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Britains superfast broadband lines set to pass 250,000 this month
Virgin Media and BT lead the way to NGA services High-speed broadband is starting to catch on in Britain, with the total number of superfast lines delivering speeds in excess of 25Mbps set to pass the 250,000 mark this April - according to the broadband analysts Point Topic.
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Date: 2011-04-29

Bringing Web Application Security to University Students
Over the weekend Mozilla led an open source boot camp at Stanford University with a great lineup of courses including a hands-on web security lab where students performed actual exploits against a vulnerable web application.
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Date: 2011-04-29

Social Media and Supply Chains
I recently came across an interesting post at Warehouse Management Systems Guide on the topic of supply chains and social media. The author, Luciano Cunha, paints a nice picture of using social media to link the customer and the retailer.
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Date: 2011-04-29

Webmasters Identify Bug with Google Sitemap Index
A sudden drop in their Google Sitemaps index count has been reported by many webmasters. Does this include you?
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Date: 2011-04-29

Five Questions To Ask before Outsourcing Anything
Do you always seem to have too much on your plate? Are there things you'd love to do to market your business, but you don't have the skills?
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Date: 2011-04-29

Tablet Development Starts for Google Chrome OS
While Google is seen primarily as a web-services company, they've started their way into the realm of operating systems. First, the company conquered the smartphone arena with the deployment of the open-source Android project - now on version 2.3, codenamed Gingerbread. Android is the most popular OS for smartphones as of early 2011, and the market share seems to be increasing. However, Google is also pushing hard to get into the tablet OS market and into laptop/netbook operations.
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Date: 2011-04-29

Ubuntu Unity Keyboard Shortcuts & Mouse Gestures
Some of developers have adopted tiling window managers or make use of the Compiz Grid plugin in order to gain more control over the windows in day-to-day graphically programming desktops. While Ubuntu Unity's new, simpler, graphical approach may deter developers from adopting it for their desktops, by coming to grips with Unity's new keyboard and mouse shortcuts, it proves to be a powerful method of organizing and manipulating your workspace.
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Date: 2011-04-29

Technology Firms Are Investing More In Social Media
Are technology firms adopting social media' is one of the areas that the recent Eurocom Worldwide 2011 Annual Technology Confidence Survey explored. The survey found that 38% of technology firms examine social media profiles to determine potential employees' suitability for a job - the results in 2010 were similar. (Eurocom Worldwide is a global alliance of independent, privately owned Public Relations agencies.)
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Date: 2011-04-28

No Coupon? No Problem!
Coupons are a great way to entice new visitors to purchase something from your site or to reward frequent customers. The popularity of Groupon is a great testament to the power (and desire) of coupons.
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Date: 2011-04-28

…But I Don't HAVE a Fracking Coupon!
Coupons are a great way to entice new visitors to purchase something from your site or to reward frequent customers. The popularity of Groupon is a great testament to the power (and desire) of coupons.
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Date: 2011-04-28

Windows 8 Build Leaks! Oops?
It seems like only yesterday when the latest version of Windows (Windows 7) was released, covering up the various flaws that Vista included. You will see that computers on the market now come with a mandatory version of Windows 7, instead of having the choice of either Windows XP or Windows 7, because Windows 7 is now starting to become a dominant operating system within the PC world. This will help to start eradicating Windows XP, because software manufacturers are beginning to lessen the amount of support they provide for Windows XP drivers.
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Date: 2011-04-28

cpp-netlib 0.9.0 Released!
After the one-week beta period for the 0.9.0 release, I'm happy to announce that the official 0.9.0 release is now available for general availability at the Github project downloads page. This 0.9.0 release is the first version of the library to be submitted for review to the Boost C++ Library project. Most changes that happened from the beta to the official release involve adding debugging information to critical parts of the server and client implementations as well as documentation and Boost.Build system updates.
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Date: 2011-04-28

Attract More Business With These 6 Powerful Marketing Tips
Do you want more client inquiries from your marketing? Would you like to make your marketing more compelling, so it encourages more people to take action when they read it? If you would, then read on!
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Date: 2011-04-27

