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Announcing The Top Ten Earning Instructors on Udemy.com [Infographic]

May 17, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

On the heels of Teacher Appreciation Week (happy belated), we wanted to share some evidence of Udemy’s growth this past year – showing how online education is benefiting instructors and students alike. Today we’re celebrating our top ten earning instructors on Udemy. Thanks to all of you for making Udemy such an amazing place to teach and learn! (Click to enlarge) And if you’re interested in learning more about one of these amazing instructors, here they are again with a link to each of their top courses. Enjoy! 1. Infinite Skills instructors: $565,320 in total course sales (top course: “Microsoft Excel for Beginners”) 2.

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Screencasting Checklist: How to Record Like A Pro

May 16, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

In the Online education marketplace, quality rises to the top. You want to know how courses with massive enrollments happen? Well, people aren’t fools. Nobody buys lemons anymore. To have thousands of students enrolled in your course, it has to be REALLY good – that means easy to listen to, easy to follow, and easy enough to watch for hours. And how do you do that for technical training? Quality screencasting is the currency of the realm for pretty much every technology training, so you’d better be sure you’re creating the best recordings possible

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Self-Learning: The New Master’s Degree [Infographic]

May 15, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

More and more people are starting to get tired of paying up to 50,000 dollars a year for a quality education. Employers are starting to stop caring about degrees. All they care about now is skills, skills, skills! After all, what’s the use of learning (and paying for) philosophy in college if all you want is to be a programmer? Fortunately for you, there are many ways available online or offline where you skip paying high fees for a teacher, and you just teach yourself everything you need to know to get a job. Or, if you already have one, maybe you could use a new skill or two without classes 5 days a week

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Intern Life – Introducing Linos Owusu-Asare!

May 12, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

Before We Get Started…… I just want to provide you all with a quick background of myself (my mother taught me good introductions go a long way!) My name is Linos Owusu-Asare, my family originates from Ghana (in a city you may have not heard of called Kumasi) but I lived in England (in another city you may have not heard of called London J ) my entire pre-adult life, before coming to Philadelphia to study at Penn (go Quakers!) for my undergrad degree. I would say that I am a pretty diverse person (how many people do you know can realistically fit three continents into their introductory sentence?!) and I have been given the great opportunity this summer to intern at Udemy. Their mission for the future of online education, the passion they have for their work, and the great community they have with each other are just three of the reasons why I am privileged to be working with Udemy and their staff to help change the online education space, one user at a time! If you want to get in further contact with me, feel free to e-mail me linos@udemy.com, or find me on Facebook/Skype/all over the internet Day 1 – Home @ the Ud House (5/10) First official day on the job. (Side note: Came in yesterday even though I was due to start tomorrow, just because I was so excited to meet the team. Further side note: After meeting the team that excitement was definitely warranted!).

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Domain name for sale: vitasan.org

May 8, 2012 By admin 1 Comment

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Passion: A Common Theme at Elite Retreat 9, San Francisco

May 7, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

Last week, I attended Elite Retreat 9 in San Francsico. The event was put on by Shoemoney Media Inc, and took place at the Clift Hotel. Jeremy Schoemaker, founder of Shoemoney Media, likes to describe the event as the conference you always wished you could go to but never seemed to find, and I couldn’t agree more! Some of the top tech minds in the country came together to learn from one another, make meaningful connections, and of course have some fun. I was lucky enough to have a chance to attend, and learned from some of the industries leading minds. Speakers at ER9 included: Jeremy Schoemaker, founder of Shoemoney Media Inc David Greenbaum, CEO of BoostCTR Tim Mayer, VP of Marketing at ShopAtHome.com Jason Nazar, Co-Founder and CEO of Docstoc Isaac Saldana, President and Co-Founder of SendGrid Toren Ajk, Founder & CEO of Tapation Dave Snyder, CEO of SteelCast Vik Duggal, VP of Revenue and Operations at ReTargeter The overarching point of similarity between speakers and attendees was PASSION

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Chitika Data Solutions Engineers Talk Mobile Monday Boston

May 4, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

Here at Chitika we love to get out of the office, network and most importantly learn something new! Attending special events, speaking panels and enrichment programs are passion points for everyone in the Chitika family. We are fortunate enough to be located in a region that is one of the epicenters for tech and innovation. This provides us with ample opportunity to constantly mix, mingle and share ideas with some of the industry’s top talent. On April 23rd, a group of Chitika Data Solution Engineers attended Mobile Monday Boston, one of Boston’s biggest monthly technology networking events. This particular session dubbed “Mobile Pitch Challenge” allowed some of Boston’s newest early stage mobile startups to pitch a panel of mobile investors, including; Antonio Rodriguez of Matrix Partners, Jeff Glass of Bain Capital Ventures and Jennifer Lum of Apricot Capital. In the words of our Data Solutions Engineers, here is how the evening turned out: In front of an audience of over 200 industry professionals, a group of startups made their pitch. Participating companies included Thumbs Up, PerscribableApps, cognet mobile, 29GO, RepeatReceipt, Spectacle and Codex Development. PerscribableApps came out on top, winning the most votes of the evening.

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Instructor Tip of the Week: Hacking Studio Quality Audio

April 30, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

You’ve heard it in videos before: audio that sounds like it was recorded on the back of a pickup truck going through a tunnel: full of echos, crackling “S”’s, background noise, and hollow voices. But the solution doesn’t require thousands of dollars in expensive equipment or buying time at a studio. In fact, you can get professional quality audio with just a hundred bucks and some creativity. Here’s how: It all starts with the microphone, that magical device designed to capture sounds, and are often too successful. The trick is to find a mic that has a Cardioid or hypercardioid pattern. Cardioid patterns only pick up the sounds from right in front of the mic, rather than the entire room, so it doesn’t sound like you’re in an open area, even if you are.

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How Freeware Can Cost You BIG Bucks — A SPN Exclusive Article

April 24, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

Especially in today’s economy, most people are searching for deals. Whether it is a buy-one-get-one at the grocery store, or an online coupon that offers fifty percent or more off your next restaurant visit, most people are only too happy to snap up a bargain for something they would normally purchase. When it comes to acquiring software for the home computer, this rule is even more prevalent. Why pay for the cow, when they’re giving the milk away for free, right? In the case of recognized vendors, such as Filezilla or Linux, not to mention CNet and Tucows, these sites either own the software they distribute freely, or else they vet any vendors promoted on their sites.