Mahasiwa harus tahu ini!

Ada banyak hal yang harus pelajar ataupun mahasiswa ketahui dan peduli akan hal bagaimana menghadapi dunia dimana mereka nantinya akan lewati setelah lulus sekolah ataupun kuliah. Saya sendiri sudah menyadari bahwa, ilmu yang didapat pada pendidikan formal saya sangatlah kurang cukup untuk membekali saya dalam dunia pekerjaan. Mengambil dari banyak pengalaman banyak orang ada baiknya kalian tahu dan sadar sebelum masuk dalam dunia kerja. Mulailah peduli akan lingkungan anda, belajar banyak hal dan temukan mana yang bisa kamu fokuskan, kenali karakter diri anda, dalami skill yang kamu punya, mulailah berbagi apapun yang kalian punya kepada orang yang membutuhkan. Kenapa berbagi saya sebutkan sebagai salah satu langkahnya, karna dengan berbagi kita akan mendapatkan 2kali lipat yang hal yang kita punya. Contohnya, saya punya skill dibidang event planner, saya sering membantu banyak orang untuk sekedar sharing pengalaman yang saya miliki. Dimana sisi keuntungannya? Banyak! dengan berbagi ilmu yang saya miliki itu saya tidak mudah lupa, bahkan saya bisa introfeksi pekerjaan saya sebelumnya dan memberikan dampak positif bagi orang yang saya bagi pengalamannya.

Simak juga artikel yang satu ini, untuk menjadi salah satu inspirasi kalian:

General Assembly's Tips For Social Innovators Who Are Ready To Level-Up

Ashoka , Contributor

One of the most critical skills of the 21st century is the ability to understand and manipulate technology and design to deliver superior products and services. But while the for-profit sector spends billions of dollars on skilling-up their talent pipelines, social sector organizations are still struggling to capture and retain people with these high-demand skillsets.
What if you were to grow these skills in-house, instead of waiting for the engineer who’s willing to take a pay cut or the designer whose personal passion is social change? There are now a range of affordable online programs that can help give you the tools to build on your passion for innovation.
In my time at General Assembly I’ve seen lower levels of participation in our tech and business programs from those working in nonprofits or government when compared with the private sector. While affordability may have once been a barrier for many changemakers, online education is making it possible for everyone to benefit from this movement.
There are many kinds of educational institutions that can help you learn the skills you want. For the sake of this article, I’ve focused on online education bootcamps, which offer a shorter, faster-paced learning experience, delivered online. Ready to get educated? Here’s a quick guide on how to choose the right online education program for you.

When it comes to your online educational program here are five factors to consider:

Know your goal
Whether trying to solve a particular work challenge or get a new job in design or development, knowing what you want to get out of your educational experience is critical. Many programs cater to specific career goals (such as getting a job) or a particular outcome (learning to build a website). Either way, by knowing your goal upfront, you can select the program that gets you there. CourseReport.com is a great resource as you’re trying to select the right bootcamp; offering a directory of schools, course schedules, and interviews with teachers, founders, students, and alumni.

General Assembly's Tips For Social Innovators Who Are Ready To Level-Up

Some students prefer to work independently, while others crave a classroom and lots of group activity. Many of us are auditory learners and do well with watching videos or following lectures. Others need hands-on elements, such as code challenges or labs, where they are able to better grasp concepts once they’ve actually practiced doing them. Most students are some combination of all of the above. Once you have a sense of where you lie on that spectrum, figure out which program caters to your learning style. For example, not all students are made for the fast-paced, intensive learning that bootcamps offer, so know what you’re signing up for before you make the commitment!

Level of support
Similar to learning style, we’ve seen a huge variety in the level of support and guidance that students need when learning a new skill. So many students whom we’ve worked with at GA come to us after several failed attempts at learning on their own, only realizing later that they didn’t set themselves up in the environment that would make them successful. On the flip side, we’ve seen more than 200,000 students take advantage of Dash, our free, self-paced online learning tool to code basic HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Moreover, we’ve also seen that students who are learning a complimentary skillset, i.e. one they have had some kind of exposure to, are able to grasp the new skills much more quickly. For example, architects have a leg up when learning user experience design, and management consultants are able to make a smoother transition to product management.

Commitment
As the saying goes, you get from it what you put into it, and education is no different. The number-one predictor of your success is you and the level of commitment you make to your educational experience. Whether we like it or not, life gets in the way and we’ve seen time and again that those students who establish a commitment upfront are the ones who make it through. At GA, we call it grit and it’s something we discuss with all our students before they sign up. Whatever education solution you pick, make sure you are clear about the level of time and effort it will require, and don’t give up!

