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How Not To Do An Interview: The Basics
A while back, I was asked to participate in an over-the-phone interview that would be later broadcast online. This is one of those interviews where they ask you to provide a list of questions up front so they know what to ask. Sadly, I don't even remember who it was or where the interview ran. But, what I do remember is my faltering missteps during the interview. Yeah, don't pretend it's never happened to you!
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Date: 2011-02-28

Automated Web Analytics Auditing And Site Monitoring By ObservePoint
One of the biggest and most consistent concerns within a website measurement strategy is the quality of the data. This is especially a concern for large sites where new content is regularly added and the analytics implementation is extensive. All of the larger players in the analytics space offer professional services whereby they perform an audit of your web analytics implementation, however this can be quite expensive and isn't always a regular activity.
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Date: 2011-02-28

ObservePoint: Automated Web Analytics Auditing And Site Monitoring
One of the biggest and most consistent concerns within a website measurement strategy is the quality of the data. This is especially a concern for large sites where new content is regularly added and the analytics implementation is extensive. All of the larger players in the analytics space offer professional services whereby they perform an audit of your web analytics implementation, however this can be quite expensive and isn't always a regular activity.
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Date: 2011-02-28

How And Why I Use Dropbox
I've been covering a number of tools I depend on in this "how and why" format and people seem to be enjoying this so I'll do it as a regular feature for a bit.
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Date: 2011-02-28

Add A Question And Answer System To Increase Your Organic Traffic
I've been taking an in-depth look at Answerbase.com. It is an easy to use, yet powerful, question and answer platform that can be integrated into your existing site without the having to write any of the code yourself.
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Date: 2011-02-25

Increase Your Organic Traffic By Adding A Question And Answer System
I've been taking an in-depth look at Answerbase.com. It is an easy to use, yet powerful, question and answer platform that can be integrated into your existing site without the having to write any of the code yourself.
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Date: 2011-02-25

Cost Of Private Freight Railway Cars Threat To Supply Chain
The $90 billion fleet of privately owned freight railway cars in the U.S. may be in jeopardy, according to a new report released by the Supply Chain Management Center at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.
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Date: 2011-02-25

Google Apps Certification Program Stands To Give VARs An Edge
Value-added resellers with ties to Google Apps now have a new way to stand out from the crowd. This week, Google introduced the Google Apps Certification Program, which will allow IT professionals to earn an online certification attesting to their expertise.
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Date: 2011-02-25

Google Teaches You How To Make Your Site Mobile Friendly!
Mobile devices are being widely used to access the web today, and webmasters are required to ensure that their websites are catering well to mobile devices just as they do for desktop devices. This means that websites may require some optimization in order to best serve mobile web browsers. In response to various questions asked by webmasters in regards to same, Google has explained the current web experience using mobile phones and how to make your website mobile friendly in a Webmaster Central blog post.
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Date: 2011-02-24

How To Make Your Site Mobile Friendly!
Mobile devices are being widely used to access the web today, and webmasters are required to ensure that their websites are catering well to mobile devices just as they do for desktop devices. This means that websites may require some optimization in order to best serve mobile web browsers. In response to various questions asked by webmasters in regards to same, Google has explained the current web experience using mobile phones and how to make your website mobile friendly in a Webmaster Central blog post.
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Date: 2011-02-24

Peter Morville on Making Maps for Knowledge Discovery
Here is another in a series of session notes for KM World 2010 and Enterprise Search Summit 2010. I attended the keynote session, Search Patterns: Making Maps for Knowledge Discovery led by Peter Morville, President, Semantic Studios, & Author, Search Patterns, his book with a butterfly on the cover. We like this. Here is the session description:
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Date: 2011-02-24

How to Humanize A Sketchy Industry
Social media is about people, not logos. I saw a presentation at the MarketingProfs Digital Marketing Forum in Austin a few ago from Eric Granof, CMO of ExpertBail, which seeks to become the country's first branded network of bail bonds companies. Like video stores before Blockbuster, and ice cream parlors before Dairy Queen, Expert Bail wants to add consistency and efficiency to an industry besot by Mom & Pop players that often run the gamut from unprofessional to downright unsavory.
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Date: 2011-02-24