Getting More Client Inquiries From Marketing
Do you want more client inquiries from your marketing? Would you like to make your marketing more compelling, so it encourages more people to take action when they read it? If you would, then read on!
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Date: 2011-04-27

Social Media Engagement Is a Big Part of CRM
Fostering continuing relationships with existing customers is an important aspect of CRM. As more and more people depend on social media to function as their primary web presence, engaging them on their social media outlet of choice is a sound strategy.
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Date: 2011-04-27

Look to Yes to Breeze Through Dialog
For true professionals only, the command is part of the GNU Coreutils and expected to be installed on most all Linux systems. The command both lets you get what you want done when you know exactly what you want to do and also, with it, you can stress-test your processors, and even spot-check fatal hardware issues by keeping the system busy. It may seem simple at first glance, but the yes command is there for professional users that know exactly what a given action will do and does not have to interactively babysit the process.
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Date: 2011-04-27

The Curation Economy and The 3C's of Information Commerce
Several years ago I had the privilege of working with Steve Rosenbaum, author of Curation Nation. Back then Steve was already vested in the future of online curation and his grande conquête was playing out with Magnify.net, a realtime video curation network. At the time, he was also a staple at some of the tech industry's most renown conferences sharing his vision for social, video, and curated content. As Steve was completing his new book, he asked if I would write the foreword. At the time I was finalizing the new version of Engage! and as a result, I couldn't make his deadline. But nonetheless, I was inspired to write an honorary foreword that I've held onto to celebrate the official release of Steve's new book.
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Date: 2011-04-26

Yahoo Releases Search BOSS 2
Search engines are complex machines with a variety of moving parts. After all, we've seen that - despite no longer running their own algorithm or ads - Yahoo has remained the second most popular search site on the web. This is thanks to a number of other services they offer, including Yahoo Answers, Yahoo Games, Yahoo Dating, Yahoo Mail, and a number of other integrated sites. Further, Yahoo's powerful index of sites and search data has an appeal all its own.
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Date: 2011-04-26

Checking Out The New Features Of Yahoo's BOSS 2
Search engines are complex machines with a variety of moving parts. After all, we've seen that - despite no longer running their own algorithm or ads - Yahoo has remained the second most popular search site on the web. This is thanks to a number of other services they offer, including Yahoo Answers, Yahoo Games, Yahoo Dating, Yahoo Mail, and a number of other integrated sites. Further, Yahoo's powerful index of sites and search data has an appeal all its own.
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Date: 2011-04-26

What Is Important To Your Customers?
Imagine this scenario: Company XYZ has developed a great business creating products and services, developing marketing programs that explain the features and benefits of those offerings and making sales. The mix of SEO, advertising and newsletter is focused on explaining the solutions offered with the intention of educating and persuading prospects to buy. This is the way it's been done in the past and it's what current marketing programs are based on. Pretty common right?
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Date: 2011-04-26

Are developers shifting back toward Apple?
In somewhat of a shocking turn of events, interest in Android has recently plateaued, according to a recent survey by Appcelerator. They say that fragmentation and lackluster sales of Android tablets are causing some developers to scale-back their enthusiasm and turn back to Apple.
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Date: 2011-04-26

A Quick Guide to Optimising Your Web Copy
The world of search engine optimisation can be confusing. Identifying your keywords, looking at your site structure and building back links are all vital aspects if your SEO strategy is going to work.
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Date: 2011-04-25

First Look At Information Builders
I recently got a briefing from Information Builders, an independent business intelligence (BI) and enterprise information integration/management (EIM) vendor founded in 1975. They sell their BI and EIM solutions separately, though they are increasingly selling these solutions together. They have 1,350 employees and 12,000 customer sites as well as a strong OEM portfolio. They find the combination of BI and EIM increasingly powerful as companies move to more real-time analytics. They focus on being number 1 for customer service, partnering with their customers and being innovative in products. Recent expansions include China, Africa, Scandinavia and Italy. They have clients across all verticals.
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Date: 2011-04-25

