#engagement with the people who live in that kingdom feels like the goal they’re striving toward could be replaced with one of those

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tbh after finishing i kind of retract the enthusiasm of my recommendation (but not necessarily the recommendation itself) for he who drowned the world. i still found some of the themes it covers really refreshing in the fantasy genre (for ex the descriptions of recognizing yourself in others across queer identities felt v real), but the way it covered them ended up feeling incoherent/unfocused in an area that imo especially needs precision in order not to blunder into insensitivity. (i also in the middle of reading saw people saying it treats eunuchs ahistorically, and frankly i know nothing on the topic and wasn’t drawn to the book for its historical elements—“real-world setting with tiny magical component” isn’t my jam—but that does match up with the whole slew of weirdness i’m feeling overall.) i’m glad i read it and the overall plot kept me interested but i’m hoping it’s the start of a trend in the genre rather than something to point to as “hell yeah, they did it”?

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10 Common Myths About Moodle Development Consulting.

Moodle is the most widely used learning management system Moodle is one of the most flexible learning management systems. It has the largest number of active users and developers, thanks to its adaptability and extensive feature set. The worldwide user base is estimated to be over 68 million. There are currently 46,507 registered sites in 241 countries (Moodle.net).

Moodle is an open-source course management system Moodle is an incredibly successful open source project and has thousands of regular community contributors who continue to push its core functionality. Even with its high-end feature set, Moodle is completely free!

The largest number of Moodle registrations come from the United States With 7,061 registrations, the United States has the highest number of registrations for Moodle LMS in the world. The top 10 countries with 5,375 registrations were Spain, Brazil (3,240), the United Kingdom (2,527), Mexico (1,911), Germany (1,596), Colombia (1,394), Italy (1,368), Australia, (1,153) and the Russian Federation ( 1,130).

Moodle stands for Modular Object-Oriented Learning Environment. The openly shared, open-source platform is known as Moodle really stands for Modular Object-Oriented Learning Environment, which describes how it got its uncommon-sounding title. Moodle is also a verb that indicates to simply drive through something, doing things as they occur to you, a pleasurable tinkering method that points to creativity and penetration. It may speak to how Moodle was actually formed.

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Moodle is surprisingly easy to use Despite its complicated-sounding name, Moodle software is relatively easy to use. The installation process is a bit technical, but once you’re up and running, you really need to have basic web browsing skills to take advantage of this LMS.

There are hundreds of Moodle plugins The functionality of the Moodle program can be advanced with the advantage of plugins, of which there are over 1,000. All plugins are supported in the Moodle Plugins list.

Change the look and feel of a Moodle site by installing graphical themes Want to customize the functionality of your Moodle site? Engrossed in improving the appearance and quality of a course? By taking advantage of Moodle themes, which can be downloaded directly from the Moodle download site, you can easily change the visual aspect of your courses.

Moodle can be used on mobile devices The mobile user support is exploding right now, so it’s satisfying to acknowledge that some Moodle themes are mobile-friendly and use responsive web design. The Moodle portable app can also be downloaded on most portable projects.

Moodle can run on a variety of systems Any system that supports PHP and databases can run Moodle, including Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, NetWare, FreeBSD, and even most web host providers.

Moodle Moodle is open-source software using a “freemium” payment model, which means you get the basics for free but have to pay for additional options. According to recent surveys, it is one of the most popular LMS, mostly used by institutions with between 1,000 and 2,000 full-time students.

One of the main disadvantages of this system is that it is very difficult to install and fix. There are many companies that can help with setting up and customizing the system, but their services are quite expensive. Moodle is perfectly suited for general educational goals, but to implement it, a company must have at least one qualified IT specialist, as well as a separate server and hardware. Moodle is already free, but the additional cost can be $10,000/year, not including IT department salaries.

Key Features of Moodle:

grade management Student Roster / Attendance Management evaluation implementation Discussion Forum lesson planner collaboration management, Moodle Consultent file exchange Internal Messaging, Live Chat, Wiki

Moodle provides specialized modules to create courses (Moodle Rooms) that can be used in situ or migrated to another LMS. The main problem with this system is that it requires additional time and effort to adapt and implement — up to 18–24 months. If you can allow such time-consuming projects without any harm to your company, then Moodle is an excellent solution for your business.

Blackboard Blackboard is an industry-leading LMS, which is comprehensive and flexible, but expensive. Detailed pricing information is not publicly available, but the cost depends on how many licenses you need. It already has a lot of schools and is considered a great value for money, especially for large institutions with lots of resources.