Google Tasks Updates on Google's To-Do List
Google has a mighty big to-do list of their own. Luckily, the large size of the company and their multi-billion dollar buying power does allow them to get more done than your average citizen (even when using that term on a corporate level).
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Date: 2011-02-24

JPMorgan Creates $1.2 Billion Digital Growth Fund
Although the term "bubble" is beginning to be used with increasing frequency, JPMorgan Chase appears to have every confidence that companies like Facebook and Twitter will continue to grow and become profitable. A regulatory filing indicates that the organization's created a digital growth fund worth more than $1.2 billion.
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Date: 2011-02-24

Why You’re Pissing Off Half Your Facebook Fans
Sure it has 600 million members and is significantly more compelling than any film made by Nicholas Cage in the past five years, but even with those inherent advantages, Facebook for business is hard.
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Date: 2011-02-23

Questions to Ask Before Starting in Social Media
So you're thinking about jumping into social media. You've read a whole slew of blog posts, news stories as well as examples of how social media has helped businesses like yours cut costs and market more effectively. So now it's your turn.
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Date: 2011-02-23

The Facebook iPad App Maker: Friendly
I shot this for my dad, who just got an iPad and just got on Facebook. I helped him yesterday get his account setup. It's interesting bringing a new family member onto Facebook.
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Date: 2011-02-23

Your Website Is Very Important To Your Business Success
Recent research findings released by MYOB indicate that only 35% of Australian small businesses have a website. Do you fall into this category? I have to admit this statistics took me by surprise. I guess by being so involved in online marketing, I assumed that a lot more businesses had a website to promote to potential and existing customers.
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Date: 2011-02-23

Study Outlines the Importance of a Website to Your Business
Recent research findings released by MYOB indicate that only 35% of Australian small businesses have a website. Do you fall into this category? I have to admit this statistics took me by surprise. I guess by being so involved in online marketing, I assumed that a lot more businesses had a website to promote to potential and existing customers.
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Date: 2011-02-23

Search Engine Optimization: Anchor Text Flows Just Like PageRank
As someone who has been actively creating and optimizing web pages for the search engines since 1996, I have always been curious when it comes to everything related to Search Engine Optimization. I love to write and create great online content, and I am even more satisfied when I see people reading content that I have written.
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Date: 2011-02-22

Anchor Text And Your Site's PageRank Have The Same Flow
As someone who has been actively creating and optimizing web pages for the search engines since 1996, I have always been curious when it comes to everything related to Search Engine Optimization. I love to write and create great online content, and I am even more satisfied when I see people reading content that I have written.
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Date: 2011-02-22

A Vision For OWASP
There's been lots of talk over the last few weeks about OWASP. Is OWASP at a tipping point? Where should OWASP go next? Has OWASP lost touch withdevelopers?
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Date: 2011-02-22

Ignoring Social Media Just Stopped Working
OK, OK, maybe it stopped working a while ago. Maybe you thought it stopped working when Google debuted Universal Search. Or maybe you thought it stopped working when Bing hooked up with Facebook. But if you were hanging on and saying, "Google doesn't personalize THAT may results," then this wakeup call is for you.
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Date: 2011-02-22

Ted Ulle aka Tedster On Information Architecture
Ted Ulle is a veteran member of WebmasterWorld, where he's better known as Tedster. He moderates the HTML and Google SEO forums there, as well as serving as an Administrator.
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Date: 2011-02-22

SpotCloud aims to lower IT costs
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) vendor Enomaly establishes a marketplace to buy and sell unused computing resources. Dubbed SpotCloud, the new beta service has the potential of helping IT departments reduce costs while also increase revenue potential from IT. Is SpotCloud right for your business? Will Enomaly's open source efforts affect your decision?
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Date: 2011-02-21

How To Create A Dynamic Footer Carousel
In my piece on How to Build an Effective Footer, one of the tips I mentioned was making your footer more dynamic by including links to posts that are currently popular on your website. It's something I do on the bottom of this website. I've gotten a few emails asking how, so I figured I'd turn it into a tutorial.
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Date: 2011-02-21

