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New Paypal Developer portal, with forums and lots of new goodies.

We always talk about how budgeting your time for web strategy development is as important if not more important than budgeting money. This is a great post on how you can manage your time most effectively.

Effective social media management is quickly becoming a key skill in the 21st Century and will help you to be more productive as the way we use the Internet to communicate develops. Here's some simple steps you can take to manage your social media time more effectively:

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Many of us actively use sites like Twitter and Facebook to promote our businesses. And those of us looking to connect with more business-related contacts may turn to sites like LinkedIn to develop relationships with people we have worked with or may want to work with. With the growing use of social networking by business professionals, there is a growing number of social networking sites focused on business users and meeting their needs. Here is a list of 20 social networking sites for entrepreneurs, business owners and professionals that are worth a look.

Great overview on what a Content Strategy is and all it entails

What is Content Strategy? Content strategy plans for the creation, publication, and governance of useful, usable content. Necessarily, the content strategist must work to define not only which content will be published, but why we're publishing it in the first place. Otherwise, content strategy isn't strategy at all: it's just a glorified production line for content nobody really needs or wants. (See: your company's CMS.) Content strategy is also-surprise-a key deliverable for which the content strategist is responsible. Its development is necessarily preceded by a detailed audit and analysis of existing content-a critically important process that's often glossed over or even skipped by project teams.

Great social media strategies for resaurants

The financial crisis is likely to hit the fine dining industry very hard. Already there have been reports of exclusive London restaurants slashing their prices in order to maintain a steady flow of clientele and therefore subsequent cashflow. Competing on price, however, is never a wise, or usually profitable, strategy, so dining establishments need to look for alternate ways to bring in the customers. One easy way is to develop a social media strategy to connect with your customers and create a community of regular diners.

Search Marketing investment is a staple of an effective web strategy and the "build it and they will come" strategy does not work. No matter how good your product, content, or website is - they will not come unless you invest in your SEM web strategy.

It appears a large proportion of small business owners are still stuck in the "build it and they will come" mentality. The study highlights that most small businesses have developed websites, but have done little more to enhance their online business presence. According to the report, over 59% of small business owners who own websites don't use paid search marketing, and of those, a whopping 90% have never tried it.

From time to time you'll probably want to send a website visitor who tries to access a page that has moved, been deleted, etc to a brand spanking new page of which quite possibly will have the content they were looking for. In this article I'll introduce you to the 301 re-direct, show you how to create one, and you'll see why sometimes just depending on the 404 page isn't practical. I'll also show you various methods to create one by using PHP, ASP, and HTML.

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Xinnovations is one of the exciting events in Berlin organized and and sustained by the Vision Tank of Berlin Web minds. Special highlights on the developer and app. scene: Corporate Semantic Web: On the Way to the Semantic Enterprise, Viral and Mobil Innovations. The End of Internet and the Beginning of viral mobility.

All website analytical tools have their pros and cons, and many people use more than one to track their website's visitors and gather other important data. With that in mind, I've put together this list of some of the best. All of these web applications offer a free service; while some are completely free, others offer a premium account as well. There is an exception. I've included the Mint and Yahoo analytical software packages in this list due to their popularity, although they are not free.

Great tips on developing an organic SEO strategy - aka the BEST SEO STRATEGY

When you set out to build your site content, keyword research and educated guesses about keyword relevance are often necessary initial steps.

Jeb makes a great case for developing a web strategy for your business - and provides a seven step strategic plan that should work for you. I'm glad he mentioned something we are always preaching - "Analytics or Tweak and Repeat". Once you implement your strategy you should always be tracking it and honing it.

Is your business struggling to survive in the current economic environment? Are you seeing your cash reserves dwindle as new business drys up? Even if you are doing well I have the same advice- Use the web to save and grow your business.

Barry makes two great points in this post you should look at if you are looking to develop a web strategy for your business.. He makes two great points that are very important for businesses to realize when crafting a social media or community building strategy. If you can engage an audience around your brand by providing them content where and how they want it - you will succeed online and see real conversions - whether it is leads or sales.

With more and more people flocking to social media sites, it is important that your audience can engage with your brand through as many channels as possible.

There's something very straight-forward about Google's branding. It doesn't complicate the experience with flowery user design or site mascots. It offers exactly the type of experience you'd expect to receive from a company that showcases its name in mostly primary colors. However, when Google announced today's additions to the "Google Services for Websites" suite, it took us a minute to remember what the company blog post was referencing. In a world where even browser names conjure images of animals or finely tuned cars, the company's simply named "Google Services for Websites" is extremely useful but often easy to forget.

There's something very straight-forward about Google's branding. It doesn't complicate the experience with flowery user design or site mascots. It offers exactly the type of experience you'd expect to receive from a company that showcases its name in mostly primary colors. However, when Google announced today's additions to the "Google Services for Websites" suite, it took us a minute to remember what the company blog post was referencing. In a world where even browser names conjure images of animals or finely tuned cars, the company's simply named "Google Services for Websites" is extremely useful but often easy to forget.