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tech-informer.com This video will show you how Facebook Fan Page email notifications works, why it’s broken, and what to do about it. http
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This is a very simple tutorial 1. Select photograph in iphoto and drag onto the desktop 2. Go to your email provider (hotmail in this example) and either create a new email or reply to an old one. 3. Click Attach 4. Click Browse 5. Find photograph on desktop 6. Select and click open 7. Write email and wait for photograph to upload. 8. Once uploaded click Send Please note this is a very simple tutorial showing a simple way of achieving a goal. More complex tutorials to follow
Every business relies on effective communication with its customers. Communication doesn’t just convey information, it inspires trust, builds credibility, stimulates involvement and generates loyalty. But in today’s global, hi-tech, rapidly changing business environment, how do you ensure you’re communicating effectively?The Benchmark- Face to FaceThere’s no doubt that face-to-face communication is the most effective method for most people. Why? Because of its two-way nature. It’s about dialogue. Listeners are not passive participants. When someone talks to us, we send a continuous stream of responses back to them. Some are verbal, but many/most are not. These responses have the power to actually change the message being disseminated by the talker. What’s more, they have the power to change how other listeners’ interpret that message. (Similarly, other listeners have the power to change your interpretation.)Unfortunately, however, the global nature of business makes it impossible to conduct face-to-face meetings for every communication. So what are the alternatives? Specifically, what are the alternatives offered by technology?Email – The Starting PointThe benefits of email are numerous and well known, and include (but are not limited to):•Email is an excellent mechanism for distributing information to people. It is fast and cost effective.•It is incredibly convenient – you can readily communicate across time zones.•It provides a useful electronic paper trail.•It can save a great deal of time because most of the fluff surrounding a phone call (the social niceties) are seen as unnecessary in email.•It allows recipients to read and respond to messages in their own time.•The wording, grammar and punctuation in an email can be considered and edited before finally sending.But email does have its limitations:•Its lack of social niceties is a double-edged sword. Without the benefit of other communication cues, it’s sometimes hard to interpret the tone of an email, and this can make some messages ambiguous.•It isn’t ideal for critical communication. For many people, emails are not ‘real-time’ communication. We all have that unaddressed email sitting at the bottom of the list. Because emails are so easy to ignore, they’re also easy to forget.•Ironically, email’s dissemination effectiveness has been one of the major impediments to its communication effectiveness. It’s so easy to send emails – and they’re so anonymous – that our inboxes are now flooded with SPAM. Consequently, emails are viewed with some suspicion. It’s sometimes hard to identify legitimate emails, but it’s very easy to just hit Delete.•Because email senders are typically geographically (and often culturally) distant from their recipients, they have no immediate visual and aural cues to help them tailor the message as they type.But there’s no need to ‘throw out the baby with the bathwater’. Email is an excellent solution to many communication needs. And for those it is ill-equipped to handle, there are newer, more appropriate technologies that are built for the job…Web 2.0 Technologies – The Perfect SupplementWeb 2.0, a term coined by O’Reilly Media (an American media company) in 2004 refers, to a second-generation of internet-based services that let people collaborate and share information online in new ways.Web 2.0 technologies are well defined in www.wikipaedia.org, which suggests that these sites allow the users of the sites (members) to create and share content, including exploring and discussing ideas, opinions, initiatives and issues. Web 2.0 is all about communication. It is the evolution of the internet from an endless library of static pages to an endless world of conversations. These pages can be restricted to particular individuals (eg the executive), or open to all members. The only difference is that the interaction takes place in cyberspace, and those taking part can be sitting behind a keyboard just about anywhere on the planet.Importantly, a reader’s understanding of the message in a Web 2.0 communication is determined, not just by the publisher, but also by the responses (e.g. comments) of the audience. What’s more, the publisher’s actual message tends to be far more fluid as it, too, is informed by the responses of the audience. In other words, Web 2.0 services are far more like face-to-face conversations than any communication technology before them.So what are these emerging technologies that we should be keeping an eye on? The two most notable are ‘Wikis’ and ‘Blogs’. The following definitions are from http://www.wikipedia.org, an online encyclopaedia developed as a wiki.•Wikis – A wiki is a type of website that allows users to easily add, remove or otherwise edit and change content. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative authoring. Examples include Wikipedia (wikipedia.com) and wikiwikiweb (http://www.wikiwikiweb.com).•Blogs – A weblog, which is usually shortened to blog, is a type of online diary or journal which allows one to voice their opinion on something. Blogs often provide commentary or news and information on a particular subject. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media. Blogs are usually text based, but they can include photographs, videos or audio (podcasting). Blogs can be presented in a way that creates a conversation between users. As an example, see the Sydney Morning Herald travel blog (http://blogs.smh.com.au/lostintransit/).The Uses Of Web 2.0As with face-to-face social gatherings and forums, online get togethers attract a broad spectrum of participants eager to engage, entertain, befriend, advise and lecture.It was reported in The Australian (Tuesday 8 August 2006) that the social computing element of Web 2.0 has recently been embraced by the US Government. The US State Department has started including blogs and other Web 2.0 concepts to deliver public information to citizens. It is also using wiki style services to improve information by permitting small expert communities to improve advisory services.The same article advised that Australia’s leading information advisory body, the Australian Government Information Management Office, had begun experimenting with the use of blogs, wikis and other Web 2.0 technologies.As new online social networks mushroom, they are becoming increasingly focused on niches, ideally suited to membership based organizations and the NFP sector. Examples of general public social networks include My Space (http://www.myspace.com), Classmates (http://www.classmates.com) and Bikely (bikely.com).Other Useful Technologies•SMS – Short Message Service (SMS) is a service available on most digital mobile phones (and other mobile devices, e.g. a Pocket PC, or occasionally even desktop computers) that permits the sending of short messages between mobile phones, other handheld devices and even landline telephones.