Finding the best time to post to social networks
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- Published on Friday, 18 May 2012 17:09
Managing social media for your business can be a tricky endeavor. Which pictures should you share on Facebook? What industry news should you tweet about on Twitter? What topic should you blog about on Tumblr?
And on top of knowing what to publish on which social network, another big question business owners struggle with is the best time to post. Publishing your content at peak times can help you reach the most people on those networks.
5 free and easy ways to improve your business’s Google ranking
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- Published on Thursday, 17 May 2012 16:03
Even if most small businesses don’t understand search engine optimization (SEO), that doesn’t mean they can’t be helped by it.
For those who don’t know SEO from their CEO, it is in essence a means of improving the ranking of your business in the Google search algorithm. This in turn, can help a business move up in Google’s search listing.
6 things you need to know about LinkedIn recommendations
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- Published on Wednesday, 16 May 2012 18:38
Did you know two new members join LinkedIn every second? As a result, more people are using it for intelligence, recruitment, and networking. But how does an individual best leverage this vibrant network?
I suggest to people that they gather a few great recommendations to display on their LinkedIn profile. Great recommendations can be the difference between getting a position or project offer over someone else.
10 new HTML5 tags you need to know about
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- Published on Monday, 14 May 2012 17:41
HTML5 offers new tags and attributes that provide more power, efficiency, and flexibility for your Web development. Here are 10 tags you’ll want to check out.
HTML5 brings a host of new elements and attributes to allow developers to make their documents more easily understood by other systems (especially search engines!), display data more uniquely, and take on some of the load that has required complex JavaScript or browser plug-ins like Flash and Silverlight to handle.
Five easy ways to speed up your website
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- Published on Friday, 11 May 2012 19:16
Some say patience is a virtue, but that adage goes out the window when it comes to surfing the web.
Your website is often a customer's first connection to your business. If your site loads and moves at a glacial pace, you may be losing droves of business and not even know it. On top of that, search engines are beginning to rank results based on how fast sites load. A slow site can sink in search results, which means less visibility for your business.
3 ways to create more engaging 404 pages
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- Published on Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:32
Your website's 404 page is a valuable piece of real estate. So why waste this golden opportunity to redirect visitors to your best content with a simple "Page not found" message?
Essentially, a 404 page exists on every website with the sole purpose of telling visitors that the content they seek can't be found. This situation can occur for a number of reasons. The visitor may have typed in a URL address incorrectly or could be looking for a page you've moved or deleted.
Ten commandments for effective security training
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- Published on Monday, 07 May 2012 17:49
Information security people think that simply making users aware of security issues will make them change their behavior. But security pros are learning the hard way that awareness rarely equals change.
One fundamental problem is that most awareness programs are created and run by security professionals, people who were not hired or trained to be educators.
Microsoft's Casablanca ties C++ to the cloud
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- Published on Thursday, 03 May 2012 16:29
Microsoft with its "Casablanca" project is making accommodations for C++ developers who want to take advantage of cloud computing.
Now in an incubation stage and under the jurisdiction of Microsoft DevLabs, Casablanca is intended to support cloud-based client-server communication in native code using a modern asynchronous C++ API design. It is being billed as an SDK for C++.
Google adds a ‘Share’ button for Google+
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- Published on Wednesday, 25 April 2012 17:29
Lost amid the hysteria over Google‘s powerful new Drive cloud-storage service was another product introduced by the Mountain View tech giant on Tuesday — a Google+ “Share” button.
The new button enables website operators to more easily encourage visitors to spread content among connections on Google’s social network. It’s the latest step in integrating the social network with content across the web.
Un plan pour le Très Haut Débit en Rhône-Alpes : quelle ambition avec quels financements?
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- Published on Wednesday, 25 April 2012 12:43
La région Rhône-Alpes a un vaste projet de déploiement de fibre optique. Mais l'ambition de ce plan, liée au montant et au rythme des investissement publics et privés, pour un coût total de 3 milliards d'euros, fait débat entre les élus de la majorité et aussi avec la société civile.
Rhône-Alpes, seconde région de France
Rhône-Alpes est la deuxième région de France métropolitaine, à la fois par sa population de plus de 6 millions d'habitants, sa superficie de 44.000 km2 et son économie, qui la classe au 6ème rang en Europe.
