The new age of networking: The ‘Do’s and Don'ts’ for networking online

If you're like me, at least once a week you're invited to join someone's LinkedIn, Plaxo, Ryze, Ning, Twitter or Facebook network. So how do you handle it?
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Tech bytes: Unified communications let you have it your way

In the 1990s, email gave business communications an exponential boost. About five years ago, Internet telephony — Voice over Internet Protocol, VoIP — made voice communications more efficient and effective with reduced costs, easily configured call handling and routing, and features like voicemail-to-email.
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The Zen of the empty inbox

How many messages are in your inbox? If you answered ‘none,’ congratulations. If you didn’t, keep reading.
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Copywriting for search engines

Your website is your storefront. But if you’re expecting the Web to help customers find you, you need to make sure that search engines find you first. And to do that, the text on your site needs to be search-engine friendly.
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Expanding your business network with social media

Chances are that in the past week someone has invited you to join their LinkedIn network. Online social networks, such as LinkedIn, are exploding, and almost anyone who’s online has participated in one — even if it’s just reading Wikipedia articles or blogs.
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The only sure thing about network security is its insecurity

If you’re reading this column, it’s a pretty sure bet that you already have a firewall, anti-spam protection and security on your wireless LAN. You’re safe, right? Wrong.

It’s an inescapable fact of network security life that threats evolve constantly. And some of today’s biggest threats today are coming from places that the routine measures don’t touch: inside your network and your website. Instead of attacking you, hackers use your resources to launch their attacks. In effect, the attack is coming from behind the lines of defense.

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Smartphones make smart holiday gifts

While the Apple iPhone has hogged the smartphone spotlight, for stocking stuffing this holiday, there are plenty of other choices with better prices and more business-friendly features on offer. But sorting out the smartphone landscape can be a challenge. While many target teenagers want to share photos and listen to music, professionals are looking for business-related features. Here’s a short guide for grownups looking for smarter tools to get their jobs done.
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Thinking About VoIP? You Should Be!

Now if you’re asking yourself, “What is VoIP?” then you definitely need to read on!
The Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a revolutionary new method for taking analog audio signals (telephone calls and voicemail) and turning them into digital data that can be transmitted over the Internet. While this revolution has transformed telecommunications, it has also complicated the job of picking a business phone system.

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