Practicebased digital learning to improve mental health and well-being in schools, campuses, and communities. Kognito role-play simulations enable organizations to rapidly build the capacity of educators and students to lead real-life conversations that change lives.
For the first time ever, Fumihide "Hide" Itokazu, former member of Team USA that finished 2nd and 3rd at the World Kendo Championships, is offering a full online course for Nito-Ryu. This is also an online insiders training group and a one year subscription for this group.
Access to 10 videos of Nito-Ryu by Hide, nearly 2 hours of nito video instruction for both sei nito and gyaku nito filmed using high-power cameras, lenses and drones for special bird's eye view angles that allow you to see unique views on striking distance and positioning.
The KIPPON Insiders Training Group included also has a forum where members can ask Hide any follow-up questions they may have. Hide personally want to ensure the quality of the learning by having real-time feedback and discussions with the members.
The remaining section of the course is related to the scientific principles of training by Antoine Fortier, Bachelor's and Master's degree graduate in Kinesiology and Biomechanics from McGill University, 6th Dan (AJKF) Renshi (AJKF), former player for Team Canada at the World Kendo Championships and International coach at the European Kendo Championships.
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In online communities, this translates to how your members interact with your brand, other members, and any other virtual community-building activities. Every piece of content, every discussion, share, comment, and event, will contribute to your community culture. Even your user experience and the technology platform that you pick will play a critical role in shaping a successful community culture.
Some of these will be conversation-led communities where the purpose is about bringing people together who share common interests and goals. Other communities will be content-driven, where the focus is more on sharing knowledge and expertise across community members to help them achieve their goals and do their work effectively. Finally, support communities work in tandem with your customer service and success teams to answer questions, educate members on the best use of your product, and troubleshoot. Your community might be one of these types, or they may be a combination.
This brings us to an important decision you need to make early on when building an online community platform. You will need to decide between using a free space, like a social media platform, or building your own, branded community space.
Brand-owned communities also give you greater insights based on community data. This useful information can shape your marketing and sales strategies, your customer success responses, and the events and content you offer your members.
Goals tell you where to aim, to have the biggest impact on your organization and members. Make sure your goals align with what your business wants to achieve, and also want your members want from your community. Understanding their goals, their ambitions, and challenges, allow you to build a community that resonates with them.
Engaged communities are not a side project. Your community needs a dedicated person or team to oversee its strategy, vision, and content. Your community manager will listen to member feedback to better serve their needs, they will moderate discussions to ensure your community remains trusted, and they will tap into the culture, sharing the right content and events with members. They will also promote your community to attract new members.
A community manager will typically post on the community under their own account and name, participating in discussions and essentially behaving like other members. This allows them to build relationships with customers on a human level and extract greater insight to shape the community culture going forward.
Treat them like the VIPs that they are by offering exclusive content, events, and early access to products and services that keep them engaged and recommending others. You can also set up private rooms in your community for them to network with each other, learn the latest news and product releases, and share their feedback.
Nobody likes a frustrating experience and as your community grows, your members may find it tricky to discover the experts and content that they need. If your community is confusing in its layout and content is not easy to find, members will quickly be turned off and discouraged from becoming active contributors.
This is where having a clear community structure makes all the difference. Divide your content and members into different rooms, based on key topics or questions. These areas may attract different audiences with different interests in each one, and you may soon find new sub-cultures emerge through them.
Successful communities have members who actively engage with others through the platform, as well as your people from your organization who interact with them. Two-way conversations are the heart of your community culture, either between your brand and members, experts and members, or peers.
Consider the actions you want to encourage in your community. Depending on the type of community, you might want to focus on knowledge-sharing. Other communities might want members to ask questions and support with troubleshooting. And others might want to encourage members to collaborate on projects.
The Winmark Global community provides a secure, digital space for C-Suite leaders to share experiences and challenges. Content and events are highly tailored to this attention and time-poor audience, with relevant content surfaced as soon as someone logs in. There are 22 private rooms for every C-Suite function and 7 channels of topics that impact business leaders.
The AWS Nitro System is the foundation for our next generation of EC2 instances that enables AWS to innovate faster, further reduce cost for our customers, and deliver added benefits like increased security and new instance types.
AWS has completely re-imagined our virtualization infrastructure. Traditionally, hypervisors protect the physical hardware and bios, virtualize the CPU, storage, networking, and provide a rich set of management capabilities. With the Nitro System, we are able to break apart those functions, offload them to dedicated hardware and software, and reduce costs by delivering practically all of the resources of a server to your instances.
The Nitro System is a rich collection of building blocks that can be assembled in many different ways, giving us the flexibility to design and rapidly deliver EC2 instance types with an ever-broadening selection of compute, storage, memory, and networking options. This innovation also leads to bare metal instances where customers can bring their own hypervisor or have no hypervisor.
The Nitro System provides enhanced security that continuously monitors, protects, and verifies the instance hardware and firmware. Virtualization resources are offloaded to dedicated hardware and software minimizing the attack surface. Finally, Nitro System's security model is locked down and prohibits administrative access, eliminating the possibility of human error and tampering.
The Nitro System delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances resulting in better overall performance. Additionally, dedicated Nitro Cards enable high speed networking, high speed EBS, and I/O acceleration. Not having to hold back resources for management software means more savings that can be passed on to the customer.
AWS Nitro System supports previous generation EC2 instances to extend the length of service beyond the typical lifetime of underlying hardware. The AWS Nitro System provides modern hardware and software components for EC2 instances, allowing customers to continue running their workloads on the instance families they were built on.
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