WordPress Releases A Plugin For Google Site Verification!
WordPress, has released plugin which WordPress users can use to verify their blog with Google, automatically and quickly. The company says that there is "No need to copy and paste tokens anymore; this plugin makes calls to the Google Site Verification API to automate the entire verification process."
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Date: 2011-04-25

Quickly Verify Your Site With Google
WordPress, has released a plugin which WordPress users can use to verify their blog with Google, automatically and quickly. The company says that there is "No need to copy and paste tokens anymore; this plugin makes calls to the Google Site Verification API to automate the entire verification process."
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Date: 2011-04-25

Getting More Quality from Your Web Leads
The internet has revolutionised the way people shop and research. Now practically any piece of information you need is at your fingertips. A quick Google search will find you local suppliers, research material and that obscure pram you have been searching for with an iPod dock.
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Date: 2011-04-22

Are You Making The Most Of Web Leads?
The internet has revolutionised the way people shop and research. Now practically any piece of information you need is at your fingertips. A quick Google search will find you local suppliers, research material and that obscure pram you have been searching for with an iPod dock.
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Date: 2011-04-22

Oracle Updates SQL Developer
The graphical interface for SQL developers has been updated by Oracle, and the new version promises increased functionality and productivity, while simplifying various developmental processes. The third version of Oracle's SQL Developer looks to be the most comprehensive of the release family, as Oracle's update is a response to user feedback.
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Date: 2011-04-22

Mobile Development Job Trends - April 2011
As many of you know, I tend to write about programming job trends every few months in different development segments. So, it was with much interest that I was pointed to a Wall Street Journal article regarding the shallow mobile app talent pool. I am not going to debate the benefits of mobile operating system applications over generic HTML applications, as that is not the point. The point here is to go into my typical analysis of the job trends, while including a few more data points than the WSJ article included.
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Date: 2011-04-21

Taking A Look At Mobile Development Job Trends
As many of you know, I tend to write about programming job trends every few months in different development segments. So, it was with much interest that I was pointed to a Wall Street Journal article regarding the shallow mobile app talent pool. I am not going to debate the benefits of mobile operating system applications over generic HTML applications, as that is not the point. The point here is to go into my typical analysis of the job trends, while including a few more data points than the WSJ article included.
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Date: 2011-04-21

OutStart's Participate Enables the Social Side of Enterprise Work Processes
Founded in 1999, OutStart offers an portfolio of inter-related mobile, social, and learning Knowledge Solutions intended to accelerate and broaden access to colleagues and the knowledge they need to respond to business requirements more quickly and make better informed decisions.. I recently spoke with Mike Gregory about Participate, OutStart's Social Business Software. It integrates social networking, collaboration, and knowledge sharing technologies in a secure managed environment. As a disclosure I am now working with OutStart on their social media efforts. Participate is one component of their offerings that also include mobile learning and communications, learning content management, and learning management system as well as a solution that pulls all the components together into a single integrated learning and knowledge suite.
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Date: 2011-04-21

What Skills Do I Need To Be A Successful System Administrator?
As part of reinventing myself professionally, I want to be a system administrator with networking knowledge. I thought that was the typical thing to do, most likely something windows related with their boatloads of certifications not including experience needed to get into the work field.
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Date: 2011-04-20

The Dangers of Doing What Works
Why is it that in the enterprise 2.0 and social CRM (and probably many other) spaces that we always try to offer a prescription to organizations problems based on what other organizations have done? We always hear about blanket statements such as, "there has to be a center of excellence to manage these efforts," "the customer relationship can't just be owned by sales," "you have to be social internal first and than external, "insert blanket statement here." Why?
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Date: 2011-04-20

What Makes Sense For One Company May Not Work For Yours
Why is it that in the enterprise 2.0 and social CRM (and probably many other) spaces that we always try to offer a prescription to organizations problems based on what other organizations have done? We always hear about blanket statements such as, "there has to be a center of excellence to manage these efforts," "the customer relationship can't just be owned by sales," "you have to be social internal first and than external, "insert blanket statement here." Why?
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Date: 2011-04-20

Optimizing for Creative Commons Images
The following post is part of a series on image optimization. In this post we're going to look at optimization techniques for creative commons images.
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Date: 2011-04-20

