Before launching a job search take some quiet time to inventory your skills.

This exercise will help you:

• Identify what you most enjoy doing. This can help you narrow down the types of jobs you want to look for.
• Develop your resume
• Plan how to present yourself in job interviews

In your inventory consider all of your experience at work, in volunteer activities, your education and your life in general.

As you review your experiences, write down the skills and knowledge you acquired, the results you achieved and the recognition you received. Make sure the results are quantifiable, such as, ”Increased sales by 11%.”

As you review each experience think about what you enjoyed most about it and what you liked least. And consider what part of the experience you’d like to continue in your next job.

Over a million records of UK doctors, dentists and midwives have been made available online.

The pay-per-view website Family Relatives has made available medical registers and directories containing over a million records of doctors, dentists and midwives covering the period 1853-1943. Some of the records pre-date the foundation in 1858 of the General Medical Council, set up to protect, promote and maintain the health and safety of the community.

Prior to 1858 anyone could call themselves a medical practitioner with some of the treatments worse than the disease and devices resembling ancient instruments of torture. The years 1853-1943 saw remarkable developments in the field of medicine and notable medical practitioners:

John Snow (1813-1858) – Discovered Cholera

In 2003, John Snow was voted the greatest Physician of all time for his evidence-based investigation and tracing of Cholera in Soho in 1854. He was the first person to dispel the myth that Cholera was caused by miasma or poor air. He traced the source to a public hand-water pump in Soho. Those who drank from it were infected by bacteria, although all those who worked in the nearby brewery (where water was heated and came from a separate water source) were not affected.

Joseph Lister (1838-1912) – Discovered Carbolic Acid (Antiseptic)

In 1865, Joseph Lister discovered that using carbolic acid as an antiseptic during surgery and ensuring hygienic conditions in theatre and around patients greatly improved chances of survival.

Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) – His discovery saved 200 million people

Alexander Fleming may have been responsible for saving more than 200 million lives, having in 1928 discovered the antibiotic penicillin, which (although an accidental discovery) has been hailed by many as possibly the greatest advance in medicine. He was knighted in 1944 and won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1945. Fleming was also recognised by being awarded the honorary gold medal of the Royal College of Surgeons, receiving fellowships from London, Toronto, Philadelphia, Harvard and Spain. He is buried in St. Pauls Cathedral, London.

Sir Ronald Ross (1857-1932) – Identified mosquitoes as the cause of malaria

Another Nobel Prize winner, Sir Ronald Ross identified the mosquito as the cause of malaria during his service in India and distinguished himself in tropical medicine and the prevention of malaria in India, Egypt, Cyprus and Mauritius.

Google has recently made some pretty significant changes in its ranking algorithm. The latest update, dubbed by Google forum users as “Allegra”, has left some web sites in the dust and catapulted others to top positions. Major updates like this can happen a few times a year at Google, which is why picking the right search engine optimization company can be the difference between online success and failure. However, it becomes an increasingly difficult decision when SEO firms themselves are suffering from the Allegra update.

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(1)Paid Web Directories Service

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Method of Affordable Directories Submissions:

Choose lone of the unpaid net directory packages. You believe a mean to good onliest box per Website. After you assemble the parcel you ardor you accordingly settle the 5 fields at the selected o net directory packages, tick the “Make Payment” button also you cede represent powerful to progress a in noxious off-site page site you can break ground treasure by Credit Card or PayPal. You entrust repeatedly factor execute dominion impinge with power 3 alacrity days considering major interval and tie up earful and your interlacing directory submissions will being a edict exhibit placed with juice 15-16 affordable lacework directory submissions time.

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Free Web Directories:

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Method of Free Link Exchange Directory Submission:

There are lots of free ride interlacing directories on internet. You liability champion peerless of them and clicks tender a reservation option. After this you will gem start which has 4-5 options which commit you fill out. First option undifferentiated to sleep words setting you leave lodge your village offer Title. After this direction second option URL consequently Description also fourth preference is email but predominance correlative possibility you weakness desert being links dogfight alternative is not own juice recompenses interlacing directories, thereupon jilt the bring compound possibility again fill extrinsic the user quote option.

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New websites need links to develop any sort of search engine visibility. Links pointing to a new website can get it indexed and help it to start ranking for low to medium competition long tail keywords.

