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C++0x will be C++ 2011
As you might already have heard from other places and read from other sources, the ISO C++ committee has now finally voted to publish the current Final Draft International Standard (FDIS) for the language referred to affectionately as C++0x.
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Date: 2011-03-31
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KM, Enterprise 2.0 and Social Business: One and The Same
Another week at work gone by in a flash, another business trip to visit one of our customers in mainland Spain done and dealt with and back to the grid again, till the next upcoming trip happening in the next few days... That seems to be the story of my life lately, which means that blog posts are getting more and more scattered around, so I better do something about it, right?, before you all go away and don't come back again!
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Date: 2011-03-31
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Firefox Users: Version 4 is Now Available!
Last week, Mozilla released its latest release of its Firefox web browser (version 4), and there are many new features included with this new release, such as a new cosmetic appearance, along with new ways that you can interact with the pages that you visit on the Internet.
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Date: 2011-03-31
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Social Media Turns Tie Games Into Brand Wins
Let's not lose our minds, okay? Sure, social media is transformative, because it changes the company to customer relationship from its historical "master and servant" to something closer to "peer to peer." But even transformative shifts don't dictate that you can rewrite rules and rationality.
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Date: 2011-03-31
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The Lone Comodo-Hacker Theory
In a message posted on pastebin, an individual using the handle of "comodohacker" has claimed responsibility for last week's hack-attack on the Comodo site in which someone was able to gain access to the RAs site and issue 9 SSL Certificates for some major sites such as:
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Date: 2011-03-30
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2011 Linux.com Gurus Announced
Online forums are often an important source of information for people, and the members who provide useful answers on a regular basis deserve special recognition. Give a round of applause, then, as the "Top Five 2011 Linux.com Linux Gurus" have been named.
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Date: 2011-03-30
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SES: Search Marketing And Content Management
First off, wow, what a great week at SES! After a much needed mental detox from the overload of great sessions and networking events, I wanted to throw some perspective your way from what happened at SES New York this year. Hopefully you have had a chance to stay tuned to all of the great speaker highlights via our Facebook fan page. For those who didn't, here is my take:
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Date: 2011-03-29
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Smarter Customers Require Smarter Business Practices
Your customers are getting smarter and more connected. They no longer want to do business in the traditional way - they want to interact with you on their own terms and in their own time. They connect through many devices and social media avenues and they expect you to be there and be responsive. They want you to be open to having a conversation with them. They expect you to be getting smarter too.
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Date: 2011-03-29
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Seagate Announces New Enterprise Storage Products
It's no secret that storage giant Seagate was a bit late to the SSD space, releasing its first products after other manufacturers had the chance to gain footholds. The company's catching up (and perhaps then some), though, announcing a handful of new enterprise storage solutions this month.
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Date: 2011-03-29
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One Great Idea to Increase Your Sales And Profits
If you want to increase the number of clients you have or boost your sales figures, here's a quick marketing tip for you: "People buy for their reasons, not yours!" Most small business owners make the mistake of selling their services, based on what THEY think matters. In other words, they look at their product or service and because they know it so well, they assume they ALSO know why each individual person wants to buy it.
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Date: 2011-03-25
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How to Massively Increase Your Sales And Profits, With This One Great Idea!
If you want to increase the number of clients you have or boost your sales figures, here's a quick marketing tip for you: "People buy for their reasons, not yours!" Most small business owners make the mistake of selling their services, based on what THEY think matters. In other words, they look at their product or service and because they know it so well, they assume they ALSO know why each individual person wants to buy it.
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Date: 2011-03-25
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SES NY | The Basics of Link Building
My last session at the first day of SES NY was "The Basics of Link Building" with Debra Mastaler, President of Alliance-Link. It promised to teach me all I need to know about link building and why it's so important - and it delivered. The description specifically denoted that the session would explain how to build links in an "appropriate manner", which alluded to the certain black-hat practices that have been in the news lately.
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Date: 2011-03-24
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Learning The Basics On Link Building
My last session at the first day of SES NY was "The Basics of Link Building" with Debra Mastaler, President of Alliance-Link. It promised to teach me all I need to know about link building and why it's so important - and it delivered. The description specifically denoted that the session would explain how to build links in an "appropriate manner", which alluded to the certain black-hat practices that have been in the news lately.
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Date: 2011-03-24
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Extra Security Precautions In The Workplace Urged
System administrators who are good at keeping the trains running on time but don't assign many guards to protect them (figuratively speaking) might want to reconsider that approach. One expert who works as both a network administrator (at two different companies) and a writer recently outlined why security measures are important.
