Communication Skills in Everyday Life

The communication skills that I apply in my everyday life are listening, sending clear messages and understanding. These three communication skills have been beneficial in conducting my communication and maintaining my good personal relationships with other people. Communication is considered as one of the most important activities of man. It is utilized in most of the vital transactions that man does. It is defined as the process of transmitting messages and information from one point to another...

Literature Review

    The study is focused on the efficacy of health risk communication on the organizational level and its overall impact on the dissemination of relative information pertaining to Influenza A (H1N1). The importance of having a good and sound health risk communication is needed in order to decrease and lessen the incidence of casualties, alleviating the diseases effects on human productivity as well as providing timely treatment to affected individuals. Moreover, effective health communication...

METADATA AND DIGITAL LIBRARIES

In the world we live in we are surrounded by information. This information can be either useful or not. Its usefulness depends on whether we can access it when we need it. The methodology of accessing the information will thus constitute metadata. Simply put, metadata is information about information.Using the example of a library, the catalogue can be considered as metadata. A person gene code can also be considered as metadata. A library catalogue is only useful if one knows how to use it. Other...

Answers to reflection questions

In my personal, professional and community life, I have tried to be as humble and down to earth as possible. I treat everyone on the basis of the qualities he possesses as a human being and not on the basis of his status or post. I never try to display any aggressive or passive behavior. I believe that if I am cold or abusive towards anyone, I am not degrading the person on the other end, rather reducing my own personal standards and code of ethics. I consider myself a learner always and this is...

Planned Parenthood on its Fight for Real Sex Education

The organizations services and advocacies has continued for more than 90 years promoting practical approaches about womens health and welfare, with grounds for the respect of each persons right to receive information, having their own decisions on sex, health and family planning (Planned Parenthood, 2009).    PPFA is also offers the most trusted reproductive health care for individuals in diverse communities. Their team consisting of health professionals are committed to providing...

Computer Mediated Conversation

The various texts are talking about the internet & how it is changing the world, socially. There are people who are looking at the negative aspects of social interaction through the internet, but a different aspect is presented in these texts/ E-mail has become an accepted norm of communication. In fact, it is even being promoted as a means of communication by various educational institutions. Besides, social communities which were fast disappearing are again coming up because of this social...