Archive for March, 2009
Posted by Meikah Delid March 31st, 2009
I stumbled upon this article on Promotion World. It’s a good read about a site’s usability and accessibility. I agree with him that the two are often thought of as one and the same. But it’s pretty clear that each one has a different function for the site. Each is important, and thus each deserves [...]
Tags: accessibility, SEO, usability
Posted in SEO, Web development, Website Usability •
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Posted by Meikah Delid March 31st, 2009
Last week was hell for me. One of my website projects had been dealt with a hacker’s hand. That was our suspicion, though unfounded yet till today. I was so devastated that it took me a week later, that is today, to write about it. One of my web researchers noticed something wrong with the [...]
Tags: back up, database, missing data
Posted in Database/MySQL, Programming, project management, Technology •
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Posted by Meikah Delid March 27th, 2009
I got this from big mango blog. Tim Berners Lee video on raw data about the importance of Linked Data and getting Raw Data out of silos (governments and private enterprises) and unto the Internet.
Tags: Internet, raw data, Tim Berners Lee
Posted in Documentation, Online Research •
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Posted by Meikah Delid March 27th, 2009
I started with Netscape then Internet Explorer (IE). I enjoyed using IE until Firefox came along. I’m still using Firefox even though others has been egging me to try Chrome. I’ve tried Opera, too, at one time. But for me, nothing beats Firefox, just as nothing beats Google for the search engine category. I know [...]
Tags: surfing, Web browser
Posted in Apps/Tools, Technology •
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Posted by Meikah Delid March 26th, 2009
I welcome anything that drives away spammers! Today, I stumbled upon an article that talks about 3D-based captchas. These captchas: unbreakable to current computer technology, yet easier for humans to identify relies on the user’s ability to identify objects in 3D instead of using alphanumeric characters I saw a screenshot of these captchas, and I [...]
Tags: captcha, spam
Posted in Programming, Technology •
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Posted by Meikah Delid March 25th, 2009
Computer Consulting Business Tips: Small Business IT Consensus-Building Tips for Project Managers – 3 tips can help you understand why getting buy-in from customers — and building consensus — is so important to the success of major small business IT projects. 4pm.co: Achievement-Driven Project Management – In project managing, it is important that you distinguish [...]
Tags: project management links
Posted in project management •
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Posted by Meikah Delid March 24th, 2009
net.tutsplus shares 10 rare HTML tags every web developer must know. It’s quite interesting really, so I’m sharing them all here. <cite> <optgroup> <acronym> <address> <ins> and <del> <label> <fieldset> <abbr> rel <wbr> Read on…
Tags: HTML, web programming
Posted in Programming, Web development •
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Posted by Meikah Delid March 20th, 2009
There’s a saying that goes you cannot love someone you do not know. The same is true for employees. If you do not know them, then you cannot take care of them… well. The big question now is how do you take care of your remote workforce? I’ve been thinking about that for months now. [...]
Tags: HR, people, workforce
Posted in Business Concepts, Productivity, project management, Team Dynamics •
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Posted by Meikah Delid March 19th, 2009
A common scenario today is that organizations are cutting cost left and right. Either they delay expansion or lay off employees, anything just to save up on more expenses and hold on to whatever savings that they may have. Contact centers, by the very nature of their business, are viewed as costly—from logistics to operations, [...]
Tags: contact center, remote agent model
Posted in Business Concepts, Contact Centers, Productivity, Technology •
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Posted by Meikah Delid March 18th, 2009
In this podcast, Thompson interviews John Todor, managing partner of The Whetstone Edge, about his new book: Get With It! Practical Ways to Use Web 2.0 in Your Business.Tudor shares tips for the a more effective use of Web 2.0 and social media, including using LinkedIn to build a “networked brain trust.”And, he explains why [...]
Tags: Web 2.0
Posted in Apps/Tools, Microblogging, Technology •
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