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Small and medium sized businesses throughout the UK are risking not being compliant with the new fire prevention laws that came into effect on 1st October 2006.Virtually all non-domestic premises in England and Wales are affected by the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order (RRO) 2005. The RRO states that anyone responsible for premises must carry out a fire safety risk assessment or face possible prosecution.A survey carried out by the Federation of Small Businesses in March highlighted the potential problems. A spokesman for the FSB commented, “We carried out a survey in March 2006 which showed 59% of firms in England and Wales were unaware of the new requirements”.So what can businesses do to make sure they are compliant?1. New fire safety guidance has been published by the department for communities and local government and can be downloaded from it's website at www.firesafetylaw.communities.gov.uk2. If you are still not sure if or how the new laws affect you contact your local fire safety officer3. Contact your insurance broker. They maybe ab
–Tim O'Reilly, What Is Web 2.0?
The hardcore purists out there aren't going to be too happy with this series of articles, because my focus, as I start describing how to create an RSS feed in the next article, will be on RSS 2.0, Dave Winer's "Really Simple Syndication." I've chosen that particular "flavor" of RSS because it allows me to really bring home the incredible simplicity of syndicating web content. My point here is to encourage more RSS usage, not scare anyone away.
What Are The Benefits of RSS?
I've only touched on some of the benefits of having an RSS feed. Things like the inherent search engine optimization are secondary to the incredible expansion of your audience that comes about through content syndication. You reach people that you would never have reached before. You're able to communicate with them and show them the value of your site and business as a resource.
It's perfectly acceptable to sell advertising on your feed.
YOUR AMYGDALA operates automatically like a default button on your computer. With repetition a groove is formed and your response becomes a habitual way of responding to similar situations.A “HOT” reactive Amygdala puts you on hyper alert and floods your body with a build-up of stress hormones, causing you to be hypersensitive and over reactive. You feel perpetually under attack.Your mental states continually shift from moment to moment. You develop strategies and emotional habits for dealing with life events. Warning lights flash on and off in your neural networks connecting the dots internally to guide you automatically to a preset response.You are like self fulfilling prophecy, being drawn into life events that will attract familiar scenarios, leading you to self defeating, sabotaging behavior and further distress.The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.Your Amygdala drives your prefrontal Cortex. Your seat of Higher States of Consciousness.Scientific research shows that a person choosing to stay focused in the present moment, and non reacting when under
RSS as an Update Announcer
To explain what RSS is and why it has everyone so excited, let me just start out on common ground with something we already know, a traditional website. Traditionally, a website contained whatever content may have been put on it and that content may be static or may change constantly. The problem here has always been that a user had no way of knowing when or if that content had changed other than checking back periodically or being notified by someone.
RSS solved that problem by "announcing" content updates. A site owner creates a special file called an RSS file along with a link to it, and this creates a "web feed." A web feed is a data format used for sending users content updates. Users have the option of "subscribing" to this feed either through a stand-alone desktop application called a "feed reader," through an online content aggregator like Newsburst, or, increasingly, directly through their standard web browser. Once subscribed, users are notified whenever there's new content posted to the feed. That's all well and good, but it doesn't end there.
RSS Web Feeds
An RSS web feed is actually just an XML-based file that sits on a site like any other file and contains whatever content the site owner wants to put into it for distribution. It can be created and maintained manually or dynamically (preferably the latter.) Part 3 of this series will cover the creation of such feeds. There's not really a lot to it.
I don't want to lose you in the terminology or the acronyms here. An XML document--especially of the type we're talking about here--is an extremely simple text document. The markup has certain similarities to HTML, but where HTML defines how to display the content, XML categorizes the content (for instance, identifying title, description, author, etc.) and does it in a machine-readable format which means that different software on different operating systems on different platforms can easily access and display that content. This is the part that allows for syndication. Numerous applications exist that look for such files, read the content, and parse it back out for use elsewhere.
RSS for Content Syndication
Content syndication is (by definition) the primary use of RSS. Originally, RSS files listed just the title of a piece, the author, the date of publication, a link back to the original content, and a quick summary to act as a kind of teaser to get you to go back to the original site to read the article--hence the mistaken view that it was only good for blog posts and news headlines. Now it includes syndication of full content--including HTML--along with "enclosures" to contain multimedia content like images, audio files, and video files and that content is being used in ever more imaginative ways. This needn't scare you away from using it.
