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Udemy: How to Write a Book: 5 Things to Consider Before Writing Your Book
So you’ve cleaned out a responsible portion of your desk, covered the nearest wall with post-it notes, secured a steady supply of caffeine, wedged your door as securely shut as possible and are ready to jump right into writing your first book. But before you proceed, take heed of the following when writing your first [...]…
Udemy: Product Manager Job Description: What Do Product Managers Do?
Product managers are responsible for the management of new or existing products within an organization or business. The aim of a product manager is to oversee the supply of products that are useful and profitable for the business. In most cases, a product manager is in charge of a team of people who are involved [...]…
Udemy: What Is SAP Software: Keeping Corporations Running Around The Globe
SAP software represents the terms “Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing.” It is related to ERP, which is “Enterprise Resource Planning.” SAP is also the name of the company. The firm is widely recognized as the global leader in enterprise applications in the form of software and services related to software. In terms of market capitalization, [...]…
Udemy: Best WordPress Themes: How To Choose What Is Right For You
WordPress is the most popular content management system in the world. It is used by 58.5 percent of all websites that use a specific content management system. That is the equivalent of 18.8 percent of every website on the Internet. One of the advantages of WordPress is there are a significant number of themes available for a [...]…
Udemy: Best Photoshop Tutorials: Get Up and Running With Photoshop Fast
Photoshop has led the image editing software niche for many years. Professionals and amateurs alike use it to turn out some amazing photos. The program has a lot of power, but can also be hard to understand. The right tool seems hidden, or the sequence of menus for a certain result seems counterintuitive. Photoshop is [...]…
Udemy: Magazine Layout Design: 5 Steps to a Beautiful Periodical
Creating an engrossing magazine that leaves readers hungry for the next issue takes more than a hope and a prayer; it takes a keen eye for details and an understanding of design principles. In fact, there are five essential categories of layout design that every editor adheres to in order to create a beautiful and [...]…
Udemy: SQL Queries Interview Questions Commonly Faced for Database-Related Jobs
If you want to work with databases, you are expected to know the basics of SQL. Here is a compilation of SQL interview questions that you are likely to face. Go through these as well as other common SQL topics in order to impress the interview panel. You will be tested both on your SQL knowledge and your [...]…
Udemy: Software Engineer Job Description: What Can You Expect?
A software engineer designs, develops, and installs software to be used in computer information systems. They are often called upon for maintenance and to help people with operational problems as well. **Simplify your Java programs with intelligent architecture by following this FREE Udemy tutorial!** A software engineer is capable of working for a wide variety of [...]…
Udacity: New Course: The Design of Everyday Things
After reading The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman, I remember thinking to myself, “I probably learned more from this book than I learned from a majority of classes I took in graduate school.” This wasn’t the best feeling in the face of my $60,000+ graduate school loans!My loans feel less painful though if they mean I can help others avoid student loan debt. This is why I’m thrilled to announce Udacity’s production of Design 101: The Design of Everyday Things. This series of courses is taught by Don Norman, Kristian Simsarian, and myself, and I’m confident will help current and potential designers be successful in their careers. Oh, and the best part....the class is offered to students for free! An equivalent course at a university would probably cost $5,000 or more. Design 101: The Design of Everyday Things is based upon the new edition of The Design of Everyday Things (revised and expanded: to be published in Fall 2013). The material is…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Meridian LMS to Educate Californians About Affordable Care Act by News Editor
Meridian Knowledge Solutions is implementing its software-as-a-service LMS and social platform to support Covered California in the education of nearly nine million Californians about the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Coursera: Signaling Learning for MOOCs
