Breaking eBusiness and Search News Advertise | Newsletter | Sitemap | News Feeds   Part of the iEntry network   Knowledge Management – Creating a Sustainable Yellow Pages System How can I "know who knows"? None of us can personally know more than around 250 people, yet we want our companies to be smart, learning organisations where it's easy to find the right person to talk to. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-29 CSS in Flash: the Return of Crisp and Legible Fonts A typical challenge faced by Flash developers like me is getting fonts to look like you want them to. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-29 The Power of CSS CSS or cascading style sheets are used to create a set of styles that can be applied to your fonts, tables and most other attributes of your web page. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-29 2006 Predictions It is that time of year again. Between the extra helpings of turkey soup and sandwiches, writers of every stripe are making lists of predictions for the coming twelve months. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-29 Beyond Web Usability: Web Credibility Web usability: It's old news. If you've been developing websites on Mars for the past few years then you'll be forgiven for not knowing about web usability. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-28 Application Security - IT Risk Management Application Security risk assessment and risk management are vital tasks for IT managers. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-28 10 Steps to the Oracle 10g Exams Preparing and passing an Oracle 10g exam is a great achievement. The right steps and the proper resources are the keys. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-28 When Is The Best Time To Incorporate Your Small Business? If you're a sole proprietor, perhaps you've considered incorporating your small business or self-employment activity. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-28 Web Designer's Guide to Search Engine Optimization Search Engine Optimization or SEO is the buzz word you will see everywhere in the internet nowsadays. Designing a website today is no longer about aesthetics. It must not only look good, it must be visible to the search engines as well. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-28 Internet Fax Machines for the SOHO User If you work in a small office/home office environment (often referred to as a "SOHO" environment) then you can appreciate "convergence" products that allow one device to do the work of many other devices. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-28 Allocating Your Web Site’s Budget Properly I had a client say something to me the other day that I thought was rather interesting. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-28 The Robot Generation - Crawlers Prevail! In the pursuit of online power, manipulation, and control, a new breed of web crawler's hiding in the dark alleys of the web are being brought forth. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-28 Reputation Management :: A Prerequisite of Effective Link Building Over the past few articles I've brought you different tactics you can use to help build quality links to your site. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-28 TrustRank + Sandbox = TrustBox?? There seems to be a new term emerging around the whole sandbox/trustrank issue. In this article I look at that new term and discuss it's implications in the SEO field. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-28 MCSE vs. MCSA Technology is advancing rapidly with each passing day. The world of Information Technology today is a forever growing vast expanse. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-28 Taking Advantage of Open Source PHP MySQL Applications One obvious solution is to approach a software development company and obtain a custom built product. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-28 Managers, Want a Killer Edge? Business, non-profit, government agency and association managers with public relations reporting to them are likely to miss achieving a killer edge when they focus strictly on communications tactics like press releases, special events, broadcast plugs or brochures. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-28 Wordpress - Heading Into 2006 at High Speed. Wordpress is arguably one of the best blogging packages out there. From it's full list of features to its many themes and plugins, it seems to have it all. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-28 ASP vs. PHP When building web sites, ASP and PHP are very popular languages. Here's my opinion on whether ASP or PHP is best. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-22 Flash Opens New Windows and Opportunities For Game Designers There are three main aspects: the player, the file format, and the authoring tool/IDE. Flash games can be developed for websites, interactive TV, as well as handheld devices. There is no need to adopt multiple programming languages to build games. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-22 Management Through Measurement In 1996, in the movie Jerry McGuire, actor Cuba Gooding, Jr. made famous the phrase "Show Me the Money!" Ten years later, a variation of that command, now "Show Me the Data!" rings in conference rooms throughout the country. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-22 Exit Strategies for Businesses Many investors are only interested in investing money into an enterprise for a limited amount of time. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-22 Business Not Producing? Stop Guessing and Find Out Why! It seems each January that many small businesses (especially online businesses) sigh as they wonder why their company is not producing and what to do about the situation. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-21 The Role of IT in Sarbanes Oxley Section 404 If you have been following the news recently, you have probably heard about the collapse of Refco, the commodities trading firm that filed for bankruptcy after being accused of allegedly hiding a $430 million bad debt from its shareholders. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-21 Unleashing the Power of the Service Supply Chain Manufacturers are starting to embrace the aftermarket for increased revenue, stronger customer relationships and more dynamic lifecycles. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-21 Create More Sales Opportunities with Two Simple Ideas If you are in sales you know one of the most challenging aspects of what you do is getting in front of prospects. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-21 Terabyte, Tebibye At Will dead media ever end? I opined that we are getting closer to the point where it is unnecessary to have more storage space. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-20 Invoice Factoring – How to Finance Growth For a Technology Company…Without a Venture Capitalist. One of the biggest challenges that the owners of small and mid size businesses have is waiting 30 to 60 days to get paid on their invoices. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-20 How And Why Switches Trunk Your CCNA studies are going to include quite a bit of information about switches, and for good reason. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-20 Using The BGP Command “Update-Source” When you start preparing for your CCNP exam, particularly the BSCI exam, you´re introduced to Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) configurations. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-20 Implementing Successful CRM and ERP Solutions One of the most common mistakes, we see, organizations make when implementing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions is allowing the technology and features to drive the process. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-20 A Brief History of Tablet PCs In the late 1980s, early pen computer systems generated a lot of excitement and there was a time when it was thought they might eventually replace conventional computers with keyboards. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-20 Consumer Website Marketing With Content: The Case Of Amazon Amazon is widely recognized as the most successful ecommerce site in history. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-20 Raising the Perceived Value of Your Website Perception is everything. Right now, most senior managers do not perceive that content delivers significant value. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-19 PR When Managers Take Control Things can change fast! Tactics will probably no longer dominate the public relations plan. Instead, when needed, they'll hopefully assume their properly limited role as the primary means for moving a publicity message from one point to another. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-19 What Managers Might Not Know About PR O.K., you manage something like human resources, distribution, special projects or finance for a business, non- profit, government agency or association. And, oh yes, you're pretty darn good at what you do. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-19 Cross-Selling Takes Teamwork Progressive company's understand the power of cross-selling and recognize it as a critical component for promoting both customer retention and revenue growth. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-19 Cisco CCNP Certification: BGP Attribute Category Tutorial You have to master the details on BGP to pass the BSCI exam and to earn your CCNP, but BGP is an entirely new world from the protocols you studied to earn your CCNA. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-16 VoIP Small Business/Home Business Advantage Small businesses, home-based businesses, and self-employed individuals have been turning to internet telephone service (also called broadband phone or VOIP) in droves. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-16 Unique Online Marketing Opportunities for Marketers Marketing online has become fiercely competitive. Marketers are attempting to unravel and decipher online marketing to succeed. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-16 The Most Overlooked Principle To Raising Your Prices Finding customers isn´t usually the hard part of selling. It´s "closing" that can drive you crazy. You know the excuses. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-16 How to Establish your Self Confidence as an Entrepreneur It is only natural that when you start a business, you are doing something different than most people. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-16 Cisco CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Setup: How To Configure Reverse Telnet Occasionally, during your CCNA and CCNP studies, you´ll run into a term that just doesn´t quite make sense to you. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-16 Copying Content - Still Valuable, or A Thing of The Past? Within the virtual world of the internet, "content" is to "money" in real life. Content is our commodity, it is what people trade all around the world. But is "other people's content" actually valuable? Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-16 The Project Management Mindset Project management as a science and art is undergoing key transformations as a result of countless stories of failed projects, cost overruns, and canceling that project that took 2 years of your employee´s lives. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-16 Essential Venues for Small Business in 2006 Search engine marketing has displaced every traditional media with the exception of television in relevancy and importance in the eyes of ad-buyers. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-15 SEO For The Big Three Ranking your website highly on one of the "big three" search engines (Google, Yahoo or MSN) is a daunting task let alone ranking your website highly on all three. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-15 What’s so Special About Search Marketing??? If your company is not aggressively conducting efforts that will increase your search engine traffic, then it is time to get in the game! Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-15 How to get a Flash Website Listed on the Search Engines Flash-based websites are notoriously difficult to index in the search engines. Here we lay out some practical tips to help you overcome this barrier. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-15 ColdFusion: Quicker Scripting, at a Price ColdFusion is a rapid application development language for the web, developed by Macromedia. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-14 Fedora Time Bug The question of setting time comes up frequently. Setting the timezone and the system clock can be confusing, particularly if the machine is dual boot. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-14 The Secret Benefits of Reselling eBooks & Software When I started out back in 1998, there was a lot of junk on the web. Really useless junk that internet marketers tried desperately to make a buck with. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-14 Alternative Marketing Strategies Marketing online has become fiercely competitive. Marketers are attempting to unravel and decipher online marketing to succeed. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-14 Wiki - What SEOs Can Learn From It I've been actively researching ways to quickly and effectively build content to websites. And while blogs tend to be near the top of the list, there are other opportunities out there. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-14 Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification: Introduction To BGP Attributes BGP is one of the most complex topics you´ll study when pursuing your CCNP, if not the most complex. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-14 Controlling Concurrent Runs with Perl Sometimes you have a program that can't be run by more than one person, or one that must run frequently but you don't know for sure how long an instance of it will take. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-13 How To Earn Cisco’s Firewall Specialist Certification Security is a hot topic in today's networks, and will continue to be for a long time to come. With that in mind, you must consider adding a Cisco security certification to your resume and firewall skills to your skill set. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-12 Passing The CCNA and CCNP: Three Myths About Cisco Exams One of the drawbacks to the Internet is that it allows myths and "friend of a friend" stories to spread quickly, and usually the story becomes more exaggerated as it's passed along. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-12 Always-On Networks Created with a Wireless Router If you're using a wireless network with Windows' built-in Internet Connection Sharing, you're probably quite happy with it -- but there's a problem. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-12 Business Growth Requires Individual Effectiveness When we read about business growth in the top business periodicals, they always refer to the multi-national corporations. I'm not a large corporation. I'm not even incorporated. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-12 The SEO Snowball Effect SEO can seem like a long hard slog with little to no reward at times. Your mind often racing, constantly thinking about keyword phrases, H1 tags and links as you lay in bed trying to catch a few winks. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-12 What E-Government is All About E-government is about making citizens' lives easier and more convenient. There is no greater service a civil servant can deliver than to save the time of a citizen. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-12 Advantages in migrating from ASP to ASP.NET ASP to ASP.NET migration can be done by just changing the extension from .asp to .aspx. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-09 Connecting the Lease Enterprise Through Lease Management Software Information Technology has improved the leasing process, parts at a time. Every company has evolved some manner of maintaining customer information. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-09 Using Flash to Improve Website ROI To use Flash or not to use Flash, that may no longer be the question. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-09 Web site IP Filtering We've talked here before about filtering IP traffic by source for mail servers. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-08 Spotlight, mdfind (Mac OS X Tiger searching) Most users will probably see Spotlight as an enhanced, very fast file searcher: something that builds an index of files and their contents, and can very quickly search that index and return results. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-08 The Greased Pig of Search is About to Get Caught The greased pig of the search world is about to get caught. Apparently the pig is a prized ham after all. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-08 Router on a Stick For CCNA and CCNP candidates, it's hard not to laugh the first time you hear the phrase "router on a stick". Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-07 Why Educated Consumers Are Better Customers Educated Consumers. Not too long ago, a colleague asked me why we invest so heavily in consumer education. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-07 Java Good, Bad or Very Very Ugly It's yet another plug in that users hate, and there are lots of those, and Java has an even worse reputation than most. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-07 Search Marketing for the U.S Hispanic Market As the U.S. Hispanic population continues to grow and Hispanic online shopping increases, smart search marketers will find ways to incorporate that segment into their marketing plans. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-07 Preparing Your Site for the Holiday Rush Well, the predictions are in and according to Investor's Business Daily, Forrester Research, Inc. states that despite concerns over consumer confidence and the impact of gas prices, U.S. consumers will spend $18 billion online during this holiday season [2005]. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-07 Unixart: Tracking Site Problems As some of you know, I have Foo-web.com and some other sites on another web hosting site. Recently I noticed that I'd frequently get locked up for thirty seconds or so while editing files on that site. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-06 Bullet-proof e-mail: Ensure Your e-mail Message Gets in, Opened, and Acted on How many e-mail messages do you receive in a week? How much of it is spam? Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-05 Interview with Greg Jarboe of SEO-PR The use of news search SEO and marketing has grown significantly in the past 2 years. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-05 The Missing Element in Search Engine Marketing...Creativity In the "technical" world of search engine marketing, we often get so tied up in optimizing our pages, getting our databases crawled, determining what's happening with Google's latest update, and building our link popularity that we think in much too linear a fashion. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-05 Les Blogs 2.0 Kicks Off Today The Les Blogs 2.0 conference in Paris formally starts today and runs until Tuesday evening. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-05 Monitoring RSS Feeds Measuring and tracking RSS while a fairly simple concept, is really anything but. Unlike websites, RSS have the added caveat of potential syndication, making accurate tracking a challenge to anyone but the extremely tech savvy. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-02 Wireless Router & Security: A Step-By-Step Guide Setting up a wireless router is easy. Essentially you turn your cable or DSL modem off and your wireless router on. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-02 Passing The CCNA and CCNP: Home Lab Shopping On Ebay Whether you're just getting ideas for your Cisco home lab or adding to your existing lab, ebay is a great place to get ideas for your lab as well as pick up some great bargains. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-02 Changing Faces of Search Marketing A year of unprecedented change in the search engine landscape and online business environment has forced many SEOs and SEMs to alter and, in some cases, drastically rethink the services they offer and the techniques they use. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-01 Microsoft Fremont Appears Based on Google Base Microsoft coders have been working quietly and steadily over the past few months to create a classified advertising system. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-01 Managers: Don't Write Off Public Relations! There are those among America's managerial cadre who will write off public relations because they've been getting little more for their PR dollar than brochures, special events, reporter chatter and press releases. Directory: > Expert Articles > Expert Articles Date: 2005-12-01 Advertisement TOP NEWS WebProBlog The official blog of WebProNews. 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