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Friday, September 11, 2009

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Why Network Marketing is an amazing tool

The Dawn of the Net ------ a film

Computer network/networking fundamental uploaded by chheplo..

Learn how Internet and computer network works.. very good animation description about computer networking..


Npn Team Building That Works



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Get the tools you need to be successful on the internet and work with a team that will help you do it!

Tuesday, September 08, 2009

How to create a blog with Blogger

Need help getting started with Blogger? Check out this quick tutorial!




Creating A Graphical Header For Your Blogger Blog

Learn How To Create A Graphical Header For Your Blogger Blog. Find Out Which Template To Use, How To Find The Right Dimensions, How To Create A Header From Scratch And Upload It To Blogger.

北極熊母子情深 - Polar bear family

Slidecasting 101



Sunday, September 06, 2009

Language Learning website and a business opportunity

More Incentives Don't Lead to Better Performance

More Incentives Don't Lead to Better Performance

Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. The interesting findings he presented,

As long as the task involved only mechanical skills, bonuses worked as they would be expected; the higher the pay, the better the performance.But once the task called for "even rudimentary cognitive skill," a larger reward "led to poorer performance.

Now, enjoy the video:


SEO Crash Course by Matt Cutts

by Rocky Fu on August 20, 2009

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This is really a good video I must share with you. Matt Cutts not only gives a quick course on search engine optimization (SEO) but also provides tips on blogging.



This is specially for WordPress blogs, but the tips apply to all CMS you adopt for your business.

10 Excellent Online Tools to Identify Trends | Rocky Fu

10 Excellent Online Tools to Identify Trends | Rocky Fu: "10 Excellent Online Tools to Identify Trends

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Executives and business decision-makers love to see the trends and catch the trends, use trends to guide their decisions. This post would introduce 10 handy trend tools which are very helpful doing online research.

1. Google Trends – Google Search Trends
2. adCenter Search Volume Seasonality Trends
3. adCenter Keyword Forecast
4. Facebook Lexicon – Facebook Social Trends
5. Twist – Trends in Twitter
6. Trendpedia – Blog Trends
7. BlogPulse from Nielsen – Another Blog Trends Tool
8. Trendrr – Trends across Social Graphs and Networks
9. Google Checkout Trends – Online Sales Trends
10. Indeed Job Trends Tool

1. Google Trends – Google Search Trends

Google Trends

With Google Trends, you can compare up to 5 topics you are interested in and see how often they’ve been searched on Google over a period of time. It also shows how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories, and regions where they are searched for.

What can you do with Google Trends

Very common use with Google Trends is in search engine marketing and search engine optimization (SEO). Check out the search trends. you may not be interested in your company’s search operations, but Google Trends is a good tool to show you the trends of online users’ interests on a specific topic.

How to Use Google Trends

Google has one page giving detailed information about Google Trends. This is what you need to know to use it:

* news-reference-volume graph is just below the search-volume graph, which shows you the no. of times your topic appeared in Google News stories. When Google Trends detects a spike in the volume of news stories for a particular term,
* Google Trends labels the graph and displays the headline of an auto-selected Google News story written near the time of a spike it detects in the volume of news stories for a particular term.
* Only English headlines are displayed so far.
* Google Trends displays the top cities, regions, and languages in which people searched for the first term you entered. You can select the one you are most interested in; but, keep in mind it might the data might not be enough to show if the search volume is too low in a specific region.
* Use comma to separate up to 5 different topics to compare e.g. “internet, online”
* To see how many searches contained either terms, separate those terms with a vertical bar: “|”. For example, to determine how many searches contained the terms “internet” or “online,” just enter “internet | online”
* You can use parentheses for multi-word terms.
* You can use the minus sign to exclude terms. e.g. you want to see the trends for “marketing” but not “email marketing”, search “marketing-email”

More on Google Trends:

* Mothers Day + Google Trends = Cash
* Using Google Trends to fine-tune your news website
* Daily Google Hot Trends (US only)

2. adCenter Search Volume Seasonality Trends

seasonality forecast

It’s a tool from Microsoft adCenter Labs; you see see the trends and forecast seasonality patterns of search queries. As shown above, you can see the actual (red), forecast (blue), and Conf Interval.

