Showing posts with label Mike Dellasperanza. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mike Dellasperanza. Show all posts
Thursday, December 3, 2009
have you looked out your dorm window today?
Ok so I'm bored in business statistics and since I have my laptop I decided to check out the blog. But, I can't get over this nice weather. It's so bright out, theres' a huge glare on the blackboard. I just checked online and it says it's 63 degrees! For December, that is almost unheard of around this time. This is the even crazier part, theyre talking about snow for the weekend. Ok, so let me think about this, its 63 degress today, Thursday, and a chance of snow on the weekend. I don't get it. hahaha. I can't wait to go home and go for a run...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
95 posts
This is my 95th POST!!! It's going to be a pretty short one though, cause I'm missing everything in Business Statistics. I'm so lost in this class. We're doing hypothesis testing. I feel like everyone is in the same position as me. I'm looking around, one kids watching a movie on his laptop, another kid is doing homework, oh, three kids sleeping, and I'm bloggging!! Whatever, I'll try and figure this thing out this weekend. But, quick question, how could you keep teaching? Nobody knows what's going on and the professor just keeps going, HAHHA. Ok, well I should start paying attention now, so only 5 left now. Ill post later...
6 Classes left...
Yea!! We only have 6 classes left (in each class) till the end of the semester, counting today!! This semester is really almost over, as crazy as that might sound. We have a short week due to Thanksgiving Break next week, and then after that we only have two weeks after that!! WOW. I made my schedule last night, and it looks intimidating, but I'm sure i will be able to handle it. So lets get through next week, have a good Thanksgiving, and then were at the home stretch...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Monkeytown
I am getting excited for this Monkeytown thing. I have never done anything like this before, I've never even been to Brooklyn, oops. It should be fun and interesting to see what everyone comes up with. I am looking forward to our project, the future of gaming. December 12 can't come any faster, by that time, classes will be over and finals will be starting. It's less then a month away!!! Which means that this semester is over, well sort of. I'm pretty satisfied with the way I'm doing in all my classes, but it's been such a long time since I've had a day off. The good thing is Thanksgiving break is next week!!!!
Learning Community - Business
Tomorrow night is my enrollment period, I'm excited to make my schedule for next semester, but I don't know if I'm going to get into all the classes I need. I wanted to take BUS 330, 346, and 348, but it says that it is reserved for the Sophmore Learning Community, what does that mean? I really want to take these classes, but I don't know if I can even take them. I've gone down to the business center twice now, and they have been closed both times, gotta love Stony Brook. But anyways, if for some reason I don't get into these classes, I need to change my entire schedule around, which is going to mess everything up. I hope I can take these classes, if anyone knows anything about this, comment I could use the help...
Buddhism grade....
So toda I'll prob get my buddhism exam back in my eastern religions class, I honestly have no idea how I did on this test. All I know, is that I most likely wasted 6 hours studying for the test to maybe, not even, get a B. I don't recommend taking AAS 102, unless you have some background knowledge in Hinduism, Buddhism, etc. Oh boy, this should be interesting, I hope I did decent on the exam. Ill be satisfied with an 80 or better, but something tells me that it's going to be tough to get that...
90th Post
Sooooooo I just had a running count of how many posts Ive had on this blog, but then I lost it. I just went through and counted them, this is my 90th POST!! I didn't know I did this much. It feels good to be able to say that I have posted 90 times, whether it be on some boring topic or something very interesting. It's fun sometimes just rambling on about something. Well, this means I only have 10 more post to my 100th. 100-90= 10, yea math was always my thing...
Thursday, November 12, 2009
It's about time...
I have put in so much time and effort into my Business Statistics class, and it's finally paying off. I received a 94 on my last exam, which counts 30% towards my final grade, not bad right? It feels good that sometimes things do work out if you put in some extra studying and a little extra effort...
Sunday, November 8, 2009
And yes it's that time of the year again....
