Showing posts with label blog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blog. Show all posts
Monday, March 2, 2015
The One Stop Learning Blog
ONE STOP LEARNING
"As I have progressed along my journey as an educator, I have come to better appreciate that teaching is about sharing—sharing what I have learned with others, including the public at large. This blog is my expression, my way of sharing my passion on the issue of teaching and learning, lifelong learning and education in general. It is also intended as a repository of resources related to teaching and learning. This is my humble attempt to put together useful links, articles, websites, presentations, videos, etc. in one place -- for my own reference and for those who are interested to learn more about teaching and learning...more"
I am always thrilled to discover new edublogs from educators in Higher Education in Malaysia passionate about sharing their learning discoveries and journeys. This blog by Prof. Karim has already been around since November 2010, so it is not totally new, but without doubt worth sharing here. Interestingly, we met during a workshop (National E-Learning Road Map) late last year (2010), and have since communicated through Twitter (@biopolimer) and e-mail, but ironically I didnt really discover his juicy blog until today.
As the One Stop Learning blog is also Prof. Karims own reference for learning discoveries on teaching and learning, means that his motivation to keep it going goes beyond hits and fame, which is important to keep it rolling until the world discovers this gem of a blog. Besides being self-motivated to share, it is always great to know that you have readers and people willing to challenge your ideas and thoughts. If he can keep it up (like now!), I am pretty sure that this blog will achieve just that as it explores and grows.
In short, why not visit...I shall say no more... just CLICK HERE :)
- Professor Karim (Universiti Sains Malaysia)
I am always thrilled to discover new edublogs from educators in Higher Education in Malaysia passionate about sharing their learning discoveries and journeys. This blog by Prof. Karim has already been around since November 2010, so it is not totally new, but without doubt worth sharing here. Interestingly, we met during a workshop (National E-Learning Road Map) late last year (2010), and have since communicated through Twitter (@biopolimer) and e-mail, but ironically I didnt really discover his juicy blog until today.
As the One Stop Learning blog is also Prof. Karims own reference for learning discoveries on teaching and learning, means that his motivation to keep it going goes beyond hits and fame, which is important to keep it rolling until the world discovers this gem of a blog. Besides being self-motivated to share, it is always great to know that you have readers and people willing to challenge your ideas and thoughts. If he can keep it up (like now!), I am pretty sure that this blog will achieve just that as it explores and grows.
In short, why not visit...I shall say no more... just CLICK HERE :)
Saturday, February 14, 2015
Differences between Reporting and Analysis –Theory Points from Brent Dykes blog
Hi Guys,
This post is taken from http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalmarketing/analytics/reporting-vs-analysis-whats-the-difference/
Thank you Brent Dykes such a nice explanation .
As a BI developer we ought to know the theoretical concepts hence Ive made a notes on the same from the Brents post.
Difference between Reporting and Analysis – Theory
Reporting and analysis are very different in terms of their purpose, tasks, outputs, delivery, and value
Reporting | Analysis |
Purpose | |
Definition 1. The process of organizing data into informational summaries in order to monitor how different areas of a business are performing. | Definition 1.The process of exploring data and reports in order to extract meaningful insights, which can be used to better understand and improve business performance. |
2. Reporting translates raw data into information | 2. Analysis transforms data and information into insights. |
3. Good reporting should raise questions about the business from its end users | 3.The goal of analysis is to answer questions by interpreting the data at a deeper level and providing actionable recommendations |
4. Reporting shows you what is happening | 4. Analysis focuses on explaining why it is happening and what you can do about it. |
Tasks | |
5.Reporting: Building, configuring, consolidating, organizing, formatting, and summarizing. | 5. Analysis: focuses on different tasks such as questioning, examining, interpreting, comparing, and confirming. |
Outputs/Approach | |
6. Reporting follows a push approach | 6.Analysis follows a pull approach |
7. Reports are pushed to users who are then expected to extract meaningful insights and take appropriate actions for themselves (i.e., self-serve). | 7.Particular data is pulled by an analyst in order to answer specific business questions. |
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8. Types · Canned reports, dashboards, and alerts. · Dashboard: These custom-made reports combine different KPIs and reports to provide a comprehensive, high-level view of business performance for specific audiences. Dashboards may include data from various data sources and are also usually fairly static. | 8.Types · Ad hoc responses · Analysis presentations |
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
The 5 Best Ways to Build Quality Backlinks for Your Website or Blog
No one can deny the fact that backlinks are vital for the success of your online business – they will play a big role in determining your search engine rankings. However, the thing you need to understand is that after the latest Google updates, the quality of backlinks is more important than the quantity of those links. It means, not only do you need some diversity in your link pool, but you also need to ensure that those links come from high PR, authoritative websites.
