Here are our on-site workshops for the month of April/May at Irvine Valley College, in Irvine, California.

You may access this information in the IVC Community Education PDF Spring Schedule of Classes: http://www.123getsmart.com/documents/IVC_Spring_2010_Proof_3.pdf

or by visiting the official website of IVC Community Education: http://www.123getsmart.com/

SAT English Workshop $149
This class is for students who wish to score high on the official SAT English section. The
workshop will cover in depth the critical reading section, and students will learn about and
practice sentence completion and passage-based reading exercises. The workshop will also
cover: vocabulary, writing section including the essay, identifying sentence errors, improving sentences and paragraphs.

Instructor: Ioan Elvis Sersea, M.A., M.A.T.
4:00-6:30pm Fri 4/30-5/21 CEC 2

SAT English Vocabulary$149
The SAT Vocabulary Series uses the in class text SAT Vocabulary Flash cards Flip-O Matic –
500 Essential Words, published by Kaplan. Students identify and build lists of unfamiliar SAT level vocabulary and study them at home as well as in the classroom. Vocabulary skills
will also be introduced from the Official SAT Study Guide by College Board.

Instructor: Ioan Elvis Sersea, M.A., M.A.T.
6:30-9:00pm Fri 4/30-5/21 CEC 2

We look forward to being of service.

Note: We are not associated with College Board and are not endorsed by them. As they are the official publishers and owners of the trademarks  of the SAT assessment, we believe in going “to the source” and using materials from the test makers directly, for the benefit of our students.

Welcome to Teach Me Help Me Educational Services’ Internet Marketing Newsletter for March, 2010.

In this issue we feature some of our latest no-cost internet offerings to help with online marketing and visibility of our customers’ websites.

Need a free blog for your company?
Blogs are highly interactive and allow for easy addition of news and information, as well as comments and feedback from customers.
Company Blogs, http://companyblogs.info ,  is one of our over 40 blog hosting service communities which features over 120 templates and dozens of plugins, including Twitter integration, where each blog post automatically becomes a “Tweet”, and each “Tweet” automatically is added as a post in your blog. We also can create and add a chatroom specific to your company on your blog, so that you can chat in real time with your customers. Contact us and we can build a blog for your company free of charge.

Would you like to share your company’s information with the world?  Share your PDF brochures, and customer guides easily by creating a free account and uploading your files to our new document sharing service, DocuSharing, http://docusharing.com , h

Would you like to translate something in a different language quickly? We have an online translation service for 41 language named Translation Help, http://TranslationHelp.info .

If you haven’t used our internet marketing services yet, we would like to remind you that our current promotion includes a no-cost solution.
E-mail us today and we would be happy to be of  assistance.

Teach Me Help Me Educational Services offers numerous non-cost and low-cost services that are both on-site and online. Visit our website today to learn more about us: http://TeachMeHelpMe.com

Guide: The Alexa Toolbar
It’s no surprise by now that Alexa ranking is one of our favorite  measuring tools for website visibility and traffic.
Here’s information on the Alexa Toolbar, a tool you need to have on your browser to be able to do your own measurement of progress and performance: http://www.alexa.com/toolbar/tour
Once you read the above, go ahead and download the Alexa toolbar:
http://www.alexa.com/toolbar
The Alexa Toolbar features the following:
1. Alexa Traffic Rank – to measure the popularity of a website – the lower the number the better
2. Related Links – find similar websites related to yours
3. Wayback Machine – see how a website, or your site, used to look like in the past
4. Hot Pages and Searches – what’s hot and popular now on the internet
5. Website Reviews – read reviews by other Alexa members on various sites, including yours
Once you have it installed, you can view visibility ranking of you site and your competitors’ as well.
Give it a try and write and share your findings by adding a comment here.
3/28/2010 Updates:
Featured Current Internet Marketing Customers and Advertising Partners

We have been serving the internet marketing needs of Horizons University, based in France, since January, 2010.  Since then, Alexa online traffic ranking has improved from tens of millions, to 1,462,911 and 179,484 Traffic Rank in the the USA.

On February 23rd we began serving Marhilda Organization, a non-profit educational organization serving Horizons University. We are glad to note that from absolutely no traffic rank, Marhilda Organization now is down to 2,948,003 Alexa rank.

On February 24th we began serving MIH Social Marketing.  We are glad to note that from a 12,591,358 Alexa traffic rank, it is now down to 6,317,527 .

On March 4th, we began serving Shutter Stories a premier photography studio, training, and events center in Southern California. We are glad to note that from a 7,440,709 Alexa traffic rank, it is now down to : 5,113,020.

