Blog Entries tagged 'Advice'

My Warrior Saints and Other Books You Gotta Have For the Kids!

webmaster@orthodoxbiz.com — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:00:00 +0100

I just got in a whole collection of children's books from Potamitis Publishing, and found myself blown away!

Not only is my wife a Sunday school teacher, but we also homeschool our 8 year old son. Quality Orthodox books for children are something we are constantly looking for. Our son is big into action/adventure stories, like mo [...]

How To Build Web Links That Will Charm The Search Engines

henrybent@yahoo.com — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:00:00 +0100

How links from other sites can improve a web site’s ranking in search listings is one of the least understood aspects of search engine optimization.

“Link building has always been a part of search engine optimization” says Glen Chancy chief information officer of Corfun Inc , which helps web site owners optimize their search engine ranking. “Link building is powerful. One link or a handful of links can boost your ranking incredibly.”

What is [...]

Online Forums with the Aim to Create Customer Loyalty

henrybent@yahoo.com — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:00:00 +0100

One of the new and exciting advantages to the computer age is the ability for people to join, meet and share common interest online. This has lead to the phenomenal growth in online forums.

An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site. From a technological standpoint, forums or boards are web applications managing user-generated content. People participating in an Internet forum may cultivate social bonds and interest groups.

Forums are relatively inexpe [...]

3 Mistakes Most People Make When They Meet a Stranger

henrybent@yahoo.com — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:00:00 +0100

When you a stranger, you are planting tiny seeds of possible business relationship with each person you meet. There's no guarantee that you'll doing business right away but over time you'll harvest a large crop!

I've noticed a few common mistakes that most people make when meeting o [...]

High CPU Usage with Your Content Management System

webmaster@orthodoxbiz.com — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:00:00 +0100

Content Management Systems are growing in popularity as a framework for running Websites. A Content Management System (CMS) automates many of the repetitive tasks associated with running a Website. Using a script framework and a database, a CMS lets organizations sponsoring Websites focus on publishing content to the Web. A CMS framework also comes bund [...]

Getting Links to Your Website or Blog: Rating in Google Where It Counts

webmaster@orthodoxbiz.com — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:13:21 +0100

For optimizing Search Engine Placement and driving referral traffic, getting links to your business or ministry site is absolutely essential. Unfortunately, despite the critical need for this, many Webmasters don't even know how to check the links they currently have, much less how to get more.

If you have Google Webmaster Tools, then you know that you can just log in and check these stats from your Dashboard. Google Webmaster services are all free, and I highly recommend that any Webma [...]

Gaming Google: Tips for Getting High Search Engine Placement

webmaster@orthodoxbiz.com — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:33:32 +0100

If I say the phrase, Orthodox author to you, what name comes to mind? Tolstoy? Dostoevsky? Perhaps a Theological writer like Bishop Kallistos Ware or Father Alexander Schmemann?

But, if you searched for the phrase Orthodox author using Google for the first few weeks of December 2007, you wouldn't find any of those famous authors at the top of the search results.

Instead, you would find Heather Zydek and Father Leon Castner .

Look at the results page below to see this:

God Loves Tech Support

webmaster@orthodoxbiz.com — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:42:58 +0100

I heard my wife screaming on the phone. I ran into the room, thinking something major was going wrong. Like a home invasion, or a fire or something.

Turns out, she was yelling at technical support because she couldn't get the Website our umbrella school uses to track grades and attendance to take her recent updates.

I calmly took the phone from her, and asked [...]

Online Training Videos

webmaster@orthodoxbiz.com — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:01:45 +0100

The old saying, "A picture is worth a thousand words" may be a cliche but in the case of technical training - it's absolutely true.

In today's environment, ministries and businesses expect all kinds of interactivity out of customers, parishioners, online contributors, employees, service providers, and just casual users. Blogs, Discussion Forums, retail sales sites, online communities, and various directories all expect users to fill out forms, key in data, and even upload pictures.

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Di's 4th Blog: Eleos, Enhancing Leadership through the Experiences of Orthodox Storytellers

dtzouras@mac.com — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 06:27:06 +0100

Welcome to my blog. Please send me your questions and comments.

Seizing the day and using our God-given talents: This is why my sister and I chose MLM (multilevel marketing) as the basic structure for our business.

HELPING OTHERS BY BEING TRUE TO OURSELVES

At age nine, I taught my three-year-old sister Angel how to read.

Our parents were great in sales but steered us into stable but stressful professional positions with strict hours, little opportunity for [...]

The Orthodox Marketing Department

webmaster@orthodoxbiz.com — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:45:24 +0100

Having a first period class in college was bad enough. But, when the class was Russian History during the Middle Ages with an elderly professor nearing retirement, well that was downright torturous. Especially when the professor was a man known for his dry wit.

I remember sitting there one morning, bleary eyed, as he stood in front discussing the Great Schism between the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches and its effects on Eastern Europe.

"So," he said at one point, "After th [...]

Things to Think About Before You Launch Your Web Project

webmaster@orthodoxbiz.com — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:26:56 +0100

I could hear the frustration in her voice as we talked. The head of a non-profit, she was upset about her Website. It hadn't been updated in a year, and she desperately needed to get control of it. She had fundraising product to sell, supporters to keep updated, and prospective member information to distribute.

Unfortunately, time and again, all of my questions were answered with, "I don't know." After twenty minutes, it became clear that she didn't know who owned her domain name, where [...]

RSS – Just More Techno Jargon or a Really Useful Tool?

webmaster@orthodoxbiz.com — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:16:20 +0100

Techies love acronyms. So much so, in fact, that we often sound like we're speaking a foreign language to normal humans. That's too bad, because a lot of times the acronyms obscure information about really, really useful tools.

One of those tools is RSS, short for Real Simple Syndication. What is that? As the name implies, it is actually a simple concept. Users can get your headlines and article intro-text delivered to them on an automatic basis.

Simple, right? They sign up usin [...]

Blogging for Business

webmaster@orthodoxbiz.com — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:12:18 +0100

"Haven't you written anything about what you actually do for living?"

That question floored me. It shouldn't have, but it did.

I mean, I was in Google.

Only problem was, I was in Google for articles such as, Examining the "Golden Age of Islamic Civilization" and The End of Christianity in Iraq . My writing had been picked up and re-printed on sites like Christianity Today, Lew Rockwell, Orthodoxy Today, Orthodox News, and a host of others. I was quoted several times in [...]

Old Dogs CAN Learn New Tricks

maryjean@paradiseharpmusic.com — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:18:28 +0100

Whenever I tell someone that I teach the harp, they always assume that my students are children. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Over the years, my adult beginner students have outnumbered the children. I like adult beginners........and they like me.

Success is built into my classes. I nurture a "can do" attitude. We take baby steps and have fun along the way

So if you have Monday evenings free, join us at First Baptist Sweetwater in Long [...]

Launching a Bulletin Board - A Parish Webmaster Looks Back

webmaster@orthodoxbiz.com — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:24:26 +0100

I took over my first parish Website in 2000, when I was still a catechumen. Back then I was working primarily in the mainframe space, and the Web was both new and somewhat scary. I got an extra copy of Frontpage 2000 at the office, and started putting icons and gold coloring on pages of my own for Holy Trinity in Maitland, Florida.

I stuck with static HTML development through early 2006. By then I was building Websites for customers, in addition to working on my parish Website. Around m [...]