In short, EDM is simply the application of data mining in the area of education, in order to gain a better understanding of the learning process of students and their overall involvement in the process, aimed at improving quality and profitability of the educational system.

In EDM can identify three types of objectives: educational objectives (assistance in the design of educational content, improvements in student academic performance), management objectives (optimizing the organization and maintenance of education infrastructure, areas of interest, more courses requested) and commercial objectives (market segmentation allows and facilitates the capture of pupils, particularly important in the case of private education).

EDM is an emerging discipline at the intersection of data mining and pedagogy. On the one hand, pedagogy provides the intrinsic knowledge of the learning process. Furthermore, data mining techniques provides modeling and analysis of information. EDM, like data mining itself, this is a technology that integrates multidisciplinary techniques, information retrieval from the database using simple SQL queries to use machine learning algorithms from the field of artificial intelligence. Among the most common techniques in education are the automatic grouping (clustering) and analysis of partnerships and common patterns in sequences.

More than half of marriages end in divorce. This is a sad, depressing and unnecessary statistics.

Actually there are ways to reconnect with your partner. Falling in love again. Remember how it was earlier in your relationship? Yes, that passion and fire can be rekindled.

Many of us have been there. We felt this hopelessness. Then we reached out for information on how to save a marriage and the advice of those who have been there and been out of that deep, depressing hole.

You need to sit back, relax, and work to develop a plan to save your marriage. Claim your future and your happiness. And you have to take realistic and positive actions. Now! Today!

And no, it’s not about what has been done or what was said. You can save your marriage, no matter how much damage has been done. You can start with concrete steps to save your marriage even if your partner is not motivated to do the same.

Saving a marriage is hard work and takes time. You need that time to rebuild the lost love and trust. You need to create new experiences happy together. Necessities reduce stress, have fun and laugh together again.

So, let’s go step by step tips on how to save your marriage:

The first step is to modify your answer when you communicate with your partner. Not again fall into the trap of fighting. Be positive, if your partner looking for a fight, it distanced until he calms down.

Talk is a two way street, two people are necessary. Modify your answers and your partner sooner or later be forced to make their approaches also a more positive way. To save your marriage you’ll have to break the negative habits.

When the tension and stress are softened the second step is to make a gift “just because I love you. Choose a gift that reminds you of your early and happy days together. See how happy we connect the past with the present?

The third step is to begin to be again, to cite. Plan a date night once a week, no matter what. Necessities this time together to rebuild your relationship, reconnect with the feelings you had when you fell in love for the first time.

The fourth step to saving your marriage is something more important: go away to a romantic holiday together. Only two of you. Even if it is nothing more than a weekend. No occupies this time with a lot of expectations, just enjoy yourselves together!.

Well, you have work to do, right? But those of us who have come this way and we have rebuilt our marriage we feel worthwhile again the love and closeness of your partner.

Here you have it, how to save a marriage, someone who has experienced it. Even if it seems as if you move spiraling toward divorce, do not quit. Believe me, you can do it! First off, when you’ve reached the point of actually searching for information on how to save (save) a marriage, you probably feel pretty lost, desperate, frightened and alone. Let me assure you, you’re not alone.

The desire of every IT manager should be in the company’s ability to access constantly on the most recent data. However, the systems are not yet ready, as confirmed advisor Wolfgang Zinke, an expert in database management and data warehousing, “This is, however, with today’s database technology is not feasible.” In his opinion, but takes only the integration of operational and analytical processing on a single data base for success.

This eliminates tedious and error-prone processes involved in the archiving and the ETL (extract, transform and load), which still take place between operational and BI systems. In addition, the ubiquitous Redundnaz and waste of resources to be stopped. The results are in favor of timely and reliable BI reports.

So far, there is the core problem, that data in operational systems and BI systems usually adapt to each other. The reason is that they require different data models.
Moreover hindered large-scale Query Processing in operational BI processing. A further complication is that BI systems must often rely on historical data, while operating systems, snapshots of the data and they process and overwrite it.

It is the design of furniture that gives it a modern look compared to sets of furniture more traditional outdoor. Plastic is another medium that is commonly used for furniture modern generators for the outside. Some plastics are great for outdoor furniture and others are low quality and may fade or crack in the open, after a few months of use.

How To Make Modern Outdoor Furniture Fit

Although the appeal of modern garden furniture is to be eclectic and unique, you still have many things to consider that the furniture will complement or arrange your garden or outdoor space. Color is something you must choose wisely.

Things to consider are the color of your house and type of foliage that abound in your garden or patio. Most modern sets of furniture outdoors is a base color or neutral that blends in with most other colors. This is important because you may be adding more modern outdoor furniture in the future.

