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It has been over a year since we celebrated the opening of the Terinea office in Edinburgh. As the gathering was enjoyed by all, I’ve decided to have another one.
I would be delighted if you could come along for some tapas and the odd glass of wine or cerveza on the Friday the 26th of October.
Please feel free to come along from five onwards.
Kind Regards
Jamie
Far too much work this week, with some major deadlines to meet and my blogging buffer depleted. I decided rather than produce some rubbish, I will simply to wait till next week.
I’ll leave you with this rather interesting picture, 1 GB hard drive from 1987 and 1GB SD card from 2007, how technology advances!
Thanks for reading, subscribing, commenting.
Jamie
Like most people involved with computer support, my first experience began when fixing PC’s for friends and family. Usually this resulted in payment with free beer, not bad when you where 17! Ten years later I still find myself fixing friends and family computers.
So here is quick guide to what I would install on a personal PC, maybe one you’ve formatted and re-installed Windows because it was running very slow. I say personal PC because AVG Anti-Virus Free version can’t legally be used in business without paying for the commercial version.
If the computer is for Family use, make sure you read Improving Windows XP for Families by Robin our Managing Director.
Last year I attended my first business to business trade with Terinea. We didn’t gain any worthwhile leads from the show. Six months later at another B2B show I decided to take a blogging approach to marketing the company. It worked, resulting in Terinea gaining two important customers.
After exhibiting at the poorly attended Hospitality South East 2006 trade show, I realised that I didn’t come away with any useful information from other exhibitors, just marketing brochures, free pens and various leaflets that I binned recycled the next day. From show itself we didn’t create any decent leads,which was made worst by the fact our stand, takes five hours to construct and then three hours to pack away. Oh well, at least we had our picture taken with the local Major!
So at the next trade show, Let’s Do Business 2006, I decided to print out a number of copies of a blog posting I was working on, 50 Simple IT Ideas For Increasing Your Business Competitiveness & Productivity. I found it much easier to talk to potential clients about our services when I was giving them free advice (printed copies our blog post). Couple of months later we gained two customers which have generated us a considerable amount of work since the show, result!
After the poor turn out of Hospitality South East 2006 trade show, we weren’t in the mood for setting up our rather large stand for Let’s Do Business 2006, hence our poor stand last year (picture above) .Which is probably a bit like having a poor looking web or blog site. Needles to say at this years show we have booked a bigger stand space and will be taking our professional stand with us.
So Terinea is pleased to announce that we will be attending this years show. Catch us at stand HI6 for Terinea Weblog offline!
10am - 5pm, Thursday 15th November
The Hastings Centre,
The Ridge, Hastings,
East Sussex, TN34 2SA
http://www.letsdobusiness.org/dyn/_pages/_navpages/floorplan.shtml
I’m not a very pushy type of person when it comes selling our business services, but I am passionate about our company blog, proud of it. I think this separates us apart from the competition. Maybe you run a business blog and feel the same way? So next time your attending a networking event, why not take copies of your most popular blog posts, maybe includes some of the comments.
I’m a great fan of Window Live Writer, but sometimes I feel its missing one or two features that could make my day-to-day blogging life easier. Luckily Windows Live Writer features can be extended in a similar way to Firefox .
Before you install any plugins make sure you have the latest version of Windows Live Writer as many new features have been add since the first release last year.
You can also find more plugins for Windows Live Writer at…
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Do you have a feeling you have more subscribers that Feedburner lets on? Maybe you do if you’ve not configured your custom WordPress installation correctly, like me!
Okay firstly what is Feedburner? In basic terms its a free service that formats your RSS feed and outputs it into a range of other formats, which makes it easier for readers to subscribe to your blog .
But also, Feedburner can provide…
On Terinea Weblog I have a big button to the left called “Subscribe” which gives you Terinea’s RSS feed which is formatted from Feedburner. Subscribe that way and Feedburner can produce its metrics, such as number of readers etc.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/terinea-tech-tips
If your using Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox you can also subscribe to Terinea’s feed by clicking the RSS button in the top left next to the web address. Up to last week this gave you my RSS feed produce directly from WordPress. Subscribing this way Feedburner doesn’t get its metrics and you’ve know idea how many readers you have.
http://www.terinea.co.uk/blog/feed
Still not sure what I mean? Take a look at these two diagrams, first one demonstrates how you should use Feedburner, the Good.
You have two options here, you can modified your WordPress template by changing the code found in your header file or install an additional plug-in. Oh, and of course make sure you sign up to Feedburner!
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"
title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed"
href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
To something like this…
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"
title="Terinea Weblog"
href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/terinea-tech-tips" />
Alternatively you can install a plugin called FeedSmith. Although I’ve not tried it, it looks fairly straight forward and it means you can swap WordPress templates without needing to change the code in the header file every time.
Lenovo hardware manufacture gives us a glimse at some of its new features for its laptop range.
Via TechEBlog
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