Working From My Mobile Office is Easy Fun & Low Maintenance
I have been trying to set up a mobile office for about a year & finally was able to start working from my mobile office. The need came from my frequent travel schedules & the urgency to keep publishing more than I did before.
I will try out this arrangement for the next 6 months & create an efficient system to run from anywhere in the world. It will specially come in handy when I go on long photo trips.
Data Driven Approach to Competitive Business Analysis – Statistics & Data Mash Up
The Mozenda Web Agent Builder 3.0 software is one of the products of the products from Mozenda, that allows business analysts to gather, compile & represent useful information available in house or on the internet.
This Web Agent Builder 3.0 is a digital content manager & can grab precise parts of website content and organize it into usable formats. So as long as the information is available on the internet, in a visible format, they can be captured & stored into your own database for use.
5 Essential Free Small Business Home Office Tools Services & Products
Small Business & Home Office could always use the free tools free services & free stationery available on the internet.
Although these are free, the quality is extremely good & all of these are very essential for your home office & small business. Many people often spend hundreds of dollars to buy them.
You could explore these free essential tools for your home business & try many of them for free for life. They would save you upfront buying cost & since most of them provide highly discounted products to their customers throughout the year, you will keep saving.
Importance of Google Page Rank – 10 Mistakes that Bring Page Rank Down
In my earlier posts on building up Google’s Page Rank for your blog or website, including a Layman’s Explanation on How Google Page Rank Drives Traffic, I have mentioned how important your web page rank is.
Google Browser Toolbar now has a built in tool to show the rank of a page the moment you browse it.
However, Google also experiments with its own logical programs on page ranks. So it should not surprise you if your website or blog page rank changes over night.
Small Business Brands – Promoting Brands with Free Gravatars
A Gravatar , which became very popular with the Web 2.0 technology & the growth of the social networking websites , is a personal symbol, much like a personal ID.
It can be used very effectively to build your personal ID on the internet as well as to build your brand’s awareness.
By definition, a gravatar is the short form of a g lobally r ecognized avatar & is an avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites.
You can sign up for a Free Gravatar with your email address. And once created, the Gravatar becomes the pictorial representation of you.
Free Wordpress Plugin to Send SMS Text Messages from Blogs
SMS Text Message is a plugin for WordPress to allow blog owners update their readers via SMS. Although I would not call it an Essential Plugin , the free WordPress Plugin to send SMS adds a nice trendy feature to the blogs.
With so many people depending on their PDAs & phones to socialize on the internet & even to browse, this plugin could help bloggers send out updates or important messages to readers.
The SMS Wordpress plugin is created by Michael Torbert.
WordPress is still the Best Blogging Software
From all the professional blogging softwares available, WordPress is still the best. It is best for someone who is starting off new, it is best for someone moving from Google Blogger and it is also the best blogging software for anyone who wants to run their own blog without having to pay.
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Though Six Apart, the company that runs Live Journal & VOX Movable Type have formulated a commercial model to charge for almost the same features, and even though the Moveable Type software is free, running it is not as easy as Word Press.
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Free Software Directory – Free Softwares from GNU
I am a big proponent of the GNU. One of the lesser known internet directories run by the GNU organization is the Free Software Directory. We all have downloaded trial version, or limited capability free software. The only difference and the biggest differentiator with GNU listed free softwares are that they are truly FREE. There are no small prints which will trail you to any agony!
These softwares are written by creative people and distributed under the GNU licensing, which is really very simple. You can download, distribute, contribute to the software and thus keep is free. Unlike in a lot of situations that I have faced before, where in spite of being called Free, softwares would either have limited abilities or would have some spyware or adware attached to it.
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Rolling out your blog – deploying your new communication tool
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Movable Type – Join the MT Community.
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More and more business organization, corporate executives, entrepreneurs and marketers are rolling out blogs rather than depending on the traditional website model. So what are the advantages of blogs to business houses, executives and marketers?
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TypePad Blogs – Get a 14 Day Free Trial!
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Blogs are extremely easy to use & deploy. Especially for entrepreneurs who may not be able to afford a costly technical people right from day one.