Another thing that you would consider when selecting outdoor furniture modern design is in compliance with the landscaping and design your outdoor space. Sprawling hilly or could benefit from a low and broad line of furniture, while crowded places may use the minimalist approach to furniture-thin stools and a bar. Another alternative to the limited space for garden furniture modern stacking sets.

These sets usually stack together when not in use and when you need to use them can become four chairs and a table. Modern outdoor furniture can be an excellent addition to your house to look modern. You can extend the theme until the modern terrace or garden and guests have the impression that the house is very well coordinated.

Look at grandma’s or grandfather’s chest cabinet and there certainly exists some fashion jewelry today in retro style. Retro style jewelry is considered a classic, timeless – and today, and after a few years will still be quite fashionable. In addition to the retro style, today there are a number of new social trends, such as the exchange of wedding rings classical type.

Classical design jewelry today, perfectly combined with the latest fashion trend – phianites or as they are called synthetic stones – cubic zirconium. This trend enjoy special popularity – jewelry with cubic zirconia is much cheaper products with precious stones and have the quality and brilliance comparable to diamonds.

Cubic zirconia on the right has gained popularity among connoisseurs of jewelry. Due to the high degree of hardness and bright, brilliant luster in recent years, this synthetic stone, has established itself as an excellent analog of gems and the best substitute for natural diamonds.

In terms of physical properties of cubic zirconia is close to diamond and has excellent refractoriness (melting point temperature about 2700 C), chemical resistance and high degree of transparency. Chemical composition of cubic zirconium – a zirconium oxide with additions of cobalt, vanadium, chromium and iron.

Jewelry and jewelry with cubic zirconium, reliable, beautiful and affordable jewelry sparkling with rainbow colors. Cut from phianites the same as that of diamond: round, oval, square, marquise, pear.

There are three reasons for this breakthrough. First the superiority of names above numbers. Second the static function of a dynamical name system. Third the fact that the DNS system is a global functioning system.

First: People don’t have really any affection at all with numbers. Numbers are cold and emotionless. People have affection with names. Maybe the reason for this is that the number culture is very young. Maybe the reason for this is, is the same reason why the number culture is young: People don’t like numbers. Our brains are historical (or even more: in nature) more name than number adapted. The reasons are even not important: The “numbers becoming names” development is not stoppable.

Second: Named numbers are better dynamically configured by the users. Telecom operators must already facilitate number owning from new customers who wants to keep their old number. Bank operators must already do the same. In both cases the number is not yet in ownership by the user. Governments has forced these industries to ensure number portability. A system where the name is really owned by the user and the user can (by themselves or by hired specialist) configure the name to the requested numbers. This system will have a mayor impact on the operator/user relation. Users can leave operators instantly. User contracts longer than a month will not longer be accepted by users.

Third: The fact that the DNS system is a global functioning system has many benefits. In a high speed globalizing economy this is a mayor benefit. Where ever someone of some company moves: Their contact information by name will always be the same. This development stimulates already the move from the knowledge industry from the old world to cheaper rising countries, because the customers cannot see the location from the name.

DNS will really breakthrough by the integration of G3 cellular phone devices. Real G3 phones (not the G2 phones with a little G3 technology) will not have no number keyboard at all, but a full phone size LCD screen. Initiating communication will be done by build in microphone or by touching the on-screen menu. These development will end the number culture definitively. Domain names will function as universal bridge between GPRS/G3/G4 networks. The Amsterdam Internet Exchange has already made a (non global) bridge between the Internet and the dutch telco operators by bringing a local .gprs toplevel alive for cross network exchanges. These local solutions are needed because the ICANN is not doing the only thing they are hired for (creating and maintaining domain space), but are busy with many other semi-important issues.

The DNS development has no longer to ignore some problems that need to be solved. First is there the issue of to much USA influence. Second the issue of to much influence of current market parties. Third the issue of malfunctioned management of the current licensed DNS operating organization ICANN. The complex of all these three facets gives a situation where intra- and extra national regions can not create their region presence in the new digital communication streams.

First: The issue of USA dominance: The global DNS system is for 100% owned by and for 90% operated by and in the USA. The USA uses this situation to expand their global empire in a way never seen before. Even no war, political scenario, or development support has ever had such an impact in current world as lack of competition for the mostly by USA companies owned .com toplevel. The world is more than USA culture and business and other countries must challenge the USA to bring the DNS system out of the USA influence. The USA will never do this by themselves and they are not to blame for this either. Nobody will give away on own initiative a winning game, so the USA is nothing to blame. Governments of Europe, Africa and Asia are to chicken to demand rational to explain things from the USA.