Creating A Dynamic Footer Carousel
In my piece on How to Build an Effective Footer, one of the tips I mentioned was making your footer more dynamic by including links to posts that are currently popular on your website. It's something I do on the bottom of this website. I've gotten a few emails asking how, so I figured I'd turn it into a tutorial.
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Date: 2011-02-21

Tips For Customer Engagement
Today's question is from Kevin Murray, who runs a family driven online marketing company over at WorkWithTheMurrays.com. Kevin asks:
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Date: 2011-02-21

Microsoft Introduces Dynamics CRM 2011
Microsoft has introduced its Dynamics CRM 2011 for on-premises and partner-hosted deployments.
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Date: 2011-02-21

Tips For Managing Social Media
Today's post really started as an answer to a reader's question - "Is there a way to schedule status updates to my Facebook Pages?" As we branch out and accept that fact that the many outposts we create in social networks require content, participation and engagement in order to grow, the task of managing just gets harder and harder.
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Date: 2011-02-18

Social Media Management Tips
Today's post really started as an answer to a reader's question - "Is there a way to schedule status updates to my Facebook Pages?" As we branch out and accept that fact that the many outposts we create in social networks require content, participation and engagement in order to grow, the task of managing just gets harder and harder.
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Date: 2011-02-18

Can You Find Customers Through Social Media?
Whether you've fallen in love with social media or you're still being a wall-flower not quite confident enough to dive in and give it a go, it really is a great way to market your business.
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Date: 2011-02-18

Server and Storage Admins Need To Work In Better Tandem
As the technology behind virtual servers evolve, so do the problems that go along with them. One of the more unique hurdles to overcome is the connection between these server and storage management admins. They are increasingly working together more, which has led to some conflict. Many of the virtual server admins want greater access to storage.
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Date: 2011-02-18

Linux Made To Support London Stock Exchange
Although this is sure to be a case of stating the obvious, stock exchanges are pretty important things. They often help determine who gets rich and who becomes poor, and even when people aren't buying and selling on a regular basis, they influence retirement accounts. So it's probably good news for Linux that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is being used to support the London Stock Exchange's trading platform.
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Date: 2011-02-18

Don’t Let Duplicate Pages and Bad URLs Destroy Your SEO: Kill It Dead!
This series is pulled from a presentation given at SMX East. Part I of this series covered the problems duplicate content creates. Part II covered some of the causes of duplicate content. This post covers some of the solutions that will help you fix your duplicate content problems.
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Date: 2011-02-18

Oracle Adding Firewall To Their Database
For Oracle users who are continually worrying about security, this news will seem like a breath of fresh air.It was announced earlier this week that Oracle would be adding a database firewall to their system. This will provide monitoring services, enforce normal behavior, and defend against unauthorized access or injection attacks.
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Date: 2011-02-18

Green Computing with C++
Have you heard of green computing? It's basically the concept of lowering the energy requirements of computers in order to reduce the carbon footprint of datacenter operations and desktop/mobile applications. The idea is that since computers already suck out a lot of juice from the power grid around the world, at least we should be able to reduce the amount of heat that the computers generate to save on the costs of cooling the machines in data centers.
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Date: 2011-02-17

How To Overcome The Headaches Of Social Media
Social Media Marketing has taken a firmer position within the marketing mix of most companies in one way or another. For some, social web participation is a natural fit. For many others, being more social isn't in the management DNA. Regardless, marketers are held accountable for improving the bottom line and with that comes a number of common "headaches".
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Date: 2011-02-17

How to Address And Resolve The Issues With Social Media
Social Media Marketing has taken a firmer position within the marketing mix of most companies in one way or another. For some, social web participation is a natural fit. For many others, being more social isn't in the management DNA. Regardless, marketers are held accountable for improving the bottom line and with that comes a number of common "headaches".
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Date: 2011-02-17

Yammer: Changing The Way We Communicate At Work
There are a host of companies trying to change the way enterprises communicate internally. One such company is Yammer, which broke away from the pack two and a half years ago as the winner of TechCrunch50. Since then, they've been working hard to change the way we communicate with one another in the workplace.
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Date: 2011-02-17

Performing Loopback Tests in Windows XP
If you are involved with networking in a small office or home environment, you may encounter situations where you will need to perform loopback tests. Windows XP provides you with an easy-to-use tool that will help you perform loopback tests, and I would like to show you how to install and utilize the loopback tool within this tutorial.
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Date: 2011-02-17