Tracking Social Media ROI
Everyone's talking about social media, but how do you know it is worth your precious marketing dollars, or even worth your time? In this free 30-minute Biznology Webinar, Mike Moran explains how virtually any business can use direct marketing principles to track their customer leads and sales from social media, whether those sales occur online or offline.
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Date: 2011-04-20

Smart PR People are Using SmartTags
Have you heard of Smart Tags? According to Wikipedia, the original use of Smart Tags was a selection-based search feature found in later versions of Microsoft Word, and beta versions of the Internet Explorer 6 web browser. Smart Tags are now being used in many other ways: one is QR (Quick Response) codes and they're proving to be really useful in social media monitoring.
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Date: 2011-04-20

Optimizing For Google In 2011
In Part one of How To Optimize for Google, I discussed some of the fundamental on-site SEO aspects and how they have changed over the past few years. This article focuses on a few algorithmic updates as well as some updates in the inbound link landscape.
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Date: 2011-04-19

Google 2011: Optimizing Your Site
In Part one of How To Optimize for Google, I discussed some of the fundamental on-site SEO aspects and how they have changed over the past few years. This article focuses on a few algorithmic updates as well as some updates in the inbound link landscape.
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Date: 2011-04-19

Implementing Enterprise 2.0 for the Federal Government: More Obstacles
This is part four in a multi-part series on how the federal government is implementing Enterprise 2.0. This was done through extensive interviews with Booz Allen Hamilton who has led many of the efforts for various Government agencies. The full series on Enterprise 2.0 for the Federal Government (which includes additional information and specific examples) can be downloaded(registration required) for free. I recommend that you start with the first post: Implementing Enterprise 2.0 for the Federal Government Part One: Business Drivers, the second post: Implementing Enterprise 2.0 for the Federal Government Part Two: Who Drives the Tools?, and the third post: Implementing Enterprise 2.0 for the Federal Government Part Three: Obstacles.
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Date: 2011-04-19

The Games Businesses Play with Customers
As a child, you most likely played two very popular playground games, dodge ball and four square. If you're an adult who is also an early adopter of emerging mobile applications, chances are you play them once again. The difference is that this time a mobile phone takes the place of a ball and it's usually not hurling toward you.
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Date: 2011-04-19

Measuring Economic Impact of Using Cloud-Based Services: Google Apps
This post picks up on the theme from yesterday's post. In May 2010, Google commissioned Forrester to examine the total economic impact and expected return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by switching from legacy email and productivity solutions to Google Apps. The report is now out. As most of you know, Google Apps is a cloud-based messaging and collaboration platform that includes mail, calendaring, IM, as well as Web-based collaborative documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and sites. I have used it on several projects and it seems to work fine as a free SaaS alternative. This is especially true for efforts where a commercial cloud-based collaboration tool is not available for whatever reason.
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Date: 2011-04-19

What We Learned from the Google Tags Experiment
Just when as I was writing a blog post about Google Tags, Google announced that it's discontinuing this form of advertising. Glad I didn't waste my time explaining how they worked and how they could best be used. However, I will share some thoughts about why this didn't pan out for Google or for the local SMB community.
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Date: 2011-04-19

Video: Google Clarifies URL Shortening's Impact on PageRank
URL shortening services like "goo.gl" and "bit.ly." are marking their prominence in the search world with the uprise of the social web, and most especially on micro-blogging services like Twitter.
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Date: 2011-04-18

What Impact Do URL Shorteners Have On Pagerank?
URL shortening services like "goo.gl" and "bit.ly." are marking their prominence in the search world with the uprise of the social web, and most especially on micro-blogging services like Twitter.

