Video kedua dari ost Eclipse Movie sudah keluar niey, Metric - All Yours. Video pertama dulu pernah aku posting plus screencaps nya Muse – “Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)” . Scene-scene dalam video ini yang aku lihat siey gak ada yang baru jadi aku gak pasang screenscapsnya. But I love this song, love it. Okey, ditunggu yah video berikutnya ^_^
All the lives always tempted to trade Will they hate me for all the choices I’ve made Will they stop when they see me again? I can’t stop now I know who I am
Now I’m all yours, I’m not afraid And you're all mine, say what they may And all your love I’ll take to the grave And all my life starts now
Tear me down they can take you out of my thoughts Under every scar there’s a battle I’ve lost Will they stop when they see us again? I can’t stop now I know who I am
Now I’m all yours, I’m not afraid Find More lyrics at www.sweetslyrics.com And you're all mine, say what they may And all your love I’ll take to the grave And all my life starts
I’m all yours, I’m not afraid And you're all mine, say what they may And all your love I’ll take to the grave And all my life starts starts now
Editor's Note: We're pleased to welcome Jim Helou, Vice President of the Google division at DLT Solutions, a Google Enterprise Partner. Jim and his team provide leading enterprise solutions, such as the Google Search Appliance, to the Public Sector.
The DLT team understands the principle of service and works with their Public Sector customers to determine the best product fit, necessary services & training, post-implementation support and procurement options to fulfill their mission.
"Practice what you preach." We’ve all heard that saying, right? At DLT Solutions, we’re a modern day example of the age-old adage. DLT Solutions, a value-added reseller of information technology products to federal, state and local government, recently partnered with Google to bring their innovative products to the public sector marketplace. Among Google’s business solutions is the Google Search Appliance 6.0. We at DLT figured what better way to preach the gospel of Google than to be users ourselves.
DLT Solutions recently installed the Google Search Appliance (GSA) for searching the DLT intranet. We chronicled the installation of the Search Appliance 6.0 by two DLT Web developers at our headquarters outside of Washington D.C in a two-part real time video, now available to view at www.DLT.com/GSA.
The video is a timed demonstration of how fast and easy Google’s latest version of the Search Appliance is to install. In less than 20 minutes we had taken the Google Search Appliance out of the box, installed, and configured the Search Appliance for our intranet file search. Your own deployment time may take longer depending on how many data sources you're searching and how many files you need to crawl. The point, however, is just how easy it is – one server, two network cables, and a power cord. No army of consultants necessary.
Looking back, search results in the pre-GSA days were…sloppy. Nowadays, with the GSA, the customizable search criteria makes for a more personal internal search experience. Employees can find the information they need faster allowing them to focus on more mission-critical tasks.
DLT uses Google’s search solution for not only our intranet, but also our public website. The Search Appliance’s relevant search results in the recognizable Google format has allowed our government users to get the information they need while increasing the number of qualified prospects for DLT.
We confidently tell our customers how easy the Google Search Appliance is to install and use. We know. We’ve done it.
Posted by Dan Israel, Product Marketing Manager, Google Enterprise
Similar to my feelings about the Twitter session yesterday, I really like the concept of this sort of session: it's neither about speaking to the choir nor about showing what cool stuff the speaker can do with tech, it's about teaching teachers how to actually use stuff to make connections on their own. And this session started up with a great question:
"How personal can a personal learning network be?" -- @mrplough07
Cory Plough introduced the session by discussing the fact that Twitter gave him something he didn't feel he had among his local colleagues: an ability to access solutions all the time in real time. This is really one of those things that separates where we are from where we were. And in school, it means we can spend more time on the questions "why" and "how" rather than "what" and "when".
Beth Still then described the ways that online colleagues becomes f2f friends; the PLN isn't a gimmick -- it's a real community. That community has the opportunity to meet at conferences like ISTE, but also via Skype and Google Chat and Facebook; these connections are different in "idea" and "form" from pre-socialmedia networks. It's necessary therefore to actively engage in understanding how the network works and explore avenues that make the most of the real-time aspects.
One of the first things most people come to realize is of course that the medium doesn't work so well for broadcasting; but it's beyond compare in its capacity to bring together folks of like interest together in a non-hierarchical discussion.
Many folks in the backchannel noted the amazement they have that they are learning from folks all over the world through their PLNs. That marks another shift: the ability to access knowledge and conversation where-ever it is.
Steven Anderson: "The 'Learning' part of PLN is the key". Steve also stresses the fact that this community is real. He also gets to the heart of it -- it's when your colleague asks where you got some info and you respond, "My PLN." and they say, "Your PLN-what?". It's essential therefore to bring people into the community and help them become an active part of the culture. We can't let the edu-twitterverse become exclusive; diversity of experience and opinion is key.
Because this is all part of a culture shift. It's about shifting hierarchies. It's about changing the way we think about geography and "place". It's about engaging in diversity (or it can be) in exponential ways. It's not just 'professional development' -- it's "personal learning".
