Fri.Feb 28, 2014

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Writing & Grammar: Semicolon or Comma?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by Jennie Ruby    No one understands semicolons, said one of my recent students. Because the rules for semicolons are among the most clear and limited rules for punctuation marks, I am surprised by that perception.   The semicolon is most frequently used to separate two sentences that have been joined into one compound sentence without the benefit of a conjunction.

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Control, Trust, and the Future of Workplaces

The Performance Improvement Blog

'Why do employees have to suffer in cheerless, hard-driving, demeaning workplaces? Where is it written that organizations have to be autocratic, bureaucratic, silos of competition? What makes founders of new companies and captains of industry hold onto the reigns of control as if the people they’ve hired are incompetent fools? I understand the need to feel in control.

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Presentation Resources: West Chester University

Kapp Notes

'Today I had the privilege of traveling to one of my sister universities West Cheste r and talking about the use of games and within the context of a college classroom. Here are my slides and list of resources and some links that apply. Here are the slides. Games and Gamification of College Course Content: Examples and Best Practices from Karl Kapp.

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Digital school strategies

Learning with e's

'Schools need to plan their technology strategies very carefully. There are a lot of factors to consider, including current development of technology and its future proofing, existing systems and interoperability, access and provision of networked resources, skills and capabilities of teaching staff, market forces and socio-economic influences, to name a few.

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Personalizing Customer Support

TechSmith Camtasia

'PipelineDeals is a customer relationship management tool designed to help businesses track interactions, sales, and more. As a company that emphasizes customer care, PipelineDeals wanted to be sure they provided their customers with a fantastic level of support. To help their customers be as successful as possible, PipelineDeals equipped their customer support team with Camtasia… Focusing on the customer.

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eLearning Company Newsletter Increases Monthly Sales by $3600

Academy of Mine

THE CASE STUDY We recently did a test on a client’s site who was selling online courses for about $400 each. After putting the client’s metrics together for them, we found that during this month they had an average revenue per visitor metric of $1.20. That’s what the value of 1 visitor to their website was worth if you were to distribute their monthly revenue across all of their unique visitors from that month.

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Universities around the globe expand eLearning options

Aptara

Universities around the globe expand eLearning options. eLearning solutions offer innovative ways to engage students, make education more accessible to broader populations and expand knowledge resources. Online courses have a wide variety of applications, from training employees to capturing young students' interest. Higher education, too, has explored ways to take advantage of the technology.

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Do You Use Email Marketing To Promote Your Online Course?

Academy of Mine

In today’s poll we wanted to ask our blog readers if they use email marketing to promote their online courses. In a recent blog posts we published a case study that showed that for one particular client on our roster that their average revenue per newsletter subscriber was over 300% more valuable than a “regular” visitor on their site (i.e. a visitor referred through organic search, advertisements, social networks etc).

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February 2014: Creation Spaces

Jay Cross

'John Hagel tells us that “ Answers can be helpful but they only have a fixed value. And answers, no matter how good they are, tend to become obsolete at an accelerating rate. As conditions evolve, those answers that only a little while ago seemed so compelling and helpful now begin to seem stale and worn.” Instead of answers, “ … questions do something else that’s absolutely vital for influence – they rapidly build trust with the person posing the questions.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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