•Podcast – Podcasting is the method of distributing multimedia files, such as audio or video programs, over the internet using syndication feeds, for playback on mobile devices and personal computers.•Webinars – Web conferencing is used to hold group meetings or live presentations over the internet. In the early years of the internet, the terms “web conferencing” and “computer conferencing” were often used to refer to group discussions conducted within a message board (via posted text messages), but the term has evolved to refer specifically to “live” or “synchronous” meetings, while the posted message variety of discussion is called a “forum”, “message board”, or “bulletin board”. A webinar is a seminar which is conducted over the World Wide Web. It is a type of web conferencing. In contrast to a Webcast, which is transmission of information in one direction only, a webinar is designed to be interactive between the presenter and audience. A webinar is ‘live’ in the sense that information is conveyed according to an agenda, with a starting and ending time. In most cases, the presenter may speak over a standard telephone line, pointing out information being presented on screen, and the audience can respond over their own telephones, preferably a speakerphone. Whilst not necessarily considered Web 2.0, Webinars can also be a useful mechanism for information distribution and discussion amongst membership based organizations and SMS can provide important or urgent confirmations.ConclusionEmail is – and will continue to be – an incredibly useful and convenient communication tool. In fact, with the emergence of new technologies that are either more direct, more immediate, or more like face-to-face communication, email is improved. As businesses supplement their email usage with other communication technologies, email will be increasingly reserved for those communications to which it is ideally suited.
Drupal is a content Management System that is free and open source. It is used by hundreds of thousands of users and is being supported by a number of communities. Though it is tested to be workable and not to disappoint users, there are some things that you need to know about using Drupal in order to utilize its full potential.
Memory problem in remembering administration passwords. Of course, this is not Drupal’s fault, it is more of a user dysfunction. However, this problem should be addressed since it is very common and, as simple as its solution may seem, a lot of people still experience this. The simplest thing that you could do is just go directly to the password recovery system. However, if this does not work, there are other things that you could try. From the drop-down menu on the left and then click on the database that Drupal utilizes. Select the tab for the SQL and a text field will come out. In the text field type “update users set pass-md5(‘YOURPAS’) where uid = 1. What this code means is that YOURPAS is the new admin password that you would want to use. After typing the text, just click go and, if there are no other problems, you already have your new password. This kind of option is very helpful if you forgot the email used for making the admin account and/or the email you used is already non existent.
Memory size exhausted. You need 16MB in your PHP memory to be able to use Drupal 6. However, there are instances that you would need more than this. If ever you encounter this problem, you can try these steps. First, add this line at the end of the setting.php file – ini_set(‘memory_linit’, 64 M’). Second, you can go to the htaccess file in the directory and override PHP settings and in the sites/default/settings.php. Then, add this line – php_value memory_limit 64 M. What you need to know about this one is this chane cannot be incorporated during running time. And the third, which does not require any knowledge encoding is just to directly request the hosting company you are using to increase the memory.
These are bit just two of the many things that you need to know in order to maximize your use of Drupal. Try your way around and always look for ways to improve what Drupal can do. That is, after all, why it was made as a free and open source content management system.
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When your company is small and based in a single location, things are simple. But they may start to get complicated when you expand or start to outsource into other territories, either at home or abroad. For example, if you’re a retail business with multiple shops around the country, as well as a national distribution hub and a factory located abroad, then ideally you want everyone in the business to send you data in real-time. This way you can know at any time how many coats have sold in your Newcastle shop and how much stock remains at the distribution point.
You want every part of your business to be connected. This way a sales till in your shop in Newcastle can both ring up sales and keep track of how much money has been taken. It can also connect to the internet and access your company website, as well as interrogate the distribution hub to see if there’s any stock left or to put in an order if more stock is needed. You also want it to be easy for the shop assistant on the till to be able to contact anyone in the organisation, no matter where they are, in order to get an idea of stock levels in different shops or to find information about forthcoming products.
Without fast connectivity, you have to disconnect each part of the business from the headquarters and collect data on a daily or weekly basis. But this means accounts are always a few days or a week out of synch, so nobody can say with any certainty whether or not an item is in stock. Such businesses are also unable to respond effectively to changes in the market both locally and nationally.
