Guest Blogs
Knowitall.ch often invites local experts in their field to contribute to their own blogs on our site. This means not only you will benefit from the useful recommendations that we make on our News pages, but you can also profit from some of the great advice and tips that these experts have to make on their favorite subjects. Whilst each of these bloggers has been recommended to us at some point during the evolution of Know-it-all passport and knowitall.ch, obviously we are not able to test out all the suggestions they make on their blogs, nor do we necessarily agree with all their opinions. So if you do find one of their tips useful (or not!), do let us know!
To make these blogs more accessible to you, we have now decided to group them altogether in one section, entitled Guest Blogs, accessible from our main menu bar. We will also post the most recent blogs on the home page of our site in the right hand column.
We are still building up this area of the site, and are looking for bloggers in a number of sections, including Your Home, Travel, and Leisure, so if you feel you have a useful contribution to make in either of these areas, and have the time to submit blog entries approximately every month, then please get in touch!
By Sarah Santacroce at Simplicity
Not getting those leads from LinkedIn yet? Then I’m challenging you to participate and spend 10 minutes on LinkedIn every day. Implement the tips that you will receive via e-mail, share updates, update your profile, grow your network and build relationships. This is already the second round of this challenge. In June of this year we had 700 participants!
How Does it Work?
By signing up & committing to the LinkedIn challenge you will receive very specific tips via e-mail every other day which you can implement right away. I’ve invited several other LinkedIn experts to participate, including:
By Hiba Giacoletto, Healthwise
With the start of the cold season, are people around you sniffling and coughing? Now is the time to start boosting your immune system so you can keep the dreaded cold and flu virus at bay with delicious, whole foods and common-sense lifestyle shifts!
Here are a few ideas:
Meet the allium family
Vegetables from the allium family - onion, garlic, leeks, shallots, chives, spring onion - are among the best foods to boost your immune system. Garlic in particular, has been shown to fight bacteria, viruses, and fungi. So add these wonderfully pungent vegetables to your soups, stews, sauces and salads!
Image courtesy of Carlos Porto, www.freedigitalphotos.net
By Debbie Croft, Croft Coaching / Geneva Coach Alliance
Stress is so personal, one person’s stress is another’s idea of a thrill, so learning to overcome and manage stress is equally very personal.
Take relocation. Some people love it, whilst others are exhausted by it, physically and emotionally. Moving house is stressful in itself but when that move is to a foreign country, the impact is multiplied. Many people adapt quickly, yet for many others it can be an isolating and frustrating experience, where people say to me “sometimes I feel like I am the child, back at school.”
For many who have adapted and settled, they are now waiting to hear if they are facing early repatriation as organisations make job cuts. In the last couple of months, I have helped more and more accompanying spouses who are now looking to return to work, to help keep the family here and share the responsibility. For the working partner, there is the stress of losing a job or moving roles again. Equally, for the partner who has been out of work, there is the anxiety and dip in confidence around what job role to even look for, as it seems such a gap between being at home and working professionally.
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By Sarah Santacroce at Simplicity
Should I pay for a LinkedIn Premium account? This is a question I get asked on each & every LinkedIn webinar. It’s of course a very valid question, since the monthly investment is not exactly peanuts.
Let’s see what you get more when you pay:
Full list of ‘People Who Viewed Your Profile
As a free member you can only see the last five people to have viewed their profile. Premium members on the other hand get the full list of people from the last 90 days.
I often reach out to people who view my profile to see if they are interested in connecting. Often times they were just too shy to ask. If you’re on LinkedIn every day like me, then you don’t necessarily need to see the full list since you’ll always see the last 5 people who visited your profile.
I wake up each morning to an amazing view of the Jura from my bedroom window then drive to work with the impressive panorama of the Alps before me. Each day they are different – colour, light, haziness, contrast, snow - but what remains the same is their status as a playground for people of all ages and all seasons.
However, as the experienced and hardy would say ‘the mountain is not your friend!’ This might sound rather dramatic but it is true. However knowledgeable you are, weather, accidents, medical conditions, equipment failure can mean that you need to know:
- When to call out a rescue helicopter
- What telephone number to call for help (if you have a signal, a warm phone and enough battery)
- What to say to the operator
- How to prepare for an arriving helicopter
- How to give a distress signal if you have no phone
When to call out a rescue helicopter
If the land emergency services (ambulance, fire service etc) would take too long, the access is too difficult or impossible. This can also apply to the non-mountainous extremes of your canton/area.
