Ten Must Read Tips to Start a Small Business Blog - Online Marke. A friend of mine who is an experienced corporate marketer started a new business. The store just opened and being the good pal that I am, I was able to provide some advice regarding marketing on the web – specifically regarding blog marketing. This is a new small business, so1 considerations for what to do about a web site included: cost, functionality, flexibility, ease of maintenance and marketability. The web site needed to serve as both an online representation of the business, but without transactional functionality, as well as a host for landing pages used with email and PPC campaigns. My recommendation for a low cost, easy to use and search engine friendly content management system? Blog software. Something along those lines happened with my friend’s blog. What was the issue? However, picking a third party domain for the blog address violates one of the most important rules in sustainable blogging: Always host the blog address with a domain name you control. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
World may not be warming, say scientists - Times Online. Google slapped with class-action lawsuit over Buzz. News February 18, 2010 02:57 PM ET Computerworld - A Florida woman yesterday filed a class-action lawsuit against Google Inc., charging that the new Buzz social networking tool set violates the privacy rights of users. Eva Hibnick, a resident of Sarasota County, Fla., filed the suit in a San Jose, Calif., federal court on behalf of herself and the approximately 31 million U.S. users of Google's popular Gmail e-mail service. The lawsuit alleges that Google violated federal privacy and computer fraud laws by adding Buzz to the Gmail service last week. According to the class action complaint, "Google Buzz made private data belonging to Gmail users publicly available without the users' knowledge or authorization.
Hibnick is seeking unspecified damages and is asking the court to prevent Google from offering Buzz without "appropriate safeguards, default provisions and opt-in mechanisms. " In her lawsuit, Hibnick called Google's tweaks to Buzz too little and too late. South Carolina Lawmaker Seeks to Ban Federal Currency - Politica. (scstatehouse.gov) South Carolina Rep. Mike Pitts has introduced legislation that would mandate that gold and silver coins replace federal currency as legal tender in his state. As the Palmetto Scoop first reported, Pitts, a Republican, introduced legislation this month banning "the unconstitutional substitution of Federal Reserve Notes for silver and gold coin" in South Carolina. In an interview, Pitts told Hotsheet that he believes that "if the federal government continues to spend money at the rate it's spending money, and if it continues to print money at the rate it's printing money, our economic system is going to collapse.
" "The Germans felt their system wouldn't collapse, but it took a wheelbarrow of money to buy a loaf of bread in the 1930s," he said. The lawmaker believes that a shift to an economy based on gold and silver coins would give the state a "base of currency" should that collapse come. . © 2010 CBS Interactive Inc. Free Samples of Business Letters & Example Cover Letters. Florida wrestler ties record, pins opponent in 4 seconds - MaxPr. Winter Springs (Fla.) senior Matthew Nereim tied an 18-year-old 140-pound national record by pinning Keavan Cooper of Oviedo Hagerty in a lightning-fast four seconds during the Class 3A district wrestling tournament. Coach Scott Gomrad told MaxPreps, "He had broken all of our school records for a season and career, but for the fastest pin (six seconds), I told him there are a lot of variables that he can’t control.
"He told me, ‘No, no, I think I can get it, coach! I’m going to break it in the first round of the district. I can reach out with my left hand, grab the kid’s right wrist and hit him with a flying head lock.’ He went out there and executed it. "He’s the best wrestler I’ve coached in my 15-year career. After he actually had accomplished his pre-match boast, Nereim admitted, "I really, honestly, didn’t think I could. Following his title match – called by some one of the greatest in Florida history – Nereim was approached by four college coaches. Photo by Joe Petro St. Potpourri. HOW TO: Build a Facebook Landing Page for Your Business. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Facebook is known for its uniformity. You can post all sorts of content, but the actual design and layout of your profile is the same as everyone else's.
