Rural Business-If Can Make It Here, You Can Make It Anywhere
Frank Sinatra got it wrong. Just because you can make it in New York city, or any city for that matter, doesn't mean you can make it in the country. This is especially true for rural-based businesses. Whether newly formed or part of the landscape for generations, businesses in rural America have unique communication opportunities and challenges.
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Uninformed and Unarmed
We see it so often that it never occurs to us it’s not true. It’s inscribed on police vehicles in cities across American—to protect and serve. The phrase resonates with the promise of security, an assurance of stability in emergency situations. It embodies the art of relationship building, a public relations strategy that emphasizes the interaction between two parties.
Kiddie Porn Pervert Saved by Second-Rate Crisis Management Team
I have proof that even a poor crisis management team is better than no crisis management team. Case in point: the Matt Bandy case. What follows is the story of how a shrewd lawyer was able to use a second-rate crisis management "expert" to direct the focus away from his perverted but quite wealthy client. The so-called expert and his web "master" used the ignorance of the computer illiterate to whip up fear of some cyber zombie that could cause your computer to download filthy pictures of small children being sexually abused and then save them to a CD and put that CD in your drawer without you ever knowing it. Ridiculous? Of course, but the retards of the world love a good evil science story, especially a hysterical made-up one.
Profitng From Plagiarism: 5 of the World's Most Famous Intellectual Property Thieves
Plagiarism has always been a problem, but educators, editors, writers, and artists agree that the Internet has opened the door to a flood of intellectual property thieves who would just as soon steal your work as your watch.
Database Crash? No Backup? Recover Your Content Anyway
One of the sites I own/manage crashed earlier this summer. It had some help, mostly from me. I learned a few lessons from the experience: 1) Never play around with MySQL after you've had a couple of beers and some allergy medicine, 2) Always back up your database before you begin any database modifications, and 3) backup your content every time you upload. I also learned how to recover content. Using a couple of search engines, Google and Bing, along with a free service called Copyscape.
The Seven Best Things About GoDaddy
I've been in the Web design business for ten years now, which means I've had the pleasure of dealing with any number of blithering idiots calling themselves hosting providers. You know the ones--you pay for a year up front, and they go out of business three weeks later, or they promise wonderful technical support, but when you desperately need their help, "...we're sorry, but all representatives are busy assisting other customers...blah, blah, blah." Others, like Network Solutions, did a fair enough job with customer service, but at what price?
