WELCOME TO ALL FRESHMEN

          

            Google Club CUC welcomes all freshmen to this vibrant association(Club). It is therefore a great journey for all freshmen to be part of this school and with colossal enthusiasm to have technology in mind. It is part of our aims and objectives to push technology to the next level through high innovations. It is on this trend that the entire executives and all the noble members of this vibrant club welcome all Level 100s to Google Club.

           There is absolutely more innovations to offer you geared towards increasing your knowledge on software and  other contents. We will make your stay in this club a happy one by enjoying all our entertainment segments including brain teasers, debates, dancing competition and a lot more, each and every week.

            Google Club CUC would like to wish you all the best with your stay in this school and this club as well. Make Google Club CUC your home of innovations because your well-being in the technological cycle is our utmost priority. Thanks

                                   WE LOVE YOU ALL

By: Mr. Emmanuel Aidoo

            

GOOGLE CLUB CUC HOLDS ITS HANDING OVER CEREMONY

          

            Google Club CUC welcomes all freshmen to this vibrant association(Club). It is therefore a great journey for all freshmen to be part of this school and with colossal enthusiasm to have technology in mind. It is part of our aims and objectives to push technology to the next level through high innovations. It is on this trend that the entire executives and all the noble members of this vibrant club welcome all Level 100s to Google Club.

           There is absolutely more innovations to offer you geared towards increasing your knowledge on software and  other contents. We will make your stay in this club a happy one by enjoying all our entertainment segments including brain teasers, debates, dancing competition and a lot more, each and every week.

            Google Club CUC would like to wish you all the best with your stay in this school and this club as well. Make Google Club CUC your home of innovations because your well-being in the technological cycle is our utmost priority. Thanks

                                                     WE LOVE YOU ALL

By: Mr. Emmanuel Aidoo

            

How To Create A Website Using Get African Business Online Tool

The getafricaonline tool is a platform where people who are on the business field who do not have a site can use this this plateform to create a business site regardless of the skill that one has,get african businessonline tool was design by google African team to support african business and promote their business in the whole world, in Ghana there are some great business that are running on this platform and are doing well in the Ghanaian market place some of this business are Auntie Muni Wakye

With this business site members are expected to use the tools to create business site that would enable them run their business offline and online.

Furthermore student can use this platform to create business site for themselves or parent.


By::Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi

Adclass Launch In Central University College

The Google Student Club of Central University college had the maiden launch of Adclass2014 0n the 28th December 2014.The main essence for the adclass was introduce participating student to what we are going to do.The adclass was Lunch by Omane former GSA of University Of Ghana and regional winner in the Google Online  Marketing Challenge (GOMC)and Jesse GSA for Central University College.

Jesse started the initial stages of the Lunch whiles Omane took center stage and told members about the class and how the class is going to be the weeks to come furthermore Omane started by explaining what the adclass is all about,he told them that the adcass is a class that is going to introduce them to various Google resources or tools such as Adwords,Admob,Analytics and so on which would enable as participate in the GOMC 2014,he also talked about his experience in this competition,he said during his time in the GOMC they did not have an Adclass as we are doing now,they has to research and do alot of try and errors in other to meet standards but in all they lived up the bidding by becaming regional champion.

Regional Champions was not on their minds according to him,he believed they could have been deserved winners of the competion but due to certain lapses and lack not being on their side lead them to be the regional champions.He talked about a lot of things concerning the competition and he made as aware that we should follow the rules of the game in other for as to be successful.

Moreover Omane said after they won the competition as regional champions they went to Nigeria to have an online Marketing Lab where they were trained by googlers to upgrade their skills in Online Marketing
When they were than with their training he and his team form their own company where they provid online marketing services to business and the name of their company is Cliq Africa
We were told by the GSA Alumini that after the lunch our next meeting we should be in groups.


By:Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi(GSA)

Africa Android Challenge (AAC) 2014

Africa Android Challenge is a Platform that bring African  Android Developers together to compete and developers android apps for various platform,you can get all the information concerning the Android Developers Challenge 2014 here











By: Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi

Google Summer Of Code

Google Summer of Code 2014 has been announced! Please take a look at the Timeline for more information on deadlines.

About Google Summer of Code

Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects. We work with many open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund projects over a three month period. Since its inception in 2005, the program has brought together over 7,500 successful student participants from 97 countries and over 7,000 mentors from over 100 countries worldwide to produce over 50 million lines of code. Through Google Summer of Code, accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor or mentors from the participating projects, thus gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios and the opportunity for employment in areas related to their academic pursuits. In turn, the participating projects are able to more easily identify and bring in new developers. Best of all, more source code is created and released for the use and benefit of all.

By: Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi

Update On Google Online Marketing Challenge(GOMC)

Here are some updates:

1) Launch of GOMC Website and Challenge: GOMC Competition has just launched! :) Important info and links below:

• Google Online Marketing Challenge Website
• Competition Overview, process and key dates

We want as many as possible to sign up for GOMC and for all of you who are AdClass trainers to track who is signing up. This competition will give your students practical experience with AW, bring businesses online for free with the possibility of coming to this year's OML if participants receive a good scoring! Below is more information.

2) AdClass Community: There are very few alums in the AdClass community - Can you all make sure that all your students are invited?? Here is info for how to get started with G+ and how to join a community

We are excited to announce that Professor Registration for the 2014 Google Online Marketing Challenge (GOMC 2014) is now open.

