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Today I spent some time investigating higher education. I friend of mine said she would like to finish her MBA and was checking out online programs for that. This spurred me into looking at options for myself.

I had been investigation some of the internet ads for online degrees. Most of those places are on the other side of the country which shouldn’t matter since it is all online but I thought I would check some close by options. this led to spending more than a little time on the web site of my alma mater, Humboldt State University(HSU).

HSU offers an MBA, https://business.humboldt.edu/content/master-business-administration.

It has a focus of Strategic sustainability. This means it is a green MBA. I doesn’t look lite-weight though. It is a one year program that includes a fulltime summer. It is full of financial management and strategic analysis courses so you will come away knowing something

The next thing I looked at was their Master of Arts in Anthropology. https://anthropology.humboldt.edu/anth-welcome

It is also a one year program with a summer program at a dig site in either Poland or Belize. Looks very cool. They have three emphasizes: cultural, archeological or biological. There last being for those who want to dig up freshly dead bodies rather than ancient ones.

I noticed that all these degrees had prereqs, so I looked into how to meet those without going back and taking a bunch of undergrad classes. Here is a list of tests available to meet those prereqs. https://registrar.humboldt.edu/sites/default/files/pdf/catalog/general-sections/exams.pdf

I then looked at ways of prepping for those tests and found several options. A particularly good way is online classes. This place https://www.edx.org/course/subject/business-management does a great job for that. you can audit online college level classes for free or pay a small fee and get a certificate of completion. I’ve done classes through Edx and they are for real.

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PLACES FOR INSIGHTS

As a note for being a better consultant to small businesses that want to be online. The insight here is that many businesses are blindly following advice to use social media to get followers but not translating those followers into customers. Some pointers are given on how to make that translation.

https://medium.com/better-marketing/small-business-owners-get-social-media-completely-wrong-d248a0d20fb6

The insight here is that what Maslow didn’t describe a pyramid. He really was describing concepts that are analogous to a sailboat, https://forge.medium.com/maslows-pyramid-is-a-marketing-lie-14202930e20

This article advocates using some developer software called Storybook your code https://levelup.gitconnected.com/why-you-should-always-use-storybook-when-developing-user-interfaces-4c69b93b2f65

The insight here is about have a high level design in place before you start your coding project and how to do that, https://medium.com/@david.vancouvering/writing-a-high-level-design-26280ee88480

This is web hosted software for diagraming high level designs, https://www.websequencediagrams.com/#

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Ways to host your pages and docs in cloud stores

These are YouTube demos on how to publish to a URL from your free or premium cloud stores

Onedrive

How to use onedrive for web hosting

Dropbox

Google drive

Github

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VUE JS

Vue.je The progressive JavaScript framework https://vuejs.org/

VUE.js on NPM https://www.npmjs.com/package/vue

Learn Vue.js on Sitepoint https://www.sitepoint.com/up-and-running-vue-js-2-0/

Sitepoint book on Jump Start Vue.js. https://www.sitepoint.com/premium/books/jump-start-vue-js/read

Vuemastery.com has the free course Intro to vue.js https://www.vuemastery.com/courses/intro-to-vue-js/vue-instance/

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PWAs

PWA builderhttps://docs.pwabuilder.com/benefits/2018/02/03/benefits-windows-10.html

PWA Builder Github https://github.com/pwa-builder/PWABuilder

PWA builder Windows tool https://www.pwabuilder.com/windows

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Solar power products

GoGreenSolar is a California company that sells DIY solar kits for residential use. They have a good online presence. https://www.gogreensolar.com/

SUNYEE International is an Australian company that sells solar panels and equipment for boating and camping. They also sell other items for automotive and camping. They sell in AU dollars, (use Paypal) https://www.sunyee.com.au/solar-panel.html

SUNYEE has an Ebay Store. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/12V-250W-200W-100W-60W-10W-Solar-Panel-Kit-MONO-Caravan-Camping-Power-Charging-/392003047860

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Blue

Another block, and yes about blue

So WordPress now has you edit in Blocks. This is a test of this new editor. It does seems a little more intuitive. I suppose I should write a real blog article. Maybe about the color blue.

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Sharepoint 365 Site collections and sites you can create

Site Collections are what Sharepoint sites are placed into.

They are the primary structural component of Sharepoint.
Except for Global admin, Everything in Sharepoint is done in site collections.

There are three primary types

Collaboration Site Collection templates
Enterprise Site Collection templates
Publishing Site Collection Templates

Our experience in Sharepoint 2010 Foundation was almost exclusively with Collaboration team sites.