On March 8th, we began serving Absolutely Classical, a classical musicians’ group based in Switzerland, Europe.  On March 13th, the Alexa ranking was as high as 18,842,131, and it is now much better, at 7,338,244

Just two days ago we began serving Machu Pichu Rental, specializing in townhouse renting in historical Cusco, Peru.  The site had absolutely no Alexa Ranking (the highest ranking starts at about 28 million), and in just 2 days of our SEO optimization efforts, the site is down to 15,086,346.

We also now offer Twitter Internet Marketing Assistance – Do you need more online visibility? Contact us:

Here are some of our newest online services that can assist you in marketing your website and services on other websites that link back to yours. These sites have been proven to help bring visitors to websites and we plan on writing more about them in our April newsletter:
http://AnswerTopics.com
http://Anecdotals.com
http://DigitalSocialite.com

We are currently creating approximately 9-10 online courses for English Learners that will soon be offered to English as a Second Language, ESL, English as a Foreign Language, EFL, and English Language Learners, ELL, throughout the planet, on the Moodle LMS. Are you an English learner? Join our weekly newsletter that features online activities, lessons, and guides to improving English:

Now that Teach Me Help Me Educational Services is focused on maintaining stronger ties with our web visitors and customers, we’re creating newsletters for each of the niches we serve.
Earlier today we sent out our first Internet Marketing Newsletter in which we featured Alexa information as well as celebrated some of our customers who have websites that have shown significant improvements in web traffic.

For a very limited time, and for the first 10 visitors who sign up for our newsletter, we will promote your website on over 120 search engines and give you specific guidance on what to do to increase the numbers of visitors to your site, absolutely free, if you sign up to our newsletter above, and then click on the “Contact Us” page above, and share with us your website information.

How can we turn the internet into a tool for development and transformation rather than virtual consumerism and promotion of narcissism?
By building, creating, sharing, collaborating, engaging, participating, partaking, empathizing and much, much more. Here’s another one of my feeble attempts to take jabs at the transactional, entertainment-based internet of today, by re-purposing a script that resembles the FMyLife one, yet not the intent of sharing outrageous pubescent stories, or misfortunes, but of that of sharing and discussing empowering anecdotes that can encourage, guide, and brighten up the lives of most who read them.
Anecdotals.com , one of our newest online websites and transformative communities welcomes you.
We are also in the process of building from the ground up a blog for Anecdotals at: http://TeachMeHelpMe.com/Anecdotals.
Visit our Twitter Page: http://Twitter.com/anecdotalsweb Our Facebook page will also be online soon…. Join us in transforming the internet into a meaningful, inspirational tool for life and growth.

In addition to our work on DigitalSocialite microblogging script and upcoming online community, we’ve acquired another script which has some high potential. DocuSharing.com , after our intensive customization efforts currently underway, aims to enable anyone, including business partners, colleagues, friends, families, and students to post rough-draft assignments or documents to be read, rated, and commented on.
We believe that this Web 2.0 collaborative experience may help in improving writing and clarity as an end result. Students will surely find the writing process as a more engaging means to edit rough drafts.
One key element of the service we aim to continue with is that documents can be hosted, uploaded, and read by others visiting the site, but not downloaded or “appropriated” by others.
The script for DocuSharing.com will undergo some major customizations, and with some luck, there will be 3 different instances for it available to serve in different ways: DocuSharing.com will continue to provide the interactivity of peer editing, comments, and rating for all. DocuSharing.org will serve educational institutions, teachers, and students primarily. DocuSharing.net will allow for open sharing, uploading, and downloading of documents in addition to the commenting, and rating functions.
We would greatly appreciate any constructive comments or advice you can share on it: http://DocuSharing.com Thanks!

Do you wish Twitter wasn’t so…. Haiku? Can it be damaging to the human psyche to be limited to communicate in short phrases that lack clarity, complexity, and helpful details? For the past few days we’ve undertaken a new project, to create a microblogging alternative to Twitter (now in beta stages) which allows 700 character posts, photo embedding in posts, and which encourages meaningful, transformative, edusocial, and intercultural
exchanges of ideas, thoughts, and comments. It is named DigitalSocialite, http://DigitalSocialite.com . While the popular microblogging service encourages meaningless chatter from anyone “who’s anyone” in the mass media stage, we want to redirect attention away from the glam and glitz of stardom, and into the depth, and meaning behind the posts. Indeed, anyone who thinks and shares meaningful information, thoughts, and comments on DigitalSocialite becomes a digital socialite, not because of the real-world fame, but because of the ideas shared and collaboration maintained with other like-minded members.
The intention for the upcoming DigitalSocialite community is on sharing transformative knowledge and experiences of an edu-social context, in a positive, intercultural, as well as multicultural – friendly online publishing and sharing platform.
Here’s our account on http://DigitalSocialite.com for more info: http://www.digitalsocialite.com/profile/1/TeachMeHelpMe.
Here’s a blog recently built here, on Teach Me Help Me Educational Services’ official page, for this new online service and community: http://teachmehelpme.com/digitalsocialiteblog/
We ask for your assistance in creating a better, more intelligent online community out there. Please share your constructive comments and suggestions below.
Thank you,
Elvis Sersea, Founder of Teach Me Help Me Educational Services