Second: The issue of to one sided influence of current market parties: The current DNS policies are not focused op extending the internet population or stimulation of internet diversity. Markets parties with current good DNS positions do everything to prevent top level domain freedom and internet name diversity. According Easyjet they own globally the sentence “easy”. According Amex (American Express) they own globally the sentence “express”. The absence of a global brand law makes all these claims illegal, but it’s regular practice. Nobody is concerned about the situation that > 1.000.000.000 people in China must share just one top level domain or just one top level for > 1.000.000.000 people in India. This artificial shortage gives big problems. Problems which are always won by the biggest party. These “rights” business is expanding both on the offending side as on the defending site . The interest of regular non fighting users are severely damaged.

Third: The issue of malfunctioned management by the current DNS authority ICANN: The have proven to be incapable to lead the DNS system out of USA dominance. The have proven to maintain artificial shortage. They have proven to create conflict systems that prejudiced big parties above small parties. They have proven not to believe in a global speeded infrastructure of root servers. They have proven not to capable of increasing DNS security. They have proven not been able to prepare and facilitate the coming name explosion by mobile communication. They have proven to believe in an expensive shortness (a simple database record costs in 2002 still $ 7 till $ 35 per year and that’s a lot for some bytes in an online memory with a cost price of $ 0.0001) instead of low priced for every individual (not only corporations) accessible domain name system. The three things most members of these “world internet governmental” board of 19 people are mainly interested in are: Travelling. Declarations. Attention. Only some of these 19 people are ever caught with an original idea. The complete structure is mostly focused on avoiding changes.

Companies are interested in their own top level domain. Countries want more than one top level, to make digital space for their companies and people. Regions wants their own top level domain to stimulate regional identity and cohesion. Telecom operators want to give each G3/G4 user (much more than 1.000.000.000 in five years from now). A report specific about the development of the global DNS  (a PDF version of this report can be found on

D2009-1182 Response Brief (final)

DNS will become the link that brings telco’s and banks together in a way where banks will get the dominant role. Telco’s with own hardware networks will get more and more in serious financial problems, because there will be an explosion of transport structures. G3, G4, CityWave and P2P (peer to peer) will cause less income by the same costs for all hardware network operators. Banks have the needed money to purchase shares of, or take over telco’s for bargain prices and are very interested in mobile infrastructures. SecDNS (a DNS security system) and IP6 (an IP number availability extension) will only rise when the banks are getting involved.

The full scale extension of top level domains with the . (dot) as separator must be distributed by a not limited auction. The revenues of this auction can be used for a new Global Marshall Plan. This auction combined with a Global Marshall Plan is more specific described in “THE ICANN BRIEF”.

Author: Gijs Graafland | Planck Europe

DNS is the short term for Domain Name System. In plain English: Giving information location that has a number a name. DNS is an internet related invention, which will expand the next 5 years to other areas of digital communication. Visual phone numbers and bank numbers will soon be a curiosity of the past. Everything will be named.

There are three reasons for this breakthrough. First the superiority of names above numbers. Second the static function of a dynamical name system. Third the fact that the DNS system is a global functioning system.

First: People don’t have really any affection at all with numbers. Numbers are cold and emotionless. People have affection with names. Maybe the reason for this is that the number culture is very young. Maybe the reason for this is, is the same reason why the number culture is young: People don’t like numbers. Our brains are historical (or even more: in nature) more name than number adapted. The reasons are even not important: The “numbers becoming names” development is not stoppable.

Second: Named numbers are better dynamically configured by the users. Telecom operators must already facilitate number owning from new customers who wants to keep their old number. Bank operators must already do the same. In both cases the number is not yet in ownership by the user. Governments has forced these industries to ensure number portability. A system where the name is really owned by the user and the user can (by themselves or by hired specialist) configure the name to the requested numbers. This system will have a mayor impact on the operator/user relation. Users can leave operators instantly. User contracts longer than a month will not longer be accepted by users.

Third: The fact that the DNS system is a global functioning system has many benefits. In a high speed globalizing economy this is a mayor benefit. Where ever someone of some company moves: Their contact information by name will always be the same. This development stimulates already the move from the knowledge industry from the old world to cheaper rising countries, because the customers cannot see the location from the name.

DNS will really breakthrough by the integration of G3 cellular phone devices. Real G3 phones (not the G2 phones with a little G3 technology) will not have no number keyboard at all, but a full phone size LCD screen. Initiating communication will be done by build in microphone or by touching the on-screen menu. These development will end the number culture definitively. Domain names will function as universal bridge between GPRS/G3/G4 networks. The Amsterdam Internet Exchange has already made a (non global) bridge between the Internet and the dutch telco operators by bringing a local .gprs toplevel alive for cross network exchanges. These local solutions are needed because the ICANN is not doing the only thing they are hired for (creating and maintaining domain space), but are busy with many other semi-important issues.

