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It hits you like a TON of BRICKS! It’s an idea for that KILLER blog post that is just bound to bring you all the traffic that you’ve ever dreamed of. With the idea fresh in your mind you sit down at your keyboard and BANG it out – desperate to hit publish as quickly as you can for fear that someone else will beat you to the PUNCH ! Image by pallotron

How to Craft a Blog Post – 10 Crucial Points to Pause

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The following is a guest blog post by Greg Digneo, founder of Cloud Marketing Labs , a marketing firm that helps business generate more sales leads using social media. You can follow him on Twitter and on his blog . When you ask someone with a successful social media presence how to build your own audience, the answer most often is, “Write a blog post, tweet it to your following, and share it on Facebook and LinkedIn.” But what if you do not have many followers on Twitter or Facebook Fans? Recently, my young marketing company decided to start over – completely from scratch. We wanted to see if we could generate leads using inbound marketing in 30 days.

How to Generate Leads in 30 Days Using Inbound Marketing

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Google made a number of announcements in the past week that are of interest to educators: opening Google Wave to the public and extending Google Voice accounts to students. But one announcement that didn't receive much press was its release of CloudCourse , the new internal learning platform. Built on Google's App Engine , CloudCourse is a course-scheduling tool, fully integrated with Google Calendar. CloudCourse also features approval processes, wait list management, as well as room and user profile information and can be further customized to sync the data with other internal systems. Google hopes that by releasing this under an open-source license that it can "help developers who want to port or build enterprise applications on App Engine."

Google Releases CloudCourse, an Open Source Learning Platform

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Mandatory viewing: Sir Ken Robinson at TED 2010 | Christopher S. Penn's Awaken Your Superhero

http://einztein.com/ Einztein is the social learning network for higher education and lifelong learners. We bring the power of social networking to learning and enable anyone to create an online learning community for resource sharing, collaboration and discussion. Teachers can easily turn courses into social learning experiences. Students can form online study groups to research and learn together.

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10 Power Tools for Lifelong Learners | Open Culture

in Most Popular | December 2nd, 2009 15 Comments Every now and then, we like to remind readers of the audio/video resources that Open Culture makes available to lifelong learners. These collections are all free, and can be downloaded to your computers and mp3 players. http://www.openculture.com/2009/12/10_power_tools_for_lifelong_learners.html

Text Message (SMS) Polls and Voting, Audience Response System | Poll Everywhere

Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It's the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print — anywhere. It can help you to raise money by letting people pledge via text messaging. And because it works internationally with texting , web, or Twitter , its simplicity and flexibility are earning rave reviews . Poll Everywhere is free for audiences of 40 people or less and we offer paid plans for larger audiences. K-12 and Higher Education semester-long plans are also available. http://www.polleverywhere.com/
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Is Gifted and Talented a Life Sentence | Awake At The Wheel | Crossroads of Work & Play

I recently finished reading a book that blew me away, called Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Unlike so many other books that have the words “mindset” and “success” in the title, this was a serious book that steered clear of pop psychology and soundbites and offered a simple, yet astonishingly empowering concept that will forever change the way I approach challenges…and teach my daughter to do the same. It’s not based not on abstract metaphysics, but on hardcore research conducted by the author, Stanford University Professor and acclaimed developmental psychology researcher, Carol Dweck, Ph.D .