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A Beginner’s Guide to Adaptive Private Networking
Imagine business 100 years ago, 50 even. It used to be that salesmen and clients talked in person, perhaps by phone or over drinks or on the golf course. There was no broadband Internet, no fax machines, no video conferencing. Business and life was simpler, if slower.Fast forward to the 21st century. Each decade over the past several has seen near-exponential growth in the development of technology with the landscape now so radically evolved and changed that the business world of a half-century past looks foreign and prehistoric. Presentations that would happen with PowerPoint today were seemingly done on cave walls in the 1960s. The modern office looks wholly incongruous by comparison.Today, business happens in more ways than ever, which is a good thing for profits when all is said and done. Closing deals and making money is generally a quicker process end to end today. But it also means that companies have had to contend with rising technology costs, and for smaller firms, this can be especially challenging. There are methods to offset this, of course, and one of them is something known as Adaptive Private Networking.In essence, Adaptive Private Networking or APN appliances boost bandwidth at low costs for businesses that use a wide area network or WAN. The APN appliances bring together economical and easily obtained bandwidth from Internet service providers and offer the companies that use them secure, high-end connections. This is done through the use of technologies such as MPLS or frame relay.This creates “network visualization,” essentially a combo of broadband bandwidth and MPLS for the network, ensuring reliable and high quality connections without any lag. It’s cost-efficient as well, since the appliances use as much bandwidth as possible and don’t sacrifice quality.If this all sounds fairly dry, that’s because it is. Here’s the reality. Adaptive Private Networking offers a number of benefits to companies that use it, including:* It’s cost effective for firms large and small
* It’s scalable, with different levels of service available depending on a company’s need
* It’s efficient, with companies not having to let valuable bandwidth go to waste while other departments go without
* Most APN services have data backup and regulatory services to offer maximum protection to companies that use themIt’s been a long time since business was done on cave walls, but all things considered, the modern picture doesn’t look bad. APN is a fitting part of the mosaic.
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Social Connectionism in the Modern Age
Facebook has had an extremely fast ride to the top of social prominence. A few years ago it was a website restricted to students at a select number of universities, then it opened to all students, and then to anyone who wanted their own Facebook page. Not only did this create the opportunity for Facebook to take its position as the ultimate necessity for a busy social life, but it also opened it up to companies looking to connect with their customers and promote their brand image.Facebook has really become a necessity for an active student life. From joining university clubs and societies, to getting to know your peers; finding out about social events – from private parties to large events – and connecting with classmates, Facebook has become the one-stop shop for it all. It is no longer necessary to write, text, note down details of an event, or even email; simply post it on the relevant Facebook group page and everyone who desires to see that information can choose to do so. It is an easy way to organize parties, sporting events, political movements and class trips. Not only does it provide an excellent way to disseminate the information, but it also acts as a vehicle for discussion on any topic, a way of connecting like-minded people or people with similar interests. It is absolutely crucial for any kind of involvement in student life.This now extends from academic environments into the real world. Parents, relatives and friends not at university also want to keep in touch and Facebook provides an opportunity not just to keep in touch in a traditional sense, but also to keep up with what your friends are doing, their likes, interests and events. Facebook provides a platform which encourages people to share their thoughts with their status updater. “What’s on your mind?” it asks, prompting all sorts of comments from the mundane to the controversial, encouraging others to “like” your thoughts and to add their own comments.This social connectionism has attracted the interests of marketing departments from small businesses to major companies, all of whom want you to “like” them on Facebook. You are invited to comment on their products, their values, their stores, invited to enter competitions and offered the opportunity to get coupons for use in-store or online. It’s a ready-made target market for efficient marketing, connecting with everyone from celebrities to companies to friends is now a part of everyday life in the 21st century.We are now in a virtual relationship with everyone from our friends and families to our favorite celebrities and brands – our social connectionist network which is expanding daily.
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101 Proven Ways to Make Money Online Starting Today
In this article I’ve collected 101 tips to make money online. Each of them is real and proven. Best of all, you can apply some of them and earn quick cash just today.1. Try new business opportunities (especially of 2008) which offer various gifts, discounts and even cash as a sign-up bonus.
2. Join all-in-one business opportunity (offering you a FREE website +special guides, tutorials, business tools and software, as well as marketing tools) so that you can make money asap.
