Nov 1

The influence of search visibility as well as word of mouth on social media sites (the social web) is too significant for companies with any kind of brand equity to ignore. Lucky for readers of this blog or those you pass it on to, there are two upcoming opportunities to learn in depth about how to tackle online reputation management.toprankblog, Online Marketing Blog, Nov 2008
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Oct 18

Vladimir Prelovac has published “WordPress Optimization Guide” which is is a collection of useful tips and tutorials on how to speed up your WordPress site. If you ever experienced slow WordPress admin panel, “MySQL server has gone away” message, pages taking forever to load or you want to prepare your site for a major increase [...] Info: How To Speed Up Your WordPress Blog, Nov 2008

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Oct 17

 You want to see how smart you really are? What is your IQ score? Take a free IQ test and find out if you have a Genius IQ. Average IQ Scores are around 100. IQ testing measures your proficiency in thinking abstractly. The Phd IQ test will quickly tell you your IQ score. If you would like to know how this website put together this IQ test continue reading. This is what I was able to gather from the website’s information on the IQ test. What sort of tests do we use to measure IQ? The items on this site all of which have been specially generated on the computer, but at the end it will tell you. You may feel that this is a somewhat subject procedure; you may feel a how do I know that any particular item is a good measure of IQ? The answer is simply that the field is a very lawful one. Any item that presents a cognitive problem correlates with any other such item. In other words, if A has a higher IQ than B, then A will tend to do better than B on any IQ item, however chosen or constructed. If we give 1,000 items to 1,000 people chosen at random, and measure their success, then all the items will correlate together. So if you do well on one, you will be likely to do well on all others. So up to a point you can choose your items more or less at random; you will still get a good measure. But further than that, some types of items correlate more highly with all the tests than do other types of items. To make it a good test of IQ you would choose items of this kind, so the choice is not arbitrary, but lawful, and all good IQ tests are found to give much the same answer about a particular person’s IQ.

What are good items? Here are a few examples which will illustrate the concept. First we have a number of sequences:  2  4  7  11  16 ?

The numbers increase in a regular fashion, 2  3  4  and  5- So the next increase must be by 6, and the correct solution is 22. Very similar are letter sequences.    C  E  H  L  Q

Here again letters follow the same sequence as above, so the next letter is W. Sequences can be much more complex. but the idea will be more clear.

There are some additional facts to consider. The IQ test measures general intelligence, but some of us have special abilities. Some people of the same IQ are specially gifted verbally, some in respect of dealing with numbers, some others in relation to visuo-spatial problems. In this test, you are asked to draw lines in the empty outlines on the right to show how all the black figures on the left could be fitted in. An IQ test should incorporate verbal, numerical and visuo-spaial problems in roughly equal numbers.

If you would like to take the free IQ test then go to http://www.phdiqtest.com/iq-test-items.asp  . Make sure you have a pen or pencil and a piece of paper handy while your taking the test. After taking the test I’d like to get your feedback on how you thought about it overall and if you think it was accurate or not! If you don’t want to share your results that’s okay too! I don’t want you to feel pressured. You can just do it for yourself and have some Fun!!