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How Will The Web Change Marketing In The Next Couple Years?
Here are several excerpts from a post that was originally written for Valeria Maltoni's excellent new ebook about marketing in 2010. As Joe Buhler notes, the ebook includes terrific, thoughtful insights from Shannon Paul, Olivier Blanchard, Danny Brown, Amber Naslund, Jackie Huba, Gavin Heaton, Mark Earls, Rachel Happe, Jonathan MacDonald, and of course Valeria herself. Download it for free right here:
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Date: 2009-12-30

The Real-time Web Makes Everything Marketing’s Responsibility
Here are several excerpts from a post that was originally written for Valeria Maltoni's excellent new ebook about marketing in 2010. As Joe Buhler notes, the ebook includes terrific, thoughtful insights from Shannon Paul, Olivier Blanchard, Danny Brown, Amber Naslund, Jackie Huba, Gavin Heaton, Mark Earls, Rachel Happe, Jonathan MacDonald, and of course Valeria herself. Download it for free right here:
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Date: 2009-12-30

Apple iSlate, Apple iTablet, Or Maybe Even iTab?
I've been hearing rumors for months about Apple releasing a tablet computer but they give me very odd looks when I ask about it at the Apple Store. Then at Christmas dinner someone told me that it's on the way and it's going to be called the iSlate. What? How could they know, and what's your best information about what an iSlate will be?
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Date: 2009-12-30

Is Linux ready for the average user?
Most people ask if Linux is ready to compete with Windows. To me, that is not the correct question to ask. This implies that Linux is trying to go after the average user. The problem with the generic term of "average user" is that it means different things for different people. To a Linux user, an "average user" is probably a hacker, programmer, or system administrator. To a Mac user, the "average user" may be a musician, artist, or web designer. To someone who works or has worked on a help desk, has a very different perspective of what an "average user" is.
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Date: 2009-12-30

The Horizon of ERP In 2010
We've come to the end of 2009, which of course leads us to looking ahead into 2010. What advancements lie ahead for the ERP industry going into next year? IFS has released a study detailing growing trends for the near future. To provide a quick synopsis, manufacturers want to see huge strides made in technological advancements which in turn, will provide greater efficiency.
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Date: 2009-12-30

Will Facebook Ad Revenues Surpass MySpace in 2010?
Facebook has drubbed MySpace on almost all fronts-in the media, with users, in growth, in traffic-except ad revenue. But expect that to change next year, according to eMarketer: "It will surpass its former rival, MySpace, in ad revenues in 2010, when marketers worldwide will spend $605 million on Facebook versus $385 million on MySpace."
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Date: 2009-12-29

Book Review: It's Not What You Sell, It's What You Stand For
"At the intersection of the passions and strengths of the organization and the needs of the world stands a great purpose". writes Chairman and CEO of GSD&M Idea City, Roy M. Spence, Jr., in his electrifying and visionary book It's Not What You Sell, It's What You Stand For: Why Every Extraordinary Business Is Driven by Purpose. The author believes that a company's journey and vision should begin a clear understanding of the difference that you want to make in the world.
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Date: 2009-12-29

Evaluating, Implementing, And Learning New Analytics Tools
With both large real and hidden opportunity costs associated with evaluating, implementing, and learning the quirks of a new analytics tool, it only makes sense to ensure that the tool one chooses will be able to keep pace with one´s future requirements.
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Date: 2009-12-29

Increasing Your Enterprise Networking Through Twitter
In a recent blog post, if you would remember, I mentioned how, at the moment, I am enjoying a love / hate relationship (More the latter, to be honest…) with what, to date, has been one of my favourite social networking tools available out there, outside of the firewall. Yes, of course, why not? Once again, I am talking about Twitter.
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Date: 2009-12-29

The Improvements of USB 3.0 (SuperSpeed USB) Technology
When it comes to storage, the most common solution for portable situations are USB drives. They're small and speedier than other methods, and are compatible with nearly every computing device. There are problems with USB, those of which hopefully improve with USB 3.0. The final specs of 3.0 have been announced, and with them, products which look to expand the market.
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Date: 2009-12-29

