Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Powerful Twitter Marketing Strategies for Advertising Your Business ...

The interesting aspect regarding Twitter is that so many small businesses are more or less not sure how to properly use it. While that is true, there are generally solid reasons why any business marketing functions the way it does. Obviously, we can only do what we know and understand resting on our current level of expertise. However, Twitter can seem like the least understood social site, but that does not mean you are not able to understand it or use it to your advantage. Once you have an accurate idea about how to use Twitter, then you are going to be in a great position to promote your business or products. There are two choices for the internet marketer at Twitter, and so this means you need to be aware of how to conduct your self there. What we have been talking about are those costly errors in promotion that can seriously damage your business.

If you want to experience any kind of chance for good results, then you must agree to the necessity of doing true relationship marketing. Obviously not every person you interact with there will be in your particular market which is fine. Just take into account that you need to have relationships with people who are from your unique market. If you are able to speak with people with no pretenses, then you?re halfway there with any group at Twitter. Speak mostly about things not related to business, and that means almost anything that is proper. It all comes down to your particular market, but generally speaking confine your discussions so they do not offend your market. In no way be too private because ultimately you are representing yourself and your business.

If you would like to be established, and not disregarded, then you should really keep the self-promotion and advertising to a minimum. One of the most detrimental things you can do is promote too much, and you will need to get a sense for what is too much. There may be occasions when it is perfectly appropriate to drop some sort of advertisement, even so that will be a judgement call. If you would like to have an idea regarding it, then perhaps two times out of ten is a decent guideline to go by. But beyond that, you really should keep your business out of the chats. Relationships are effective in business, so that?s what you mainly need to focus on.

Along the lines of social networking and relationship building, be happy to tell your Twitter audience about improvements. These news items can be something true about your business or even personal life. We all recognize that people, generally speaking, can be too fascinated in news about other people. In this same concept of sharing at Twitter, when you write about a news item it is fine to involve a link to your own business site if it is applicable to the story. One word of warning is to be straightforward about why you are spreading this news. Keep in mind to network, share and apply discipline with direct promotion of your business.
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Orvillecopter: Dead cat becomes flying machine

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Left Coast Rebel: The Evolutionary Health Insurance System We ...

By Frank Hill

This is a direct lift from a very good book you should consider reading very soon, 'The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Religion and Politics' by UVa professor of social psychology specializing in evolutionary psychology, Jonathan Haidt.


Maybe we do have a chance of 'evolving' out of this current ideological impasse that has frozen our national politics into doing nothing of any consequence over our debt situation for these past 12 years now and counting.


We have written about this issue before (see 'Gutter Insurance') and it has to do with the complete absurdity of our current health 'insurance' system, either current or post-Obama health care legislation...

We don't have a 'health insurance' system in America today. ?We have a pre-paid 'health payment' system in America. ?The massive federal expansion to take full root in 2014 as passed by then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and signed into law by President Obama in 2010 only exacerbates the current problematic system.


What we all 'want' and really and truly 'need' in America for the 21st century is a national plan?administered?by the states that will cover the 'catastrophic' costs of every citizen.?


We don't buy car insurance (mandated by each and every state if you want to drive a car legally) to cover the cost of every oil change and lube job. We buy car insurance to cover the costs of the damages to the car when damaged in an accident and to cover the liability in the case of it being your fault.

Not the same with the current health insurance market in America or Medicare and Medicaid for that matter. ?Virtually every health 'payment fee for service' plan in America covers everything from the smallest hangnail removal to the catastrophic costs of a head injury or illness due to diabetes, heat attack, cancer and stroke. ?That is exactly like buying car insurance to pay for every oil change, lube job and touch-up paint to the exterior.




Imagine just how expensive car insurance would be with such add-on features. ?It would be ridiculous.


Same with health insurance. ?Covering everyone in the nation purely for catastrophic cases would cost on average $350/month per person from age 18 to 90 according to some actuaries with whom we correspond. The chances of an 18-year old having catastrophic costs are infinitesimal to the chances of an 80-year old entering the hospital for a long-term illness. ?But any insurance plan would plan on having the younger cohorts in effect 'subsidize' the older cohorts and setting up such a national plan administered by the states would do just that.