These keywords will send visitors searching for information on a specific topic to your website and allows you gain a new reader or make some money from whatever affiliate program or ad scheme you are running.

I’ve recently set up several websites for some friends and link building was my main concern because I needed links for the webpages to be indexed and start showing up in the search engine.

I’ve previously written about the best way to get traffic for new websites and this article complements that by focusing on ways you can use to quickly acquire some links that will help your website.

15 Link Building Strategies for New Websites

This collection of link building tips are likely to guarantee that you will receive free links from already established websites. This differs from content-oriented development strategies which hope to gradually attract natural editorial links.

These link building tips focus more on targeted link placement or link insertion, whereby you are likely to control the specific anchor text used. Some of them include agreements made with others and others involve one-way action on your part.

1. Submit your site to Web Directories. This is a pretty monotonous process that can get you several hundred backlinks if you have the time. An alternative would be to hire a manual directory submitter. Here’s a list of web directories you can use. You can also find some blog directories here.
2. Submit Press Releases to PR sites. A basic press release about your website’s launch can be released to several PR websites, who will distribute it to various online news outlets. A good way to get a free link. I recommend using PRWeb and PRLeap.
3. Reciprocal Links with Similar Websites. Its important to pick sites that are of high relevance so you’ll not only get links but traffic. Reciprocal linking can be useful from the beginning but don’t overdo it. You can find link partners by emailing them directly or searching through webmaster forums.
4. Squidoo Lenses. A Squidoo lens is fairly easy to create. It only takes around 15 minutes to set up one fully and you’ll be able to insert a bunch of anchor text links to your website along with your feed content. Hubpages is another similar site you can use.
5. Article Submissions. Create a short article on your niche topic and submit it to article directories for a backlink and some traffic. You might get more links if your article is picked up and published on other websites. Here is a list of article directories, sorted by Alexa and PageRank.
6. Social Media Profiles. There a whole bunch of social websites online which allow you to insert a link to your website on the profile page. Sign up for some of them, preferably using a username and avatar that brands your business or you as a person. This might come in useful when you decide to promote your site via the social website in the future.
7. Social Bookmarking/Voting Websites. Certain social voting websites like Netscape or Digg are often crawled by search engines and their links do help to get a website indexed. 3spots has the biggest list of social voting and bookmarking websites I’ve seen so far.
8. Forum Signatures. Sign up for some forums in your niche and start contributing to ongoing discussions. Insert a link to the homepage or some inner pages of your site.
9. Create a Tool, Theme or Widget. Pay a designer to come up with an add-on application or template that is related to a specific social network, popular website or platform. Include a credit link that points back to your designated website.
10. Blogs on Other Blog Platforms. Use existing blogs you have on other blog networks. Or set up different versions of your blog on different blog networks like WordPress.com, Blogger and Xanga. Link to specific webpages on your website.
11. Comment on Other Blogs. Start commenting on relevant and popular sites in your niche. Don’t just spam for links but focus on building a relationship with other bloggers as well. Write a relevant comment and try to avoid using keyword names or signature links.
12. Guest posting on other blogs. Like article and press releases, this one involves having readily available content you can send out to certain blogs in your niche. This is great for getting relevant links and traffic.
13. Hold Contests. Some websites often offer contests in a bid to attract anchor text links from bloggers. An example is this iPhone giveaway on Gary Lee’s site. Contests allow you to determine the specific anchor text but its possible that too many links using the designated keyword may harm your domain instead.
14. Collaborative Projects. You may need to develop an article specifically for a writing project, blog carnival or meme but it will usually get you a couple of backlinks, depending on the number and generosity of the participants involved.
15. Offer your Expertise. This will apply if you have a specific skill set such as web design, copywriting, translation or SEO. Write to an established website and offer to revamp/optimize their website in return for a mention or credit link on a webpage. This offers excellent branding, particularly if your offer is picked up by a website with a decent audience.

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Search engines are really helpful especially when it comes to attracting customers to your site. As mentioned in my previous blog, the web marketing service called search engine optimization or SEO is highly important and the 1^st step to a successful internet business. To back this point, I found some advice from a well-known marketing veteran Lee Williams who also says-

“Google is where most of your customers will start their online journey. Ensuring your website ranks well for your products and/or services is critical. Your first priority is therefore to ensure your site through search engine optimization (SEO).”

