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  • What are RSS Feeds
    RSS, which stands for Rich Site Summary and Really Simple Syndication, is a technology that enables you to constantly receive the updated links to the websites chosen by you. Learn how to receive, produce, and the benefits of usinf RSS.
  • How to profit from your RSS Feed
    Online advertising has rapidly evolved over the years. Content publishers and advertisers are generating innovative techniques and discovering profitable advertising models. There are basically two vital factors that can maximize your gain from RSS feeds: subscription RSS feeds and RSS feed advertisements.
  • Benefits of having an RSS Feed
    RSS feeds have existed for years and are now gaining more popularity. This technology allows different news and information to automatically show on a website. But why would a website want that? There are many reasons.
  • How to promote your RSS Feed
    RSS feeds have been around for a long time, however people are just beginning to see how multi-purpose these feeds can be. They help stream information from one website to another, keeping content new. These feeds are easily maintained and just as easy to create. There is lots of software on the market that can assist in the creation of RSS feeds.
  • Increase traffic with RSS
    The Internet has exploded with new websites going live every day and increasing competition among websites. With all these competitors, how is it possible to differentiate and increase traffic to your site? Perhaps one of the easiest solutions to this potential dilemma is using RSS feeds. You may ask how this will help. There are several ways.
  • Publishing Newsletters using RSS
    E-mail newsletters have begun to over-populate inboxes around the world. This is not to say that they don't contain interesting and engaging content for subscribers. It simply means that e-mail newsletters have some limitations. However with the use of RSS, really simple syndication, feeds, e-mail newsletters can become as individual as the person who is receiving them.
  • RSS and Search Engine Optimization
    After putting a lot of thought into how to best use RSS feeds on your website and then creating them on your website, the next step is to promote them...here is how you do it.
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    Now that you’ve read about and decided to add RSS feeds to your website, you need to find the best feed reader for your needs. There are surprisingly quite a few options that allow you to read RSS feeds, whether for you personally or for your company.
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    You have a website and you know it’s good, but you really want it to be great. One of the best and easiest ways of accomplishing this is by utilizing RSS feeds. RSS feeds, which stands for really simple syndication, provides a steady stream of content and information from a variety of sources. If you’re not sure how this will help make your website great, keep reading to learn ways to use RSS feeds and how they will increase your website traffic.

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  • Security Manual Templated Updated to Meet ISO 17799 Standard
    An updated Security Manual Template published by Janco has just been that meets the full ISO 17799 standard. The template is being expanded to over 200 pages. ISO/IEC 17799:2005 establishes guidelines and general principles for initiating, implementing, maintaining, ...
  • 2007 IT Salary Survey Released
    Park City, UT -- Janco has found the IT Hiring Recession is over. Victor Janulaitis, the CEO of Janco said, For the first time since the recession of 2001 there has been a significant increase in demand for IT Professionals. Hiring is up across the nation as companies ...
  • Blog Policy Template Released
    Blog Policy, Procedure and Guidleine Template was released. It is 8 pages long and covers everything needed by any size enterprise to manage the eveloution of its blogs. Go to: http://www.itproductivity.org/blog.htm
  • IT Infrastructure Costs
    Managing IT costs and the service delivery process was just made easier with the release of The Metrics, IT Service Management and Service Level Agreement bundle. Delivering quality IT Service and measuring IT's performance is a difficult and time consuming exercise. ...
  • Dual-Mode Phones Nourish Sales
    (Computerworld) -- At Anthony Marano Co., sales personnel serve a dual role as buyers of the fruit and produce it distributes. And they now use dual-mode mobile phones, which work on both a wireless LAN inside the companys Chicago facility and a Cingular Wireless cell ...
  • U.S. agencies target moneymaking scams
    (IDG News Service) -- Three U.S. agencies have initiated more than 100 law enforcement actions against bogus business-opportunity peddlers and work-at-home scams, including several Internet-based schemes. The Project FAL$E HOPE$ crackdown, announced Tuesday but in op ...
  • Hackers work around Vista activation feature
    (IDG News Service) -- Hackers are distributing a file that they say lets users of the corporate version of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista operating system get around the software's antipiracy mechanisms.Windows Vista must be "activated," or authorized by Microsoft, b ...
  • Business and IT Impact Analysis Questionnaire
    This Business and IT Impact Analysis Questionnaire has been designed by one of Industry's most experienced application assessment consultants. This Questionnaire has been used in over 500 assessment, DRP and business impact projects in the past four years. Included is ...
  • ISO 17799 Compliant Disaster Recovery Planning
    The ISO 17799 compliant Disaster Recovery Planning (Business Continuity) Template is Version 4.2. The template has increased in size from 140 pages in version 3.1 to 189 pages in the current version. New with this version of the Disaster Recovery Planning Template a ...