The DNS development has no longer to ignore some problems that need to be solved. First is there the issue of to much USA influence. Second the issue of to much influence of current market parties. Third the issue of malfunctioned management of the current licensed DNS operating organization ICANN. The complex of all these three facets gives a situation where intra- and extra national regions can not create their region presence in the new digital communication streams.

First: The issue of USA dominance: The global DNS system is for 100% owned by and for 90% operated by and in the USA. The USA uses this situation to expand their global empire in a way never seen before. Even no war, political scenario, or development support has ever had such an impact in current world as lack of competition for the mostly by USA companies owned .com toplevel. The world is more than USA culture and business and other countries must challenge the USA to bring the DNS system out of the USA influence. The USA will never do this by themselves and they are not to blame for this either. Nobody will give away on own initiative a winning game, so the USA is nothing to blame. Governments of Europe, Africa and Asia are to chicken to demand rational to explain things from the USA.

Second: The issue of to one sided influence of current market parties: The current DNS policies are not focused op extending the internet population or stimulation of internet diversity. Markets parties with current good DNS positions do everything to prevent top level domain freedom and internet name diversity. According Easyjet they own globally the sentence “easy”. According Amex (American Express) they own globally the sentence “express”. The absence of a global brand law makes all these claims illegal, but it’s regular practice. Nobody is concerned about the situation that > 1.000.000.000 people in China must share just one top level domain or just one top level for > 1.000.000.000 people in India. This artificial shortage gives big problems. Problems which are always won by the biggest party. These “rights” business is expanding both on the offending side as on the defending site . The interest of regular non fighting users are severely damaged.

Third: The issue of malfunctioned management by the current DNS authority ICANN: The have proven to be incapable to lead the DNS system out of USA dominance. The have proven to maintain artificial shortage. They have proven to create conflict systems that prejudiced big parties above small parties. They have proven not to believe in a global speeded infrastructure of root servers. They have proven not to capable of increasing DNS security. They have proven not been able to prepare and facilitate the coming name explosion by mobile communication. They have proven to believe in an expensive shortness (a simple database record costs in 2002 still $ 7 till $ 35 per year and that’s a lot for some bytes in an online memory with a cost price of $ 0.0001) instead of low priced for every individual (not only corporations) accessible domain name system. The three things most members of these “world internet governmental” board of 19 people are mainly interested in are: Travelling. Declarations. Attention. Only some of these 19 people are ever caught with an original idea. The complete structure is mostly focused on avoiding changes.

Companies are interested in their own top level domain. Countries want more than one top level, to make digital space for their companies and people. Regions wants their own top level domain to stimulate regional identity and cohesion. Telecom operators want to give each G3/G4 user (much more than 1.000.000.000 in five years from now). A report specific about the development of the global DNS  (a PDF version of this report can be found on

D2009-1182 Response Brief (final)

DNS will become the link that brings telco’s and banks together in a way where banks will get the dominant role. Telco’s with own hardware networks will get more and more in serious financial problems, because there will be an explosion of transport structures. G3, G4, CityWave and P2P (peer to peer) will cause less income by the same costs for all hardware network operators. Banks have the needed money to purchase shares of, or take over telco’s for bargain prices and are very interested in mobile infrastructures. SecDNS (a DNS security system) and IP6 (an IP number availability extension) will only rise when the banks are getting involved.

The full scale extension of top level domains with the . (dot) as separator must be distributed by a not limited auction. The revenues of this auction can be used for a new Global Marshall Plan. This auction combined with a Global Marshall Plan is more specific described in “THE ICANN BRIEF”.

Author: Gijs Graafland | Planck Europe

Abstract
Content management and knowledge management are colliding. The lines between the two are becoming more and more blurry. We are seeing it in the field. The analysts are seeing it. The beleaguered strategic IT executives are seeing it. Should you try to put on the brakes and brace for impact, or should you leverage the momentum to harness the power of the impact?
A blend of content management and knowledge management may provide just the combination your company needs to further its success. But what components are most important? The purpose of this article is to examine the key points of overlap between content management and knowledge management – the points of overlap that can be leveraged to boost your bottom line ROI.

Some Definitions
The Yankee Group defines content management in a standard three-stage content delivery cycle. To effectively manage content, you have to have some means of creating new content, some means of managing your existing content, and some means of presenting your content.
To take on the burden of standardized creation, management and presentation, the content has to be meaningful. Overall, distributing that content must have an impact on revenue. For most organizations, this means that the content must be fit for customer consumption.
Many of the analysts use the Yankee Group’s standard definition of content management. This “content” may include published marketing information, customer training, published white papers and product specification sheets. Herein lie the problems:
What about the vast amount of content within the organization that can affect the bottom line, but is not necessarily intended for customers?
Does the content you provide to internal employees have less of an effect on your bottom line?
Are you avoiding this content because you are afraid of the sheer volume?

