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Top Nav Bar Buttons Won't Left Justify

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:23:59 -0500

Hi. I was messing around w/ my template in a COPY of my site and suddently my ACTIVE site was changed. The top nav bar got messed up and I can't get my buttons to align left -- they are all centered. This is probably very easy to fix, but I'm not a CSS person. Can someone help me figure this out? I have all the buttons left justified but they are not. My site is Immortal Martial Arts

Page Width

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:43:29 -0500

We just previewed our home page through screenshots.org and all 23 pages show a home page cut off on the right side at the point where the right nav bar starts. Has anyone else had this issue and what's the solution?

Thanks,

Solutions Are Power :: Following Up on a Few Things: Celebrities, Crises and One Year Here

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:00:14 -0500

Here are a few items that came up recently that reminded me of other things that happened, only less recently:

* Social Media Vulnerabilities: From the New York Times Sunday edition came a report of a Hollywood burglary ring whose members not only targeted celebrities, but used celebrity gossip web sites to figure out when those celebrities would be out partying, so they could break in knowing no one would be at home.

Granted, celebrities aren’t normal people — their movements are tracked and broadcast with unhealthy intensity. And the burglary ring (alleged, that is) doesn’t seem to be composed of criminal masterminds, relying in a few cases on doggy doors and keys left under mats to get inside the target homes.

However, to my eye, we keep edging closer and closer to scenarios that I outlined in my entry, Please Burglarize My House, where criminals, aided by quick Web searches, find the information that we willingly blast out to the world telling people were we are (and thus, where we aren’t — in realtime), plus what we have that’s worth taking, and a whole bunch of other information that’s useful to them.

Folks, this isn’t a moral panic here — it’s just a recognition that criminals adapt to new technologies, too. Postal mail opened up a whole lot of new opportunities for scams that didn’t require physical presence; cars and roads gave new mobility to criminals of all sorts; and burglars could case a house just by using a telephone.

In many ways, there still seems to be a naivete about potential negative impacts of social media on your physical existence, that borders on an adolescent’s invulnerability.

* Social Media and Crisis Communications: Two followups from CrisisCamp — the first is a very literal one, since it builds on conversations between representatives from Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft at the first CrisisCamp in DC: At Random Hacks of Kindness, coders got together to build apps to harness social media and communications tools to help improve communication during disasters.

I’m pretty sure I was in the session (primarily as a spectator) where light bulbs went off and commitments were made, so it’s cool to see concrete things coming out of it.

The second item is more of a spiritual successor: The US Navy’s Office of Naval Research awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin to see how social media could be used during disaster and crisis operations. Valued at� a “miniscule” $1 million over 24 months, it shows that social media is a serious, useful phenomena, and that even large, traditional institutions are trying to find ways it can be harnessed.

* One More Thing: Oh, and one last thing — this entry marks my 1-year anniversary as a contributor to the Solutions Are Power blog. (I suppose I should re-read and revisit my first entry at some point.) Time flies — it seems like only yesterday that I barely used Twitter and I still hadn’t yet wasted any time on Mafia Wars. Even so, the social media landscape has changed a lot in just a year, but I’m glad to still be here to write about it.

Thanks to Shashi, Jill, Steve, and the rest of the Network Solutions blog team, as well as to all readers and commenters, for continuing to indulge me. I hope you’re getting as much from reading my writings as I am from writing them, and I hope to continue doing so for as long as you’ll have me.

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Solutions Are Power :: Interview with the Product Manager ? Mike Hollen of nsMail

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:00:03 -0500

Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with Mike Hollen and talk about nsMail, what it is and the changes that came with the improved Network Solutions brand. We talked about all areas of hosted email and some great improvements and new products coming in the future. The video of the interview is below:

To see more videos, check out the series section below or check out the interviews in advance, you can see them on our�Solutions Are Power YouTube channel.

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Is There A Way To Implement An Event Calendar Within Commercespace?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:32:23 -0500

I found within regular ns there is an event calendar to use, but I would like a small one in the right column and then be able to bring in a full size page to list the events. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance!

Solutions Are Power :: Interview with the Product Manager ? Lynne Brehmer of nsWebAddress

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:00:06 -0500

Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with Lynne Brehmer and talk about nsWebAddress, what it is and the changes that came with the improved Network Solutions brand. We talked about the reasons for the name change and how it still means your domain name, but it encompasses so much more, especially for being more small business friendly. The video of the interview is below:

To see more videos, check out the series section below or check out the interviews in advance, you can see them on our�Solutions Are Power YouTube channel.

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Css Help

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:38:51 -0500

issue just popped up when we migrated to newest version ...

I had an image map in a table cell, previously aligned to the bottom of the cell using old HTML TD valign=bottom. The alignment code is out of date, but I can't fix it with an inline style sheet - it doesn't work. Can't fix it with an internal style because I can't designate stuff in just THIS page's header, which is what I need. How do I get this image to align to the bottom of the cell? It's on my homepage TCSurfShop.com.

Here's the code below. I've hidden the misaligned image <!--

Any Experience Implementing Google Affiliate Network?

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:32:58 -0500

I am trying to implement the tracking code for the Google Affiliate Network and am running into a few issues regarding some of the variables that are being requested.

In most cases providing %Order.Subtotal% and %Order.ID% are enough etc. In this case, however, Google needs specific product info including...
Product SKU
Product Name
Product Qty
Product Category
Product Unit Price

I know some of these are visible on the checkout page but can they be captured?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Mpgearco

Iframe For Constant Contact Form Causing Secure Popup At Checkout

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:47:36 -0500

I used an IFrame on my store to put the constant contact sign up form in. It doesn't display quite like i had hoped it would, but it is functional. However during checkout the customers are getting a popup telling them not all items on the page are secure and asks them if they would like to display the unsecure information. Is this from a setting in the constant contact HTML i used in the Iframe? How can i fix this so i can still have my constant contact form and get rid of the secure popup during checkout?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Jimmy

How To Redirect A Html Page To A New One

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:02:05 -0500

Hello all,

can you tell me how to redirect this? I tried tru the redirect page and it seems only works for the aspx pages, then i tried creating an .htaccess file with the regular 301 code and didnt work, tried some 301 asp code on the specif html page i want to redirect and nothing... right now i have the meta redirect on it working but i dont like it at all, can any suggest me what to do?

thank you!

its only one HTML file on my root that needs to be redirected.

Solutions Are Power :: What Does Marc Benioff Really Have To Say About The Cloud At Dreamforce 2009?

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:00:13 -0500

I’m sitting here at the 2009 edition of the Dreamforce Conference to listen to the CEO of SalesForce, Marc Benioff, talk about his thoughts about the cloud and listen in to any potential �announcements that he may have about the company and their highly successful product.

And without disappointment, it turns out that Salesforce is rolling out what they’re calling their “biggest breakthrough ever”:�Salesforce Chatter.

According to their release, Salesforce Chatter is the “first social computing application�and platform for real-time enterprise collaboration.” It will apparently revolutionize how social networking models will shape the workplace. Of course with social networking, Salesforce has opened up their platform to allow for developers to create their own custom or third-party application.

Not really surprised that Salesforce would wind up opening up their platform to support third-party applications. This coming on the heels of PayPals’s inaugural conference where they too also unveiled that they were opening up their platform for developers to experiment with and create outstanding products. This could potentially be a good thing for the company that just announced their third quarter results that they said would exceed $1.3 Billion – a 20% increase from last year.

With a customer base of nearly 68,000 people, Salesforce must have been constantly asked about whether they would be integrating social media into the mix and also about whether they’d be opening up their API – and the first enterprise cloud computing company has responded with a resounding “YES”. �As it relates to real-time collaboration, Salesforce will allow companies to share information through the use of profiles, status updates, feeds, groups, social apps & content, integration with Twitter and Facebook and even have it be available on mobile platforms!

The big question is�when will this become available and�how much will Salesforce Chatter cost customers? It seems that they’re going to release this new program to everyone in 2010 and those who have purchased Salesforce.com applications will need to make purchase decisions from the inital set of features currently available? But it seems that if you’re paying for the CRM and Force.com access, you’ll be able to get Salesforce Chatter included. Or, if you just want to get a new Chatter Edition, just pay $50 a month per user which will also include Salesforce Chatter, Content & Force.com.

More information can be found at Force.com.

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Solutions Are Power :: Behold the Power…Keyword Power

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:00:17 -0500

When it comes to online marketing, whether you’re going the organic route with SEO and link building or targeting paid search through PPC or both (which you should, if you can, hint-hint), there are few, if any, aspects more important than choosing the right keywords.

So how do you choose the right keywords for your enterprise’s website? Depending on whom you ask, there are many ways to go about it, many online tools—Wordtracker, Keyword Discovery—that you can use, and a number of places to get started. But the important thing to remember is that no online tool or SEO expert knows your business as well as you do.

That’s why a brainstorming session should be a part of beginning an SEO or PPC campaign. Bring in everyone who’s important to your business and start talking; write down as many phrases as you can and don’t worry about repeating yourself or weeding things out just yet. Make a big, long list of all the ways people might try to find your site online.

Now you’re ready to turn to the tools, the online wizards, the keyword experts. They’ll help you figure out which keywords are most natural, most relevant, most specific, and most often searched. From there, you really can begin to realize the extent of keyword power.

These hints (with some liberties taken, of course) are excerpted from our white paper, Keyword Power: Optimize with Attention-Grabbing Keywords. To download this and other whitepapers, stop here and drop us a line.

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Solutions Are Power :: Interview with the Product Manager ? Warren Smith of nsSpace and nsBusinessSpace

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:00:43 -0500

Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with Warren Smith, Director of Product Management,�and talk about nsSpace & nsBusinessSpace, what it is and the changes that came with the improved Network Solutions� brand. We talked about all areas of hosted storage, especially the differences between the�nsSpace and nsBusinessSpace solutions�that Network Solutions� offers. We also covered their new Statement of Work Builder, which we think is really cool. The video of the interview is below:

To see more videos, check out the series section below or check out the interviews in advance, you can see them on our�Solutions Are Power YouTube channel.

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Traffic Dropped After Conversion

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:07:54 -0500

Hi all. I know everyone's tired after today's outage but if anyone has any energy left, I would like to know if anyone else saw a significant drop in traffic after converting to version 7. We did and the result isn't pretty. While our volume hasn't been as high as many of you, a nearly 50% drop REALLY hurts us. Google Analytics reflects the drop and our orders certainly do.

Why the drop? Any info? If you did see a drop, what did you do and how long until your numbers were back up?

Thanks.

Personalizations And Adding To Cart

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:06:23 -0500

Wonder if anyone has a solution or can tell me what I'm doing wrong...

We offer a product that can be custom engraved on the back..

1st Personalization Question is Would you like engraving ? Yes or No (radio button)

Next question is Font, then captilization, enter text etc.

But I'm finding that if you choose NO, then when you go to checkout it shows all the personalization questions with the default answers

Can this be hidden ? - Shouldn't it be hidden if answer is NO ?

Thanks
Mike

Hide Right Navigation In Checkout Pages

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:07:37 -0500

Does anyone know the CSS to hide the right nav in the checkout pages in versioin 7 cart?

Thanks,

Matt

Possible For Website To Be Up And Https To Be Down?

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:55:22 -0500

Is this on Network Solutions�'s end or my end? I can navigate to other websites and login to other https connections but I can't get get to any secure pages on my domain.

I've never seen this happen.

Solutions Are Power :: Event Review: BarCamp DC 3

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:40:16 -0500

Saturday was BarCampDC 3, the third iteration of the free BarCamp-style unconference in DC, where there are no spectators (only participants); attendees set the agenda; everybody contributes and has a chance to lead a session; and during sessions, attendees are encouraged to vote with their feet if they’re not getting what they want from the discussion.

Apparently, another characteristic of weekend unconferences is that I’m unable to get to them on time. I also forgot my camera (brought the accessories, though) and had a hard time finding parking, so I was a little frazzled — I missed the agenda-setting and first session, so it took me a while to get settled in.

The event was held at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (aka the DC Public Library), spread between the basement meeting rooms and some of the upstairs lobby rooms. I don’t think I’d ever actually been inside the library before. Access to power and wifi was good (except for one room); outside of some early temperature shifts and the occasional random passerby wandering through the upstairs lobby rooms, the space was fine.

The first session I attended (second of the day) was about developing gadgets for Google Wave, though also covered the essential question, “What the heck is Google Wave and what’s it good for?” (I got my invite and have used it, but admit I still have no good answer to the question.) A lot of attention has been focused on the real-time chat aspect (where you can others’ typing as it happens), though we were encouraged to not get distracted by that and look at Wave more as interconnected, embeddable, commentable document collaboration (with gadgets), without having to worry about servers and protocols, and that it will iterate and evolve according to how users actually use it.

The lunch session I sat in on sought to form organizing committee for a TEDx event in DC; TEDx essentially licenses the TED concept, bringing thought leaders across disciplines to speak (there had been a TEDx Mid Atlantic just this month that’d I’d managed to miss completely). TEDx is the kind of prestige event that I most likely wouldn’t be able to attend unless I was helping to organize it, and there’s no shortage of star power in DC, so it’ll be interesting to see what happens.

Post-lunch was a neat session looking at free, location-based mashup technologies (that broadened to look at other mashup technologies); I’ll just throw out a bunch of links mentioned including GeoNames, MaxMind, ip2location, GeoHash, OpenCalais, ProgrammableWeb, and my favorite, StupidFilter.

The next session I split between a discussion of computer-generated audio and video (I would characterize it as trying to build Anthem, the everything-to-music converter from Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency), and a wide-ranging discussion of generalist vs. specialist (which covered everything from the elevation of manual labor, work-life balance, networking and personal growth).

The final session was a pretty useful discussion on how to be a good freelancer; there was a lot of good, though sometimes contradictory info about how to talk to your employer about side gigs, corporate structure, the role of lawyers, accounting tips, managing clients, managing projects and scope creep, and billing.

Because of scheduling, the last session was abandoned (or rather, continued at the bar) — the happy hour included BarCamp participants, as well as the woman-oriented DC She’s Geeky (scheduled at the same time as BarCamp, it may account for the particularly male-heavy attendance there).

For more information, check out posts, photos, and tweets tagged “barcampdc3″ and “barcamp.”

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Solutions Are Power :: You Might Not Be On The Right Lists If It?s Not On Listorious.

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0500

It didn’t take long for someone to create it.

Not long after Twitter announced it was opening the doors for everyone to have access to the list system, someone created a directory for lists. And perhaps this is the biggest help people will find to showing what lists are popular and which ones they should follow. Here’s how it works:

If you have a list that you want to share and help people find, then you can add that to the Listorious database. So if you’ve amassed a Twitter list of people you know are masters of the�Rubik�cube, for example, then you can include that simply by adding it to the website. If you aren’t submitting a list, then perhaps you might be more interested in finding a list of Twitter users who fall in a certain category? Perhaps a list of influencers in a particular industry? Listorious allows you to search in a variety of categories: people’s names, list name or a particular tag.

Listorious will let any business user who might be trying to reach out to influencers and personalities take their search up to the next level. It might be interesting to find the diamond in the rough when it comes to your search -when I’ve been searching for online video influencers, for example, I already had the usual suspects such as Robert Scoble, Veronica Belmont, Cali Lewis, etc., but I did find some other interesting people on a video list that I might not have been able to find otherwise.

This tool is probably pretty good to help do some research on a particular brand or individual to see how many lists they may be on. Yes, you can obviously go to their respective Twitter pages, but having that particular list added to Listorious seems to add a hint more credibility to show how many other folks are following it – perhaps showing some significance? Maybe this service is an Twitter version of AllTop as well? From the get-go, you’re able to see a litany of lists on the website segmented by category, including: news lists, art, sports, food, celebrities, politics, health, humor, charity and finance.

Twitter lists seems to have such far-reaching implications, beyond simply organizing your own followings. In fact, it’s able to allow you to track those whom you think are all talking a similar point or have a common interest. For me, I attend a lot of conferences and I’d love to follow some of those people who are also attending to get their thoughts on the sessions. If someone creates a Twitter list of those going, then perhaps I’ll be more inclined to follow it back once I find it on Listorious and then will be kept abreast on what people are tweeting – then perhaps will get the most out of the event. And it doesn’t have to be conferences either. It could be any major event, such as an election or sporting event or perhaps unfortunately, a disaster.

In all aspects of its functionality, Listorious gives users a directory of pundits, regardless of the event or topic…and you’re going to be able to find it easily through this website.

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Solutions Are Power :: Time for Social Media Marketing

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:00:40 -0500

The one thing you may not have much of these days is the thing you’ll need most in order to figure out how you’re going to successfully promote your products or services once you’re online. Time.

But there’s a giant upside, probably accounting for all those folks taking that 25^th hour to learn more and do more to market online. All of that sweat equity can deliver sharper focus and more success.

Take social media marketing.

There’s a learning curve when you begin blogging, Facebooking, Twittering, etc., and it takes time to get started. But these venues are designed for the average time-challenged human being. They’re forgiving, a necessity for busy entrepreneurs, right? You can dip a toe into social media marketing any time, day or night, and then build on it at a pace you can handle.

Who has time to Facebook? Why Twitter? The answer to these questions may be a few other questions: Who are my customers? What are my customers looking for? What are my peers in my industry thinking about and what are they saying?

So maybe you can’t afford a PR firm to answer these questions for you, but you sure can Tweet, Facebook, blog and, generally, jump in on the conversation. You can get some answers.

There are guides to social media marketing out there for sure, written by enthusiasts eager to share their struggles and successes. Consider us one of them, because we are sold on the marketing power of social media. Here’s a white paper to help you get started on getting social: “Using Social Media Marketing to Drive Traffic to Your Website” (more)

Follow-up reading: Wondering how social media marketing helps with SEO? Steve Fisher addresses the effect social media is having on search engine listings.

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Attributes With Check Box Filter

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:24:24 -0500

What would be great is if we could list product attributes on a category page via checkboxes - i.e. clicking on a the checkbox(s) would filter the results.

Is this possible with its current implementation?

How To Add My Banner Rotator On My Home Page ?

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:39:19 -0500

Hi guys i have this XML Script for a banner Rotator but im trying to add in my web site , but is lil hard i can't do it , does some one here know better than me and can help me with this ? thank you. i already upload in my file manager and everything but i cant even see lol yeah looks funny thank you

Solutions Are Power :: New Video Series ? Interview with the Product Manager

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:00:25 -0500

Network Solutions� Products Explained – NSSpace & BusinessSpace
Network Solutions� Products Explained – NSMarketing
Network Solutions� Products Explained – NSMail
Network Solutions� Products Explained – NSWebAddress
Network Solutions� Products Explained – NSHosting
Starting this week, we begin a new video series that we call “Interview with the Product Manager”. In this video series we will highlight Network Solutions� Products and their respective product managers. We will talk about the re-branding and what changes have occurred regarding new features, product mixes and discuss what is coming in the future.

Our initial series will cover the following:

nsSpace & nsBusinessSpace – Warren Smith, Director of Product Management

Central Registry Solutions – David Morse, Senior Manager, Domain Product Team

nSMarketing – Matt Ho, Product Director

nsMail – Mike Hollen, Product Manager

nsWebAddress – Lynne Brehmer, Product Manager

nsHosting and VPS – Miguel Ramos, Product Manager

The series starts tomorrow but if you would like to check out the interviews in advance, you can see them on our Solutions Are Power YouTube channel.

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Google Base Frustration

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:08:31 -0500

Hello,

In the past year I have successfully generated my Google base feed and uploaded it every month with approximately 800 products per feed. However, in the last three months I have not changed anything in the process but 0 items are being inserted. I am not sure why, Google keeps telling me that some non-required attributes are missing which has never effected me before. If anyone is experiencing anything similar or knows a solution I would highly appreciate it.

I simply generate a feed through the control panel and upload it, nothing has changed.

On a separate note to Network Solutions�, I have a request. In feed generation there is an option for descriptiong, however you pull this from short description, I am not sure who uses short description but I am pretty sure most of us use long description. So please change it so it pulls the long description instead of short.

Thanks,
Alex

http://www.LilianaInternational.com

Problem Creating Gift Certificates

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:35:35 -0500

If you're familiar with creating a gift certificate (Inventory / Gift Certificates), then I have a basic puzzler. All you need to do is enter an Amount in the Amount box and click on Create -- couldn't be easier, right? Well, it then creates the GC in the form of a Gift Certificate Code. If you look at the help section for Gift Certificates, it says the codes are shown in the order created, so presumably the one you just created is at the end. This is not correct!!! I spoke to tech support and they confirm that it does not work. I asked how you then identify, for purposes of copying and pasting to something so you can give the code to someone, the GC you just created. He actually said "I don't know".

This defies logic. Let's say you have pages of Gift Certificates set up, many with, say, $20. You then go to add a new $20 Gift Certificate. It could end up anywhere on the list, ordered only by the sort of Gift Certificate Code, but these codes are created in a random order, not in an ascending order. So how do you even use the Gift Certificate creation capability? Does anybody know? Is this broken and unusable?

If you can give me a straighter answer than tech support, I will be forever in your debt. Thank you.

Jeff

Ecommerce Website Review: BillyTheTree.com

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:54:22 -0500

This ecommerce website review will focus on BillyTheTree.com, an online specialty jeweler. We’ll focus on 5 points to help BillyTheTree.com increase conversion and average order value.

Increase Online Credibility
One of the most untapped online industries (next to drugstores) is jewelers. This means that there are more shoppers out there ...

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Outage Expericenced -11/16

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:07:44 -0500

Server Error in '/MCP' Application.
Runtime Error

Problem Shipping To Virgin Islands?

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:59:21 -0500

I haven't had this issue come up in a while - I thought it was resolved. I have a customer in the US Virgin Islands who is unable to check out. I made sure it is one of the selected countries in my shipping options. I tested it myself, choosing Virgin Islands as the country. I got a message that we don't currently ship to this address.

Is this still an issue? Or do I need to do something differently?

Solutions Are Power :: Start the Conversation: Blogging for Beginners

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:30:29 -0500

If you are a small business owner that has mixed feelings about the wonderful world of online marketing and even more hesitation about entering the social media realm, you’re definitely not alone. But being the business-savvy entrepreneur that you are, you probably know that this is the wave of the future and businesses that lack some form of online presence will be left in the dust. Consider putting a blog on your site; it’s easier than you might think.

The top three reasons that small business owners avoid developing their online marketing plans and stay away from social media is lack of capital, lack of time, and lack of skills. This is where a blog will fit your needs perfectly—it is relatively cheap to incorporate into your site, requires very little time, and you do not need any special technical skills or writing expertise to use it. View this guide for tips on getting started with a blog and for best practices on maintaining it.

What is most important to having a successful blog is to understand that it is like hosting a networking event on your site, around the clock. People can read what you’ve written, which should be entertaining and informative. They can also participate by asking questions and posting comments. This can become a sounding board for revealing your areas of expertise and truly helping potential customers. It can also be a place for your current customers to tout your goods or services.

The beauty of the blog is that it does not need to be a picture perfect dissertation of what you do; as a matter of fact, it is better if it is more conversational and speaks to the masses. You can also have fellow employees or business associates write posts to expand your reach. One cardinal rule of blogging is to not only start this conversation, but to respond as well—keep the interaction moving.

Learn more and get started today!

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Solutions Are Power :: Trying to Understand Google Wave

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:00:25 -0500

[img]http://webworkerdaily.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/thecompleteguidetogooglewavecover01.png?w=201&h=300[/img]Have you been one of the lucky ones to get an invite to Google Wave? Well if you didn’t and want to know more about it, I am here to share and guide to a great resource from Gina Trapani. Over on Web Worker Daily they cover Gina Trapani’s new e-book, the complete guide to Google Wave.

Web Worker Daily says “Tech writers Gina Trapani and Adam Pash have created an online e-book, “The Complete Guide to Google Wave,” which does an excellent job of explaining what Google Wave is and how it can be used. The book provides step-by-step instructions on how to get invited to the service, what to do when you get there, and how to make the most of it.”

From their web site, CompleteWaveGuide.com, they readily admit that it is a bit confusing to understand at first. “Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that’s notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you’ll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product that’s evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows and changes. Read more about The Complete Guide to Google Wave.”

I am using Google Wave and I have to admit it is challenging at first but what I can say about the tool is it is like Twitter, IM and email had a baby. The real time collaboration and capture of the conversations or “Waves” make it a very interesting tool when working on a group email or a topic that needs the entire conversation captured.

The book on the web site is written in a clear, straightforward style, and is sprinkled with helpful and sometimes humorous quotes from Joss Whedon’s Firefly where on the show the communication method were called “Broadwaves” and people would say “Send me a Wave”. I am convinced that the whole Google Wave team are Browncoats (what fans of Firefly are called) and the error messages are very funny (do a google search on that one).

The Web Worker Daily site goes on to say “An electronic version of the book will be offered for sale beginning in November; it’s unclear whether the online version will continue to be available once the book comes out. So if you’re interested in Google Wave, this is an excellent time to learn more about it. But you may need some patience; the book’s web site has been very slow, as I suspect it’s getting more traffic than the authors expected.“

Check out the site and let us know what you think of Google Wave.

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