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Friday Finds — Positive Propaganda, Seductive Details, Thinking Fast & Slow

Mike Taylor

8) Last Week’s Most Clicked: AI-Powered Learning Design News & Notes Facts Don’t Change Minds This is a thought-provoking article that explores the role of propaganda in shaping public opinion and argues that it can be an effective tool for persuasion despite its negative connotations.

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Confused? Welcome to the Learning System World of 2024

eLearning 24-7

The whole “active user” that is counted is seriously propaganda unless that vendor sends an invoice to you each month and charges you for each month. It may be 1,000 or 2,500 or 5,000 or 10,000 or how much revenue the client brings in (bad idea, but anyway, have fun with that). Trust me, it is unlikely to be the vendor.

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How to Sell a LMS

eLearning 24-7

You want to them to trust you. Do you want the customer do trust you? Very few people nowadays have no idea on who you are and what you are all about. People like people that are similar, which by the way is a propaganda technique (Just like you and me) often used in advertising. It should never happen in sales.

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If you build it, will they come?

eLearning 24-7

Utilize propaganda techniques. Advertisers use propaganda techniques all the time, actually every day you see any advertising. You would be surprised how many people who get “newsletters&# in the e-mail accounts, and subscribed to them, have no idea it is really a giant marketing piece to get them to the site.