RSS Content Usage
Primarily, RSS syndicated web content simply turns up in some form of RSS reader for the usage of an individual who wants to remain informed of content updates on your site. However, this syndication of content along with the inherent extensibility of XML allows for a kind of web presence and sharing of content that was never available before. It's the underlying workhorse or building block of the entire "Web 2.0" movement.
Web content stored and distributed in this manner can be accessed and processed in ways similar to database applications allowing your content to simply be replicated elsewhere or become the basis for an application built on the underlying data. It can turn up as content on another website. It's absolutely adored by search engines (practically search bot candy) which will often index it far faster and with better results than equivalent content on a standard HTML page.
Think syndication, not coordination. Simple web services, like RSS…are about syndicating data outwards, not controlling what happens when it gets to the other end of the connection. This idea is fundamental to the internet itself, a reflection of what is known as the end-to-end principle.
–Tim O'Reilly, What Is Web 2.0?
As much as I agree with the ideal expressed here by Tim O'Reilly, I tend to take a more pragmatic approach. I encourage you, if you're considering RSS syndication of your content, to set up a Creative Commons License allowing for the distribution of your content while requiring the retention of source attribution and backlinking. It's not that you don't want anyone else to use your content, but you should get something out of it as well. The idea here is not only to increase your web presence but also your underlying user base.
What Is RSS
With all this background in mind, we can get more directly into what RSS actually is. Wikipedia puts it this way:
RSS is a family of web feed formats. The initials "RSS" are variously used to refer to the following standards:Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)
Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0)
RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0)
–Wikipedia, RSS (file format)
and Tim O'Reilly refines that further (as is his disposition):
RSS is now being used to push not just notices of new blog entries, but also all kinds of data updates, including stock quotes, weather data, and photo availability. This use is actually a return to one of its roots: RSS was born in 1997 out of the confluence of Dave Winer's "Really Simple Syndication" technology, used to push out blog updates, and Netscape's "Rich Site Summary", which allowed users to create custom Netscape home pages with regularly updated data flows. Netscape lost interest, and the technology was carried forward by blogging pioneer Userland, Winer's company. In the current crop of applications, we see, though, the heritage of both parents.
–Tim O'Reilly, What Is Web 2.0?
The hardcore purists out there aren't going to be too happy with this series of articles, because my focus, as I start describing how to create an RSS feed in the next article, will be on RSS 2.0, Dave Winer's "Really Simple Syndication." I've chosen that particular "flavor" of RSS because it allows me to really bring home the incredible simplicity of syndicating web content. My point here is to encourage more RSS usage, not scare anyone away.
What Are The Benefits of RSS?
I've only touched on some of the benefits of having an RSS feed. Things like the inherent search engine optimization are secondary to the incredible expansion of your audience that comes about through content syndication. You reach people that you would never have reached before. You're able to communicate with them and show them the value of your site and business as a resource.
It's perfectly acceptable to sell advertising on your feed.
Preselling is a very important skill that you must learn if you want to be successful in your affiliate marketing business. You will have realized that in order to have a successful preselling, you will have to create valuable contents to your potential leads. When you do that, you will create the trust in the customer and they will be more incline to buy the product from you.This affiliate marketing presell formula article will be separated into 4 parts as it is a long article. I will touch on the part 1 of it in this article and it is to study your affiliate products.Since you will be preselling and promoting the affiliate products, it is only necessary that you take a good look at the affiliate products. The best solution is to buy the affiliate product and you personally go and use it. Think of yourself as a customer when you are using the products. Ask yourself these few questions:• Why do they need and buy this product?• What is the difference between the affiliate products from the other products in the market?If you really take your time and think about it, you will find out the reasons on why they buy the product, what
RSS Web Feeds
An RSS web feed is actually just an XML-based file that sits on a site like any other file and contains whatever content the site owner wants to put into it for distribution. It can be created and maintained manually or dynamically (preferably the latter.) Part 3 of this series will cover the creation of such feeds. There's not really a lot to it.
I don't want to lose you in the terminology or the acronyms here. An XML document--especially of the type we're talking about here--is an extremely simple text document. The markup has certain similarities to HTML, but where HTML defines how to display the content, XML categorizes the content (for instance, identifying title, description, author, etc.) and does it in a machine-readable format which means that different software on different operating systems on different platforms can easily access and display that content. This is the part that allows for syndication. Numerous applications exist that look for such files, read the content, and parse it back out for use elsewhere.
