10 Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tips To Get You Started

6. January 2012 by admin.

1.       Monitor your search standings.

2.       Be conscious of placing appropriate keywords throughout every aspect of your site: your titles, content, URLs, and image names.

3.       Integrate internal links into your site (link back to yourself) — it is an easy way to boost traffic to individual pages.

4.       Add a site map — a page listing and linking to all the other major pages on your site — makes it easier for spiders to search your site.

5.       Make your URLs more search-engine-friendly by naming them with clear keywords.

6.       Flash and AJAX all share a common problem – you can’t link to a single page… Don’t use Frames at all and use Flash and AJAX sparingly for best SEO results.”

7.       Spiders can only search text, not text in your images — which is why you need to make the words associated with your images as descriptive as possible.

8.       Content needs to be fresh — updating regularly and often is crucial for increasing traffic.

9.       Distribute links to fresh content on your site across appropriate social networking platforms.

10.   Direct more traffic to your site by developing relationships with other sites.

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How to Access the Free Monthly AIRS Sourcing Report

29. December 2011 by admin.

To get your report sent directly to your email address, you will need to register with AIRS (reports are free) at: http://www.airsdirectory.com/mc//training_news_newsletters.guid

The AIRS Sourcing Report offers free monthly tips, tricks and groundbreaking technologies to help you find the best talent online.

If you want to first evaluate the content of these free sourcing reports, go to: www.google.com

and put in this search string:

site:airsdirectory.com “AIRS Sourcing Report”|”Sourcing Report” Current|recruter|guide|solution|”press release”|training inurl:*2011*

From these results, you can quickly view, print out, or save the AIRS Sourcing Reports from Sep - Dec 2011, and other earlier ones as well.

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Making Simple & Easy Choices to Creating a Secure Password

23. September 2011 by admin.

There is no such thing as a perfect password. A committed hacker can crack any password, given enough time and the right “dictionary” or “brute force” tools. But just like breaking into a car, if the protection is strong enough, the hacker will become discouraged and pursue an easier target.

 

1. Start With a Base Word Phrase.

 

A good password starts with a base word phrase. Choose a memorable catchphrase, quotation, or easy-to-remember saying, and take the first letter from each word. Choose a phrase that is memorable to you.

 

Examples of some base word phrases:

 

    * Can’t See the Forest Through the Trees:  cstfttt

    * Put Up or Shut Up:  puosu

    * If the Shoe Fits, Wear It:  itsfwi

    * You Can Lead a Horse to Water:  yclahtw

    * The Last Mile Is Always Uphill: tlmiau

    * I Think, Therefore I Am:  ittia

    * Oh Say Can You See:  oscys

    * My Dog Quinnie Loves Mystery Suprises: mdqlms

 

Suggestion: try this list of acronym phrases you could use for inspiration

http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/internetglossary/a/glossary-of-internet-jargon-and-abbreviations.htm

 

Suggestion: try this list of famous quotations and catchphrases

http://forum.digital-digest.com/f41/famous-cliches-quotes-1-liners-etc-86123.html

 

2. Lengthen the Phrase

 

Passwords start to become strong at 6 characters long. While a long password can be annoying to type, a long password really helps to slow down brute force hacker attacks.

 

Tip: lengthen your password by adding the website name or computer software name to the base phrase. For example:

 

    * cstftttGmail

    * puosuVista

    * itsfwiEpinions

    * yclahtwWin7

    * tlmiauMac

    * ittiaAboutdotcom

    * oscysPayPal

    * mdqlmsEbay

 

Tech tip: passwords that are 15 characters and more are extremely strong, because Microsoft Windows will not store scrambled passwords in hidden files once they are 15 characters or longer.

 

3. Scramble the Phrase

 

Scrambling does not necessarily mean rearranging the letters. Rather, scrambling your password can effectively be achieved by swapping one or more of the password letters with a non-alphabetic character, and then purposely including uppercase and lowercase letters within the password. Scrambling creatively uses the shift key, punctuation marks, the @ or % symbols, and even semi-colons and periods. Using numbers as substitutes for letters is another strong scrambling technique.