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Date: 2011-04-18

The Seven Fundamentals of Starting a Company Blog
It's more than ideas. It's more than marketing. Starting a corporate blog is a commitment and should be carefully thought-through before executing.
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Date: 2011-04-18

Does Your Content Have a Purpose?
There is one formula that is ingrained in the minds of many internet marketers and internet businesses out there:
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Date: 2011-04-18

A No-Brainer Small Business Marketing Tactic that Doesn't Cost a Cent
What would you say if I told you that there was a free and easy way to get your Website address-and even your business name-in front of hundreds of people? If you are like most folks you would either say, "Great sign me up!", or "Okay, what is the catch?"
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Date: 2011-04-15

How Does the Recent Google Changes Affect Your Website?
If you follow SEO news, you've probably heard about Google's recent update named "Panda" or "Farmer," depending on who's speaking. If you don't follow SEO news, you probably have a life, which is nice. Please feel free to let me know what that's like.
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Date: 2011-04-15

Comcast Rolls Out Faster Internet Service
Comcast has introduced its newest fast Xfinity Internet speed tier, Extreme 105, is now available to more than 40 million homes in major markets across the nation including San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Chicago, Miami, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and the majority of Boston, among others.
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Date: 2011-04-15

ACL Reporter Helps Monitor Windows Server Security
Network Systems Managers (NSM) and Managed Service Providers (MSP) will be glad to know that an enterprise-class Windows Server reporting tool is available for free. N-able Technologies is the makers of ACL Reporter, and their tool provides managers a free option to conduct much needed security reports for Windows Server systems.
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Date: 2011-04-15

Using Semantic Technology and Machine Learning for Consumer Advice: Retrevo
With all the publicity over IBM's Watson, there has been a lot of discussion about how far computers can go to "replace" people. Of course, I think that is not really the question to ask. It should rather be conceived as how computers can complement people.
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Date: 2011-04-14

How Many Keywords Should You Target?
I have been a copywriter for a while now and many of the projects I am commission to carry out involve search engine optimisation. That's hardly surprising considering the importance of online marketing to today's businesses.
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Date: 2011-04-14

Should You Target Mulitple Keywords?
I have been a copywriter for a while now and many of the projects I am commission to carry out involve search engine optimisation. That's hardly surprising considering the importance of online marketing to today's businesses.
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Date: 2011-04-14

Is Social CRM for Real?
Paul Greenberg, an expert on CRM, took time out to keynote the Radian6 user conference, Social 2011 (where I get my turn to speak this afternoon). After writing 800 pages on Social CRM, Greenberg's not yet sure if it's for real, which is similar to my far less informed perception. After hearing his comments, I think it's real, but not yet well defined.
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Date: 2011-04-14

Unix/Linux Commands That You Can Run In DOS
If you have been a long time Windows user, you would remember that prior to the Windows 9x boom, there was Windows 3.1, which primarily ran through MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System), now commonly known as the "Command Prompt."
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Date: 2011-04-14

cpp-netlib 0.9-beta Out Now!
After months and months of delays, finally the 0.9-beta version of The C++ Network Library project is out now. The beta period will take a full week before an official release is made available for general availability. The 0.9 release will be the version that gets submitted for review to the Boost C++ Library project.
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Date: 2011-04-14

LinuxCon North America Keynote Speakers Named
LinuxCon North America continues to take shape in admirable fashion. This morning, the Linux Foundation identified six people who will take to the stage as keynote speakers in August, and they're by and large the sort of individuals that Linux fans will definitely want to hear talk.
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Date: 2011-04-14

Optimizing Your Site For Google 2011
It has been nearly 3 years since I wrote my original 3 part series on "How to Optimize for Google". Since writing that article some things have certainly changed, while others have remained exactly the same.
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Date: 2011-04-13

How To Optimize for Google 2011
It has been nearly 3 years since I wrote my original 3 part series on "How to Optimize for Google". Since writing that article some things have certainly changed, while others have remained exactly the same.
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Date: 2011-04-13

The Often Forgotten Task Of Data Integration
When developing applications, most teams are focused on the features that the application must have. This is fairly normal given that many applications only manage data created by the application itself. However, more web applications or more similar to mashups than the client-server applications of the 1990s.
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Date: 2011-04-12

Because You Matter
When you start a new adventure, it can be pretty daunting. A new job; a new romance; a new school or college. Online is no different. The first time you join Twitter, it's like a crazy maze. When you log into Facebook, there's no quick set-up guide. If you want to start a blog, the choices can be bewildering.
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Date: 2011-04-12

