8 Useful business concept from Olivet College of Business

What is a US Trademark?

What are Economies of Scale?

W2 Employee versus 1099 Independent Contractor

What is a Level 5 Leader, and why Christians have an Advantage in Business

What is the 80-20 rule?

How to Apply Value-Based Pricing

What is your BHAG?

Online Marketing Overview

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http://ocb.olivetuniversity.edu/

OU Commencement is tomorrow !

Exciting..

Enjoy good food!~

OCAD Completes Class on Identity and Intro to Advertising

Olivet College of Art & Design winter quarter wrap up with great student work and reflection both online and onsite class.

Olivet University Design students choose best course ‘Identity’ taught by Maurice Wood and ‘Intro to Advertising’ taught by Anthony Lafler.

‘Identity’ class developed an identity and communications system as part of their final projects. ‘Intro to Advertising’ class introduced to advertising design and strategy, covering the basics of the design process from beginning to end.

Maurice Wood ‘Identity’ Class did final presentation at San Francisco campus.
http://ocad.olivetuniversity.edu/

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OIT Is Opening Informatio​n Storage and Retrieval Course

Automated retrieval of Information is calling for efficiency in nowadays. The ministries are in need of such techniques, too. In order to serve the ministries better, Olivet Institute of Technology expand the curriculum to offer this IR course. 

The main topics of the course are: analysis of text and storage; ranking, query processing and retrieval models; evaluations, classification and clustering and more contemporary issues such as social search and object search.

The course is useful for ministries who is using server-based automatic crawling and SEO for any marketing purpose or who is providing portal service by getting search results from various contents in a short time.

The Prerequisite Courses for this course is Data Structure, Probability and Statistics, Natural Language Processing and Java Programming.

http://oit.olivetuniversity.edu/

Ralph D Winter Library

The Ralph D Winter Library was dedicated at Olivet University on September 10, 2007 in a renaming ceremony. The library was presented in person to Dr. Ralph Winter and his wife in honor of the work he has done as one of his generation's foremost mission strategists. Dr. Winter was named one of the 25 most influential evangelicals in Time Magazine in 2005.

http://www.rdwl.org/

Olivet University Doctor of Ministry Program

Four Phase

There are four phases to the Doctor of Ministry program. Students will be assigned mentors who will work with them throughout the process. Foundational papers and project proposals are then prepared for approval before implementation. Upon completion of the project, analysis must be provided alongside a final paper and oral defense.

Phase 1

At the beginning of the first phase of the Doctor of Ministry program, the candidate will be assigned a mentor according to his or her field. The mentor is to engage with the student in discussion of future direction for the candidate's goal in the program.
The major assignment in Phase 1 is to write a spiritual autobiography. The candidate may be asked to do additional assignments that demonstrate the candidate's Biblical and theological knowledge, ministry insights, and/or writing ability.

Phase 2

Two Foundation papers are an important part of completing Phase 2 of the D. Min. process. The reading and research to complete the two foundational papers will demonstrate the candidate's comprehensive knowledge on Biblical background, historical background, theological background, and the current state of the art in the planned area of the D. Min. project.

Phase 3

In the third phase, the candidate should carry out and complete the project defined in the project proposal. The completion of this project and gathering of data is an important part of this phase.
Research should be completed by the candidate realizing that a limited sample of data will be generated for analysis and reporting. The candidate should also draft chapters, that will roughly cover the motivation for this project, background information, and the description of the project.

Phase 4

In the fourth and final phase of the Doctor of Ministry program, the candidate is to analyze the data gathered by the project and complete the Final Paper. Once the candidate successfully passes the oral defense, either with no or minor changes to make, then the candidate should coordinate with the Library to bind the papers. The papers will be published as the Candidate receives a Doctor of Ministry Degree from Olivet University.

DISSERTATION OVERVIEW

The dissertation "Final Paper" is a major piece of independent scholarly research in a chosen field of theological study, enhancing knowledge beyond the actual state of research in the given area.

