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Five tactics for learning, memory and, erm, what was that last one...?

Believe it or not, I’m not into blogging for the riches and fame. In fact the main reason I write blogs is to help me process and retain stuff I’ve been researching. Hunting through a book for a quote you can’t quite remember or a graph you want to reproduce (as I have done below) is a great way to refresh your memory on what you read several months or years ago. It’s almost as if those teachers who made you write endless essays about old books knew what they were doing!

Anyway, here are five other learning techniques I find useful and which I hope I’ve presented in a way that makes them easy for you to recall.

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Happy Campers: Hallam Devs Get Philosophical at WordCamp Europe 2018

Even if you’re a developer, designer, content strategist or marketer who works with WordPress on a daily basis, you’d be forgiven for thinking a two-day conference on the CMS might possibly be – evening beers aside – a little dry.

You definitely wouldn’t expect it to be a life-changing experience, let alone one that would move some attendees to tears.

Yet when Hallam’s development team headed out to Serbia for this year’s WordCamp Europe event, that’s exactly what it was.

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