Editor's Note:With the launch of the Google Apps Marketplace in March 2010, many members of our Authorized Reseller Program are taking full and immediate advantage of the benefits the Marketplace provides – new apps for their customers and a new channel for resellers to sell their own customized apps to Google Apps users. We asked Julia Rivard, VP-Communications for Canadian-based SheepdogInc.ca, to talk about her experiences as a Google Apps reseller and now a vendor within the Google Apps Marketplace.
SheepDogInc.ca, founded by Shawn Wilkie and Brandon Kolybaba, recognized early on the strengths and functionality associated with the Google Apps suite of communication and collaboration tools. In 2007, we began working with Google to become an authorized Google Apps reseller, allowing our team to bring Google Apps migration expertise to organizations in Canada and across North America. Based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, our team has migrated many organizations which were formerly utilizing a mishmash of tools to the unified, cloud computing platform created by Google Apps.
SheepDogInc.ca's position as an authorized Google Apps reseller accelerated our move towards custom application development in the cloud. The launch of the Google Apps Marketplace enabled us to create applications in the cloud specifically catered towards the needs expressed by our clients. For example, our team developed an application on Google App Engine for the 2009 World Canoe Championship that delivered race results to millions of global followers as well as a medal counting application for the Canadian Olympic Committee that delivered updates to Olympic athletes on their mobile devices at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Focused on enhancing and improving existing business processes, SheepDogInc.ca recently launched our custom application, gTrax in the Marketplace.
gTrax
gTrax is a time tracking business tool that enables employees to track their work, facilitates intuitive reporting functionality, and integrates the user's Google Calender with the time-tracking application.
The application is aimed at organizations looking for a simple and user-friendly process of drilling down and analyzing time management and internal activities, and helps identify and allocate internal resources to projects which facilitates accurate time budgeting. Complete integration with Google Calender means that gTrax utilizes entries from the employee's calender thereby reducing the need for repeat data entry and decreasing the overhead associated with other time-tracking systems.
The developers at SheepDogInc.ca have been working tirelessly to develop a user-friendly mobile interface for gTrax. The app is now fully accessible on both the Android and iPhone platforms allowing users to conveniently access gTrax from their mobile device. Since all data is securely stored in the Google cloud, it is accessible anytime and anywhere.
Our relationship with Google as an authorized reseller has allowed us to deploy the Google Apps suite in numerous organizations across North America and the addition of the Google Apps Marketplace has created new and exciting opportunities for SheepDogInc.ca. With our development team focused on creating applications on Google App Engine, we now build both fully customized apps for specific client's business needs, as well as packaged apps for a larger audience of users through the Marketplace.
Do you ever wonder who’s helping you optimize your webpages? Who works hard to ensure your payments get to you on time? Who works with our product and engineering teams to deliver the products and features that you want?
Over the next few weeks you’ll find out just that! We’re kicking off a video series where you’ll meet some of our AdSense team members. You can hear their stories, learn more about their role in AdSense, and listen to the tips they have to offer.
In the first video, Debby, a member of the AdSense Optimization team talks about her favorite websites, what she likes about working for Google, and the Google products that she recommends every publisher try.
New cloud-based business technology applications are reinventing workplace collaboration -- to address the needs of forward-looking organizations and their essential employees, in today's more economically frugal operating environment.
Progressive business leaders are breaking down traditional communication silos by creating the environment for key staff to easily connect with peers and readily share information across globally dispersed organizations. How will they be able to fuel this ongoing transformation?
Cisco announced the availability of the Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution that allows service providers to offer their customers a wide range of collaboration applications -- via the cloud, using a "business technology as a service" model.
The Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution, which builds on existing hosted Unified Communications offerings, provides customers with unprecedented flexibility in choosing how they deploy collaboration applications throughout their organizations.
"Our customers are eager to put cloud-based unified communications applications to the test. Verizon Business' field trial of Cisco's Hosted Collaboration Solution builds on a proven track record the two companies have established developing and delivering innovative solutions to market, while marking an important milestone on Verizon Business' path to deliver 'Everything-as-a-Service' for our customers worldwide," said Anthony Recine, vice president of networking and communications solutions forVerizon Business.
How On-Demand Solutions Drive Business Agility The hosted option helps businesses to rapidly deploy collaboration technologies while potentially lowering upfront capital and ongoing operating expenses.
The Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution gives service providers and integrators the ability to deploy multiple collaboration applications on one server in a virtualized environment and then host those applications for multiple client organizations.
"Delivering our customers the broadest-range and highest-quality hosted unified communications and collaboration services is one of our core businesses. The Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution will allow us to achieve this goal with an excellent operational efficiency and profitability for our clients," said Paul Molinier, vice president, Unified Communications and Collaboration Business Unit, Orange.
The solution is designed to be run from managed service provider data centers. It's optimized for delivery by the Cisco Unified Computing System, part of the Cisco Unified Service Delivery solution. It's proven to combine the power of the datacenter with the power of the network -- to transform service delivery and build the foundation for cloud services.
Leading service providers will offer one of the most comprehensive collaboration services available and can easily deploy large, multi-customer installations. By using a common infrastructure, providers can potentially save money while delivering their customers a superior user experience -- regardless of the service deployment model (hosted, managed, or on-premise).
