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25 Apr 10 Website Copy Writing Tips – How to Improve

Let us start with putting things straight. The Internet is the ecosystem created by different kinds of websites, which in themselves are media vehicles, and content is the fuel on which the medium and its various types of vehicles run. The efficiency of the media in general and vehicles in particular depends upon the kind of fuel it usage. Therefore, one should pay much attention when writing copy for your website, and for that you need to know how to write better website copy. This article will help you learn that, just follow through the end.

Better Website Copy Writing Tips

  • Your copy should not be visually heavy. Make the copy easy to scan. You can do that by dividing copy using sub-headings, and bullet points.
  • Keep one eye on the target audience and another on the matter you want to convey. It is necessary to strike a balance between the two.
  • Always remember, in writing style is so important that at times style, in itself, becomes substance.
  • Add relevant “call to action” at important junctures in your web pages. This will help you increase conversion.
  • Do not talk about attributes, talk about benefits.
  • Build the story until it reaches to climax in the last line where you should add the ultimate call to action.
  • Do not make pages multi-focused.
  • Define model target audience of the website before writing copy for them.
  • Use short sentences and short and simple paragraphs.
  • Keep the content jargon free.
  • List the benefit.
  • Make the benefit as clear as possible.

Copy is what determines the future of the website. The more time you will invest in creating the copy, better will be the future of your website.

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05 Nov 09 Choosing An IT Career Path

When you’re picking the type of IT career path you want, you have to consider your options as to what is available.  Information Technology has around three basic career categories.  The education you’ll need, as well as the skill set you should develop varies between each.  So think about which sounds best to you, and which accommodates your life goals the best.

Engineering

Software engineering is a major career path within information technology.  As a software engineer your responsibility would be to creating and modifying computer applications to fit the needs of the situation.  A company would essentially hire you to convert computer software to work for them.  This is a problem solving career, as you’ll be tasked with assessing a companies needs, and tailoring their software to best serve those needs.

Consulting
Information technology consultants are always in high demand, as they provide information to businesses about how to better use IT.  A consultant assesses the companies technology needs with what sort of IT options would work best for them.  Consultants can work independently, and oftentimes will function as their own separate entities.  So a consultant job has a lot of freedom, as long as you have the proper credentials.

Analysis
Analysts are another career path.  A systems analyst is in charge of assessing a companies current IT set up, then using the information to make improvements.  So essentially you’re collecting data about how well the system in place works, and then analyzing the data to make the system work better.  An analyst will be responsible for increasing efficiency through streamlining procedures, and updating technology.  Anything that makes the company run more smoothly from an IT perspective, it’s an analyst’s job to find the solution.

Choosing your career path isn’t necessarily easy, but each offer varying levels of freedom.  Really, the deciding factor should be your personal needs and goals.  If you like to be your own boss, a more independent position like consulting might be your best bet.  Weigh the pro’s and con’s of each, and figure out what’s right for you.

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30 Dec 08 Virtual classrooms as a model for knowledge management

Introduction

Education today is facing many challenges and one of them is to respond to the profound social changes, economic and cultural rights as provided for the so-called “Information Society and Knowledge” in this era of Information and Communication, and the Internet which has generated a huge interest in all areas of our society and its thanks to its growing use for educational purposes has become an open field for reflection and research.

Knowing that the “virtual classrooms” are half in which teachers and learners are to carry out activities that lead to learning, and that the concept of knowledge is the ability to transform data and information into effective action and effective, in the next lecture discuss the topic of “Virtual Room as a Model of Knowledge Management ‘, and try some of these concepts: influential factors, classification, usage and other items that have some connection with such innovative topic.

Concept of Virtual Classroom

The world in which we live is identified with the dynamics, where what is true today, perhaps tomorrow does not have the same value, being the only constant change it. For that reason, educators and learners, we have been waiting for the arrival of new forms of education and tools to achieve efficiency and effectiveness, implementation, in some cases and innovation in others, the process of finding a means of bringing the Internet to the public officer new features and elements that provide access to knowledge without the involvement or have moved nourished budgets to purchase materials and make available to everyone. It is known that most Internet through Web pages on the classroom resources that before were not even imaginable to a low-cost and easy access. Is that this source of inexhaustible facilities has been embraced by a large number of teachers from different systems and levels of education. Thus, this has led to the birth of sites and web sites designed for teaching and the idea of doing an educational use of the Internet. These spaces are what some experts have called “virtual classrooms”.

Modern organizations need to update the resource materials, and most importantly, the human capacity to give timely and effective response to new challenges proposed by the “Information Society and Knowledge.” The concept of virtual classrooms has come to fill the gap that for many years has had a traditional education, as educational need in this society has been in the technological changes of great magnitude, in which an increasing number of people from all socio-economic levels who need training in order to keep pace with the changes around us, without necessarily having to adapt to traditional training that are not commensurate with their daily lives.

Knowledge and Management of the same

We understand the importance of knowledge as each of the sensory faculties of man.

The management of knowledge some experts define it as a way to identify, detect, rework, and make available to the entire organization knowledge and practices that bring added value to the members of any entity. Joyanes, (2003) also said that the management of knowledge means to deliver those data and information needed to be efficient (effective) in their work or organizations, which is the organizational and institutional process which technologies should allow:

* Identify necessary knowledge,
* Identify where and who has the knowledge or if you need to be created,
* Collect and capture the knowledge identified,
* Determine its importance,
* Summarize and synthesize the information available,
* Distributing information at different levels,
* Update, delete and modify the outdated knowledge and
* Save and organize knowledge obsolete, if any, for future reference.

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