RSS for Content Syndication
Content syndication is (by definition) the primary use of RSS. Originally, RSS files listed just the title of a piece, the author, the date of publication, a link back to the original content, and a quick summary to act as a kind of teaser to get you to go back to the original site to read the article--hence the mistaken view that it was only good for blog posts and news headlines. Now it includes syndication of full content--including HTML--along with "enclosures" to contain multimedia content like images, audio files, and video files and that content is being used in ever more imaginative ways. This needn't scare you away from using it.
RSS Content Usage
Primarily, RSS syndicated web content simply turns up in some form of RSS reader for the usage of an individual who wants to remain informed of content updates on your site. However, this syndication of content along with the inherent extensibility of XML allows for a kind of web presence and sharing of content that was never available before. It's the underlying workhorse or building block of the entire "Web 2.0" movement.
Web content stored and distributed in this manner can be accessed and processed in ways similar to database applications allowing your content to simply be replicated elsewhere or become the basis for an application built on the underlying data. It can turn up as content on another website. It's absolutely adored by search engines (practically search bot candy) which will often index it far faster and with better results than equivalent content on a standard HTML page.
Think syndication, not coordination. Simple web services, like RSS…are about syndicating data outwards, not controlling what happens when it gets to the other end of the connection. This idea is fundamental to the internet itself, a reflection of what is known as the end-to-end principle.
–Tim O'Reilly, What Is Web 2.0?
As much as I agree with the ideal expressed here by Tim O'Reilly, I tend to take a more pragmatic approach. I encourage you, if you're considering RSS syndication of your content, to set up a Creative Commons License allowing for the distribution of your content while requiring the retention of source attribution and backlinking. It's not that you don't want anyone else to use your content, but you should get something out of it as well. The idea here is not only to increase your web presence but also your underlying user base.
What Is RSS
With all this background in mind, we can get more directly into what RSS actually is. Wikipedia puts it this way:
RSS is a family of web feed formats. The initials "RSS" are variously used to refer to the following standards:Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)
Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0)
RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0)
–Wikipedia, RSS (file format)
and Tim O'Reilly refines that further (as is his disposition):
RSS is now being used to push not just notices of new blog entries, but also all kinds of data updates, including stock quotes, weather data, and photo availability. This use is actually a return to one of its roots: RSS was born in 1997 out of the confluence of Dave Winer's "Really Simple Syndication" technology, used to push out blog updates, and Netscape's "Rich Site Summary", which allowed users to create custom Netscape home pages with regularly updated data flows. Netscape lost interest, and the technology was carried forward by blogging pioneer Userland, Winer's company. In the current crop of applications, we see, though, the heritage of both parents.
–Tim O'Reilly, What Is Web 2.0?
The hardcore purists out there aren't going to be too happy with this series of articles, because my focus, as I start describing how to create an RSS feed in the next article, will be on RSS 2.0, Dave Winer's "Really Simple Syndication." I've chosen that particular "flavor" of RSS because it allows me to really bring home the incredible simplicity of syndicating web content. My point here is to encourage more RSS usage, not scare anyone away.
What Are The Benefits of RSS?
I've only touched on some of the benefits of having an RSS feed. Things like the inherent search engine optimization are secondary to the incredible expansion of your audience that comes about through content syndication. You reach people that you would never have reached before. You're able to communicate with them and show them the value of your site and business as a resource.
It's perfectly acceptable to sell advertising on your feed.
With lack of funding many schools are forced to shut down programs that have been in place for decades. Lack of funding has required that parents or groups have had to step up to the plate and create ways of funding these programs that are needed to keep our young people busy doing constructive things. Youth fund raising has become a very popular way of raising money for projects that are not funded. With money raised, popular programs that keep the students busy are not having to be eliminated and the kids are able to participate in the fund raising event as well. This article will give some simple youth fund raising ideas and tips.Youth fund raising gives you the chance to help students and parents all work together for a common cause. The opportunity will give the students a chance to get to know others as well as teach them to work together as a group. You can use each youth fund raising event as an opportunity for teaching all kinds of things as you go along. We often don't appreciate what we have until we lose it and by having to raise money for a project, will make you gain a new respect for it. Each student involved in the youth fund raising will
RSS Content Usage
Primarily, RSS syndicated web content simply turns up in some form of RSS reader for the usage of an individual who wants to remain informed of content updates on your site. However, this syndication of content along with the inherent extensibility of XML allows for a kind of web presence and sharing of content that was never available before. It's the underlying workhorse or building block of the entire "Web 2.0" movement.
