From old notes of mine:

Principle of readiness: we learn best when we are ready to learn. Youh elp to create this readiness by letting learnes know how important the training is, why they should take it, and the benefits it should bring them.

Principle of association: proceed from the known to the new, to start with simple steps and gradually build up to the new and more difficult task.

Principle of involvement: for significant learning to occur, learners must be actively involved in the learning process. A good instructor users learner involvement tools such as hands-on training, question and answer group discussion, audiovisual aids, case problems, role playing simulations, quizzes and application exercises.

Principle of repetition: repetition aids learning, retention and recall. Application and practice are essential.

Principle of reinforcement: the more a response leads to satisfaction, the more likely it is to be learned and repeated. Accentuate the positive and break complex task down into simple steps allowing for the successful learning of one step to help motivate learning the next one.

I am lazy, and I want a free account, so follow this link and sign-up. They will give me one for free:

Toodledo.com is an easy to use, web-based to-do list. Keeping track of all your tasks will help you avoid disorganization, stay motivated and be more productive. Check it out.

A quite enjoyable new feature added to the most famous social bookmarking service on the Web. Follow this link and click on the small ‘play’ icon to listen to music: del.icio.us/popular/system:filetype:mp3

TagWorld is a Web 2.0 application allowing you to create a blog, share your pictures, store your bookmarks, expand your friend networks. Currently in public beta status, TagWorld is free and open to everyone.

The sign-up procedure is fast and easy and without even checking your e-mail you start to add content to your personal social portal. Too bad the only part where I dedicated the most time of my trial just got wasted: the article I posted (very nice editor!) didn’t want to be saved.

Fortunately I used the very smart HTML feature of the editor, I copied the code and, after having created a new post, I pasted it in the new entry. And here is my shiny First Post on TagWorld.

All of the different areas and services are summarized and available from the Website homepage. Every section can be edited in-place. There you have a summary of your profile, with a photo if you added it; the pictures you uploaded; your blog posts and a guestbook to receive comments (it accepts HTML links).

I set-up my website at: TagWorld: Angelmax

Adding a picture was fast and easy. Every photo can be a part of a specific album and tags can be added to it.

Some small quirks:

• I wasn’t able to save my very first blog post during the initial set-up phase.
• The page layout is quite large, fitting barely a 1024 wide pixels.
• The location section is correctly reporting my city but the map is not showing it. (Rome is still to be build?)

In conclusion I liked TagWorld: fast, easy and funny to use.

Here is some other articles about TagWorld:

• TechCrunch
• Voxefx
• Adam Bouskila
• OS X Code
• Internet News

Google’s patent on ranking web pages submitted last March is the starter for an interesting article from Lorelle on Wordpress about how Google indexes, organizes, and ranks web pages in its huge database.

If you want to optimize your website for Search Engines, and for Google in particular, according to Lorelle you should focus on:

Links

Get many, with high pagerank, incoming, relevant, well-coded, well-worded links. Get such links in a soft, balanced manner over time. The history factor is as important as the quality one.
Too many links with the same text are not building up value. Change the text of your incoming links (if you can!) using descriptive words, pertinent to your topic. Forget about link exchange, link buying and link spamming. Valuable links are within a rich textual context. Choose carefully where your link appears.

Domain Names and time

The older the better.

Click throughs

Get clicked. Get visited. Get your newly added and fresh content to be visited.

Traffic variations

If you have a seasonal web sites and Google thinks is legitimate you will not loose your ranking. Hot topics are privileged: track trends and use them in your websites (if you have something clever and useful to tell about it).

Publishing frequency

Choose a posting schedule and stick to it. Do not post too much content all at once. Do not forget to post once daily/weekly/monthly if you chose to do so. Update old pages, keep them fresh (be consistent, just don’t make news up). Be stable over time. Google doesn’t like peaks.

Keywords are still worth

Select and place carefully your keywords. They still matter.

The Big Brother is your friend

Google monitors over many dimensions: user behaviours (who clicks what and when), traffic, ranking, searching, bookmarking, linking, server hosting.

Standards are not so relevant

Provoking point: it is not so important to validate your codes or to strictly follow standards for web development, but still considered in the ranking criteria. Grammatical standards are important indeed: du cek spel eeor tecst.

I liked Lorelle’s summary and I strongly suggest every website owner to read it.

Link: Lorelle on WordPress » Secret Out - How Google Ranks Websites

Further information on Google Search Engine ranking algorithm:

• Google Technology
• Score Higher in Google Search Engine (and why Google is saving the web.)

Dear HYPERGURU readers,

I finally completed the full transition from the old category-based classification system to the new folksonomy, tag-based system.

Now categories will contain mostly types of information as links, articles, notes, interviews. While tags will actually categorize content on its topic. The archive contains now a tag cloud which is properly visually representing the entire content of the HYPERGURU Web site.

Enjoy, and let me know what you think about it.

Ciao,
Max