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Moving Your Computer or Office? Eliminating the Aggravation

by Jo Golden on July 20, 2010

in Business, Professionals

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If you’re moving your computer workspace, across the country or across the room, things can go wrong. The tips below will go a long way towards eliminating aggravation, lost time, and worst of all—lost data.

1. Back up your data.

2. Lifehacker says: Back up your data. If you need a visual (whether or not you liked Sex in the City) you can watch Carrie lose her mind when she didn’t have a backup on YouTube.

3. Oh yeah, backup your data, maybe with one of these offline backup tools. You can never tell when disaster will strike, so before you make any major change to your computer (including installing new software) it is prudent to have a full backup of your data and (preferably) the system itself. Read the full post →

Tagged as: applications/services, How To, making life easier, security/privacy

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Links to Help with Your Web Content

by Jo Golden on July 16, 2010

in Business

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1. 20 Must-Read Blogs For Freelance Writers - When it comes to writing for the Web, you can learn a lot from other people doing it well—get inspired by their example or search their blogs for specific posts to improve your own writing (a great tactic no matter what kind of content you need to produce—why re-invent the wheel?).

2. 60 Sites To Submit Your Blog & RSS Feeds – Creating great blog content is just the start. You have to get it out there and bring it to people’s attention if you want to reap the most benefits of your hard work.

3. It Isn’t Good Content Unless it’s SEO’d Content - If you want to know more about SEO, this entire series is fantastic—but you can certainly start by exploring the importance of taking SEO into account as you create your content.

Tagged as: Link Friday, web content

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Web Teams? YES!

June 29, 2010
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Branding, creating content, developing information architecture, on-page SEO, designing to communicate a message, user-focused design–the list goes on and eventually leads to user-friendly website/blog development that incorporates social media. Whew. There’s no denying that Web work is getting more complicated and requiring expertise on more and more topics.
Question for small business owners: Do you still [...]

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5 Links on Protecting Your Online Privacy (link friday)

June 11, 2010
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Protecting your privacy starts with you and the choices you make. Privacy online is a much bigger issue—if you want to know more, check out the following links.
1. The Center for Democracy and Technology’s Guide to Online Privacy will teach you the basics and has many useful tips.
2. Cookies are stored in your browser when [...]

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Protect Yourself Online—Think Differently

June 8, 2010
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Once you’re thinking about privacy and the implications of sharing your information online you will (hopefully) engage in appropriate self-censorship. At the same time it’s important to (re)consider your expectations of privacy in a digital world.
Always remember that computers make it easy to collect lots of information about you, even though the [...]

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Privacy. Identity. Exposure. Protecting Yourself on the Web

June 1, 2010
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You are your first line of defense, so if you don’t want people to know something about you, your family, or your habits—be quiet about it already.

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Search Engines Lists & Directories — 7 Lucky Links

May 21, 2010
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Using the right search engine for the job can save you tons of time. Check out these links to learn about specific search engines and what they can do for you.

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Business Research Strategies and Skills

May 18, 2010
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If you’re a consultant, freelancer, or small business owner, at some point you’ll need to do research for your business. You need a strategy, tools to work with the information you find, and the skills to manage the logistics—and that all comes before you can even start making sense of whatever you find.

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