Seeking connectivity solutions via broadbandSome companies look to the internet and broadband for a solution, but here there are also drawbacks, namely a lack of security. Unfortunately, the internet is an inherently insecure network. For example, whenever you send an email, that email is split into small bits by the sender and then bounces from server to server until it’s reassembled at its destination. At any point along that route it’s possible for someone to intercept those deconstructed bits. And if you’re streaming video or audio the data can get out of sequence, as different parts of the file are sent over different paths and may not be received in the order in which they were sent. Broadband connections, while fast enough for consumer needs, are less likely to be adequate for medium to large business use. When you share one broadband line between multiple users in, say, a branch office and you need to send, upload and download large files you start to hit problems. Most available broadband connections are asynchronous, meaning they download at one rate and upload at another. Therefore, an 8Mbps connection will allow you to download a file at 8Mbps, but only upload at around 512k to 1Mbps. Speed is also dependent on your distance from the exchange and the number of other people sharing your connection.
Wide Area Network OptionsThe simplest solution to the problem is to create a set of dedicated connections between your sites. With these, the upload speed is as fast as the download speed, and it has pre-agreed levels of service, which are set via a service level agreement (SLA). Also, the line is used by your business and no one else, so the download speed will not reduce at peak times when the business next-door starts to send large CAD/CAM files.
Leased lines are one of the simplest connections, offering connectivity up to 155Mb, but there are other options that offer faster performance, often at a lower price. For example, if your offices are dispersed across a business park, a town, a city or a region, Ethernet Extensions are one way to link your people. Ethernet Extensions offer unlimited usage through a dedicated, fixed-price digital transmission channel. This secure, fibre-based service offers dedicated connections at Ethernet speeds of 10, 100, 1000 Mb and up to 10Gb. You can have point-to-point connections or point to multipoint, as well as supporting business critical applications and high speed file transfer to improve efficiency. All this between locations up to 25km apart allowing you to exchange large amounts of data effectively and efficiently.
In cases where your offices are spread across the country, National Ethernet may be a good solution. National Ethernet offers unlimited usage across the UK at speeds of 2Mb right up to 1Gb across our national network. If bandwidth upgrades are needed, they can typically be done remotely without the need for a site visit. Whether you need multiple circuits or a single connection, the service can be tailored to you. Annual charges are fixed regardless of usage or distance.
As the number of your sites increases, it becomes more complicated to rely on individual connections between them. In these cases, a virtual private network is often a good alternative, allowing you to share resources efficiently rather than on a site-by-site basis. An IPVPN is a cost effective, secure, flexible, scalable and fully managed service. IPVPN provides the security of a VPN with superior performance for business-critical applications, plus the cost benefits of converging voice, data and video traffic on the same network. The service is managed for you, including the set up and ongoing management of routers and IP routing. If you want to control your own routing hardware Ethernet VPNs can be a great solution, allowing you connect sites nationally, at speeds of 1MB to 1GB through our Next Generation Network.
Combining a Next Generation Network with VoIP
Because you have a connection that’s both fast and secure, you can start to use the connection to perform other tasks, such as video conferencing, or using the connection for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) systems.
One of the main criticisms of VoIP is that there’s no guarantee on call quality since the system uses the internet to route calls. Calls can sometimes break off or the voice quality can be so poor as to be impossible to use. However, using VoIP over a dedicated Next Generation Network will give you a clear line, as well as connections that are always reliable. This not only saves your business money, but also should encourage your employees to communicate more often.
Lastly, because you now have a constant fast and reliable connection between all your different sites, it’s now much easier and faster for your IT department to support users, no matter where they are, and to build in additional safeguards for your business, such as disaster recovery solutions. With a WAN your IT staff can use tools like Microsoft’s built-in Remote Desktop Connection to remotely control and share a PC, so there’s no need for site visits to fix simple IT problems. Additionally, the servers on your system can continuously back up their data to secondary sites. This way if a branch office is hit by fire or flood there’s a copy of all the lost data saved and available for use straight away. You can then restart the branch anywhere from within a few hours to a few days. Solutions like High Capacity Services can often be a great way of supporting the performance and bandwidth needed when servers are mirroring data of this kind over large distances.
Cisco’s technology handbook offers an introduction to WAN technologies
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/internetworking/technology/handbook/Intro-to-WAN.html
Resource site SearchTelecom.com examine how Next Generation Network convergence is transforming the business model of service providers
http://searchtelecom.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid103_gci1363224,00.html
Article Source: Bringing your business up to speed: a guide to wide area networks
A Well used Auto Responder Marketing Technique
Promoting using an Autoresponder followup series is a popular strategy to boost repeat website visitors and sales. Here’s one favorite method I like:
EZINE Digital Book
Instead of attempting to issue a small daily or weekly online periodicals, try issuing one big monthly eZine (similar to a monthly periodical) in an ebook format sent through an Email Responder, if possible an Adobe .pdf file. You could have it made up of a significant number of articles each publication and insert frequently special sections all the way through like encourageing sayings, industry hints, preferred sites and instruction from the Guru’s. You might want to also insert full-color computer graphics, multimedia components like sound / picture file links and advertizements. And Then you will be able to ask for a monthly rate, with an annual discounted bundle purchase, and sell advertising spots to disperse in your Email Responder messages for every publication and with an instructive series to broadcast your monthly online magazine to new subscribers.