Blackboard Excellence in Curriculum Creation; A trainer can upload and manage all the materials he needs. However, if an additional practice or implementation assistance is required, it can be difficult to discover and hire a qualified blackboard professional.

Key Features of Blackboard:

Custom branding, fields, and functionality test engine Multiple Delivery Formats administrative reporting course catalog Data Import/Export grading individual plans student portal goal setting skill tracking The system lacks collaboration features and doesn’t excel at email integration, but offers self-paced instruction methods and resource management.

Conclusion

The Moodle platform is a great learning platform for teachers. Its flexibility and feature set allows for extensive customization and effective curriculum development. Its experience, as you just found out, is also kind of engaging. If you want a free Moodle instance, you can visit Moodle’s new cloud service, https://moodlecloud.com/en/.

If you want to take Moodle even further with the many plugins and themes contact creators to see how far you can go.

What is your moodle dream? The reason I keep discovering is that “we want to base our online engagement with a marketing company that has an antiquity and is expected to take our futures on a public shareware type product.”

What people fail to realize is that Moodle is in every way as commercial a product as Blackboard. This is accomplished by creating certified “Moodle Partners”. These partners provide all of the same services and assistance Blackboard provides to its customers through commercial agreements enforceable by law. The big difference, however, is that you don’t have to pay for a Moodle license so that the $100,000 budget Jack is talking about becomes 100% training, support, and customization. What we strive for the future of our company is that the money from eliminating the license fee can be used for additional faculty training, which we will be happy to deliver. This brings up some other benefits of Moodle that may or may not fit the Mythbuster documentation, but here is what they’re worth: Pros for Moodle 1) If you want to do something that hasn’t been done before, you can create a new module yourself. 2) License You must share your module with the Moodle community for free. A huge library of modules is already built like this. 3) If you don’t like the service or solution you get from the Moodle partner you are working with, you can simply buy from a different Moodle partner. Cons for Blackboard 1) Blackboard has its own roadmap that may or may not include the feature you were hoping for. 2) Blackboard does provide building blocks, but they are mostly commercially licensed whereas the Moodle modules are all free under the Moodle open source license. 3) If you don’t like the service or solution you get from Blackboard, there’s nothing you can do about it other than switch to WebCT (oh, wait, you can’t do that now!).

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GoDaddy India - The Fastest Growing Company 2019

GoDaddy India - The Fastest Growing Company 2019

Category Chosen: Internet  Specialisation Category: Domains and Cloud Platform

GoDaddy powers the world’s largest cloud platform and domain name registrar. With nearly 19 million customers worldwide, GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers and manage their work.

GoDaddy offers an integrated suite of products for small business owners and entrepreneurs, ranging from domain names, hosting, website building, to email marketing, security protections and an online store. GoDaddy offers 24/7 customer support, locally and in regional languages, to help guide customers in the growth of their venture, and to find the tools that best meet their needs. Company Vision: Our vision is to empower entrepreneurs everywhere, by providing all the help and tools to succeed online. Company Mission: Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights and the people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. Ethos of the brand: Empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world. Total Number of Employees in the Company: More than 9000 employees across markets. In India, GoDaddy has around 1100 employees. Countries the brand is present: Over 50 markets around the world. What would you define as the unique value proposition of the product: the functional, emotional and differentiating product benefits that have contributed to providing an enduring brand experience to customers? There are companies in India that offer pieces of what GoDaddy delivers, but what makes us unique is that we offer an integrated suite of products for small business owners and entrepreneurs, ranging from domain names, hosting, website building, to email marketing, security protections and an online store. Our award-winning, 24x7 customer care is a major differentiator for GoDaddy. In India, GoDaddy Customer Support is free of charge and offers support in Hindi, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu, besides in English, to help guide customers in the growth of their venture, and help find the tools that best meet their needs. What are the physical, character and personality attributes of the brand that have evoked and inspired consumers’ self-expression and personal identity? Everything we do at GoDaddy is centred on our customers. We are always striving to create a WOW experience for our customers through a sharp focus on their business journey and success results. We pride ourselves on offering complete online tools and solutions, backed by an award-winning 24*7 expert team of customer care agents including to help our customers along the way, as they go from setting up their business to finally growing it online. This instils a sense of trust among customers and reassures them that GoDaddy is committed to being a trusted partner for its customers, helping them at each step of their online business journey. Please provide an insight into the brand marketing strategies that have effectively penetrated consumers’ psyche, established a meaningful relationship with the target audiences and ensured positive brand perception. In India, we strategically focus on building awareness on the benefits of creating an online presence through our national marketing campaigns offered in 7 Indian languages, including the latest “Bijness Bhai” campaign, with Indian cricket star, MS Dhoni. Since, majority of small business owners and entrepreneurs in India rely on technical experts (i.e. web professionals) to create and manage their business websites, GoDaddy is invested in helping the web professionals in the country, with right online tools, programs, and partnership options to help their clients. Finally, we are a customer-centric company and are committed to continue listening to our customers, provide relevant and flexible product offerings and the right 24 x7 customer care to help them grow and thrive online.

