Another interesting infographic from BachelorsDegreeOnline , using data from Educause’s ECAR Annual Study of Students and IT. Are you ready for when these undergrads become grads… and postgrads… and coming to you for professional development ? Presented By: Please Include Attribution to BachelorsDegreeOnline.com With This Graphic. And here’s more by EnvisioningTech:  (As always, click to enlarge). If you are reading this in a reader, this posts contains two infographics. Please click through to see them. Social Learning Useful Data MORE >>

DNS TXT record is the best way to verify all subdomains / subdirectories on your domain name in Google webmasters tools. We have been verifying our GWT account by uploading an HTML file on the server in the root folder. We avoided the META tag in the HEAD, as it become publicly visible. But the DNS verification is a better way. Many webmasters host multiple subdomains for varying purposes like forums, microsites, blogs etc. Many times you use CNAME for blogs / job boards to give the appearance that you host the site on your own subdomain. How to verify those? DNS TXT Verification. MORE >>

This is a guest post by Matt Beswick. Every year, Google quietly releases hundreds of refinements to their search engine algorithms. Most of these updates are small, incremental changes that go largely unnoticed. The major upgrades, however, receive serious coverage by mainstream news outlets and bloggers alike due to the momentous impact that they have on the broader web at every level. Though more than a year has passed since its inaugural rollout, the effects of the infamous Panda update of 2011 are still being felt today. Why Google’s Panda Algorithm Was Released. The Panda Changelog. MORE >>

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. Ronald Reag an  . Business has been run by the iron hand of power. The hierarchical model of “power” emerged from organization of military resources aimed at fighting and winning a war. The same mindset carried over during the industrial revolution as business grew and adopted the “command and control” mentality of the military.  Individuals and organizations have grown up in leadership paradigms which evolved around winning the war on results, money. Money gave men power over markets and people. Power Is Being ReDefined By You. MORE >>

Image by Rain. So why do serial complainers lose credibility on and offline? We all know these people, the kvetch or worse, the troll, the person that always brings a storm cloud whenever they discuss an issue. Publicly everyone listens, privately they get dismissed on the back channel as a hater or worse. Eventually, people stop listening all together. The title alone is the answer, specifically, repeat complaining. In social communities the consistent malcontent becomes the equivalent of the boy who cried wolf. But the larger effect on readership and community cannot be underestimated. MORE >>