Writing White Papers In More Than One Language
When it comes to writing styles, many white paper authors try to use short words and simple sentences so that the average English speaker has no trouble understanding them. The thing is, though, that the "average person" on a global scale doesn't speak English, and so one (admittedly risky) approach to attracting a new audience is writing a white paper in a different language.
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Date: 2011-02-17

White House Jumping On The 'Cloud' Bandwagon
Who knew that making upgrades in the IT sector of our government could potentially save us billions of dollars.According to U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, that's how much tax payer money could be saved by upgrading the country's infrastructure. Kundra wants to see the shutting down of hundreds of data centers and moving to the 'cloud'.
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Date: 2011-02-17

Adding Location Modifiers To Your Keywords
If you are a business owner looking to get into online marketing and, in particular, search engine optimisation, don't forget to think local. More and more people are searching for local companies through the search engines so it's never been more important to ensure you have a strong local SEO presence on the web.
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Date: 2011-02-16

Think Local When Developing Your SEO Copy
If you are a business owner looking to get into online marketing and, in particular, search engine optimisation, don't forget to think local. More and more people are searching for local companies through the search engines so it's never been more important to ensure you have a strong local SEO presence on the web.
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Date: 2011-02-16

ISM Presents 2011 Top 15 CRM Software Awards
It may be time again for enterprise CRM experts to start taking notes, or, depending on the situation, sending out resumes. ISM, whose clients include ExxonMobil, Giorgio Armani, IBM, Kraft, Nike, Pepsi, Samsung, T. Rowe Price, and the U.S. Department of Defense, has presented its 2011 Top 15 CRM Software Awards.
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Date: 2011-02-16

IBM Releases New System For Enterprise Security
Enterprises around the world are continually facing new threats, many times on a daily basis. These threats can come from a wide variety of places, such as data leaks, viruses, hacks, and so on. Vulnerabilities can be tough to track across and infrastructure, which is why having the best tools at one's disposal is key. IBM has released a system which if it can do what they claim, could be a game changer.
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Date: 2011-02-16

Writing Useful Site Content On A Daily Basis
How often do you publish blog posts and other content marketing material? If you find it hard to get information out there on a regular enough basis, this post may help. It's about the approach I use for developing content on my blogs.
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Date: 2011-02-15

Do The New Tablet Contenders Have A Chance In An iPad World?
OK, we've seen the best tablets now that the industry can offer. At CES Motorola Xoom won best of show. Last week we saw the HP TouchPad, which looks even better.
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Date: 2011-02-15

Creating An iFrame-Based Facebook Tab Page
My last post explained the benefits of the new iframes-based Facebook tab pages, so are you ready to set one up? It can be a little tricky, so here's my steps to walk you through creating a Facebook iframe tab page (to enlarge screen shots, click on them):
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Date: 2011-02-15

Drobo Announces New Storage Solutions For SMBs
Small and medium-sized businesses that are in need of new storage solutions now have a few more options to consider. Last week, Drobo announced a new line of products meant to be both easy to use and inexpensive compared to some alternatives.
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Date: 2011-02-15

Google Allows Users To Link Analytics And Webmaster Tools
There is some good news this week for Google Analytics users; you can now link your analytics profile to your Google Webmasters Tools account. This feature will not only allow users to access their Analytics profiles from within their Webmaster Tools account, but also enable them to access a few more Google Analytics features easily.
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Date: 2011-02-14

Users Can Now Link Google Analytics And Webmaster Tools
There is some good news this week for Google Analytics users; you can now link your analytics profile to your Google Webmasters Tools account. This feature will not only allow users to access their Analytics profiles from within their Webmaster Tools account, but also enable them to access a few more Google Analytics features easily.
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Date: 2011-02-14

Nokia/Microsoft Deal Provides Linux With A Step Into Mobile OS Door
There was a time when only one mobile phone OS ruled the market; Nokia's Symbian. During this time, Nokia looked to rule atop the mountain all alone. Then the Apple's iPhone released, and relatively soon after the Android OS. Both of these mobile OS releases left Nokia in a desperate position, leading to a deal between them and Microsoft.
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Date: 2011-02-14