The text in these outlines was pulled from the Sharepoint site creation user prompts

Collaboration Site Collection templates
1. Team Site (Classic experience):
  1. A site with a classic experience on the home page and no connection to an Office 365 Group
2. Blog site:
  1. A site for a person or team to post ideas, observations, and expertise that site visitors can comment on.
3. Developer Site
  1. A site for developers to build, test and publish apps for Office
4. Project Site:
  1. A site for managing and collaborating on a project. This site template brings all status, communication, and artifacts relevant to the project into one place.
5. Community Site:
  1. A place where community members discuss topics of common interest. Members can browse and discover relevant content by exploring categories, sorting discussions by popularity or by viewing only posts that have a best reply. Members gain reputation points by participating in the community, such as starting discussions and replying to them, liking posts and specifying best replies.
Enterprise Site Collection templates
1. Document Center
  1. A site to centrally manage documents in your enterprise. If we use Knowledge Lake they will more than likely leverage this
  2. Article describing them https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Use-a-Document-Center-site-06096070-D83F-45B8-B02D-EC7A4CF85CAC
2. eDiscovery Center
  1. A site to manage the preservation, search, and export of content for legal matters and investigations
3. Records Center:
  1. This template creates a site designed for records management. Records managers can configure the routing table to direct incoming files to specific locations. The site also lets you manage whether records can be deleted or modified after they are added to the repository
4. Team Site – Sharepoint online configuration
  1. A Team Site configured to allow organization members to edit, create new sites, and share with external users.
5. Business Intelligence Center:
  1. A site for presenting Business Intelligence content in SharePoint.
6. Review Center
  1. Review center is used to manage the review process related items.
7. Compliance Policy Center
  1. Use the Document Deletion Policy Center to manage policies that can delete documents after a specified period of time. These policies can then be assigned to specific site collections or to site collection templates.
8. Enterprise Search Center:
  1. A site focused on delivering an enterprise-wide search experience. Includes a welcome page with a search box that connects users to four search results page experiences: one for general searches, one for people searches, one for conversation searches, and one for video searches. You can add and customize new results pages to focus on other types of search queries.
9. My Site Host
  1. A site used for hosting personal sites (My Sites) and the public People Profile page. This template needs to be provisioned only once per User Profile Service Application, please consult the documentation for details.
10. Community Portal
  1. A site for discovering communities.
11. Basic Search Center
  1. A site focused on delivering a basic search experience. Includes a welcome page with a search box that connects users to a search results page, and an advanced search page. This Search Center will not appear in navigation.
12. Visio Process Repository:
  1. A site for viewing, sharing, and storing Visio process diagrams. It includes a versioned document library and templates for Basic Flowcharts, Cross-functional Flowcharts, and BPMN diagrams.
Publishing Site Collection Templates
1. Publishing Portal
  1. A starter site hierarchy for an Internet-facing site or a large intranet portal. This site can be customized easily with distinctive branding. It includes a home page, a sample press releases subsite, a Search Center, and a login page. Typically, this site has many more readers than contributors, and it is used to publish Web pages with approval workflows.
2. Enterprise Wiki
  1. A site for publishing knowledge that you capture and want to share across the enterprise. It provides an easy content editing experience in a single location for co-authoring content, discussions, and project management.

Site Templates are sites you would add into a site Collection. There are two principle types

Collaboration Site Templates
1. Team Site (Classic experience):
  1. A site with a classic experience on the home page and no connection to an Office 365 Group
2. Blog site:
  1. A site for a person or team to post ideas, observations, and expertise that site visitors can comment on.
3. Project Site:
  1. A site for managing and collaborating on a project. This site template brings all status, communication, and artifacts relevant to the project into one place.
4. Community Site:
  1. A place where community members discuss topics of common interest. Members can browse and discover relevant content by exploring categories, sorting discussions by popularity or by viewing only posts that have a best reply. Members gain reputation points by participating in the community, such as starting discussions and replying to them, liking posts and specifying best replies.
Enterprise Site templates
1. Document Center:
  1. A site to centrally manage documents in your enterprise.
2. Records Center:
  1. This template creates a site designed for records management. Records managers can configure the routing table to direct incoming files to specific locations. The site also lets you manage whether records can be deleted or modified after they are added to the repository.
3. Business Intelligence Center:
  1. A site for presenting Business Intelligence content in SharePoint.
4. Enterprise Search Center:
  1. A site focused on delivering an enterprise-wide search experience. Includes a welcome page with a search box that connects users to four search results page experiences: one for general searches, one for people searches, one for conversation searches, and one for video searches. You can add and customize new results pages to focus on other types of search queries
5. Basic Search Center:
  1. A site focused on delivering a basic search experience. Includes a welcome page with a search box that connects users to a search results page, and an advanced search page. This Search Center will not appear in navigation.
6. Visio Process Repository:
  1. A site for viewing, sharing, and storing Visio process diagrams. It includes a versioned document library and templates for Basic Flowcharts, Cross-functional Flowcharts, and BPMN diagrams