Knowledge management is defined in opposite terms. Gartner Group, a Stamford, Conn.-based IT analyst firm has the following clear, concise definition:
“Knowledge management promotes an integrated approach to identifying, capturing, retrieving, sharing, and evaluating an enterprise’s information assets. These information assets may include databases, documents, policies, and procedures, as well as the uncaptured tacit expertise and experience stored in individual workers’ heads.”

Clearly, the industry looks at content management as the content that’s good enough for outside folks and knowledge management as the sharing of knowledge primarily by inside folks. We think the time is ripe for a collision
10 Overlap Points Between Content Management and Knowledge Management
We have constructed a list of points of overlap that should be considered whether you are working on a content management initiative or a knowledge management initiative. These are areas that can affect the bottom line, but are not necessarily information that will be available to customers.
#1 – Content is for Both Internal and External People
Stop thinking that content is for external people only. Your internal people count, too. Stop thinking about content as only that perfectly honed, highly processed information that has managed to make it through your technical publications department. There is other content in your organization that can be just as valuable to your bottom line. What about quick reference cards for entering expenses? If they were easy to find and use, you could save workers time that they could then apply to bringing in that next big client. As another example, what about the internal memo that describes the reasons for each of the steps in your proprietary manufacturing process? If workers are able to better understand the reasons, won’t they be more equipped to suggest improvements to the process? There are hundreds of examples of similar “key” documents in each company. It is time to begin thinking about content as those items that can immediately affect the bottom line, rather than material destined to one-day affect the customer.
The shift towards collaborative engineering, for example, is blurring the lines between customer, employee and vendor. Each group gets involved in creating a product for manufacture, and each needs access to information. One of the reasons that content and knowledge management systems are colliding is because different groups of people are converging and working collaboratively.
Some of our readers may be thinking about the security and control issues of co-mingling internal and external content. We will save that discussion for another article. For now, it is important to know that the technology to support security and control is available and is getting stronger each day.
#2 – Content Conversion
One commonly overlooked piece in a knowledge or content management project is the huge task of converting existing material. You do not really have to make all the styles match in each document in order to have a good system, but you do need to examine each content item and properly fit it into your corporate content structure. It must be easy to find – whether a user is browsing for content in a structure tree or searching for keywords.
Think about a grocery store. You know where to find the canned goods because there is a structure to how the aisles and shelves are organized. Your corporation needs a similar structure – sometimes called a taxonomy – to organize and hold your data. In some cases, you may need to reformat or break down content to make it fit nicely into your corporate structure, but most often, you simply need to classify where each piece of content belongs. If your structure is well defined, the task for each piece of content is simple. It is the volume of content that often causes the most problems: typically, there are thousands of pieces of content to organize.
#3 – Content Capture and Structure
The process for creating content destined for corporate web sites is typically well documented, usually involving edit, review and approval cycles at many levels. However, the process for creating other corporate content – content intended for internal users – is usually undefined.
Generally, an employee creating the content may not even think of it as content. Instead, they may see it as a reminder list of tasks to complete on the first of each month, or a set of instructions for the person who will be doing their job while they are on vacation, or a written report for their boss. One worker may create a “cheat sheet” for a set of procedural steps that they perform on a sporadic basis and may not think that there is any value to sharing the content on a corporate basis. Often, each employee will apply whatever communication method works for them and their co-workers to share the information. They may hold an informal meeting with notes jotted on a slip of paper, or some simply type up a list and tack it to the bulletin board, where other employees can grab it and photocopy it. Sometimes employees use e-mail or PowerPoint to get their message across.
Finding ways to capture key content in the organization and convert it to a format useful to others is a key part of our expanded concept of content management. This does not mean imposing a draining process on the creators of the content. Instead, it means finding a way to efficiently gather the content, converting it to a maximally useful format, and making the content available to others in the organization.
In addition, your corporation needs to use a similar structure – called an enterprise content structure – to organize and hold your data. An enterprise content structure provides a framework for organizing the content objects in an organization in much the same way as the earlier grocery store analogy highlights a common framework for organizing grocery items. The structure should serve to organize content in ways that are familiar to those in the organization. Corporate or industry terminology can then be applied as appropriate.
#4 – eLearning
There is some content in your organization that is already well structured and honed, but usually destined only for employees, not customers. This can be found in your training department. Content there is usually well organized around learning objectives and has been thoroughly reviewed by instructional designers, subject matter experts and students in the field. Many companies are harnessing the power of their intranet by offering eLearning objects. The next step is offering these eLearning objects seamlessly as part of the “knowledge portal.”
For example, if an employee does a search for help on entering credit memos, not only can they find the procedure documents and policies related to credit memos, but they also gain access to a 20-minute eLearning object that demonstrates and explains credit memos and gives them a chance to practice creating one. This information now becomes a powerful tool.
#5 – Graphic Portrayal of Key Performance Indicators
There are some pieces of data that are essential to the organization. These key performance indicators (KPIs) vary by industry and division. For a manufacturer, items produced or inventory levels may be most important. For a distributor of goods, inventory levels and sales volumes may be key. In the services industry, labor costs may be most important. Whatever the key data for the corporation, graphic portrayal of up-to-date versions of the data can give all employees the insight they need to improve the company’s bottom line. Even if the company decides to only let managers have access to this information, providing the data in a way that can be easily understood means that the organization always has a window into the current state of its business.
