Marketing ideas - links

Some useful links for marketing:


http://www.manager-tools.com/

http://www.mindtools.com/

http://www.netmba.com/

http://www.valuebasedmanagement.net/index.html

http://www.businessballs.com/index.htm

http://www.marketingteacher.com/index.htm

http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/

http://pragmaticmarketing.typepad.com/productmarketing/

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/

http://www.slideshare.net/HubSpot/presentations

Common page for Social Media Channels

Hi all,

I liked this page which Unisys has on its website.

http://www.unisys.com/unisys/about/info.jsp?id=1120000970000710142

This page is like a landing page - people can visit the page and go to any social media channel from the page.
This page has links to various channels such as - Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Blogs.
I feel we should also have a page from the website which will help many users who come to the website to go and view what is happening in other channels.

Useful links about Facebook

A few links about Facebook and Facebook marketing:



Facebook Marketing: Everything You Need to Know http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/facebook-marketing-everything-you-need-to-know/

5 Ways to Promote Your Fan Page http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/5-ways-to-promote-your-facebook-fan-page/

Samples of Facebook pages:

http://www.facebook.com/dellsocialmedia?ref=search&sid=1329021087.966395134..1

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=2204558425


Articles written about Facebook:

http://www.ideate.co.za/2009/11/12/5-companies-using-facebook-fan-pages-well/


http://mashable.com/2009/06/16/killer-facebook-fan-pages/


Corporate Facebook accounts:

Dell
http://www.facebook.com/dellsocialmedia?ref=search&sid=1329021087.966395134..1#!/dellsocialmedia?v=wall&ref=search

IBM
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=2204558425

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&ref=search&gid=36779193893

Oracle
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=2209520570
http://www.facebook.com/Oracle?ref=search&sid=1329021087.4142529504..1

Microsoft
http://www.facebook.com/Microsoft

Salesforce

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&ref=search&gid=37713174449

Reading Material on Visual Communication

Please visit the following sites for reading material on Visual Communication and User Experience:

http://communicationnation.blogspot.com/

http://www.xplane.com/xblog/

http://www.xplane.com/bblog/

http://www.davegrayinfo.com/

http://www.lukew.com/resources/articles.asp

http://www.lukew.com/ff/archive.asp

http://www.jjg.net/elements/

http://www.worqx.com/color/contrast_dominance.htm

http://www.slideshare.net/egiaccardi/the-art-of-colors

Sources on Instructional Design and e-Learning

Here’s a random compilation of sources on Instructional Design and e-Learning:

Instructional Design...general

http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/InstructionalDesign.htm

http://www.uwsa.edu/ttt/articles/thompson.htm

http://standards.mivu.org/standards/id/

http://illinois.online.uillinois.edu/IONresources/instructionaldesign/

http://www.usask.ca/education/coursework/802papers/mergel/brenda.htm#behaviorism

http://www.pignc-ispi.com/articles/education/brief%20history.htm

Learning Strategies, Instructional Design etc...

glossary of learning strategies

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/Courses/ET650_Online/MAPPS/Gloss.html

learning strategies matrix
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/Courses/ET650_Online/MAPPS/Strats.html

Mayer’s principles of design for MM learning
http://designerelearning.blogspot.com/2005/09/mayers-principles-for-design-of.html


Using Storyboards

http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/resources/pointersclickers/2004_09/index.asp

Instructional Design - Illinois University
http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/resources/tutorials/id/index.asp

ID Models - Martin Ryder- Univ of Colarado, Denver
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/idmodels.html

ISD Handbook - Don Clark

http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/sat.html

Another link from Don Clark
http://www.skagitwatershed.org/~donclark/index.html

Learning Theories and ID

http://tip.psychology.org/

http://www.elearninglearning.com/bloom/examples/taxonomy/

http://www.elearninglearning.com/

http://www.patsula.com/usefo/webbasedlearning/tutorial1/learning_theories_full_version.html

Brandon Hall blogs

http://brandon-hall.com/janetclarey/

The one below has stuff on second life, cloud computing etc.

http://brandon-hall.com/tomwerner/

http://brandon-hall.com/garywoodill/

Brandon Hall examples of great courseware

http://www.brandon-hall.com/publications/pubs_courseware.shtml


Good presentations from Ruth and Rosenberg at ASTD 2008 Event

http://www.astd.org/digital-content/ASTD-2008-conference-video.htm

All time favs….

ASTD Learning circuits
http://www.astd.org/lc

http://www.elearningpost.com/

Smith and Ragan on Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Instructional-Design-2nd-Patricia-Smith/dp/047136570X#reader

Ruth's book online

http://www.adobe.com/support/authorware/basics/instruct/

SCORM

http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/index.cfm?i=36961&CFID=23281103&CFTOKEN=61122756

http://wareseeker.com/free-scorm-2004-sequencing/

http://rmrose.blogspot.com/2006/05/scorm-and-learning-object-hype.html

Web Style Guide
http://webstyleguide.com/wsg3/index.html

Some info, useful tools and check the link on Second life in education
http://mivanova.blogspot.com/

what e-learning is and what it is not

http://www.managersforum.com/eLearning/Index.htm

Training and e-learning

http://www.hrmreport.com/article/Issue-5/Executive-Education/Top-trends-in-e-learning-and-corporate-training/

http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2000/07/24/smallb2.html

http://www.computeruser.com/articles/view/42610467637164985cf4df210a226ffe

e-Learning 2.0 suggested….

http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?article=29-1§ion=articles

http://www.downes.ca/post/31741

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/e-learning_20_all_you_need_to_know.php

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/e-learning_20.php

Good one on Web 3.0

http://www.forbes.com/2008/10/02/mitra-web-vertical-tech-enter-cx_sm_1003vertical.html

Nice link from Slideshare

Its a cool link from Slideshare.net.


http://www.slideshare.net/Laboy/ts-best-practices-in-digital-marketing-presentation

My opinion about an article-2

Google afraid of Facebook?

After going through the article, I feel that instead of competing and fighting for who is 'bigger and stronger', both the organizations should work together to come closer and provide user a perfect experience. Going by the Analytics, one can say that surely Social Networking has come to a stage where it actually threatens the major search engine Google, but in reality, these statistics keep changing over a period of time.

To know more in detail, you can read the article by clicking the following link:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_facebook_social_networking_search.php#more

My views on an article

The article is titled "Is YouTube the Next Google'. Alex Iskold writes stating that many people now prefer searching YouTube for any information rather than going to Google.
He takes an example of Ian Kennedy, a 9 year old boy, and how he uses Internet and YouTube.

I agree to what Alex is trying to say, in my own experience, I have learnt a lot from YouTube. I have learnt new songs, and how to play them on Guitar watching them on YouTube. Surely, I also use Google to search for the lyrics and the chord chart for the song.

It is not the concept of 'A replacing B', but it is more of complementing each other and how they merge to provide a complete learning experience.

As an educator, I know that there are people who learn by reading, who learn by listening, and who learn by viewing something. When all these are combined and a holostic picture is provided, learning also becomes complete.


Read the article by clicking the link given below:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/is_youtube_the_next_google.php