ITList Information Technology Blog » Time And Money http://itlist.com Current IT field related information Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:40:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Earn More Money From Writing http://itlist.com/earn-more-money-from-writing/ http://itlist.com/earn-more-money-from-writing/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:41:49 +0000 SamElli http://itlist.com/?p=1987 To earn more money from writing, you have to write more.  Only by making a name for yourself, and putting your work out as much as possible, can you expect to get the high earning jobs.  Write as much content as possible, and find as many outlets as you can for that creativity.  You always need a new site to write for, and the internet is full of great options.  Each one with their own benefits to your career long term.

So obviously the first step to earning more money from your writing, is to write more.  Writing as much as possible is the truest way to get better, and to create enough content .  By writing more, you create more opportunities for yourself, by being more available.  The presence you make online is the most important factor at being a successful writer.  The more renown you have, more jobs will become available, and they will pay higher rates.

Take all the opportunities you can to read others writing.  Especially writing that’s in the same field as yours.  See what the competition is doing, and where the trends are in writing.  By participating in these, and using them to influence your topics and style, you stay current.  Staying current in an ever changing medium on the internet, is paramount. Especially if you hope to be successful.

Write outside your comfort zone to develop your skills.  By writing about topics, or in styles that you’re not familiar with, you grow as a writer.  This way you can use what you’ve learned in your own work.  You’ll be a more solid writer because of it, and your writing will reflect that.  There’s really no better way to find your own unique voice than to attempt everything you can.

Invest in yourself.  This means time and money.  Have faith that your hard work will pay off.  That’s why you are a writer, because you know where it can take you if you work hard.  So keep on going to that end.  You never know how far the road will take you, if you’re too afraid to invest the necessary efforts to get there.

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Validating A Business Idea http://itlist.com/validating-a-business-idea/ http://itlist.com/validating-a-business-idea/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:56:51 +0000 SamElli http://itlist.com/?p=1731 If you have an idea for a business, the most important thing you can do is validate that idea.  You need to validate your idea, and ensure that it really is solid enough for your personal investments of time and money.  Starting a business without proper validation oftentimes means failure, or an inability to hit your target market because of a lack of information.  Many start up businesses fail because of improper preparation, so don’t undervalue the step of validation.  Any good idea should be validated before really put into use, and your business is no different.

You’ll want to take that business idea and fully flesh it out before you begin to gather support for your concept.  Make an outline of your plan, and how the idea fits into accomplishing your goals.  Think of how you can make this concept work for you, and how you’ll carry it out.

Now bring in your friends and even family, ask them to take a look at your outline and see what they think.  Take their input seriously, and make notes of the points they mention.  Whether they see a flaw, or something you could change to work for the better.  Any criticism is good at this stage, and will help you bring about a stronger business idea.

Once you’ve got that idea validated by those close to you, and you’re comfortable with what you’ve got, it’s time for the next step.  You need to find business entrepreneurs.  These are the people that will give you the input you need to be successful, and also the people you can inspire to be interested in investing in your business idea.  They will give you the pointers you need, and expose any holes in your idea that make the business a less than viable success option.  After that you plug up the holes, and keep at it with the entrepreneurs and try to find yourself an investor, so that you’ve got some start up money to really get your idea off the ground.

Plus now you’ve proven your idea is viable, and you can focus on your target market.  Use what you’ve learned to your advantage, and make things happen.

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Virtual Education http://itlist.com/virtual-education/ http://itlist.com/virtual-education/#comments Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:56:11 +0000 GoniG http://itlist.com/?p=29 The Virtual Education governing the use of new technologies, to develop alternative methodologies for the learning of students in special populations that are limited by their geographic location, quality of teaching and the time available.

Principles

The virtual education as the education of the twenty-first century, has the following principles:
• Self
• Self Learning
• The orientation
• Virtualization
• The technology
• The virtual sociability

Features
• It is appropriate for data, text, graphics, sound, voice and images through regular television programming classes.
• It is cheap, because there is no need to scroll to the presence of teachers or to school.
• Is innovative as the motivation of new interactive learning scenarios
• It is a motivator in learning, to be in four walls of the classroom.
• It is present, because it allows the latest news via the Internet and information systems.

Positive Aspects To learners
• You can adapt the study to your personal schedule.
• You can make their holdings so meditated by the possibility of working offline.
• The student has an active role.
• All students have access to education, not to be harmed those who can not attend classes regularly for work purposes, the distance …
• There improving the quality of learning.
• Optimization of significant learning: At the same time assimilating other learning.
• Save time and money.
• The learner does not have to focus at the center of study.
• The student and player is responsible for their own learning process.
• The student receives a more personalized instruction.

Issues at institutional level
• It allows the university to offer training to businesses without the added weight of travel, accommodation and allowances of its employees.
• It enlarges its offer training to those people or workers who can not access the classes.
• Improved efficiency in the school due to technological advancement.
• Improving the performance of teachers, as part of the time previously devoted to the class, will be invested in better curriculum design and research.

Negative Aspects
• Unequal access to the population.
• Technical malfunctions that could disrupt classes.
• Lack of standardization of computers and multimedia.
• Lack of programs in quantity and quality in the Spanish language, although there are many in the English language.
• It can be slow and therefore unmotivated.
• Not offered the same person to person contact as well as classes.
• It requires an effort of greater accountability and discipline on the part of the student.
• Not everything can be learned from the Internet.

Role of Technology in Education
• Assistant students to write and calculate
• Guide to students.
• To facilitate the purchase of educational resources from remote locations
• To assist teachers in evaluating student progress and administration of the investigation.
• Encourage collaboration between students and teachers

Impact of computers in Students
• Learn more in classes where receiving instruction based computers.
• They learn lessons in less time with computer-based instruction.
• For students like most classes where receiving help from computers.
• Develop more positive attitudes toward computers when they receive help from them in the study.

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