Google Video Advertising Certified

Adding to my current list of professional certifications, I took and passed the Google Video Advertising Certification exam. From studying for the exam, I gained key insights into how YouTube advertising works and how can be beneficial for organizations to promote their products and services using not only clickable ad links, but also video ads. My next goal is to take the Google Shopping exam and then at the end of the month, the Google Certified Educator exam which encompasses five tests: Gmail, Calendar, Sites, Docs and Drive, and Chrome Browser. The final two certifications remaining after the Google Educator certification are Google Trainer and Google Teacher which are both in my list of earning.

--Corey

Certified Google Adwords

Recently, I passed the Google Adwords Certification exam. My overall goal is to move towards full Google Partner status by implementing best practices and a required monthly spend clients. The next two certifications I am preparing for are Google Video Ads and Google Shopping. I hope to successfully pass these in the coming months. After accomplishing these, I intend to become certified as a Google Educator and Google Trainer.

--Corey

Certified Google Analytics

Over the long holiday weekend, I passed the Google Analytics Certification Exam. My purpose for working towards this certification is to incorporate statistical analysis of web sites, web apps, and non-web applications. Moreover, experiments will be conducted on my current and future research projects using Google Analytics' measurement protocol which I am highly motivated in testing out.

I will post my assessments of the measurement protocol as I conduct my research experiments.

--Corey

Certified Google YouTube Digital Citizenship

Today, I earned Google's YouTube Digital Citizenship Certification by passing the online examination. My official test record can be viewed here. Studying for the exam was actually an enjoyable task as I gained new insight into YouTube's safety and privacy policies and tools. The next Google certifications I plan to take are the Google Analytics certification and the Google Educator certification.

--Corey

Grant Search Abstract

My grants and contracts course involves the delivery of a research topic paper within the duration of the semester course. Since online grant search was barely discussed in our required readings, I chose the topic title, "Using Advanced Google Search Algorithms for Grant Searching."

Today I submitted the abstract to my professor which follows:

These days nonprofit organizations more than ever need help finding new opportunities in grant funding for their organizations to continue to operate and ultimately complete their mission statements. An obvious choice is searching online. However, developing search criteria such as using relative keywords, including specific sites, or even excluding superfluous search terms can be complex and time consuming process. With this in mind, would nonprofit organizations benefit from developing advanced search algorithms when searching online for new and available grants?

This research project will attempt to answer this question using the Google search engine along with various supporting online tools. Methods for searching and data collection will involve experimenting with order, exclusion, phrases, and other specific Google search parameters. Even though the main key search terms for this research project will be "technology" and "real estate", these terms can be simply replaced with alternative industry terms to satisfy other nonprofit organizations' search requirements. Results from the experimental searches will hopefully provide a clearer picture into the world of grant searching on the Internet using a search engine. Finally, a conclusion will summarize findings along with commentary for using advanced search algorithms by nonprofit organizations when searching for online grant funding.

I look forward to beginning the experimental search algorithms for data collection followed by publishing results for the research paper.

--Corey

Foward thinking to Remetal 0.4

As I finish work on 0.3 of the Real Estate Meta Language, I can't help to look forward to release 0.4. The obvious element which needs a bit of attending to is the <location> element. So here's my thought for this.

For <location>, Remetal will reuse the <Location> compound element offered by Google's Keyhole Markup Language (KML). <Location> is the parent element to following elements as such:

[sourcecode language="xml"]
<Location>
<longitude>39.55375305703105</longitude>
<latitude>-118.9813220168456</latitude>
<altitude>1223</altitude>
</Location>
[/sourcecode]

With this and a bit of xsl transformation, could this element inclusion lead to mapping apps reusing remetal listings? Hopefully is my first thought. I'll let the developers decide what to do and resist tainting. ;)

One of the main principles of the Internet is to "reuse" protocols which already exist, but in this case Remetal will simply reuse an element which already exists thanks to KML.

Feel free to leave comments.

--Corey