Data is different than documents. If an employee has access to a large amount of content, there will also come a time when they will need access to data, probably from the corporate ERP system or other business system. If you can apply interfaces to other business systems and allow users to get read-only access to key corporate data along with the unstructured content, there are many positive implications. For example, posting rejection rates by assembly line or unit can create a positive type of competitive energy among line managers. Posting performance against sales quotas or customer service rates can be also be used as a tactic to enhance performance in those areas. Recently, a large equipment manufacturer started publishing metrics around warranty work, such as the number of warranty jobs performed correctly and the number performed within time constraints. This has helped to identify and correct problems at the manufacturer’s dealerships as well as with internal support procedures and the information used to support the dealers.
#6 – Personalized Searching (Content or Expertise)
Clearly, if the definition of content management is expanded to include internal data, the amount of content will increase. There must be an easy-to-use, efficient, search engine to allow users to directly access the information that will help them. But why stop at allowing users to get the right content? Let’s face it, as humans, most of us prefer to get our information directly from another human. Why not allow the search mechanism to find both content as well as other humans who might be able to supply the desired content? A single search can then yield not only existing documents that deal with the topic, but also a list of people who can provide more information and insight about it. Going beyond a list of people, the content can also be filtered to suit the needs of the user, based on job role, department or personal preferences.
#7 – Expertise Profiling
The point builds on personalized searching. Think about the last problem you solved at work. How did you do it? Did you look something up in a search engine? Or did you go ask a colleague? Most likely, you asked a colleague. Expertise profiling allows the entire corporation to gain access to the skills and expertise of others in the organization – even if that person is in another state or country. Possibly the best way to gather expertise profiles is to let them grow organically as users interact with the knowledge or content management system. This is much more efficient than trying to manually maintain a profile of the expertise of each employee. These expertise profiles are essential to supporting the ability to search for experts, as described in the point above.
#8 – Capturing Expertise Interactions
Once you have profiled the expertise of people in the organization and provided a means for one person to ask a question of another, think of the corporate benefit that can be gained if you can then capture the content traded in the exchange. The next time a similar question is asked, instead of consulting the expert directly, the employee can review a log of the interaction. Essentially, the interaction between someone with a question and an expert is captured to become a content nugget, which can, in turn, be managed by the system.
#9 – Change Management and Training
Another commonly overlooked aspect of content management is the impact of the change on the organization. If you want to effectively leverage your investment in content management, a clear transformation and communication plan is needed. This is one area that is typically very weak when a new system is introduced. Many people have the “build it and they will come” attitude toward internal content management systems. Unlike in the movies, this seldom happens. Employees have jobs to do and will gravitate toward using tools they understand and know will help them get the job done. When rolling out a new system, employees must understand the process and how their actions fit into the process. Part of an effective change management effort is the internal marketing used to get employees excited about the benefits of using such a system.
#10 – Monitoring Intranet Usage and Refining the System
With any system, the work does not end with system installation. Content management is no different. By monitoring system usage and tweaking the system in response to that usage, you can achieve maximum payback from it. You need to know what types of content users are accessing the system most frequently and what content is proving less than useful. Only then can you continually hone the system to make it maximally useful to the company and the company’s bottom line ROI.
Summary
The traditional definition of content management focusing only on data meant for external people is narrow-minded, while the traditional definition of knowledge management is too all encompassing to be truly useful. By expanding your thinking to include internal content, a corporate content structure, access to key enterprise data and expertise information, you are leveraging your technology to maximum benefit.
Consider the following example: As a sales manager for high tech manufacturing company, you arrive at work in the morning and log on to your “knowledge portal.”. Your interest areas are determined by your department, your job roles, as well as the types of searches you have done recently and the types of content you have posted recently. You are alerted to a 30-minute eLearning module on a new product, and, while you make a mental note about the new eLearning module, you don’t take it right away. After reviewing performance indicators for the previous day for your area and for the company as a whole, you review the sales indicators by product line and by sales region.
Next, you check your e-mail and notice that one of the topics for discussion at a morning meeting is that new product. You go back and take the 30-minute eLearning module about the new product so you will be prepared for the discussion. Completing the exam for the eLearning module updates your expertise profile. Then you are off to a few morning meetings.
As you arrive back at your office, one of your employees walks in and lets you know that she will need surgery and wants to go on short-term disability for a few weeks. You do a quick search on the “knowledge portal” for the procedures associated with this scenario, print the findings, and go through them with the employee. After the discussion, she still has a few questions, so you use the speakerphone to conference the expert on short-term disability while the employee is there. It was easy to find the expert; he came up on the search along with the procedure documents.
After lunch, you meet with a customer who would like an electronic copy of the marketing material for a particular part you offer. You do a quick search on the “knowledge portal” and pull down the appropriate brochure and e-mail it directly to the customer. The message will be waiting for him when he returns to his company.
While you were meeting with the customer, you are automatically alerted that your web site had seven hits from other potential customers who were reading the content from your Internet site. The examples above have one thing in common: their content is always seamless to you. There are not 12 different systems, even though you know that’s how many there are behind the scenes. To you, it is one system, always ready to supply the content you need – whether it be performance data, policies and procedures, marketing collateral, or quick access to an expert.
Based on scenarios such as the one described above, we predict a continued blending of content management and knowledge management, and even eLearning. Already, we are seeing a proliferation of offerings from software companies as well as business services companies that help address this new trend. Ultimately, how you respond to the collision is up to you. Right now, it is most important to understand the options that are currently available.