Why You Matter Online
When you start a new adventure, it can be pretty daunting. A new job; a new romance; a new school or college. Online is no different. The first time you join Twitter, it's like a crazy maze. When you log into Facebook, there's no quick set-up guide. If you want to start a blog, the choices can be bewildering.
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Date: 2011-04-12

Gaining A Better Understanding Of SEO For Advertisers
Today I'll be speaking at ad:tech San Francisco with one of my favorite people in the Search Marketing industry, Melanie Mitchell, who is a Senior VP of Search Strategy at Digitas. She's tasked a panel including Simon Heseltine, Rob Snell and myself to talk about "Modern Search Engine Optimization".
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Date: 2011-04-12

New Trends in Social CRM – Free eBook
The global rise of social media usage has presented a huge opportunity for companies that want to acquire new customers and retain existing ones. With the amplified voice and influence of the social customer, it's much easier today for companies to identify these prospects and customers and determine their needs and concerns.
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Date: 2011-04-11

Search Ranking Factors in 2011 – What's Changed?
Every couple of years the folks over at SEOmoz put together a list of search engine ranking factors. This year the results come from the opinions of 132 SEO professionals and an analysis of the top 30 results for over 10,000 different keywords.
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Date: 2011-04-11

What's Changed In Search Ranking Factors?
Every couple of years the folks over at SEOmoz put together a list of search engine ranking factors. This year the results come from the opinions of 132 SEO professionals and an analysis of the top 30 results for over 10,000 different keywords.
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Date: 2011-04-11

The Five Dangerous Realities of Social Media for Business
The Crossroads: Social or Media? As social networking has soared to become the largest voluntary behavior this side of teeth brushing, the money guys have shown up on the scene - right on cue. By all accounts, social media is a gold rush, with companies and consultants of all sizes and descriptions jockeying for a piece of a pie estimated to be $1.6 billion in the U.S. alone.
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Date: 2011-04-11

Nirvanix Reaches Out To Stranded Iron Mountain Customers
As Iron Mountain closes its public cloud storage operations, Nirvanix has announced it will offer all stranded customers free data migration services into the Nirvanix Cloud Storage Network-plus unlimited storage-free for 30 days.
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Date: 2011-04-11

New York State Public Sector CIO Of The Year Named
Chief information officers who want to learn from, work for, or perhaps poach the best professionals in their field might want to take some notes concerning the achievement of Carole Post. Post was recently named the "2011 New York State Public Sector CIO of the Year."
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Date: 2011-04-11

Optimizing Your Website for Multiple Locations
If your business serves multiple locations you can employ a number of different optimization approaches to reach these groups. One method that can be particularly effective involves optimizing individual pages on your website for each different location.
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Date: 2011-04-08

Your Site Should Be Optimized For Multiple Locations
If your business serves multiple locations you can employ a number of different optimization approaches to reach these groups. One method that can be particularly effective involves optimizing individual pages on your website for each different location.
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Date: 2011-04-08

What everyone ought to know about special offers!
Do you provide special offers to people, as a way to encourage them to make a purchase? If you do, here are some things you really need to know in order to get the best results possible and avoid some common mistakes!
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Date: 2011-04-08

Copywriting – Tone and Voice
Something strange happens to people when they try to communicate through writing. Their normal chatty engaging style goes out the window for something more akin to a literary novel. Why?
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Date: 2011-04-08

P&G Releases Sustainability Supplier Scorecard
Procter & Gamble has released its Year 1 results of its Environmental Sustainability Supplier Scorecard and rolled out an upgraded version for 2011.
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Date: 2011-04-08

Does Google +1 Need An On Page Feature?
Last week Google announced a new addition to the search engine results page: the +1 button. While there was a huge amount of press surrounding the launch, after playing with it for a few days, I don't think it's going to work unless it has an on page component … soon.
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Date: 2011-04-07

Why Google’s +1 Needs an On Page Component
Last week Google announced a new addition to the search engine results page: the +1 button. While there was a huge amount of press surrounding the launch, after playing with it for a few days, I don't think it's going to work unless it has an on page component … soon.
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Date: 2011-04-07