To summarise, by employing customized marketing processes such as an online magazine digital book, made to fit your own lines and services, you can reach out and grow your web site hits and sales opportunities. On-line marketing can mean more ways to grow your business. Check it out further here:- QuickTellpro Autoresponder Service
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Finding out if plus how spam filters or other email blocks are killing your promotional program is that a massive component of managing the e-mail deliverability problem. You know from typical promotional studies that when it involves advertising, the number of customers who will answer advertising they see is little and the percentage of those customers who actually obtain is even smaller. Thus if your advertisement reaches ten,000 customers, one% of which group may respond. Of that hundred individuals, you may notice 1-5 sales. But in a advertising model, that’s a successful advertising campaign.
Net marketing complicates the formula. That’s for the reason that if you send out a mass mailing email to ten,000 customers, the chances are which a tiny percentage of these emails can really reach the customer. Therefore if thousand of these emails reaches the client and the one% rule is still valid (and it is), the percentages of you getting even one new paying client go method down. That is simply not acceptable.
It would be that the answer lies in thinking outside the box. Rather than depending entirely on tricking spam filters and other ploys to really reach the client, a best way to approach the battle could be to assume once more about the trail to the purchasers that you simply are using. If you believe of how you go about trying to succeed in your customers as a road, the mass mailing methodology is clearly a road that features a heap of road blocks on it. The answer may not be to get over or around or remove the road blocks. The answer might be to find a new road to the customers.
Which road lies in client behavior. Think regarding it. If you’re throwing your promotional at trying to draw in the general internet population to your merchandise plus services, thousands or millions of those people will never become your customers. So your promotion to them is that a waste of time. The key to any successful advertising arrange is to slim your focus to solely the customers who need to buy from you.
So how were you aware that of those millions of internet surfers out there are interested in your products plus services? You know because they are already coming to your net site. This is a old “appear within your own back yard theory. The customers who are finding you on-line plus visiting your web site, whether or not purely for a short time have or at one time had an interest within your business. So rather than definitely going out into the overall population and making an attempt to get everyone to be a client, focus your energies on which smaller population who already are your customers or at least showed an internet in being your customer.
This approach to building a hot path to the client vastly improves the ratio of responses to your emails. Now in stead of sending out 10,000 emails to random email addresses to harvest perhaps 1 sale, you’ll narrow your focus and send 2000 emails to individuals who are interested by what you are doing and acquire fifty sales from the effort.
That’s simply good marketing. Rather than attempting to assault 10,000 spam filters plus 10,000 disinterested customers, you enter into a relationship together with a smaller niche of the market. And as that smaller cluster of shoppers already is aware of you, your emails are welcome and will get read. Your message gets across and the customers who are prepared to get can come to you. And every one since you used strategy instead of brute force to succeed in customers on a different road, a road that lead directly to the real customers, not 1 lined with obstacles plus hazards.
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Anyone could be checking through all the documents files and emails that you thought you deleted when you leave your computer unattended. If not her, then your boss or worse still your competitor could be. Where exactly do you think these documents and files, emails, and your browsing history go when you think you deleted them? They’re actually completely deleted, a backup, or footprint, is saved. These tiny footprints use valuable hard drive space, slow down your computer, and slow down your boot up time too! That’s not as bad as it could be.
Normal searching means, you would never find that footprint, but there are hundreds of programs available designed to find and retrieve the original information. Your spouse could find a flirty email written a long time ago that you thought you safely removed. Worse, you don’t even need any technological skillbase or knowledge to use them and find anyones previously deleted files.
Legal action could result if these files are in incriminating or provide proof of financial matters for example. Many people have ended up in court as a result of files or emails they thought they deleted months earlier. They stay on your computer you see!
If they had a way to protect their privacy, that would not have been a serious problem. It’s not uncommon for someone who’s been to be found with incriminating evidence of cheating through a deleted email and divorce is the result. You’d like to avoid that one if at all possible am I right?
Your browsing history can be saved months and all the freaky websites that you’ve visited are viewable instantly. If you don’t regularly clean out your browsing history file, anyone with virtually no serious technological ability can look and see exactly what you were looking at. This means there’s no privacy whatsoever.
First keep your computer more private. You must understand there is one simple way that you can get them off your computer. The best way is download the new freebie security report named Your Computer Privacy Is At Risk. This is one freebie which explains the whole scary situation. It also covers stuff like privacy controllers, or other programs that allow you to take the decisions about who see’s what.
Finding a good privacy controller is a very hard feat, many programs give free scans, the problem with these is that many use fudged numbers. That means that they will fake the number of files and emails they find to make you scared and in need of the product. You need to find a program that doesn’t use fudged numbers to make sure that you are actually being secured.
Stopping others from spying on you via your computer is easy, it just takes a little bit of effort and time. By checking out this free report, you are guaranteed to learn something you didn’t know about protecting your browsing and internet privacy. Worth twenty minutes to read, don’t you agree?
To learn more about computer privacy, check out the free Privacy Control report. Feel free to distribute this article in any form as long as you include this resource box. You can also include your af
Article Source: Keep Your important Computer files away from sneaky prying eyes!
Anyone could be checking through all the documents files and emails that you thought you deleted when you leave your computer unattended. If not her, then your boss or worse still your competitor could be. Where exactly do you think these documents and files, emails, and your browsing history go when you think you deleted them? They’re actually completely deleted, a backup, or footprint, is saved. These tiny footprints use valuable hard drive space, slow down your computer, and slow down your boot up time too! That’s not as bad as it could be.