  • Cisco flaws may threaten networks
    (ZDnet) Three security holes in the software that runs Cisco Systems' routers and switches could let miscreants disrupt computer networks, including the Internet. The vulnerabilities lie in Cisco's Internetwork Operating System and could be exploited to crash or remo ...
  • Security Manual Templated Updated to Meet ISO 17799 Standard
    An updated Security Manual Template published by Janco has just been that meets the full ISO 17799 standard. The template is being expanded to over 200 pages. ISO/IEC 17799:2005 establishes guidelines and general principles for initiating, implementing, maintaining, ...
  • 2007 IT Salary Survey Released
    Park City, UT -- Janco has found the IT Hiring Recession is over. Victor Janulaitis, the CEO of Janco said, For the first time since the recession of 2001 there has been a significant increase in demand for IT Professionals. Hiring is up across the nation as companies ...
  • Blog Policy Template Released
    Blog Policy, Procedure and Guidleine Template was released. It is 8 pages long and covers everything needed by any size enterprise to manage the eveloution of its blogs. Go to: http://www.itproductivity.org/blog.htm
  • IT Infrastructure Costs
    Managing IT costs and the service delivery process was just made easier with the release of The Metrics, IT Service Management and Service Level Agreement bundle. Delivering quality IT Service and measuring IT's performance is a difficult and time consuming exercise. ...
  • Dual-Mode Phones Nourish Sales
    (Computerworld) -- At Anthony Marano Co., sales personnel serve a dual role as buyers of the fruit and produce it distributes. And they now use dual-mode mobile phones, which work on both a wireless LAN inside the companys Chicago facility and a Cingular Wireless cell ...
  • U.S. agencies target moneymaking scams
    (IDG News Service) -- Three U.S. agencies have initiated more than 100 law enforcement actions against bogus business-opportunity peddlers and work-at-home scams, including several Internet-based schemes. The Project FAL$E HOPE$ crackdown, announced Tuesday but in op ...
  • Four Steps to Success With Wireless
    (Palm) - As small businesses explore how best to use smartphones, four basic steps set the stage for success. They all relate to thinking through the best way to implement wireless mobile solutions for maximum benefit: Look objectively at your technology environment. ...
  • DHS Takes away more civil rights
    The suit was filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Asian Law Caucus, two California-based civil rights groups. It asks the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to disclose information on its policies for inspecting the contents of laptops and ...
  • Total Units Sold is not a Good Metric for Cell Phones
    There seems to be a key fact missing from IDC's assessment of the growth of the cell phone market. The firm says year-over-year growth slowed between 2007 and 2006 compared to the previous year-over-year measure. While 2007 growth was 12.4 percent over the previous ye ...
  • US Citzens Could be Banned from Washington DC
    (c/net) The nations capital attracts more than 15 million visitors a year, mostly leisure travelers who often make their way to the city's official visitor center, which is conveniently located downtown in a corner of the Ronald Reagan building. Or was that inconvenie ...
  • Mobile Devices on airplanes - When?
    Ever since the advent of Wi-Fi and the explosion in the number of cell phones, there has been significant interest in (and concerns about) the use of mobile devices on airplanes. The chatter slowed when one of the earlier initiatives, Boeings Connexion, ceased operati ...
  • Google Services Help Spammers
    Rather than inserting links to the actual pages touting their products, some junk mailers are sticking in links from domains registered with Google Page Creator -- the search engines free Web page maker (or accounts with the Google Blogger.com service). They will send ...
  • Recovery Point and Recovery Time Metrics
    Recovery point objective (RPO) refers to the amount of data loss a customer can tolerate, specifically the point in time to which your enterprise must be able to recover the data. Some enterprises require an RPO of ZERO. That means the enterprise cannot lose a single ...
  • How To Obsolete PDAs, cell phones, smart phones, laptops, and PCs
    Cleaning up PDAs, cell phones, and smart phones With cell phones and smart phones like BlackBerries, you need to worry about more than your data -- make sure that your account has been termi
  • SOX Compliance Software Released by Janco
    Janco's Operational Control Productivity Tools for IT and Internet delivers a specific compliance reports that meet Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA); Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), International Or ...
  • Denying rogue computers access is good. Checking the rest are compliant is better
    You know you need to give continuous network access to a wide range of legitimate users. Not just your staff but visiting contractors, business partners, and guests. And you know you need to stop unauthorized computers compromising your data and systems. But did you k ...
  • Cell phone death not true
    (Reuters) -- SEOUL -- South Korean police said what they thought had been a death caused by an exploding mobile phone was actually a ruse by a co-worker to cover up an accidental vehicular homicide. Police and a doctor who examined the body of a 33-year-old quarry wor ...
  • Telecommunting Cuts Stress and Boost Morale
    In an analysis of 46 studies on telecommuting, researchers found that working away from the office by using computers, cell phones, or other electronic equipment can have more pluses than negatives for people and the companies that employ them. Our results show that t ...