Spy on Your Facebook Competitors with HyperAlerts
The great thing about companies widely publishing APIs in this age of collaboration is that crafty third-parties can develop tools and features that the developers of the "mother ship" forgot.
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Date: 2011-04-07

Facebook Is Not the House
These days I can't get through a presentation on the use of social media in marketing without someone inquiring whether they should use Facebook as the primary web presence for their business.
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Date: 2011-04-07

Microsoft Provides Sysadmins With Remote Troubleshooting Option
System administrators who are tired of taking a walk - or a drive - every time someone has a problem should let out a cheer. A new beta version of Microsoft's Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) is available, and it introduces a remote troubleshooting option.
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Date: 2011-04-07

What if my competitor is cheating at SEO?
It's a question that comes up all the time, but there hasn't been a good answer to it. There are painstaking ways that you can analyze your competitor's Web site for signs of elementary cheating, such as hidden text, keyword stuffing, and other simple forms of search spam, but don't bother.
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Date: 2011-04-06

Linux Evolving Into Unity, Should You Adopt?
On April 28th, Ubuntu 11.04 will release and with it the Unity desktop interface. The Linux community is torn between the adoption of Unity. Some have voiced numerous complaints over the interface, while others can see the benefits and are excited to try the release version. Ubuntu 11.04 is currently in beta form, and with a few key improvements we'll see a higher adoption rate among current Linux users.
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Date: 2011-04-06

Radio Revenues Hit $14.1 Billion In 2010
Over-the-air local radio station revenues reached $14.1 billion in 2010, a 5.4 percent increase over 2009, according to BIA/Kelsey's quarterly "Investing In Radio Market Report."
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Date: 2011-04-06

VAR Tips For Dealing With Vendor Consolidation
Acquisitions are often cause for celebration, given that they mean people at one company get what they want while people at the other receive healthy amounts of stock and/or cash. They can create problems for value-added resellers, however, and a recent article addressed how VARs can best prepare for and deal with vendor partners being bought.
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Date: 2011-04-06

Employee Incentive Programs: When Reward Programs Attack!
Have you ever tried to create an employee incentive program and had it backfire on you? If so, you may appreciate this story: A man was out fishing on a quiet lake, surrounded by a large number of lily pads. He noticed a big bullfrog sitting on one of the lily pads right next to his boat. Suddenly, a water snake slithered up and snapped up the bullfrog in his mouth.
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Date: 2011-04-06

Consider The Source – ALWAYS Consider The Source!
Here's a quick tip, which can help you avoid wasting your time and your money. It's based around just 3 words: Consider the source. Consider the source Much of the information out there, particularly business related information, is biased. As a result, a lot of people have either bought something they don't need or they are paying for a service they get little if any real value from.
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Date: 2011-04-06

Your SEO Performance Could Be Limited By Your Web Server
What does your web server say about your site? Server Level SEO ConcernsThere are a number of things that marketers think of when they are developing and implementing a strategy, what products or services are they offering and how are they going to position them for customers. A website is an important opportunity for business owners to interact, sell and service customers, but there are a number of things that are typically overlooked.
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Date: 2011-04-05

Is Your Web Server Limiting Your SEO Performance?
What does your web server say about your site? Server Level SEO ConcernsThere are a number of things that marketers think of when they are developing and implementing a strategy, what products or services are they offering and how are they going to position them for customers. A website is an important opportunity for business owners to interact, sell and service customers, but there are a number of things that are typically overlooked.
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Date: 2011-04-05

Mobile Apps Will Change the IT Market and Drive Software Innovation
Forrester has issued a new report, Mobile App Internet Recasts The Software And Services Landscape: App Innovation On Phones Will Spread To Cars, Appliances And Entertainment by John C. McCarthy. It notes that while the explosion of app innovation started with the iPhone, the rise of the "App Internet" significantly impact the enterprise software and services market.
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Date: 2011-04-05

How to Keep Your Google Ranking During a Website Redesign
I recently wrote an article which outlined how to create a first-class home page and this got me thinking, does your Google ranking drop when you re-design your website?
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Date: 2011-04-05