Normal searching means, you would never find that footprint, but there are hundreds of programs available designed to find and retrieve the original information. Your spouse could find a flirty email written a long time ago that you thought you safely removed. Worse, you don’t even need any technological skillbase or knowledge to use them and find anyones previously deleted files.
Legal action could result if these files are in incriminating or provide proof of financial matters for example. Many people have ended up in court as a result of files or emails they thought they deleted months earlier. They stay on your computer you see!
If they had a way to protect their privacy, that would not have been a serious problem. It’s not uncommon for someone who’s been to be found with incriminating evidence of cheating through a deleted email and divorce is the result. You’d like to avoid that one if at all possible am I right?
Your browsing history can be saved months and all the freaky websites that you’ve visited are viewable instantly. If you don’t regularly clean out your browsing history file, anyone with virtually no serious technological ability can look and see exactly what you were looking at. This means there’s no privacy whatsoever.
First keep your computer more private. You must understand there is one simple way that you can get them off your computer. The best way is download the new freebie security report named Your Computer Privacy Is At Risk. This is one freebie which explains the whole scary situation. It also covers stuff like privacy controllers, or other programs that allow you to take the decisions about who see’s what.
Finding a good privacy controller is a very hard feat, many programs give free scans, the problem with these is that many use fudged numbers. That means that they will fake the number of files and emails they find to make you scared and in need of the product. You need to find a program that doesn’t use fudged numbers to make sure that you are actually being secured.
Stopping others from spying on you via your computer is easy, it just takes a little bit of effort and time. By checking out this free report, you are guaranteed to learn something you didn’t know about protecting your browsing and internet privacy. Worth twenty minutes to read, don’t you agree?
To learn more about computer privacy, check out the free Privacy Control report. Feel free to distribute this article in any form as long as you include this resource box. You can also include your af
Article Source: Keep Your important Computer files away from sneaky prying eyes!
Your first question probably will be whether to choose free or paid hosting service.
Let’s have a look at some advantages and disadvantages of these solutions.
Free web hosting:
(+) It’s for free. You needn’t to pay for domain name.
(-) Your URL will be something like http://username.freehost.com or http://www.allhottips.com /username. As I noticed above, the advantage is that you needn’t to pay for domain. But note that if will move your website to another provider in the future you can loose some or all your traffic (there are some solutions how to solve this problem but it is not the point of this article).
(-) Your provider will probably include ads to your pages – usually 1 or 2 banners, sometimes popup windows. If you plan to use banner exchange on your site read carefully their Terms and conditions. Some free hosts doesn’t allow it.
(-) Free hosts usually allow lower bandwith then paid hosts and a lot of them don’t offer futures like PHP and MySQL.
(-) A lot of free hosts change their Terms and conditions during some time. If your free host offers hosting wihtout ads now, don’t be surprised when banner or popup appears on your site in the future.
(-) Sometimes happens that free hosts cancel their free service and longer offer paid hosting only. In this case you have only 2 choises – pay them or loose your website.
Paid web hosting:
(+) You can host your own domain. If you decide to change the web hosting provider in the future, you easily transfer the domain to the new provider and don’t loose your traffic.
(+) Most paid hosts offer 24/7 support via email or live chat and some of them provide toll-free phone support.
(+) You can expect better uptime then on free host. Some paid hosts offer uptime guarantee.
(+) Paid hosts usually offer enough disk space and bandwith. Futures like PHP and MySQL are standard. Even if you are not programmer you can download plenty of free PHP scripts from internet.(-) Paid hosting cost money (:-))
Before you make the decision if choose free or paid host you should answer this question: How big ambitions I have with my website?
If you are starting small personal page for your friends consist of a few *.html files then free host will be sufficient.
In case you plan to run serious business website, need PHP, database and don’t want ads on the site I recommend to look for quality paid host.
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Most search queries are relatively simple on a search engine like Google. Usually in the first try, a few keywords will answer basic, popular questions. Obscure and past topics, or advanced and genre-specific searches are sometimes hard to find. The additional features on Google are ideal for this type of extensive research.
Google.com has categories to refine searches at the top of the page, such as Images, Maps, and Shopping. The “more” option, has additional queries that may be of interest , such as Finance or Blogs. The “even more>>” link directs users to a page of all the categories and other special features, including alerts that can be sent to your email for specific topics, links to popular resources, like YouTube, and Google tools and software, like the google mail server and browser. Each item has a short description of how it can be used.
Many research topics have subtopics, categories, and fields that can be explored on Google. A “Show options…” link is available at the top of the search results of every query. When a user clicks here, a sidebar displays to the left of the search results with additional search tools.
The first section is videos, forums or reviews of the keyword(s) queried. The next section has the option to specify the age of article or website. The third section changes the layout of the search results to include pictures or more text.
The fourth section has four options:
Standard view-the normal view showing the search results of the keywords queried.
Related searches-common topics related to the query
Wonder wheel-related topics are displayed on spokes with the keyword(s) in the center. For example, for the keyword “apples”, the wonder wheel shows “apples nutrition” and “apple types” as related searches. A sub category (when clicked) becomes the main category and shows more subheadings. “Apple types” brings up “apple varieties baking” and “sweet apple varieties”.