"Delivering hosted unified communications and collaboration services is a demanding and complex operation. We're excited to be working with the Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution, which is designed to simplify operations and deliver services in the most efficient and profitable manner," said Roger Wuethrich-Hasenboehler, executive vice president and member of the board, Swisscom.
Savvy business executives and their IT leaders continue to benefit from the operational efficiencies of out-tasking core business technology applications. They're shifting their internal resources to more strategic initiatives -- while enabling the just-in-time provision of feature rich communications service delivery.
In session listening to Howard Rheingold. He's been talking about critical thinking, multitasking, identity, and network awareness.
On the issue of multitasking and self-awareness, Howard stresses getting students to think critically about the way they interact with technology and knowledge: "I am trying to establish the beginnings of some mindfulness." I like the way Howard uses a discussion of social technology to advocate for engagement and empowerment; he's got such a touch for understanding that the Net -- especially for kids -- is a public forum for exploring identity. The important thing is to be able to think critically about how the content distributed across the Net relates to that exploration of identity and to be aware of the "self" on the Net.
That's why it's so crucial to letting kids access the real Web in school; because anything less than authentic media in the classroom undermines the authenticity of the teaching and learning in a media-rich environment, or as Howard says: "Having a filtered version of the Web in your school is like teaching them to drive by watching a slideshow."
An interesting idea developed during the Q&A session. Basically an analogy was made between teaching media literacy and teaching sex ed. And Howard's take was that in both cases, what we're really teaching kids is how to make good choices. That should be the baseline goal of all instruction and conversation in and of digital literacies.
Check out the new Critical Thinking Wiki that Howard has started and share ideas related to "effective living" in the networked world as you see it.
Got nothing but rumors here, but I've talked to two people here at the convention who claim that Google is going to include Blogger, Picasa, and a 'safety-mode' portal into YouTube in an update of Google Apps for Ed.
Presumably, that would mean that the TOS for kids under 13 would be a moot point as all activity could happen within the school's Google account and schools would of course have services archived/secured through Postini.
Stay tuned.
[UPDATE: @BillCamp shot over this release from Google from last month; it specifically addresses bringing Picasa, Reader, and Blogger into Google Apps for Ed. No specific mention of YouTube, but that would be the game-changer as so many districts currently block YouTube out of content concerns.]
Whether you have ten keywords or ten thousand, making sure your ads are showing is a top priority. Now you can get detailed diagnostic information for multiple keywords at once by using a new keyword diagnosis option on the Keywords tab.
To get started, open the "More actions" menu on your Keywords tab (at the account, campaign, or ad group level) and select "Diagnose keywords."
On the keyword diagnosis menu, you have all the options available in the standalone Ads Diagnostic Tool. For example, if you're interested in seeing whether or not your ad is showing in a particular location, you can use the Location drop-down to narrow the scope of your diagnosis.
After clicking "Run test," you'll see the real-time results appear in the Status column next to each keyword. If all is well, you see "Ad showing." If not, you'll see a brief summary of the problem (for example, "Low bid or quality score"):
To get more details on a keyword's status, hover over any speech bubble icon. In the above example, viewing details for the keyword "meeting icebreakers" displays more information on the Quality Score issues that are preventing the ad from showing. To focus on one issue at a time, try creating filters for Keyword Status.
The next time your keywords need a check-up, try using keyword diagnosis -- it even makes house calls!
I am on a business trip to China so have been reading up on research on general and online specific travel trends.There is a lot of information out on the Intertubes but much of it is buried deep on disparate sites- and is often contradictory.Thanks to a tweet from Chloe Lim I came across and economist article collecting a selection of the better research links.The story is an Economnist piece called “Travelling with a little help from friends “.It is the BOOT recommended read of the week.
Summary from the story is that more than any other market, the online China is turning to social networking to drive retail purchasing behaviour including travel.
Pretty darned blown away by Schoology, an LMS based on a social network that seems as both as easy to maneuver and as accessible as Facebook. In fact, the thing kinda looks like FB as students create profiles -- profiles that could grow into an academic digital portfolio over the course of a student's school career.
Does it have a grade book? Check. Can you take attendance? Both in class and schoolwide. Can students and teachers create profiles and share links, class material, class/homework, projects? Check.
But wait, there's more! (I feel like I'm selling a ginsu knife...)
In Schoology, users get: dropboxes, class analytics, blogs, bookmarking, collaborative workspaces, calendars...
Oh, and it monitors student profiles for abusive language and content and sends immediate notice to the teacher.
Oh, and the base version is free.
And for a set of fees, schools can choose what add-ons -- including archiving, different forms of back-ups, branding -- that they individually need.
I haven't used Schoology yet; heck for all I know it might be totally clunky. But beings that it is based on social tech and social learning, it represents another move -- along with Elgg, and to an extent Google Apps for Ed -- to further integrate the reality of the digital environment as it exists today into the reality of the formal learning experience. That's the key.
A regular complaint I hear from math teachers is that so little of this tech stuff relates in a practical way to teaching math.