Until recently, “beauty we needed considerable casualties.” And one of these victims, relentlessly offering of the altar of beauty, had our hair. How terrible procedures not only subjected them to women for the sake of short-lived and rather dubious in terms of attractiveness of the exter-nal effect. One has only to recall the nightmare of permanent, lighten-ing hair with hydrogen peroxide, styling and coloring means with “kil-ler” chemical composition.

Beauty sought at any cost, even if the price was the health of hair. In-deed, what sense to make a fashionable haircut, perm or dye them even in the most spectacular color, if the hair is weakened, damaged – the re-sult is likely to frustrate and disappoint you. What is the reason that de-spite the abundance of various resources for hair care, their condition remains a problem number one for most of us.

First, not all nature has endowed hair, which no worries, no worries.

Secondly, too much in the life of the factors negatively affecting the hair – the environment, stress, so they get sick, just like our internal or-gans.

And a lot of hair diseases and one of them – cutting shears.

Hair consists of several layers:

• scaly layer (protects the hair from the outside),
• fibrous
• and the core.

The basis of hair is keratin mass. In the normal haircut is mechanical damage to hair keratin masses – it stands out. At the same time mechanically damaged with scissors cut the hair for two days exposed to acids and alkalis, chlorinated water, dust, etc. The hair violated the metabolic processes, it loses moisture, elasticity, shine and the result is even more traumatic.

Recently, a very popular treatment haircut “hot scissors, the idea of a hairstyle, not only does not injure the hair, and became their medical procedure, constantly in the air of laboratories and beauty salons.

Now this idea was embodied in hair shear system allowing a haircut “hot scissors”. The therapeutic effect of such a haircut is that the spe-cialist makes a “hot cut” heated blades of scissors, and if “sealed” their hair fibers – keratin hardening mass occurs immediately shearing.

Hairs are not injured and protected from the harmful effects of the envi-ronment. All metabolic processes within the hair remain, is an active self-restoration of hair growth. After the first haircut “hot scissor hair filled with natural shine and become resilient and more secure, increase in volume.

You do not have to spend more time in order to maintain hair in good condition, and one hundred percent healing effect occurs after the sec-ond or third haircuts depending on the length of your hair. Restrictions for use trim system not exist. The temperature of hot scissors “regulated and defined depending on the thickness and condition of hair, but thanks to computer control persists during the entire haircut. Therefore hair shear is applicable to any type of hair – fine, normal, thick, for any length of hair and, importantly, to any of the hair – dyed, bleached. Haircut “hot scissors” before a perm makes “pinstripe” more resilient. And no victims in the name of beauty: hair shear – comfortable and pleasant for the client procedure to combine the skill of the hairdresser with gentle and effective hair care products.