Timeline-shows the graph of search results for the queried keywords over time. Underneath the graph is a listing of results in chronological order. Each decade, year, month, etc., on the timeline graph can be clicked to expand the results over that time period. The earliest search results will query books written on the topic.
There are other search options available on Google.com. The advanced search link on the home page leads to a detailed page that helps a user make specific choices about what type of results should be displayed. The “Topic-specific search engines from Google” section at the bottom of this page shows multiple genres that may be of interest to advanced searchers.
Written by Hannah Miller, Director of Online Marketing and Customer Service Rep, Copper.net.
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Many of us are so used to working on a desktop computer that when it comes time to purchase a new computer, we don’t consider other options. Today, computer notebooks – which were once called laptops – offer a number of advantages over a computer desktop. Here are just few reasons why you should take a second look at notebooks.
1. Mobility
You might be used to pulling up a chair to your computer, but it makes much more sense to pull your computer up to your chair. Laptops can certainly be used at your desk, but you also have the option of bringing them to the spot where you’re most comfortable. Maybe you’d like to surf the Web in the evening out in the living room or catch up on your favorite blogs before bedtime. Notebooks with wireless connectivity can travel with you throughout your home, so you can check your email or do your Internet shopping anywhere.
Of course, notebooks also make sense for those who are on the go. Students can take laptops to class and to the library, while businesspeople can take them along while traveling. With Wi-Fi so widely available, it even makes sense to have a notebook while on vacation. With the right notebook, it’s easy to take photos with your digital camera, upload them, and email them to friends and family before you even get back home. Or you can use it to write a vacation blog and include those pictures from your digital camera.
2. Better Displays
The size and quality of computer notebook displays has improved so dramatically that there’s little difference between laptops and a computer desktop. For example, you can get Apple’s MacBook with a 13.3-inch LCD widescreen (1280 x 800 pixels), a 15.4-inch LCD widescreen (1440 x 900 pixels) or a 17-inch widescreen (1680 x 1050 pixels). Similarly, the Compaq Presario has a 15.4-inch display.
3. Lighter Weight
Just a few years ago, even the lightest notebook was a pain to lug around. Today, though, laptops are increasingly easy on the back. The MacBook is slightly over an inch thick and the Toshiba Portege weighs in at about four pounds. While that’s still heavy compared to come of the new ultra light convertibles (Fujitsu’s Life Book U810 weighs only a pound and half), it’s a significant improvement over the old seven-pound laptops.
4. Better Computing and Battery Power
Historically, two drawbacks of notebooks were their limited RAM, limited space on the hard drive, and short battery life. Times have changed, though, and laptops now have as much power under the hood as their computer desktop cousins. The MacBook, for example, has 1GB of memory (configurable up to 4 GB) and a hard drive that’s configurable to 250GB. This means that your software will hum right along and you’ll be able to zip through programs as quickly and as easily as you do on your desktop. Likewise, batteries in today’s notebooks don’t heat up and don’t conk out.
5. More Features
In older laptops, the computer’s size and weight limited the number and types of features available. Today, with smaller processors and other components, there’s room to pack more features into notebooks. For example, the MacBook has a DVD player, built-in webcam, built-in wireless capability, two USB ports and a FireWire port, built-in microphone, and audio and digital input/output.
There are so many advantages to owning notebooks that, before you buy your next computer; it’s worth your while to take one for a spin.
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Everything costs money, and most of the time it’s true that you get what you pay for. However, there are some free utilities that you might find useful for business purposes that I’d like to share with you.
The first is called Aero Snap. It’s a feature that will come with Windows 7, so if you’re planning on being an early adaptor you don’t have to worry about it. What it does is allows you to move any window you’re using to the side of the screen, release it, and it’ll automatically conform to a half screen window. If you have a big monitor, what this allows you to do is open two programs and look at them at the same time, which sometimes happens. Say, for instance, you have a bunch of numbers typed into a word processing program that you need to type into an Excel spreadsheet. You can snap one of the programs to the right, the other to the left, and instead of constantly flipping back and forth between programs or having to print your list out to work from it, you’ll have both programs there readily and can just go about your business.
Do you have a fax machine? If not, you can still receive faxes from any source via email. There’s a neat utility called J2 Messenger that’s been around for years now. You just sign up for a free account, and they’ll give you a fax number to use. The thing is, your fax number won’t be local, but it works. To get a local number you have to pay a small monthly fee, but then you can use it to send electronic files as faxes if the need arises, which it often does. Since Vista didn’t come with a fax program unless you got the professional version of it, which a large percentage of people didn’t, this might be a way to help you get around that issue.
Something else about Vista is that Google Desktop, one of the best programs in the world for being able to find files on your computer, isn’t compatible with Vista. There’s another free program for that called Copernic Desktop Search, which is pretty good. It’s free, which means that when you decide to use it you’ll not only get a little bit of advertising, but it will also search the internet for your search term. That’s a little bit irritating, but it will get the job done.
Once again, there’s a superior desktop search program coming in Windows 7 if you want to wait for that.
These few free programs should help your business efficiency if you’re lacking a way to do any of these features.
