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Are You Pondering Becoming a Published Author? featuring Becky Norwood

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Are You Pondering Becoming a Published Author? featuring Becky Norwood

Are You Pondering Becoming a Published Author? featuring Becky Norwood April 2023 Virtual Meeting of Wisconsin Business Owners As a business owner, you may not have been introduced to how publishing a book can uniquely catapult your business in unexpected ways. During this presentation, Becky will share the importance of tapping into the power of being a published author and address these 3 important things you need to know: How does getting published benefit the author? How does becoming a published author serve others? What should you know and consider BEFORE choosing a book publishing...

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Free Tech Learning Materials, Books, eBooks, Videos

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Free Tech Learning Materials, Books, eBooks, Videos

Free Tech Learning Materials are available courtesy of O’Reilly Media, Inc. Free tech learning materials abound, especially about any web-related tech.  O’Reilly is a long-time publisher of tech books, and it is a pleasure to report that they make a fair number available as free tech learning materials. As the founder and CEO of a web development firm for 25 years, I’ve found that the most gifted developers are largely self-taught.  Even those who’ve earned an Associates, Baccalaureate or Graduate degree have most often learned as much or more on their own than they learned...

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Lowest Cost Bachelors Degree

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Lowest Cost Bachelors Degree

University of the People Leave it to TED to bring the lowest cost bachelors degree to our attention.  Watch the video (less than twenty minutes).   Lowest Cost Bachelors Degree Get the lowest cost bachelors degree in Business Administration or Computer Science from an Accredited University.  Sign up is $50. Classes are FREE.  Exams are $100 USD each.  Total cost, $4,050 for registration and forty exams.  Financial assistance available. Learn more about University of the People at http://www.uopeople.edu/  This information comes from their “About Us” page: University of the...

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United Nations University featuring OpenCourseWare

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United Nations University featuring OpenCourseWare

This is a great opportunity. The United Nations University’s OpenCourseWare has great information online. Featuring courses like “Structures and Processes for Implementing and Operating e-Governance” or “Building a Community of Practice for Electronic Governance”, One could almost run their own government after completing all the online courses. OpenCourseWare has been a great thing for the internet and learning in general. It is fantastic that such prominent Universities are using it. Check out United Nations University’s OpenCourseWare!  ...

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Connexions

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Connexions

Although Connexions looks a lot clunkier and less visually appealing than other sites featured here, it is quite a great repository of courses on many fields of study. One great thing about Connexions is how they feature different professors and scientists that write the courses. Although anyone can contribute, it is quite clear which courses the authors know – they demonstrate their knowledge. demonstrating they know in detail exactly what they’re writing about. After browsing through a few courses, I was amazed at the amount of content offered. Our whole purpose at...

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Khan Academy

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Khan Academy

Khan Academy (“KA”) is a fantastic resource. With a huge library of videos, feature over 2400 in all, almost every subject is featured. Anything you want to learn KA probably has something on it. They have videos on Physics, finance, history, and even practice exercises. Just like in school, KA covers a variety of topics in a course-style series. Because these are videos online, and not a physical teacher, the material can be covered at your own pace. Khan Academy also tracks each student’s progress and almost rivals the individual attention given students in physical...

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