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Whether you want to top up your knowledge on a subject or learn a completely new skill, there is no shortage of online courses to help you on your way. In fact, there are so many choices, it can be difficult to figure out which platform suits you best!

To help you navigate the rapidly expanding world of online education, here are 10 of the most popular options for upgrading your skills. Ready, set…learn!

Coursera

Coursera has partnered with leading universities in the U.S. and around the world to provide online courses covering dozens of different subjects. Recently, they’ve introduced “specializations”—10 different course pathways that will lead to an official certification from an associated university.

Coursera has a wide diversity of subjects available to choose from; everything from data science to musical theory. As Coursera prides itself on being accessible to everyone, many of the courses are either free or very cheap to to take, with only the official certification at the end having a higher cost involved.

Lynda.com

A veteran in the online education space, Lynda.com offers a subscription-based video tutorial library. Think of it as an education-based Netflix. A great option for people who are visual learners, and at a reasonable cost of $25 per month, a Lynda.com membership provides unlimited access to more than 80,000 videos on a broad range of different subjects.

Udemy

With an average of 800 new courses added to their repertoire every month, Udemy is a bit more expensive than its competitors. Costs vary broadly, ranging from $10 to $500 for different courses; the most popular Udemy courses in business and technology tend to be upwards of $100. However, you can read the reviews of former students before signing up to any of the courses, so you can make a more informed decision.

Udacity

Udacity is a platform with a strong focus on technology, with a small but well-crafted selection of courses. If you’re looking to break into data science (called the “sexiest job of the 21st century“), Udacity’s data science program has an impressive roster of teachers from companies like Sales force and Facebook.

Udacity’s pricing structure allows you to pay monthly for your courses; if you decide to drop a program before completing it, you pay for the course up to that point, rather than the whole thing.

Khan Academy

Khan Academy is a non-profit online platform providing a completely free library of educational “micro-lectures.” Focusing on more traditional academic subjects, Khan Academy provides a mix of video and text-based materials in math, science, economics, humanities, and a bit of computer programming. Since Khan Academy is free for anyone to use, it’s a great to way to get a taste for a subject before moving onto a more advanced course elsewhere.

Codecademy

Previously backed by the White House, Codecademy is dedicated to teaching people how to code—and it’s available for free. While other online coding courses are a “learn at your own pace” environment, Codecademy motivates learners to keep a fast pace using supportive groups and a gamified points system.

The school offers courses on a number of languages—including PHP, Phython and Ruby—and students are often already building and deploying projects by the time they finish their course.

Bloc

Focused on web development, Bloc is a more intensive option for those who want to learn quickly. Instead of short courses or lectures, this highly structured program runs for 25 hours per week over several months. With tuition starting at $4,250, bloc.io doesn’t come cheap—but it does offer a great option for those who are ready to commit to a career change.

iversity

Hailed as the “Coursera of Europe,” Berlin-based iversity has partnered with European and international universities to offer academic courses for free. Unlike Coursera, however, it doesn’t look like iversity is currently providing any official certification.

Skillshare

Skillshare is a community marketplace for new skills. With a broad range of different subjects to choose from, Skillshare offers an online catalog of video-based courses, as well as in-person workshops in cities like San Francisco and New York.

Many classes are available to take without a membership at a cost of around $20-$30 each, but top classes—taught by industry leaders—are only available with a Skillshare membership. Membership costs $9.95 per month and, while it doesn’t get you any free content, it does provide 20 percent off of all classes. Like other platforms, Skillshare provides student reviews for your reference.

General Assembly

Focusing on education in design, business and technology, New York City-based General Assembly has campuses in nearly a dozen different cities around the world. Although the majority of General Assembly classes are in-person, they also offer a compact selection of online-only or mixed courses.

General Assembly even livestreams popular lectures, providing real-time interaction with the lecturer and other students. Their online courses range in price, from one-off lectures to multi-part workshops.