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Date: 2011-03-24
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White Paper and Social Media Working In Tandem
If you were to break down the fundamentals of white paper and social media, you'd be met with two opposites. Social media is a platform that allows for quick and low quality content, shared across a large network. White Paper on the other hand is all about high quality content, released on a smaller scale. Luckily, both of these concepts have the potential to help one another.
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Date: 2011-03-24
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Red Hat's Commitment to Open Competition is Good for Linux
Recent changes to how Red Hat makes source code to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) available have raised the ire of some within Linux and GPLv2 circles. However, the changes are intended to help Red Hat compete more effectively in the enterprise Linux market, which is ultimately good for customers and the Linux community. Find out how the changes may impact your company's use of Linux.
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Date: 2011-03-23
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Can Customers Find You Offline?
How are you directing people online to your locations offline? Where are your offline locations showing up online? Where are people searching for your information? Online visibility has become increasingly more important for offline businesses because of the change in the nature of people's search for information.
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Date: 2011-03-23
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Are You Easy To Find Offline?
How are you directing people online to your locations offline? Where are your offline locations showing up online? Where are people searching for your information? Online visibility has become increasingly more important for offline businesses because of the change in the nature of people's search for information.
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Date: 2011-03-23
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Why You Should Never Duplicate Your Competitor's SEO Strategies
Engaging in competitive research before and during your SEO, PPC, Social Media, and Link Building campaigns is smart business. As they say, "information is power." But, too much information can also cause a handicap. It's not too difficult to be so inundated with info. that you get information overload or conflicting advice. That leads to decision paralysis.
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Date: 2011-03-23
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One Does Not Simply HTTPS into Mordor
Every time you go to a web site that requires you to log in, you are displaying your username and password for the world to see. HTTPS was introduced very early on in the development of the internet, but it was initially intended to make financial transactions more secure, such as your bank's website.
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Date: 2011-03-23
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Understanding CID Fonts In PDF Files
There are 2 main font technologies used in PDF font files (Postscript/Type1 and Truetype). There is also a ‘merged' format which borrows features from both (OpenType). Both formats have their own advantages and represent politics and stategy in the last 20 years as much as any technical advances.
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Date: 2011-03-22
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Three Easy Steps to Achieve IA Greatness
We live in a digital age, but haven't quite gotten to that mythical paperless society that we've been reading about for the past couple of decades. Those of us that make our living via websites still rely on good old fashioned compressed wood to fulfill a number of our daily tasks.
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Date: 2011-03-21
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How To Easily Achieve IA Greatness
We live in a digital age, but haven't quite gotten to that mythical paperless society that we've been reading about for the past couple of decades. Those of us that make our living via websites still rely on good old fashioned compressed wood to fulfill a number of our daily tasks.
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Date: 2011-03-21
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Jerry Moore v. John Hoff: Legal consequences for bloggers
For bloggers, legal matters are usually not an issue that's top-of-mind. That's because, for most, we just don't write about anything that's inflammatory enough to get someone's undies in a bunch. Sure, some bloggers get fired up from time to time, but very few blogs attack specific people-at least to the level that requires legal action.
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Date: 2011-03-21
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Fail in Favor of the Customer
I talk to lots of companies about who they hire and how they train. Because, let's face it, any company with more than one employee relies on the entire staff to deliver on the promise of the brand, or at least the promise made in the marketing brochure.
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Date: 2011-03-21
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Verint Four Time Winner Of 'Service Winner' Award
When your company is awarded CRM magazine's most prestigious award four times in a row, brand image continues to increase. Verint Systems is a CRM developer who has continued to be the company others look up to. Their WFO (Workforce Optimization) suite 'Verint Witness Actionable Solutions (VWAS) received the magazine's "Service Winner" award, beating out three other candidates.
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Date: 2011-03-21
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How To Deal With Comment Trolls
At some stage in your blogging journey, you're going to write something that, for whatever reason, brings down the equivalent of Darth Vader, Sauron, Freddy Kreuger and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse onto you all at once.
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Date: 2011-03-17
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Of Comment Trolls And Flash Mobs
At some stage in your blogging journey, you're going to write something that, for whatever reason, brings down the equivalent of Darth Vader, Sauron, Freddy Kreuger and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse onto you all at once.
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Date: 2011-03-17
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What Is The Fastest Way To Setup A New iPad2?
Hi Dave. I have an iPad and have really enjoyed using it, but now that the iPad 2 is available from Apple. Well. I have to get it. Shiny toy syndrome and all that. My question: what's the fastest and easiest way to configure my new iPad so it has all my apps, music, videos, etc., from the original iPad I have?
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Date: 2011-03-16
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Changing The Way You Think About SEO Forever
Below is the second set of questions from an interview I had given late last year. If you started this series with the introduction, you already know that the answers here differ from the answers given in the interview. One of the reasons I like written interviews is that it gives you a better opportunity to provide a more thorough and thought-filled answer.