Improving Your Intranet Starts With The End Users' Perspective
Forrester recently released a report on What's Holding Back Your Intranet? by Tim Waters with Matthew Brown and Sara Burnes. They were kind to share a copy with me. They found that 93% of employee respondents said they use an intranet or company portal (Forrester uses the terms interchangeably) at least weekly, and more than half reported daily use.
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Date: 2009-12-29

Do You Have A Landing Page?
This great short video on the 7 deadly sins of a Landing Page Design is great! Pay attention to the the use of pics and text. Also look at too much of pics or text can be bad as well.
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Date: 2009-12-28

Do You Make These Landing Page Mistakes?
This great short video on the 7 deadly sins of a Landing Page Design is great! Pay attention to the the use of pics and text. Also look at too much of pics or text can be bad as well.
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Date: 2009-12-28

Top Technology For 2010
As we approach the end of the year, I thought it might be fun to share Ten for 10 in 2010 - a list of people, blogs, apps, platforms and more that I think you might enjoy checking out in 2010.
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Date: 2009-12-28

Interesting Ways To Look At Your Customers And Why They Buy
I flew to St. Louis for the Glazer-Kennedy Info Summit. This is a 4-day event about how to create and market information products (think ebooks, teleseminars, coaching groups, membership sites, live seminars and more).
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Date: 2009-12-28

How To Find Which Version Of Linux Your Are Currently Running
I have a Virtual Private Server or a dedicated server running Linux, but I'm not sure which version of Linux (Fedora, CentOS, Debian, etc.) the server is running. How do I find out?
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Date: 2009-12-23

Taking A Deeper Look Into Your Social Media Strategy
We are all in a rush. There is the holiday rush. There is the morning rush. There is the lunch rush. Now add to it the social media rush. The social media rush is the act of throwing your company headlong and hell bent into the social media rapids.
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Date: 2009-12-23

Building Better Security Through Cloud Computing Best Practices
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) issued the second version of its "Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing", now available on the Cloud Security Alliance website.
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Date: 2009-12-23

Using Your SEO Budget To Get Traffic And Conversions
Ever see one of those movies where some secret government agency has a super high-tech office in an old, dilapidated building in some rundown part of town? The camera starts on the outside, looking over a ghetto as it moves down the street. It zeros in on a rundown building that a squatter would be embarrassed to live in. Then, as the camera moves inside we are shown a state-of-the art facility worthy of a Manhattan high-rise office in the 22nd century.
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Date: 2009-12-22

How To Increase The Value Of Your SEO
Ever see one of those movies where some secret government agency has a super high-tech office in an old, dilapidated building in some rundown part of town? The camera starts on the outside, looking over a ghetto as it moves down the street. It zeros in on a rundown building that a squatter would be embarrassed to live in. Then, as the camera moves inside we are shown a state-of-the art facility worthy of a Manhattan high-rise office in the 22nd century.
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Date: 2009-12-22

iPhone Developers Are Moving From Apps And Adopting HTML5
Lots of iPhone application developers are frustrated with the process to get new apps into your hands. It takes about three weeks lately for an app to get approved and into the iTunes store.
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Date: 2009-12-22

Applying Lean Value Stream Mapping To Your IT Life Cycle
As I argue elsewhere (most recently on TDAN.com) there are four IT value streams:
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Date: 2009-12-22

Creating Google Ready Video Site Maps
So back in December of 2007 Google's Video team announced changes to their sitemap protocol. Specifically changes to the way Google uses sitemaps to index your video content. Now this can be done for a number of different sites that have videos, but would be an absolute killer change for sites that contain mostly video content, and we all know there are a lot out there.
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Date: 2009-12-21

