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A Heretical Rethinking of Twitter
I struggle with both the potentials of and the problems with Twitter. Odds are high I’m not alone in this one. I spend a lot of time and energy trying to keep up with everything while trying to find or develop realistic metrics for its effectiveness. While I do firmly believe Twitter to be valuable tool in developing relationships and staying in touch with your audience, I’m starting to rethink some of the “expert” advice we’ve all heard, along with exactly how I should be using it.
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Website Security Basics
As we become more and more active on the web, we’re always finding new ways to communicate and be productive online. As your internet presence widens so does your vulnerability. What sort of security precautions do you take to protect your website? There are a few basic things you can look at to help ward off the most common attacks. Here’s an overview to consider.
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Developing Your Website Live?
We’ve all been to websites that are still unfinished and in varying stages of construction or re-working. To me, it’s like going to work half dressed. If your online image is important to you and you want to always have your best foot forward, you may want to consider developing your new website in an area less public where you can sort things out until you’re truly ready to present your website live. Here’s a few tips to consider.
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A Quick Security Review For Working On-Line
Every now and then it’s good to do a quick review of your security situation for working on-line with your computer. There are threats at home, at the coffee shop, and at other public Wi-Fi hotspots just waiting to compromise your security, your data, and even your identity. This is certainly not a comprehensive list and the ideas offered are simply surveyed to get you thinking about how you conduct business on the internet.
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Your Website Might Suck If...
Obviously I must give inspirational credit here to Jeff Foxworthy for the modeling of this post. We've all seen websites that are actually quite annoying and we forget that someone who made the site, or paid for the site must have thought it was great. Sometimes it's not the whole site that sucks, just portions. Here's an opportunity to view your site from a visitor's perspective. Your website just might suck if...
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Is Your Website Really Ready To Launch? - Part 2
In the first part of this post, we looked at often overlooked "finishing touches" if you will, that can detract from your visitors' experience on your website. A big theme of part 1 was you may only get one change to impress your visitors and convert them to loyal repeat visitors and followers. By the way, if you missed Part 1 you can get it here. Part 2 takes a look at often overlooked items on the backend of your website. Here the theme is more "don't shoot yourself in foot" by not taking care of some easy but important details that can affect how search engines view your site and subsequent ranking.
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Is Your Website Really Ready To Launch? - Part 1
Everyone seems to have a checklist for getting a website ready for launch. I thought I would take a look at it from a common sense perspective of making the website work both for the all important visitor and from a backend administrative perspective as well. In this first of two parts, I'll be looking at a few items you may want to double check or consider. I've tried not to be too obvious about things everyone should know like checking your grammar and spell checking. Once you think you're good to go, this may serve as a double check.
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What's In YOUR Email Signature?
I receive a fair number of emails each week that look more like junk mail or spam because of the graphics, free offer links, or pleas to register for something or the other embedded in the sender's signature. There are times when your promotion methods may be getting in the way of your message. If your email signature looks like a day-glow billboard on I-285, you may want to read on.
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Lessons Learned From WestHost Outage
On Saturday, February 20, 2010 during a routine fire suppression system inspection, something triggered the system and the release of Inergen gas throughout a large portion of WestHost's datacenter. This resulted in a large scale disruption of service lasting in many cases five plus days. WestHost is a quality company with a strong infrastructure with contingency planning in place for many events. If this sort of outage can occur to a quality host, is there anything you can do to help yourself in the event of a large scale, long duration outage by your service providers?
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Types of Web Hosting Accounts
There are several different hosting plan options available for all sorts of websites. To help determine which type might be best for you, I thought I'd throw out some general differences and characteristics in different plans you might encounter. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages so like so much of finding a good fit for hosting, it comes down to what is best for you. We'll take a quick look at shared, semi-dedicated, and dedicated hosting.
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