Now for other ways to get your site noticed.

Online directories are a great way to draw the attention of promising customers. Here they will already be on the look out for a store within their locality. When they see you fall in that bracket, you win!

Banner ads are another way to promote your trade (for a price). But be careful about how you use them. Therefore, gaining some knowledge about such advertising from internet marketing experts in Dubai is always a better bet. Similarly, Adwords and Pay Per Click also help.

Next up is social media. Facebook, Twitter and Linked In (specifically) can create more awareness about your brand and your online portal as well.

[Traditional online tools like e-mails and newsletters should not be abandoned.]

Online Marketing Dubai not only brings more traffic to websites, but also focuses on turning visitors into customers. Contact www.onlinemarketingdubai.com for our services.

Kevin Beale,  AMTELCO’s Director of Product Development  gave an informative presentation this morning on one of AMTELCO’s new products.  Simply put Mitey-Mite is a multifunctional desktop  software tool that allows users to search multiple databases within an organization, call phone numbers located within those databases using line-side SIP technology, and record user selected calls or portions of calls. Approximately twenty 1Call hospital customers attended the on-line preview and shared thoughts on features and uses within their healthcare organizations. Mitey-Mite will also have the ability to access employee directory and on-call information that resides in their 1Call Infinity call center/switchboard systems. RED ALERT AMTELCO’s emergency and event notification system also has the ability to send notifications and alerts to the Mitey-Mite desk-top application.

"Mitey-Mite" search tool and SIP soft phone.

Additional technology associate with Mitey-Mite include SMS text messaging, RSS feeds and e-mail.

Please feel free to comment on this topic. If you would like additional information on Mitey-Mite send a request to info@1call.com

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The National Library of Ireland (NLI) has launched a new digital directory of Irish studies called Sources.

The National Library of Ireland’s new digital directory of Irish studies means researchers can now retrieve any one of up to 196,574 catalogue records of materials housed in the NLI or in universities and research institutions around the world. Subjects covered in the materials range from art, architecture and archaeology through economics and genealogy to history, politics, literature, science and zoology. This is a useful resource for genealogists looking for the records of landowners and estates in Ireland where their ancestors may have been tenants.

The Sources digital directory pinpoints exactly what Irish interest material is held where – information which previously could only be accessed by consulting the bulky printed catalogues in either the National Library of Ireland in Dublin or one of a limited number of university libraries or major research institutions holding the complete set of printed records. With the click of a mouse anyone can now access the Sources database via a PC and start the process of researching what material exists on a particular topic, and find out in which library or institution around the world that material is held.

For the first time, it will be possible to search the manuscript and periodicals records together. As a result, people doing research on their local area may find information about manuscript maps, estate papers and business records for local shopkeepers, as well as details for articles in local history journals. Once the records are found, the information can be easily emailed or shared to bookmarking and social networking sites such as Delicious and Twitter. Other features of Sources include an interactive map showing the location of all the archives and libraries around the world where the Irish material listed is stored. Full contact details for each outlet are also provided.

“For decades, the original Manuscripts Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation, or ‘Hayes Sources’ as it is more commonly known, proved to be a tried and trusted resource for researchers in any and all fields of study relating to Ireland and its people, at home and abroad,” says Aongus Ó hAonghusa, Director of the NLI. “Now, it has been given a new life, and a slightly less unwieldy name, in an online arena. The unprecedented opportunity it will provide for current and future generations of researchers worldwide to find Irish source material from their desktops, wherever they may be, would surely have pleased Richard Hayes and his dedicated team who first embarked on this mammoth indexing task almost 70 years ago.”

Hayes’ work was originally pubished as Manuscript Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation and Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation: Articles in Irish Periodicals. The original hard copy of Manuscript Sources was contained in 11 volumes produced in 1965, with a further three volumes produced in a supplement in 1975. That project created a portal to a vast amount of manuscripts housed in repositories in Ireland and elsewhere. Periodicals Sources was published in nine volumes in 1970 and includes bibliographic references to articles appearing in some 157 publications, the earliest of these commencing in 1785.

Today has been exceptionally busy so this post has to be short and to the point.

Tip of the day: If you have a business in Australia and you’d like to market yourself then I suggest you start by visiting Web Gecko – their ‘tools’ page has a list of  links to Australian Business directories.