Maybe they have a right to complain. Maybe they just don't realize what's happening in higher ed math teaching.
This afternoon, I got the chance to see something that might make tech a lot more useful for them. Met with the folks at Wolfram Research who were talking about their math software -- Mathematica. According to them, all 200 of the top universities in the world are currently using Mathematica.
The program lets teachers create interactive manipulable content and features thousands of ready to use 2 and 3D models for learning everything from algebra to geometry to trig to physics to chemistry.
Here's a link to their own video describing the software.
Wolfram has got an offer going for K-12 teachers looking to try out Mathematica; check it out and let us know how/if it works for you.
Dalam rangka promo Eclipse Movie, Kristen Stewart muncul di acara Today Shuow hari ini, 29 Juni 2010. Wah, Kristen sexy banget, dengan rambut barunya dan memakai mini dress putih, dia keliatan kayak model-model hollywood bok. sekseeeeeeeeeeeeeeh abissssssssssssss *ngiler*
At approximately 1:40pm Pacific Time today, we encountered an issue that prevented ads from being shown on Google.com and Search Partner sites. Our engineering team has diagnosed the issue and is working hard to restore service. As of now, most of the service has been restored.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and will update you with more details as soon as we've fully resolved the issue.
Posted by Miles Johnson, Inside AdWords crew
UPDATE 4:41pm PDT: We have fully resolved this issue. Again, we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Our engineers are working to ensure that this type of issue doesn't occur again.
Kristen Stewart muncul di acara Live with Regis and Kelly hari ini 29 Juni 2010. Masih dengan warna rambut barunya pirang strawberry, kristen keliatan gak semangat yawh. Why? you look so tired baby ^_^
Our baby KStew sibuk banget niey, mondar-mandir dari satu interview ke interview yang lain. Kristen muncul di acara 'The Late Show' With David Letterman 28 Juni 2010 kemarin. Upzs.. new hair.. Kristen dengan warna rambut yang baru, pirang strawberry. whaaa fresh banget, i like it ^_^
In today's fast-paced world, the need to be constantly connected and always accessible has made mobility a strategic corporate asset across the enterprise. Business can come to a halt when employees do not have access to network services and when they cannot easily reach the people they need -- or be reached by the people who need them.
Cisco has unveiled Cisco Cius, a first-of-its-kind mobile collaboration business tablet that delivers virtual desktop integration with anywhere, anytime access to the full range of Cisco collaboration and communication applications, including HD video.
Cisco Cius is an ultra-portable device weighing just 1.15lbs (0.52kg) that extends the productivity benefits of Cisco collaboration applications to a highly secure mobile platform.
In addition to full telepresence interoperability, Cisco Cius offers HD video streaming and real-time video, multi-party conferencing, email, messaging, browsing, and the ability to produce, edit and share content stored locally or centrally in the cloud.
Based on the Android operating system, Cisco Cius is an open platform for communication and collaboration whose form factor and applications are designed to more securely connect employees on-the-go with the right people in real-time, and to provide those workers with the ability to access and share the content they need from any place on the network.
Cloud-based Collaboration and Communication Services Cisco Cius offers IT professionals new options when it comes to equipping mobile workers with computing devices. Through virtual desktop integration, Cisco Cius offers flexible computing options with cloud-based services -- providing dramatically lower capital costs and cost-per-user for desktop maintenance.
Businesses can also tap into the growing Android developer community that is building business-class productivity applications with appropriate IT controls. The combination of applications and flexible computing options provides a compelling alternative to today's PC-on-every-desktop paradigm.
Customer trials of Cisco Cius will begin in the third quarter of calendar year 2010, with general availability in the first quarter of calendar year 2011.
Giving a recap of the Paperless Earth Day Project and showing the various sorts of things that teachers around the world did during the action. The presentation will be in about 15 minutes (1:30PM MDT) via ISTE Unplugged; check here for the schedule of all Unplugged events and click here to join our presentation live.
That's what came out of the presenter's mouth. He was presenting what he called the "most important" advance in education we've seen in a decade. The result of endless hours of research and development. An advance that would finally allow us to truly assess our students in a way that matters.
The advance?
The Promethean ActivExpression. Which for a cost of only $2,000 for a set of 32 of the 1990's cell-phone shaped device, will change education forever.
Because it does this thing that's absolutely incredible: it allows kids to text responses and through the exclusive Promethean software, it allows everybody to see those responses projected in real-time!
And for only $2,000+ change per classroom! Amazing! Earth shattering! I've seen the future of classroom communication!
Except that this kind of communication premiered in 2007. And it's free.
It's called Twitter.
And not only is there nothing that the Promethean ActivExpression shoe-phone can do that your kids can't do in class sending an SMS to Twitter and following the conversation with Hootsuite, it's also a closed system that only works on Promethean software (well, actually, you can run the thing without the software and use it as a glorified yes/no clicker).
For any admin even remotely considering purchasing the ActivExpression system to "engage students with formative learning", I strongly suggest you first spend the summer learning how Twitter works in the classroom. Here's a great resource for you to check out.
As for Promethean showing you the future, tell 'em you've already seen it... and it's not what they're selling.
