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What Are Social Patterns?
8March 2010 |
we have watched the proliferation of Internet technology spread These electronic connections and social tools are changing the way we interact with one another. We believe that these tools can be designed and simplified to help normal peopleexpand their online experiences with others. These social patterns of behavior and theinterfaces to support them have emerged and continue to evolve as we find better ways to bring people together. Social patterns are the components and pieces of interactivity that are the building blocks of social experiences. They are the best practices and principles we have seen emerge from hundreds of sites and applications with social features or focus. They are the emergent interaction patterns that have become the standard way for users to interact with their content and with the people who matter most to them. This article was posted by RANGIKA PERERA |
Widgets for web 2.0
1March 2010 |
Widgets are stand alone program can be embedded into third party web pages to execute within the HTML base web pages without requiring different compilations. It is a chunk of code could run on the web page to offer a service, web Widgets has described using gadget, badge, module & snippet. & so on. All these technologies have been introduced due to an evolving trend in web 2. Web Widgets are implemented using web technologies including HTML, java scripts, CSS & flash. Most of Widgets have developed using java libraries such as jQuer & Ajax which indeed makes the web page dynamic and graphically rich. Google has released many gadgets lately in 2007, for example calculators, colanders, currency converters, fun games and many more.., these are free apps anyone can fix on to their web page as a service, as well as yahoo weather checker is one of apps freely anyone could embed in to a web page. One important factor with Widgets is that the host does not control the content. The host does however control the placement of the Widget. The content would derive from another host. Therefore these apps are mostly in place to improve the looks and to increase feature of dynamical contents. This article was posted by RANGIKA PERERA |
What is Cloud Computing?
26February 2010 |
What’s the cloud? “Cloud” is a metaphor for the Internet. It’s an abstraction of how networks of computers are connected. Till recent pass most of the organization connect their resources using LAN & WAN, may be to interconnect their computers in order to use their application software within the company network. In fact with the evolving change in web 2 companies release software’s as a service where as any company that uses the application can get it as a service, Software-as-a-service, or SaaS, is an application that businesses access and use via the Internet. Software-as-a-Service and the cloud have changed the landscape for businesses worldwide, from small businesses to the enterprise. No longer do you need to purchase expensive hardware and software for many business functions. If you have an internet connection, you can move much of your business computing to the cloud.
In 2006 Google also take initiative of developing Cloud applications, software pieces released as services. Speaking in which salesforce.com Founded in 1999, salesforce.com is currently the leading cloud CRM application, with over 51,800 customers and over 1.1 million subscribers. Amazen.com was developed and released as a web services in 2002. Cloud Economics One of the significant fact of cloud computing is that Software-as-a-Service in the cloud delivers substantial cost savings compared to purchasing and maintaining software in-house. Cost analysis been evaluated on certain factors. For instance; that companies can achieve significant cost savings by migrating from on-premise email to Google Apps. Google Apps is an entire suite of business applications residing in the cloud: email, calendaring, documents, spreadsheets, presentations and collaboration. Cloud Migration Process It is challenging to determine which computing infrastructure will deliver the greatest benefits by moving to the cloud. The best starting point depends upon your current computing situation and immediate business needs; to achieve the highest short-term ROI, select the business area with upcoming hardware or software capital requirements.