Differentiating Free With Free Exposure
There's an interesting debate online at the minute about the AOL purchase of The Huffington Post for $315 million dollars. The debate isn't so much about the price - of the amount, $300 million is expected to be straight cash - but more around the contributors to The Huffington Post over the years, and the belief that they are owed some of that money.
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Date: 2011-02-11

Who Owns Contributers' Content?
There's an interesting debate online at the minute about the AOL purchase of The Huffington Post for $315 million dollars. The debate isn't so much about the price - of the amount, $300 million is expected to be straight cash - but more around the contributors to The Huffington Post over the years, and the belief that they are owed some of that money.
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Date: 2011-02-11

IT Decision Makers Must Prepare For Discontinuous Changes
Accenture's 2011 Technology Vision report provides eight trends that Accenture expects to present discontinuous change that IT decision makers must prepare for. Accenture Technology Labs scoured a range of input data including venture capital funding, IT analyst reports, Accenture's IT Executive Forum and research and development activities in order to produce the Accenture 2011 Technology Vision report.
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Date: 2011-02-11

Service Providers Switching to IPv6
If you haven't heard yet, the internet as we know it is coming to an end. As other articles of this type have stated; don't panic. With destruction, comes creation. As we wave goodbye to IPv4, the protocol we rely on, we say hello to IPv6. There have been many discussions regarding the switch, however, very few have mentioned what will happen to the ISPs.
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Date: 2011-02-11

Web Design Trends To Keep You Ahead
If you're a web designer or you want someone to design a website for you, it's important to stay current. If your site is old and outdated, you may find that people aren't really that interested in what you have to say - simply because you don't look like you're "with it."
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Date: 2011-02-10

Developing Your Website With New Design Trends
If you're a web designer or you want someone to design a website for you, it's important to stay current. If your site is old and outdated, you may find that people aren't really that interested in what you have to say - simply because you don't look like you're "with it."
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Date: 2011-02-10

New Internet Explorer To Focus On Privacy
The different search engines have managed to keep their portions of territory partially thanks to another crucial line of products: their browsers.
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Date: 2011-02-10

Is Your Business Integrating Social Media Into Your CRM?
How does social media support your customer relationship management processes? That was one of the areas recently reviewed in research undertaken by Microsoft Ireland in a survey of 400 businesses. The research uncovered that social media is making significant inroads into Irish customer relationship culture with:
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Date: 2011-02-10

Making More Money As A Business Owner
The big question on every entrepreneur's mind is always… "How can I make more money?" Today I want to try and answer that for you. That way your small business can start earning you the kind of revenues you deserve.
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Date: 2011-02-09

Simple Ways To Improve Your Site's Quality Score
If you're a Google AdWords advertiser, chances are you'll be very familiar with their quality score ranking. It's an important metric as Google uses your quality score to determine the position of your ads and the cost-per-click of your placement.
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Date: 2011-02-09

Raising Your Quality Score To Lower Your CPC
If you're a Google AdWords advertiser, chances are you'll be very familiar with their quality score ranking. It's an important metric as Google uses your quality score to determine the position of your ads and the cost-per-click of your placement.
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Date: 2011-02-09

Creating Web Design Checklists To Build A Better Site
Before you began a new web site design, did you pause for a moment and think about your goals? When you first sat down to consider your plans, did you think about your business requirements? Why do you want a web site? What do you hope to accomplish? How will you do this?
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Date: 2011-02-09

The Future of Social Media and CRM
For those who are constantly on the internet, there's no avoiding social media. Even if you don't have an account with a service, you still feel the impact through social features on websites. There are many who believe social media will inevitably impact the future of CRM. Is this a prediction with merit, or is it too early to tell?
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Date: 2011-02-09

Using Chaos Theory To Facilitating Content Discovery
Here is another in a series of session notes for KM World 2010 and Enterprise Search Summit 2010. In this case it is the session I did - Facilitating Content Discovery Using Chaos Theory. Here is the session description. My notes follow.
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Date: 2011-02-09

Adding A Personal Touch By Treating Your Loyal Clients Well
Seth Godin has done it again. In few words, he has reframed how businesses should treat and view their best customers. Godin argues that most businesses just take the money of their best customers.
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Date: 2011-02-09

