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Top 10 Books on Online Education, Diploma Mills and More

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Let’s face it – as potential online students, it is not uncommon for us to turn to our favorite online site for research and news. A quick search in Google or Yahoo will almost immediately bring up information on what we are looking for without us having to do too much work. The speed and convenience of the internet is what has revolutionized business and eduction today.However, despite the overwhelming use of the internet today, many people still enjoy researching and gathering information from more traditional, off-line sources. The ability to sit with a book and a cup of coffee is something that many enjoy on a daily basis.With that in mind, listed below are our top 10 list of books discussing distance education and online degrees. This list comes from a search of Amazon.com and includes books that have been rated highly with their popular “star” system. Although these books do not provide an exhaustive overview of the online education system, we hope to provide a glimpse of what information is available in the “off-line” world.

Virtual Education: Cases in Learning & Teaching Technologies by Fawzi Albalooshi

Dollars, Distance, And Online Education: The New Economics of College Teaching And Learning (American Council on Education Oryx Press Series on Higher Education) by Martin J. Finkelstein, Carol Frances, Frank I. Jewett, and Bernhard W. Scholz

Bears’ Guide to Earning Degrees by Distance Learning by John Bear, Mariah Bear M.A., Mariah P. Bear, and Tom C. Head

Bears’ Guide to College Degrees by Mail & Internet: 100 Accredited Schools That Offer Bachelor’s, Master’s, Doctorates, and Law Degrees by Distance Learning (College Degrees by Mail and Internet) by John Bear and Mariah P. Bear

Earn Your Degree Online and Get Good Grades: Tips For Success in Online Courses from an Online Education Faculty Expert by Russell C Kick

The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Getting Your MBA Online by George Lorenzo

Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk by Richard H. Hersh, John Merrow, and Tom Wolfe

How To Be a Successful Online Student by Sara Dulaney Gilbert

A Classroom of One: How Online Learning is Changing our Schools and Colleges by Gene I. Maeroff

Degree Mills: The Billion-dollar Industry That Has Sold Over A Million Fake Diplomas by Allen Ezell and John Bear
While most of the books that made our list are focused on higher education, it is important to note that online education is beginning to make a significant impact on high school and home school education as well. In fact, there are already full-time, diploma-granting online public high schools in existence today such as Insight School of Washington State.As the internet and technology continues to change the face of our education system, it will be imperative that students and parents alike learn the intricacies of online education. Whether you prefer to do research online or off-line, one thing is clear. There is an abundance of information available to you today. You must learn learn to use it to your advantage.

Why Do I Need to Use Social Network Sites for My Business?

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Social networking is massively popular so much so that many companies have had to block people from using them during work hours simply because far to many business hours were being used by employees on personal social networking sites.Social networking allows interaction with friends, family and co workers and other users. It allows you to not only contact people you know now but you can find people you knew from the past and you can find people you don’t yet know who have similar likes and interests to you.You can interact in a variety of ways from sharing video, Audio playing games, chat etc. So this means you can use it for social and or business networking. It is always a good idea to have one account for personal use and one account for business networking, that way you don’t annoy your social friends with constant business updates and you don’t affect your business with social issues.In simple terms social networks are online communities where you can share information and meet people and works on users sharing content like pictures videos and so on and posting messages and playing games. Social networking sites are very very high traffic sites as an example ‘Facebook’ has over eight billion users at present and generates hundreds of millions of page impressions every day, that’s a lot of page impressions!So what does that to you as a business owner, well it means there are a lot of people on there looking for content, looking for information and yours could be the information they are after so social marketing should be an important part of your online business. Although social networking has really always been there since the start of the internet, now with new technologies and broadband connections and much faster computer processors it has taken off like crazy and is relatively easy for people of all ages with no technical experience to use. For example now you easily upload holiday photos or even videos with just two clicks. This means that it can be a very low cost way for people to connect and network with others so on a business level this is why you absolutely must be using it.As well as getting new potential customers you have the potential to meet new partners, new copy writers, JV partners, product developers and designers and you can connect with them easily and this can be useful for outsourcing the parts of your business that you don’t like to do yourself. You can share your new products, market and much more the possibilities are endless.As well as the well know general social sites like ‘MySpace’ and ‘Facebook’ there are a number of niche networking sites dedicated to members with a particular interest for exampleRyze.com is purely business networking, Ning.com is a good place to create your own social network very easily but that is a whole new topic I go into in another set of articles.In summary when used correctly any social networking site can be used to generate floods of traffic for your business or offers whatever they may be.