Cost
Pricing for bootcamp education is incredibly varied, with everything from free self-paced learning platforms (CodeAcademy, Dash), to pay-as-you-go models (Coursera, Udemy, FrontRow), to predefined experiences that optimize for a specific outcome (GA’s Web Design Circuit). I recommend finalizing your budget once you know where you stand on the four criteria outlined above. Even if you don’t have a lot to spend, many bootcamps are improving affordability of education by offering payment plans, financing and/or scholarships. At GA, we launched the Opportunity Fund, allowing underrepresented individuals to access our educational opportunities.

Aditi is the General Manager of Online Courses at General Assembly. She is passionate about the international talent deficit and how online education, such as the Web Design Circuit, can help address that by driving accessibility and affordability to underrepresented populations.



Source: FORBES

The Business Plan

This is step to build your own Business.

1. Executive Summary

A one page nutshell your mission, your vision, your purpose

2. Target Market

Who are your product/ service intended for? Send a survey to gather demographics,

 interests + bugets.

3. Competitors

Deifine your competitors-their strengths and weaknesses determine your competitive advantage. Why are different?

4.  Human Resources 

Will you need additional staff to run your bussiness? What will you pay them?

How much experience? What skills do you they need to have?

5. Vendor / Supplies

Will you require outside sources or project to operate?

What about supplies that you will be using on regular basis?

6. Marketing Plan

How will you get your products/ services in front of ideal clients?

How will you communicate your message?

7. Operations

How are you going to run your business? Determine the most efficient way to get the job done.

8. Financial Projections

How much money do you need to start/run the business? Determine the profitability of the company

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Compelling Content Creation

How to make compelling content? I personally do many steps to make every content have meaning that can be attached to many people. There are steps that can be a reference for making compelling content:

1. Think Like a Journalist

Before getting too bogged down with the meat-and-veg of the content, remember that you'll win or lose about 89% of your target audience with your headlines and intros alone. Win them over here and you'll have a much easier jo b with the rest.

2. Inspiration

If you're in the midst of a dry spell, try finding out what pearls of wisdom are floating around the brains of those around you. Family, friends and colleagues alike even those with no interest in your niche can offer new and intersting perspectives.

3.Bite Sized

If you think they'll be willing to read ream after ream of text until they find something of interest, think again. A few lines is all you've got before they get bored and do a runner, so be sure to keep when you're saying concise, to the point and ideally in bite sized chunks.

4. News Jack

The nature of the news world has always been one of poaching other people's strories and headlines. The key is getting their first and making it your own. As such, never underestimate the importance of keeping one finger on the pulse of your niche at all times, sharing anything you hear of interest before it goes stale.

5. Keep it Conversational

English that's over formal is a big turn off for most as you quickly feel like you're being lectured, rather than informed. So, be sure to keep the tone always at an appropriately conversational level, without crossing the line into inappropriateness.

6. Don't Oversell it

Your audience already knows that you think you're great, so there's really no need to keep blowing your own trumpet and going for the hardsell. If you do, anything you say will lose its sparkle and be interpreted as pure sales spiel.

7. With Photos Keep it real

If planning to use any images whatsover to back-up your text, don't fall into the habit of using those oh-so easy and readily available stock photos. Sure they look nice, but they don't tell your readers anything about you and what makes you tick.

8. Invite guests

Guest posts not only allowed for new angles and new inspiration, but also show readers thath you're welcoming and open hugely attrctive traits. Whether it's guest blog, a comments section or a simple open invite to share a few views, you can't go wrong when they're doing the graft for you.

9. Reach Out

If you seem to be constantly striking out in term of figureing out take the bold and brave move to actually ask them> Send out a few emails, make a few calls or even post a few questions online wuitassuming you know what they want and find out for sure.

10.Memory Lane

 If you strcuk gold in a big way with an amazing piece of content you wrote a few weeks or moths ago, don't godepriving your new and hugely valuable readers of its glory. Instead, repost it for those that haven't already read it, reuse and recycle at all times.

11. Honesty Policy

Don't pretend you know what you're talking about if you don't and worse still don't pretend to like something you hate. Your content will stink to high heaven of fabrication and send readers packing stick with what you know and love.

12. Do Your Homework

You don't have to guess what's hot and not right now in your niche you can count on Google and Co. To give you all the info you need. Look into plenty of up-to-date statistics and analytics to find what the masses are into and give it to them!

13. Navigation

Make it clear, easy and fast for readers to find what they need and where they need to go to find it. There's really no point promising them the world on your home page if they then can't find where to click to move forward moillions of conversions are lost this way every minute of every day.

14.  Keep 'em Seperated

Topics with theirs own lading pages have much better convertation rates then those squeezed in o other nondedicated pages. Fact! As such, it is vital that you give every topic you consider to be of importance its own landing page this is a great way of conveying its importance to readers.

15.  Timelessness

When it comes to the permanent content on your pages, never include anything that can or will go stale in a matter of weeks. Or in other words, don't make permanent content relevant only to today make it evergreen so it's still as relevant in a year.