Submit Your Video Sitemap Optimized For Google
So back in December of 2007 Google's Video team announced changes to their sitemap protocol. Specifically changes to the way Google uses sitemaps to index your video content. Now this can be done for a number of different sites that have videos, but would be an absolute killer change for sites that contain mostly video content, and we all know there are a lot out there.
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Date: 2009-12-21

CRM Software Makes Inroads In Tinseltown
We'll admit from the start: this isn't the same as having the words "CRM is great" shown at the start of every movie. And it's really not the same as Hollywood's stars "doing lunch" with everyone in the CRM industry.
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Date: 2009-12-21

Australia To Mandate an ISP Filter in 2011
If you have any knowledge of Australia, you'd know they take censorship and classification ratings very seriously. There are many times when something is released in America, and Australia will deny it classification resulting in it being kept out of the country down under.
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Date: 2009-12-18

Adding A More Defined Search To Your Google Search Bar
I have a Google search box on my site, thanks to your article How to add Google Search to Your Site, but want to automatically add a few words to the search string that the user enters. Is that even possible? If so, how do I modify the JavaScript code to make it work?
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Date: 2009-12-18

How To Be A Green Supply Chain And Meet Customer Fulfillment
As many of you know I am now living in Zurich and as one should do in a new country, I am trying to learn the local language. To help, everyone tells me that I should get a TV with cable to watch programs in German to support the classes and DVDs I am using. Easier said then done.
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Date: 2009-12-18

Getting Personal With The New Breed Of Consumers
Here are several excerpts from an article by Strats Inc, a leader in developing strategic solutions for businesses and brands, Five rules for understanding a new breed of consumers:
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Date: 2009-12-17

White Paper Success Summit '10 Gets Offical Date
I know it's hard to believe 2010 is just around the corner. Like me, you're likely putting plans in place for next year. Better customers, more of them and so on.
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Date: 2009-12-17

Keeping Current With Your Keyword Research
The series of Search Engine Strategies (SES) conferences attract a variety of SEM professionals across the globe. The Chicago leg of the conference was held just last week and one of the guest speakers was Christine Churchill from KeyRelevance.com who discussed (yep, you guessed it) keyword research for PPC campaigns.
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Date: 2009-12-17

Making A Habit Of Conducting Keyword Research
The series of Search Engine Strategies (SES) conferences attract a variety of SEM professionals across the globe. The Chicago leg of the conference was held just last week and one of the guest speakers was Christine Churchill from KeyRelevance.com who discussed (yep, you guessed it) keyword research for PPC campaigns.
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Date: 2009-12-17

How To Find Your Windows Product Key
I lost my product key for Windows XP / Windows Vista / Windows 7. I need the product key to re-install Windows. How do I find it?
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Date: 2009-12-17

C++ Creator Speaks At Stevens
Within their fields, at least, the creators of different things often achieve rock-star status. A Ford Mustang with a plaque signed by Carroll Shelby will, for example, sell for thousands of dollars more than an otherwise identical vehicle. So it may interest professional C programmers to know that Bjarne Stroustrup recently gave a little speech.
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Date: 2009-12-17

MicroStrategy Reseller Partners Offer BI Applications
Business intelligence (BI) software provider, MicroStrategy, has announced that a number of its Value-Added Reseller (VAR) partners have developed pre-built business intelligence applications for the JD Edwards user community using the MicroStrategy BI platform. . JD Edwards is a suite of enterprise resource planning software.
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Date: 2009-12-16

Optimizing Your SEO For Local Business Success
Local search has been one of the fastest growing areas of search marketing in the last few years. A local search engine listing gives small businesses the chance to "play with the big boys" by having their listing appear towards the top of most search results pages without the need for expensive PPC advertising.
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Date: 2009-12-16

Reducing Your SEO Value Split
Did you know the average website can have 4 different URLs which all link to the home page? In many cases each of the following URLs will all provide the same home page content:
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Date: 2009-12-16

Increasing Your SEO Home Page Value
Did you know the average website can have 4 different URLs which all link to the home page? In many cases each of the following URLs will all provide the same home page content:
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Date: 2009-12-16