 

Examples of scrambling:

 

    * CstftttGm@il

    * Puo5uVista

    * 1tsfwiEpinions

    * Ycl@htwWin7

    * 7lmiauMac

    * ittiaAboutdotcom

    * o5cysPayPal

    * mdqlm?!Ebay

 

4. Lastly: Rotate/Change Your Password Regularly

 

At work, your network people will require you to change your password every several days. At home, you should rotate your passwords as a matter of good computer hygiene. If you are using different passwords for different websites, rotate portions of your passwords every few weeks. Note that rotating parts of the password, not the entire passwords, will help deter hackers from stealing your phrases. If you can memorize three or more passwords at the same time, then you are in good shape to resist brute force hacker attacks.

 

Examples:

 

    * mdqlm?!Gmail

    * CstftttVista

    * Puo5uEpinions

    * 1tsfwiWin7

    * Ycl@htwMac

    * 7lmiauAboutdotcom

    * ittiaPayPal

    * o5cysEBay

 

5. Advanced Password Tips

 

There are several other resources for building strong passwords.

 

    * See more samples of strong passwords here.

http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/lockdownyourpc/a/examples_of_good_passwords.htm

 

    * See other personal password suggestions.

http://netforbeginners.about.com/u/ua/lockdownyourpc/user_suggestions_creating_strong_passwords.htm

 

    * A FREE online password generator.

http://javascript.about.com/library/blpasswd.htm

 

    * There are multiple drag-and-drop software tools that help you bypass hacker keylogger software.

 

Free tools like:

 

KeyWallet Password Manager

http://www.keywallet.com/kw_download.php?id=4

 

KeePass - a free open source password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way.

http://keepass.info/download.html

 

Roboform

http://www.roboform.com/dist/RoboForm-Setup.exe

 

work well because you can avoiding typing your passwords entirely, and just let your mouse do the data entry.

 

    * You can also employ a digital vault like Password Safe. This kind of software creates personal “lockers” to keep all your passwords locked under a master password.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/passwordsafe/3.26/pwsafe-3.26.exe/download

 

    * Or try phrasing tips for password generation.

http://antivirus.about.com/od/securitytips/a/passwords.htm

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Pros and Cons of a Virtual Career Fair

29. July 2011 by admin.

Cons:

 

Distractions. Virtual job fair recruiting booths are staffed from the comfort of a hiring manager’s computer. That also means the possibility that recruiters or hiring managers may simply forget to sign in during the ‘live’ hours of an online job fair. To overcome this limitation, virtual job fair organizers need to obtain the buy-in of hiring managers and recruiters including blocking short spells of time on their calendars.

 

Overly Objective. The virtual career fair misses the combination of eye-contact and other body language that allow a job candidate to make a good first impression, or a recruiter to obtain first impressions. This is the biggest limitation of a virtual career fair - the absence of face-to-face contact, the absence of softer aspects that go into forming first impressions about a job candidate or a hiring organization’s culture. To counter this objection, one must remember that the virtual career fair is designed primarily to serve as a powerful pre-screening mechanism rather than an interview tool. Recruiters who may have at their disposal tools such as web-cams to bridge the distance, are still hesitant to use them in a virtual career fair. That is because of the gray area of repercussions relating to matters of equal employment opportunity, should a candidate not make the first cut after a virtual web-cam session. A virtual job fair is for recruiters to make instant contact with the best job candidates, no matter where they are physically located. Often, job candidates might be busy at work or located in faraway places. The virtual job fair wraps itself around their schedule, allowing them to log in and directly talk to hiring managers from the privacy of their computers for the initial screening.

 

Inertia about New Technologies. Recruiters and hiring managers may have an apprehension about learning to use a new tool for recruiting, no matter how simple it may be to use. This is a normal human reaction to any form of change. Look for technology that allows recruiting booth owners to add and manage their own content. A highly responsive technical support team hand-holds even the novice user. With repeated use of the platform, this issue is easily overcome.

 

Pros:

 

Incredibly Convenient. The single biggest advantage of virtual job fairs in the minds of recruiters as well as job candidates and organizers that we have heard over and over again is that it is ‘extremely convenient’. A virtual booth can be set up typically within an hour. It may take some time to plan out the content in the virtual recruiting booth. However, after that it is simply point-click actions, requiring no special software downloads and no special knowledge of software programming.

 

No Travel. When job candidates from the military plan their return to civilian duty they can use a virtual job fair platform to connect live with recruiters even before they return home. Overseas job candidates, many from the U.S. Military, can now apply from various remote locations. Only a virtual job fair makes this possible.

