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This hidden Facebook page feature is key to getting your content seen. By Steph Parker on Jul 24, 2012 By now, using Facebook Insights to gauge your page’s health is commonplace. But, relying solely on how many fans your page has, and how many likes your posts get can only tell you so much. As a social media manager, you’re essentially in a relationship with your page. As a good mate, you have to know what your counterpart likes.

You also have to know what they don’t like, and how you can turn those negatives into positives. It’s easier than it sounds, I promise. Uncovering Negative Feedback on Facebook Anyone familiar with Facebook Insights has probably exported data into spreadsheets before, at both a post level, and a page level. In case you haven’t, go to the “Insights” section of your admin dashboard. From there, click “Export” and select “Post level data”, as well as the dates you’d like to analyze. Within the “Key Metrics” tab, you’ll see two things: Lifetime Negative Feedback Users, and Lifetime Negative Feedback from Users. Analyzing Your Work. DIY Education: Teach Yourself. Education is touted as the greatest way to get ahead in this world.

And, in general, it’s a great strategy. Maybe you have the perfect idea for an invention and you need a little engineering know-how, or maybe you just need to get ahead of the guy in the next cubicle over. No matter what plan you have for getting ahead, odds are a little learning will help. The problem, as I see it, is that education is also an industry.

You want a string of fancy letters behind your name? While you may need a certificate in order to be a licensed professional of some sort, however, you don’t need to attend an expensive class for many of your other learning needs. Resources — Getting Started The Independent Scholar’s Handbook — PDF: The Canadian Academy of Independent Scholars has made The Independent Scholar’s Handbook available as a free download. Resources — Learning Materials The LifeHack How-To Wiki: Consider starting your self-education right here with LifeHack. Staying on Track Lastly… Coolest teach yourself. Learn to code, get a job. Young programmers work at an IT company in Romania, where thousands of college graduates enter the tech field yearly. Douglas Rushkoff: Americans should be learning computer code the way we learn mathLearning to code teaches us what programs do, how they're used on us, he says A free Web-based interactive tutorial makes it possibleRushkoff: Programmers in demand; employers hire code-savvy workers from abroad Editor's note: Douglas Rushkoff, who writes regularly for CNN.com, is a media theorist and the author of "Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age" and "Life Inc: How Corporatism Conquered the World and How We Can Take it Back.

" (CNN) -- This week, New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg tweeted his intent to learn computer code by the end of the year. He joined about 300,000 other people who have signed up at CodeYear to receive free interactive programming lessons each week from the Codecademy, a web-based tutorial. I am greatly relieved. Douglas Rushkoff. Top 10 Professional Sample Code Websites For Programmers. Most programmers are not just desktop programmers, web programmers or scripting gurus – they are often all of the above. Over time, most software developers find that it’s much easier to re-use code components than it is to recreate the wheel every time you write an application. Over time, these developers typically archive a library of these reusable modules in order to save time the next time they need to do the same task.

Now, thanks to the power of the Internet, there is a proliferation of websites where professional programmers offer these modules to the general public for absolutely free. For other application developers, these libraries are a goldmine. Whether you write in VB, C, C++, C#, Perl, PHP, Ruby, or any other programming language, there’s a website out there where you can find such reusable sample code.

Choosing the Top Websites for Sample Code The following is, by no means, an exhaustive list of the best developer websites online. . #1 – Programmer’s Heaven #3 – CodeGuru. Cool free places to learn to code. 10 Reasons to Learn Ruby - H3RALD. Pre­am­ble I dis­cov­ered Ruby fairly re­cently, through the ex­cel­lent Ruby on Rails frame­work. Al­though I don’t con­sider my­self a Ruby ex­pert by any means, I read the Pick­Axe, I’ve coded a few util­i­ties for my per­sonal use in Ruby and I’m cur­rently de­vel­op­ing with Rails dur­ing my free time.

Ruby is cur­rently my pro­gram­ming lan­guage of choice; I started off with Turbo Pas­cal in high school, dis­cov­ered C and C++ at uni­ver­sity, did my the­sis in Java and learned PHP from scratch be­cause I wanted to learn how to make web­sites quickly and eas­ily. I guess I feel com­pelled to code some­times, more as a form of en­ter­tain­ment than any­thing else. Rather dis­sat­is­fied with what I tried lan­guage-wise, I was de­ter­mined to start learn­ing ei­ther Python or Ruby. I chose the lat­ter be­cause I didn’t want in­cor­rect in­den­ta­tion to break my code, and here I am, heap­ing praise upon it. You have been warned. h3. . #1 – You get all the treats with­out the tricks. Learn Code The Hard Way -- Books And Courses To Learn To Code. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age.

Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age December 12, 2004 George Siemens Update (April 5, 2005): I've added a website to explore this concept at www.connectivism.ca Introduction Behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism are the three broad learning theories most often utilized in the creation of instructional environments.

Learners as little as forty years ago would complete the required schooling and enter a career that would often last a lifetime. “One of the most persuasive factors is the shrinking half-life of knowledge. Some significant trends in learning: Many learners will move into a variety of different, possibly unrelated fields over the course of their lifetime. Background Driscoll (2000) defines learning as “a persisting change in human performance or performance potential…[which] must come about as a result of the learner’s experience and interaction with the world” (p.11). Driscoll (2000, p14-17) explores some of the complexities of defining learning. Conclusion: