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  • Multi-Office Setting Video Conference  By :
    Communicating over the internet through e-mail, chat and phone is fine, but at some point you are going to want to have a business meeting with people if for no other reason than to visually introduce people and touch base with all of the offices around the world. That is where multi-office settings come into play through video conferencing.
  • How To Measure Up Without a Yardstick - Web Analytics and ROI  By : Gregory Smyth
    There's no question that determining ROI is a difficult process, especially for websites that don't make online transactions. How much is a 5-minute site visit worth; how can you tell if customers take it further? Internet marketers and website analytics experts reveal how to measure ROI, even without any hard dollar values.
  • Search Engine Optimization Services Explain Demographics  By : Gregory Smyth
    Demographic research is one of the most important factors in your internet marketing campaign, and often the most misunderstood. Confusion about how to define demographics, to finding out who you customers actually are, and then how to implement your knowledge in your web marketing strategy is common among website owners. We create a practical explanation of demographics.
  • How to Integrate Web Analytics and Email Marketing for Big ROI  By : Gregory Smyth
    Most people see them as disconnected, but expert internet marketers know that they are like an inseparable, old married couple ... web analytics and email marketing have a lot to give each other! Plenty of literature looks at why tracking your email messages is important - we look at how to use more detailed web analytics and statistics to create highly targeted customer emails with top ROI.
  • How Visitors Experience Landing Page Website Design  By : Gregory Smyth
    It is one thing to tell somebody to think about how their visitors will see things when they arrive at their site - and quite another to put that ideal into practice! An understanding of your audience is vital in all website design, and online marketing agencies know it is especially important for landing pages.
  • Website Design Guidelines for Forms - Preventing Lost Conversions  By : Gregory Smyth
    Oftentimes, website designers and internet consultancies assume that if someone has begun to fill out a form, they are certain to convert at some stage. In fact, web analytics research has shown that bad form design can affect not only those who want to convert, but scare away visitors before they've even checked out your offer. We outline the best practices for form designers.
  • Internet Marketing Success - Laying the Groundwork for Great Landing Pages  By : Gregory Smyth
    Just like many things in business (and indeed life!), making great landing pages is far more than the exciting, creative, interesting stages. The boring groundwork, though, is what makes the difference between a successful page and a waste of internet marketing time. We look at how to lay a solid foundation for your landing pages, by firstly defining a conversion scenario.
  • Why Business Should Have Disaster Recovery Solution Plans In Place  By :
    In business, it is very likely that times will come when there would be some form of trouble that would result in a loss of data by companies.
  • Profit-Building Text in Website Design - More Than Words  By : Gregory Smyth
    There have been many guidelines developed, re-developed and then tweaked a little in order to get the best search engine optimization results from the words on your site. How a Googlebot sees your website is important to search engine rankings - but how humans see your site is far more important to your site's ROI. We look at the visual aspect of website content - creating type in website design.
  • Some Good Healthy Promotional Twitter Advise  By : Kay Brown
    Twittering is great positive fun, can be addictive, but don't get shut down by going over board. Learn some basics to avoid getting suspended.
  • The Importance of Page and Navigation Management  By : Todd Raymer
    We have all had an encounter with a website before that had extremely poor navigation tools on the website. When this kind of incident occurs, we often find ourselves getting frustrated with the website quite quickly and sometimes we even leave the website.
  • The Importance of a Professionally Designed Template  By : Todd Raymer
    f you are looking to build a website for your business or a website of any kind for that matter, then you want your website to look as flawless and professional as possible. You may think that there is no way that you will be able to create this type of website yourself, but fortunately, you will be able to achieve this sort of website.
  • Baseball and IT Management  By : David Link
    As we watched the ScienceLogic sponsored NY Yankees team win the regular season playoff for the Mason District Virginia league it dawned on me that there are a few commonalities between what the boys and girls are learning in their "classic" American sporting event and the events that shape our field of IOM.
  • The Advantages of an Intuitive Text and Image Editor  By : Todd Raymer
    Just like the vast majority of websites on the internet, you want your website to be top notch. If you are looking for new ways to take your website to the next level, then you may want to consider an intuitive text and image editor for your website.
  • Improve And Simplify Your Website With Web Forms  By : Todd Raymer
    If you are running a website of some sort and your website at some point for one reason or another requires your website visitors or users to fill out some sort of documents, then using the old fashioned, traditional method of paper forms is a tad bit obsolete in this day and age.
  • This is Your Brain on Technology  By : Jill Black
    The technological landscape is vastly different these days and scientist are wondering just what that means for our brains.
  • Gartner - Technologies in Infrastructure Management  By : David Link
    A day in and it's pretty obvious there are some mega-trends running through the sessions. Cloud computing is being covered extensively - and the underlying issues of reducing opex (power and cooling costs in particular) and getting away from traditional "overprovisioning" of servers crops up again and again.
  • How to Design Forms that Convert for Web Marketing Success  By : Gregory Smyth
    Forms are often one of the trickier aspects of website design. Anything that users interact with is much more likely to break or start acting up than the usual static page elements. However, most forms are the final endpoint before a customer converts. Online marketing agencies recommend paying attention to form design for internet marketing success. We look at why and how.
  • Finding the Space for File Storage Areas  By : Todd Raymer
    If you have a website and you have gained quite a bit of a fan base and you also have a lot of content, information, and other items on your website that you need to save, you may find yourself running low on storage space for all of these files.
  • EMRs Have Revolutionized Patient Care  By : Art Gib
    Before computerized EMR (Electronic Medical Records) systems became widespread and an important part of good health care provision, hospital and office staff had to keep mountainous paper records that were inefficient and greatly susceptible to human error. Here's more about it.
  • Cloud Computing - 4 Analysts Perspective  By : David Link
    Cloud computing does not mean a massive-scale operation, like Google, or even that it's someone else's stuff. It means that we have users and providers and between them we have a brick wall.
  • The Evolution of USB Devices  By : Ben Anton
    USB has become the most commonly used interconnect technology for computer peripheral devices. Nearly all wired mice, keyboards, gaming controls, cameras and printers use USB to connect to the main PC. This article provides an extensive overview of the evolution of USB technology from the 1.0 specification to USB-On-The-Go and USB 3.0.
  • Top IT Skills - Why Your Most Important IT Skills May Be People Skills  By : Michael Phillips
    Why your most important IT skills may be people skills. How to learn the P.E.O.P.L.E. language. 6 ideas to get you going understanding those strange, organic entities known as people, and how to better interface with them to your benefit. Why your manager has more skills than you think.
  • Landing Pages - A Crucial Part of Internet Marketing Success  By : Gregory Smyth
    Every website is designed to create customer conversions, whether the specific action involved is purchasing a product, signing up for a newsletter, downloading a white paper, or making an enquiry. Landing pages facilitate the conversion process, and also overcome many of the dilemmas of website design. We look at why landing pages are necessary.
  • Rescuing Your Website Design - Hero Shots on Landing Pages  By : Gregory Smyth
    The internet has been in common use now for us to have an extensive understanding of what works best in website design. One of the most important graphical elements of a page is the hero shot, a photo or graphic of your product or service. We look at the hero shot guidelines used by internet marketing services that best boost conversions, based on extensive website analytics research.
  • White Space in Website Design - Nothing Is Something  By : Gregory Smyth
    For many non-designers, it runs counter intuitive that any area on a page should be left unfilled. The reasoning is that there is so much to explain about a product, and so little space in which to do it. White space is actually an integral part of good website design, crucial to internet marketing efforts, however the rules for print and net layouts vary. We look at white space in your web pages.
  • Benefits of IT Project Outsourcing - An Overview Into Lean Business Practices  By : John Rains
    Keeping your business on the competitive edge means staying open minded to those activities that save or make you more money. Outsourcing is not a bad word. Just outsource what is not core to your business. And putting out simple IT fires is not core.
  • The Path to Requirements Elicitation  By : Morgan Masters
    The path to requirements elicitation is something that analysts are rarely taught. Everyone knows that it involves interviews and research, but within most organizations, exactly how the interviews and research should be conducted is nebulous.
  • Using Search Engine Optimization for your Website  By : Todd Raymer
    If you are looking for ways to increase the traffic of your website, spread the word of your website, or make your website more well known then you have probably tried all different types of advertising and promoting for your website in order to achieve these goals. Fortunately, there is a tool to help you do this and it is called search engine optimization or SEO
  • A Brief Introduction To Web Design  By : Lance Thorington
    Web design is rapidly becoming extremely useful skill to have. These days, no business should be without a website and in addition to this many people also want to construct their own personal websites for a number of reasons such as bringing in advertising revenue or simply sharing their knowledge with the rest of the world.
  • Interop Wrap-up and on to Cisco Live!  By : David Link
    The boys will do a wrap-up of InteropNet - with status on what EM7 monitored on the show network. They did a great job. As usual, if you didn't hear about a big outage, you know they got the job done.
  • International Call With 1 Dollar  By : Naiyana Thamcheeveevong
    This article is about how to make effective and saving International call with 1 dollar or less. You will be surprised by the duration of conversation.
  • Boost ROI for Paid Search Engine Marketing With The Right Ad Copy  By : Gregory Smyth
    The details of PPC internet marketing can be overwhelming for those new to it. Setting budgets, determining keywords and utilizing groups can be confusing. However, the area that deserves the most attention is the ad copy itself - the only thing that the consumer sees. We show you how to make your paid search engine marketing ads jump off the screen for your demographics.
  • Emerging Trends in IT Sourcing in UK Private Banking Ian Woodhouse and Alex Richardson  By : Tom Burroughes
    This article looks at broad trends in the current market and makes some recommendations to ensure a better IT Sourcing in the future.Several trends are driving private banks and wealth managers in the UK to replace or outsource key modules of their information technology systems.
  • Tips for Finding the Best Web Hosting  By : Ranju Kumar
    Anyone who operates a Web site needs to use a web hosting company to get the website online. There are many, many web hosting companies out there
  • Using GPS As An Accurate Time Reference  By : Dave Evans
    This article describes how GPS can be utilised as a precise source of time for computer and network timing applications, such as NTP time servers.
  • MySQL - To Be or Not To Be  By : David Link
    Clearly MySQL has presented challenges for Oracle's business model, and as one of the most followed open source initiatives, MySQL based applications are making significant impact against commercial business.
  • How To Choose The Right IT Support Company  By : John Chambers
    Are you looking for IT support services for your business? This article offers 5 valuable tips to consider during your selection process.
  • Praises for and Success of Military Related EHR  By : Tristan Andrews
    On the 9th of April 2009 President Obama trumpeted the use of electronic health records for the military and the convenience of these records for veterans.
  • Electronic Health Records and Medicare  By : Tristan Andrews
    The move to get Medicare health records into the electronic health records arena started back in May of 2008. It happened when the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services gave a directive to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
  • PPC Internet Marketing Campaigns - How to Determine Your Keywords  By : Gregory Smyth
    Paid SEO marketing is a highly competitive industry, and one that only the most diligent players get ahead in. In this article, we look at how to select the best keywords for your PPC internet marketing campaign - the ones that not only drive traffic to your site, but get you the customers that will actually convert and better your web marketing strategy ROI.
  • Articles and Autoresponders What A Pair  By : Corinne Bridgewater
    So what do articles and autoresponders have in common? At its simplest, an autoresponder is just an email that is sent out automatically. You go on vacation for a few weeks and you set up an out of office email that goes in response to any email that comes to you. This outgoing email is an autoresponse.
  • Keeping Exact Time On Your PC  By : Dave Evans
    This article discusses a number of methods of keeping a computers system time accurate. From utilising Internet based NTP servers to using GPS and radio time references, it attempts to shed light on how to keep your computer synchronised.
  • Who Needs to Have a SAS 70 Audit Performed?  By : Amy Nutt
    SAS 70 auditing was put into force by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants in 1992 and is something that has become especially popular in recent years.
  • FOSE 2009 - Transforming Government Technology with Cloud Computing  By : David Link
    FOSE definitely saved one of the most interesting sessions for last - I sat in on a panel discussion today on cloud computing, which provided some interesting industry and agency insight on clouds and how they should be used within the federal government.
  • Asian Network Operations - Is Your Network Close to Breaking Point?  By : Gregory Smyth
    We tend to take much of the technology available to us for granted, assimiliating it into our daiy to day processes at unheard of rates. Every new technology, though, brings new challenges in terms of network performance management and Asian network infrastructure. We look at the new demands on our networks, and why upgrading is a critical step for business operations security.
  • Computer Rentals: Putting State-of-the-Art Equipment in Your Trainees' Hands  By : Amy Nutt
    Because technology is constantly evolving and changing, businesses are realizing the importance of keeping their employees up-to-date with emerging technologies.
  • What To Look For When Hiring A Prospective Computer Technician  By : Joseph Adams
    Hiring a prospective computer technician like any other specialist is not something to be taken lightly.
  • FOSE 2009 Keynote - Vivek Kundra and Louis Freeh  By : David Link
    Louis Freeh, former director of the FBI, was originally scheduled to do the keynote, but it only made sense to add on Vivek Kundra, newly appointed federal government CIO to speak to the mainly federal workers and vendors crowd.
  • FOSE 2009 - The Virtual Reality: Securely Embracing Virtualization  By : David Link
    It's become common knowledge that virtualization has plenty of benefits but plenty of drawbacks as well. Virtual machines can contribute to the "greening" of data centers and lower costs on space, power, cooling and provisioning.

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