By Steve Aedy | April 23, 2013
If you’re intelligent enough to become a college student, you may think you’re exempt from making stupid mistakes. Permit me to insult your intelligence. You are just as capable of messing up as someone with an IQ below body temperature. This is especially true when it comes to misusing Social Media.
Just telling you to use common sense or the Go…
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Posted in Education, How To | Tagged college students, social media behavior
By Phil Treagus | March 11, 2013
Do you remember when you first created your Facebook account? I remember asking my sister, “But what do I even say? Who cares what I’m doing?”. Little did I know, everyone cares. Still, I remained skeptical of this whole social media thing. I felt as if it was a fad that would come and go, I guess that is why I was so hesitant – aft…
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Posted in Education, Social Media | Tagged Ideas Social Media Schools, Social Media Education, Social Media Schools, Social Media University
By Patrick Saslona | 107 days ago
Within modern enterprises, these times are very interesting. New technologies are approaching the business landscape day by day. Our daily business is mainly support by IT tools. Information and communication technologies support communication, cooperation and workflows within different departments, which do not necessarily have to be in the same…
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Posted in B2B, Education, Featured, General Web, Social Media, Social Networks | Tagged Best Practices, lead generation, small business
By Erik Qualman | 116 days ago
According to Klout, Harvard, Michigan, MIT, Princeton and Stanford are the top 5 most influential universities in the United States. While much has, can, and will be debated around the Klout algorithm, it is still a fascinating chart to review. One point of interest is Harvard and MIT are being #1 and #3 respectively. Harvard and MIT have always ben ahe…
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Posted in Education, Featured, Klout | Tagged Best, Harvard, Klout Universities, Michigan, MIT, Top
By Amanda DiSilvestro | 164 days ago
Many very successful companies branch out by creating franchises, and rightfully so. Creating a franchise is a great way to help grow your company to different locations and get more people involved in production. What all companies need to realize, however, is that each individual franchise has its own particular needs. Although you may have one nationa…
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Posted in Education | Tagged franchise SEO, local SEO, SEO for franchises
By Dave Thomas | 191 days ago
While some lines of business have taken social media and run with it, others have found themselves suffering a power shortage
For those a step or two behind, the need to get on the social media train is today and not tomorrow. Otherwise, companies stand to not only lose out on potential revenue, but they also can be seen by some consumers as being out of touch in to…
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Posted in Education | Tagged customers, electricity, Social Media, utility companies
By Phillip Garrett | 200 days ago
Online education has just come of age and because of the complexities of modern lifestyles, there is need to get organized to tap into its richness. Luckily, there are many free tools which help online learners manage their processes. Without these tools, it’s difficult to find order when studying, accessing information, organizing and communicating. H…
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Posted in Education | Tagged apple, education, EduTools, plagiarism checker, PlagTracker, resources
By Erik Qualman | June 14, 2012
Are iPads good or bad for kids? How prevalent are they? The following inforaphic attempts to answer these questions.
Does anyone know how early one can give a child an iPad before causing more harm than good? I’ve heard 3 from a respected psychologist, but haven’t been able to confirm.
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Posted in Education, Featured, Graphics, Infographic | Tagged children ipads, iPad for kids, toddler iPads
By Erik Qualman | March 14, 2012
It’s arguable that nothing will change more in the coming years than the face of education. The question today is does higher education still return a reasonable return on a student’s, or parent’s, investment? The below infographic from OnlineUniversities.com provides some helpful insight:
Via: Online Universities Resource
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Posted in Education, Featured | Tagged Education Infographic, Higher Education Infographic, ROI of College
By Erik Qualman | December 12, 2011
Many schools block YouTube in the classroom. This is a shame since there is so much good educational content between the Mentos and backyard wrestling videos. Today, YouTube now provides a solution to this dilemma.
As reported by ubergizmo YouTube for Schools is a network setting that school administrators can turn on to grant access only to the educat…
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Posted in Education, Featured, YouTube | Tagged Educational Videos, YouTube for Education, YouTube for Schools
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