Get ahead in blogging career with learn.com

Elearning isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world. But never before I came across an online site that offers a single, integrated platform for those seeking skill improvement for a particular job profile and those seeking to hire skilled, "job ready" workers. No doubt that Learn.com is the worldwide leader in on-demand workforce development and productivity with more than 50 million end users around the globe. I read about this elearning system on the news wire and couldnt help checking out in order to bridge the gap of my learning and taking charge of my dream job. My dream job is to be a world class blogger and writer and it needs great deal of communication skills and technical writing capabilities. I immediately found a great deal of online courses on Learn.com after signing on for a personal account and then I also tried to test my Skill Score®, then created a course, and search thousands of Web based courses, college programs and accredited courses. This portal is ideal for increasing my knowledge and skill level on any subject, or to share my knowledge and domain expertise with the world. Learn.com is the place to go for creating my own course and teach the world on how to do blogging and even make a living while doing blogging. It truly is the world's first and only on-demand knowledge network. This platform fully supports President Obama's call for a rigorous new approach to higher education and technical training by launching a comprehensive new skill development platform. So you can say that this is the First Learning Site even Obama would not hesitate to certify and testify. Above all, they have a collaboration with the top universities like Boston University, George Washington University, Bellevue University, Cornell University, to name a few online degree universities. You can be a solid trained material ready for job on day one. I am even trying to get a promotion by telling my boss about this site and that I signed up for a career advancement course from this site. You can too take advantage of this unique opportunity and move ahead in your career without holding back to anything.

Dunkin' Donuts offering free lattes on Sunday

You don't have to be a Dad to get free coffee Sunday at Dunkin' Donuts.

In celebration of Father's Day, the stores are offering customers a free small latte beverage, hot or iced, any flavor.

The restaurant ran a similar promotion on Mother's Day so if you missed it at that time, then today is your chance to get the free lattes.

To add to this freebie, some stores are also offering FREE Donuts for Dad on Father's Day. Let your Munchkins spoil dad with FREE DONUTS on Fathers Day!

For more information including store locations, go to dunkindonuts.com.

Who let the frogs out?

The frogs are out on cyberspace and they are the amazing BluFrog breed. These frogs can make you a big winner simply by a blog comment or a twitter tweet or a blog post. It is that easy to win a get away or a gaming package. If you are commenting on the blog then just leave a comment on their contest page telling which experience you want to win and why. If you are trying to enter via Twitter Tweet then just spread the word about the contest by tweeting why you entered to win and which experience you would choose if you won. Be sure to include #bluworld and http://bit.ly/UiiJy in your tweet. Finally if you are entering via blog post on your blog, then write a blog post about the contest and which experience you would choose if you won. Be sure to leave a comment on their contest page with the URL if the trackback doesn't appear.

Again I am listing here the five BLU prizes that will make you think who let these blu frogs out

1. BluGamer: The Ultimate Gaming Package
What are every gamer’s dream gifts these days? New socks and underwear? Um, not so much. How about an Xbox 360 Elite Gaming System with a Rock Band 2 bundle to boot? Now that sounds more like it!

2. Happy Blu-Year: Win a New Years Eve trip to NY
No dispute here. You KNOW where you’d love to be as the clock nears midnight on December 31st … and now you and a friend can get there, absolutely free!

3. Blullapalooza: Win a trip to Lolapalloza in Chicago
Get ready to jam all day and into the night, as you and your music-crazed friend attend the world’s most famous music festival in Grant Park, Chicago. It’s Lollapalooza time and you are THERE, absolutely free!

4. BluStreak: Win a Richard Petty Racing Experience
Ready to race up a Blu streak? Then this is your pick … the Richard Petty Driving Experience that gives you the thrill of stock car racing, side-by-side action, drafting, passing and all! And you and a friend get it all, absolutely free!

5. XtremeBLU: Win a trip to the Winter X Games in Aspen
You can’t get more Extreme than this … it’s the 14th Winter X Games from ESPN and you’re front and center in the middle of all the action … for free!

My favorite is the #1 BluGamer since I am an avid gamer and always a XBOX fan trying to get my hands on the new Project Natal that is going to change the gaming industry forever. This will give me a platform to get ready for Project Natal. So I am going for it now, Any other takers?

Why is Apple trying to prevent you from bookmarking the Google website?

Safari 4 browser that Apple announced at their Worldwide Developers Conference is perhaps labelled as the fastest browser in the world, with its perfect 100% score on the Acid 3 test. However here is a conspiracy that you will get revealed to when adding the bookmarks manually instead of importing them. Just try to add Google Search. Instead of adding Google to the bookmarks, Safari will pop a weird message on you.
Google is the only search engine Safari does this to. You can add Yahoo Search and Bing without any notices. When you do a search on Google.com, Google gets all the money from those sponsored results on the right side of the page. However, if you do what Safari recommends and do your Google search by using the Safari search field, Apple gets a cut from the revenue generated by those sponsored links. The Google search box built into the FireFox browser I think makes over $100 million a year. However, FireFox doesn’t warn their users when they try to bookmark Google. Just imagine how much they’ll be making if they do what Apple does and tell users to do their searches with the browser search field instead of at Google.com?

QLOG musings for effective SEO

I came across amyafrica.com which is a decent site for getting interesting information on various topics and asking the questions and Amy and the audience at large answering them. Its a mix of bullentin board and blog and also has several free tips and twitter updates regularly posted on the site.

I liked the post on SEO on http://www.amyafrica.com where they have explained the difference between Organics versus PPC in the layman's terms by simply citing the example that Rome was not built in a day. I am sure that QLOG will eventually build a web empire that is even bigger than Roman empire and now is the time where you can contribute to its growth by visiting QLOG and showing up your support.

I can give the testimony that QLOG has helped me increase my site traffic without spending a fortune and gave me a ton of ideas on how to improve the effectiveness of my homepage by creating a more efficient shopping cart and checkout process. There are some articles that can give you ideas on how you can boost sales dramatically with aggressive email marketing. Its a great tool for simplified reporting and performance measurements as well.

Right now, the QLOG is about a month old so there aren't a ton of posts. But they are doing a phenomenal job of adding about 2-3 posts a week about everything from analytics, conversion, creative, and email marketing,to navigation, SEO/SEM, shopping carts, and other topics of interest. As promised on QLOG, there are also also be guest posters on various topics so users can hear from other experts in the field.