Increasing Your Holiday Search Conversion Rates
With the deadline fast approaching, here are some last minute tips which can help you maximize sales during this busy time of year.
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Date: 2009-12-16

Why It Is Better To Create Your Own Blog Content
A topic that's guaranteed to provoke some passionate opinion is that of ghost blogging: whether it's right or wrong and whether you should do it or not in a business context in particular.
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Date: 2009-12-15

Successfully Conveying The Importance Of Search Marketing
Some of you have probably tried to sell your C-level executives on the importance of search marketing. You started out all excited about keywords and rankings and page views and bids and copy and then...you are greeted by that fantastic blank stare that suggests what your exec is really thinking about:
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Date: 2009-12-15

How To Sell Executives On The Importance Of Search Marketing
Some of you have probably tried to sell your C-level executives on the importance of search marketing. You started out all excited about keywords and rankings and page views and bids and copy and then...you are greeted by that fantastic blank stare that suggests what your exec is really thinking about:
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Date: 2009-12-15

Understanding A Search Engine To Better SEO Your Sites
This post has been a long time coming. This is a topic that dives me mad to no end. Can you imagine a web developer that didn't know HTML? A conversion expert that doesn't know what Google Analytics is? How about a social media marketer that's never heard of Twitter?
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Date: 2009-12-15

Costs Between Proprietary And Open Source Products Narrows In The Cloud
After my previous post "Cloud to boost proprietary software use?", Tim Bray questioned whether the pricing comparison of "WebSphere/SUSE vs. JBoss/RHEL on EC2 was a transient anomaly". JBoss' Rich Sharples commented that I was comparing apples and oranges. That was not my intention.
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Date: 2009-12-15

SysAdmins Weigh In With New Survey
Information regarding who's doing what is very popular; you can look at the abundance of news outlets, the existence of Twitter, or any number of other things as proof. And now, for system administrators (and system administrators' bosses), the results of a new survey should provide insight into the norm.
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Date: 2009-12-15

The Importance of Securely Deleting Data
I have worked for some companies the care greatly about deleting data certain ways and others that do not seem to care if you delete data or not. If your company deals with sensitive data that you don't want anyone else to see, you may want to look into a way to securely delete your data.
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Date: 2009-12-15

Customers Are Discussing Your Brand, Are You Listening?
Tealeaf provides online customer experience management (CEM). Their CEM solutions include both a customer behavior analysis suite and customer service optimization suite.
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Date: 2009-12-14

ERP Systems Lack Flexibility
Today's enterprise resource planning systems are not providing businesses with the architectural agility necessary to support businesses adequately, according to a new survey by IDC and Agresso.
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Date: 2009-12-14

Local Businesses Get A Boost With Google's New Service
Research over the last few years has proven that reviews and advice from family, friends and colleagues are the key buying influencers. No advertising or PR can outweigh the value of a good personal recommendation.
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Date: 2009-12-14

Adding Submenus To Your Wordpress Blog
If you're using WordPress as a CMS, you may have set up static pages for both a front page (e.g. "Home") and a page to list your latest blog posts (e.g. "Blog"). I did that today for a client site and immediately realized that in the site's main menu the Blog link would look a lot better if it had a submenu containing all the blog categories.
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Date: 2009-12-14

Creating Submenus For Your Main Site Links
If you're using WordPress as a CMS, you may have set up static pages for both a front page (e.g. "Home") and a page to list your latest blog posts (e.g. "Blog"). I did that today for a client site and immediately realized that in the site's main menu the Blog link would look a lot better if it had a submenu containing all the blog categories.
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Date: 2009-12-14

Seagate Busts Into the SSD Market
Seagate, one of the older hard drive manufacturers in existence, has been reluctant to create SSD's (solid state drives). They've commented on their reluctance in the past, stating SSD's have a very small market and haven't quite lived up to their potential yet. They've released their first SSD into the market, though you'll only have use for it if you use a server computer.
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Date: 2009-12-14

