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This being my debut article on SEJ I wanted to write on a topic that I’m passionate about. As an educator I always try to share my experiences and knowledge to help the community and my students. I figured there would be no better way for me to get started than to help you get started. Today we are going to squash some myths and shake things up a bit by creating a simple, optimized website in under 30 min. Stop Trying to be an
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For some time now it has seemed to me that Google IS the Internet, and once the Internet is my life, Google IS my life. Doesn’t it also look scary when Google goes offline and you start noticing its traces in real life? OK, maybe this only scares me, for most people it should seem amusing, so let’s have some fun for a change: Google
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I attended an AC/DC concert this past week and was impressed on many levels. I wish I had taken pictures. The last concert I attended was Carlos Santa earlier this year. I had second row center seats to his performance and didn’t take pictures there either. Wish I had. I have attended over 100 Rock Concerts since 1974 beginning with Aerosmith and Ted Nugent. I saw saw Led Zeppelin in 1977 at one of their last performances before John Bonham died. I had front row seats to KISS in 1977 when I was 15 and got to meet the band without their makeup at their hotel after the concert. I have seen the Rolling Stone seven times. I had front row seats once and shook all of the band members hands except Mick Jagger’s at another performance where I had 13th row seats. Blogging regularly has not only helped me remember all of the things I have done in my life, it has also caused me to wonder what would have happened differently if I had been blogging all along or at least since the web was born? Who knows? I packed my camera for the AC/DC concert but didn’t take it in because I didn’t want it to get confiscated. Although I saw a bunch of people taking pictures with their iPhones its still not exactly clear to me which devices are allowed in rock concerts and which ones aren’t. I just didn’t want to risk getting my camera taken. Just before attending the AC/DC concert, I had read some quotes about branding that I think AC/DC exemplifies. The brand quotes came from a design conference in Toronto. The brand related quotes are: “Real competition does not come from competitors, it comes from clutter.” “A brand is not what you say, but what THEY perceive” “The barrier to competition has gone from physical (factories, capital) to the minds of the consumer.” “A brand is a person’s gut feeling about a product, service, or company.” How does branding relate to the band AC/DC? Doesn’t the AC/DC brand meet all of the “qualifications” above? They do in my mind. I am pretty sure the band meets all of the qualities for anyone in the market for Rock and Roll as well. David Fricke critic for Rolling Stone once said in a review of an AC/DC album that the band “had made the same album nine times”. Is not this type of consistency the essence of branding? I think AC/DC having stuck with their original Rock and Roll message is why the band and the brand have sold 71 million albums.
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AC/DC The Band and The Brand
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Has Google taken over your life? Have you eagerly signed up for every new Google service as they’ve been announced and now have tons of online data just “stuck” on their servers? Would you like to ditch Blogger for WordPress, but think it’s impossible to move all your content? If giving up Google, either entirely or in part, is something you’re ready to do, they’ve now made it a million times easier than it was before by releasing a set of tools to easily export your data. If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were. We’ve all heard that saying before, but I think it holds true in this case. By giving users the option to take their content and go elsewhere, they aren’t going to make already unhappy users even more unhappy by tying up their content and making it impossible to easily move. Some of these people may leave Google, only to discover that Google really was their one true love, and come crawling back with their content in tow. Google now has an entire team of engineers dedicated to providing users with the tools they need to free themselves from Google’s services entirely, if they so choose. These engineers call themselves the “ Data Liberation Front “, and are charged with the task of helping users retrieve their data from the cloud and take it wherever else they’d like to go with simple to use import/export tools. Users of Google Docs can now convert, zip and download all of their documents at once. This is of course useful if you decide you no longer want to use Google Docs and want to preserve a copy of all of the files to take with you elsewhere. It’s also a great way to quickly make a local backup of all your online documents in anticipation of the off chance that one day Google might go kaput and lose some of your files. That would suck, wouldn’t it? You can also free your Gmail just as easily. Considering I am currently using 25% of of my alloted 7384 MB there, I would never ever want to even imagine downloading those emails one by one. I love the service, but if one day they piss me off, I can pack up and leave using their handy dandy exporting tool. Blogger is also easily escapable now too. Oh how I wish the feature was available years ago. No offense to those of you that use Blogger, but I’ve always thought of Blogger as the AOL of blogging – it’s great for beginners, but if you really experience the full depths of blogging you want something more robust like WordPress or Typepad. Now, when you decide you’ve outgrown Blogger, you can pack up all your content in a nice little zip package and be on your merry way. The Data Liberation Front’s mission reads: ”Users should be able to control the data they store in any of Google’s products. Our team’s goal is to make it easier to move data in and out.” I whole-heartedly agree with that, and now with these new tools it is entirely possible. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . The Data Liberation Front Frees Your Google
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by Sheryl Hope A group of dedicated people come up building the software for the deaf to help those hearing-impaired individuals to express freely their minds using the sign language according to the American Sign Language or ASL. This is also in cooperation with the American with Disabilities Act which is promulgated to acknowledge the potentials of a special group of people who have hearing aberrations. This is a must have for families with members who have hearing difficulties. There are different methods of communicating and expressing oneself, which can either be through verbal or written, or using a standard sign language. There is a universally accepted sign language that is adaptable and understandable to everyone over the entire globe, which however needs some degrees of studies to learn the skills. This can be learned and adapted by both hearing-endowed and hearing-impaired individuals, particularly in a family where a member has this type of aberration. Communication is normally learned from interactions with the environment through association for every normal individual. If a child seems not able to perceive completely with the five basic senses such as the sense of hearing, then communication is blocked. By the time he reaches the age when he is supposed to utter words but he cannot, then the child has hearing difficulties or even deaf. The art of communication can be acquired as a skill in due time at the life of any normal human being. A child who does not respond to sound or noise is likely suffering from an impaired hearing or deafness. A child cannot talk or communicate for failure to perceive sounds of which some children are unfortunately born with this as a congenital defect. It is normal for a child to respond to sound which may be manifested by crying or projecting a startling look. It is an effective way to communicate between the normal and the impaired people learning the sign language. It is indeed very important for the family with hearing-impaired individual to have this aid. For a family having a member with hearing aberration, it is vital to understand the sign language through the software for the deaf. About the Author: It is difficult to communicate with hearing impaired individuals especially if you are not familiar with the universal sign language. A software for the deaf has been developed for this purpose that will simplify the means of communication between these people. To know more about it, simply visit www.alleducationalsoftware.com .
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Learning Standard Sign Language with Software for the Deaf
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