Earlier this month we launched the Go Google cloud calculator, and we’re excited that so many of you have already taken a few minutes to discover how Google Apps can benefit your organization. Many of you have shared the results of your calculations and added your organization to our community map – and we’ve loved your enthusiasm about the time and money that can be saved by going Google.
As a token of our appreciation, we’re giving away limited-edition Gone Google tote bags (made from material recycled from our billboards) to people who share their Gone Google stories.
Just tell us how your company has gone Google, and include a link to your poster from the cloud calculator in this form. (Hint: when you create your Gone Google poster, you can just copy and paste the unique URL of the PDF.) We’ll send you a tote bag and may even highlight your story on the Google Enterprise blog.
*And our lawyers ask us to tell you that in sharing your story, you are giving Google permission to use it for marketing purposes, and the "giveaway offer is void where prohibited and valid only while supplies last" — so hurry!
Took a long walk this morning from 1st Ave to 14th. walking is a form of technology, really; in that it's a sort of interface for processing one's surroundings.
I was struck by three things.
First: The size of the boulevards. Being an East Coaster, I find six-lane one-way streets in the middle of a city somewhat confounding. But everything is sort of bigger and broader out here; influence of the Rockies, for sure.
Second: Architecture. Architecture and the lack of it. There's a lot of construction going on and even the older parts of downtown look freshly dusted. The library and the art museum are particularly impressive -- both models of innovative design. It's an odd contrast to the quite large population of homeless and mentally ill you'll find all over the city. Certain parts of town are downright wastelands and if anyone here at the convention could point me in the direction of anybody working with these populations in Denver, I'd love to talk and hear about what's going on.
Third: Fruit trees. I love seeing fruit trees along the sidewalks. walking into downtown this morning, I passed through a neighborhood where a bunch of sturdy apple trees grew along the side of the road. And it seemed like a pretty good metaphor for the way I'm experiencing Denver -- for in a city full of big roads and bright buildings, it's in those old roots finding their way under sidewalks and along curbs that I see what a city can be.
From time to time we invite guests to blog about initiatives of interest, and are very pleased to have Geoff Greene join us here. Geoff is the Director of IT Support Services at Brown University, and here he shares an update on their campus-wide migration to Google Apps for Education for all students, staff and faculty. - Ed.
About a year ago we put our 6,000 undergraduate students on Google Apps. The results were phenomenal: people were happy, they were productive, they were excited...and then some people got jealous. Our faculty and staff members started coming to us asking “When do we get to go Google?” Turns out they also wanted access to the same tools to better connect and engage with students and with each other.
We thought about it for a bit and realized that they had a point. So we decided to bring the entire Brown University community together—faculty, staff, medical and grad students—with a common set of tools: Google Apps for Education. This summer, our Computing & Information Services team is in the process of migrating everyone to our new GoogleApps@Brown system. The positive experience our undergrads have had using the Apps suite helped our Provost David Kertzer decide that the change would bring significant benefits and cost savings to the university as a whole. In fact, we predict this change could save us somewhere around $1 million each year.
Our students were really the ones that led us down the Google path. They knew these tools would work because they already used them in their non-school lives. We also decided to go this direction because of the functionalities that we believe will bring our university together, namely tools like collaborative documents, better email (with nearly 30 times the storage space we had with our previous system!) and video chat.
The icing on the cake is that we signed a zero dollar contract for all these top-notch tools. But it’s not just about saving money—it’s also about investing in our university’s future. Google Apps helps us work better together, and we can feel the excitement building on campus as a result. Here’s a little glimpse:
Since some faculty and staff members aren’t as familiar with the new tools just yet, we also hosted a “roadshow” to spread the word and gear up training sessions tailored for each campus group or department. Our training efforts are robust (you can check it out at training.brown.edu) and we have Google Guides—enthusiastic staff and student volunteers—helping their peers with the transition. We feel confident that once people start using these tools together, they’ll never look back.
Posted by Geoff Greene, Brown University Computing & Information Services
Editor's note: This is the latest in a series of posts on new apps in the Google Apps Marketplace – things that have caught our eye here at Google. We’ll do this every few weeks or as we see things that we'd like to share. Look for the label "marketplace highlights" and subscribe to the series if you'd like to stay tuned.
Businesses that use Google Apps not only get access to Google's applications, they also get easy access to some of the best business apps on the web through the Google Apps Marketplace. These marketplace apps are easy to try and buy, and integrate with Google Apps "out of the box," making it even easier for businesses to run more of their systems in the cloud.
You can learn more about the Marketplace and watch a short video on how it works here.
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Easily post to multiple job boards with one click
Unlimited users = more referrals & better feedback
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When you optimize your AdWords account, you probably start with a primary goal in mind. Some advertisers focus on increasing traffic, while others care more about keeping costs down or monitoring return on investment.
The keyword, bid, and budget ideas you currently see in the Opportunities tab aim to provide you with a balance between increasing traffic and managing costs. Starting today, however, and rolling out globally over the next few weeks, you’ll be able to choose from three common advertiser goals to match your overall optimization objectives. The three new options are as follows:
Maintain or Decrease Cost - Identify ideas that might help you maintain or decrease your current spend.