The Core Values Of Properly Optimized Websites
It is very difficult to oversimplify the value proposition of Search Engine Optimization, since it is based on the following 2 premises: 1. People use search engines to find things. 2. If people can't find you in the search results, you don't have a shot at their business.
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Date: 2009-12-11

Why Is It So Important To SEO Your Site?
It is very difficult to oversimplify the value proposition of Search Engine Optimization, since it is based on the following 2 premises: 1. People use search engines to find things. 2. If people can't find you in the search results, you don't have a shot at their business.
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Date: 2009-12-11

Online Marketing Advice From SES Chicago 2010
Here we are near the end of 2009 and at the last Search Engine Strategies conference of the year. While many conferences are down in attendance, SES Chicago actually beat last year's numbers by about 100, according to Matt McGowan, VP, Publisher & Head of US at Incisive Media, the company that owns SES.
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Date: 2009-12-11

Linux's Netbook Market Share Pegged At 32 Percent
Maybe Windows isn't quite the behemoth most people believe it to be. New data from ABI Research indicates that Linux is doing quite well in a certain small-machine market, at least, with exactly 32 percent of netbooks shipping with a form of it installed.
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Date: 2009-12-10

Addressing The Majority Of Concerns With Cloud Computing
Every day I read numerous articles that are negative towards cloud computing . I can sum them up with the following bullets:
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Date: 2009-12-10

Knowledge Management Is More Than The Technology Behind The System
This is another in a series of notes from the 2009 Enterprise Search Summit and the 2009 KM World. This is part of the Enterprise Search Summit. It is titled: Evolve From a Tactical E-Discovery Approach to Search and E-Discovery by Brian W. Hill, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research, Here is the session description.
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Date: 2009-12-10

Using Twitter Lists To Help Your Enterprise Succeed In Social Media
I recently posted my initial Twitter Lists and we also created lists for @darwineco. Here are some useful Twitter List ideas from others. First, Rob Paterson posted, Twitter Lists - 1st Insight? Among other things he wrote, "What I have immediately seen from the new lists that are emerging around …(my) related areas of my interest is that I have some real gaps.
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Date: 2009-12-10

SEO And PPC Will Require More Time In The Future
Unless you've been sleeping at the wheel, the last couple of weeks have been turbulent ones for many PPC affiliates, especially Adwords users. There's been a spat of account bans (as discussed in my internet marketing forum), and even though Nick Fox told Search Engine Land's Barry Schwartz that suspended Adwords advertisers...
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Date: 2009-12-10

Working Harder To Be Successful With PPC And SEO
Unless you've been sleeping at the wheel, the last couple of weeks have been turbulent ones for many PPC affiliates, especially Adwords users. There's been a spat of account bans (as discussed in my internet marketing forum), and even though Nick Fox told Search Engine Land's Barry Schwartz that suspended Adwords advertisers...
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Date: 2009-12-10

Proprietary Software Vendors To Monetize Easier Through The Cloud
I've argued that Cloud vendors are in a better position to monetize open source products than open source software vendors themselves. I'm not alone in this thinking. In William Vambenepe's post, "Cloud + proprietary software = love", there may be yet another reason for open source vendors to drink the Cloud Kool-Aid with caution.
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Date: 2009-12-10

Where Is Internet Search Headed?
Moderated by Simon Heseltine, Senior Marketing Manager for AOL with panelists including: Eli Goodman from comScore, Justin Merickel of Efficient Frontier and Doug McMillen from Microsoft Advertising.
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Date: 2009-12-09

What Is The Future Of Web Search?
Moderated by Simon Heseltine, Senior Marketing Manager for AOL with panelists including: Eli Goodman from comScore, Justin Merickel of Efficient Frontier and Doug McMillen from Microsoft Advertising.
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Date: 2009-12-09

Adding More Security To Your Wordpress Sites
It is no huge secret that I have had this WordPress blog hacked twice this year but some consolation is that I am not alone.
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Date: 2009-12-09