 

Quick Turnaround Time. Change the job listings in your virtual booth with a couple of clicks, then instantly publish and preview your virtual recruiting booth. Now you are ready for your next virtual job fair. Only in a virtual job fair is such a quick turnaround time possible. Market it and promote it in any part of the world you desire using the power of social media and the Internet. With a virtual career fair, rinse-and-repeat is probably easier than doing laundry in a modern washing machine.

 

Virtual job fairs are definitely worth a try, and you might even be able to weave it into your regular recruiting program without straining your budget too much, because they are highly cost-effective.

 

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Some Virtual Recruiting Providers

Unisfair
UBM Studios
CareerArc Group (TweetMyJobs was acquired by them)
iTradeFair (see there YouTube Infomercial)

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Top 10 Tool - CraigsPal Free©

13. April 2011 by admin.

CraigsPal Free© (Craigslist Reader Pro) is composed simply of the search screen from the CraigsPal© member software, with NO search limitations. It is free to use, and gives you tremendous power to search and browse Craigslist. It also gives you an idea how the search section of the CraigsPal© organizer software works.
Download free version at: http://craigspal.com/Download-CraigsPal

Features:

- Personally selected search parameters
- Custom multi-city, multi-state, multi-country - Craigslist Nationwide Search
- Advanced keyword interface(positive/negative keywords, OR, AND, phrase, group)
- Craigslist preview browser screen
- Browsing, filtering, flagging with keybord shortcuts
- Sort results by price, date, location
- Unwanted ads/spam flagging feature

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Top 10 Tool - Boolean Bar Toolbar

16. November 2010 by admin.

The Boolean Bar Toolbar is compatible with the following Internet browsers:

- Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 6 and above on Windows Vista, XP, and 2000 operating systems
- Mozilla Firefox versions 1 and above, including beta versions, on Windows (Vista, XP, and 2000), Mac, and Linux operating systems.

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Examples of the some of the many search algorithms found on this toolbar:

site:360.yahoo.com keyword skill (inurl:profile OR intitle:profile)

site:weblogs.com keyword location

site:weblogger.com keyword location

site:typepad.com skill skill location (”about me” OR profile)

site:technorati.com keyword keyword location

site:blogs.msdn.com location skill skill keyword

site:wordpress.com skill “job title” location -how -write

site:livejournal.com “job title” location profile

site:xanga.com keyword skill profile -how

KEYWORD (intitle:contact OR inurl:contact OR intitle:contactus OR inurl:contactus OR intitle:company OR inurl:company OR email OR phone) -inurl:product -inurl:scholar -inurl:books -site:edu

KEYWORD site:linkedin.com intitle:”company profile”

KEYWORD (intitle:”board of directors” OR intitle:”board members” OR inurl:investors OR intitle:investors OR intitle:”share holders” OR inurl:”share holders” OR founder OR CEO OR “chief executive officer”)

KEYWORD (site:linkedin.com OR site:hoovers.com OR site:jigsaw.com OR site:zoominfo.com) -(-inurl:find OR -intitle:”linkedin directory” -inurl:dir)

KEYWORD site:spoke.com OR site:amazon.com OR site:jobster.com

KEYWORD (intitle:about OR inurl:about OR intitle:aboutus OR inurl:aboutus OR intitle:profile OR inurl:profile)

KEYWORD site:myspace.com OR site:facebook.com OR site:twitter.com

KEYWORD (site:digg.com OR site:ryze.com OR site:hi5.com OR site:plaxo.com OR site:friendster.com OR

site:wink.com OR site:xing.com)

site:www.naymz.com inurl:search (”keywords” OR “keywords”) “title1″ OR “title2″ “United States”

site:zoominfo.com intitle:”business people” keyword skill location

site:pipl.com “job title” keyword location (inurl:people OR intitle:profile) -jobs

mailto=*=merck.com OR email=*=@merck.com senior.auditor (atlanta OR georgia OR ga)

mailto: “@merck.com” (philadelphia | wayne) Vice OR VP 212

“email * * merck.com”

(keyword 1 OR keyword 2) (inurl:list | inurl:~members | inurl:directory | intitle:list |

