Tips on How to Start a Fulfilling Career in Engineering Management

The possibility of landing an ever-elusive managerial role excites and inspires some, yet it worries and unnerves others. In truth, making the leap from engineer to manager often takes a great deal of preparation and perseverance, no matter who the candidate might be. If you have recently been thinking about making the transition to a management role yourself, you may...
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Checklist for Starting Your Own Business

Starting a business and managing it in a way where it becomes a notable company within its certain sector is an appealing dream for so many business people and entrepreneurs. Owning a business brings with its independence, freedom and is also a very rewarding life experience; however, starting a business from scratch and making it successful is a really tough...
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A guide to the different types of Master’s Degrees in Business

We all know that education is important. On a personal level, it helps us to improve our skills and knowledge and gives us better prospects in terms of employment and financial security. It’s also linked to longer life expectancy and healthier lifestyles. In terms of benefits to society, education boosts a country’s economy, promotes equality and civic involvement, and reduces...
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How to Advance Your Career: The Complete Guide

Career advancement. It’s so much more than just about earning more money. It’s about finding fulfilment. It’s about forging a future and a legacy for yourself. Not everyone will be in a job or field that they feel passionate about, but that just means you need to keep pushing forward. Finding that place in the world where you feel valued,...
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Searching the Wikipedia

Qwika is a new search engine that lets you search the Wikipedia. Pandia takes a closer look at the online encyclopedia.What’s a wiki?The wiki movement is growing, and the most well known wiki of them all, the Wikipedia, is getting glowing press world wide.Let’s backtrack: A wiki is a website for online collaborate writing that allows all users to add...
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6 Firefox Extensions That Will Change The Way You Search

The Firefox browser is increasingly popular, and no wonder; It’s secure, easy to use and easy to customize. There are thousands of Firefox extensions out there. Pandia has selected the top 5 search related extensions - add-ons that will change the way you search the web.We know that a significant percentage of Pandia’s readers use Firefox. However, if you are...
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What Is Twitter Authority Search?

If you spend a minute or two following Twitter's public timeline, you'll quickly discover that a large percentage of what people twitter about is of little interest to anyone but them selves and their closest friends. But you'll also find tasty morsels of up-to-date information directly from authoritative sources, e.g. someone reporting "live" from a conference or a disaster area....
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SEO Best Practices for Web Site Design

Most designers and webmasters know the importance of building a site that will attract search-engine traffic, but not all of them are proficient in search engine optimization (SEO) techniques.Most designers and webmasters know the importance of building a site that will attract search-engine traffic, but not all of them are proficient in search engine optimization (SEO) techniques.Sites designed with heavy...
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An Introduction To Search Engine Optimization

Search engine optimization does bring traffic, Yes, it is true, the search engines may bring in a lot of traffic, leading to a large increase in sales if you are using the Web to sell products and services or a larger number of returning visitors.It is also true that you may influence your ratings in search engine results by using...
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Top 5 Online Rss Readers

Like many news junkies I read a lot of blog posts every day. But I only occasionally visit a blog’s web site. Most of the time I read the most recent posts in their RSS stream. I catch up on news this way with my laptop in my sofa in the evening, when I have a minute at work or...
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The Year Of Search Engines And Social Media

We are certain that social media marketing - the use of Web 2.0 sites and services - will become an important part of search as well as search engine marketing in 2007.Some of the most popular articles on Pandia last year did not focus on search engines at all, but on social media - sites categorized under that vague label...
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Top 5 Personalized Start Pages

Personalized start pages are online services that help you build a home away from home online. Typically, you can add web feeds and bookmarks, get notified of new email, see calendar entries, photos from Flickr, news headlines or your favorite cartoon of the day.When I went looking for the best personalized start pages out there, what did I look for?Ease...
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What We Want From Google This Christmas

Dear Santa Brin,We have been a good boy and a good girl this year. We have brushed our teeth three times daily, we have taken our Omega 3 supplements, we have written loooong articles about Google, linked repeatedly to the Google Search Blog and used your search engine daily.So we sincerely hope you will bring us some great gifts this...
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Help, My Site Has Been Banned By Search Engines!

It is the ultimate search engine marketing nightmare: Your site has been removed from any search engine’s index and your traffic is falling.By all means panic. Then draw your breath and read our Banned by search engine Survival Guide.When your pages disappearThere are those that wake up one morning and find that all of their web pages has disappeared from...
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Using Google Alerts for Intelligence Gathering

Google Alert is an underrated and often overlooked free keyword tracking tool from the search giant Google. It was first released in February of 2003 with the name 'News Alerts'. It can be found at www.google.com/alerts;Once a 'Google Alert' is setup for a particular query (keyword or phrase), Google will constantly email you new search results for that keyword or...
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