We are surrounded by hundreds of news feed sources, nearly all the time. What makes the press so special in today’s technology-driven world is that almost all news reports are digital. With the use of newspaper fading by the day, nearly all consumers rely on their mobile devices to catch up on the news. However, this leaves newsrooms with the reality that they have to compete with hundreds of sources for consumer attention. What can make your newsroom stand out? Real time news feed and the ability for consumers to be social. When consumers can read stories and discuss them all on the same easy-to-use mobile platform, your newsroom is the center of attention. With iQ Press, your newsroom can… • Easily evaluate data for analysis, segmentation, and targeted marketing • Review analytics to monitor user engagement from varied markets • Deploy targeted advertising and promotions based on reader interests • Introduce new products and services to your targets • Build revenue with sponsored pages and content • Enable readers to engage and connect on a deeper level • Provide a community for like-minded people Newsrooms around the world are faced with the reality that consumers today have multiple sources […]
One of the most critical components to a student’s success is engagement. It is found time and time again that students cannot properly attain material without their engagement with their teacher and other students. That said, student and teacher collaboration should be part of the class curriculum. Why is that? Students have questions. Questions that need to be answered. And when students feel as though they can easily have access to answering these questions, learning is a much simpler process. In addition, students have always been traditionally put into a classroom together for a reason. Students, from a young age, have been taught to form into groups to solve questions and learn from one another. In fact, it has been found that students who have practiced teaching the material to other students can much for effectively “master” the material. So, if human interaction is such a key part of the learning process, what are students of MOOCS (major open online courses) to do when their teacher could be hundreds of miles away? Most MOOCs have found this to be a problem. However, IQ has found a solution to this block in the system. IQ has designed an online course platform […]
Often students enrolled in any class, from any institution, will look for guidance from others, preferably expertise. Students will seek out professional tutors when looking for academic help, but that can be expensive. Students exploring music may need to seek off campus to find a musician to help them practice. Others may need help navigating around an online course and setting up a program, in which they would need to find a computer technician. Many students feel that they need to find these specialists separately, and may spend hundreds of dollars doing so. However, a college institution is full of thousands of intuitive teachers, specialists, and experts. Some of these people may in fact be the same students that walk the campus. Why not look to student peers, whom are attending the very same institution as those looking for help, to be the experts? By allowing students to teach other students, universities can easily create an environment in which there is a strong sense of community. Students can feel comfortable in confiding in teachers and students from the same school, and will want to give back to their school. In addition, students will be able to learn immensely from teaching […]
What makes a business successful? With the thousands of independent businesses struggling to make it in the world, it is easy to forget what consumers value in a business platform. The key to a successful business is simple; an easily accessible business-to-consumer connection. Your business should be able to connect with others at any level. Employees, customers, partners, and fans should all have access to your platform’s information and be able to easily collaborate with your business or organization. When consumers, employees, and partners have constant engagement with their company, they feel safe and confident in their investments. The result: A more effective, connected business. Whether your goal is to increase brand awareness, improve workforce productivity, or measure customer satisfaction, our community platform helps you achieve your business goals. Business, along with any organizations, all have the ability to achieve this level connection. With iQ, your business/organization will have the capability to: • Provide contextual real-time communications across all user bases • Leverage your organization’s collective expertise to make informed decisions • Accelerate new employee onboarding with more seamless assimilation into your company culture • Quicken customer onboarding faster with your brand familiarity • Enrich corporate learning systems across the […]
We share our past experiences in education, employment and interests with others so that connections can be established. We find ourselves doing this all the time; whether it be to apply for a job, or submitting an application to a university. We repeat the same information over and over again; where we’ve gone to school, the degrees we’ve earned, our past employment, and the things we do best. What makes iQ different, is incorporating rich, academic profiles for all members to represent their academic learning journey. Members can use a profile that tracks the history and progress as they go. Learners can track their achievements, certificates, skills, courses, grades, portfolios, employments, and even payments. Profiles can also track competency-based learning programs and any online courses a student has taken. This modern-day online transcript enables institutions to more efficiently review an applicant’s information. Viewers see an organized and mapped-out journey of the learner, rather than a disordered group of events packed into a couple paragraphs. Using this unique iQ feature, members applying to an online institution can apply with just a click of a button, submitting what they already have built up on their rich academic profile. In addition, connections between […]
Blogging has taken over the internet community as we are encouraged to share our ideas, teach others, and express our passions with the world. Even more convenient is the fact that we can do this from anywhere, at anytime. Blogging has become so popular, that according to a recent study, nearly 77% of all internet users are also internet blog readers. This means blogging has an effect on us more than ever. Blogging may influence our opinions, convince us to purchase new products, and most importantly, allows to be open to a whole new world of learning. Expertise on a wide variety of subjects are able to express their knowledge to an endless community eager to learn. What we have available to us is an infinite teacher-to-student interaction ready to be used. Why, then, shouldn’t we integrate blogging into the world of online education? Not only will teachers be able to share what is going on in their classroom, but students will be able to share their ideas, information, and knowledge of the topics they’re interested in. Combining blogs with the classroom allows students and teachers to share their passions with an entire institution community all at once. In addition, […]
Polls can be a powerful tool when it comes to ones education. Polls have been used as a popular method of surveying the public, whether it be in a newspaper or on a website. We use this information to gather opinions and feedback from a wide range audience, which can help students make school related decisions, such as teacher or class comparisons. Students can also use polls as a useful way to gather research for school projects, such as surveying the amount of hours students spend studying, or the impact of lack of sleep on test scores. This ease of access to public opinion enables students to effectively and accurately produce information, making the research process more convenient for students. When students have tools they can utilize, student productivity and inspiration will increase. iQ technologies offers a tool where students can create a poll at the tip of their fingertips. They also have control over the audience of the poll, with a feature to share with the public or just one’s network. iQ technologies also offers a variety of visible features to help students organize their data and research, such as Graphical display of responses in bar or pie charts, […]
Today iQ released several progressive updates to our unique business and education social media platforms! Among the additions are: – Podcast integration into the activity stream, including merging with SoundCloud – Share presentations easily with our integration with Slideshare – Easily integrate the viewing of live events and channels with Ustream TV – SMS text support, for phone updates of comments, messages and trending on users’ individual industry, corporate and educational sites. – Upgraded chat activity, as well as heightened integration with the platform’s core messaging system. In short, this means iQ platform users at corporations and agencies, universities and school districts, and government departments worldwide can now more easily find and view information in their activity stream, as well as receive quicker updates and connections to their business, school, or agency network. Check out iQ’s tech industry and social media platform innovations at iQ Technologies.