See what Professor Haidt has to say about this situation on pages 303-304 when he references a fine article by David Goldhill, a Democrat businessman, published in The Atlantic in 2009 titled: 'How American Health Care Killed My Father':
'One of his main points was the absurdity of using insurance to pay for routine purchases. ?
Normally we buy insurance to cover the risk of a catastrophic loss. ?We enter an insurance pool with other people to spread the risk around, and we hope to never collect a penny. ?We handle routine expenses ourselves, seeking the highest quality for the lowest price. ?We would never file a claim on our car insurance for an oil change.
The next time you go to the supermarket, look closely at a can of peas. ?Think about all the work that went into it--the farmers, truckers, and supermarket employees, the miners and metal-workers who made the can, -- and think how miraculous it is that you can buy this can for under a dollar.
At every step of the way, competition among suppliers rewarded those whose innovations shaved a penny off the cost of getting that can to you. ?If God is commonly thought to have created the world and then arranged it for our benefit, then the free market (and its invisible hand) is a pretty good candidate for being a god. ?You can begin to understand why Libertarians sometimes have a quasi-religious faith in free markets.
Now let's do the devil's work and spread chaos throughout the marketplace. ?Suppose that one day all prices were removed from all products in the supermarket. ?All labels too, beyond a simple description of the contents, so you can't compare products from different companies.
You just take whatever you want, as much as you want, and you bring it up to the cash register. ?The checkout clerk scans in your food insurance card and helps you fill out your itemized claim. ?You pay a flat fee of $10 and go home with your groceries.
A month later, you get a bill informing you that your food insurance company will pay the supermarket for most of the remaining cost, but you'll have to send in a check for an additional $15. ?It might sound like a bargain to get a cartload of food for $25, but you are really paying your grocery bill every month when you (or your company) fork over $2000 for your food insurance premium.
Under such a system, there is little incentive for anyone to find innovative ways to reduce the cost of food or increase its quality. ?The supermarkets get paid by the insurers, and the insurers get their premiums from you. ?The cost of food insurance begins to rise as supermarkets stock only foods that net them the highest insurance payments, not the foods that deliver value to you.
As the cost of food rises, many people can no longer afford it. ?Liberals push for a new government program to buy food insurance for the poor and elderly. ?But once the government becomes the major purchaser of food, then success in the supermarket and food insurance industries depends primarily on maximizing yield from government payouts.
Before you know it, that can of peas costs the government $30, and all of us are paying 25 percent of our paychecks in taxes just to cover the cost of buying groceries for each other at hugely inflated costs.
That, says Goldhill, is what we've done to ourselves. ?As long as consumers are spared from taking price into account---that is, as long as someone else is always paying for your choices--things will get worse.'
And so on. ?Haidt goes on to explain how the market supply and demand forces have conspired to drive DOWN the cost of LASIK eye surgery by close to 80% since it was first introduced. ?The procedure is rarely covered by insurance and services are delivered on a cash basis.

As we continue to sort through this desultory economy (made only worse by yesterday's desultory jobs report coupled with gloomy economic forecasts in the EU, China and Japan), maybe now is the time not only to be thinking about who our next President to lead us out of this crisis should be but what sort of economy and society we want to live in going forward.


Is it one directed from the top-down in Washington and the state capitals? Or one where every individual gets to makes their own economic decisions and the providers of such services even in health care have to compete with one another to see who can deliver the best service at the lowest possible cost?


Which is the America in which you want to live out the rest of your life and in which you want your children to grow up and live long and prosper (with apologies to Mr. Spock and the Vulcans)?

(Editor's Note: Frank Hill's r?sum? includes working as chief of staff for Senator Elizabeth Dole and Congressman Alex McMillan, serving on the House Budget Committee, and serving on the Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform. He takes on politics from a fiercely independent perspective at the blog Telemachus).

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These Guys Are Now the Craziest Climbing Russians of All Craziest Climbing Russians [Video]

What the goddamn hell is wrong with these Russians? First some mad ones climbed some towers. Then a crazy dude climbed up a skyscraper. Then some other nutcases spidermanned a bridge. And now these ones, who are just completely out of their mind. More »


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Sunday, June 3, 2012

Edwards' mistress Rielle Hunter publishing memoir

This photo provided by RMT PR Management shows the cover of "What Really Happened," a memoir about Rielle Hunter, her relationship with former presidential candidate and Sen. John Edwards and their daughter. The memoir is set to be released June 26. Edwards and Hunter had an affair while the Democrat was running for the White House in 2008 and have a daughter together, Frances Quinn Hunter. (AP Photo/RMT PR Management)

This photo provided by RMT PR Management shows the cover of "What Really Happened," a memoir about Rielle Hunter, her relationship with former presidential candidate and Sen. John Edwards and their daughter. The memoir is set to be released June 26. Edwards and Hunter had an affair while the Democrat was running for the White House in 2008 and have a daughter together, Frances Quinn Hunter. (AP Photo/RMT PR Management)

(AP) ? John Edwards' mistress Rielle Hunter is publishing a memoir about her relationship with the former presidential candidate and their daughter.