Students in the Doctoral program will clearly define their topic and scope of the dissertation. The problem which needs to be solved by way of academic research, must be explicitly defined in the introduction, and the appropriate methods and logical steps to be taken.

A dissertation concisely demonstrates awareness of the current state of research on the topic as well as of the latest relevant literature. It should go from there to the argument, and not dwell at length on matters already covered satisfactorily by others.

A dissertation must show ability to precisely handle the appropriate methods in the chosen field of research. The student will work with relevant sources, and diligently document the use of primary and secondary sources.

http://www.olivetuniversity.edu/zinzendorf/program/dmin-dissertation.html

Doctoral Colloquium

The Zinzendorf School of Doctoral Studies hosts a series of colloquia each year bringing together students and faculty from around the world to meet and study. Locations for these events are hosted in different cities across the world. The gathering provides opportunity for fellow students and faculty to gather face to face in exchanging ideas. The colloquium allows the participants to form a learning community and fellowship that creates lifelong friendships.

One of the goals of the doctoral papers and presentations is to provide guided training for introducing a scholarly debate and generating interaction. Faculty and students attending the presentation are given the opportunity to interact, evaluate the abilities of the presenter, and respondingto listeners in posing relevant questions.

Any student asking to be excused from attending the colloquium and/or to be exempt from presenting a paper or report must submit a request in writing with explanations so that the Doctoral Committee can decide whether to grant the request.

Current doctoral participants will be notified on upcoming colloquia along with information for travel, lodging, and other accommodations.

http://www.olivetuniversity.edu/zinzendorf/colloquium/

Olivet University Commemcement 2013 approaching

Graduation and Commencement of Olivet University 2013 is to be held on Jun 28. The official site has already up at : http://commencement.olivetuniversity.edu/

This year's commencement speaker will feature Mr. John Langlois, World Evangelical Alliance Secretary and WEA Religious Liberty Commission Chairman. Mr. Langlois will also be the recipient of an honorary doctorate degree.

Olivet University Technology Students get Hands-on with Google Glass

Several students from the Olivet University's Institute of Technology explored the striking new Google's Glass computer headset.  The Google Glass device was seen during the Google I/O Developers Conference last month in San Francisco.  Through an OIT student's network acquaintance, a Google Glass device was available for students to experiment with.

They marveled at the construction and technology packed inside.  The lightness, simplicity and scalability of Google Glass' titanium frame, light sensor, internal memory, processor, battery, camera, microphone, WiFi 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth, 12GB of usable memory are just some of the specs included on the device.

Users can speak to it through voice commands, beginning with "OK Glass," then swiping and tapping through the touchpads on the glass.  Through the device, students hope to develop building blocks of a web-based glassware. Glass apps can be built in Java, PHP, or Python programming languages.

Google has set up App Engine Software Development Kits (SDKs) for each language. The mirror API provides building blocks to build the glassware and timeline cards to display the content. The cards can be plain text, HTML, photos and video.

The futuristic wearable headgear is said to be a revolutionary step in computing and social networking. People will be able to interact with their surrounding environment in a new way.  The technology also spurns controversy and concerns on privacy.  The device spawned deep discussions on whether this new technology can redefine the industry or whether it will be a passing trend.

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Learning curve for popular CMS

The Roman Project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-xNAZLAfNQ&list=PLT4bktJpJ-MBvXsd7qFBd7PkfeereEQ-N

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Surrounding of Olivet University and the city of San Francisco

Olivet University is located in 250 4th St, San Francisco with its main campus at the center of downtown San Francisco, a block away from Yerba Buena Gardens.  This garden is a very unique garden in that it embeded the garden between modern buildings. Yerba Buena Gardens opened on October 11, 1993. In 1998 Mayor Willie Brown opened the Children’s Garden and took the first ride on the newly restored Carousel. It is the very best places that students of Olivet University to stay and spend lunch time under the leisure California sunshine.