(”DNA sequencing” OR PCR OR metabolic) (inurl:list | inurl:~members | inurl:directory | intitle:list | intitle:~members | intitle:~directory | inurl:staff | inurl:association | inurl:board | inurl:committee | intitle:association | intitle:board | intitle:committee | intitle:staff) (email | contact) ext:xls

site:twitter.com intitle:on “San Diego” “software engineer” java -jobs

use search.twitter.com - engineer j2ee near:”San Diego” within:100mi

site:twitter.com intitle:”on twitter” “bio * * “software engineer” ”

site:craigslist.org inurl:location inurl:res “job title” (”keywords” | “keywords” | “keywords”) (inurl:contact | intitle:contact | intext:contact | email | phone)

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Search Tools to Maximize Your Twitter Presence

9. August 2010 by admin.

oneforty gives you access to the very best tools that make Twitter valuable. This is your chance to find, rate, collect and share the best tools for you, and to tell the world what you’re accomplishing with Twitter. Below is a sample listing of search tools that can maximize your Twitter presence.

Addictomatic - Inhale the Web. Meta and social real time search engine that includes results from twitter, blogs, news, flickr, youtube and more. Great read more…way to track your brand, ego surf, or create a buzz dashboard with one click.
BackType - real-time search engine for news and opinions. It lets you see what people are saying about topics that interest you.
Cascaad - interest-centered social hub and networking service that helps you discover and join relevant conversations on the topics read more…that you care about. Cascaad filters your social streams based on your personal interests and recommends new content that you might like. Cascaad also organizes conversations in topics page, so that you can easily track the relevant discussions on your favorite topics and find people with similar passions. The service is accessible via our Web site and iPhone app, as well as through APIs available to third-party developer.
ChirpCity - web-based Twitter app for looking at tweets that related to a specific city. On the front page, you see a big list of US and read more…Canadian cities. If you click on a city, it shows you a list of tweets about that city, a list of tweets from that city, and at the top of the page is a row of the top Twitter users from that city. You can also search for any city you want, if your city isn’t listed on the front page.
CrowdEye - new generation of search engine which looks at the worldwide web in a new way. By tracking discussions on Twitter, we can read more…help our users find out what’s important to them right now in real time. CrowdEye has created innovative technology to scan through tweets, retweets, twitter links and more. We then provide you with powerful yet easy ways to slice, dice, summarize and categorize the data to answer your questions. Whether you’re interested in following your brand, baseball, celebrities, movies, or anything else people are talking about – CrowdEye can help you know what people are thinking.
Eventbrite - empowers you with simple but powerful tools to manage, promote, and sell out your event. It’s free to sign up and get started. read more…Attendees can add their Twitter handles when they register for events and Tweet to their followers their registration. Promote your event with a #hashtag.
FAROO - Peer-to-peer web Search Engine, that integrates Twitter search to discover discussions and people related to the query.
find2follow - minimalistic approach to finding people you may like to follow on Twitter. It’s free, fun, and safe! No sign-in, no sign-up, just read more…one textbox and a button. Interesting twitterers just 1-click away. It also has an anti-celebrity filter that makes the search result set even more relevant to you. Enjoy!
GovTwit Directory - World’s largest government social media directory, highlighting government agencies worldwide using Twitter.
LazyTweet - service akin to Yahoo Answers, albeit one which doesn’t require the user to sign up. It expands the question’s reach beyond read more…Twitter, to the number of users using LazyTweet. LazyTweet allows the user to ask any question to the community from the comfort of his Twitter account without any hassle of signing up and linking it. It’s as simple as sending a Tweet to LazyTweet.
ListiMonkey - Google Alerts meets Twitter Lists Receive hourly or daily a digest of the tweets from any given Twitter List.
LocaFollow - locate Twitter users by searching in their Bio and Location fields. - It is powered by the Google Search Engine, so read more…you don’t need to add yourself to the site, Google will find you, and LocaFollow going to consult your profile details using the Twitter API. - You can see all the user details including his last tweet, without need of more “info buttons”. - You can authenticate through the OAuth protocol at Twitter.com, so we won’t need your passwords. - You can follow all the users in you search results by a simple click of the “Bulk Follow” button. - The first time you enter, LocaFollow going to geo-localize your IP and will show you a lot of Twitter users in your city. - Since results comes from Google, the order will be the same at Google search result pages. That’s why will be very important that you SEO optimize your Twitter profile to appear as the first in the results for your location or by some keywords in your Bio. - You know that sometimes Twitter API get down, we won’t abandon you, LocaFollow will show you the information about the Twitter profiles that is stored at the Google databases. - All the work is done with javascript at the client side, that’s way you will have a nice user experience without need to reload the page.
Mippin - fastest and easiest way to get your favorite web content on your mobile phone. Whether you want to follow breaking news or read more…tech updates, from big publishers or tiny blogs, Mippin brings them all seamlessly together in the perfect format for your phone. You can quickly search and browse, see what others are reading and share your own discoveries. And Mippin is smart: it remembers exactly what you like and delivers automatic one-click updates. Just type mippin.com into your mobile browser and see just how quick and easy the web becomes.
MWD Mobile - Twitter client for mobile phones. Features: * Direct Messages -Send and Receive direct messages * Replies – Check replies read more…from others * Search – looking for something specific? * Followers, Following, Public TimeLine, Private Timeline