I honestly don't really understand Stony Brook. It seems that I have another round of midterms this week. I don't know what's going on. Last week I had tests, this week I have more tests, this semester just seems so much more effort then last year. Tomorrow I actually have a test in Buddhism, yea wohoo!! No, not really. On my Hinduism test a couple weeks ago, I studied for 6 hours straight the night before. I think I may study 2 nights before for his test. It's weird for me though I wait till the last minute for everything. I'm going to start now, sooooooooooo wish me luck.....
Next semester schedule
I just started making my schedule for next semester and Im pumped. Im a commuter student, therefore I want to make my schedule as least complicated as possible. Next semester looks like I'm only going to go 2 days a week, 9:50-6:40, pending all my classes are still open by the time I register, I should probably make a back up schedule, unfortunately I really don't have any other options.....
Tinting my car
Sooooo yesterday I went with my Dad to look at a couple places about tinting the windows in my car. I can't wait, it's going to look really nice and dark. You won't be able to see me, muahaha, but I have to be somewhat careful. I wanted to do it yesterday but I didn't have enough time. Looks like it will probably happen next Saturday, Im like excited already which is good and bad, only because it will most likely mean i will only focus on that and the week will drag on foreverrrrrrrrrrr. But anyways, this was really random topic, just something I did over the weekend I guess, haha........
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Good Excuse?
I have a midterm on Thursday in my Business Statistics class, but the Yankee game is going to be on. Im just going to tell professor that I didn't bother studying for his exam because the World Series was on, that's prob not a good idea lol......
GAME 6
Soooooooooooo it all comes down to this, well not really, there is always a possible GAME 7. We don't want that. Even if the yankees are Home, it's still gonna be tough to stop the Phillies. I almost had tickets for tonight's game!! Yea, Saturday night, actually more like Sunday morning at 230, my friend and I purchased tickets for GAME 6. They were only $97, for a World Series game? Why not right. Well the next day my friend got an email saying there was a problem processing the tickets, prob a typo or something because they were definitely too cheap. Seats in the same row were going for $800!! We almost had it, I really wanted to go though....
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
summer internship...
Web Development/Video Internship in Educational Media
Educational Media offers a twelve-month internship designed for recent college graduates in video, web development, design, education, art history, or related fields who want to participate in the production of online and/or video resources created for families, teachers, students, and the general museum public. The internship is multidisciplinary, but focuses on web development and/or video skills. No previous production experience is necessary; however, undergraduate coursework in at least one of the areas mentioned above is required. Strong and varied computer skills are required. The intern must participate in the two-week Summer Internship Program orientation.
June 7, 2010–May 27, 2011
Full time: five days, thirty-five hours per week
Stipend: $25,000
Applications must be submitted electronically by January 6, 2010, at 12:00 a.m. (ET). See How to Apply for more information.
Educational Media offers a twelve-month internship designed for recent college graduates in video, web development, design, education, art history, or related fields who want to participate in the production of online and/or video resources created for families, teachers, students, and the general museum public. The internship is multidisciplinary, but focuses on web development and/or video skills. No previous production experience is necessary; however, undergraduate coursework in at least one of the areas mentioned above is required. Strong and varied computer skills are required. The intern must participate in the two-week Summer Internship Program orientation.
June 7, 2010–May 27, 2011
Full time: five days, thirty-five hours per week
Stipend: $25,000
Applications must be submitted electronically by January 6, 2010, at 12:00 a.m. (ET). See How to Apply for more information.
Google Grants?
About the Program
The Google Grants program empowers over 4,000 organizations to achieve their goals by helping them promote their websites via advertising on Google. Google ads appear when users search on Google. For example when you search for "world poverty" on Google, text ads related to world poverty appear on the right hand side. When you click on one of the ads, you are brought to the website being advertised.