How To Use Your Social Media To Improve Your SEO
After a deliciously interesting lunch roundtable session, we are back in presentation-mode. Our own Janet Driscoll Miller is presenting on your social presence and its impact on Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Here are 6 ways your social media efforts impact SEO:
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Date: 2011-02-08

Boosting Your Social Ranking With Hootsuite And Google Spreadsheets
As you know, search engines (especially Google and Bing) are taking Social Rank into account more than ever. Those who take the time to share awesome content and build up a reputation will have an ever-increasing influence over the SERPs in the coming years. So it pays dividends to tilt the social sharing benefit in your favor. Taking the time to collect, sort, and schedule your best content shares may be a great first step.
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Date: 2011-02-08

How To Fix The Existing Copy On Your Website Pages
I recently came across a great and simple video which outlines how to conduct SEO copy editing as opposed to SEO copywriting. SEO copy editing allows you to fix the existing copy on your website pages to include more key phrases in the copy. This will make the website friendlier to the search engines and users.
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Date: 2011-02-08

How To Conduct SEO Copy Editing
I recently came across a great and simple video which outlines how to conduct SEO copy editing as opposed to SEO copywriting. SEO copy editing allows you to fix the existing copy on your website pages to include more key phrases in the copy. This will make the website friendlier to the search engines and users.
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Date: 2011-02-08

Android Market: The Good, Bad, and Malicious
For those who develop apps for Android, you should know there's a better chance your app will be downloaded. Say hello to the Android Market. This website allows Android users to install apps from the site to their phones. I've put the site through its paces, and it pretty convenient. However, is there more to the site than what's readily apparent?
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Date: 2011-02-08

Building More Relevant Email For Your Customers
This presentation is all about integrating different channels to gather customer data- and then using that data to personalize your email marketing strategy. At Search Mojo, we are big proponents of integrating Social Media with Search. So in particular, I'm really excited about this idea of tying social media into email marketing.
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Date: 2011-02-07

How To Make Your Site What Users Want
The complete title of this session is Understanding User Intent: Using Segmentation to Serve Up the Optimal Website Experience. Our presenters this afternoon are Becki Dilworth of Bridgeline Digital and Chris Hachey of PODS Enterprises.
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Date: 2011-02-07

How To Create Your Content With SEO Built In
This afternoon I finally got to meet the lovely Heather Lloyd-Martin, someone I've followed forever, present at the MarketingProfs Digital Marketing Forum on SEO content development. Heather's company, SuccessWorks, focuses on SEO copywriting.
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Date: 2011-02-07

Practices For Developing Your Content With SEO
This afternoon I finally got to meet the lovely Heather Lloyd-Martin, someone I've followed forever, present at the MarketingProfs Digital Marketing Forum on SEO content development. Heather's company, SuccessWorks, focuses on SEO copywriting.
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Date: 2011-02-07

Does Figuring Out The ROI Always Make Sense?
When I go into meetings there's one question I love to ask when it comes down to social customer initiatives. I get the key stakeholders seated at a table together and ask, "If I told you that you would never know about making any direct revenue from your customers through social channels, would you still invest the time and money to do it?"
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Date: 2011-02-07

Employers Being Challenged With Evaluation and Validation Issues
1,700 businesses took part in a CompTIA survey concerning the hiring process of IT experts. The survey provided results which showed employers relying heavily on IT certifications, but also noted struggles regarding evaluation and validation.
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Date: 2011-02-07

Using Fan Only Content On Your Facebook
One cool little trick that marketers often use on Facebook is to hold back content for "Fans" only. The pull behind this is that you can then give a little perk and encourage folks to "Like" your page and become a fan.
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Date: 2011-02-04

How To Use Fan Only Content On Your Facebook Page
One cool little trick that marketers often use on Facebook is to hold back content for "Fans" only. The pull behind this is that you can then give a little perk and encourage folks to "Like" your page and become a fan.
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Date: 2011-02-04

Why File Permissions Are Important In Linux
Permissions are important for keeping your data safe and secure. Utilizing permission settings in Linux can benefit you and those you want to give access to your files and you don't need to open up everything just to share one file or directory (something Windows sharing often does).
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Date: 2011-02-04