3. Sell various stuffs on e-bay.
4. Create a list and make money by selling numerous products and services to your subscribers.
5. Join high-paying affiliate programs and start to earn your commissions.
6. Join a business opportunity that also involves one-on-one mentoring to guarantee your success.
7. Create and sell your own info-product over and over
8. Write and sell articles.
9. Create and sell websites .
10. Offer article submission service on forums.
11. Sell your SEO service.
12. Offer advertising service.
13. Offer internet marketing service.
14. Get an online store and start selling various stuff.
15. Create a blog and earn from Google AdSense adding fresh content every day.
16. Transcript audio files.
17. Translate from one language into another
18. Offer a newsletter creation for business people.
19. Give away freebies, especially free e-books, reports, DVDs on your website and make money with such huge traffic in various ways.
20. Offer your coaching at the area of your interest and expertise.
21. Become a regular blogger or columnist for magazines/newspapers.
22. Visit “Wanted” threads of the most popular forums with high-traffic and offer your service to forum members.
23. Get Free or cheap ebooks with resell rights and sell them for expensive.
24. Create a blog, generate good traffic and start selling advertisement places on it.
25. Create a paid membership site on any niche.
26. Earn on writing product reviews for special sites that pay for it.
27. Answer others questions and earn some quick cash on special sites.
28. Create a paid newsletter with valuable information.
29. Read some free valuable copywriting resources and become a copywriter offering a sales letter writing service.
30. Write for some sites (helium, squidoo etc.) and get paid based on revenue share from Adsense.
31. Write and submit articles to special sites like associatedcontent.com and get paid on average $3 -10 per article.
32. Get paid to submit blog posts in some directories such as CreamAid.com.
33. Write a short tip for DayTipper.com and earn $3 per tip every day.
34. Get paid for advertising of websites, products and services from Blogsvertise.com in your blog.
35. Sell advertising links on your blog if you generate good traffic.
36. Display Yahoo ads on your blog/website and get paid.
37. Place Amazon’s products on your site and earn up to 10% per every sale.
38. Start your own Cafépress.com store and earn affiliate commissions by selling your personally branded products.
39. Make money selling vital software for business people.
40. Become a virtual assistant at home, spending more time with your family.
41. Make money online, posting in get-paid forums .
42. Earn money online uploading and sharing your pictures on special sites that pay for it.
43. Make money per view of your videos on sites such as YouTube.com.
44. Earn money for voting on special sites paying for it.
45. Get paid to search on sites paying for it (see 45th tip on my blog post for more details).
46. Buy domain names for cheap and sell for expensive.
47. Sell original digital photographs online.
48. Find jobs for your friends and get paid for connecting your friend and employer.
49. Create a directory for listing websites and find webmasters ready to pay for getting listed on your site.
50. Build your list and sell your subscribers various products and services.
51. Create article directory and earn in various ways (from advertisement to Google AdSense).
52. Put RSS Feed Ads on your blog.
53. Create a paid private forum providing real value for your members
54. Sell Templates or WordPress Themes online.
55. Offer Consulting and other related services.
56. Write a business plan.
57. Open your own company and offer your service online.
58. Join social media websites and get paid via revenue-sharing system for participating in their community.
59. Create an auction site and earn commissions from both buyers and sellers.
60. Create a freelancing site where buyers and sellers will pay to post their projects.
61. Give online lessons at the area of your expertise, for example English, German or any other field.
62. Sell signature links on forums with high traffic.
63. Write press-releases for business people.
64. Sell ad places on your newsletter or ezine.
65. Become an online beauty consultant for popular cosmetics companies.
66. Become an online salesperson for individuals or companies.
67. Get paid to fill in surveys for sites ready to pay for your opinions.
68. If you are a programmer, create a hot-demand script/software and sell it online.
69. If you are a web designer, create logos or banners and sell them, or take orders on special forums.
70. Write a software review and get paid up to $50 on sites like SoftwareJudge.Com.
71. Offer news submission service to social networking sites.
72. If you have copywriting ability, write for others Google ads for $5-10 each.
73. Turn your hobby into an online/home based business.
74. Join high -paying referral programs and get paid for telling about it to your friends.
75. Get paid to read email.
76. Earn some commissions by offering exchange service of e-currencies.
77. Work at home as a forum moderator.
78. Work as an online admin from home.
79. Create videos on various hot niches and sell them.
80. Offer research service and determine your rates per project
81. Create a huge list of valuable directories or etc. that cannot be found online all together and sell it to webmasters as well as all business people who need it.