Jennifer Canzoneri, marketing manager at Dallas-based BenBella Books, says "What Really Happened" is set to be released on June 26.

Edwards and Hunter had an affair while the Democrat was running for the White House in 2008 and have a daughter together, Frances Quinn Hunter.

On Thursday, a jury acquitted Edwards on one count of illegally accepting campaign contributions and deadlocked on five other charges. He had been accused of orchestrating a plan to use money from campaign donors to hide Hunter while he ran for the White House.

His relationship with Hunter currently remains unclear.

Associated Press

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Panorama9


Panorama9 ($1.50 per user per month; free available) is a cloud-based IT management platform that offers administrators real-time tracking on company assets, availability, security vulnerabilities, and compliance. All the information from all the computers in the organization is automatically gathered and rolled up in a high-level overview. Administrators can easily drill down to find the precise issue and the actual machine.

Panorama9 offers small to mid-sized companies a way to manage a long list of IT tasks through a single "pane of glass," using the Software as a Service (SaaS) platform. The system also recently added patch management capabilities, in which the monitoring server tracks what software and operating system each computer on the network is running, and updates older software to the latest versions. Similar tools include Spiceworks (free), Nagios (open source) and GFI Max.

Unfortunately, Panorama9 is currently only available for Windows machines. The company is currently working on an agent for Macs. This review looks at version 2.6.9.

Panorama9 is different from most monitoring applications in that it doesn't require agents to be installed on to every single machine. This can be a logistical nightmare for administrators to manage, and some systems can't have other software installed?even if it is a management tool. Instead, Panorama9 takes advantage of Microsoft's Active Directory to communicate with all other computers on the domain. The agent software is installed on only one computer, which acts as a centralized server, and that machine gathers information from others on the network before pushing it up to the cloud platform.

Features
With Panorama9, administrators can gain remote control of machines, create network maps, monitor all the systems in a network, receive text or email notifications when something goes wrong, generate reports reflecting network status, manage users, keep track of licenses being used within the organization, patch management, and track hardware assets. Thanks to the easy-to-use IT dashboard, administrators are able to see security threats or vulnerabilities, system availability, track compliance policies, and gain a complete asset management overview.

The features available vary by the type of subscription plan the customer selects. The free version has limited features, supporting vulnerability and availability monitoring and compliance and asset management. Only one user is available for the free version. The "Small" plan ($0.89 per device per month) supports three users and has all the capabilities in the free version as well as the ability to monitor three Websites. The "Regular" plan ($1.50 per device per month) supports unlimited number of users, same capabilities as the free version, unlimited number of Websites, a network map to see all the monitored devices, the ability to generate reports and receive email and SMS notifications. The "Enterprise" version ($2.25 per device per month) has everything the regular version offers, as well as patch management capabilities.

Agent 1-2-3
When a customer signs up for Panorama9, a confirmation email containing a download link for the agent software and login credentials for the dashboard is sent to the customer Inbox. The email lays out the installation process in a 1-2-3 list and has a few helpful hints. There's also a link to a video that explains how the agent works.

The server on which Panorama9 would be installed requires .NET Framework version 3.5. When the install wizard started, I checked off the "enable deployment" option and entered the username and password for an administrator account on a Microsoft Active Directory domain. After installation, the agent uses the credentials to gather information from the other computers on the domain.

The information is asked in the wizard because it's stored only on this central computer. Panorama9's cloud servers never see this information, which should reassure security administrators.

As programs go, Panorama9 is quite low-impact, with no icons or folders on the system. It installed two services, one to perform the actual monitoring, and another that updates the agent when a newer version is available.

Getting Started With the Cloud
Once the agent was installed, I logged into the Web-based dashboard from the same machine. The helpful confirmation email advised me to wait ten minutes before logging in to give the agent time to send data about the server as well as others in the network. That ten minute interval may just be applicable to large networks. When I checked the dashboard five minutes later, data from all four machines were already on the system.

I didn't have to enable deployment on the central server to automatically gather data from other machines. I could follow a more manual process by logging into the dashboard and downloading the agent individually on each machine. This is tedious, and also took much longer for the data to be transferred to the dashboard. While this lets me add machines on other subnets and different domains to the same dashboard, I far preferred letting the serverdo the bulk of the work.

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Myanmar abandons nuclear research: defense minister

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