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Google Analytics
25February 2010 |
Google Analytics is a full comprehensive web-analytical service pack offered free of charge to all the users, the compelling features and benefits such as keyword comparison, custom dashboards and AdWords integration for everyone from senior executives and advertising and marketing professionals to site owners and content developers. You may already deployed some of other third party packages or techniques to track the traffic volume which is good you should try mix of all but google analytics is most often choice of all for starters. In fact, since it’s easy on your wallet because it is freely. It is used on websites from static to dynamic. There are even free Wordpress Analytics Plugins, easy to set up. You could learn more about page views, user behavior tracking, and average time on site, and importance of understanding bounce rates, unique visitors, referrer traffic and optimizing landing pages here. I recommend you to go through the video tutorials
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Outsourcing for Profit
18February 2010 |
What is outsourcing? Outsourcing is a process of subcontracting your organizational function to a third part who are specialized at the particular domain. There has been lot of discussions about off show out sourcing business processes. In the 20th century process of outsourcing got so influence to the IT sectors comparatively. Therefore Outsourcing is a fundamental business process and it is leading to specialization. Why outsourcing? You do not have the skills or experience to do a specific task, and you do not want your existing client to talk to a competitor. You do not have an optimized process framework to do a particular task or project. The same can be done by an outsourcing partner more efficiently and effectively. You want to optimize your profits by reducing your costs. You want to bring agility to your dynamic business by converting fixed costs into variable costs. You want your team to focus on your core strengths and future strategy, while outsource tasks which are no longer key differentiators in your industry. You want to diversify as your business evolves, but also keep your existing business and revenue stream intact. What factors to consider before you outsource. Most importantly identify the needs of outsourcing • What is your business strategy? The three levels of outsourcing You can outsource your business processes in three different ways. 1.Outsourcing a task When it is essential to have direct control of the project, you may outsource some or all the tasks, while managing the project in-house. Here you may be looking to reduce the cost or bring in special capabilities to effectively and efficiently execute the project. Example: • Design to XHTML conversion 2.Outsourcing a project When you have a well defined project scope and an agreed upon process and deliverables, you may outsource the end-to-end project delivery. Here, your outsourcing partner provides the project management services where you bring in consulting and customer relationship management capabilities. Example: • Web site design 3.Outsourcing a process You can also outsource an entire process, i.e. a set of related tasks from every project. This enables a company to let go off an entire non-strategic activity. It is important to decide the task, project or process you wish to outsource based on the above mentioned pointers. This article was posted by RANGIKA PERERA |
WordCamp Chicago 2010
12February 2010 |
What is it about? WordCamp is an annual conference of skills training for most leading Wordpress user, Developers, designers and anyone else who is interested in learning all about Wordpress. WordCamp chicargo 2010 will be held in June participation of most experts in wordpress for 2 days. For whom? This event will be a fun, relaxing and educational event for everyone who attends, because it has been scheduled for two different tacks of panel. Participant might belong to either user track or developer track. It is your decision to make which track you will most likely spend the most of your time at WordCamp Chicago. User Track: Presentation panel will discus the information useful for the users of the Wordpress, in fact how to extend the performance and fine tune the CMS platform. And how to do such up grates in order to keep the product up to date. Creating simple plug-in, themes & widgets.
Developer Track: This track is intended for advance level web professionals who are involve with developments of Wordpress Plug-ins, API’s, security, core themes, jQuery, AJAX & many more. WordCamp Schedule Saturday, June 05, 2010 at 8:00 AM – to – Sunday, June 06, 2010 at 6:00 PM (CT) Contact Infomation Congress Plaza This article was posted by RANGIKA PERERA |
CMS EXPO 2010 CONFERENCE
11February 2010 |
Here is an opportunity to hear all the masteries of CMS’s; it is the time for the 4th gathering of all CMS experts organized by CMS EXPO , nearly 50 CMS experts are participating at this conference. What is it about? CMS Expo is a 3 day conference professionally organized by the CMS association. Having said that the CMS Expo is a learning conference user at any level of knowledge relative to CMS can be participated. It is full 3 day skills training for most leading CMS such as Jooml, Word press, Drupal & so on. For whom? This conference is not only for the people who involve with web solutions; developers, Designers, architects web masters, administrative personnel, and business people & so on, but also the Government and the non-profit world. Web pros that are deal with creativity, security, developing techniques & especially business aspects and how the CMS system will improve those will be discussed Purpose of CMS Expo This conference will be incorporated with 80 live sessions over 50 global CMS experts to answer questions and each session will be covering all most all the aspect of their products. It is really good opportunity for the people who use CMS to optimize the performance & to fine tune the current systems in order to enhance the business objectives. Another highlighted moment will be that discussion of evaluating a right CMS. CMS Expo Schedule 2010 CMS Expo Learning & Business Conference Schedule for May 3rd, 4th & 5th, 2010. CMS Expo Fee 2010 CMS Expo Conference Schedule for 3 days, For a day a fee will be $ 279 For three days fee will be $ 779 Contact Infomation