Negative Reactions To Oracle's Acquisition of MySQL
It's a given fact of human nature that people despise change. We're creatures of habit, and we like things to remain the way they have been. There's of course some exceptions to the rule, but that isn't the case with Oracle's attempted acquisition of Sun Microsystems. If you haven't been keeping up, Oracle has been attempting to purchase Sun Microsystems since April, but has been stymied by the Europe's antitrust laws.
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Date: 2009-12-09

TTS with Orca
I have a friend who was blinded when he was young. To say the least, this has caused him a few accessibility problems with computers. Recently, he has been using the TTS (Text-to-Speech) feature in Vista.
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Date: 2009-12-09

Features Are Not The Most Important Aspect Of Your CRM
Here are several excerpts from an article by David Tabor, CEO of SalesLogistix, Four Dirty Little Secrets of CRM Requirements Lists:
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Date: 2009-12-09

The JooJoo Tablet PC Releasing Under Heavy Scrutiny
The tablet PC, JooJoo which has all kinds of potential from a technical aspect, could release with loads of controversy. Michael Arrington, of TechCrunch is threatening to sue the startup company, Fusion Garage, responsible for the JooJoo. Like all lawsuits that have stemmed from previous partnerships, this has turned into a he said/he said scenario. And it's left to us and a potential judge to decide who's innocent and/or guilty.
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Date: 2009-12-09

Google Adds Voice GPS App To Android
As a bunch of Android devices are lined up for launch, Google Maps Navigation has introduced GPS navigation to Android.

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Date: 2009-12-08

OpenLogic Lowers Cost To Continue Healthy Competition With Red Hat
Last week OpenLogic announced commercial support for CentOS, a Linux distribution derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The CentOS distribution is ostensibly RHEL source code with Red Hat's branding and artwork removed.
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Date: 2009-12-08

Perl 5.11.2 Lands
Another month's passed, and there are still more signs of progress in the march towards a stable release of Perl 5.12.0 as Perl 5.11.2 has become available. It counts as the third development release in the 5.11.x series.
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Date: 2009-12-08

Twitter Is King Of CRM Engagement
I've been a contributing analyst for the eConsultancy/cScape Customer Engagement Survey over the past few years. The 2010 edition has just landed and I thought I would share with you the data that jumped out at me.
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Date: 2009-12-07

GroundWork Announced Release Of Enterprise Quickstart And New Price Point
GroundWork, yesterday announched the latest version of its Enterprise Quickstart as a SUSE-powered virtual appliance, coming with a low price. Beyond commercial open source pricing incentives, I asked David Dennis - senior director of product marketing at Groundwork - to tell why GroundWork used Suse Studio to create its virtual appliance.
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Date: 2009-12-07

How To Build Your Site Ranking Through One Way Links
In the world of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) "one way link building" involves getting other people to hyperlink to your website without sending a link back to theirs (reciprocal linking) or exchanging links in a triangular fashion with a third party.
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Date: 2009-12-07

Getting Others To Link To You Without Backlinks
In the world of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) "one way link building" involves getting other people to hyperlink to your website without sending a link back to theirs (reciprocal linking) or exchanging links in a triangular fashion with a third party.
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Date: 2009-12-07

Salesforce.com Racks Up CRM Market Awards
It's always nice for a company when it wins an award. Winning two - or even three - is better still. But Salesforce.com won four CRM Market Awards from CRM Magazine last week, which definitely seems like an accomplishment worth documenting. And Salesforce's CEO was honored, too.
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Date: 2009-12-07

Symantec Names Forsythe VAR Of The Year
Symantec's an important company; it employs over 17,500 people, operates in more than 40 countries, and has a market cap of about $14.7 billion. It's a big deal, then, that Forsythe Solutions Group was named "VAR of the Year" by Symantec.
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Date: 2009-12-04

