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Planning And Starting An Online Business
You will find that the basics and logic of business remain the same, regardless of whether it is an online business or offline. The difference lies in the fact that, to run an online business successfully, you will need to know the fundamentals of any business and have an understanding of the dynamics that drive web-based businesses.Let’s break this up. To start a business, you will need to have:• A great business idea• A solid, realistic business plan, including the financing aspect• Understand legal issues• Understand accounting and taxation issues• Construct a marketing strategy• Create and maintain a customer base and plan customer serviceTo start an online business, you will also need to:• Make sure your business idea works for an online business• Decide whether or not you need to start a website• If you do need a website, you will need the technical skill to know how to start, run and manage one• Understand online marketing and advertising tactics and tools• Find new and creative ways to drive traff

d myself clearing out spam every day, whereas on some very busy textpattern sites I receive only manual comment spam (not bot driven). TP is open source.

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Community based Blogging Software

Slash

Waaaaay back in 1997, Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda launched a website known as Chips & Dips, supplied via his student account at Hope College in Michigan. In 1999 Andover.net acquired Slashdot. Shortly after, the underlying code was released as open source software called Slash. Like Movable Type and Greymatter, Slash runs on Perl, but it also has established hooks into MySQL and a very strong track record of scaling to enormous traffic levels. To give you an idea, the term 'slashdotted' originated from acquiring a link on this now infamous and very popular tech news website – and consequently watching your servers melt. If you have never messed around with Slash, you really should as it is quite a powerful platform. Slash is open source.

Scoop

Another well known Perl based community blogging software is Scoop. Scoop is the software that powers Kuro5shin, DailyKos and many other busy community weblogs. Scoop took the Slashdot idea and expanded on it, making the discussion rather than the news the focus of the application. Where Slashdot entries tend to have a link with added commentary pointing readers off the site, Scoop points to stories written by members of the community keeping the reader within your own weblog. Scoop is also well known for handling large volumes of traffic and a large very technical community. Sc

Internet Myths
Up on the Internet.Though harmless enough, let's try to clear through some common internet myths."Oh my, I don't want pictures of me, naked, up on the Internet".A common misconception is that the internet is something above us, like the skies themselves. However, the internet is simply a network of computers. Leaving aside any satellite or wireless communications, the net is millions of computers which are interconnected, or can be at will. And often connected physically, by cable.Individuals contribute to it, and it would still work, if it was ground based.Gifted?"Oh my, he must be gifted with computers and has his own website". This might have been the case to some extent, a few years ago. Now though, almost anyone can create a website without any specialist knowledge. Weblog or blogs, have ensured that it will even become easier for the average person to publish to the web. Indeed, photo blogs have become very popular, which would have been a technical nightmare to the untrained, a short time ago. Meaning that blogging software has evo

The blogging platform wars are getting really interesting and much of the discussion I find myself in lately revolves around what is happening with various CMS systems. The market can essentially be defined into 3 major camps: remotely hosted, self hosted, and community based systems. I have used pretty much every blogging platform available and each of them has its ups and downs. In this article I will cover the best options for each area taking into account price, usability, market share and of course SEO potential.

All of these products are either open source, completely free or have a functional free version. Links were stripped from this article so you may want to check out the original best blogging software article at ProfitPapers.

Remotely Hosted Blogging Software (Note: I cannot really recommend any of these from an SEO stand point as optimizing a domain you do not own or control is obviously not a good marketing plan.)

Blogger

Blogger is completely free and currently owns the majority of the remotely hosted user base, but not by a land slide . Bought out by Google in 1999, Blogger essentially fired up the blogging trend we see today. It is by far the easiest overall solution to use and if you are a novice user looking to throw up some recipes or poetry, this is for you. Blogger is completely free and includes some great features like comments, photo blogging, and a basic community feel with user profiles. Because it is so dumbed down there are some features you may not find with Blogger that are only available through 3rd party add-ons. As a side note Blogger weblogs do quite well in the search engines and this was recently exploited with it being the first choice for spam blogs or splogs. A splog is a weblog used for the sole purpose of gaining inbound links or generating thousands of keyword stuffed pages with Adsense and the like. The recent Google Jagger update cleared a large portion of this up. Free.

Typepad

Released in 2003 Typepad is a product of Sixapart, the makers of Movable Type. it is largely based on MT but there are some major enhancements and differences. Your blog can accomodate one or more photo albums with auto thumbnail generation. You can easily add music, books, and other media to Typelists, which grab a thumbnail from Amazon and other retailers for easily displaying in your sidebar. Typepad is also a great deal more technical than Blogger so a bit of HTML know how is recommended. On that note editing your blog to look the way you want it also quite easy and Typepad blogs are known for being very eye pleasing, intuitive and easy to navigate. In Sixapart's business model Typepad is aimed at regular home and small business users while Movable Type is targeted at larger businesses or for internal intranets. Price: Basic, $4.95 a month; premium, $8.95 to $14.95 a month.

Xanga

These guys originated back in 1999 as a site for sharing book, music and movie reviews. Although it quickly morphed into a full blown blogging tool Xanga still maintains the ability to run a powerful review site. Xanga pulls data from several retailers like Amazon.com including thumbnails, pricing and a cover. The software also is very usable by novices with a powerful WYSIWYG editor allowing for easy HTML editing, adding smilies, links, and other symbols. By using Blog rings it is also easy to interface with Xanga's other 3 million users to share interests, ideas, and of course traffic. Xanga comes in a free and $25 flavor.

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Self Hosted Blogging Software

WordPress

WordPress originally began as a mod of an older open source package known as B2. WP is MT's biggest competition and is often the bain of endless Wordpress vs Movabletype style threads around the internet. Although launched just over a year or so ago WP has really taken the blogosphere by storm. And with good reason - Wordpress is completely free under GNU licensing and is packed with many featured you will not find anywhere else. It is also much easier to install and get blogging for novice users and has a very large and helpful community. WP runs on PHP/mySQL and is quite scalable judging from some of the very large and trafficked sites I see using it. It also sports utilities to import files from Movable Type, Textpattern, Greymatter, Blogger, and b2. Wordpress recently upped the ante when Yahoo recently included them on their hosting packages, in addition to MT. I have to admit I am finding myself more and more digging WP and will likely convert Profitpapers to WP as I get time (it can be a biznitch). Wordpress is free.

Movable Type

Aside from maybe Greymatter (the original open source blogging tool), Movabletype dominated the blogging market share in 2002-2004. Released in late 2001, Perl based Movable Type by Sixapart has maintained a large portion of the blogging market share, due mainly to the fact that there is a free version (supporting up to 3 weblogs) and that it is incredibly powerful, intuitive and easy to customize. Template driven Movable Type also sports one of the largest communities of developers and blogging enthusiasts around, meaning lots of support, idea sharing, and of course plugins. Movable Type can be configured to dynamically generate HTML, PHP or any other kind of pages you like, meaning it is incredibly scalable, fast, and loved by spiders. It is perhaps the most well known blogging software for SEO purposes and it what currently powers Profitpapers and several of my other projects. Moveabletype is either Free with 3 authors, 1 weblog, and no support or $69.95 with unlimited weblogs, authors and full support.

Textpattern

Textpattern is the brainchild of Dean Allen and was written to ease publishing of content for those not inclined to learn HTML. Like WP and MT Textpattern runs on PHP and mySQL for easy administration, backups, and power. What really sets textpattern apart from the others is the integration of Textile. Textile is a tool for easily formatting content for those who do not know HTML. WP & MT have modules for textile as well but it is native to the Textpattern system. Another bonus of the app is its superior handling of comment spam due to its smaller market share. On a blogs I maintain running WP and MT I often find myself clearing out spam every day, whereas on some very busy textpattern sites I receive only manual comment spam (not bot driven). TP is open source.

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Community based Blogging Software

Slash

Scoop

Introducing Small Office Equipment
There are core types of office equipment available for the small business - each type is intended to make your job easier.This short article is intended to introduce you to some of the main types of office equipment, so that you can make a purchasing decision on them:Paper ShreddersPaper shredders are used to destroy paper documents, usually using one of two major methods of shredding.The main reason for shredding paper is to prevent confidential information being retrieved and stolen, such as business operations information. This has made paper shredders relatively common in business use.Fax MachinesA fax machine is specialist piece of office equipment that can scan and print a document, and send a copy over a telephone connection to another fax machine.While most people can send text documents much more easily via e-mail, the one big advantage of fax machines is where documents require a human signature.For that reason, fax machines still remain common in the workplace, and ironically are becoming more c

d with Blogger that are only available through 3rd party add-ons. As a side note Blogger weblogs do quite well in the search engines and this was recently exploited with it being the first choice for spam blogs or splogs. A splog is a weblog used for the sole purpose of gaining inbound links or generating thousands of keyword stuffed pages with Adsense and the like. The recent Google Jagger update cleared a large portion of this up. Free.

Typepad

Xanga

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Self Hosted Blogging Software

WordPress

Movable Type

Textpattern

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Community based Blogging Software

Slash

Scoop

Are You Walking Your Talk?
When you're deciding whether or not to hire someone or invest in their product, doesn't the image they project go a long way in making you feel good about parting with your hard-earned cash?So, for example, if you're looking for a nutritionist, it's unlikely that you'd hire the one who offers donuts in her waiting room, right? :)Well, the same is true when YOUR potential client or customer is making the decision whether or not to invest in you or your offerings. If you have an image that is congruent with your claim, you've made it much easier for your prospect to say yes to you.And living your message makes everything about building your business with integrity and authenticity that much easier - and more fun - too!Here's an example from my own client files: I was working with a life coach who came to me because she wasn't getting ANY clients and was about to give up her business dream and go back to working for someone else. Once we took a look at what was going on in her business, it was clear to me what the issues were.She was trying to position herself as

ailers like Amazon.com including thumbnails, pricing and a cover. The software also is very usable by novices with a powerful WYSIWYG editor allowing for easy HTML editing, adding smilies, links, and other symbols. By using Blog rings it is also easy to interface with Xanga's other 3 million users to share interests, ideas, and of course traffic. Xanga comes in a free and $25 flavor.

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Self Hosted Blogging Software

WordPress

Movable Type

Textpattern

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Slash

Scoop

Options for Document Storage on Microfilm
Digital images stored on computer servers is currently the low-cost solution for storing documents. However, that has not always been the case. For decades, microfilm was the storage media of choice. Today many companies still have large libraries of microfilm.Over the years, many different types of microfilm have been used to store records.- Roll Film - Documents are stored on 16 mm rolls.- Microfiche - 7 rows of 14 images per sheet of film about 4 by 6 inches.- Jacket microfiche - Similar to microfiche but the strips representing all the pages of one document are placed in a special transparent "jacket."- Computer output microfilm (COM) - Captures computer output directly on film.- Engineering drawings - are normally recorded on larger 35 mm roll microfilm. Each "blueprint" is then cut off the roll and glued into a frame.Issues surrounding use of microfilmLifespan Microfilm has a long life expectancy but it must be kept in temperature and humidity controlled environment and left in speci

l open source blogging tool), Movabletype dominated the blogging market share in 2002-2004. Released in late 2001, Perl based Movable Type by Sixapart has maintained a large portion of the blogging market share, due mainly to the fact that there is a free version (supporting up to 3 weblogs) and that it is incredibly powerful, intuitive and easy to customize. Template driven Movable Type also sports one of the largest communities of developers and blogging enthusiasts around, meaning lots of support, idea sharing, and of course plugins. Movable Type can be configured to dynamically generate HTML, PHP or any other kind of pages you like, meaning it is incredibly scalable, fast, and loved by spiders. It is perhaps the most well known blogging software for SEO purposes and it what currently powers Profitpapers and several of my other projects. Moveabletype is either Free with 3 authors, 1 weblog, and no support or $69.95 with unlimited weblogs, authors and full support.

Textpattern

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Community based Blogging Software

Slash

Scoop

Distributed IP Video Solutions - The Future of Advertising Technology
With the launch of digital signage, advertising standards have moved a long distance that has led to the development of good variety of great digital signature software’s that would integrate well with almost every distributed IP video solutions. The software used is also known as captured audience network or CAN which is in fact an essential part of any network that controls the IP video distribution to any display monitor on the network.The first ever application that was designed to work with the IP video using the digital signage was developed for retails business. There are lots of pre-recorded videos which can be displayed simultaneously on N number of different type of display monitors or televisions like CRTs, LCDs, and Plasmas etc, which were fixed around the sales areas to attract more and more clients. Strategically, a music video can be displayed in the CD store or a fashion show can be telecasted in a ladies store etc. Thus, there are many ways in which these IP Video based digitally controlled telecasting can be done and all you need it is its tactical placement. The bette

d myself clearing out spam every day, whereas on some very busy textpattern sites I receive only manual comment spam (not bot driven). TP is open source.

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Community based Blogging Software

Slash

Scoop

Drupal

Drupal is a well known open source community blogging platform with a very large community of users and developers. Not only is Drupal free but it is damn powerful. Instead of Perl, which is quite hard to decode at times, even if you are a fluent coder, Drupal uses a PHP/mySQL platform. Drupal is also a very community focused application with a built in forum, download area, and hundreds of other home brewed mods and hacks. If you are looking for a lot of functionality give Drupal a check - the project has become quite mature. It is also much easier to use and customize than either Scoop or Slash. Drupal is also another open source project.

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The labor market bias against older workers is addressed by providing techniques to confront the issue in interviews and how to deomolish such negative perceptions and turn them into a positive attitude which may lead to a job offer.

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For fresh graduates or for employees who want to start their own businesses, one of the hardest things to do is to get the capital that they need to do so. This is because most of the traditional sources of loans or funding are apprehensive in providing funds for start-up businesses. Given this, most of them opt to shelve their business idea until they get the money they need. Some opt to sell equity, and some of them borrow the money from relatives and friends. However, people who want to go into business for themselves need not wait until they get the money from these sources because there is a good source of capital that they can tap into. All they need is a good idea and a strong business plan. This source is an angel investor.

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