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Are you a candidate for working at home on your computer? You might just be, but there are some hot issues you need to understand first. Not all companies or job sites have legitimate offers. This has become a hot topic as more people have become frustrated after finding out you have to pay so much money to work online. The advertisements in your email box tend to arrive quickly, but the money just never appears. One thing many are unaware of is that you never should pay to work online. You are supposed to be paid for work you do.
One issue that never seems to go away is the pyramid schemes. If you receive an email to join a program free and earn money from your down line, this sounds like the easiest way to make money. In all reality, it is a nightmare. You have to sign up and then “upgrade to a status member” by buying the product in question, whether you want it or not. After that, you are told you can make money from those under you, but only if they in turn buy the product as well. Now the pyramid scheme is taking place.
Therefore, to make twenty dollars, you may have to spend sixty dollars. There is no guarantee that someone under you is going to buy the product. You could wait until the pyramid scheme falls apart and learn a valuable lesson, or you could stay away and look for a more legitimate way to make money. The companies that pay for work done are on the Internet, you just have to know where to look and how to tell if they are legitimate. A legitimate company already has people working for them and has a good standing on the Internet as far as people experiences with the particular company.
There are many websites that offer opinions and advice for working at home and these websites or forums as they are called, offer some valuable information about specific companies and there reputation. A few years back, you may remember hearing about pyramids schemes and other types of moneymaking ideas. If everyone can make money then why are there so many people losing money on these types of pyramids? The answer is quite simple, who has money to buy sixty dollars worth of product that you will never use to make a few dollars.
Therefore, people may be hooked into signing up because the advertisement does not tell you that you have to buy something in order to make money. After you sign up, they continue to send you emails, telling you that someone else has joined under you, “upgrade now” to start making money. Well, in order to upgrade, you are going to have to buy that product and take a chance that someone else will feel the same way. In many cases, you are going to find out that you were the only one to do it.
After waiting to make money, you will give up and be out the sixty dollars for a product you never used. If people would just understand that pyramid schemes only benefit the original product owner, then maybe it would be easier to find real work at home jobs. The Internet would then become a place to find work at home jobs without the need to investigate before applying or signing up for anything.
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Service design, or multi-channel proposition development, may sound like a grand and complex idea but it’s actually quite a simple (and hopefully familiar) one. In this article we introduce the concept of service design and explain why it’s important for us to think about how a product is conceived and designed across multiple touchpoints.
What is service design?
If you think about a recent, personal experience of finding a holiday destination, booking flights and a hotel, you may have used lots of different information sources from 1 or many companies.
You may have:
* Seen a TV advert promoting the country you decided to visit
* Spoken to a friend or acquaintance that’s visited the country before
* Used a search engine to find out more about the country
* Popped into a travel agent on the high street and spoken to an advisor
* Browsed through glossy resort pictures in a paper-based brochure
* Visited the agent’s website to get a details on a particular hotel or read reviews from previous customers
* Booked online to get the best deal
* Received printed matter through the post or by email to confirm receipt (and perhaps some up-sell communications for an excursion)
* Printed your own boarding pass at home
* Signed up for mobile text alerts giving excursion ideas when actually on holiday
Obviously all these activities could easily span a number of weeks or months and involve a number of people, collaborating to achieve the task goal at hand.
It doesn’t matter whether your company’s in the business of selling holiday packages or mobile phones the concept is still the same. All those touchpoints when a customer interacts with your brand is part of your overall service. This includes:
* Any brand building or promotional messages received through multiple channels
* The high street experience and the experts in your stores
* Your call centre experience and it’s relationship to the customer’s journey
* Any printed materials used to help customers understand your proposition
* Your website and any related electronic communications
* Any printed materials or the packaging supplied with the product itself
Service design or multi-channel proposition development is about organising the different bits and pieces that make up a customer’s experience of your company’s brand and product into a coherent and interconnected journey across channels.
Why is service design important?
In a highly competitive world it’s very easy for a customer to switch from one service or product provider to another, especially when the customer experience is of a low quality. An entire business has emerged around switching energy or financial services suppliers. Often customers are motivated by cost, but the importance of customer experience shouldn’t be under-estimated.
When a customer has a positive experience when using the touchpoints of your service it adds a great deal of value to your brand’s perception. We believe that effective conversion, word-of-mouth recommendations and ongoing brand loyalty are symptoms of a coherent and well-conceived multi-channel design.
Nowadays, customers are becoming increasingly savvy and recognize a good overall service when they see one and are quick to feel frustrated when they have to deal with a poorly conceived journey.
Breaking down silo walls
The biggest challenge when trying to work out your proposition development across multiple channels is your organisational structure. Most companies tend to organise silos around their communication channels or service elements. For example, the team that deals with broadcast advertising is separate to the digital team that design and manage the website, who in turn is separate from any direct marketing and so on. Given the diverse skills involved it’s not surprising that many companies tend to organize themselves in this way.
Unfortunately, silos don’t encourage an overall service view. But the customer’s experience is something that goes beyond the boundaries of different silos. So, what’s the solution?
