1. Invite a guest blogger to post: If one of your readers or friend is actively sharing great opinions, then invite them to share an article for the day. Using other voices gives you a break and gives your blog readers a fresh point of view.

2. Revisit old posts and add new stuff to it: Maybe that topic was controversial and requires additional input, or you’ve changed your opinions on something. Revisit that topic and add more to it.

3. Make a schedule of upcoming topics in advance: This is a good way to keep you from running out of ideas at the last minute. Make a schedule gives you the chance to develop your ideas so that they’re better than ever.

4. Add videos/images: Take the opportunity to add multimedia to your blog. Make a film about your company, take photos of the workplace and show as an “office tour”. Make your blog more personal by giving readers an inside peek at your company.

5: Write a list of interesting things you’ve discovered: Collect a few interesting things or ideas and put them into bullet-point posts. This is a great way to keep your blog fresh without requiring a lot of time or energy.

Don’t be afraid to keep things interesting and funny. Remember that if your readers enjoy what you have to say, they will come back for more.

The fact is that no matter what type of business you are in, a blog is one of the best and cost-effective marketing tools of today. The key thing to remember about having a business blog is that you have to actually use it.

There are several good reasons to start Blogging:

1. A regularly updated blog increases your ranking compared to a simple static or informational website. Postings to a blog containing the right keywords can make the company’s website easier to search for.
2. Many businesses have successfully utilized blogs to provide more information about their products/services to their clients without sounding as if they’re desperately selling.
3. You are building yourself up as an “expert” in the industry by providing valuable info and advices in your blog. If you create your own contents, you are directly contributing your knowledge to the industry and over time, your blog could be a credible source of info for anyone looking for info in your industry.
4. Blogging also encourages interaction which would led to a more trusting, personal relationship between you and your readers.

Blogging is still considered new in the corporate world, and if companies aren’t taking advantage of this new communication to build customer connections, then they are missing a huge opportunity.

1. Meetings and Presentations: With meeting-related apps and an HDTV adapter, the iPad 2 makes it easier to share information.  Are you too busy to travel? Have a virtual meeting with a remote client using Skype. Do you need to give a presentation? Use Keynote and show it on the big screen. Apps such as Meeting Mngr Pro allows presenters to instantly share extra materials with everyone in the meeting. Participiants can use the app to ask questions and give feedback without interrupting the speaker.

2. Business-friendly apps: The iPad 2 can help your business stay oranized with over hundreds of impressive apps. You can create all sorts of charts with OmniGraffle. Use Bento to hlep you manage projects, organize contacts and plan events all within one simple database. E*TRADE app keep track of stocks with real-time quotes.

3. Work on the go: The iPad 2 is so great because you can take them anywhere. It is faster and lighter than the original version and easily trumps the competition. It’s the thinnest tablet available. With a duel-core processor, it operates faster and has a large memory and crisp graphics. Best of all, you can use it all day without running out of battery!

4. Small business support: A new app was recently launched called Joint Venture, a program to help smaller companies use the iPad 2. It shows you how to set up your devices, train you to use them and provide support if you ever run into trouble.

5. Instant access to lots of information: Looking for the news? Most of your favorite sources have apps on the iPad 2. Love to read? The iBookstore app holds over 200,000 books. Use the GoodReader to look over an important file, allowing you to add notes, drawings, and arrows.

6. Cash register: Are you dealing with credit card transactions? Square is an essential app to have, which lets you swipe credit cards, sign for purchases, and generates digital receipts.

7. Cheap: Not only is iPad 2 better than other tablets, but it’s also cheaper. iPad 2 starts at $499, while the Samsung Galaxy is $599, the Motorola Xoom is $799 and the HP Slate is $799.

What does this mean for the typical small business owners?

Use blog software as the engine:

Blog software, such as WordPress, is essentially content management software with SEO, community and syndication built in. Wordpress is built to run almost any type of page you can imagine building, such as contact, product and even a static looking home page.

Get feedback:

Visitors are getting used to sites that allow them to offer ratings and testimonials, which shows social reassurance to those considering your company. You can also engage visitors through polls. Adding simple polls can add an inviting layer of content and give users a reason to return.

