Phone vs. Text vs. E-mail

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What type of person are you?

Phone:
 
Yes:”The only way to do business aside from in person.” Sort-of:”It is easier to understand nuances, humor, and intonation.” No:”Ugh, it’s so stressful having to actually talk to someone. A phone call is an invasion of privacy.”

Text:
 
Yes:”Easiest and most convenient by far.” Sort-of:”That’s a lot of typing on a small keyboard.” No: “What’s texting? So unprofessional.”

E-mail:

Yes:”Very clear, easy, and always have a record of the convo.” Sort-of: “Well you can respond when it’s convenient.” No: “What’s email? It’s hard to tell what people really mean.”

Mobile marketing and businesses

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With new technology on the market today it is extremely simple for a consumer to visit a store, research information about a specific product and get the details they need to make a purchase. By using a smartphone or tablet, all of this can be done at the same time without ever having to leave the couch. Due to this growing phenomenon, companies need to be able to build a strong presence in the mobile and social space. This is true now more than ever as consumers interact with your company on a daily basis by using social media and have the social power to make or break your brand on the Internet. The trick for business owners is to be able to identify strategies that will allow you to raise awareness of your products and services, strengthen your brand and reach your business goals. By taking a look at the following infographic you will be able to see ways that companies are harnessing the power of mobile marketing in order to grow.

Some important Facebook tips that we should know

Facebook is one of the popular social networking sites all over the world. This site has millions of subscribers to date. But, all the users of this site may not know how to navigate and use all the apps that this site offers. There are some tips which will help the newbie users of the Facebook:

Exist online only to selected friends:

Going to the chat option at the right lower side of the page we should click on the friends list. A small widow will appear there and we can type a new list there that we want to do. By this lists we can select the friends we may chat and keep them in blacklists that we don’t want to chat. We may completely invisible to the person whom we don’t want to chat any time.

5 Important Factors to Consider Before Hiring a Web Designer

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It’s not always easy to choose a web designer.  There is a lot for companies to consider and you want the process to run as smoothly as possible.  You can take some of the pressure off the decision by asking the right questions and searching for the right information.  To help you make the right choice for your web design project, consider these five important factors.   

1. Experience

Experience is among the best ways to gauge the potential of a web design company.  Web design has a steep learning curve so you always want to ensure a certain level of experience that minimizes the chances of making a mistake or under-delivering on objectives.  Start by checking to see if the web design company has experience building sites similar to yours.

Find out if the company works with raw HTML or prefers to use Joomla, Drupal or some other content management system.  Just think logically when approaching the company about their experience.  If you want to sell projects through your website with credit card transactions, make sure the web design company has experience with eCommerce hosting.  Do some homework and find the company with the right experience.

2. Portfolio

Any quality web design company will have a portfolio.  Ask the web design company for links to websites in their portfolio and review them carefully.  Web designers are versatile in their practice although many portray a similar style throughout their portfolio.  If you like the particular style of the designer, then you are one step closer to making a decision.

3. References

It helps to review a company portfolio, but don’t forget to review references, too.  You are a potential client and the best person to answer your questions about the web design company is a previous client.  Was the client happy with their experience with the company?  Would the client recommend the company for web design services?  You can also find out how much the client paid for the web design services and how long the project took from start to completion.  Also, find out what the client disliked about the company.  If the design company dropped the ball in a particular area of the web design project, chances are it will do the same for you.

4. Price

Before you enter into a deal with a web design company, always ensure that the prices are clearly outlined in writing.  A lot of different factors go into the overall cost of web design services and it is extremely important to put these costs on the table before starting the project.  You can help steer yourself away from trouble by asking the company about their payment management system.  While a professional, business-like response is a good sign, a simple “Don’t worry, we’ll manage” is a red flag.

5. Support

Reputable web design companies offer maintenance services to clients after launch.  Companies without an in-house webmaster should definitely look for a web designer that offers post-launch maintenance.  If the company fails to include maintenance as a part of their services, you might want to keep looking.

Akesh Gupta is President of Light Speed Solutions.  Akesh and his team strive to design, develop and deliver a plethora of web development and web design services to clients.

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The Network Windows Based File Server

Happy New Year to everybody out there, all of us should have a fresh start and renewed optimism on all the things that we do. That is for God, family, country, work, for others and for us.  As we reflect on the things that did on the year that was 2011, may do our best to improve on them so that it may benefit more people this New Year 2012. It must go beyond the monetize value of the most things that we have.

Personally for me and this blog, I would really like to grow more and produce articles that could really help other in the realm of computer and technology. Especially with new gadgets coming these year, a lot of none technical people are going to use them. This people would need information about the apps that comes with these new gadgets. Articles that contain helpful information about these things would be in demand. 

Okay enough about that, again to everybody on this planet may you have Safe, healthy and Prosperous New Year.

If your company wants a far more efficient file serving experience, a windows storage server might be the smart way to look. The product family gives advanced storage options to small business and big companies alike. It also includes technologies like file reduplication, block I/O storage, and i SCSI software targets for unified files.