Romantic Ideas

1 -. The letters written in your own handwriting is very nice and is increasingly being used less … leaves for a minute and mobile messages and sit with a piece of paper and a pen and putting your feelings … I bet you love getting a letter yours! In addition to perfume and can not remember you receive …

2 -. Say it with flowers, we all like to send us a good bunch, not only to girls, to them, although not say so, sure they look forward … with a flower and a card that expresses what you want is simple you get to your heart.

3 -. Prepare an album and fill it with photos of the two, add comments, phrases, words that are only yours.
Another possibility is to collect twelve pictures you have, and make them a calendar with each month illustrated with one of them. It’s nice that each of the months of the year will remind the person you want.

4 -. A romantic dinner you can prepare in a restaurant but if you have chances of making it at home or in your partner no doubt that will be excited. Give him a surprise and fills the room with candles, good wine, food and to put an end, preparing your favorite dessert … You can set background music, sure there are some special song …

5 -. A weekend somewhere lost the two of us … If you can and want to surprise your partner, looking for a hostel and do not hesitate q froze. IF your economy does not let you go so far, not bad you prepare a one-day getaway somewhere nearby, in the country and has something ready to eat and at night to watch the stars together.

6 -. Another surprise is that it can be nice to go where you meet or that I gave the first kiss and remember together.

7 -. A book dedicated to the person they want from their favorite author or your own. It is a very personal detail that always likes, much!

8 -. Surprise her one day with a lot of mysterious clues about something … stand there trying to guess riddles and clues that will put and end .. send a message that you mention how you feel about him / her ….

9 -. If you are in a house, draw a heart with cups on the table … put candles, prepare a nice dinner … .. These things are never forgotten.

The number ten I leave you to let your romantic ideas in the comments and share with the rest …

Often travel agencies in the description of hotel complexes using professional terminology. So it often happens that tourists do not understand what the living conditions, food and service offered. So compelling images from the advertising brochures are the only major argument in the choice of hotel. As a result of vacation or business trip can be spoiled. To avoid unpleasant surprises during the trip it is better to understand the criteria of hotels, their types, star and other differences.

Currently, of all temporary housing units are more frequent resort hotels, guest houses, campsites, and hotels. Thus, spa hotels are usually located in the recreation areas on the coast, not far from the attractions or shopping complexes have a wide range of services, up to 40 items. Subtropical – picturesque places, where there is heavy traffic. Camping operated normally during the summer. This light type houses, with separate corps of public services, very cheap price.

The entire hotel fund adopted to classify the five-point scale. The most frequent “star” system. Best hotels assigned to 5 stars, and hotels with low quality of services are estimated at 1 star. At present, began to appear on all systems “6″, so-called “De Luxe”, which host only the most “expensive” visitors. For the United States and other countries in North America is characterized to determine the quality of service affiliation of the hotel to the prestigious hotel chains – is, first of all, Hilton, Marriott and Radisson.
Living conditions in the residential complexes of different hotels differ significantly in the first place, the general improvement of the buildings, furnished rooms and the rules of service. Primary information about the hotel, as a rule, disclose the number of stars assigned to him.
Hotels with one star – almost extinct species. Living in her cheap solutions, but the service in such places should not wait. TV and refrigerator will be common, one per floor, bathroom and toilet – too. Of all the accessories are provided in towels and a small piece of soap. Clean room will be daily, but a change of clothes – once in five days.
In the hotel with two stars of the range of services differs only in the presence of a cafe or restaurant, suggesting the possibility of breakfast in the morning.

Hotel with three stars will offer the most comfortable conditions for a modest fee. Each room has a radio, air conditioning, as well as bathroom and toilet. Held daily maid service, linen changed every three days. Interior rooms can include plants and carpets, as well as sets of stationery. In the three-star hotel typically has a business center with Internet-connected computers, currency exchange, hairdresser, restaurant or cafe, room service and parking everyday. Here you can also book tickets for all modes of transport.
The hotel has four stars, in addition to all the services that are in three-star establishment, there is also a beauty salon, swimming pool, fitness club, restaurant with several rooms. Linen is changed every day, the rooms have air conditioning, telephone, TV with video-or DVD-player, satellite connection, internet. Doors open friendly hotel doorman.
The five-star hotel includes a wide range of additional services in the territory may not even be a casino and nightclub. The apartment has made good repair, there is comfortable furniture, offers higher level of service. In the bathroom, usually a bright spot, there are many mirrors, including special shaving and make-up, there is a hairdryer and ironing apparatus. Room service 24 hours a day.

However, it is worth remembering that the hotel stardom does not always reflect the true level of service in it. There are many hotels that could qualify for the highest category, but deliberately did not do so in order to minimize taxes. Therefore, travelers should not rely solely on the number of stars, often followed, if possible, to ask in detail about the hotel, for example, a representative of the tour company. Enjoy your stay