Beef up the forms of content:

Remember, Google is the number one search engine, but YouTube is number two. Adding video and audio content has become a must, as it keeps visitors on your site much longer than sites that feature only static text. The use of video and audio is also a great way to reinforce a message and help visitors understand what to do next or what to expect.

Integrate social:

Integrating your Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook accounts to your site is a great way to create interaction with your social profiles and create a viral effect when visitors share or like something on your social profile.

Amplify for awareness:

Also, find ways to amplify your content so that people can interact with it. This includes promoting your site such as adding your social profiles to business cards and printed brochures.

Make your advertising much more about creating awareness for your online content and ways that people can interact and less about selling.

Currently promises free calls to U.S. and Canadian phone number for the remainder of 2010, with low rates for calls to other countries – calls to UK, France, Germany, China Korea, Japan would cost at least $ 0.02 per minute.

Google said to make calls through its service activities like a normal phone in which a user can click the option “Call” phone in their list of chat in Gmail or enter the name and type of contact.

“Phone a phone number that acts like a normal phone. Phone Call Just click on”at the top of your chat list and call a number or enter the name of the contact,” wrote Robin Schriebman, software engineer at Google, in a company blog post.

This feature is being rolled out to U.S. based Gmail users, “Call Phones” automatically display in your chat list, but users will need to install voice and video plug-in to use the new services.

“If you are not a U.S. based user or if you are using Google Apps for your school or business, then you will not see it quite yet. We’re working on This is available all over, so stay tuned!, “added Schriebman.

Here are 5 Must Have’s for a website:

1. About Us page: clients would like to know more about your company before spending money on your products or services. Show your clients your company values and story.

2. Explain exactly what your business does, services you are providing, or products you are selling. You only have a few seconds to hook onto your visitor, so make sense to them!

3. Showcase: show your clients your awards, experiences with other clients through testimonials. Clients like to know that your company has experiences and good recommendations.

4. Social media: Facebook and Twitter can be powerful for your business. If your company does not have an active account, then you’re already behind the competition.

5. Blog: The general rule is the more pages your site has in Google’s index, the more traffic you’ll receive. Blogging is an excellent way to add more pages to your site.

Remember: your company will never go wrong investing more resources into a better website. Why not contact OCgeeks today for your free quote?

By the way ADWS requires TCP port 9389

So how in the world does a Windows 7 system know how to find a DC running ADWS? Well your client running PowerShell will use the normal DC locator process. First the client will determine which site it is in nltest /dsgetsite and then it will determine the closest DC nltest /dsgetdc:. It is looking at the DC for the following flag:

DS_WEB_SERVICE_REQUIRED

More info on that flag can be found here.

Now what if you don’t have Server 2008 R2 DCs? With Server 2003 and Server 2008 a problem occurs because the Net Logon service of those domain controllers does not recognize the DS_WEB_SERVICE_REQUIRED flag. There are two hotfixes (one for what ever version of AD you are running) available to fix that in those environments. Server 2003 and Server 2008

After you install this hotfix the AD PowerShell module and Active Directory Administrative Center will be able to locate DCs that have Active Directory Management Gateway Service installed, similar to Active Directory Web Services (ADWS) on a Windows Server 2008 R2-based computer.

Here are three great labs that you can use to learn all about Server 2008 R2’s Active Directory.

Windows Server 2008 R2: What’s New in Active Directory

Windows Server 2008 R2: Active Directory and Server Manager Remoting

Windows Server 2008 R2: Active Directory Recycle Bin, PowerShell V2, and Remoting

$nlm = [Activator]::CreateInstance([Type]::GetTypeFromCLSID([Guid]“{DCB00C01-570F-4A9B-8D69-199FDBA5723B}”))
$connections = $nlm.getnetworkconnections()
$connections |foreach {
if ($_.getnetwork().getcategory() -eq 0)
{
$_.getnetwork().setcategory(1)
}
}

Afterwards I was able to enable remoting with no problem.Enable Powershell Remoting While Running VMWare Workstation in a Domain

Show the Explorer menu bar permanently

To make the hidden Explorer menu bar visible always, just click on the ‘Organize’ button in the top left corner of Windows Explorer. Go to the ‘Layout’ menu option and choose ‘Menu bar’. This toggles the display of the Explorer menu bar.