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Queue Management System used in Job Fair for orderly process

The seminar will be at the BFAR Auditiorium, Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan City, on May 26, 2011 from 9am to 5pm. Interested participants are urged to sign up here.

Agenda Inlcudes:

• eCommerce Fundamentals, Law, Strategy
• Advantages and business models on the web
• Guidelines for Merchants
• Mobile Commerce
• Internet Branding and Advertising
• Internet Payment
• Practicum: Setting up your own webstore.

Google has announced that they made a major change in their ranking algorithm:

“We launched a pretty big algorithmic improvement to our ranking [...] This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites?sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful.

At the same time, it will provide better rankings for high-quality sites?sites with original content and information such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and so on.”

This is an addition to the scraper spam update that Google released earlier this month.

This is a noticeable update that affects about 12% of all queries and the search result pages can change a lot:

“We can’t make a major improvement without affecting rankings for many sites. It has to be that some sites will go up and some will go down. [...] It is important for high-quality sites to be rewarded, and that’s exactly what this change does.”

Queue Management System Beta

BNShosting is opening the beta version of our queueing system to the public for testing. The project was led by Mark Gutierrez and by team members from Cagayan State University students.

Please feel free to let us know what improvements can be done to it. Visit this to download the free beta http://www.queue-systems.com/

After attending the garag3.com sponsored event in Singapore, here are some ideas I was able to learn and share with you here:

Getting Donations:

http://www.kickstarter.com/

Kickstarter lists projects from the creative arts—Art, Dance, Film, Music, Photography, Publishing, and Theater—as well as projects from the diverse and creative fields of Food, Design, Fashion, Technology, Games, comics and jouranlism. People then choose which projects they would like to fund. It could be yours.

One sample success story is from the Moonchild project. Sara Chong and Chen Yanyun, was in dire need of donations in order to finally finish their animated film – “Moonchild”  They aimed for only 2000 USD in 60 days, but already got more than 4000 USD in 6 days!

Getting Equity Investors:

http://www.profounder.com/
ProFounder was created to ensure all entrepreneurs have access to the resources they need through the engagement of robust, supportive communities. Traditional funding sources can be expensive, difficult to access, or not a great fit for many small enterprises. Instead, we believe that communities can be the best source for the energy, encouragement, tools and capital small business entrepreneurs need to succeed.

Getting Loans:

http://www.kiva.org/

Kiva’s mission is to connect people, through lending, for the sake of alleviating poverty. Kiva empowers individuals to lend to an entrepreneur across the globe. By combining microfinance with the internet, Kiva is creating a global community of people connected through lending

I am sure that the Philippine government has counterpart funding scheme of some sort similar to Singapore’s Spring, MDA and IDA programs, but I am not aware of any at this point. If you have information about this, kindly share it with us here.

View their demo on http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-flash-professional-cs4/using-kuler-color-themes

For rapid site development and webpage prototyping, use this software from www.balsamiq.com . It lets you quickly add wireframes using your keyboard, drag and drop interfaces for simplicity, allows you to re-use symbol libraries to create master templates, and is fully cross-platform!

Why dont  you try it out?

These same channels are now used by a growing number of businesses to reach new customers. This briefing will share case studies and practical tips on how can Dagupenos maximize the potential of social media to reach new customers and engage existing ones.

Seminar: Using Social Media to Promote your Business
Speaker: Ms Janette Toral
When: January 13, 2011
Where: BFAR Auditorium, Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan, Pangasinan
Time: 9am to 12pm
Target Audience: Company executives and web developers in Luzon area
Participant Limit: 100 seats only
Price: 450.00 per person

Interested parties are urged to reserve their seats by click here.