel-Konzepts ein interdisziplinäres Communications-Management aus klassischen und neuen Medien (Web 1.0- und Web 2.0-Welt, M-Commerce) sowie Instrumentarien aus verschiedenen Bereichen wie Strategic Planning, Online-Marktforschung und E-Branding erfordert.

This is the fifth & most comprehensive in a series of source books on leadership education for leaders in government, education, human services & business. It aims to help them stay up to date on the courses, programs & resources available on leadership education. THE SOURCE BOOK contains the following sections: NEW COURSES & PROGRAMS including 93 detailed entries on leadership majors & minors, courses & programs on college & university campuses & for nonprofit & community leadership & a cummulative list of courses & programs from 1986 to 1992; LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT TOOLS including instruments, exercises, simulations & games; LEADERSHIP BIBLIOGRAPHY containing annotated entries on almost 1000 books & articles; FILMS & VIDEOS describing more than 130 films & videos with runtime, format & distributors; RESOURCE PERSONS DIRECTORY containing information on 300 people who conduct research & practice in the field of leadership; RESOURCE ORGANIZATIONS DIRECTORY listing over 80 organizations with an interest in leadership education; CONFERENCE & MEETING DIRECTORY featuring information on 13 annual events on leadership education; & INDEX which includes both name & subject entries for the information included in the book.

This text covers topic including: mobile and personal communications; coding, modulation and spread spectrum; ATM/IP networks; multimedia communications; optoelectronic systems and devices; broadband satellite communications; DSP applications in Telecommunication; and image and video processing.