Web content stored and distributed in this manner can be accessed and processed in ways similar to database applications allowing your content to simply be replicated elsewhere or become the basis for an application built on the underlying data. It can turn up as content on another website. It's absolutely adored by search engines (practically search bot candy) which will often index it far faster and with better results than equivalent content on a standard HTML page.
Think syndication, not coordination. Simple web services, like RSS…are about syndicating data outwards, not controlling what happens when it gets to the other end of the connection. This idea is fundamental to the internet itself, a reflection of what is known as the end-to-end principle.
–Tim O'Reilly, What Is Web 2.0?
As much as I agree with the ideal expressed here by Tim O'Reilly, I tend to take a more pragmatic approach. I encourage you, if you're considering RSS syndication of your content, to set up a Creative Commons License allowing for the distribution of your content while requiring the retention of source attribution and backlinking. It's not that you don't want anyone else to use your content, but you should get something out of it as well. The idea here is not only to increase your web presence but also your underlying user base.
What Is RSS
With all this background in mind, we can get more directly into what RSS actually is. Wikipedia puts it this way:
RSS is a family of web feed formats. The initials "RSS" are variously used to refer to the following standards:Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)
Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0)
RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0)
–Wikipedia, RSS (file format)
and Tim O'Reilly refines that further (as is his disposition):
RSS is now being used to push not just notices of new blog entries, but also all kinds of data updates, including stock quotes, weather data, and photo availability. This use is actually a return to one of its roots: RSS was born in 1997 out of the confluence of Dave Winer's "Really Simple Syndication" technology, used to push out blog updates, and Netscape's "Rich Site Summary", which allowed users to create custom Netscape home pages with regularly updated data flows. Netscape lost interest, and the technology was carried forward by blogging pioneer Userland, Winer's company. In the current crop of applications, we see, though, the heritage of both parents.
–Tim O'Reilly, What Is Web 2.0?
The hardcore purists out there aren't going to be too happy with this series of articles, because my focus, as I start describing how to create an RSS feed in the next article, will be on RSS 2.0, Dave Winer's "Really Simple Syndication." I've chosen that particular "flavor" of RSS because it allows me to really bring home the incredible simplicity of syndicating web content. My point here is to encourage more RSS usage, not scare anyone away.
What Are The Benefits of RSS?
I've only touched on some of the benefits of having an RSS feed. Things like the inherent search engine optimization are secondary to the incredible expansion of your audience that comes about through content syndication. You reach people that you would never have reached before. You're able to communicate with them and show them the value of your site and business as a resource.
It's perfectly acceptable to sell advertising on your feed.
After you have joined an affiliate program, there are several crucial steps you will need to take in order to succeed. Without taking the steps outline below, your chances of succeeding will be limited. By simply following these guidelines, you will be able to increase your affiliate commissions and earn some money you can live on.A lot of people fail with affiliate programs because they do not have the necessary affiliate program information.Generally, the best way of succeeding with affiliate programs in to choose a niche; create a useful and content-rich and keyword-rich website on the specific topic of your niche, and add in your affiliate links and AdSense ads.So what is the critical affiliate program information you will need to know, and the steps you need to take for you to succeed with your affiliate program?1. Set your objective of how much you want to earn. You will need a goal to work towards. How much do you want to earn per month? It also helps to visualize what you want to achieve with this goal. Pay off your car? A holiday? You must start with an achievable amount, and gradually increase this amount.2. Find a ni
–Tim O'Reilly, What Is Web 2.0?
As much as I agree with the ideal expressed here by Tim O'Reilly, I tend to take a more pragmatic approach. I encourage you, if you're considering RSS syndication of your content, to set up a Creative Commons License allowing for the distribution of your content while requiring the retention of source attribution and backlinking. It's not that you don't want anyone else to use your content, but you should get something out of it as well. The idea here is not only to increase your web presence but also your underlying user base.