16. Transcribe

And for the last, don't forget that not every readers will be in position to listen to your audio and video content, so be sure to include transcriptions to be accesed when and where needed. The added bonus here is that these transcripts will be picked up and indexed by search engine spiders video and audio content will not.


source: websearchseo

10 Nonfiction Action Activity Ideas For Kids!

1. Create a comic strip version of the book or informational text.
2. Make an illustrated glossary of terms.
3. Act out one or More important parts.
4. Make a game board of significant events or information in the text.
5. Write a list of things you learned then make a quiz for the class.
6. Write an imaginary ( or real ) interview with the author.
7. Draw an label a step  by step process.
8. Create a poster that summarizes and advertises the book.
9. Take a survey of your classmates knowledge about the topic then graph it.
10. Write how the info will affect your life.


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Bekerja berkawan Kopi | Nikmati Kopi Mini Market

Mulai hari ini saya memutuskan untuk menuliskan kegiatan saya sehari-hari bersama kopi saya. Kenimatan kopi pagi hari ini saya nikmati sepanjang perjalanan saya menuju Bekasi dari stasiun Cikini. Kegiatan saya hari ini dimulai dari jam 4 pagi dan berangkat ke Sekolah tempat mama saya mengajar tepat jam 04:45 pagi. Hanya sempat menyuput air mineral segelas dan menikmati perjalanan yang masih gelap bersama gerimis menyusuri jalanan selama 40 menit dari rumah saya yang berada dibilangan Bintara, Bekasi Barat. Kopi pagi ini saya memilih menu coffee late panas yang saya beli ketika saya berada di mini market di stasuin Cikini. Kenikmatan Coffee late begitu membuat saya terenyuh oleh wanginya selagi panas.

Memulai 2015 dengan Spirit Baru

Happy New Year.
Merayakan pergantian tahun saya dan keluarga memang tidak semeriah orang-orang banyak. Tradisi yang ada dalam keluarga saya dimalam pergantian tahun dimulai dengan pergi ibadah tutup tahun di gereja kami, dilanjutkan kumpul keluarga di rumah atau di rumah salah satu anggota keluarga besar, membuka tahun pada jam 00:00 dengan ibadah bersama, yang paling dinantikan adalah moment dimana kami satu per satu mengucapkan selamat natal dan tahun baru beserta resolusi untuk tahun yang baru lengkap dengan permohonan maaf kepada keluarga yang hadir, selanjutnya makan bersama keluarga juga menjadi salah satu moment yang dinantikan, karna makanan yang disajikan biasanya cukup special. Acara tutup dan membuka tahun ini menjadi rutinitas yang sudah pasti tak terlewatikan dari generasi tertua sampai termuda dikeluarga kami.

Menjadi moment yang dinantikan,
kumpul besama keluarga besar menjadi kegiatan yang sangat saya nantikan, mengingat kami keluarga jarang sekali bisa berkumpul dalam kurung waktu 1 tahun, dan jumlah keluarga kecil kami juga sudah berkurang dan bertambah. Saling berdiskusi dengan pengalaman masing-masing pribadi, mengenang masa keil menjadi topic perbincangan yang selalu saja menarik di keluarga kamu.

2014 Menjadi tahun yang memiliki liku terbanyak
Suka duka saya dapatkan sepanjang tahun 2014, setahun sebelumnya saya ditinggal untuk selamaya oleh ayah saya dan disusul dengan mama saya yang jatuh sakit dipertengahan tahun 2014. Kedukaan itu saya rasakan begitu mendalam, tapi saya yakin Tuhan selalu memberikan yang terbaik bagi saya dan keluarga. Kebahagiaan saya datang ketika saya memiliki kesempatan untuk berkumpul keluarga lebih sering lagi seetelah mama jatuh sakit dan harus beristirahat dari pekerjaannya menjadi tenaga pengajar disalah satu Sekolah  Dasar Negeri dibilangan menteng.

Awal 2015
menjadi tahun yang saya rasa pendewasaan saya lebih runcing lagi, saya merasa Tuhan semakin menunjukan kasihnya terhadap saya. Tuhan selalu memberikan saya petunjuk yang untuk setiap langkah saya. Tahun ini saya banyak target, pengharapan saya yang saya yakini bisa berjalan semua, Tuhan memberikan tugas untuk saya menjaga mama saya selama mama saya kembali bertugas ke sekolah dengan bantuan saya untuk mengantar dan menjemput. Aktivitas saya dimulai dari jam 4:00 pagi dan saya melakukan banyak kegiatan diluar kantor sambil menunggu jam 3 saya harus menjemput mama saya di bilangan menteng jakarta pusat. Terlihat memang berat jika ada di posisi saya, tapi saya yakin kalau Tuhan selalu lihat segala usaha dan upaya saya untuk selalu menjadi berkat bagi banyak orang.