NCTA Enacting Broadband Access Program For Underprivileged Children
When ISPs are brought up in a discussion, most people think of greedy types selling under powered and over priced internet connection. The validity of that thought process can be debated, but you can't argue the latest program implemented by the NCTA (National Cable & Telecommunications Association) has a positive feel to it.
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Date: 2009-12-04

Are We Witnessing The Slow Decline Of The Supply Chains?
I certainly hope not, what would I blog about? But today in the Wall Street Journal an article highlights the trend that many companies, including Oracle, Pepsi, General Motors and Boeing, are all buying their suppliers and/or partners or investing in them for one reason or another.
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Date: 2009-12-04

Prepping A Website for Google Caffeine's Speed Assessment
Being a developer, I'd say you spend most of your time researching ways to increase page rank. If not, then I have my doubts about whether your business is successful or not. In your continuing research of page rank, you've undoubtedly come across Google Caffeine. The latest update to Google's search engine is slowly being implemented into Google's infrastructure and should be at 100% some time in 2010.
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Date: 2009-12-04

Setting Your Internet Explorer Home Page In XP
I want to set Internet Explorer so that when I start it up, it always goes to a webpage other than the default startup page. How can I change the "startup page" or "home page" in Internet Explorer?
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Date: 2009-12-03

Making Twitter Lists Work For Your Office
I recently posted my initial Twitter Lists and we also created lists for @darwineco. Here are some useful Twitter List ideas from others. First, Rob Paterson posted, Twitter Lists - 1st Insight? Among other things he wrote, "What I have immediately seen from the new lists that are emerging around …(my) related areas of my interest is that I have some real gaps.
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Date: 2009-12-03

Making Your Enterprise More Personal Using Social Media Monitoring
Social media monitoring often gets lumped into very traditional departments inside organizations, and when this happens, certain aspects of the practice can be overlooked. There are many features of social media monitoring beyond its ability to help manage your brand's reputation via customer service.
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Date: 2009-12-03

Restructuring Your Shopping Site URLs To Improve SEO
When you run an online e-commerce store with a shopping cart, it's quite easy for your architecture and URL's to enter into territory that's not friendly for search engines. Here are some basic tips I recommend for everyone working with an online shopping cart.
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Date: 2009-12-03

Increasing Your Shopping Site's SEO Through URL Structuring
When you run an online e-commerce store with a shopping cart, it's quite easy for your architecture and URL's to enter into territory that's not friendly for search engines. Here are some basic tips I recommend for everyone working with an online shopping cart.
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Date: 2009-12-03

Zoho CRM Now Integrated With Google Docs
Online business application firm Zoho said today it has integrated Google Docs with Zoho CRM, Zoho Mail, Zoho Docs and Zoho projects.
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Date: 2009-12-03

C#, C++ Among Microsoft's Favorite Languages
To say that Microsoft's important would be to make a huge understatement; the tech company has a market cap of about $264 billion, and its influence can be felt in every industrialized part of the world. Fans of the C family of programming languages should be pleased, then, that a couple of members are favored by Microsoft.
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Date: 2009-12-03

Making Your Site Simple And Direct
Consumers love simplicity. We don't want to be confused with multiple messages and options. We just want to buy the product or service that we need at that time and have it work, or improve our lives. Make our lives simpler.
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Date: 2009-12-03

Your Site Needs To Be Simple And User Friendly
Consumers love simplicity. We don't want to be confused with multiple messages and options. We just want to buy the product or service that we need at that time and have it work, or improve our lives. Make our lives simpler.
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Date: 2009-12-03

Best Practices For Authority Links
Erik Ortega is going to get a link from me for TriFilliate PayDay as he left a comment with a link to his review. The reasons why I am mentioning this? I think Erik represents the "good" human side of affiliate marketing and is learning his lessons well, and working hard.
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Date: 2009-12-03

A Few Tips For Authority Links
Erik Ortega is going to get a link from me for TriFilliate PayDay as he left a comment with a link to his review. The reasons why I am mentioning this? I think Erik represents the "good" human side of affiliate marketing and is learning his lessons well, and working hard.
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Date: 2009-12-03