What Is RSS
With all this background in mind, we can get more directly into what RSS actually is. Wikipedia puts it this way:
RSS is a family of web feed formats. The initials "RSS" are variously used to refer to the following standards:Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)
Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0)
RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0)
–Wikipedia, RSS (file format)
and Tim O'Reilly refines that further (as is his disposition):
RSS is now being used to push not just notices of new blog entries, but also all kinds of data updates, including stock quotes, weather data, and photo availability. This use is actually a return to one of its roots: RSS was born in 1997 out of the confluence of Dave Winer's "Really Simple Syndication" technology, used to push out blog updates, and Netscape's "Rich Site Summary", which allowed users to create custom Netscape home pages with regularly updated data flows. Netscape lost interest, and the technology was carried forward by blogging pioneer Userland, Winer's company. In the current crop of applications, we see, though, the heritage of both parents.
–Tim O'Reilly, What Is Web 2.0?
The hardcore purists out there aren't going to be too happy with this series of articles, because my focus, as I start describing how to create an RSS feed in the next article, will be on RSS 2.0, Dave Winer's "Really Simple Syndication." I've chosen that particular "flavor" of RSS because it allows me to really bring home the incredible simplicity of syndicating web content. My point here is to encourage more RSS usage, not scare anyone away.
What Are The Benefits of RSS?
I've only touched on some of the benefits of having an RSS feed. Things like the inherent search engine optimization are secondary to the incredible expansion of your audience that comes about through content syndication. You reach people that you would never have reached before. You're able to communicate with them and show them the value of your site and business as a resource.
It's perfectly acceptable to sell advertising on your feed.
We all continually learn new things in life. Constantly increasing our knowledge is essential if we are to progress further or develop ourselves.Whatever field we are involved in, we always have to look for ways and means to expand our knowledge. Increase in knowledge in a particular subject can lead to better understanding, grasp, judgement, intelligence and ability in that area. It can expand our thinking and heighten our expertise on a topic.So how do we go about gaining knowledge? What are the sources of knowledge? Below I am listing a few sources from which we gain knowledge in any field.1. People: I think people are the biggest source of knowledge for anybody. Right from childhood, we have learned things by watching others. Whatever field you want to gain knowledge in, there must be many who have enough experience in that field.So make use of this valuable source of information by learning from the experience, accomplishments, mistakes and expertise of others. Study carefully and associate with people who are experts in the field you want to gain knowledge about.2. Books: The next best source of knowledge
–Tim O'Reilly, What Is Web 2.0?
The hardcore purists out there aren't going to be too happy with this series of articles, because my focus, as I start describing how to create an RSS feed in the next article, will be on RSS 2.0, Dave Winer's "Really Simple Syndication." I've chosen that particular "flavor" of RSS because it allows me to really bring home the incredible simplicity of syndicating web content. My point here is to encourage more RSS usage, not scare anyone away.
What Are The Benefits of RSS?
I've only touched on some of the benefits of having an RSS feed. Things like the inherent search engine optimization are secondary to the incredible expansion of your audience that comes about through content syndication. You reach people that you would never have reached before. You're able to communicate with them and show them the value of your site and business as a resource.
It's perfectly acceptable to sell advertising on your feed. Keep this in mind always, unlike other methods of advertising, every single person reading your feed has willingly opted-in to receive your message. They won't consider it spam.
RSS was designed to empower the user to view the content he or she wants, when it's wanted, not at the behest of the information provider.
–Tim O'Reilly, What Is Web 2.0?
Where Do I Get The Content?
The question of where to get the content to feed out always amazes me. Unless your site is absolutely static, unless there's nothing there that changes, unless it's the online equivalent of a pre-printed brochure, you have content to syndicate. Even the tiniest websites are not excluded from this, because it's not about having money for great content productions.
If your business updates any of its site content--even if it's only once or twice a month--you have content to syndicate. Anything from product announcements to job postings represent syndicatable web content. Each of these can be fed into separate RSS files and syndicated separately. Each of them can be used to expand your business branding, presence, user base, message, and sales reminders. Each of them will take their own roads through the Internet and reach people you would never have reached otherwise.
Some Final Words
RSS is an incredibly powerful tool easily implemented with enormous benefits going far beyond the site itself. I implore you, if you haven't done it already, then, for the good of your site, for the good of your business, and for the good of your users, please, please, feed your site.
Thank you all, code well, and good night.
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