Keeping yourself safe in the real world is preached to us from the second we are born. “No, Baby! Don’t touch the stove! It’s hot!” and “Look both ways before you cross the street.” We know how to keep ourselves safe not that we are grown up, and in general, can take well care of ourselves. Then we hop online and forget all of that. We talk to strangers and give them access to personal information, some of it willingly, but a lot of it gets passed on without us knowing.

            How can someone find out exactly where we live? By looking at someone’s IP address. An IP address will tell a hacker or internet marketer that sneakily got your IP, whet

Making your small business accessible to the major search engines is an essential part of your online marketing plan, and a successful search engine optimization strategy can increase traffic significantly.  High search engine rankings are an easy way to market your business to people who are looking for the keywords and topics that you present on your website. Search engine optimization for small business websites requires some strategy, but lets your business stand apart from the competition and increases web traffic.

Search engine optimization for small business websites requires a thorough understanding of keywords that are 'in demand' for your niche industry.  Your website can reach the top rankings of Google and other search engines with a few strategically place

Two recent court rulings have started the long awaited strike on offensive and damaging user submitted content in regard to online communities. The legal decisions have left online social networking websites vulnerable to future attacks from licensed content providers as it relates to the user submission medium, forcing both ISP’s and websites to a level of increased accountability.

News.com reported on April 8th, “For more than a decade, Web site operators have enjoyed a broad legal shield against lawsuits filed over material posted by their users, which has let user-driven sites like YouTube and MySpace.com flourish.  But a pair of recent rulings by federal district judges has chipped away at that protective shield. If those decisions are upheld on appeal, and

This past July, I found myself in Richmond, Virgina, conducting a focus group for a group of Web technology instructors. They were from the state, and had been teaching XHTML, blogging, and e-commerce for the Certified Internet Web Professional (CIW) Web design program for about two years. We had just finished up the second day of the group, and the session had been quite a bit of fun. We had shared ideas not only about how to do Web design, but also how to teach it to students in an entertaining way.

As I was getting ready to leave, Lee Baber, a secondary education instructor from Virginia, took the opportunity to introduce me to one of her students. This student had shown some real promise as a Web designer, and Lee wanted me to take a look at some of the sites he had created.

There is never a dull moment when it comes to the acceptance and use of anything collaborative on the internet these days. As soon as you make it available, they will come. It is the nature of all things that we must look and see if the resource being made available is of consequence and use to us, thus spanning a meticulous need and adoption of it. It is this concept that has spawn a whole new realm of internet users and availability for the new generation in the form of social networks. Social networks have become the internet’s collaboration and communications barriers breaker. No longer are we limited to reaching people in places we know and some places we never even knew existed through the wonderful World Wide Web.

What is really going on with the social networ

As Sales and Marketing Director for VisiStat, I am very familiar with this common – and repairable – issue. I spend much of my days counseling clients on how they can not only get their two departments connected, but also improve the return on their efforts like never before.

I love my job. There is nothing more satisfying than when I see the light bulb go on when people "get it" and see a clear picture of their sales and marketing efforts. Good, real-time mark

Podcasting is a new format for distributing audio and video content over the Internet. From the technical viewpoint, podcasting involves nothing new – it's just embedding of multimedia-content (audio or video) into an RSS feed.

It is not difficult to create a podcast. There are both specialized web services and desktop applications for the task. Structurally, a podcast is an RSS file that contains links to enclosure files. Apple has developed iTunes – an RSS extension for use with podcasts. iTunes significantly improves upon the capabilities of RSS by providing additional fields (such as keywords, duration etc.) for use in describing enclosures.

The most popular way of getting audio files for podcasting is to record them from the

E-learning has revolutionized the way learning happens. It is a contemporary way to impart training whether it is academics or corporate training. Training can be offered through the internet, intranet and CD-ROMs as well. A professionally designed elearning course can go beyond the learning experience in a real classroom. The e-learning course is lot more interesting and draws the attention and interest of reader and lets the reader grasp knowledge quickly and easily.

The virtual elearning classrooms use various tools that include discussion forums, blogs, text chat, voice chat and emails to make learning an interesting activity. You can also experience real-time live training through elearning mode. At a fixed time the learners can log in and