It’s kinda similar to Google Trends tool; however, the queries you can check is quite limited, you input a keyword and if available, this tool would show you one or a few terms you can forecast the seasonality.
3. adCenter Keyword Forecast – Forecast the impression count and demographic predictions

keywords forecast

Keyword Forecast is another tool from Microsoft adCenter Labs that forecasts the search volume and demographic predictions of your selected list of keywords. The difference from the above mentioned keyword forecast tool is, this one shows the actual search volume trends only and enables you to compare different terms.

Simply enter the keywords separated by semi-colons to try out. You can product the output in flash, image, or text format. The demographic predictions graph is quite interesting and helpful:

demographic predictions
4. Facebook Lexicon: Facebook Social Trends

facebook lexicon

I introduced Facebook’s trends tool Lexicon days ago. You can refer to that post for details. ReadWriteWeb and MarketingPilgrim both have a good introduction to Lexicon that you can digest. Someone set up a Facebook Lexicon Blog too which does a lot of trends comparison.

In general, Facebook Lexicon is a nice tool to track Facebook communities’ interests.
5. Twist – Trends in Twitter

twitter trends

I’ve been using Twitter for a while though I don’t tweet a lot. But surprisingly, I recently found many local Singapore companies trying out this tool. If you still don’t have an idea what it is, its own introduction is quite self-explainable:

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Bloggers can use it as a mini-blogging tool.

Twist is a tool that enables you to see the trends in Twitter. It checks mentions of the queried terms in Twitters’ messages and show the graph over time.
6. Trendpedia – Blog Trends Search

trendpedia screenshot

With Trendpedia, you can find out the trends by searching blogs in various languages (sad, no Chinese, why?).

Trendpedia finds the articles online that talk about your topics. Trendpedia organizes the articles in a trendline that shows the popularity of the topic over time — you can track a topic’s trendline from three months ago up to today.

Trendline is the number of blog posts posted per day that talk about the trends you search.

How To Use Trendpedia

* Enter one or more topics to search trends; Trendpedia’s line chart shows the popularity of the topics over time. Click on the chart to visit blog entries from a particular day.
* You can search and track trends today, yesterday, last week, or over the last three months.
* The trends graphics display your trendlines and a total trends pie chart (today’s total Buzz break-down).
* “Advanced search” feature is for more targeted topics, as shown below:

trendpedia advanced search
7. BlogPulse from Nielsen – Another Blog Trends Tool

blogpulse for blog trends

BlogPulse is an automated trend discovery system for blogs from Nielsen BuzzMetrics. It has a similar search UI as Trendpedia:

blogpulse

which one is better? I leave that to you to judge.
8. Trendrr – Identify Trends across Social Graphs and Networks

trendrr

You can use Trendrr to track data and identify trends across social graphs and networks, realize the potential of p2p, and track engagement metrics.

What can you Do with Trendrr

* Monitor the popularity of your brands or products
* Track just how many people are favoriting the latest video.
* Compare the popularity of anything.
* Share about interesting data or trends you’ve identified
* Trendrr yourself (yes, I’m using Tren

Trendrr is not only a tool to identify and track trends but also a community for trends fans. The interface is not as simple as Google Trends or Lexicon, but it is indeed a powerful tool for trends research. Find out more about Trendrr here, here, and here.
9. Google Checkout Trends

checkout trends

Google Checkout Trends aggregates the sales data of Google Checkout merchants and charts it in a matter of seconds. See how popular a brand product of a particular product category is, and compare it with a similar product. Getting a feel with this tool about the seasonality of a particular product category is helpful to guide your similar product online marketing efforts.
10. Indeed Job Trends Tool

indeed job trends tool

Finding out the job trends is helpful to your HR strategies. Indeed’s Job Trends is simple and easy to use:

Indeed.com searches millions of jobs from thousands of job sites. This job trends graph shows the percentage of jobs we find that contain your search terms.