82. Write tutorials and guides on the area of your expertise and sell them at the price you want
83. Get hired to add daily news to blogs on various niches.
84. Get hired for posting on blogs on daily basis.
85. Get paid for uploading videos, files or some other stuff for individual website owners. You can find tons of such jobs in forums.
86. Get paid for commenting on bloggers sites, search for such jobs in forums, communities, etc.
87. Offer link submission service which you can automate thanks to special software.
88. Get paid for putting others AdSense code on your blog/site
89. Offer directory submission service (for example to Yahoo directory)
90. Look for fast copy-paste jobs that many forums members offer in the Marketplace thread and earn quick $5-10 an hour.
91. Offer promotion, especially for traffic generation service for blogs/sites and get paid.
92. Start a podcast and make money from ads.
93. Become a link broker connecting people who want to buy quality links for their websites with those who want to sell them.
94. Get paid $5-10 for any quick Photoshop job. You can find a large variety of such offers waiting on forums
95. Buy profitable websites even with income $5 a day and work on them. Then sell for more expensive price. Look at marketplace.sitepoint.com for such profitable ready websites.
96. If you are good with Photoshop, design T-shirt and sell it, or take orders from interested people.
97. Get paid for data entry jobs you can find on freelancing sites or various forums.
98. Test various products at home and get paid for it by many companies.
99. Create various templates/themes for Joomla, WordPress, etc and sell them separately or as a pack.
100. If you don’t have any valuable information or skills to create your own e-book, just search for free 101 tips how to … and compile them into a hot-demand report.
101. Get free samples, trials or gift cards on various freebie sites or freebie threads of forums and then sell this stuff online.Of course, you can benefit such a huge list and earn some cash starting just today. But if you prefer getting in a long-term steady income (at least $100-300 a day), then you should try most popular money making method of today – affiliate marketing and selling info-products.Both of these above listed methods are very profitable but require a bit more patience and intensive marketing from which beginners may become frustrated.
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Seven Things That Will Disappear in Our Lifetime
Americans have proven that they can adapt to changing needs and situations time and time again – but technology is moving so swiftly that it can upset our sense of stability. Human beings do need certain ‘anchors’ in their lives so we’d best find it internally with our virtues of self-reliance. Citizen-Soldiers should cultivate their self-reliance and maintain vigilance in terms of trends – some good, some bad. Some services and tech devices will simply disappear like these:1. Newspapers and Magazines – The iPod Generation does not read newspapers. Major studios stopped their full page $100,000 Sunday movie advertising years ago because the 18-34 year old moviegoers wouldn’t see the ads. That started a major downturn in their advertising revenues. In addition, classified ads were a considerable income earner for local papers – now turned upside down with local bulletin boards and the popular Craigs List. Newsweek magazine saw such a precipitous drop of revenue – 38 percent – that the mag was sold for $1.00 and an assumption of its liabilities. Online subscription models compete with not only widely available free content but the users experience of a free internet.2. Landline Phones – The ubiquitous cell phone first meant that “Hey, I can work from anywhere and they won’t know.” It meant freedom. Now it means, “Hey, they can find me anywhere.” Many countries skipped the hardwired model and jumped right into explosive growth. Between 1999 through 2004, mobile subscribers in Africa jumped to 76.8 million, from 7.5 million. Competition among cell phone carriers created efficiencies and lower entry points. While many people in Africa survive on subsistence living, they are connected with cellphones. Mobility in America also means that the home phone is on its last legs – unless through an internet system. If you do have a landline connection with an old non-portable phone, then even with the electricity down, you can get a dial tone and make a call – provided their system is still working. That’s a standby earthquake survival idea.3. The U.S. Post Office – They just announced that, due to declining revenues, the USPS can’t afford to contribute to its own pension plan. Junk mail is what keeps them going – and that won’t survive in this Depressed Economy. The long term prospects are nil against FedEx, UPS, and just plain email. I don’t really receive bills in the mail anymore and most people pay their bills online.4. Television – The TV networks are scrambling to catch eyeballs. Hence the rise of specialty cable shows which cater to a specific audience like “Sopranos”, “Sons of Anarchy”, etc., But even these cable shows, like the popular “Mad Men”, have become inconsistent to viewers who will readily move on in a media saturated world. “Mad Men” is going on a year hiatus due to contract negotiations. The TV Cable subscription model at $90 a month versus the Netflix $10 a month streaming model is highly