Artroute.com is my bookmarklets hub

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ol-thompson-rivers-university/

found on Yahoo Search

http://www.distancestudies.com/profile.cfm?artid=29013

http://www.ola.bc.ca/

The Directory of Canadian Universities

TRU Open Learning on wikipedia

Education Planner

Campus Starter

SFU Library FAQs

Study Canada – this is TRU, where is TRU-OL?

Thompson Rivers University – Open Learning (group) on Facebook

School of Public Administration

BC Transfer Guide

Canadian Universities Net

CA School of Business – 2007, 2005 only; need to update

Distance Education Canada – need to add more programs/ courses but their server has problems

Degrees.com

Association of Canadian Mountain Guides

PCL Westcoast Inc.

ISEP Canada – TRU only

What about Athabasca University

They have its info on The Town of Athabasca webpage. We do not have TRU Open Learning on Kamloops.ca. Why?

They have information on Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials -we do not. PLAR where are you?

We are not here but our TRU is here – Schoolsincanada.com

http://www.slideshare.net/HubSpot

HubSpot provides inbound Internet marketing software to help companies leverage inbound marketing to get found online in search engines, blogs, and social media, and also convert more visitors into leads and customers

1. Special events – Relate your blog topic to a special event, national day of, or holiday.

2. News – Subscribe to Google news alert on your keywords and write about the latest news in your niche.

3. Review something, for example, new course review

4. Respond to a post on another blog in a niche similar or related to yours.

5. Blog milestone – Write about your blogging milestones, such as publishing your 100th post, getting your 1000th comment….

6. Niche heroes -Blog about a person who made a positive contribution in your niche.

7. Blog memes – Join in blog memes such as “Wordless Wednesday”. There’s at least one for every day of the week!

9. FAQs in your niche – Write a short Q & A based on FAQs about your niche.

10. Blog comment response – Write a long and expanded response to a comment on your blog.

11. Predict trends – What do you see happening in your niche in a year? 5 years?

12. Historical view – What was your niche in the past? Or what past event influenced your niche?

13. Top tips on any topic of interest to your readers.

14. Best of… – A good year ender, make a list of your best posts for the year.

15. Contests – Organize a contest for your blog readers, or make a list of contests your readers can join.

16. What I learned from… a current event, a person you met, or an experience you had.

17. Definitions – Define terms that are commonly used in your niche but a beginner may not understand

18. New products – Not a review but simply an announcement of a new product relevant to your niche.

19. Biggest problem – Ask your readers what their biggest problem is about your blog topic or niche. They post their answers in the comments section.

20. Biggest problem follow up – Summarize the comments from #19 in another post.

21. Biggest problem follow up series – Write a separate blog post tackling each question from #19.

22. Interview somebody knowledgeable in your niche, or has succeeded in it, or is otherwise interesting to your readers.

23. Big list – Compile a big list of various resources. The bigger the better!

24. Reader Survey – Put up a brief survey online and blog about the results.

25. Be provocative. Challenge a common belief or widely accepted idea in your niche.

26. New idea – What new idea about your blog topic or niche have you come across lately?

27. YouTube – Embed a funny, moving or insightful video on YouTube. You can even have a “video day” once a week.

28. YouTube version 2 – Make YOUR own YouTube video. Publish it on YouTube then embed on your blog. This way, you can attract traffic from YouTube to your blog.

29. Freebie – Scour the ‘net for freebies that your readers will love. Or create a freebie of your own, such as a checklist or special report.

30. Personal story – Use a personal story to illustrate an important concept or principle in your niche.

31. Free to publish articles – Check out relevant articles in article directories such as Ezine Articles… but don’t publish them entirely on your blog. Instead, use an article or a group of articles as your take-off point for a blog post, or several.

33. Photo – A picture is worth thousand words, right? Search Flickr for creative commons pictures that your readers will like.

34. Hot topics – Look at Digg for hot topics in your niche

35. Pros and cons – Examine what’s good and bad about something related to your blog topic

36. Respond to relevant questions you find in Ask.com

37. Guest post – Invite another blogger to write a guest post for your blog

38. Reader’s post – Invite blog subscribers to submit an article or post to be published on the blog

39. Inspirational post – Write a motivational post for your readers.

40. Update an old post with fresh ideas, new learnings and current research findings.

41. Beginner’s guide – What do beginners in your niche struggle with? Write a post to guide them through it.

42. Best list – Patterned after “best dressed lists” make a list of the best ___ in your niche.

43. Worst list – Make your version of the “worst dressed list” for your niche.

44. New uses for – Think of new ways your readers can use gadgets and other stuff.

45. Write about a live event that you attended and what you learned from it.

46. Bribe post – Bribe your readers with a freebie in exchange for subscribing to your newsletter or RSS feed.

47. Around the world – Compare how people in different countries do something related to your niche.

48. Seasonal – Relate the month or season to your blog topic.

49. Blog carnival – Join or host a blog carnival, where several publish posts about the same topic on the same day. What that?

50. Host a virtual “conference” on your blog – Invite “speakers” to publish their post on a specified date and time. Q&A happens in the comments section.

I chose these idead from 50 blogging ideas from http://internetmarketingformommies.com/50-great-ideas-for-blog-content/

here are the details of a company that specialise in developing a digital version in the style of an online book:

http://www.wikieducator.org/Thompson_Rivers_University_(TRU)_Open_Learning_(TRU-OL)

TRU OPen Learning are here on its list at http://www.wikieducator.org/Handbook_of_Open_Universities

Thosmpson Rivers University (TRU) on Wikipedia is here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_Rivers_University

and TRU Open Learning is here – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_Rivers_University,_Open_Learning_(TRU-OL)

http://www.industrymailout.com — recommended by Laurie

http://www.constantcontact.com

http://www.verticalresponse.com

http://www.youtube.com/edu

Youtube now has an educational channel (http://www.youtube.com/edu). It is sort of the video equivalent of Google Scholar with universities and other educational institutions contributing content.