How has the brand extended its presence to the frontiers of internet advertising and social networking? What is the level of significance the brand accords to utilizing social media as a competitive edge? We use a range of media and advertising channels to execute our marketing campaigns, including print, radio, social and other digital platforms. However, we firmly believe in and support the power of digital, opening new avenues for business growth. Keeping in mind the expansive range and power of social media to drive engaging and relevant conversations, we are pretty active on various social and online platforms, encouraging people to turn their dreams and ideas into reality online. Please outline few key marketing endeavors in the past decade that you feel have been landmark initiatives in reinforcing the legacy of the brands' promise to influence consumer intent and enhanced the brands' propensity to drive affirmative consumer action. Last year, we signed in MS Dhoni as India brand ambassador, featuring in our latest marketing campaign as Bijness Bhai, to create awareness among small businesses in Tier 2, Tier 3 cities, about the benefits of having an online presence. The campaign was quite well receive and became one of the 10 most influential, creative and promising ad campaigns in India in 2018. This year, we have partnered with the ICC to sponsor the Men’s Cricket World Cup 2019, being held in the United Kingdom, aimed at further raising GoDaddy brand awareness and increase consumer love across Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities in the country.  How has the brand derived strength from innovation as a sustainable differentiating strategy adding to long-term brand equity? Please provide few instances of measures implemented towards this goal. Technology today, is powering the next stage of growth across business areas and digital has fast emerged as the medium of this movement. As digital penetration is booming in the country, the second wave of internet adoption is coming from Tier II & Tier III cities. At GoDaddy, we are tirelessly working to help bring emerged India (Tier 1) and emerging India (Tier II and Tier III cities) online, by giving them the right tools, insights and the people, in their regional languages, to help transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. As a result of our market localization strategy, over the last seven years, GoDaddy India has witnessed significant uptick in all its product categories, which has helped us reach over one million customers in India. What is the key leadership value that drives the brand. Our values make us strong.  They are witnessed every day in our company’s culture and are a declaration of who we are.  Our values are the North Start for every member of the GoDaddy team and power our success.  They help each of us be our best selves and are paramount to how we attract, hire, promote and reward the best employees. GoDaddy core values include: Extraordinary customer focus on the experience and achievement of our customers. Own outcomes working toward the best possible outcome for our customers. Join forces because together we celebrate our success and learn from our failures. Work fearlessly to innovate and take risks to achieve uncommon outcomes. Live passionately with a healthy life fuelled by fun and passion for a better world. What type of employee satisfaction programs are conducted by your brand? GoDaddy, as a workplace, is a natural fit for anyone who is self-driven at work. We constantly work to maintain a collaborative, co-creative office culture, built on teamwork, collective effort and mutual understanding. Amidst all this, we also find time to unwind and make work more fun. Be it indoor facilities like gyms or game rooms, cross-team events, or even opportunities to participate in our community or CSR focused events, we ensure that the teams are able to de-stress and zone out in the most fun ways possible. How much does your brand emphasis on employee training & development, kindly elaborate. We believe when imaginations run wild you can achieve amazing accomplishments. We work to make it happen.  Our diverse employee population reflects the customers we service. Since we feel our success is driven by the passion and potential of our talent, we work hard at enabling them, training them and supporting them, while at the same time, letting them be, so they can do their best work. We encourage our talent to strive for excellence in technical skill set, while maintaining the attitude of supporting and empathizing with our customers, to help them along the way. What are your brand’s most effective intangible motivational tools for employees? To constantly keep our teams motivated and passionate towards the incredible work they do every day, we encourage employees to make sure they’re living a rich, healthy, involved life away from work. We’ve had many initiatives where the team has worked together for social causes, taken up fitness goals and run marathons, all in an endeavour to help them broaden their horizons and stay committed to achieving the goal together. We’re also big on celebrating successes, so we ensure that all the hard work and impact created by our people is recognized and rewarded. Kindly elaborate on your existing & potential CSR activities. We enrolled ourselves to join the Indian government’s Self4society platform, an open digital space for all tech companies in India to share stories of how they are bringing social change in the country. In November 2018, GoDaddy India made it to the leader board of Self4Society portal, as one of the top 5 companies for their meaningful contribution under this initiative, through following activities: Conducting a school renovation drive, by cleaning a government school for kids of low-income groups, painting the walls and drawing inspiring messages on them. Supporting education drive, by distributing pencil boxes and notebooks among students in another government school. Promoting arts & culture Drive, in which GoDaddy team participated in a painting competition with government school kids, spending quality time with them, distributing prizes to the winners, and finally donating a printer to the school. Which area of social responsibility is more significant for your brand? Going digital is always a form of empowerment, be it for an individual or a business. GoDaddy takes pride in the fact that we are the agents of delivering this power to over one million people in India. As part of our market growth strategy, while going deeper into the country, beyond the metros and bigger cities, we realized that there is a rising hunger amongst students and women entrepreneurs to learn, adapt, and succeed independently. Soon, grassroots learning and community engagement for this section of the society became a key theme for all activities under our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) function in the country. Read the full article