Teach Me Help Me Educational Services has been offering onsite test preparation and literacy workshops through Irvine Valley College since 2007.  In 2010, we’re expanding our on-site workshop locations to include Twin Peaks, California, centrally located midway between Wrightwood and Big Bear mountain resorts, and just 4 miles from Lake Arrowhead , California, an internationally renowned mountain resort community.

For some time now, we have been evaluating our hundreds of  free, edu-social online sites and web-services into families of sites.  Recently, we’ve categorized our sites into families and named each family based on the specific niche content and services each provides. From the very beginning we have envisioned taking part in creating the internet to be a more transformative technology tool in people’s lives all over the planet.  We strongly believe that a ballanced internet is key to our planet’s progress and survival.  We would like to see the internet’s priorities as:

1. Primarily known for providing tools for success and empowerment.

2. Secondarily known for information, entertainment and other elective pursuits.

We would like to believe that most of our sites fit in category 1 above.

Here is a list of our 25 transformative families of edusocial online websites and services, in no particular order:

1.  Mountain Web Tools

2. EduSocial Web Tools

3. ESL Web Tools

4. Literary Web Tools

5. Teacher Web Tools

6. Student Web Tools

7. School Web Tools

8. Senior Web Tools

9. Tourism Web Tools

10. Music Web Tools

11. Business Web Tools

12. Internet Web Tools

13. Language Web Tools

14. Educational Web Tools

15. Forum Hosting Sites

16. Blog Hosting Sites

17. Photo Hosting Sites

18. MultiMedia Sites

19. Poll Hosting Sites

20. Online Article Sites

21. Online Game Sites

22. Online Postcard Sites

23. Link Directory Sites

24. Online Guestbook Sites

25. Online Chat Sites

Each of these families of sites now have their own specific blog within our TeachMeHelpMe.com site which identifies the different sites included in each family as well as helpful guidance, upcoming news, and information.  In addition, each of our families of sites now have a Twitter page, where news, helpful links, and helpful tips are shared.  In addition, we have created individual pages for each of our families on Facebook, in order to offer a constructive, collaborative, and interactive community for our visitors and members.  Later in 2010, once we complete construction of our individual blog gateways for each of our families of online sites and services, we will consider additional social networking tools.

What are some of our planned online projects for 2010, providing there is sufficient growth in traffic to our websites, as well as peace and well being all around:

1. We would like to possibly add one or more servers, or transition to a web cluster for more capacity, and faster loading times.

2. Since our current revenue from our site advertising  matches only about 3% of our monthly costs, not including the hundreds of hours spent managing  our sites, we plan on reviewing various other advertising options, including on-site workshops for current and possible members interested in our various niche products and services.  We may offer the option of adding additional web-space to our hosting site members who are interested, and are also looking at the possibility of selling website domains.

3. We’re highly interested in social media, especially keeping our eyes on Twitter, and aim to offer services for Twitter users who wish to get context-based Twitter feeds, as well as submit their tweets remotely and asynchronously. Also, we’re looking into putting together Web 2.0 and Social Media workshops to assist digital immigrants take their first steps in publishing on the internet.

4. We’re also highly interested in offering online chat, virtual world 3D communities,  as well as in community and city portal established scripts, and aim to look into the feasibility of working with small communities and offering these as part of our EduSocial Web Tools services.

5.  We’re continuing our quest for helpful Web 2.0 web  scripts of tools and online-resources to adapt and offer in the upcoming future. Our goal is to offer 10 new online services  and sites by the end of 2010 that would include # 3 and # 4 above as well.

We would greatly appreciate any constructive suggestions and advice from our site visitors and members, and remain available via our Skype account at: TeachMeHelpMe via voice-message or phone as well.

Thank you for joining us,

Ioan Elvis Sersea, M.A., M.A.T.

Teach Me Help Me Educational Services Founder, Webmaster, Workshop Presenter

We’ve started from scratch, with a new platform, and numerous plugins to make our site more efficient in providing helpful information and media to our visitors, members, and customers.

We’re just about done with the technical aspect, and we’re now going to populate our site with helpful and important information about Teach Me Help Me Educational Services as well as share our free web-tools with you.

Please visit back soon for more information.

Thank you for visiting,

MaestroSersea