Tibco Releases Social Media Platform For IT Professionals
There are numerous social media platforms available on the Internet that cater to specific groups and interests. For internal, corporate structures, there is a new social media application that has been recently developed, catering specifically to IT professionals and technological gurus.
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Date: 2011-02-03

How To Use Location Based Services
In the world of online social media, location-based services may be the next best thing. Since this technology is still relatively new, it could head off in several possible directions. However, many pioneer location-based services such as Foursquare and Gowalla are proving what's possible with this technology and how it can be utilized by both consumers and business owners.
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Date: 2011-02-03

Utilizing Location Based Services For Your Business
In the world of online social media, location-based services may be the next best thing. Since this technology is still relatively new, it could head off in several possible directions. However, many pioneer location-based services such as Foursquare and Gowalla are proving what's possible with this technology and how it can be utilized by both consumers and business owners.
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Date: 2011-02-03

How To Wield C++ In An Effective Manner
There is a largely unspoken understanding between/among C++ developers that goes a little something like this: "any sufficiently complex problem can be solved by working with the appropriate abstractions". This is not a hard/fast rule but it's something that the senior C++ guys understand and internalize from an engineering perspective...
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Date: 2011-02-03

Use Your XP Machine As a Web Server Using IIS
In some cases, finding web hosting for your website or just a few files may be a costly scenario. What most Windows users do not know is that they can use their Windows XP machine as a miniature web service. Windows XP comes with web service software called Internet Information Services (commonly known as IIS) that is included, but not installed by default after the intitial Windows XP installation. In this tutorial, I will step through the process of installing IIS so that you can use your XP machine as a web host.
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Date: 2011-02-03

One Of The Most Important White Papers Of The Year Receives Delay
This could possibly be one of the most important white papers to release this year, and for those in wait will have to go a little longer before reading it.The Obama administration planned to release a white paper detailing the future of housing finance by January 31st. A deadline decided on by Congress.
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Date: 2011-02-03

Tablet Case Review: Zaggmate
I'll admit that when I first saw the Zaggmate mentioned, I was stoked. An iPad case with hard body aluminum case and built in wireless keyboard… It was like combining chocolate and peanut butter in Reese's cup. Genius. While I really wanted to like this product and use it daily, in then end, it just couldn't meet my expectations.
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Date: 2011-02-02

Could Customer Scheduling Be A Mobile Game-Changer?
Here are several excerpts from an article by Mike Wittenstein, Mobile Monday: Apple Store App, about The Apple Store's New Mobile App:
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Date: 2011-02-02

Changing The Game With Mobile Customer Scheduling
Here are several excerpts from an article by Mike Wittenstein, Mobile Monday: Apple Store App, about The Apple Store's New Mobile App:
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Date: 2011-02-02

How To Better Understand the PDF Format
Form XObjects (not be confused with forms which are buttons, checkboxes, buttons, etc) are an advanced feature of the PDF file format. They can be thought of as sub-rountines (or even mini-PDFs) which are used on the main PDF display.
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Date: 2011-02-02

Meridian Systems Partners With TPM
Meridian Systems is a Trimble owned company, providing Plan-Build-Operate technology solutions to a large assortment of clients. Their customer base consists of building owners, construction, and engineering firms. They've added TPM to their list of VAR network - an acquisition which represents a massive boost for the company.
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Date: 2011-02-02

Have Colleges Decided To Embrace Social Media?
My daughter has reached the end of her college selection process. She's our first student headed off to college, so it was a learning process for all of us. She did a great job and she was accepted to her "college of choice" and she is relieved and happy.
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Date: 2011-02-01

Are Colleges Seeing The Importance Of Social Media?
My daughter has reached the end of her college selection process. She's our first student headed off to college, so it was a learning process for all of us. She did a great job and she was accepted to her "college of choice" and she is relieved and happy.
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Date: 2011-02-01

How To Get What Your Business Needs
We all need something. As an entrepreneur you might need a consultant, new service provider, a particular out-of-print book, conference space, etc. As a person you might need a babysitter, restaurant or who knows what.
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Date: 2011-02-01