Would You Take Part in My Experiment?

Below is the result from a quick personality test based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the work on Multiple Intelligences described by Howard Gardner.

Learning styles and personality types are part and parcel of what we become as we age and gain experience. If you take this test at different times in your life, you will see how your personality and learning styles change.

On the left side you will see indicators of personality types. Perception involves all the ways in which we become aware of things, people, happenings or ideas. Judgment involves the process by which we come to conclusions about what we have perceived.

On the right side of the graph above are the Multiple Intelligences that were mapped by Howard Gardner. Also called learning inventories, these interest surveys are helpful in discovering the best way you and others learn.

I would like to map the predominant learning styles and personality types of bloggers that visit this blog, if enough respond.

Scientific Inquiry

Interested? Click here to take the test,

Then, come back here and leave me a comment with your four letter code for Personality Type and top three or four Multiples Intelligences.

For example: I am an INFP with naturalist, visual/spatial and intrapersonal learning preferences.

Everyone who participates will be given a "follow" link in a post when I show the results. There may also be some ECs or CMF ads credits as well.

Tags: learning styles, multiple intelligences, Myers-Briggs type indicator, personality test

Protect Your Identity, Even From Relatives

From 5/19/2009 article, Identity Theft Hits Women Hardest, by eMarketer.

According to a study by Affinion Security Center , 17 percent of female identity theft victims lost $1,000 or more due to the crime. Contrast this figure with only ten percent of males. More men (61 percent) avoid losing money than women (53 percent).

Forty-two percent of identity theft cases are closed in less than one week, twenty percent are solved within one month, while thirteen percent take two months to six months to solve.

A survey from the Identity Theft Assistance Center (ITAC) found that 72 percent of victims do not know who has stolen their personal information.

Of those that do know, the theft is committed by friends, relatives or in-home employees (26.5 percent). Computer-related fraud accounts for 21.6 percent; lost or stolen wallets, checkbooks and credit card accounts make up 15.1 percent; while mail fraud accounts for 11.6 percent.

According to Affinion Security Center, to protect yourself:

• Shred documents before disposal.
• Monitor credit card accounts.
• Keep personal information locked in a safe.

Suggestions from ITAC include:

• Keep data in the home and workplace in secure location.
• Monitor accounts for unusual activity.
• Keep anti-virus software updated.
• Upgrade browser and operating systems.

I would add:

• Expand your security protection to include firewall, spyware and adware.
• Encrypt your password files or use a utility like RoboForm to keep passwords and other personal information safe.
• Do not download attachments from email without scanning.
• Do not download freeware, plugins, themes, templates games, PDFs or other freebies unless you scan the download before installing it.

I have never had my identity stolen, but I did have my teenager get one of my gasoline credit cards. He did not have a car, but he managed to charge up over $100 in cokes, chips, candy and gum within two weeks. If he had not been so stupid as to use the same gas station, directly across the street from where he lived, I would not have discovered the culprit so easily.

So, I guess I should add these:

• Keep your credit cards that you are not using locked up.
• If you miss a credit card, cancel it. The trouble to replace is worth it.
  
• Shred those credit card checks as soon as you know what they are.
• Call credit card companies and request that they send no unsolicited checks.

Tags: identity theft, credit card theft, affinion security center, identity theft assistance center

What Can You Do With Your Cell Phone

The article below provides some surprising information and insights into the applications being developed for your mobile device. Shake your iPhone, drive an Audi A4 and have fun with fashion. Of course, the ubiquitous chicken-chested Burger King in a Jacuzzi gets my vote for the worst app.

Mobile Marketing: Is 'App-vertising' the Answer? - Advertising Age - DigitalNext

. . . 1 billion applications served, 35,000 applications available and more than 30 million devices in market. Apple's meteoric success with the App Store (launched a mere nine months ago) is fueling a mobile-application market boom.

IPhone owners download an average of 20+ applications to their devices. Pinch Media analyzed 30-million iPhone app downloads. They discovered that only 5 percent of users would open either a free or a paid app 30 days after the initial download.

This finding, however, did not stop development of new apps for other platforms.

• While the selection is currently limited, you will see more apps on Android. There is a downloading software development kit on the site.
  
  
• Microsoft introduced Windows Live for mobile.
  
  
• There are quite a few Blackberry apps available on Built for Blackberry. As you might imagine, the apps are mostly news, travel, sports, music and online banking and trading.
  
  
• Nokia, with nearly 40 percent of worldwide smart phone market, announced the opening of its Ovi Store with 20,000 apps available for download.

All these statistics have marketers desperately trying to monetize the apps. It has been posited that the worldwide mobile-advertising market will grow from $700 million in 2008 to $7.2 billion by 2012.

While marketing on the small-screen has its own unique set of problems, I think you will see more embedding of product brands into video or game clips. Some applications provide a needed service, like banking, which is definitely brand building.

You can also find apps for Twitter, FaceBook, MySpace, Flickr and many other social sites I have not visited.

Now, if they would just invent a app that would banish the dirty sock odor from my son's room. LOL

Tags: mobile phone apps, iphone, blackberry, nokia, google android, downloads

Chocolate-Covered Grasshoppers

These marketers know how to get attention!

I received a FedEx package today. I opened it and there was a package of chocolate-covered grasshoppers! Attached was a card that said:

ENTREPRENEURS can CHANGE the WORLD. JOIN the MOVEMENT NOW!
grasshopper.com/idea

I had no idea about grasshopper.com, but I now I know! Turns out it is an advanced telephone service for entrepreneurs. Evidently, they are rebranding gotvmail.com to grasshopper.com and this is one of their marketing tools. See the video below for more information on changing the world. LOL

Tags: grasshoppercom, chocolate covered grasshoppers, change the world, telephone service, ,

AdWords Bug is a Mystery to Me

If the limitation of 25 characters for a title on your Google ad is bothering you. Here is a bug, workaround or insider information (who knows) that may help you.

Google Reveals Technique to Increase Ad Title Length! | ineedhits

So it seems the answer is dynamic keyword insertion. What is dynamic keyword insertion? It’s an advanced feature in AdWords which allows the advertisers to insert code into the ad text. Then when the searcher sees your ad, the keyword they used in that search replaces the code in you ad text.

I have noticed that some advertisers are taking advantage of this technique. You will notice it, too; it throws the entire ad format off. Guaranteed to draw the eye to the ad. Read the entire ineedhits post for more information.

Tags: adwords, dynamic keyword insertion, google

April Top Droppers on CoolAdzine

Below is a listing of the top droppers on this blog in April. While I was unable to drop on them, they continued to drop on me. They have my sincere thanks. Through this post, they all have a "do follow" link from me.

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Kids Toys - Kids Toys, Kids Gift Ideas And Game Reviews at The Toy Report. Parents and friends of kids can find kids gift suggestions and toy reviews for kids aged 1 to 11.

Traders' Hub - My blog gives trading advice, makes critical reviews of related sites, and teaches trading techniques.

Business & Life Success - Center for Business Success, Life Success, Management Success and Career Success

KuTenk 2000 - Learning Corner - Get Free Knowledge and PDF EBook Download.

The Pond - A mom of grown children who talks about everyday things such as quilting, books, movies, travel and owning a small business.

Learning How To Make Money Online - Learn How To Make Money Online

Swirling Thoughts - Critical political views and swirling thoughts on life in retrospect as one approaches the golden age

Tags: top droppers, entrecard, do follow link, thank you