Not far away from this garden, there is a SFMOMA museum, which its full name is San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It has some special time to offer free tickets to students, so that it is also a wonderful place to visit. The only thing that I find it is hard to understand, personally for me, is that MOMA has many very modern paintings, some of them are just blank boards or 2 single lines on the canvas. I really do not understand what they want to convey, however, the museum do have many interesting expositions.
The Moscone Center, also near the Yerba Buena Gardens, is worth mentioning in the life of an Olivet University student. It has many yearly big conferences so that students can attend to talk with the top engieers and business man to get insight into the industrial fields.

Some of the big yearly conferences I can mention here:
Google I/O   https://developers.google.com/events/io/
Macworld   http://www.macworldiworld.com/
Web 2.0 Expo  http://www.web2expo.com/
JavaOne http://www.oracle.com/javaone/index.html
Intel Forum  http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/intel-developer-forum-idf/san-francisco/idf-2012-san-francisco.html
Semicon West http://semiconwest.org/
RSA Security Conference http://www.rsaconference.com/events/2013/usa/
Game Developers Conference http://gdconf.com
And so on. .
You can find news writing about how Olivet University students attend such meetings like:
http://www.olivetnews.com/articles/2013/05/20/806/olivet-university-google-i&-47;o-2013-lines-up-innovation--inspirations.htm

The 4th Street that Olivet University is locating extends to Market street, which is the main street of the San Francisco city.  You can find businesses like Old Navy, Gap inc near the cross of 4th St. and Market St. If you want to go to China Town in San Francisco, you can just take 30 or 45 San Francisco Muni Bus with a few stops.

The China Town at San Francisco is claimed to be the largest China Town outside Asia. Its first Chinese immigrants can date from the year of 1848. The first Old ST. Mary's Church opened at 1854. So obviously it has a long history and it attracts many visitors yearly. For Olivet University students  China Town can be a good place to buy food to cook and many life necessities that are not expensive. San Francisco Muni is the public transportation system in San Francisco. Once many design students had designed identity or logo for San Francisco Muni systems.

See here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olivetuniversity/8828069110/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olivetuniversity/8828070312/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olivetuniversity/8828076478/

It has monthly pass and also some pass combined with Bart, the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit. Olivet students usually take Bart to San Francisco Airport or to the University of California, Berkeley .  San Francisco International Airport is a very modern airport. You can also find some design works for SFO and Bart by Olivet University students here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olivetuniversity/8827982204/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olivetuniversity/8827982804/
http://pinterest.com/pin/243335186089310600/

Olivet University is also not far away from most of San Francisco's Attractions. You can take the F bus to go to Fishing-man's Wharf. You can take 30 bus and transfer to 28 to reach Golden Gate Bridge. You can also visit San Francisco Golden Gate Park by taking the No. 5 bus at Market Streets. If you go to the last stop of No. 5 bus, you will see you in front of the Pacific Ocean at San Francisco Ocean Beach. It is a very freshing place for Olivet University students except sometimes it is quite windy and cold at autumn and winter.

Olivet University is also not far away from the world's famous Silicon Valley. By taking 30 or 45 bus for 4 stops you can reach the Caltrain station, which you can take the Caltrain to go to Palo Alto ( Stanford University), Mountain View , and even San Jose. You can visit Google, Yahoo, Apple, HP, Cisco, Intel, IDEO, Adobe and other famous companies in one day. If you drive, you can take the 101 or 280 Highway, heading South for less than an hour.

San Francisco is also a good place to do outdoors and sports. Olivet has many student clubs to various sports like soccer, basketball, volleyball and Ping-pong  There is a Facebook page for many interesting sports photos by Olivet University students:
https://www.facebook.com/olivetuniversityathletics

Once Olivet has several soccer match with GGBTS, which is Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary.
http://www.olivetuniversity.edu/news/articles/1969/12/31/346/olivet--ggbts-students-gather-in-fellowship.htm