Now in its 7th year, the Google Online Marketing Challenge is a yearly global online marketing competition for students from higher education institutions around the world. Student teams develop and run a successful online advertising campaign using Google AdWords and Google+ for a real business or non-profit organization, using US$250 budget provided by Google. Winning teams are selected by Googlers and an independent Panel of Academics, based on the success of their campaign.

Apart from gaining hands-on digital marketing experience, students compete for some great prizes:

• The global winners and their professor win a seven-day trip to San Francisco, including one day at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California, to meet Googlers from the AdWords, University Programs and Marketing teams.
• The global winners also receive computing devices along with other Google products.
• Digital devices for all global and regional winners across all categories including their mentoring professors.
• Regional AdWords Business category winners, win trips to regional Google offices.
• The opportunity to win donations worth a total of $30,000 for the non-profit partners
• The opportunity to attend Online Marketing Lab if successful in scoring in the competition!

Over 65,000 students from almost 100 countries have participated in past years.

In order for student teams to participate in the competition, they first need to have a professor register. Professors can register from February 26th until May 14th. Please note that student registration will open March 5th.

For more information on the GOMC and how to register, visit our website and add the new GOMC G+ page to your circles!

So i entreat all members of the Google Club on the central university campuse to partake in this wonderful event


By:Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi(GSA)

GDays Ghana 2014

G|Days Ghana is a community-organized conference with the mission of building an ecosystem of top developers, businesses / decision makers and students in some of the most exciting emerging countries. The event this year was powered by the Google Developer Group and the Google Business Group.The event was organised in two days which was on the 18th and 19th of February respectively

On the I8th of February which was Developers Day was very exciting,The theme for the event was Making The Transition From Developer To Tech Entrepreneur.During the program we had speakers from the tech-business ecosystem like Google,Encodev Lab,Vodafone,Nandimobile and so on,this speakers inspired the youth in they way they can use technology to better our life,one thing i took from the G|Day event organised on 18th February is don't think like an Oil company,think like a smart startup(Alfred Rowe,Ecodev Lab)

On The 19th of February was another exciting g|days,the theme or keynote address was " Making the transition from Developer to Tech Entepreneur".The Keynote was delivered by Estelle the country manager of Google Ghana,she talked about the various trends of business and how one can use tech tools to leverage on them 


By: Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi(GSA)

Google Making Sense Of Data In CUC

Making Sense Of Data is a free online course that enables anybody(student,lectures and so on) to know various ways or trends by which one could gather data,this course is free to everyone and its powered by Google

If you work with data in your job, or are simply trying to understand surveys and research so you can make better decisions, check out the free online course from Google that begins next month.

Making Sense Of Data  is a four-week course intended for the general public—students, teachers, business owners, researchers, journalists—anyone who works with data daily and wants to apply data to practical problems.

Instuctors for the course are Amit Deutsch an Instructional Designer in the engEDU Department at Google and Joe Hellerstein, who manages the Computational Discovery Department at Google.

 In the course you’ll learn about data structure and organization, the steps of the data process, as well as organizing, summarizing, and creating charts from data. You’ll also learn about finding patterns and relationships in data and have the opportunity to complete a final project.

Prerequisites for the Course

• Access to the Internet from your desktop or laptop computer
• Google account
• Familiar with spreadsheets
• Comfortable using a web browser
• Statistical knowledge or programming experience are not required

Course Details

The free course is self-paced, runs from March 18, 2014 through April 4, 2014, and is expected to take 10-15 hours to complete.
During the course, you’ll learn to use Fusion Tables, a Google web application for gathering, visualizing and sharing data.
If you complete the final project and final assessment by 8:00PM Pacific Standard Time on Friday, April 4, 2014, you’ll receive a certificate of completion.
Learn more and register for the Making Sense of Data course. I signed up today, so I’ll share some of my thoughts about the course in future posts.

By: Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi (GSA)

Adclass 2014 On CUC Campuse

Adclass 2014 is the class which consist of 50 members or minimum 20 members,this class is an interactive class that would train student on  Central University College(CUC) campus on  google's plateform:Adword,AdSense,Admob,Analytics among others

This avenue would enable student to train,lead and equip fellow student for Google Online Marketing Challenge(GOMC) and expose to online marketing trends and enable them to achieve great results in the competition or challenge.If students are successful in the Adclass they would have the option of being invited to the online marketing lab.

The Adclass for Google Student Club on CUC Campus would provide student with the available resources that would boost their understanding the fundamental of Adwords and essential of online marketing tools,guidelines for AdSense,Analytics etc...


By: Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi(GSA)

Google Online Marketing Challenge 2014

Once again another year has come for every university in the ecosystem of the world to partake in one of the  most prestigious digital marketing challenge organised by Google,the name of the challenge is called GOMC(Google Online Marketing Challenge)

With this challenge it gives student the chance to leverage on the various ways of marketing through Adwords,moreover it enable every participating who is a non-geek(any course) to get the advantage to partake in this wonderful initiative by Google,student who perform in the marketing of the business would be given prizes and cash prizes from google,also companies that were used for this campaign that won would also be given cash prizes.

Last year (2013) was a very exciting year for the GOMC because over 50,000 student and their professors took part in this competition powered by google in other to improve their Digital Marketing and skill and it was awesome,now its 2014 we looking up to a year that would competitiveness of student world wide.

To know more about 2013 winners and the prizes the won visit the GOMC site,take note that this competition is for student who are in the tertiary level

By: Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi