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Archive for January, 2009

I sub­scribe to many newslet­ters to keep up to date of what is going on in many areas of the vir­tual world. One newslet­ter I received this week struck a cord with me and I wanted to share it with you.

This is from Feng Shui Truth:

There head­ing is “BUSINESS in 2009 is “Col­lab­o­ra­tive, Mind­ful and Proac­tive” ENERGY, that serves the greater good of All.”

Sounds a lot like what is going on with the newly elected Pres­i­dent, Barack Obama.

They go on to say, and I will quote:
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Les­son #1: Com­pa­nies and entre­pre­neurs who build reli­able teams, “ven­dor net­works” and strate­gic alliances accel­er­ate the growth of their busi­nesses faster, bet­ter and with less effort.

Les­son #2: Com­pa­nies and entre­pre­neurs who will­ingly accept “feed­back” from their tar­get mar­ket accel­er­ate the growth of their busi­ness faster, bet­ter and with less effort.

Les­son #3: Com­pa­nies and entre­pre­neurs who “honk” at their team mem­bers, staff and ven­dors with “encour­age­ment,” accel­er­ate their per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity and busi­ness growth, expo­nen­tially … FAST.

Les­son #4: Com­pa­nies and entre­pre­neurs who pro­tect and edu­cate their teams’ and clients’ in chal­leng­ing times, “grow” their busi­nesses even dur­ing eco­nomic down-swings.

Les­son #5: Com­pa­nies and entre­pre­neurs who show COMPASSION and SUPPORT the com­pa­nies and peo­ple they serve, will sur­vive and thrive (like Geese) in this “new world order” of col­lab­o­ra­tive CO-CREATION.
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There is more but I highly sug­gest you actu­ally sign up for this newslet­ter. It is always full of pow­er­ful ener­gies (and no, I do not get any­thing out of this other then the joy of sharing).

Here is their link: http://www.fengshuiparadigms.com/

Jan

What you/searchers select from search results shape future queries based on your choices. Have you noticed when you search for one thing and then another that you are shown options? These options that may be of inter­est but may be way off the mark of what you are look­ing for? Yes, they are fol­low­ing your pref­er­ences and this will hap­pen with your poten­tial vis­i­tor as well. This, in fact, could actu­ally make it harder for searchers to find what they are look­ing for.

So what can you do to help searchers find you?

The best organic SEO is con­tent (Con­tent Is King!)

Bob Massa put it well:

“I believe any­one can be suc­cess­ful at online mar­ket­ing or even traf­fic gen­er­a­tion and search engine place­ment specif­i­cally, if they just stop look­ing for ways to trick machines and instead look for ways to con­nect with humans”.

The need for qual­ity, engag­ing, and usable con­tent is becom­ing more impor­tant than ever.

For those of you ‘in the know’ Google Knol may not be new to you but I just came across it tonight.

Knol is “author­i­ta­tive arti­cles about spe­cific top­ics, writ­ten by peo­ple who know about those subjects.

As stated on the Google Blog:

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The key prin­ci­ple behind Knol is author­ship. Every knol will have an author (or group of authors) who put their name behind their con­tent. It’s their knol, their voice, their opin­ion. We expect that there will be mul­ti­ple knols on the same sub­ject, and we think that is good.
With Knol, we are intro­duc­ing a new method for authors to work together that we call “mod­er­ated col­lab­o­ra­tion.” With this fea­ture, any reader can make sug­gested edits to a knol which the author may then choose to accept, reject, or mod­ify before these con­tri­bu­tions become vis­i­ble to the pub­lic. This allows authors to accept sug­ges­tions from every­one in the world while remain­ing in con­trol of their con­tent. After all, their name is asso­ci­ated with it!

Knols include strong com­mu­nity tools which allow for many modes of inter­ac­tion between read­ers and authors. Peo­ple can sub­mit com­ments, rate, or write a review of a knol. At the dis­cre­tion of the author, a knol may include ads from our AdSense pro­gram. If an author chooses to include ads, Google will pro­vide the author with a rev­enue share from the pro­ceeds of those ad place­ments.
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Looks like a great place to share your knowl­edge. I’m going to check it out, want to join me?

http://knol.google.com

Jan

So we found the remote but it did not work for the TV. We had to hook up the cd player for the remote to work. Well that in itself was a major event!

Got the cd player hooked up. Yep the remote worked with the cd player. Hooked the cd player to the TV. Tried the remote for the TV — no go.

So we are still at “is it your turn to get up and change the channel”.

Mov­ing sucks LOL

p.s. If you fol­low this blog you know we are web design­ers, scripters, graphic artists. Can you believe we have such a problem!!!

Even if you don’t live in the West Coast of Canada, many of you may have read about the mas­sive snow falls we have been hav­ing here. Yes, our mild ‘lotus land’ cli­mate ‘went South’ big time this win­ter and we are look­ing like the stereo­type ‘Great White North’.

But with the prim­i­tive instincts of our pio­neer ances­tors, we knew we must be pre­pared… We watched the weather reports, stocked up on wood and food ahead of the storms and hun­kered down.

But wait…

We recently moved and found our­selves with a TV but no remote con­trol. What??!!

Ok, for­get about build­ing a fire, the task one was fig­ur­ing out how to ‘man­u­ally’ turn the TV on. After a few tries we did man­age that. Next, chang­ing chan­nels. Next, volume.

Later that night we sat down to watch and, oh no, where is the remote? Ok, have to get up and turn it on. Sit back down, hmmm, not the right chan­nel, where is the remote? Ok, get up and change the chan­nel. Pro­gram over, where is the remote. Hmmm ok, so who’s turn is to get up and change the chan­nel this time.

Now most of us can relate to the ‘olden’ days’ of hav­ing to walk miles, through huge snow drifts. to get to school. But no remote, now THAT IS roughen’ it.

For those of your going through the same predica­ment we will pro­vide an instruc­tion video on how to oper­ate a TV with­out a remote.

Jan