Increase Traffic - Identify ideas that can help you get more traffic at varying cost levels.
Balance Cost and Traffic - Review a mix of ideas that are aimed at either increasing traffic or decreasing costs.
After you choose a goal for your account, the ideas you see in the Opportunities tab will be customized to match your selection. The Opportunities tab remembers your choice of goal unless you change it, which you can do at any time.
We hope this will help provide you with even better ideas to optimize your account and we look forward to offering even more advertising goals in the future.
Finally besok premiere Eclipse Movie serentak di dunia termasuk Indonesia. Yah, walaupun Premiere di Los Angeles sudah curi start 24 Juni 2010 kemarin. Ayo Twihard persiapkan dirimu, sudah booking tempat kan? Hehehehe.. Sambil nunggu ayo download scene-scene baru dari Eclipse Movie yang dikeluarkan oleh Summit Entertainment. Thanks Summit, promo Eclipse movie emang gila-gilaan bok, traillernya aja banyak banget dan di update setiap hari tuwh, salut dyeh buat Summit. Aku yakin film ini akan lebih bagus dari seri-seri sebelumnya, full Romance and War, bakal seru abiz dyeh. Standing applause buat David Slade and team, can’t wait to see this film ^_^
After Bella and Edward go to Florida to visit Bella mother, Renee, Jacob thinks that Bella might have been changed into a vampire because Bella and Edward were gone for 3 days. Since she hasn't seen Jacob for a long time, Bella really wants to talk to him but has to leave Edward to do so. So, Bella gets on the back of Jacob's motorcycle and they go to La Push, leaving Edward in the school parking lot.
Edward: If i asked you to stay in the car, would you? Edward: Of course not. Bella: Hey! Jacob: Charlie said you left town. Bella: Yeah - to visit my mom, why? Edward: He's checking to see if you're still human. Jacob: Look, I'm here to warn you. If your kind come on our land again... Edward You should leave. Now! Jacob: She has a right to know. She's the one the redhead wants. Bella: Victoria?! Alice's vision. Edward: I was trying to protect you. Bella: By lying to me? Bella: You! Why haven't you called me back? Jacob: I had nothing to say. Bella: Well I have tons! Hold on! Edward: Hey, Bella. Bella: Edward, you have to trust me. Edward: I do trust you. It's him I don't trust. Bella: Hey, lose the grin Jacob. I'm just going for a ride. Jacob: Hold on tight.
A deal merging two of Australia's online short let/holiday rental distribution companies to form Occupancy.com has prompted a series of posts here are the BOOT.In part 1 of this series I shared with you my discussions with Occupancy co-CEO Justin Butterworth (pictured) on the size and mechanics of the market.In this part 2 I will share my conversation with Butterworth on the merger deal itself and what’s next for the sector.
The deal
The deal to merge TakeABreak and rentahome.com.au,two of the four main players in the Australian holiday rental accommodation market, was hatched in Nov 2009 and signed in December. Butterworth is not talking how much but has admitted that the deal was all share deal (no capital raising). An assessment was made between the two companies as to relative size and grow rates to determine how much of the combined entity each would get (again not disclosed). Rentahome has maintained its office in Sydney's MoorePark and Butterworth's co-CEO Craig Davis will stay in the TakeABreak office in Canberra.
They have completely integrated the back end systems to allow for on inventory platform system to cover all 20,000 properties. The interest twist to their integration is that they have maintained the different login screens and supplier interfaces. Different inputs but one system. Butterworth told me that there was less than a 10% overlap between the two brands. The limited cross over was because Renathome had focused on the short let metro market whereas TakeABreak was focused more on regional and rural holiday accom.
SEO rankings drove the deal as much as inventory. Butterworth told me that SEO marketing is the “cornerstone of the business”.He told me that cross linking between the two brands is expected to drive a 30% uplift in SEO traffic for the combined group.Once the email lists are deduped he expects the combined group of subscribers to be greater than 400,000.
What’s next for the company and industry
This deal has not generated the press that it probably deserved.Though the bulk of the booking value and revenue remains with the properties, my calculations on the online short let/holiday rental market size show that Occupancy number 2 in terms of bookings generation in a battle that includes subsidiaries of Fairfax, News Corp and Yahoo7!. The specific challenge for Occupancy will be to achieve number one spot in the face of this competition.
For the whole of the online short let/holiday rental sector there are three general challenges:
Live vs non-live:Consumers are looking for instant confirmation when they book online. Occupancy is the online one of the majors that offers live inventory but only on a proportion of its properties (Butterworth is not saying what percentage). It is clear that this is a challenge for all the players;
Product certainty when no uniform standards: Star rating systems in the hotel sector are constantly open for criticism for bias and lack of uniformity.The position is much worse in the short-let/holiday rental sector.There is no uniform independent service that customers can go to for comparing the quality of different properties.Butterworth and Occupancy are trying to deal with this through their Rental Guarantee.This outlines the checks that they do on a property.It provides a validation on the details in the description matching the property but the industry is still missing an easy mechanism for property comparison (hence challenge 3); and
Building profiling and recommendation engines:you would have seen me write often on the future of online travel being around targeted and individuated recommendations (my EveryYou concept).This is particularly the case for a sector like this where there is such a variety of product is some many secondary rural and regional destinations.The challenge is to be build a combination of technology and human solutions to help guide people to the right properties and destinations.
