What is your deepest dream?

What is your deepest dream?

Ask yourself this question every day of your life.

And delve down deeply.discover the core elements, the underlying essence of the dream.& then OPEN.OPEN, OPEN to POSSIBILITIES.Begin to think anew.Realize that your dream is a dream-in-process, a vision-in-progress.& while it may unfold in a different form than you had imagined, you can take the essence, shape it, mold it, allow it to grow, change, to blossom forth, & ultimately it may well, with your nurturance & care, come to life in a far more vibrant, full & expansive form than you would ever have once dared to imagine.

The Art of Possibility

Our next class will be Monday October 15 at Sanders Theater - Boston Philharmonic Orchestra Rehearsal with Ben Zander - Author of The Art of Possibility.

We will meet at 1000 Mass Ave @ 6:45 pm and walk over to Sanders Theater @ Harvard.

Please completely read the book and bring to have autographed by Ben Zander.

Enjoy!

About Craig's List

Craig Newmark insists that he's not changing the world.

You maybe can think of some classified advertising managers at newspapers around the country who might disagree, but he's pretty adamant about it. read article...

Learning more about BLOGGING

John Harper from The Harper Team, a real estate group from CA in the Bay area has been so helpful in sharing more about BLOGs and specifically his experience with WordPress. WordPress allows for document linking as well as BLOGGING. A good tool to explore next semester for piloting ePortfolios.

John is very knowledgeable about Search Engine Optimization and writing BLOG posts that drive traffic to your site. A great skill to have in your toolbox as a manager.

John will be coming to Boston to share his expertise at Cambridge College for our class sometime in the next 6 months.

I will be posting many links that John’s shared as well as assigning reading from a couple of books he’s recommended (linked to Amazon).

The New Influencers: A Marketing Guide to the New Social Media by Paul Gillin and

The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use News Releases, Blogs, Podcasting, Viral Marketing and Online Media to Reach Buyers Directly by David Meerman Scott

We will be taking this to a new level this coming semester.

Testing BlogJet

I have installed an interesting application - BlogJet. It's a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com

"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination." -- Albert Einstein

Learning Log for your BLOG

Guidelines for a Learning Log/BLOG
The learning log/BLOG provides a way for you to record your course related learning activities and provide an opportunity to think about ideas discussed during class and reflect on what you learned during the class presentations, discussion and readings. Your learning log should focused on your learning and not degrade into a personal diary which is a chronological account of events that have occurred. It should reflect actual analysis, synthesis and interpretation of what you have learned. The learning log should provide you with an opportunity to identify relevant issues from the class material, allow you to make connections between what you have learned and your own personal experience and provide you a way to sort your ideas and thoughts into a cohesive whole.

Through your learning log you will demonstrate that you have given some critical thought to the material presented in the class and developed your own opinion of what you have learned.

The types of things that you might put into your learning logs are:

• How you reacted to the class presentations or discussions;
• What kind of questions popped into your head from the readings or discussions;
• How you reacted to something you read or discovered outside class time;
• How you related the information presented, read or discussed to your own personal experience;
• What things did you agree or disagree with from the material presented, discussed or read;
• What new knowledge did you gain from the material presented, discussed or read; and
• How might apply what you learned in a future application.

Questions to ask your self as you are writing your learning log:

• How clearly and concisely am I explaining the event that grabbed my attention and engaged my learning?
• What, specifically, have I learned from that will be of value as I develop as a manager?
• Am I just restating material presented in the class and in my readings or am I actually demonstrating analysis, synthesis, interpretation or insight?
• What are the connections I am making, what are the insights, what new idea, concept do I now possess?
• Why is this new knowledge useful?
• How is this applicable to my own personal situation?
• How does this relate to my own experience?
• How might I do things differently in the future now that I have this new knowledge?
• What have I actually learned?

Do I really believe what I am writing?

Understanding SEO

SEO (besides my last name) stands for "Search Engine Optimization". We will continue to discuss this as we build BLOGs and ePortfolios. Research and read about it. Why is it important? How could you use this as a leader/manager?

SEO this is a tool to show you the keywords or tags on a particular web page.

Google Rankings

Googlerankings.com was developed by Graphite-Works, Budapest, Hungary a European web design team, solely to retreive the location of websites on Google's search result page. Googlerankings.com is in no way affiliated, sponsored or in any way the property of or responsibility of Google.com. It is however a tool that uses the Google Web API to find domain names within the list Google.com shows for a given search, thus is powered by Google. Our service operates by the courtesy of Google Inc., and has been given permission to run by their legal department.

F.A.Q.
Q.: How to get better ranking on Google.com?*....more

Technorati

Technorati is a site that has indexed over 7almost 90 million BLOGs. Yes, that is 90,000,000 BLOGs. Please read about it and search to find/research 3-5 BLOGs that you think have some merit. Post them here as comments and we will begin to sort through them together in class.

about Technorati
...it all started with blogs. A blog, or weblog, is a regularly updated journal published on the web. Some blogs are intended for a small audience; others vie for readership with national newspapers. Blogs are influential, personal, or both, and they reflect as many topics and opinions as there are people writing them.

Blogs are powerful because they allow millions of people to easily publish and share their ideas, and millions more to read and respond. They engage the writer and reader in an open conversation, and are shifting the Internet paradigm as we know it. more...

http://technorati.com/about/

Google - details at the beginning....

As I was searching the web for a good quick read for you - I found a paper written by Sergey Brin (left) and Larry Page (right) who are the 2 founders of Google while they were still in school at Stanford. It'a a good overview of the original concepts. As you review - pay special attention to crawling and page rank which is what makes Google so effective.

ABSTRACT
In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext. Google is designed to crawl and index the Web efficiently and produce much more satisfying search results than existing systems. The prototype with a full text and hyperlink database of at least 24 million pages is available at http://google.stanford.edu/

To engineer a search engine is a challenging task. Search engines index tens to hundreds of millions of web pages involving a comparable number of distinct terms. They answer tens of millions of queries every day. Despite the importance of large-scale search engines on the web, very little academic research has been done on them. Furthermore, due to rapid advance in technology and web proliferation, creating a web search engine today is very different from three years ago. This paper provides an in-depth description of our large-scale web search engine -- the first such detailed public description we know of to date.



Apart from the problems of scaling traditional search techniques to data of this magnitude, there are new technical challenges involved with using the additional information present in hypertext to produce better search results. This paper addresses this question of how to build a practical large-scale system which can exploit the additional information present in hypertext. Also we look at the problem of how to effectively deal with uncontrolled hypertext collections where anyone can publish anything they want.

Keywords: World Wide Web, Search Engines, Information Retrieval, PageRank, Google

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

About Google

There is an event in RI on July 10 that we can discuss attending as a class. It's information about Google and how to appear in it's top ranking. How to manage your web presence (BLOG) so as to be found on the web. We have a special cost of $25 per student if we can get enough transportation to get there. We would need to meet at CC @ 1000 Mass Ave by 5:00 pm. I have room in my car for 4, who has a car and room for how many. Let's see if this will work.

For information go to:
http://www.semne.org/meetings/getting-into-google/

Welcome to the BLOGosphere!

This is the BLOG for the ProSem class 2007 - 2008 @ Cambridge College.
Welcome - this is conversation central for our learning community.

Links are posted for each students' BLOG.

Check here regularly for posts, aricles, links, etc that will further our conversation about leadership, management and technology.

Very glad to be on this journey with you!