Just Following Your Competitors Online Will Not Build Your Success
I know that it's hard to be creative. I know that it's hard to be unique. Get over it. On the Internet, merely copying your competitors works far less well than it does in offline marketing. Unfortunately, Google bares all. If you do the same stuff as everyone else, count on the ones who did it before you to reap the benefits, with your results bringing up the rear.
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Date: 2009-12-02

ERP System Shines In Amstrad Acquisition
Acquisitions can require a whole lot of work; there are all sorts of decisions to make on the subjects of products, services, real estate, and personnel. It's interesting to note, then, that when BSkyB acquired Amstrad, an ERP system from IFS came into play.
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Date: 2009-12-02

How Comment Spam Can Effect Your Ranking Negatively
Last last night I found out from my friend Shaun who runs a UK SEO Company that Google are now advising about comment spam and reinclusion requests. Here is the official proclamation of best practice in the eyes of Google I should note that Google classifies their post as "Webmaster Level: Beginner"
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Date: 2009-12-02

The Negative Effect Comment Spam Can Have On Your Site
Last last night I found out from my friend Shaun who runs a UK SEO Company that Google are now advising about comment spam and reinclusion requests. Here is the official proclamation of best practice in the eyes of Google I should note that Google classifies their post as "Webmaster Level: Beginner"
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Date: 2009-12-02

Discovering The Main Goals Of Open Source Communities And Vendors
The relationship between open source communities and vendors keeps being a topic of debate these days. Simon Phipps at the South Tyrol Free Software Conference gave a talk about his "software freedom scorecard", a method to indicate the approach vendors take to promote software freedom as part of their business strategies.
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Date: 2009-12-01

Link Growth Patterns And How They Effect Indexation Levels
With every passing day, the number of websites and hence the number of web pages are growing at an explosive rate on the internet. This can cause a major headache to the search engines as they gear up to meet the challenge of crawling and subsequently indexing the new sites popping up everywhere in the cybersphere.
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Date: 2009-12-01

Understanding The Relationship Between Site Indexing And Link Growth
With every passing day, the number of websites and hence the number of web pages are growing at an explosive rate on the internet. This can cause a major headache to the search engines as they gear up to meet the challenge of crawling and subsequently indexing the new sites popping up everywhere in the cybersphere.
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Date: 2009-12-01

Software Should Have More Intelligence Built In
Earlier today, I updated a new program I'm trying out - Seesmic for Windows, which I wrote about last week. After the installer had updated the app, I launched it but got an alert from Norton Internet Security 2010. Up popped a security dialog saying "A program is behaving suspiciously on your computer. We recommend that you choose to block and remove it."
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Date: 2009-12-01

How To Optimize Your PDF Files for SEO
Another great way to create content for SEO purpose is the use of PDF files. Google spider can crawl and index the text on a PDF file. Here are some reasons why its great for SEO:
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Date: 2009-12-01

UK Businesses Are Still Struggling With Social Media
I agree with Stephen Waddington: if you're in PR in the UK, Econsultancy's Social Media and Online PR Report is essential reading. I've not yet read the detailed report, published earlier this week, just scanned through the extract freely available on Econsultancy's website.
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Date: 2009-12-01

Google Wave Brings Collaborative Content Management To The Forefront
Imagine you had an infinitely-long strip of paper that you, and your friends, could write on anywhere along the strip. Imagine that you could write anywhere along that strip anytime, or even all at the same time.
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Date: 2009-12-01

The Cloud Comes to You
As many of you know, Ubuntu has released their new version 9.10. It has a great deal of new features and tweaks over its previous version. The biggest difference I see is the fact they have included a cloud system in the distro.
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Date: 2009-12-01

Becoming A Successful Freelance White Paper Writer Takes Self Promotion
Successful writers share one common trait - they market themselves using very easy-to-implement tactics. Yet even as demand for writers is skyrocketing, many freelancers would rather spend their time walking the dog or washing the dishes.
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Date: 2009-12-01