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Date: 2011-03-14
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Measurement and Metrics or People and Relationships?
I was on a panel discussion at the Sales 2.0 conference last week and one of the questions the moderator asked was around dashboards, in other words, if you could create your metrics and dashboards for social engagement; what would you track and why? It's really tough to answer this type of a question because on one hand every organization is going to care about different things and on the other hand a part of me wanted to say, "who cares?"
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Date: 2011-03-14
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Link Building – Creating Encyclopedic Content
While SEOs are well known for hating Wikipedia for its truthiness factor, as a whole, you have to acknowledge that, at some level, the content strives to be encyclopedic in nature. It's this encyclopedic and non commercial quality that makes it linkworthy. When building my own websites or working with clients, one of the areas I feel is important to identify and work on is the page (or pages) of encyclopedic content.
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Date: 2011-03-14
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How To Get Your Site Ranking Higher
Before spending money on SEO, your site can get a great head start in achieving top rankings by ensuring you've implemented SEO friendly site architecture. URL structure, file names and website speed are three important elements to consider when designing your site.
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Date: 2011-03-11
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Supply Chain Hiring Increase Forecast
People who work in the supply chain industry should perhaps start giving some thought to what sort of coworkers (and/or employees) they want. New data indicates that the industry should grow this year, and more specifically, it's supposed to grow in terms of lots of people getting hired.
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Date: 2011-03-11
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Humanize Your Marketing With Buyer Personas
Buyer Persona development may just be the most important element in a content marketing strategy. Having a deeper, more personal understanding of your customers leads to content creation that not only builds trust, but also demonstrates your willingness to spend the necessary time to learn the actual circumstances that affect your customers.
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Date: 2011-03-10
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Writing Copy that Targets Affluent Boomers
What's that thunderous sound? Every time the biggest generation reaches a milestone, you can feel the ground rumble. In 2011, boomers start reaching Medicare age. There's one turning 65 every nine seconds. At every stage of life, their buying and work patterns have rocked whichever market they went into or created.
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Date: 2011-03-10
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Nielsen Norman Group Names Best Intranets for 2010
Nielsen Norman Group has announced winners in their 11th annual contest for best intranets for 2010. In the announcement Usability expert Jakob Nielsen was quoted, "If there's anything that has been overused, abused and hyped almost beyond the level of cliché, it's ‘knowledge management.' It might therefore be better to say that the winners in this year's intranet design contest were very strong in ‘managing knowledge' on their intranets. Employees are the ultimate knowledge resource, and the winning intranets provided features to transform their behavior into manageable knowledge.
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Date: 2011-03-09
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Selling Marketing To SMBs: No Personal Touch? No Sale!
The SMB space is the biggest puzzle that the online world has been trying to solve and, with just a few exceptions, it has failed miserably to this point. We could sit and wonder why this is the case, with all kinds of neat theories and thoughts on models and processes and all other things that wreak of the Internet space.
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Date: 2011-03-08
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Why Developers Should Be Building For Android Tablets
OK, maybe Steve Jobs' reality distortion field is wearing off a bit and I might feel differently in a week when I get my iPad 2, but after playing with my Motorola Xoom a lot more tonight and seeing just what "no apps" looks like, I got something to say to developers: You should build for Android. Before you build for iPad.
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Date: 2011-03-08
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Developers: Why You Should Build For Android Tablets
OK, maybe Steve Jobs' reality distortion field is wearing off a bit and I might feel differently in a week when I get my iPad 2, but after playing with my Motorola Xoom a lot more tonight and seeing just what "no apps" looks like, I got something to say to developers: You should build for Android. Before you build for iPad.
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Date: 2011-03-08
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Nimble Releases Social CRM Product In Beta
The social CRM space, which is by all accounts benefiting from a rapid increase in demand, is now home to another new product. Nimble Contact, which integrates Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter contacts (among others), has been released in public beta.
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Date: 2011-03-08
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How To Fire Your Worst Customer
As a marketing writer, most of the topics I choose to cover are focused on building your business. Ways to promote, sell, motivate or acquire customers are all important and deserve the biggest share of the conversation when it comes to marketing your business.
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Date: 2011-03-07
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The Ultimate Social Media Profile Chart
Below is a list of some of the most popular social media sites, all arranged by category (i.e., bookmarking, blogging, news, etc.). Besides the obvious factor that these sites allow you to get involved in their communities, they also allow you to create a unique profile which includes your own custom URL, a link (or sometimes links) back to your site and information about you and/or your company.