Using Twitter Lists to Maximize Your Next Networking Event
Creating a Twitter list is a powerful way of organizing people you follow on Twitter into manageable, bite-sized groups.
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Date: 2011-04-05

Lizamoon SQL Injection Attack Downgraded
Late last month, reports began to circulate about a large-scale SQL injection attack known as Lizamoon, and early figures made it look quite dangerous. Now, fortunately, a different method of measurement has indicated the threat isn't as serious as first thought.
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Date: 2011-04-05

Polar Mobile to Launch 100 Apps For PlayBook
Polar Mobile has announced plans to support Research in Motion's PlayBook tablet devices and expects to launch 100 apps in 2011.
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Date: 2011-04-05

How To Attract Clients And Customers With Your Content
How would you like to build a huge, targeted readership of genuinely interested prospective clients or customers? Well, the following quick tip will help you do just that and it works on newsletter lists and email marketing lists just as well as it does with blog subscribers. It's based on 2 simple steps:
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Date: 2011-04-04

6 Most Common Small Business Marketing Mistakes
Marketing a business isn't a one-off. It takes plenty of time and efforts, but it is (in my opinion) the most important aspect of running any business. So why do so many business owners find it hard?
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Date: 2011-04-04

Learn how fast YOUR site is with Google Page Speed Online
Last year, Google announced that it will take the page loading speed of a site into account, when determining the site's search engine ranking. In short, sites with slow loading times, will rank lower than similar sites, which load faster.
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Date: 2011-04-04

Testing Your Site With Google Page Speed Online
Last year, Google announced that it will take the page loading speed of a site into account, when determining the site's search engine ranking. In short, sites with slow loading times, will rank lower than similar sites, which load faster.
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Date: 2011-04-04

The Four to Five Year Tenure for CIOs
Patrick Thibodeau recently wrote an interesting piece for ComputerWorld, CIOs aren't CIOs for long. He talked about the relative sort tenure for CIOs and conveyed as assessment by Frank Petersmark, CIO of Amerisure Mutual Insurance:
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Date: 2011-04-04

Zendesk Partners With SugarCRM For Helpful Product
We could be looking at a powerhouse partnership in the making. Zendesk and SugarCRM are both up-and-coming companies in their perspective fields. Zendesk is a web-based help desk software provider, and SugarCRM is a growing CRM company. This new partnership will allow customers to access SugarCRM from Zendesk, and vice versa.
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Date: 2011-04-04

How Can I Test My Internet Connectivity Bandwidth Speed?
I'm skeptical of my Internet provider. They claim that I have a turbo high speed Internet connection and as far as I can tell, it's just as slow as the connection I use at school. That's bogus. How do I tell or test my actual connection speed so I can know whether I have a good deal or whether they're just lying to me?
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Date: 2011-04-01

Does Facebook Have More Value Than Twitter?
Recently there has been a lot of talk about Facebook versus Twitter and which is more valuable to web publishers. If you're looking for the short answer, IMHO it's Facebook; but, to understand why, you need to have deeper understanding of how each system works.
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Date: 2011-04-01

Facebook vs Twitter: Which is More Valuable?
Recently there has been a lot of talk about Facebook versus Twitter and which is more valuable to web publishers. If you're looking for the short answer, IMHO it's Facebook; but, to understand why, you need to have deeper understanding of how each system works.
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Date: 2011-04-01

New Dynamic iPad Photo Editor By Trey Ratcliff
If you are into photography and haven't heard of Trey Ratcliff, you should. He gave an awesome talk at Google about High Dynamic Range photography. It's a classic, one of the best I've seen on photography.
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Date: 2011-04-01

2011 AdWords API Workshop
The AdWords API team had a busy March as they traveled to London, Amsterdam, San Francisco, Hamburg and back to New York, discussing the latest changes to the AdWords API. I attended the last stop in New York which turned out to be a great one day event at Google's New York office with the main AdWords API guys all there (including the guy who has saved me many times in the forums, @EricKoleda).
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Date: 2011-04-01