A network file server is a computer attached to a network that has the primary purpose of providing a location for shared disk access, i.e. shared storage of computer files that can be accessed by the workstations that are attached to the computer network. The term server highlights the role of the machine in the client–server scheme, where the clients are the workstations using the storage. A file server is not intended to perform computational tasks, and does not run programs on behalf of its clients. It is designed primarily to enable the storage and retrieval of data while the computation is carried out by the workstations.

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Windows storage server also delivers simplified management and deployment of dual node storage clusters and individual appliances. There are also additional software components and specialized hardware offered by partners of Microsoft in order to create appliances, making it much more versatile. With that in mind, it’s not hard to understand why it’s such a reliable, scalable, and value effective answer for businesses looking for more effective ways to access data.

Companies that are currently faced with challenges about how data in files are moved, accessed, and managed are advised to consider windows storage server. It provides probably the most economical and reliable solutions to those issues. Files and servers are usually distributed widely across entire organizations. However, with storage server’s file services your company can access the files they need when they need them.

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By utilizing windows storage server in this way, your company should be able to increase the efficiency of their storage management requirements. No matter what the location or the platform is, either, as data will be much easier to handle and more quickly accessible.

Are you aware that you can use windows storage server to keep data that isn’t wanted taken care of? Additionally, it includes management tools that have been greatly improved in order to look after and protect data you want in. The various tools in server services may also aid in reducing administrative overhead and centralize management while at the same time providing crucial info on file infrastructures.

By having these insights into your file infrastructures which are spread out across location or platform or both, you’ll be able to produce on the compliance and availability requirements of file services. These benefits, along with the distributed access to your file services that the storage server provides allow it to be worth the investment.

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Organizations are able to maintain operations according to their abilities to have their productivity at profitable levels. Handling the growth through economical strategies is critical to increased business volume and expansion. The file services of windows storage server can help your company to grow its departmental information technology services while supporting an ever growing user base.

Other benefits you’ll see from windows storage server include convenient and centralized management for all file services and distributed use of those servers. When it comes to centralized management, you’ll be able to block data and allow the data you want to be cared for properly. Distributed access enables you to manage data no matter what the location or platform.

Computer 101: Computer Network basic

In today’s age and time, the computer network has evolve into a system that has integrated every available devices capable of plugging itself therefore becoming part of the bigger collection of computer devices that has been connected.  But before we proceed let go back to the basic of computer network. What is computer network? Better yet what is the proper term to describe a computer network.  There are three correct and right term to describe a computer network. Yup there are three, this is because the location or land area where the network is very important in describing the kinds of network.

Local Area Network

For a computer network located on a single building big or small, it doesn’t matter how many floor’s are there as long as it is in one building then it can be classified as a LAN or Local Area Network. Now the word LOCAL is pretty straight forward you already know what it means. Before we go into the other two types of network we will focus on this network the LAN. What basically is a LAN, as the name implies it is a network located on a small area typically a building whether large or small but one single building only. Remember scope of the location for a LAN is one single building only. If there are two or more building then it is no longer a LAN but the next type of network called a MAN or Metropolitan Area Network.

 But let’s focus on the LAN. What are the components of a LAN? The basic components of a typical LAN are the workstation, server and network component such as HUB, SWITCH and ROUTER. This is the BASIC components, which mean there are other computers of a more highly developed LAN. But the first two basic component of a LAN is the workstation and the server. What are they and how do they function in a LAN. First the WORKSTATION, well it one can also be called the client, terminal, node and other term that a person uses to gain access the information stored on a server. Those terms that have been mentioned all describe the function of the computer that a person uses to do his/her work, process job, access data, store’s data from the or to the server. A basic example of this is the LAN in an internet café where. People paid for certain length of time to use the computer on that internet cafe to play network games, do a typing job, read the online version of their favorite news paper, read their emails, chat or talk online with their family or friends. Still other do documents printing, image capture or scanning an image to upload it online via your favorite social site. Look for jobs, watch a favorite movie or video or download all kinds of stuff from the internet or just simply looking for information.

 

All of the things mentioned above and much more cannot be achieve or it cannot be done without using a workstation, client or a terminal.  So basically it is a computer that a real person uses to get information or do a job in a LAN or network. Now for the server which located at the other end of the communication line. The server is basically a computer that holds all the information. A person needs to use a client or workstation to access this information located on the server computer. Imagine if in an typical office where there are ten worker that need different types of information and as stated before all this kind of information is located on the server, but they do not have a network. So getting that different type of information will take time because each worker will to take in turns to use the server. But with a network and each ten worker has each own computer to access the server simultaneously as compare to individually using the same computer directly. Then more time is save and more job is done is a short possible time consumed.

That is the basic function and role of these two kinds of computer on a LAN or network. Yes they both computer’s but the hardware and software component is very different, the server is the more stronger or powerful one because simply put it, it need s to be because it function require it to accommodate simultaneous job request from the workstation or client computer. It has more memory; larger hard drives faster processor and a bit different set of software installed in it compare a more user friendly software installed on a workstation or client computer. Not all people in a company can used or has access to the server directly, only one or two person is allowed direct access or usage of the server computer, compare to a workstation or client computer where almost all employee in the company can use these type of computer. More on this topic on my next post.