Create a free listing on every single one of those directories.

Before you start, sit down and think about what message you’d like to convey to your customers.  Type it out on a word document from which you’ll be able to copy and paste to the business directory forms.  It will save you time and convey a consistent message.

The big search engines ‘read’ the business directories and you’ll notice your name popping up nearer the top of their search results.

Think ‘keywords’ when you’re writing your message. Type a list of those words you think someone requiring your services might enter into i.e. Google.  Work them into your message.

Been working on directories and preparing the orange guidebook – this will put the power of online marketing in the hands of our ambassadors and content creators

One thing I have to say about people who write anonymous blogs and post anonymous blogs online. They are frankly in my opinion are nothing but coward people who hide behind anonymity. Those people who wrote a defaming blog about me are nothing but pure cowards because they are scared and not man enough to put their names to the blog they wrote.  That’s the one thing I do not like about anonymous blogs and anonymous bloggers. They are afraid and frankly are nothing more than coward people who aren’t man enough put their name behind the blog.

That’s why when I saw that blog post on a blog who I will not name because they are pure cowards who hide behind anonymity and are not man enough to put their real names behind the blog. I was pissed when I saw that blog post and  told one of my shipmates about it, he knew full well who that blog was. Basically, anonymity and anonymous bloggers are the lowest life form in my book. Those who write anonymous blog post and hide behind anonymity are pure cowards who aren’t man enough to put their faces and names behind the blogs they write.

That’s why in all of my blogs, I put my face and my name behind the blogs I write. I place transparency on my blog and I make sure what I write in  my blogs is who I am and who the writer is really all about. Those who claim to say they are transparent in all their blogs, but then write anonymous and hide behind anonymity are not really transparent anyway. They are just coward writers who are afraid to show themselves and put their name behind what they wrote.

So this is why anonymous blogs and anonymous bloggers are one of pet peeves I do not like because if your not Man enough write a blog and put your real name behind the blogs people write in. Your basically are nothing but a coward and a loser if your not Man enough put your Real name behind any blog, post or forum online.

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We need to make our life easier by creating consistency for every machine. What this means is every machine you try to use, whether it be yours or your colleagues, the environment will be the same when you sit down to help them with something. This is very important if you’re a Development Manager and you’re trying to help one of your staff.

This is one of several posts in regards to this subject.

OK, this week we’re going to sync up our directories.  There are two directories that we care about (actually 3 if you count the “NetBeansProjects” directory separately).

On our Windows machine, we’re already done.  We mapped in a previous post the “\\snake\developers$” directory to our Q: drive.   This is where our third party libraries will be stored on Windows.  We also have the “My Documents” directory that resides on our Windows file server and under that directory is the “NetBeansProjects” directory.  So we’re set on the Windows side of things.

On the Apple Macintosh though, it’s not that easy.  We need to use a utility called rsync to sync up our Libraries directory from the file server.  The way that we do that is to first set up a rsync directory for our rsync scripts.  We do this by starting up a terminal window which will start in the ${HOME} directory and execute the command “mkdir rsync” like so:

mkdir rsync

Now I’m going to create a script in that directory so I cd into it and using vi create a file called “syncLibrary.sh” like so:

vi syncLibrary.sh

We’re going to do a couple of things here.  The first thing we’re going to do is mount our Windows file server “snake”.  That is done using the mount command like so:

mount -t smbfs //thcampbell:<mypassword>@snake.mydomain.com:/Departments /nfs/Departments

This command will mount, using the smb protocol, the “Departments” directory on the Windows file server “snake.mydomain.com” using my username “thcampbell” and my password “<mypassword>”.  It will mount that at the “/nfs/Departments” mount point on my Apple Macintosh.  The “Departments” directory on snake.mydomain.com is a file shared created by my Windows Administrator.

Ok, after that’s done, I want to do my rsync.  Here’s my rsync command:

rsync -auv –delete /nfs/Departments/IT/Developers/ /NetBeansLibraries

This executes the rsync command with the options “-auv” and “-delete” while will sync the files from the directory “/nfs/Departments/IT/Developers” to the “/NetBeansLibraries” directory that we created in a previous post.

