Marketing to the Neighbours

BakerTweet.
I had thought that this was a good idea before I saw that someone had automated it:
feed://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/21645839.rss

Baker Tweet
BakerTweet is a way for busy bakers to tell the world that something hot and fresh has just come out of the oven. It's as simple as turning the dial and ...
www.bakertweet.com

Wikis for Business

One tool available to businesses for enabling teamwork and collaboration is the wiki.
You stay in the flow of your work by clicking “Edit This Page” where you see something that needs to be written or re-written.
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Descriptions of US Federal datasets

Data.gov claims to increase the ability of the public to find, download, and use datasets that are generated and held by the US Federal Government.
It provides descriptions of the datasets (metadata), information about how to access these datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets.
Further data catalogs will be added. Federal, Executive Branch data are included in the first version.
More: The access point:
www.data.gov
A commentary:
scienceforseo.com/../shiny-new-dataset

RSS introduction

RSS, Really Simple Syndication or "Atom" is a way to read and write information on the web. When reading you can keep track of more sites in less time and when writing you can share your words and ideas more quickly.
It is a method of publishing to the web. You write using blogs or other RSS writers. You read using an RSS reader of some sort. Examples include Outlook add-in to make emails from RSS to Google's home page that makes lines of links from each entry grouped under the heading for that feed. It probably should have been called a Really Flexible Syndication Tool.
Created by people who are service providers, tool vendors and independent developers, it is designed to be a universal publishing standard for personal content and weblogs. [more...]

Google your business

There are a number of developments at Google that are relevant to businesses, especially small businesses.
A good place to start to check them all out is subscribe to the RSS (see below for explanation of atoms, etc)
Google RSS feed is:
http://www.google.com/googleblog/atom.xml

Putting it all together

For years we have been saying "if you don't hurry up it will get easier".
NOW it is easy (and cheaper than you think).

Talk to us about making a website that allows you to:
* Update the website with your news items (using a simple web page interface)
* Syndicate these news items to anyone interested
* Connect with Google AdWords to put in place an income stream.

Google Ads - see what happens

To the right of this page is a list of advertisments that are randomly selected by Google based on the keywords on this page.
When you run a business blog that means that competitors often end up there.
Also some products appear there that you may not endorse. One example for me is WhitePage (note not White Pages as in the phone book). They provide blogs and are some connection to Namescout Corp (with a registered office in Bridgetown, Barbados).
So I will comment this blog item with comments on the various things that appear in the Google ad list.

Business Blogs

In July 2005 we said:
Let us show you how to use Blog technology to make and maintain a website for a business. We can setup for you an inexpensive site that you can maintain easily yourself, as often as you like. Most additions and alterations are done using simple web page forms.

This site is one example, here is another:
winhelp.com.au/luchetti

AND guess what!
In October 2005 Microsoft discover the same thing...
www.microsoft.com/business/executivecircle/