Organizations that receive a Google Grant are awarded an in-kind online advertising account which can be used it in a variety of ways, including general outreach, fundraising activities, and recruitment of volunteers. Google Grants participants have found much success with the program. For example, the US Fund for UNICEF's e-commerce site, Shop UNICEF, experienced a 43 percent increase in sales over the previous year, while CoachArt – supporting children with life-threatening illnesses through art and athletics programs – has seen a 60 to 70 percent increase in volunteers.
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What to Expect
About Google's advertising program
Google Grants will give you an advertising grant within the Google AdWords™ program. AdWords is our online self-managed advertising program where your organization will build its own AdWords account by creating and monitoring text ads that run on Google. You create ads and choose keywords, which are words or phrases related to your organization. When people search on Google using one of your keywords, your ad may appear next to the search results, and people can click on your ad to see your website. You're advertising to an audience interested in your organization because you've created a relevant ad and chosen relevant keywords to describe your efforts. You can edit your ads or keywords at any time.
The value of the advertising that your organization receives is solely dependent upon the performance of its ads in the program. Results will vary; the typical grantee in our program receives just over $300 worth of advertising on Google.com per month. However, this is dependent on many variables including how many times people search on the keywords you choose and whether searchers click on your organization's ads. As a result, we cannot predict or guarantee the value of the advertising that you will receive.
Upon acceptance into the Google Grants program, your organization will be provided with a guide and instructions for creating your Google Grants AdWords account. Most organizations experience a learning curve in the quest to take full advantage of their advertising grant, so it's important that you have an understanding of the way our advertising program works. Please review detailed information about AdWords, including instructions for creating effective ads and selecting keywords.
High-Level Program Guidelines
Please be aware of some important criteria regarding the program. (Note that the Program Details section of this page contains more specific information about Google Grants.)
You must have a website, and your ads must link to a page on your website.
The keywords you target must be relevant to your programs and services.
Your website cannot display revenue generating ads, such as Google AdSense or affiliate advertising links, while participating in Google Grants.
The on-going, active management of your advertising campaign is your organization's responsibility once your account is active.
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Eligibility
To be eligible for the Google Grants program, organizations must fit our eligibility criteria.
In the United States – Read our legal requirements.
Other countries/regions – We are currently accepting applications from eligible charitable organizations based in these areas.
If your country/region isn't listed and you'd like to be notified via email should Google Grants launch in your country/region, please send us your contact information.
Beyond the legal requirements, organizations must also meet our policy guidelines to be considered for a Google Grant. When we consider your application to the program, we review not just the content included in your application, but we also closely review your website, as this is where users will be taken via your Google Grants ads. Please review the policy guidelines we consider when reviewing your application and website below.
Eligible nonprofits include, but are not limited to, the following focus areas:
Animal rescue & conservation
Arts
Disaster & relief services
Education
Environment
Health
Science & technology
Voluntarism &community outreach
Youth advocacy & programs
Ineligible nonprofits include, but are not limited to, the following concentrations:
Commercial non-profits
Credit-counseling services
Mutual membership benefits (networking, professional, alumni, and other membership organizations)
Portals and directories
Be aware that any organization with the following components on site are not eligible for the program: political/lobbying content; religious content which proselytizes or discriminates on the basis of religion; Google AdSense; car/boat/real estate donation-focus; and entirely fee-based programs.
Google reserves the right to award advertising to any organization. Selections are made at Google's sole discretion, and decisions regarding award recipients are final.
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Program Details
The Google Grants program helps charitable organizations leverage the power of AdWords to engage and inform your constituents on Google. The policies outlined below are specific to Google Grants and are designed to help your organization use its advertising grant most effectively. Please thoroughly review these guidelines to ensure that your organization's use of the Google Grant adheres to our policies. Violation of our program guidelines and policies, or any misuse of your grant, will cause your organization's grant to be terminated.
Grantee Requirements & Responsibilities
Google AdWords is an online, advertiser-managed program, meaning that a contact at your organization must build your Google Grants AdWords account and be responsible for your AdWords advertising account at all times. Your active participation is required, and this includes understanding and following the guidelines outlined on this page, building your Google Grants AdWords account, regularly logging into the AdWords system, and ensuring your Google ads and keywords are relevant, accurate, and timely.
