I was just linked to this video via CopyBlogger. It is a great example of why I love Apple. Their ideology fits their products and their products in tern fit their ideology. Be sure to share this video with friends if you like it.
Art is significant in my life, people are scum but I have the capicity to deal with it. Give it a few more years and I will either forget about art or hate the world.
Check it out for yourself to see if you have the Affliction like I do.
An old friend of mine who is now a dj just happened to stop by my house when he got back into town from college and needed a website made. As it happens I make websites so I help him out and my company created dj-phiction.com with all the fun features a Chicago Disk Jockey would need.
Be sure to check it out and download his mixes. They are great! You can also join his groups on facebook and myspace, get his newsletter, and leave him a comment on the site.
Today is a day I have been waiting for since August when I found out about the revolutionary concept of Blog Action Day - a day when blogs from all around the world discuss a singular topic. Blog Action Day is here! And the topic is the Environment.
Why does the world need changing?
For centuries now, in our ignorance, we have been using up the world resources that can never be brought back once they are gone. In doing so, our consumption has lead to pollution and destruction of earth’s fragile structure.
Now that all this has occured we are faced with a big question mark where tomorrow used to be. For years now we have ignored the vital signs and brushed it off with the excuse of being to busy or not stopping progression.
I say We in all of this because We are the problem. Not the Bush administration alone, not big corporations, not the wealthy elite. It is us. All of us. And it will now take all of us to fix the problem.
What is being done?
We are at a time now like no other in history. Today there are a growing number of people fighting, not for money or power but instead for a better world to live in.
There are now activist groups and scientists working together to get active about climate crisis. Our former vice president, Al Gore, and his governmental council have just won a Nobel Prize for their efforts to inform the world about this major problem that effects us all.
The people are speaking out and companies are listening, making products and services that are more eco friendly. Governments and nations from around the world are doing their part to become more earth conscious in efforts to preserve their futures and all of our futures.
What needs to be done?
The United States Government, along with several others have neglected this problem and still do. They need to take initiative, regardless of any personal reasons they may have not to find alternative fuel sources and build a better society to coincide with the earth we all inhabit.
People need to get smart fast. Schools, Workplaces, Media should all press onward in educating the populous in doing what needs to be done. They will not do it unless there is a great push by the people who already know enough to understand our crisis.
People don’t like change so it is difficult to get the world to make a difference for the next generations of man kind. It must be stressed that this is not a matter of inconvenience but instead a matter of life or death for our grandchildren, children, and even ourselves.
[Moment for a deep breath]
We can all do something to change. Use recycled products, walk or bike instead of driving short distance, turn the lights off when we leave a room, don’t buy from companies known to pollute, vote canidates into office who want to make a change, etc. If each person just pushed themselves the smallest bit into common sense changes to make the world better, it would be better for all of us.
Here are a few links related to this topic.
Clarity Multimedia: Greener Business Article
Environmental Protection Agency
Clean Power Now
Blog Action Day
Live Earth
My first website was frankly a travesty. It was mainly a grand experiment of mine to learn how to do everything I needed online. It was also unfortunately my first company website.
The first business venture I attempted was selling art. My Company name was Trent Company and I invested a fair amount of personal fund into it, as did my two business partners. The company and our web enterprise was a complete failure and one of the largest reasons was the name of our website.
Today I want to talk about just that; getting the right domain name for your company or professional skill. It is not very easy now a days with the high demand for domain names but can still be accomplished. Here are some important questions to ask.
Is it available? When Naming your company in the first place check to see it the domain name is available. This seems silly but success in business today mean having a website so add it into consideration.
Is it short enough? Keep the domain name short. If your company name is Hanson Industrial Complexes Incorporated then you may need to shorten it to be easily accessed by visitors. People are lazy for the most part and don’t want to type a long name and in most cases cannot spell efficiently. So instead make it something like hansonindustrial.com, hansonind.com or hansonindinc.com. This will be much easier to type by your patrons.
Do I need more than one domain? Buy multiple domains. You can have one domain name hosting your site and have multiples forwarding to it. If your name or parts of your company are available (as domains) then buy the names and forward them to your main domain. That way when people don’t know your official web address, their guesses will probably forward them to it.
Is is marketable? A very important question to ask yourself when selecting your domain name is just this. You need to be able to easily have it added and recognized in advertising efforts as well as be able to verbally communicated it. Make it memorable and easy to pronounce and spell.
Are there any odd spellings? Our first website address had the word “premiere” in it. The problems were two. One, we found that many people did not know how to spell premiere (weird huh?) and we also found that premiere is spelled two different ways; premiere and premier. This caused a lot of confusion and made it impossible to market verbally and hard to do it even in print.
When choosing your domain name for your business enterprise do not tread lightly. It is very important and cannot be changed in the future without concequence. Once you build popularity, your site will inevitably be linked to and picked up by search engines. By changing your domain at any point you are rendering that build up useless and basically starting over again.
Take the time and consideration necessary to bring your company to the world wide web.
I just finished watching the tutorials over at the Steven Price Productions website and was very impressed. It also reminded me of a good lesson in business practice.
Some businesses like to keep all their methods a big secret like they are magicians or double agents. This is not necessary because your customers and competitors can easily find out all the ingredients you use or techniques you apply by other means. It is your personal creativity or ideas that will get and keep customers.
Even above that logic is giving away some of the tricks up your sleeve like Steven Price did over at his company website. By demonstrating in the tutorials he is bringing advantages to his customers in several ways.
1. He is bringing understanding about the process that goes into his work to his clients and potential clients. This allows them to feel more comfortable with pricing and timeframes.
2. It allows customers to see a little taste of his skill as a video developer and then their impression could lead to sales.
Doing little things like revealing how just a few of the tricks work (but not all) can lead to more and better customer relations. Think now on what you could do to show your customers a little of your style.
To see the tutorials and more cool stuff like SP.TV check out Steven Price Productions dot Com
I am trying my hand at some video editing for a website of mine called Blog for Squares. Even though it is not a service of my company, video has always been an interest of mine. Soon I will be releasing the Introductory Video for my blog on unconventional thinking.
So stay tuned.