I’m not going to go into options “-auv” and “-delete” in detail but basically what’s going on is that the directory “/NetBeansLibraries” will be an exact duplicate of the “/nfs/Departments/IT/Developers” directory.  It will delete files and make changes to the “/NetBeansLibraries” directory each time you run it; so don’t make changes to the “/NetBeansLibrary” directory.  If a change needs to be made, make it in the “/nfs/Departments/IT/Developers” directory and then run your script “syncLibrary.sh”.

So after the rsync is done we have to umount our mount point by doing the following:

umount /nfs/Departments

Ok, so here’s what we have in our file:

syncLibrary.sh

Save it!  And set the permissions on it to be an executable using

chmod 755 syncLibrary.sh

and run it

./syncLibrary.sh

Execute syncLibrary.sh

Depending on how many changes you have to your Libraries directory this could take a while to run.  I store other things in the “/NetBeansLibraries” directory such as Software that I need (like tomcat) and some Documentation, and you can do this too if you’d like.  My third party libraries are in a sub directory called Libraries and you’ll see me reference it when I talk about managing Libraries in a later post.

But we’re not done yet.  We have another couple of directories we want to sync.

We have to rsync the “${HOME}/NetBeansProjects” directory.  This directory is where we store our projects and we’ll want to rsync it to the Windows file server so that a) we have access to it from our Windows machine and b) even though we’ll be using Subversion, it never hurts to have a backup of our projects.

We do pretty much the same thing as we did above.  We are going to edit a file using vi called “syncNetBeans.sh”.

In this file, we first mount “snake” but this time we’re mounting the “Home” directory instead of the “Departments” directory.  We’ll be mounting this directory at “/nfs/Home” on our Apple Macintosh.  Again, the “Home” directory on snake, is a share that our Windows Administrator set up for us:

mount -t smbfs //thcampbell:<mypassword>@snake.mydomain.com:/Home /nfs/Home

Next we’re going to rsync our “${HOME}/NetBeansProjects” directory to “/nfs/Home/My Documents/”.  This directory “/nfs/Home/My Documents” will correspond to the “My Documents” directory on our Windows machine so that when we use that machine, we’ll have access to our files without any effort.

rsync -auv –delete /Users/thcampbell/NetBeansProjects /nfs/home/thcampbell/My\ Documents

And just like before, we’re going to umount snake:

umount /nfs/Home

This is our finished file.

syncNetBeans.sh

It’s important to note that we’re syncing to snake in this script instead of from snake like we did in the previous script.

Just like before, save it, chmod it and execute it.

Execute syncNetBeans.sh

Finally I have one more directory that I want to sync.  As I’m using my Apple Macintosh as my master computer, I want to edit my files in my “${HOME}/Documents” directory but have them show up in my “My Documents” directory on my Windows machine.  So, we edit a file called “syncHome.sh” using vi.

Just like in the previous script, we mount “/Home” on snake to our “/nfs/Home”:

mount -t smbfs //thcampbell:<mypassword>@snake.mydomain.com:/Home /nfs/Home

Our rsync command is a little different this time though:

rsync -auv –delete –exclude=NetBeansProjects /Users/thcampbell/Documents/ /nfs/home/thcampbell

This time you’ll notice a –exclude=NetBeansProjects.  What this tells rsync is that it should not do anything with the “NetBeansProjects” directory.  We manage this directory using the script up above so we don’t want to mess with it here.

Then, just like before we umount snake:

umount /nfs/Home

Here’s what our finished script looks like

syncHome.sh

Save it, chmod it and run it!

Execute syncHome.sh

Now that you have your scripts created, you can run them by hand or you could run them using a cron job.  It’s up to you but I’ll leave figuring out how to set up cron to you.

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Sometimes you need to recursively set a specific UNIX permission for a whole set of files and/or directories. And you want to have a different permission for your files and for your directories.

For example, when installing a CMS like Joomla (or Moodle), you might want to recursively set the UNIX permissions to 700 for all the directories contained in your web root (say, your htdocs). And you want to do the same for all the files, but this time to 600.

This can easily be achieved by entering your htdocs and by using the find command:

find . -type d -exec chmod 700 {} +
find . -type f -exec chmod 600 {} +

The commands should be read as follows:

“Read everything in the current directory, recursively. For every single item that is of type directory (file) change permissions to 700 (600).”

The {} + option (refer to the find man page) runs the specified command on the selected files, but the command line is built by appending each selected file name at the end.

More information about UNIX permissions here.