You can choose the absolute (above image) scale or relative (below) scale to see the trends:

job trends

Try out these online trends tools yourself and share your findings below. And, use them to guide your decision making and actions; do not completely reply on them.
Share and Enjoy:"

Tuesday, September 01, 2009

European Market Stats :



http://finance.yahoo.com/intlindices?e=europe

Ten Things You Don't Know (but should) About the H1N1 Virus

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Ten Things You Don't Know (but should) About the H1N1 Virus


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* It could get bad. Really bad. While the Centers for Disease Control calculate that the number of deaths over the next two years could range from 90,000 to several hundred thousand, the World Health Organization believes H1N1 is still in the "early stages" of a new pandemic. They estimate that 2 billion people (one-third of the world's population) could be infected over the next two years.

* Older people are less affected by H1N1 because they've had it - many times. Dr. Peter Palese of Mount Sinai School of Medicine, a Big Think expert, says people over the age of 55 have built up an immunity against swine flu. Why? The viruses that circulated 50 years ago are more closely related to the swine-origin H1N1 viruses than are present day seasonal H1N1 viruses. So exposure to the earlier viruses gives them protection.

* Screening for fevers at airports might be a waste. Unlike SARS, a surprisingly low percentage of H1N1 patients actually suffer from fevers, says Big Think panel expert Barry Bloom of Harvard School of Public Health.

* Contrary to popular belief, the injectable H1N1 vaccine is not a live virus. So says U. Penn's Dr. Neil Fishman. The injection generates an immune response to make the person feel like he has the flu. The nasal vaccine, on the other hand, is a live virus, but the virus is mutated so it can only replicate at lower temperatures (at the front of the nose). Once it makes its way into a persons lungs, it can't replicate.

* The vaccine won't be one prick. Scientists believe the H1N1 vaccine will be most effective if administered in two doses that are three weeks apart. That won't get you out of your regular seasonal vaccine, though, which has to be in a separate dosage. Alternative medicine practitioners are getting in the act. Dr. Arun Bhasme, the vice president of Central Council of Homeopathy in New Delhi, claims that homeopathy can treat H1N1 patients more rapidly than any other vaccine. There are seven to ten drugs (including Glesemicum, Breionia Alba, Aresenicum naplus and Beladona) on the radar.

* Tamiflu might hurt children more than it helps. Researchers at Oxford conducted trials of the treatment, which included 248 infected kids. For children under 12, the side-effects outweighed the benefits. 51% reported side-effects (of those, 31% felt sick, 24% suffered headaches, 21% had stomach aches). Peter Holden, the British Medical Association's H1N1 expert questions the overuse of Tamiflu: "The threshold for getting Tamiflu should be quite high."

* Pregnant women face a dangerous dilemma: they are at the highest risk of becoming ill from swine flu, but nobody in that group will have a chance to test the vaccine. Why? Testing any type of vaccine or drug on pregnant women (and their babies) poses an ethical dilemma - and always has. Dr. Ruth Faden, Executive Director of the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins, says, "Medicine is flying blind in many cases. Many of the drugs that women take in pregnancy because they're seriously ill, we just have no evidence what the impact is for them or what the impact will be for their babies."

* The best place to go for information? There are tons of websites out there with handy tips, statistics and roundups of - sometimes false - information. For a comprehensive one-stop shop, Dr. Fishman recommends Flu.gov.
Tags: All Posts healthcare h1n1

Monday, August 31, 2009

En101 - 機會

En101 - 機會

En101提供一個簡單和容易,具全球推廣性的生意機會。

1. 讓你自己來做老闆。
2. 為你自己定下時間表。
3. 在你的家中或者辦公室裡以你自己的步伐工作。

有潛力賺取可觀的收入。

傳統的公司有比較高的產品成本和較高的貨運及行政成本,所以較少的利潤會留作佣金。這使我們在這個生意上比其他競爭對手有優勢。

在En101,我們會盡量控制成本。我們負責擁有和維持產品。還有由於我們在網上全球性快速運送此產品,故此並不需要貨運和行政成本。

較少附加費用=較高的佣金

En101在全球網上教育的潛力和能力上名列前茅。

1. 成立于2005年2月14日
2. 我們在200個國家和地區有超過250,000個登記會員,並且將繼續發展
3. 專家預見將有20億人口學習英語

虛擬辦公室

對於任何公司來說站在流行潮流的前列是成功的關鍵。En101不但把妳帶入潮流的前列,而且站在網上語言教育市場的最前列。

* 你自己的生意 - 100%線上
* 你自己的商業網站
* 無紙辦公-全部線上業務
* 無需運送-全部線上業務
* 最先進的追蹤系統
* 實時統計數據
* 一周7天,一天24小時可以進入學習
* 虛擬産品-瞬時傳送