Full Form List

Global organization of oriented group language of earth

Computer

Commonly Operated Machine Particularly Used in Technical and Education Research

3D : Three dimensional

Advanced audio coding

AC97

Audio codec 97

AMR

Adaptive multi-rate

Compact Disk

AMD

Advanced Micro Devices

ASPI

Advanced SCSI Programming Interface

SCSI

Small Computer System Interface

ASI

Asynchronous serial interface

Asp

Active server pages

ATM

Automated teller machine

Basic

Beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code

BCC

Blind carbon copy

Bios

Basic input output system

Bpo

Business process outsourcing

CBR

Constant bitrate

Carbon copy

CCE

Cinema craft encoder

Ceo

Chief executive officer

Clx

Component library for cross platform

Cobol

Common business-oriented language

Codec

Coder-decoder

CPU

Central processing unit

Css

Cascading style sheets

Divx

Digital Video Express

DNS

Domain name system

DVD

Digital versatile disk and digital video disc

Dvi

Digital video interactive

Exabyte

Flac

Free lossless audio codec

Fortran

Formula Translation

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

GigaByte

Gif

Graphics Interchange Format

GPRS

General Packet Radio Service

GPS

Global Positioning System

Gsm

Global System for Mobile Communications

High Definition

HTML

Hyper Text Markup Language

Ceo

Chief executive officer

Http

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

IMEI

International Mobile Equipment Identity

Internet Protocol

ISP

Internet Service Provider

Information Technology

JAD

Java Application Descriptor

.Jpeg

Joint Photographic Experts Group

Kilo Byte

LCD

Liquid Crystal Display

LED

Liquid Electronic Display

MB/s

Mega Bits Per Second

Micr

Magnetic Ink Character Recognition

MIS

Management Information System

MMS

Multimedia Messaging Service

MP3

mpeg layer-3

MPEG

Moving Picture Experts Group

OSS

Open sound system

Personal Computer

PDF

Portable Document Format

PERL

Practical Extraction and Report Language

PING

Packet Internet Groper

PNG

Portable Network Graphics

ProLog

Programming in Logic

PetaByte

qif

Quicken Interchange Format

QrCode

Quick Response Code

RAM

Random Access Memory

RIP

Rest in Peace

RSS

Really Simple Syndication

SATA

Aerial Advanced Technology Attachment

SEO

Search Engine Optimization

SIM

Subscriber Identity Module

SMIL

Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language

SMS

Short Message Service

SOS

Send out Succour

SQL

Structured Query Language

SSL

Secure Sockets Layer

Tera Byte

TfT

Thin Film Transistor

TIFF

Tagged Image File Format

UPS

Uninterrupted Power Supply

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

USB

Universal Serial Bus

Visual Basic

VBR

Variable Bit Rate

VBS

Visual Basic Script

vcd

video compact disc

vcd

video compact disc

virus

Vital Information Resource Under Seize

VLC

VideoLan Client

WAP

Wireless Application Protocol

WiFi

Wireless Fidelity

WMA

Windows Media Audio

WMV

Windows Media Video

WWW

World Wide Web

XBL

xml Binding Language

YottaByte

ZettaByte

Zip

Zone Improvement Plan

YAHOO

Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle

Gmail

Google Mail

Microsoft Excel useful Shortcut Keys

Most of you use Microsoft Excel pretty frequently in your day-to-day work.So, assuming those assumptions are correct, I’d like to help you improve your productivity by sharing the most useful Microsoft Excel shortcut keys.

Below is a listing of all the major shortcut keys usable in Microsoft Excel.