Editor’s note: Jonathan Haber is a Courserian who is taking classes on Coursera to experiment with a project of his called "Degree of Freedom”. He is guest blogging on our site to keep us up-to-date on his progress and offer useful study tips! Thanks, as always, Jonathan! Hi fellow Courserians, how do you prove that you have been successful in taking a MOOC course? “Signaling" is a term used to describe how to communicate learning success using non-traditional teaching methods such as MOOCs to a wider community. In this 2 minute video, I review a few tips on how to signal your learning In some cases, you might want to use the fact that you’ve successfully completed one or more Coursera classes to obtain college credit. This is still difficult to pull off, and options to get credit for MOOCs generally require you to be enrolled in a traditional college or university that is willing to accept third-party credit. More frequently, you might want to use non-t…
: Finding Happiness & Celebrating Life
I dedicate this blog post to MS patients for having the courage to celebrate life. Young People Disease “Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated inflammatory disease that attacks myelinated axons in the central nervous system, destroying the myelin and the axon in variable degrees and producing significant physical disability within 20-25 years in more than 30% of patients” (see Medscape).… Read the rest…
Udacity: Best of Udacity
Udacians all over the world gathered on Saturday, July 20th to celebrate the Udacity community and to learn more about getting ahead in (or getting into!) their careers in tech. Thanks for an amazing day! We had a wonderful time meeting hundreds of Udacians in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, and New York, as well as in cities all over the world. Udacians in Palo Alto! Udacians in New York at Etsy Labs! Udacians in Seattle at Redfin! Big thanks to Moz for sponsoring here as well! Udacians gathered in Accra! We also learned a lot from our special tech guests. Thanks so much to the following companies and organizations for coming out: SpaceX, Google, Etsy, Microsoft, Braintree, Redfin, CODE2040, OpenGov, Rocket Fuel, 23andMe, Rivieria Partners, Palo Alto Staffing, i-staffing-inc, Twilio, Crowdspring, Belly, Capital Group, QThru, Pactera, 9Mile Labs, Madrona Venture Group, Up Global, Hireart, Chartbeat, and more. Joseph Yeh from Riviera Partners sums up his da…
Udemy: Lean Startup your team with bestseller author Eric Ries
You don’t need to be a startup to apply the lessons of lean startup within your organization. You can now find lean aficionados virtually everywhere- lean Fortune 500, lean nonprofit, lean services, even lean government. What is lean and how is it different than old approaches to launching new products and services? The old product [...]…
Saylor.org: Introduction to Sociology now available on iTunes U
We’ve had psychology courses on our site for a long time, much to the chagrin of sociology partisans, but the latter got a seat at the table back in January when we introduced SOC101 to everyone. Today, SOC101: Introduction to Sociology arrives on our iTunes U channel. A few things set this course apart: We have used OpenStax [...]…
Udemy: Freelance Photographer? Learn How to Build an Online Presence and Get More Clients
Working as a freelance photographer has never been more exciting (or challenging). With the internet turning into a visual platform, there is more work than ever before for freelance photographers. At the same time, widespread adoption of cheap DSLRs has created an entire army of amateur photographers who will compete with (and underbid you) on [...]…
Udemy: How to Add a Favicon to a Website: The Complete Guide
The humble favicon – a simple square of 16 pixels – is one of the easiest ways to identify a website. A website without a favicon looks like Penn without Teller and Cheech without Chong – something just feels amiss. Let’s take a look at how to create a favicon for your own website: What is [...]…
Udemy: HTML to WordPress Theme: The Definitive Guide
WordPress is the world’s favorite blogging software. It powers more than 68 million websites worldwide and is used by publishers like New York Times, Reuters and CNN. One of the reasons for WordPress’ immense popularity is its easy theming capabilities. Almost anyone with a bit of HTML and CSS knowledge can create a gorgeous WordPress [...]…
Udemy: Five Perl Interview Questions Every Programmer Must Know
Perl is like the Gary Oldman of programming: understated and (apparently) unfashionable, but carrying the true weight of every project it’s in. Perl is everywhere: it’s used in system administration, network programming, and graphics programming. It’s also one of the most common languages used on the Unix platform, which, in turn, powers most web servers, [...]…
Udemy: Five Ajax Interview Questions Every Developer Must Know
Ajax stands for asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Ajax is a group of related technologies that are used to display information asynchronously – that is, without reloading a page – to a user. For example, you may use Ajax to show new posts or recent comments on a web page without reloading it, which can dramatically [...]…