My Twitter Cloud - Search interesting Twitter people, brands or companies from all the world. Search your favorite topics, hobbies, business.
nsyght - monitor and search your twitter and facebook social graph in real time. nsyght supports threaded discussions, read more…embedding of popular videos and photos, easy tools to post and share items - even across networks, and powerful search and filtering of your social graph.
OneRiot - realtime search engine, helps users find the news, blogs and videos that people are buzzing about. By indexing fresh web content read more…as it emerges, then ordering it to reflect current social relevance, OneRiot results answer the question: what is happening right now?
Rally - finds tweets where your friends mention upcoming plans, and puts them on a single page so you can easily find out what’s going on.
Scoopler - real-time search engine. We aggregate and organize content being shared on the internet as it happens, like eye-witness read more…reports of breaking news, photos and videos from big events, and links to the hottest memes of the day. We do this by constantly indexing live updates from services including Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Delicious and more. When you search for a topic on Scoopler, we give you the most relevant results, updated in real-time.
Searchtastic - Twitter search engine that: Searches “historical” tweets from months ago. Exports search results to Excel. Expands read more…shortened URLs. Allows searches for a particular user and the people that user follows. Shows popular topics during the last 24 hours in a hash tag cloud.
Social Collider - reveals cross-connections between conversations on Twitter. One can search for usernames or topics, which are tracked read more…through time and visualized much like the way a particle collider draws pictures of subatomic matter.
SocialWhoIs - is to Twitter and FriendFeed what “Who Is” is to web sites and IP addresses. It reveals who you should follow and why – based on relevance read more…and not popularity. SocialWhoIs gives you a snapshot of any given user name with links to their assumed social network profiles, related keywords/topics, as well as a “home base” link. You can also search tags to identify individuals worth following and potentially engaging.
Sparsely - Sparse.ly is just like twitter search except it only indexes the tweets of the people you follow. You can see trends based on your friends read more…tweets, and search the history of their tweets. We also geocode their tweets so you can view them on a map.
Summizer - Twitter Search App for the iPhone. Summizer quickly and easily tracks Twitter and follows the trends you care about. Summizer read more…allows you to save your search terms for 1 touch access later. Use Summizer to watch what people are saying about a topic in real time, check user opinions about your new product feature, or see how people are reacting to a major event.
Tagalus - dictionary of hashtags. Users can contribute definitions, vote on definitions, and decide which best describes the given tag. read more…In addition, you can send a message to @tagalus along with the word “define” followed by a hashtag in order to receive a definition via @reply
TagWalk - Twitter-powered Reputation and Recommendation Engine. It wanders around Twitter and the web discovering noteworthy things and read more…maps the connections between them. Use it to research users, hashtags and discover new things.
twazzup - Search twitter. Get real insights on different hot topics
Tweefind - search Twitter and displays results ordered according to a rank assigned to users. This rank (Tweerank) depends on how read more…popular/relevant/active those users are on Twitter. The higher this rank is, the more authority a user has. The Tweerank is assigned by an algorithm / spider working 24/7 and changes dinamically depending on how much a Twitter user is engaging.
Tweepfind - search for interesting Twitter users based on keywords on their profile. It shows them ordered by Tweerank, a rank that read more…measures how “engaging” a user is on Twitter (same used in Tweefind.com)
TweepSearch - Search your Twitter friends and followers by their bio! Also search over 11m Twitter profiles. Another Twitter app (see http://tweetstats.com) by @dacort.
Tweetag - Browse the twittosphere with nested tagclouds and never miss any raising trend related to your favorite topics
TweetRiver - Filter out the noise, select the absolute best tweets, and embed them on your website.
Twendz - Twitter mining web application that utilizes the power of Twitter Search, highlighting conversation themes and sentiment of the read more…tweets that talk about topics you are interested in. As the conversation changes, so does twendz by evaluating up to 70 tweets at a time. When new tweets are posted, they are dynamically updated, minute by minute.
Twhois - twitter whois tool, able to give detailed information about a certain user. Using thwois it is possible to get both read more…professional data (Complete name, Job position and company) and social networks habits (same user profiles on Digg, StumbleUpon, Google, Flickr, Facebook and so on) of desired users. All data provided are gathered directly from public profiles around the web and are continuously updated. Moreover, logging in via twitter API, it is possible to edit your own profile, adding information or editing existing ones.
Twiangulate - Find new people to follow by seeing who three tweeps (your friends or enemies) follow in common.
TwitDir - Twitter directory, no more. You are looking for someone, something? Just type a few words in the search engine. Enjoy!
TwitterJobSearch - provides contextual search solutions that analyze, organize and extend the reach of job opportunities. TwitterJobSearch read more…looks at the content of every tweet in context to determine its intent and break out filterable data. Getting beyond the 140 character limit of Twitter by going beyond the tweet, the technology also looks at biography information and crawls destination URLs to find additional information and context.
Twtvite - simple event organizer. Create a tweeup. Invite your tweeple via a short url. Manage RSVPs. Search for tweetups in your city. No username/read more…password required. (By @twtapps)
YourVersion - real-time discovery engine that continuously discovers new and relevant web content tailored to your specific interests in read more…real-time. YourVersion also lets you easily share that content with your friends through email, Facebook and Twitter.