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GoDaddy India - The Fastest Growing Company 2019

GoDaddy India - The Fastest Growing Company 2019

Category Chosen: Internet  Specialisation Category: Domains and Cloud Platform

GoDaddy powers the world’s largest cloud platform and domain name registrar. With nearly 19 million customers worldwide, GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers and manage their work.

GoDaddy offers an integrated suite of products for small business owners and entrepreneurs, ranging from domain names, hosting, website building, to email marketing, security protections and an online store. GoDaddy offers 24/7 customer support, locally and in regional languages, to help guide customers in the growth of their venture, and to find the tools that best meet their needs. Company Vision: Our vision is to empower entrepreneurs everywhere, by providing all the help and tools to succeed online. Company Mission: Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights and the people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. Ethos of the brand: Empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world. Total Number of Employees in the Company: More than 9000 employees across markets. In India, GoDaddy has around 1100 employees. Countries the brand is present: Over 50 markets around the world. What would you define as the unique value proposition of the product: the functional, emotional and differentiating product benefits that have contributed to providing an enduring brand experience to customers? There are companies in India that offer pieces of what GoDaddy delivers, but what makes us unique is that we offer an integrated suite of products for small business owners and entrepreneurs, ranging from domain names, hosting, website building, to email marketing, security protections and an online store. Our award-winning, 24x7 customer care is a major differentiator for GoDaddy. In India, GoDaddy Customer Support is free of charge and offers support in Hindi, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu, besides in English, to help guide customers in the growth of their venture, and help find the tools that best meet their needs. What are the physical, character and personality attributes of the brand that have evoked and inspired consumers’ self-expression and personal identity? Everything we do at GoDaddy is centred on our customers. We are always striving to create a WOW experience for our customers through a sharp focus on their business journey and success results. We pride ourselves on offering complete online tools and solutions, backed by an award-winning 24*7 expert team of customer care agents including to help our customers along the way, as they go from setting up their business to finally growing it online. This instils a sense of trust among customers and reassures them that GoDaddy is committed to being a trusted partner for its customers, helping them at each step of their online business journey. Please provide an insight into the brand marketing strategies that have effectively penetrated consumers’ psyche, established a meaningful relationship with the target audiences and ensured positive brand perception. In India, we strategically focus on building awareness on the benefits of creating an online presence through our national marketing campaigns offered in 7 Indian languages, including the latest “Bijness Bhai” campaign, with Indian cricket star, MS Dhoni. Since, majority of small business owners and entrepreneurs in India rely on technical experts (i.e. web professionals) to create and manage their business websites, GoDaddy is invested in helping the web professionals in the country, with right online tools, programs, and partnership options to help their clients. Finally, we are a customer-centric company and are committed to continue listening to our customers, provide relevant and flexible product offerings and the right 24 x7 customer care to help them grow and thrive online.