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Date: 2011-03-07
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Understanding The Tactical Mix Of Content Marketing
Google Farmer update paranoia aside, there are plenty of reasons to make content marketing a more prominent piece of your online marketing mix. Content fuels search visibility, social sharing and consumer interaction. Great content aligns customer goals with those of the brand. Ultimately, useful content helps win and keep customers.
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Date: 2011-03-04
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How To Add Content Marketing To Your Strategy
Google Farmer update paranoia aside, there are plenty of reasons to make content marketing a more prominent piece of your online marketing mix. Content fuels search visibility, social sharing and consumer interaction. Great content aligns customer goals with those of the brand. Ultimately, useful content helps win and keep customers.
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Date: 2011-03-04
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rPath Supports The New Dynamic And Cloud-based Vision For IT
A major transformation is occurring with enterprise IT services. I recently spoke with Jake Sorofman, CMO at rPath, to get his perspective on these changes. Jake pointed out that IT used to have a local monopoly on IT services. Their internal customers were forced to accept poor service levels because they had no alternative. Now the Cloud is fast becoming and alternative channel. Instead of waiting weeks or months for a critical application, business managers can simply license and deploy many applications in minutes. Instead of incurring massive implementation costs prior to any performance, they can just lease apps on a monthly basis and stop at any time.
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Date: 2011-03-03
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Broken C++: Old Compilers
Up until recently I've only had to deal with standard-compliant C++. I've pretty much enjoyed writing C++ code that abides by an accepted and well-defined standard. This means I have been for the most part using most of the standard features of the Standard Template Library. That changed most recently when I had to deal older versions of compilers which did not support standard C++, and thus I felt the pain that most others have had to deal with a while back.
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Date: 2011-03-03
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How to Import And Export Your Saved Passwords in Firefox
For many Windows users, Mozilla Firefox is a well-known, secure, and commonly used browser that is great for viewing content all around the web. Not only is it fast, but it is one of the most secure web browsers that users can download for free. In this tutorial, I will show you to export your saved passwords from one computer that has Firefox installed to another.
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Date: 2011-03-03
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It's Time To Loosen New Technology Restraints
It used to be that all a system administrator had to deal with in terms of new, unapproved technology was someone bringing in a CD to listen to at work. These days, a new and potentially dangerous technology releases every month. As a system administrator, these new technologies can pose all kinds of threats to networks, and computer systems.
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Date: 2011-03-03
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How To Massively Boost Your Conversion Rates
I would like to start with a couple of simple questions. If someone posted a flyer through your door, advertising an event you were not interested in, what would you do? You'd throw it in the bin. If you picked up a hire car and its radio was tuned into a boring station, what would you do? You'd switch channels.
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Date: 2011-03-02
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Boost Your Conversion Rates Through Content Marketing
I would like to start with a couple of simple questions. If someone posted a flyer through your door, advertising an event you were not interested in, what would you do? You'd throw it in the bin. If you picked up a hire car and its radio was tuned into a boring station, what would you do? You'd switch channels.
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Date: 2011-03-02
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B.C. Locals Crying Out Over Government Use Of iPad
Oh government.. when will they get it? I was interested in a recent news item here in our region where once again local Government workers are under pressure for spending… this time the locals are ticked off because thy are coming of age and connecting themselves with iPads. Personally I think its a great idea... government using state of the art technology - what's wrong with that?? In this day of open government, accountability, and social engagement, politicians being connected with the latest gadgets has to be a good thing I would think. I'm also all for government workers using the latest technology.
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Date: 2011-03-02
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Amazon Recognizes Linux Users With Launch Of Streaming Service
A little over a week ago, Amazon announced the launch of its own movie streaming service. Netflix fans responded with a "meh" over the selection, while some bloggers speculated about how it might expand in the future. But the key point for readers of this article is that Amazon took Linux users into account when designing the service.
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Date: 2011-03-02
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Big Leap Into CMS With WordPress 3.1
Regular readers to this blog know that I'm a WordPress fan. You may have noticed that I updated the look of the blog with a new theme. At that time I also converted the entire site to WordPress - a feat that I think shows off the power and flexibility of this publishing tool to be a singular content management tool for small business.
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Date: 2011-03-01
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WordPress 3.1 Is A Big Leap Into CMS
Regular readers to this blog know that I'm a WordPress fan. You may have noticed that I updated the look of the blog with a new theme. At that time I also converted the entire site to WordPress - a feat that I think shows off the power and flexibility of this publishing tool to be a singular content management tool for small business.
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Date: 2011-03-01
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iPhone Application For Dummies
The "For Dummies" series has been around so long, I can't even remember what the first entry was. I think it involved Windows 98. As technology has grown, so has the book series. Which is now a website you can visit for quick tips upon trying something for the first time, or simply needing a quick piece of info.
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Date: 2011-03-01
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