Grantees are required to be actively engaged in the program and to actively manage their AdWords accounts, meaning your account contact must:
build your Google Grants AdWords account
be responsive to email requests from our team
log in monthly to review campaign performance and make updates as appropriate
Should you not login to your account for three consecutive months or prove unresponsive to email requests from our team, your account will be subject to automatic pausing or cancellation without notification.
Grantee AdWords Campaigns
Your ads must link only to the URL included in your application, as this is the URL approved for your Google Grant. You must submit any significant changes of content on this URL for our review before the updated site is promoted via your AdWords account.
Other websites belonging to your organization require our review and approval before they can be promoted through your AdWords account. Please notify us if you wish to promote additional websites through your ads.
If your organization's focus, website content, and/or URLs change significantly for any other reason, please notify us about the change.
Important: If your website currently features Google AdSense and / or other non-Google ads that generate revenue for your organization when visitors click on the ads, please notify us today.
Your ads must reflect the mission of your organization, and your keywords must be relevant to your programs and services.
Strictly commercial advertising is not allowed through this program. If you intend to promote products or services, 100% of the sales and/or proceeds must support your programs.
Your Google ads cannot link to pages that are primarily links to other websites.
Ads offering financial products (such as mortgages or credit cards) or those requesting car, boat, or real estate donations and related keywords are not allowed.
Please review the difference between mission-based ads and ads not based on your mission below. When creating new ads or editing existing ads, please ensure that your ads reflect your organization's mission.
The Google Grants program empowers over 4,000 organizations to achieve their goals by helping them promote their websites via advertising on Google. Google ads appear when users search on Google. For example when you search for "world poverty" on Google, text ads related to world poverty appear on the right hand side. When you click on one of the ads, you are brought to the website being advertised.
Organizations that receive a Google Grant are awarded an in-kind online advertising account which can be used it in a variety of ways, including general outreach, fundraising activities, and recruitment of volunteers. Google Grants participants have found much success with the program. For example, the US Fund for UNICEF's e-commerce site, Shop UNICEF, experienced a 43 percent increase in sales over the previous year, while CoachArt – supporting children with life-threatening illnesses through art and athletics programs – has seen a 60 to 70 percent increase in volunteers.
back to top
What to Expect
About Google's advertising program
Google Grants will give you an advertising grant within the Google AdWords™ program. AdWords is our online self-managed advertising program where your organization will build its own AdWords account by creating and monitoring text ads that run on Google. You create ads and choose keywords, which are words or phrases related to your organization. When people search on Google using one of your keywords, your ad may appear next to the search results, and people can click on your ad to see your website. You're advertising to an audience interested in your organization because you've created a relevant ad and chosen relevant keywords to describe your efforts. You can edit your ads or keywords at any time.
The value of the advertising that your organization receives is solely dependent upon the performance of its ads in the program. Results will vary; the typical grantee in our program receives just over $300 worth of advertising on Google.com per month. However, this is dependent on many variables including how many times people search on the keywords you choose and whether searchers click on your organization's ads. As a result, we cannot predict or guarantee the value of the advertising that you will receive.
Upon acceptance into the Google Grants program, your organization will be provided with a guide and instructions for creating your Google Grants AdWords account. Most organizations experience a learning curve in the quest to take full advantage of their advertising grant, so it's important that you have an understanding of the way our advertising program works. Please review detailed information about AdWords, including instructions for creating effective ads and selecting keywords.
High-Level Program Guidelines
Please be aware of some important criteria regarding the program. (Note that the Program Details section of this page contains more specific information about Google Grants.)
You must have a website, and your ads must link to a page on your website.
The keywords you target must be relevant to your programs and services.
Your website cannot display revenue generating ads, such as Google AdSense or affiliate advertising links, while participating in Google Grants.