Shortcut	Description
F2	Edit the selected cell.
F3	After a name has been created, F3 will paste names.
F4	Repeat last action. For example, if you changed the color of text in another cell, pressing F4 will change the text in cell to the same color.
F5	Go to a specific cell. For example, C6.
F7	Spell check selected text or document.
F11	Create chart from selected data.
Ctrl + Shift + ;	Enter the current time.
Ctrl + ;	Enter the current date.
Alt + Shift + F1	Insert New Worksheet.
Alt + Enter	While typing text in a cell, pressing Alt + Enter will move to the next line, allowing for multiple lines of text in one cell.
Shift + F3	Open the Excel formula window.
Shift + F5	Bring up search box.
Ctrl + 1	Open the Format Cells window.
Ctrl + A	Select all contents of the worksheet.
Ctrl + B	Bold highlighted selection.
Ctrl + I	Italic highlighted selection.
Ctrl + K	Insert link.
Ctrl + S	Save the open worksheet.
Ctrl + U	Underline highlighted selection.
Ctrl + 1	Change the format of selected cells.
Ctrl + 5	Strikethrough highlighted selection.
Ctrl + P	Bring up the print dialog box to begin the printing process.
Ctrl + Z	Undo last action.
Ctrl + F3	Open Excel Name Manager.
Ctrl + F9	Minimize current window.
Ctrl + F10	Maximize currently selected window.
Ctrl + F6	Switch between open workbooks or windows.
Ctrl + Page up	Move between work sheets in the same document.
Ctrl + Page down	Move between work sheets in the same document.
Ctrl + Tab	Move between Two or more open Excel files.
Alt + =	Create a formula to sum all of the above cells.
Ctrl + '	Insert the value of the above cell into the cell currently selected.
Ctrl + Shift + 1	Format number in comma format.
Ctrl + Shift + 4	Format number in currency format.
Ctrl + Shift + 3	Format number in date format.
Ctrl + Shift + 5	Format number in percentage format.
Ctrl + Shift + 6	Format number in scientific format.
Ctrl + Shift + 2	Format number in time format.
Ctrl + Arrow key	Move to next section of text.
Ctrl + Space	Select entire column.
Shift + Space	Select entire row.
Ctrl + -	Delete the selected column or row.
Ctrl + Shift + =	Insert a new column or row.
Ctrl + Home	Move to cell A1.
Ctrl + ~	Switch between showing Excel formulas or their values in cells.

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Types of Digital Marketing

In today’s time, we frequently hear the term Digital Marketing and we all think that we kind of know what actually it is. This thinking sometimes limits the scope and opportunity that the complete Digital Marketing landscape can actually offer, and that is why, when it comes to nailing it down, we either turn dumbfounded or get stuck. To come out of such scenarios, it is very important to know different types of Digital Marketing opportunities that are available to your business.

According to Salesforce, 75% Of Total Marketing Budget Will Go To Digital Marketing.

Digital marketing today depends upon the types of audience interactions. It revolves around managing and harnessing of different types of Digital Marketing Channels- And that is why we came up with this post to help you know how many types of Digital Marketing services are available to you.

1. Search Engine Marketing & PPC

Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is one of the most primary types of Digital Marketing services that help businesses gain market online via Ads on search engines such as Google, Bing or Yahoo.

SEM assists in optimizing the brand presence and conversions for businesses through paid and unpaid advertising.

Unpaid SEM is SEO while Paid SEM is PPC.

In this section, we will mainly focus upon PPC, which is one of the speediest types of Digital Marketing channels that drive targeted traffic to your web pages and related services.

PPC can be understood as buying traffic via paid search listings that help marketers get more web traffic through desktop and mobile web searches.

There are different synonyms and acronyms related to SEM such as Paid search ads, Paid search advertising, PPC (pay-per-click), PPC (pay-per-call), CPC (cost-per-click), and CPM (cost-per-thousand impressions).

The formula to calculate PPC is- Pay per click ($) = Advertising cost ($) ÷ Number of ad clicks

Product Seller
PPC Marketer
Landing Page
Landing Page Provider
The viewer or the Visitor

PPC or Paid SEM is best for the businesses that have a good spending plan and want to use the best ways to gain traffic and ensure better online recognition in the quickest turnaround.

Using such types of Digital Marketing needs AdWords experts who can exploit the paid advertising in the most targeted and result driven campaigns.

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