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FreeWare for Innovative Recruiters

31. July 2010 by admin.

Speak-A-Message - enables you to send voice emails, using your default email client. The program provides a simple recording interface and automatically attaches the WMA compressed recording to an outgoing message. The program also includes a Speech-to-text features that can automatically transcribe a voice message to text. If you are using Outlook, Speak-A-Message will integrate directly with your email toolbar.

OutWit - is a web collection engine that integrates with Firefox and allows you to browse through and easily grab information, collect media, contacts or files from the Internet. With or without programming or technical knowledge, you can create automatic agents to gather and format the information you seek. OutWit is composed of a kernel, containing the library of functions and of an API, which will allow advanced users to build and distribute their own original tools -called outfits- using the features of the kernel for specific applications. The first outfit, OutWit Hub, is a multi-purpose development tool, meant to showcase a large number of the kernel`s features, to cover a large spectrum of needs.

TwitterBackup - is a simple Java application that enables you to backup all the tweets in your Twitter account and save them as .XML file to your computer. You can supply the output file name and configure a proxy server if needed.

Flock - is a Mozilla based web browser that integrates sharing of photos, Favorites, news and blogging into the browser interface. It currently supports Flickr, Photobucket, del.icio.us, Twitter, Facebook, WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal and other online services, as well as any RSS feed. You can easily subscribe to any website that offers RSS feeds and read/manage your feeds directly from within Flock. Other features include drag and drop photo sharing and a powerful web search toolbar that searches a variety of online resources simultaneously and returns a quick glance at the most relevant results.

Sylpheed - is a lightweight, yet feature packed, email program that offers all the standard functionality of an email client along with many additional features, such as integrated Bayesian spam filtering, email templates, PGP support, mail processing rules and filters, support for external commands, and more. The program supports POP3, IMAP4rev1 and SMTP, NNTP (NetNews),IPv6 and encrypted communication over SSL/TLSv1. Other features include import/export (eml and Unix mbox format), extensive internationalization and multilingualization support, email search, and more.

Thunderbird - is a full featured email program with built-in junk mail controls, message filters, address book, news groups and more. It offers a clean and easy to use (customizable) interface. Thunderbird also offers security features such as S/MIME, digital signing, message encryption, support for certificates and security devices. Other features include IMAP/POP compatibility, support for HTML mail, labels, quick search, return receipts, LDAP address completion, import tools and more.

Auto Web Browser - is a web search tool, that queries major search engines for the keywords you enter, and automatically downloads the resulting pages to your computer, and automatically surfs further, downloading other potentially interesting pages that were linked from the search engine results. The downloaded pages are organized in a tree view and by search engine, and you can quickly view them, since they are already pre-loaded. The program also allows you to load a list of URLs, and automatically pre-load all of them, so you can quickly browse through them.