That all said, the variety and uniqueness of the product offerings within the short-let/holiday rental sectors goes a long way to compensate for theses challenges and is the reason for the growth of a health intermediary market in Australia.
One essential thing all of us in network marketing need to learn is how to be a leader. I just received this letter from my friend and mentor, Mr. Michael Dlouhy. In it, he discusses what makes a true leader.
I hope you find it as meaningful as I did.
To Your Success, Monique Hawkins 540-858-2885 Skype: Monique371 PS: The real training begins by reading the eBook, Success In Ten Steps. In case you haven't had a chance to download it, click here: http://mentormonique.successin10steps.com/?mad=46068
06/28/10
When a great leader falls because of a lack of integrity, it is very painful for all involved. Tearing another person down to build yourself up, only leads to a false impression of yourself.
When someone is tearing others down in front of You this is a guarantee they will do the same to You behind Your back. Ultimately you will crash and burn from your lack of character.
The question is:
Would You Want This Person As Your Sponsor ?
Life can give us challenges in many areas of our life. How we handle those challenges ourselves and who helps us, can determine our success or failure. Loyalty to do the right thing enters into all decisions. Friendships built on loyalty and trust are like support beams for a foundation.
A foundation is the beginning. This applies to your marriage, your friendships, your home and your business. If you build them correctly, they will sustain you your lifetime. If you build carelessly everything will crumble around you.
Leaders are built. Day by day, Lesson by lesson. When a leader chooses to fall, they sacrifice their integrity, their honor and their character.
If after knowing the facts and fully utilizing their "critical thinking skills" when someone decides to leave Your Team please wish them all the best.
Excerpt from "Launching a Leadership Revolution" Foundational Leadership Quality: Honorable
Integrity can be considered as the condition of "not doing what's wrong." Character can be defined as doing the right things, for the mere reason that it is the right thing, even if that thing is difficult and unpopular.
The two sewn together make honor. Author Jeff O'Leary, in The Centurion Principles, writes, " 'Honor' encompasses the virtues of integrity and honesty, self-denial, loyalty, and a servant's humility to those in authority above as well as a just and merciful heart to those below."
Honor is such a rarely used word in our times that it seems a little old-fashioned. But living a life of integrity and character is timeless and, for a leader, absolutely necessary. It's about choices, and a person's choices in life follow him to the grave.
Is this to say that a person needs to be perfect to become a leader? Of course not. Perfection in this life is not possible, and we, the authors, are certainly not exceptions. However, a leader must strive continually toward perfection even though she knows she can never exactly attain it.
It is a question of the heart. The most effective leaders through out history have led with their hearts, in trust, and with honor. If a leader cuts corners, misuses people, or misrepresents, the truth, a time bomb begins ticking. Someday, somewhere, the bomb will go off. It is obvious in our times only too often: public figures at the pinnacles of power and fame crash and burn in the cloud of self-inflicted shame. From political scandals to high-profile corporate frauds, these calamities are brought on by a lack of honor in the leadership.
"Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."
The difference between leaders we revile and those we praise is their individual level of honor. In fact, honor is the force that holds a leader's hunger in check.
Without honor, hunger runs rampant and ultimately serves only selfish interests. Honor is the component that makes hunger productive for the leader's fellow man. In fact, what we are basically describing here is another "old-fashioned" word: duty.
George Washington said of duty, "Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected." So leadership is spawned by hunger and held in check by honor.
Under that combination, leaders will find happiness in the fulfillment of their duty to others. It has been said that the character of a man is the only thing that will walk back from the grave into the hearts of the people who knew him.
That is the legacy of a leader. The words a leader say and the walk a leader walks must match. As the saying goes, "Your word is your worth and your worth is your word."
Andy Stanley, author of The Next Generation Leader, says, "To become a leader worth following you must give time and attention to the inner man.
To leave a legacy that goes beyond accomplishment alone, a leader must devote himself to matters of the heart." Character is developed in the valleys and the peaks of life, enabling a person to overcome obstacles and deal with success.
Abraham Lincoln observed, "Nearly all men can handle adversity, but if you really want to test a man's character - give him power." Character connects a person to what is right and true.
If reputation is what others think of you, then character is what God knows about you. This concept of honor is so important to a leader because people will follow a leader only as far as they feel they can trust him.
People will not follow a leader they can't trust. According to R. Ruth Barton, "We set young leaders up for a fall if we encourage them to envision what they can do before they consider the kind of person they should be.
" Warren Bennis tells us, "In the leadership arena, character counts. I am not saying this casually, of studies, observations, and interviews with leaders and with the people near them.... I've never seen a person derailed from [leadership] positions for lack of technical competence.
