Webmaster level: All Change can happen—sometimes, as we saw in our previous post on URL removals , you may completely block or remove a page from your site. Other times you might only change parts of a page, or remove certain pieces of text. Depending on how frequently a page is being crawled, it can take some time before these changes get reflected in our search results.
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URL removals explained, part II: Removing sensitive text from a page
was involved in one example were a blog was substituted for email and attachments as the way to support collaboration by a task force. The members had no choice and it was not presented as a big deal, just a switch in tools. I recently received a survey that looked at ERP Implementation strategies . The results made sense to me.
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What Can Enterprise 2.0 Adoption Learn from ERP Implementations?
can design presentations at home in Keynote and then take them on the road using the iPad. ll also prepare in advance blank draft blog posts that are pre-completed with thumbnail photos (for instance, the event logo) and any advertising banners I intend to use.
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The iPad, Take Two: A Truly Mobile Blogging Device
It is always useful for every designer to have an arsenal of vector objects that you can count on in creating different designs. Since the use of flowers and swirls have been very popular lately, we decided to pool together the best vector flowers and swirls that we found from around the web.
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1000+ Vector Flower Designs Free to Use in Your Projects [del.icio.us]
Webmaster Level: All We try to communicate with webmasters in lots of different places. For example, when we send representatives to conferences we’re happy to participate in public site clinics where we share best practices on how to improve the crawlability and site architecture of websites suggested by the audience.
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A word on site clinics
There was a time when bloggers and writers logos were a fringe group sharing their feelings about politics and their recipe for awesome peanut butter cookies. While we have nothing against politics or cookies, it was hard to take the genre seriously. In the last few years, however, the field has become more and more professional—even cut-throat in some areas.
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Top 10 Professional Blog Logos
At the last MIX conference, Netflix announced that they are exposing their catalog of movie information using the OData protocol. This is great news! This means that you can take advantage of all of the advanced OData querying features against a live database of Netflix movies
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Netflix, jQuery, JSONP, and OData
There have been a lot of quality Photoshop brushes released at the Deviantart community that you can download and use for free this month. If you are interested to view the our previous top picks, then simply go to Weekly Top Picks category and see if you can find some useful brushes there for your projects
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6 New Free Photoshop Brushes (Best of March 2010, Week 4) [del.icio.us]
“And that’s the way it is.” Former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite closed every nightly broadcast with that signature phrase, a signal to his viewers of not simply the conclusion of his broadcast but the authenticity of what they had just experienced. The familiar phrase, repeated every weeknight, threw a security blanket around his viewers. His mantra — decisive on principle and incisive on purpose — made his audience feel special, that they had been part of something tailored specifically for them
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Rally Your Audience with a Signature Close
Webmaster Level: Advanced A few weeks ago, we introduced a new way of verifying site ownership , making it easy to share verified ownership of a site with another person. This week, we bring you another new way to verify. Verification by DNS record allows you to become a verified owner of an entire domain (and all of the sites within that domain) at once
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DNS Verification FTW
Graphic Design Schools – Part I Experience may be the best teacher in your graphic design career, but there is a lot to be said for formal training. Given the countless programs available, choosing what’s best for you can be tricky. Let’s break it down. Top Graphic Design Schools According to US News, the top schools for graphic
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Graphic Design School
It was badly out of date, and the information architecture was decrepit to both users and search engines. Our goals were: Make content visible and easy to find Create an enjoyable and valuable user experience so users would return Increase page impressions to bring in ad revenue Allow site staff to present more rich media content Give the site more personality and interactivity The UX team created personas from ethnographic studies, online surveys, and in-depth interviews with users. This need gave rise to much more integrated blog postings.
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Case study of agile and UCD working together
Webmaster level: All There’s a lot of content on the Internet these days . At some point, something may turn up online that you would rather not have out there—anything from an inflammatory blog post you regret publishing, to confidential data that accidentally got exposed. In most cases, deleting or restricting access to this content will cause it to naturally drop out of search results after a while.
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URL removal explained, Part I: URLs & directories
Webmaster Level: Intermediate In our recent post on the Google Online Security Blog , we described our system for identifying phishing pages. Of the millions of webpages that our scanners analyze for phishing, we successfully identify 9 out of 10 phishing pages. Our classification system only incorrectly flags a non-phishing site as a phishing site about 1 in 10,000 times, which is significantly better than similar systems
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Will the Real <Your Site Here> Please Stand Up?
But Marshall McLuhan said that, “We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. Smith Can’t Teach: The challenge of multiple media literacies in tumultuous times [follow the link to the PDF of entire paper at bottom of Mark's blog post]. Finally, Professor Mike Wesch, in the video of his presentation to The Library of Congress, An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube , gives examples of how videos, and video-making , are creating a different What is literacy?
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Literacies
Windows Server Hosting Service Windows server hosting services are there to meet the requirements of Windows web developers who create all of their websites using classic ASP and ASP.NET as websites developed using either scripting framework will only function correctly in Windows web hosting environments. Windows VPS servers and Windows dedicated servers are going to set
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Windows Server Hosting Service
blog at Sophisticated Finance where I discuss the interrelationship between strategy, finance and technology. If time permits I write blog posts until 7 a.m., which I use for OLPC presentations. run OpenOffice Presentation as a Sugar activity when I present for OLPC.
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WWD Reader Profile: Robert Hacker, Financial Consultant
The goal of this blog entry is to explore the easiest way of inserting a new record into a database using jQuery and .NET. I’m going to explore two approaches: using Generic Handlers and using a WCF service (In a future blog entry I’ll take a look at OData and WCF Data Services)
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Using jQuery to Insert a New Database Record
The implicit line continuation feature in Visual Basic 2010 provided an opportunity to improve the code editing experience in XML literals embedded expressions.
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Editing XML Literals Embedded Expressions in Visual Basic 2010 (Avner Aharoni)
A while back I posted about and shared a presentation I did at a KM Conference in Perth last year. That presentation contained a couple of slides on participation and I spent a lot of time talking about these slides. For the CoP facilitators at my work I thought I would flesh this out into it’s own presentation , as participation is an important topic
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Presentation : Participation in Communities of Practice