Also Read: Tips on How to Have Better SEO Results with Link Building
Also Read: Best Way to Easily Find and Remove Broken Links from your Website or Blog
Many people often make a mistake when judging the quality of backlinks. Unfortunately, they are not like diamonds that you can rate considering clarity, cut, color, and other features. Backlinks are different, and they cannot be graded using any simple scale. Still, when you get a backlink from a website, the search engines will rate them as okay, good, mildly good, or excellent.
As it is not easy to have one single definition of quality backlinks, you have to find another way to make your link building campaign work effectively. A better idea would be to ensure that you dont go for bad backlinks. A backlink that is not bad will be considered good for your link building campaign, and here are a few ways to avoid bad links and fetch good links.
How to Build Quality Backlinks for Your Website or Blog
Take Full Advantage of Guest Posting
Writing guest posts on other blogs is a good way of getting quality links. You need to ensure that you pick a blog that is relevant to your theme. It is worth mentioning that the links from these blogs are considered good because you will have your post approved by a human webmaster, which is something that makes Google think that you know the topic well, and might have an informative site too.Remember, your guest posts will work if they hold some value for the blog owner, and, at the same time, are relevant to your website/blog. Therefore, you should try to tailor the content of your post to fulfill this requirement, and its not that difficult too. For instance, if your blog is about leather care and maintenance, you can easily write and publish that post on a blog that sells leather jackets and shoes.
Also Read: How to Find the Websites or Blogs that are Copying your Content?
Use Credible Article Marketing Websites
Even though the value of article marketing is no longer the same as it was a few years ago – thanks to Google Panda and Penguin updates – you can still find a few legitimate sites to publish your articles. You can use these sites to post your article and have a link placed in the article that points back to your blog. Quite like guest posting, you can again write articles on topics that have some connection with your blog. Just make sure you pick a right category on these article-marketing sites to submit your article.Using these sites is a lot easier than getting your article published on another blog, and thats one of the reasons why guest posting holds more value as compared to simple article marketing. Still, you can use these sites to diversify your link pool. You can find a category according to the theme of your blog and post as many articles as you can – though its a good idea to stick with one-article-a-week policy.
Add Your Links to Comments Sections
For this, you can pick blogs, article sites, and websites where they have a comment section. You simply need to make a productive comment and embed your link to your key phrase. This works quite well, but the only consideration is that youre going to get the link juice only if you opt for a comment section that comes with "do-follow" tag. It may take some time to find it, but you will accomplish the task after conducting some research.Also Read: The Top 10 Websites to create free Logo for your Blog
Get Links from Directories
This is still a good way of getting backlink, but the catch is to find a legitimate and well-followed directory – this could well be a paid directory. Although you can try some free directories like Google locations, you will be better off making use of paid directories like Yelp.Make Use of Forum Postings
Making posts in forums, with your link attached to your keyword, is still effective. However, you dont always need to make posts; you can simply convince the forum administrator to place a link to your blog – it is difficult, but not impossible.About Author:
Kate Funk is a writer and tutor at tutorleader.com. She loves covering writing tips and strategies for blogging.
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