How has the brand extended its presence to the frontiers of internet advertising and social networking? What is the level of significance the brand accords to utilizing social media as a competitive edge? We use a range of media and advertising channels to execute our marketing campaigns, including print, radio, social and other digital platforms. However, we firmly believe in and support the power of digital, opening new avenues for business growth. Keeping in mind the expansive range and power of social media to drive engaging and relevant conversations, we are pretty active on various social and online platforms, encouraging people to turn their dreams and ideas into reality online. Please outline few key marketing endeavors in the past decade that you feel have been landmark initiatives in reinforcing the legacy of the brands' promise to influence consumer intent and enhanced the brands' propensity to drive affirmative consumer action. Last year, we signed in MS Dhoni as India brand ambassador, featuring in our latest marketing campaign as Bijness Bhai, to create awareness among small businesses in Tier 2, Tier 3 cities, about the benefits of having an online presence. The campaign was quite well receive and became one of the 10 most influential, creative and promising ad campaigns in India in 2018. This year, we have partnered with the ICC to sponsor the Men’s Cricket World Cup 2019, being held in the United Kingdom, aimed at further raising GoDaddy brand awareness and increase consumer love across Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities in the country.  How has the brand derived strength from innovation as a sustainable differentiating strategy adding to long-term brand equity? Please provide few instances of measures implemented towards this goal. Technology today, is powering the next stage of growth across business areas and digital has fast emerged as the medium of this movement. As digital penetration is booming in the country, the second wave of internet adoption is coming from Tier II & Tier III cities. At GoDaddy, we are tirelessly working to help bring emerged India (Tier 1) and emerging India (Tier II and Tier III cities) online, by giving them the right tools, insights and the people, in their regional languages, to help transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. As a result of our market localization strategy, over the last seven years, GoDaddy India has witnessed significant uptick in all its product categories, which has helped us reach over one million customers in India. What is the key leadership value that drives the brand. Our values make us strong.  They are witnessed every day in our company’s culture and are a declaration of who we are.  Our values are the North Start for every member of the GoDaddy team and power our success.  They help each of us be our best selves and are paramount to how we attract, hire, promote and reward the best employees. GoDaddy core values include: Extraordinary customer focus on the experience and achievement of our customers. Own outcomes working toward the best possible outcome for our customers. Join forces because together we celebrate our success and learn from our failures. Work fearlessly to innovate and take risks to achieve uncommon outcomes. Live passionately with a healthy life fuelled by fun and passion for a better world. What type of employee satisfaction programs are conducted by your brand? GoDaddy, as a workplace, is a natural fit for anyone who is self-driven at work. We constantly work to maintain a collaborative, co-creative office culture, built on teamwork, collective effort and mutual understanding. Amidst all this, we also find time to unwind and make work more fun. Be it indoor facilities like gyms or game rooms, cross-team events, or even opportunities to participate in our community or CSR focused events, we ensure that the teams are able to de-stress and zone out in the most fun ways possible. How much does your brand emphasis on employee training & development, kindly elaborate. We believe when imaginations run wild you can achieve amazing accomplishments. We work to make it happen.  Our diverse employee population reflects the customers we service. Since we feel our success is driven by the passion and potential of our talent, we work hard at enabling them, training them and supporting them, while at the same time, letting them be, so they can do their best work. We encourage our talent to strive for excellence in technical skill set, while maintaining the attitude of supporting and empathizing with our customers, to help them along the way. What are your brand’s most effective intangible motivational tools for employees? To constantly keep our teams motivated and passionate towards the incredible work they do every day, we encourage employees to make sure they’re living a rich, healthy, involved life away from work. We’ve had many initiatives where the team has worked together for social causes, taken up fitness goals and run marathons, all in an endeavour to help them broaden their horizons and stay committed to achieving the goal together. We’re also big on celebrating successes, so we ensure that all the hard work and impact created by our people is recognized and rewarded. Kindly elaborate on your existing & potential CSR activities. We enrolled ourselves to join the Indian government’s Self4society platform, an open digital space for all tech companies in India to share stories of how they are bringing social change in the country. In November 2018, GoDaddy India made it to the leader board of Self4Society portal, as one of the top 5 companies for their meaningful contribution under this initiative, through following activities: Conducting a school renovation drive, by cleaning a government school for kids of low-income groups, painting the walls and drawing inspiring messages on them. Supporting education drive, by distributing pencil boxes and notebooks among students in another government school. Promoting arts & culture Drive, in which GoDaddy team participated in a painting competition with government school kids, spending quality time with them, distributing prizes to the winners, and finally donating a printer to the school. Which area of social responsibility is more significant for your brand? Going digital is always a form of empowerment, be it for an individual or a business. GoDaddy takes pride in the fact that we are the agents of delivering this power to over one million people in India. As part of our market growth strategy, while going deeper into the country, beyond the metros and bigger cities, we realized that there is a rising hunger amongst students and women entrepreneurs to learn, adapt, and succeed independently. Soon, grassroots learning and community engagement for this section of the society became a key theme for all activities under our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) function in the country. Read the full article