Phone: +1(815)455-2900 or Mailing Address: CMS Association Inc P.O. Box 2067 Crystal Lake, IL 60039-2067 The CMS Expo Learning & Business Conference is produced, owned and operated by the CMS Association Inc. Crystal Lake, Illinois. This article was posted by RANGIKA PERERA |
An effective SEO campaign
8February 2010 |
It is that people most of the time online marketers miss the great chance of SEM or do not even know what Search Engine Marketing entails. A qualified SEM expert knows how important search engine marketing really is and why it’s so relevant in the battle of ranking high in search engines. It’s very important that they have a good search engine marketing strategy going on. To provide the specifics of what SEM is about and why it’s so relevant, this paper provides everything required for effective search engine marketing. The Definition of Search Engine Marketing What are the differences of SEO and SEM?, In simple terms, SEO concentrates primarily on the technical side of the search engines process, whereas SEM addresses the advertising side of the search engine process. SEM primarily focuses on reaching the target audience, attaining conversion rates, and getting a return on investment. Of course, SEM definitely includes various aspects of search engine optimization, but search engine marketing goes much further and includes things such as submitting sites to search engines and directories, using in bound links, choosing the right key words and phrases, pay per click, banner ads and other marketing programs that are offered by search engines. “Pay per click,” it is a form of advertising on the Internet where the person or company advertising pays only when their ad is clicked. Banner ads are a type of online advertising that is embedded into a web page and calculated to attract traffic through a link to the website of the advertiser. How Search Engines Work To understand the process of how a search engine crawls, think of a search engine as though it were a robot crawling around the Internet and finding everything it can about anything relative to the web. Plainly stated, to be found on the web, it’s critically important that a website has been spidered and indexed by search engines. For your web site to be indexed, a search engine uses these so called spiders, when your site has been optimized, key words and phrases are effective, and you have quality inbound links, your site will be found high on the search engines. However, if any of these components are missed, your site will probably not be found Submitting and Indexing a Web Site Getting your site indexed means making sure that your site has been optimized. All search engines have their own process for submitting and indexing a site. To assure that a web page is accepted and becomes popular, some of the most relevant aspects of ranking high in search engines requires good website content that is easy to read and has a good mix of significant key words and phrases. Onsite Optimization and Offsite Optimization If you asked a variety of SEM experts, which is better, Onsite or Offsite Optimization, you would probably get a variety of answers. Actually, each serves a very important role and neither should be considered more important than the other. The trick is to combine both on site and off site optimization to get the best search engine results This article was posted by RANGIKA PERERA |
Semantic Web
19January 2010 |
This is one of the most controversial topics in today’s World Wide Web and it has been described in so many different aspects, due to an evolving trend in World Wide Web and the way in which it has used. Semantic web is a common plat form for the community. Use the Information and services to cater the public to satisfy their need. This article was posted by RANGIKA PERERA |
Why maintain W3C standards
8January 2010 |
That being said, that standards are for anyone and for everyone to follow but most of the time people seem to have not a much of consideration in the context of standardization. W3C is one of the standards been introduced in 1994 to world of web, referred to as World Wide Web Consortium. Standardization of web made much easier to assess to all web user. W3C is an international community that develops and introduces standards to ensure the long term growth of World Wide Web. Most importantly it is giving the recommendation to development of web specification that describes standards for HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, XSL, DOM & so on. W3C is the governing body of the World Wide Web designers, therefore designers or developers first of all must be aware of these standards for keep their projects up to date. Here are some of the benefits of W3C standards. Easy of maintenance. One of the great advantages is that a website provider would have maintaining a web standard is to save time and cost of re—cording it, because once the site is been developed according to W3C standards it would be compatible for any platform. More User accessibility. Once the web site is up to the standard of W3C it will be compliance with so many plat forms such as Mobil users there are lot of users access Internet using mobile devices and PDA’s, these web sites will compatible with any of those devices. More browser compatibility. Browsers are developed to understand certain standards; therefore any recommended site will be understood by most of the web browsers. Reduce bandwidth. Most recommended web sites striped away of unnecessary coding which make site smaller so it want take a full bandwidth for total access. A competitive advantage. By having well design will bring all define advantages which ultimately have a significant advantage over your competitor. For more information on high standard W3C recommended web application contact Wakensys at 1.773.552.1355 This article was posted by RANGIKA PERERA |