Breaking down silo walls isn’t realistic, so put away your sledgehammer and get out your user experience cookbook instead. The key to meeting this challenge lies in:
* Gaining detailed knowledge of your customers, their behaviour and their journey using user research methods
* Recruiting key champions from across the company, from different silos and engaging them in a multi-channel design and proposition development process
* Building a multi-channel ethic into your company culture to encourage all staff to think beyond the confines of their own projects and silos
* Regularly usability testing the touchpoints that make up your service with real customers to make sure it’s all joined up
Conclusion
Like all good design, coming up with a logical and coherent multi-channel proposition and providing an excellent customer experience doesn’t happen by accident or by magic. It needs a determined effort to bring the right people together with shared values and goals.
This article was written by Ismail Ismail a director at the user experience consultancy, Webcredible ( http://www.webcredible.co.uk ).
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The appearance of your website is an important aspect of the success of your website on the internet. Your company, products or services will literally be judged by the appearance of your website.
Poor web design is one of the leading causes of business failures. There are thousands of Internet businesses struggling to make a living online. Most, make very little or no money and end up closing their website in defeat.
Discount Web design have received many email over the years from struggling Internet marketers wanting to know if we could look at their site and tell them what they’re doing wrong. Most of the time, we can tell them the problem as soon as their website has loaded — poor web design. They failed to take the time to learn how to properly design their sites — how to design a professional looking site specifically designed to sell their products and services.
If you really want to succeed, you must take the required time to educate yourself about professional web design.
When you begin designing your website, your goal should be to create a template that you can use to create each page of your website. This will give your entire site the same look and feel. Pages should resemble in terms of design so viewers know the site they are surfing.
Using latest techniques like CSS, try to display your content in sections like a newspaper, set up a specific number of rows and columns.
Your home page is the storefront for your business and should specifically let your visitors know exactly what you’re offering. If your potential customer can’t find your product or service, they definitely won’t waste time looking for it. They’ll go on other websites. They’re visiting your site for a specific purpose. They want something your site offers. Provide them with what they’re looking for and you’ll reap the benefits.
Branding will play a major role in your success. Make sure you place your company logo and slogan in the top left corner of each page. This will not only assist your visitors in remembering your site, but it will also give your pages the same look and feel.
Instead of trying to cram all your content into your main page, consider creating sections. These sections can contain highlights of your information with a link to further information. You can set your sections up in tables with colored heading sections for information such as articles, products or whatever you’d like.
It’s much better to keep your main page down to the most essential elements and link to the detailed informational pages.
A good rule of thumb is “less is more.” In other words, keep your main page as small as possible and include your most important elements.
When you begin designing your pages, keep in mind, your visitors may enter your site from pages other than your main. Make sure you include good navigational links on every page. Place your navigational links together at the top, bottom, left or right side of the page. Use tables to neatly align your links and maintain a nicely organized and uniform appearance throughout.
Try to keep the number of clicks required to get from your main page to any other page on your site down to three or four.
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No matter how great your web design is, you website/blog is incomplete without plug-ins. There are different kinds of plug-ins that work for different websites and hence we have sorted out the top ten plug-ins that are indispensable to your Wordpress website.
1. Kaltura Interactive Video Player Plug-in
This plug-in allows the upload and import videos directly from the player as well lets others add their own videos. It is so flexible that users can add comments and annotations that can have text bubbles and subtitles and edit the videos as they like. Users are also allowed to report abuse to any offensive content, they can rate the video and these can be shared and embedded with any widget as well.
2. All in One SEO Pack Plug-in
This particular plug-in plays a key role in optimizing the blog you have on Wordpress. It does so in way that the posts written by you and the pages are indexed for the search ability of the search engines. The All in One SEO pack plug-in is so effective that it singles out pages individually and increases their visibility.
3. Wordpress Database Backup
Just like it is necessary to keep a back up of the data we work on, similarly it is important to save a back up of the database we work on. Say for example, you have installed a system where in your email allows the option of attachment along with it. Now, if you do not have a database backup plug-in installed for your website, you will lose this feature and you may have to re-install it which is time consuming.
4. Akismet
Your website just cannot do without this plug-in. The primary feature of this add-in is to filter all the spam/junk comments, links and keep them away from your website. It is known as Automattic Kismet.
5. Feedburner Feedsmith Plugin
This is a vital plug-in for your Wordpress website – the Feedburner Feedsmith Plug-in helps in redirecting the clicks made on your standard website to the feedburner RSS feeds that allows the subscribers.
6. Max Blog Press Unblockable Popup
This plug-in is very useful in letting people know about your latest updates through the newsletters. The best thing about this is that it comes as a unblockable pop up that obviously cannot be ignored. So, people are bound to notice it.
7. Google XML Sitemaps
The best way to navigate through your website is sitemap. Getting this plug-in means that no matter what changes you make in the website, addition/deletion of pages and this plug in informs Google about it and it gets updated automatically.
8. Wordpress Auto-Tagger
As the name suggests, whatever posts you put in your blog/website, the plug-in selects the apt tags for them by analysing the popular ones on Yahoo and other search results related to your website content.
9. Redirection
Redirection plug in comes along with Wordpress basically to take care of the 301 redirections, errors like 404 and basically manage any aspect that your website is lacking in. This plug in proves useful when you are trying to migrate pages from some old webpage.
10. RSS Includes Pages
If you want your pages to appear in the RSS feeds, simply go ahead and get this plug-in for your Wordpress website or blog.
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