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How to Design a Mobile Enabled Website

26. July 2010 by admin.

Is your website mobile? Can your customers find you when they need you the most?

 

It is estimated that mobile advertising growth will continue at a rate of 10% each year throughout the next decade. With statistics like this, no business can afford not to jump on board and stay on top of this highly effective marketing method in this stage of the game.

 

Look around your business and note the people using a smart phone. Are some of your clientele mobile warriors? You might be surprised but odds are if you are one yourself, you are already aware of the growing numbers of people of every demographic that are using their mobile devices for much more than making phone calls.

 

Here are few import points to consider when designing a mobile enabled website for your organization.

 

1. Less is better. Plan your information architecture based upon what users typically want first when they go to your web site. Make a list and prioritize each page or function.

 

2. Minimal use of graphics. The on-the-go mobile user is not going to be wowed by images, pictures and graphics. They are browsing because they are looking for specific information. You want them in and out of your site. You’ll wow them with simplicity.

 

3. Button and font size. Eliminate wasting your visitor’s time by make links and buttons a size that is finger-friendly. Tiny text and button will just bring the visitor closer to exiting your web site.

 

4. If you want to sell products or services via your mobile website, think about using PayPal or Google Checkout. This eliminates the visitor from having to type in all contact and credit card information.

 

5. Promote your site through geo-targeted sites like Google Maps, Bing Maps and Yelp.

 

Your website should be able to read easily on a web capable phone or mobile internet device. If you’re equipped and capable enough to make your own mobile theme, the more power to you, for those of you who don’t have a designer’s or coder’s bone in your body, you have several viable options:

 

WPtouch is a hybrid Wordpress theme/plugin. It allows you to pick and choose what content you want to display to mobile browsers, and based on your formatting, plops your data into a beautiful, easy-to-read, mobile Wordpress theme. WPtouch loads lightning fast and shows your content beautifully, without interfering with your regular site theme. WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into a web-application experience when viewed from an iPhoneTM, iPod touchTM, AndroidTM, or BlackBerry StormTM touch mobile device.

http://www.bravenewcode.com/products/wptouch/

 

Mobify is more of a manual tool, you kind of have to know what you’re doing, or at least have someone who does at your disposal. It has a web editor that allows you to style your mobile them yourself. Just using the default style it has after choosing your content won’t cut it. You have to work some CSS magic.

http://mobify.me

 

Wordpress Mobile Edition will give your website an iPhone-like makeover. Not much room for customization here, but you can add more mobile user-agents via the settings page.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mobile-edition/

 

Encouraging communication between yourself and your readers is an endless task, so give them more reason to respond to you by reversing the order of comments, displaying the newest comments on top, right below your post. It’s just a simple setting change, go to your Discussion Settings in the administration area, and choose to display newer comments at the top of each page.

 

Remember, the internet is always changing, and so are the ways we communicate on it. Show your readers you are informed and have an opinion about current events in your niche, and they will be drawn to speak to you.

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Purples Squirrels Discovered at RecruitDC

25. May 2010 by admin.

A purple squirrel is more than just an oddly colored rodent. In the recruiting vernacular, a “purple squirrel” is a metaphor for that very rare, highly sought after, almost extinct species of candidate, because finding this candidate is about as easy as finding a purple squirrel.

How to Find Polygraph Candidates on Google

The strategy I use is filtering all the things I don’t want to see like job postings, etc. Keep your basic skill set search simple. If you get too many results, you can always add more filters to target a specific location or type of polygraph (”full-scope” OR “fullscope” OR “life style” OR lifestyle).

clearance AND polygraph AND resume -recruiter -job -jobs -submit -apply -”looking for” -recruiting -hiring -send -”email to” -”email resume” -opening -”to resume” -”resume database” -”sample resume” -applicant -examiner -chartrecorder

clearance AND polygraph AND “about me” OR bio OR vitae OR cv OR homepage OR profile OR resume OR resumebook -recruiter -job -jobs -submit -apply -”looking for” -recruiting -hiring -send -”email to” -”email resume” -opening -”to resume” -”resume database” -”sample resume” -applicant -examiner -chartrecorder

Place this hyperlink in your browser. It’s a search for any resume that has the word “polygraph”.  Add more filters or come up with your own key words.

http://www.egrabber.com/resumefinder/widget/keycG9seWdyYXBotypegoogleurlsearch_popup.html

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