Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs (The New Rules of Social Media) (Hardcover)

March 31, 2010 · Posted in Internet Marketing · Comment 

Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs (The New Rules of Social Media)

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“If you’ve been looking for a trustworthy primer on getting found online, here’s a great place to start. Buy one for your clueless colleague too.”—Seth Godin, author of Meatball Sundae “If you have more money than brains, you should focus on outbound marketing. If you have more brains than money, you should focus on inbound marketing by reading this book.”—Guy Kawasaki, cofounder of Alltop, and author of Reality Check

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Product Strategy for High Technology Companies (Hardcover)

March 31, 2010 · Posted in Information Technology · Comment 

Product Strategy for High Technology Companies

One of the key determinants of success for today’s high-technology companies is product strategy–and this guide continues to be the only book on product strategy written specifically for the 21st century high-tech industry. More than 250 examples from technological leaders including IBM, Compaq, and Apple–plus a new focus on growth strategies and on Internet businesses–define how high-tech companies can use product strategy and product platform strategy for competitiveness, p (more…)

Symantec Guide to Scary Internet Stuff – Phishing

March 30, 2010 · Posted in Information Security, Information Systems, The Internet · Comment 

Notwithstanding the ad to buy their product in the last part of the video, this is a little nice informative video on phishing. YES people still fall for this stuff.

The first in a series of video’s looking at common Internet threats. This one looks at Phishing and how to prevent it.

PMP Review Notes (Chapter 1) – Characteristics of the Process Groups

March 30, 2010 · Posted in Project Management · Comment 

Characteristics of the Process Groups

-          The progression through the project management process groups exhibits the same characteristics as progression through the project phases

-          Costs are lowest during the initiating processes and few team members are involved

-          Costs and staffing levels increase in the executing process group and decrease as you approach the closing process group Read more

CISSP Exam Note (Telecommunications and Networking Security Domain) – 5 Common LAN Topologies

Topologies – defines the manner in which the network devices are organized to facilitate communication

Bus

  • All transmissions travel full length of the cable and receive by all other stations
  • Single point of failure n the cable
  • If one of the links between any of the computers is broken, the network is down
  • Primarily Ethernet
  • These networks were originally designed to work with more sporadic traffic Read more

Social Media Marketing For Dummies (Paperback)

March 30, 2010 · Posted in The Internet · Comment 

Social Media Marketing For Dummies

Learn how easy it is for your market to get your message Nowadays, if you’re not tweeting, Facebooking, or blogging, what are you doing? Everyone has a Twitter account, a Facebook page, or a blog—even celebrities! With the popularity of social networking comes the need to learn about social media marketing. Social media marketing is a cheaper and highly effective way to spread up-to-the-minute news; an easy, inexpensive way to enlarge your audience, customers, and bus (more…)

Search Engine Optimization: Your Visual Blueprint for Effective Internet Marketing (Paperback)

March 30, 2010 · Posted in Internet Marketing · Comment 

Search Engine Optimization: Your Visual Blueprint for Effective Internet Marketing

Welcome to the only guidebook series that takes a visual approach to professional-level computer topics. Open the book and you?ll discover step-by-step screen shots that demonstrate over 140 key search engine optimization techniques, including analyzing your competition, researching and analyzing keywords, developing your link building skills, and setting up blogs and communities. Succinct explanations will walk you through using Google Analytics, networking with Facebook and My (more…)

How to recognize and protect yourself from work-at-home online scams

There is always the possibility of scams in almost any kind of job, yet, it seems that online jobs are easier to scam these days. If you are vulnerable, you will easily fall for their promises, rewards, and easy hiring procedure, which all turn out to be empty. The presence of these online job scams, unfortunately, makes finding the real jobs rather hard. This is because scammers have defined more sophisticated schemes to make their phony online jobs appear legitimate. And usually, you only find that out come payment time. So how do you avoid such working online scams? How can you tell an online job is genuine or is a mere scam? Read more

PMP Review Notes (Chapter 1) – Project Management Process Groups

March 29, 2010 · Posted in Project Management · Comment 

Project Management Processes

-          Organize and describe the work of the project

-          Per PMBOK Guide: 5 process groups

  • Initiating
  • Planning
  • Execution
  • Monitoring and Controlling
  • Closing

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CISSP Exam Note (Telecommunications and Networking Security Domain) – Data Networking Technologies

LAN Cabling Types

Twisted Pair Cable

  • Relatively slow speed
  • Two insulated wires can be shielded (STP0 or unshielded (UTP)
  • UTP is four-pair medium and comes in several categories
  • UTP can be easily tapped by eavesdroppers than the other cable types
  • Category based on how tightly wound the wires are, the tighter the wind the higher the rating and the higher the resistance to interference
  • Cat 1 UTP – was used for telephone lines, not good for data
  • Cat 2 UTP – up to 4 MBps
  • Cat 3 UTP – Used for 10BaseT networks up to 10 MBps
  • Cat 4 UTP – Used in Token Ring Networks up to 16 MBps
  • Cat 5 – Current UTP standard for new installations up to 100MBps
  • Cat 6 UTP – up to 155MBps
  • Cat 7 UTP – up to 1 GBps

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