The on-going, active management of your advertising campaign is your organization's responsibility once your account is active.
back to top
Eligibility
To be eligible for the Google Grants program, organizations must fit our eligibility criteria.
In the United States – Read our legal requirements.
Other countries/regions – We are currently accepting applications from eligible charitable organizations based in these areas.
If your country/region isn't listed and you'd like to be notified via email should Google Grants launch in your country/region, please send us your contact information.
Beyond the legal requirements, organizations must also meet our policy guidelines to be considered for a Google Grant. When we consider your application to the program, we review not just the content included in your application, but we also closely review your website, as this is where users will be taken via your Google Grants ads. Please review the policy guidelines we consider when reviewing your application and website below.
Eligible nonprofits include, but are not limited to, the following focus areas:
Animal rescue & conservation
Arts
Disaster & relief services
Education
Environment
Health
Science & technology
Voluntarism &community outreach
Youth advocacy & programs
Ineligible nonprofits include, but are not limited to, the following concentrations:
Commercial non-profits
Credit-counseling services
Mutual membership benefits (networking, professional, alumni, and other membership organizations)
Portals and directories
Be aware that any organization with the following components on site are not eligible for the program: political/lobbying content; religious content which proselytizes or discriminates on the basis of religion; Google AdSense; car/boat/real estate donation-focus; and entirely fee-based programs.
Google reserves the right to award advertising to any organization. Selections are made at Google's sole discretion, and decisions regarding award recipients are final.
back to top
Program Details
The Google Grants program helps charitable organizations leverage the power of AdWords to engage and inform your constituents on Google. The policies outlined below are specific to Google Grants and are designed to help your organization use its advertising grant most effectively. Please thoroughly review these guidelines to ensure that your organization's use of the Google Grant adheres to our policies. Violation of our program guidelines and policies, or any misuse of your grant, will cause your organization's grant to be terminated.
Grantee Requirements & Responsibilities
Google AdWords is an online, advertiser-managed program, meaning that a contact at your organization must build your Google Grants AdWords account and be responsible for your AdWords advertising account at all times. Your active participation is required, and this includes understanding and following the guidelines outlined on this page, building your Google Grants AdWords account, regularly logging into the AdWords system, and ensuring your Google ads and keywords are relevant, accurate, and timely.
Grantees are required to be actively engaged in the program and to actively manage their AdWords accounts, meaning your account contact must:
build your Google Grants AdWords account
be responsive to email requests from our team
log in monthly to review campaign performance and make updates as appropriate
Should you not login to your account for three consecutive months or prove unresponsive to email requests from our team, your account will be subject to automatic pausing or cancellation without notification.
Grantee AdWords Campaigns
Your ads must link only to the URL included in your application, as this is the URL approved for your Google Grant. You must submit any significant changes of content on this URL for our review before the updated site is promoted via your AdWords account.
Other websites belonging to your organization require our review and approval before they can be promoted through your AdWords account. Please notify us if you wish to promote additional websites through your ads.
If your organization's focus, website content, and/or URLs change significantly for any other reason, please notify us about the change.
Important: If your website currently features Google AdSense and / or other non-Google ads that generate revenue for your organization when visitors click on the ads, please notify us today.
Your ads must reflect the mission of your organization, and your keywords must be relevant to your programs and services.
Strictly commercial advertising is not allowed through this program. If you intend to promote products or services, 100% of the sales and/or proceeds must support your programs.
Your Google ads cannot link to pages that are primarily links to other websites.
Ads offering financial products (such as mortgages or credit cards) or those requesting car, boat, or real estate donations and related keywords are not allowed.
Please review the difference between mission-based ads and ads not based on your mission below. When creating new ads or editing existing ads, please ensure that your ads reflect your organization's mission.
Grant Writing
It seems like a really cool idea, but I don't know it's a lot of time invested into a project. There's no guarantee. I'm still going to go through with this Autism thing because it always looks good on the resume and could help in the future. If I can get a free netbook and some extra cash, i guess it's worth a try....
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