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Blur Studio Reels In Animation for Goldfish Crackers Campaign
Blur Studio recently completed a ten-spot series of commercials for Pepperidge Farm Goldfish crackers via Young & Rubicam, NY. The campaign is entirely computer generated and was directed by Blur's Leo Santos.
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The Project Success Method: The Easier Way
During a coffee break at a business conference a few years ago, Ifell into conversation with the executive vice president of a Fortune 100 company. After a moment or two he read the company name on my name tag. "So you help companies achieve success withtheir projects. That's a tall order,'' he said. "Who've you worked with?"
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Search Engine Optimization: Inside the mind of the searcher
In this clip, host Richard John Jenkins gets inside the mind of a searcher, in this case, himself. He details how people search, in a circular fashion, and not in a linear fashion and why.
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Search Engine Optimization: Control over searchers and search engines
In this clip, host Richard John Jenkins discusses control, and how much control is had over searchers, search engines, and your websites. He does a search and details what the results of the search is and explains how there is no control over searchers or the search engines. He expalins what area of a page you have control over, and that is the page title, and the metatag information that you can write, often called the snippet.
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Search Engine Optimization: What is Black Hat SEO
In this clip, host Richard John Jenkins discusses Black Hat SEO, and his bottom line is, don't do it, and don't even think about doing it. Always stay informed so you can avoid Black Hat SEO. He shows the Google Banned tool, defining what Spamdexing is, cloaking, redirects, page hijacking, and so forth. Google will investigate every accusation of Black Hat SEO.
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Search Engine Optimization: White Hat SEO
In this clip, host Richard John Jenkins covers what White Hat SEO is, and what the black hat SEO is. He compares SEO to the wild West and how there are ethical or "white hat" SEO services, as well as questionable, or black hat SEO services. He details the lay of the land and how not to get banned from that land, meaning the search engines.
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Search Engine Optimization: Target Audience
In this clip, host Richard John Jenkins discusses target audience for the training, the goals for the training, to get your website searches high rankings in the major search engines through ethical SEO techniques, and the techie skills for the training.
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Weighing Options: How to Best Invest Your IT Budget for an "Always On" Network
Unfortunately, most companies experience more unplanned downtime than they want. Achieving an uptime of 99% is impressive but 1% of downtime is the equivalent of 87 hours per year! Studies have shown that unplanned downtime costs at least $45 per hour for each of your employees. Most companies need their key business applications running around the clock since customers, employees, and other constituents need access at any time.
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Selling Security with the Balanced Scorecard
Information security practitioners at all levels must realize they are sales people. We are selling information security's value proposition. In order to be successful, we must understand what the business feels is important in order to know what the business will buy. In other words, we must understand our customer - what makes them happy and what makes them mad. We must be able to form a relationship with our business customer that satisfies their needs.
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Effective PR for a Small Business on a Budget:
If yours is like most small businesses, you can't afford the luxury of a PR department, much less a dedicated PR agency or even one employee responsible for external communications and PR. However, this business function is critical as the world of communications continues to expand with new applications, demands and opportunities like social media networks. The thought of a concerted PR strategy and execution can be overwhelming for a small business owner, but it doesn't have to be.
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