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Monthly Archives: June 2009
Major Hosting Company Has Outage
As a small boutique hosting provider, one of our primary concerns is maintaining up-time and availability for web sites, email and other on-line applications to our clients. It was big news in the industry when one of the largest hosting providers, Rackspace, had a complete outage for more than an hour.
The company used twitter to keep their clients updated on the status of their network, as even their main website was down. The twitter stream had some interesting comments from several celebrities they host, including Justin Timberlake and Michelle Malkin.
But it just goes to show, in the end, the Internet and your web site is still dependent on technology, equipment, and infrastructure, and human error, and a failiar at any link in the chain has the ability to effect the availability of your web site and most probably will.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/29/yes-rackspace-is-down-and-so-are-many-of-your-favorite-sites/
Blogged with the Flock Browser
Job Seekers Find New Rules Of Recruitment: NPR
It seems like the line between social networking and business is becoming even more blurred, especially in these tough times and high unemployment. But the trend is clear: Social Networking is becoming more important in the hiring process if not a requirement to even being considered.
Blogs and Facebook pages have gone from mere kids’ play to essential
for communicating with employers online. Someone applying for a job in
marketing, for example, will do much better in an interview if he or
she already commands an audience through a blog. People in sales look
better if they can prove they have a broad network of contacts in their
field.These new rules especially hold true in the high-tech
fields, where being up to the minute is considered essential. But even
other industries are following suit.
Job Seeker Faux PasHiring managers say they stay clear of candidates who make these digital job-seeking mistakes:
- Not having an updated profile, with recommendations, on sites like LinkedIn or similar sites relating to your line of work.
- Having a husband-and-wife e-mail address.
- Having an AOL address.
- Some executives say those are very outdated.
- Not doing extensive research about the company, its culture and the position you’re applying for.
- Not filing your resume digitally, even if you bring paper backups.
- “Cold” e-mailing executives with whom you’ve never made a prior connection, either online or in person.
- Asking an executive you’re hoping will hire you to be your “friend” on Facebook
Job Seekers Find New Rules Of Recruitment : NPR
Blogged with the Flock Browser
The Optimistic Marketer’s Guide to Recession Success
I ran across an interesting list of five suggestions of what you can do to actually grow and prosper during the current recession. It’s always nice to run across some positive thinkers among all the talk of doom and gloom. Someone tweeted this to me and I thought I’d share it with you.
- Re-evaluate the value you bring to your customer.
Simple ask yourself “What business am I in? List all of the potential answers then match it up with what your consumers need. Boil that down till you have a view of your business that is positioned for growth. Dunking Donut’s is in the “fuel that gets me though my day” business. The New York Times is in the “Information I need to know” business (there will always be a demand for “news” – it’s the “paper” part that is killing them). United Airlines is in the “get me there” business. New perspectives will open new possibilities.
15 Social Media Maxims for Marketers
The most often asked questions from clients these days seem to be related in some way to social networking–from as basic as what is it to how can it help my business. I’ve excerpted an article that addresses the most common questions my clients have, and one question that I have wrestled with since starting to use social networking in my business, which is how much of ‘me’ should be exposed to my clients?
It started to seem that the ‘imaginary line’ I had been taught to keep between business and personal relationships was becoming blurred, and I wasn’t sure I was comfortable with that happening.
Social media has actually overtaken pornography as the number one online activity, and the fastest growing segment on Facebook is females age 55 to 65 that are trying to better connect with friends and family.
The Social Media market is moving almost too quickly to keep up with; but here are some tips that may help:
- Successful marketers will be more like Dale Carnegie and less like David Ogilvy; listen first, sell second.
- Consumers are looking to peers for recommendations on products, services, health issues, and more via social media. Only companies that produce products and services of great value will be part of these conversations; mediocrity will quickly be eliminated.
- Social media’s ability to quickly disseminate information among friends and peers helps eliminate different people performing the same tasks (multiple individual redundancies), whether it’s researching the best vacation spot or smart phone. This results in a more efficient society.