disruptive to companies revenue streams. And as consumer tighten their financial belts, they’ll look elsewhere on YouTube and other channels for cheaper entertainment rather than ‘must see now’ entertainment.5. Books – I hate the demise of books but its accelerating between Kindle, iPads, etc, and other Android based and Blackberry based systems. An eBook has the benefit of lower costs for both updating and publishing. You can buy cheaper versions of the same book vs the hard copy. In addition, the virtual access of a book on a computer, phone, iPad, etc., dovetails with a higher mobile market. It’s just cheaper and easier to buy and store electronically. Of course, when the electricity goes off in an emergency or worse, then that paperback is mighty valuable.6. Music & Software – If you want to know about the changes of the music industry, then you go to iTunes and read “The Long Tail” which detailed changing viewer habits. Software is also moving in this direction where you download and use. Some software will be available only online on an as used basis. The Mobile Computing market is going to grow and, I believe, become much bigger than the Desktop computing market. A mobile computing Tablet is like an extended mobile phone in many ways. We saw mobile phone growth that connected the world and will see it again with mobile tablet apps and access.7. Privacy – Privacy is certain eroding. As police departments struggle with financial deficits due to incompetent legislators mishandling of revenues and more, law enforcement will rely on cameras. Private companies will add cameras to fight a commensurate rise in crime. London has a massive network of 10,000 surveillance cameras. Major American cities to follow. Add in the everpresent cellphone cameras. With your cell phone, the GPS system tells the phone company where you are to provide you with your requested cell phone app services like local restaurants, gas stations and more. And then your financial transactions with credit cards nail down your place, time and purchase – adding to your profile. Getting off the grid will become more and more difficult.This article was originally posted on http://www.CitizenSoldierHandbook.com
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Cyber Bullying Facts – The Many Forms Of Cyber Bullying
It cannot be denied that bullying, like all the other aspects in the universe, is also ever changing and undoubtedly, revolving as well. The face of bullies cannot really be stereotyped in just one persona. There are several faces you can put on bullies, and they almost always have the tendency to evolve. There is, however, a more prevalent face to bullying nowadays: Cyber bullying. This is simply, by definition, the usage of information and communication technology to intentionally and deliberately upset or harass someone. It also includes but is not limited to bullying via mobile phones, blogs, instant messaging, websites, Twitter, message boards, chat rooms, VLEs or virtual learning environments such as Second Life, or even social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook.Cyber bullying may also include blackmail, harassment, repeatedly texting unpleasant messages or images, monitoring or hacking someone’s online activities or accounts, impersonating a person or using their identity online, and even issuing virtual threats.Other forms of cyber bullying may also include posting or forwarding unpleasant comments or private information about someone, sharing videos of someone being bullied, sending viruses, pretending to be friends to gain information, refusing to acknowledge messages or ignoring the person online, manipulating someone to do something online, and sending sexually explicit messages or photos to deliberately upset someone or cause distress.One of the cyber bullying facts that is most disturbing is that it is so difficult to contain and control. The thing with the net is that information can spread like wildfire – rapidly, widely, and repeatedly. The thing is, whether it was intentionally designed to be hurtful or not, it can sneakily creep up and dwell into the child’s personal place no matter what they do and no matter where they are.The disturbing cyberbullying fact is that contrary to what the usual norm is, those who are initiating the bullying can choose to remain anonymous and they don’t even have to be physically superior to their victims anymore. This is particularly dangerous because of the fact that anonymity could be pushed even further compared to if someone is actually physically in your face and their identity is both revealed and compromised.Perhaps this proves to be a tricky feat to parents given the fact that youngsters are actually more technologically inclined and advanced than they are. Well, the good news is, there are a few steps you can take to ensure your children are not victims of cyber bullying. When online, go ahead and encourage your children to be cyber bullying-proof by encouraging them not to combine real names, ages and provocative words as their email addresses. Sexually suggestive email ads might seem like the norm for teenage girls but it gives away a sort of promiscuous kind of image online. You might not want to include your actual photo with suggestive email ads. These are just baby steps but it will definitely help in avoiding cyber bullying.
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Blog Diary Online from Nadia Fernandez 