But I've seen lots of people derailed for lack of judgment and character." And, as Heraclitus said, "Man's character is his fate." Finally, it should be remembered that a major component of honor is personal courage.
Without the courage to do what's right because it's right, regardless of ramifications to self, one is not truly worthy to be called a leader.
When people don't "Believe" they deserve Success they will self destruct every time.... This is the reason we tell everyone we meet to "Participate" in the 30 Day Mental Cleanse if You want to own Your life.
Things are winding down a bit as people are strategizing how best to acquire free food. Grub makes the world go 'round and that's especially true at ISTE.
A thought comes to mind: with so many of the tech companies around here giving away free stuff -- from trinkets and tote-bags to food and drink -- I wonder...
You know how some people really look like their dog? I mean, like you see a big square-faced guy walking a Great Dane or a little squat guy walking a little squat dog... (I'm making sense here, right?)
Well, the guy next to me just asked someone if he worked for Microsoft... based on the blue shirt he's wearing. And earlier in the day someone mentioned being upset to find that not all the Open Source guys had beards.
So -- and I realize I'm tired and delusional -- but, the question has to be asked: "DO WE LOOK LIKE THE TECH WE USE?"
What's a Wikispacer look like? What does a Waver wear? Is there a Jing dress code?
Biggest "non-ballroom" crowd I've seen so far: @crafty184, @jonbecker, and @brueckj23 leading a not-dumbed-down introduction to Twitter for education and leadership.
a) I think there's something to be said for the fact that this was the most packed session I've seen so far.
b) Kudos to the trio for helping a lot of folks how to access that "other" conference going on via the Web simultaneously as the physical one here at the Denver Convention Center. Access to that meta-conference is priceless; it's where connections are being made that will long outlast anything said in these rooms -- connection both with people here in Denver and with folks around the world who are pushing education and leadership in new directions.
A couple of weeks ago, we announced the Conversion Champion Challenge, a contest to help you get your ROI in shape for the summer using free AdWords conversion products. It’s not too late to enter and compete to win the grand prize – an AdWords voucher and a trip to Google!
Whether you’re just getting started or actively working to get your conversion rate in shape, here are some best practices for getting the most out of two key conversion products: Conversion Optimizer and Search Funnel reports.
Tips for using Conversion Optimizer
Save time by letting Conversion Optimizer manage your bids to reach your ROI goals (On average, campaigns that use Conversion Optimizer experience a 21% increase in conversions and a 14% decrease in cost-per-conversion )*.
Choose to bid using the metric that you’re most comfortable with: Target Cost per Acquisition (CPA) or Max CPA.
Set different CPA bids for each ad group if conversions in one are more valuable to you than they are in another.
Let Conversion Optimizer run for a couple weeks to give it a chance to acclimate to your campaign’s performance.
Test Conversion Optimizer on a single campaign if you’re not ready to make large scale changes to your account. If you ever choose to turn it off, you’ll be able to return to the Max CPC bids that you’d previously set.
Run Search Funnel Reports within your AdWords account to figure out which ads and keywords potential customers clicked on leading up to a conversion.
Identify keywords that are driving conversions and ensure that you’re bidding competitively on them.
Identify the keywords you're paying for but aren't leading to conversions and decrease your bids on them accordingly.
Use the Time Lag and Path Length reports to understand how long (time and number of searches) it takes before conversions typically happen on your site. This can help you determine how long to run your campaigns.
We can’t wait to hear about your experiences, so let us know how it goes by entering the Conversion Champion Challenge.
Posted by Miles Johnson, Inside AdWords crew
*This analysis compares the performance of Conversion Optimizer campaigns over the course of a year with a control set of campaigns and represents the average impact of Conversion Optimizer. The actual impact will vary from campaign to campaign.
Just had a great conversation with Denise Atkinson-Shorey about national broadband. She's from the EagleNet project and they are working on a stimulus grant proposal to bring broadband wi-fi to every school kid in the state of Colorado. EagleNet is a non-profit consortium and wants to work to bring in the infrastructure to help schools, libraries, and public buildings become hubs for wi-fi.
As Scott McLeod piped in: "Broadband wi-fi should be pushed out like water or electricity." And that's absolutely true -- and it seems like it's doable. We dig trenches to build roads and interstates, we've go miles and miles of electricity and telecom already crisscrossing the states. So, how do we (or do we?) latch onto existing infrastructures and make use of public buildings and already-present community resources. Would love to hear from some of you broadband/wi-fi gurus out there, I'm a bit out of my element on the technical side.
Here's part of EagleNet's mission statement:
The mission of EAGLE-Net is to enable access for technology-rich, quality education to every student in all 178 Colorado public school districts via broadband network services, advanced applications, and Internet2 and National LambdaRail connectivity, including those in rural and underserved areas.
This mission is being expanded to include collaborative partnerships with Higher Education, Public Libraries, Museums, Fire/Safety, Healthcare, and other non-profit entities.
Collaborate to link and link to collaborate. It's a great idea... does it have legs?
The BOOT is on the road for a long business trip. 12 days on the road in 4 cities taking in Taipei, Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai. If you are in any of those cities let me know.