But with Facebook Fan Pages and the array of apps you can plug into them, there are a few ways you can customize what people see when they land on your Page. You've probably seen custom Fan Pages like those of Best Buy and Victoria's Secret. These are often used to promote deals, call attention to new products, or simply welcome visitors with an attractive branded splash page. More business resources from Mashable: Creepy Classifieds: The Funniest Ads Newspapers Have Ever Printe. What Is Time? One Physicist Hunts for the Ultimate Theory | Wire. SAN DIEGO — One way to get noticed as a scientist is to tackle a really difficult problem. Physicist Sean Carroll has become a bit of a rock star in geek circles by attempting to answer an age-old question no scientist has been able to fully explain: What is time? Here at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, where he gave a presentation on the arrow of time, scientists stopped him in the hallway to tell him what big fans they were of his work.
Carroll sat down with Wired.com on Feb. 19 at AAAS to explain his theories and why Marty McFly’s adventure could never exist in the real world, where time only goes forward and never back. Wired.com: Can you explain your theory of time in layman’s terms? Sean Carroll: I’m trying to understand how time works. And we sort of understand that halfway. So, Boltzmann understood that and he explained how entropy is related to the arrow of time. That is what I’m trying to tackle. Carroll: Right. Carroll: It could. 7 Mind-Blowing Free Android Apps. Mad Libs" Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40% A while ago, I came across a unique registration form built by Jeremy Keith for his audio sharing site, Huffduffer.
Though it asked people the same questions found in typical sign-up forms, the Huffduffer registration form did so in a narrative format. It presented input fields to people as blanks within sentences (Mad Libs-style, if you will). Jeremy built the form to work as you'd expect. You can tab between the "blanks" just the way you tab between standard Web form input fields. After seeing the Huffduffer form in action, I was curious how it would perform against a traditional form. Ron and his team ran some A/B testing online that compared a traditional Web form layout with a narrative "Mad Libs" format. Most of the input fields have stayed the same but the "comments" text area has been replaced by a "personalize this message link" and the phone number set of three input fields has been replaced a single flexible input.
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The complaint claims that Lindy Matsko, assistant principal of Harriton High School, informed the Robbins' son that the School District believed he "was engaged in improper behavior in his home, and cited as evidence a photograph from the Web cam embedded in [his] personal laptop issued by the School District. " Attorneys representing the plaintiffs did not return a call seeking comment. More Insights. Broad New Hacking Attack Detected. Plane Crash Suspect's Online Diatribe - February 18, 2010. FEBRUARY 18--The man suspected of intentionally crashing an airplane into a Texas office building today appears to have posted a lengthy online diatribe attacking the Internal Revenue Service and declaring that, "I know I'm hardly the first one to decide I have had all I can stand.
" The six-page manifesto, which you'll find here, is dated "2/18/10" and is signed "Joe Stack (1956-2010). " Andrew Joseph Stack, 53, has been identified as the man who flew a small plane into an Austin building housing IRS offices. The statement was uploaded to the front page of a web site that was registered in 2003 by a Joe Stack, who listed an address in San Marcos, Texas, which is about 35 miles south of Austin. The online posting is titled "Well Mr. Big Brother IRS man... take my pound of flesh and sleep well. " Alex Melen, whose firm hosts Stack's site, told TSG that Stack last changed his web site this morning at 10:12 AM (Eastern). Safe banking: Expert bank tips to save you money. The Top 10 Places You Can't Go.
FREE Online Rhyming Dictionary. America's FREE Source for Bank and Credit Union Repo Sales. The Pudding Guy. In 1999, UC-Davis civil engineer David Phillips was grocery shopping when he noticed something peculiar. Healthy Choice Foods was offering frequent-flyer miles to customers who bought its products. But a 25-cent pudding would bring 100 miles — the reward was worth more than the product itself.
Recognizing a good thing, Phillips bought 12,150 servings of pudding for $3,140, claiming he was stocking up for Y2K. Then he enlisted the Salvation Army to help him peel off the UPC codes, in exchange for donating the pudding. He mailed his submission to Healthy Choice, and to their credit they awarded him 1.25 million frequent-flyer miles, enough for 31 round trips to Europe, 42 to Hawaii, 21 to Australia, or 50 anywhere in the United States. There’s no downside. (Thanks, Brendan.) The world's only immortal animal | Yahoo! Green.