市場潛力:10-15億的網上用戶,其中大多數需要或希望學習英語
全球語言革命!
你的成功取決于你的英明選擇和行動﹗現在!
謝謝你的寶貴時間﹗

如果你有興趣需要了解更多有關En101和En101.biz,請按上端「註冊課程」的按鈕,或與你分享和展示此套材的人士聯絡。

http://webmaster.en101.biz/

Welcome to En101’s BUSINESS 101.

Welcome to En101’s BUSINESS 101.

http://webmaster.en101.com/

Our goal is to provide you with the tools you will need to become successful, no matter what line of business you are in… now and in the future.

We have studied the “how to’s” of business, and have complied our education in a way as to give you the quickest and the most effective business education possible.

Each week you will receive a power-packed series of lessons.

Each series will bring you closer to being the successful businessperson you desire to be.

En101 Business 101 is taught similar to any other adult education curriculum.

When a person first joins, they get the first week of lessons. The next week, they will receive the next weekly lesson, and so on and so on.

This scheduled system will allow us to keep track of your progress and will not overwhelm you with too much information all at once.

To begin your lessons, click the links in the left frame.

You can always contact us with your comments and suggestions by clicking on the Help 101 link in the left frame.

Thank you for enrolling in En101’s Business 101.

Enjoy.

EN101

在这个飞速变化的互联网市场上你必须是你的产品和视角走在竞争者的前面,我们正在朝这个方向努力。
你可能已经注意到最近我们的网站有了不少变化。这只是一个开始。
在这些改变里有一些是对我们的运行模式作了关键的修改。
下面我们将这些修改作一个箭步简单的介绍。
专业套装的奖金:我们将专业套装的奖金从$50改为$100.这样你付出不变,奖金加倍。我们有3种套装有$100的奖金。
ED/CED储金:我们用电子礼券来代替了ED/CED储金。
现在你能赚到更多的钱。
• 任何En101业务代表可以获得多个电子礼券。
• 总经理(ED)可以获得相同面值的电子礼券,当他推荐的会员获得一张电子礼券时。
• 董事(CED)可以获得面值为$349的专业套装电子礼券,当他推荐的会员获得一张任何套装的电子礼券时。
奖励位置:奖励位置的资格也从原来的介绍一个学习会员和一个代表会员改为介绍两个会员。
所有客户:所有客户在登记时被认为是(学习)客户,并且需要选择一个网站名。当他介绍了第一个用户时他就成为代表。
每周奖金上限:每周奖金上限改为$25,000.
配额奖金:配额奖从原来的$25改为$20,如果你不是经理,原来的$50改为$40,如果你是经理。这样我们有更多的钱奖励给直接推荐会员的人。
电子奖券计划:我们新的电子礼券计划将使能获得的更多的奖金。这在我们推出的Powerpoint演示里会详细介绍。
Powerpoint演示:我们推出的新的Powerpoint演示有各种语言版本。这可以帮助你很方便的向用户介绍我们的商业计划。并且能使这种介绍尽可能一致。
事半功倍:现在对每个新会员可以有更多的获益。当他推荐了4个专业套装后,他可能有下面的获益:
1。成为代表。
2。获得两个金星。
3。成为一个经理。
4。获得第一份团队奖。
5。获得$400推荐奖。
6。获得第一张价值$349的电子礼券。
这是在其他地方找不到的。
完成日期:我们希望所有修改在九月中完成。
基本商业模式:我们不会改变基本的商业模式。你将从你和你的团队的努力付出而获得收益。事实上我们的每份团队奖也提高到平均$65.记住,你最少只要介绍3个人就可以得到一份团队奖。这是提升会员的收入潜力所在.
问题?如果你有任何问题可以随时通过业务中心发信给我们,我们将乐意回答任何问题。
祝你成功。

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