  • Business Continuity - Disaster Recovery Audit Program Released
    Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Audit Program works in concert with the Disaster Planning Template Janco Associates announced the availability of its awaited Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Audit Program. The CEO of Janco said, The Disaster Recovery ...
  • Verizon Wireless and Vodafone End F.C.C. Open Access Fight
    Unlocked phones may soon appear in the US (Dow Jones/AP) — Verizon Wireless on Tuesday abandoned its legal challenge of the Federal Communications Commission’s rules for its auction of radio spectrum, removing a potential obstacle to the much-anticipated sale. The com ...
  • IT Management Best Practices Suite
    The products that are included in the IT Management Template Suite are: Disaster Recovery Template Security Manual Template IT Salary Survey IT Salary Survey 10 year comparative study Functional Specification Template Safety Program Template IT Infrastructure, Strateg ...
  • Sarbanes-Oxley Monitoring and Auditing Suite for Small Business and Large Enterprises
    SOX Compliance Monitoring and Auditing Suite for Small Business and Large Enterprises has just been released by Janco to meet the requirements placed on enterprises of all sizes by Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) for monitoring and auditing. SOX mandates that enterprises save se ...
  • Business Continuity / Disaster Planning Site Launched
    Janco announced the launch of a new site that is focused on disaster recovery planning and business continuity planning. The marketing coordinator for Janco said, Janco has a focus of what is new and what is required to successfully manage the IT and business function ...
  • US Employers Lag Behind France and Switzerland on Telecommuting
    The U.S. lags behind other countries in terms of offering employees flexible work environments, according to a study by Dimension Data, an IT service provider. While U.S. employers offer flexible work environments, allowing employees to telecommute or work from home i ...
  • Vista Barely Taking Hold
    One finding in the just released Browser and OS Market Share White Paper by Janco Associates and the IT Productivity Center is that Microsofts new Operating System, Vista now has just 5.69% of the market of business and enterprise users who browse the Internet nine (9 ...
  • Google versus Office Applications - Reasons Why
    Microsoft Office vs. Google ApplicationsAdvantages Office TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5.4pt; BORDER-TOP: black 1pt solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5.4pt; BACKGROUND: yellow; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: #f0f0f0; WIDTH: 1.75in; PADDING-TOP: 0in; B ...
  • LAN Security Risks Defined
    This Security Audit program contains over 400 unique tasks divided into 11 areas of audit focus which are the divided into 38 separate task groupings. The audit program is one that either an external auditor, internal auditor can use to validate the compliance of the ...
  • Average Worker Wastes 28% of The Day
    Based on a study published in the New York Times, a typical worker in information based job wastes 28% of their day with unimportant and personal e-mails, text messages, voice mails. According to the ITProductivity.org – an Information Technology think tank – most org ...
  • Firefox and IE Continue Browser War
    Firefox has just released the first release candidate for Firefox Version 3.0. At the same time Microsoft has announced that it will release a second beta of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) before the end of October. Both Mozilla (Firefox) and Microsoft (IE) are looking to ...
  • Technology Needs to be User Friendly
    As more technology is released to users vendors face a risk of too much "bang for the buck". What many vendors do not realize is there are a large number of users who just do not like to change . These people are not technophiles, they are just users who comfortable w ...
  • SQL Injection Attack in China Impacts Disaster Recovery
    In an IDG story it was disclosed that w eb sites across China and Taiwan are being hit by a mass SQL injection attack that has implanted malware in thousands of Web sites, according to a security company in Taiwan. The attack in China and Taiwan is ongoing. In additio ...
  • IT Productivity Center Electronic Newsletter May 2008 Released
    The IT Productivity Center has just realeased it May 2008 electronic newsletter. The newletter can be obtained by going to http://www.itproductivity.org/IT_Productivity_Newsletter_20080501.htm . The topics covered in this issue are: IT Service Management (ITSM) is imp ...
  • Steps to protect your critical data
    There are a number of steps that your company can follow to minimize the exposure to the security breaches. These include: Monitor financial databases directly Test access to databases and fix all weakness found Audit user access Limit downloading of more than 5% of t ...
  • Downtime versus data saved is the issue
    (Blue Coat) The global enterprise has a voracious appetite for data, and little patience for downtime. According to a recent Forrester report, 82 percent of larger IT organizations rated improving recovery time as a “critical” or “very critical” business priority. The ...
  • Internet will not be tax free much longer
    (CNet) Two years ago, a CNET News.com special report found that 15 states and the District of Columbia said that their laws and regulations meant that digital downloads should be taxed. A few months later, New Jersey joined that list. Since then, more states have beco ...
  • Help Desks are not performing well
    According to a study conducted by Forrester Research, only 53 percent of surveyed IT users reported being satisfied with their help desk support. Areas such as resolving users’ requests in a timely manner and successfully resolving an issue on the first call were iden ...
  • Challenges for CIOs
    As the economic recession continues to deepen, double-digit budget cuts, hiring freezes and layoffs are becoming a fact in many IT departments. However, some CIOs are managing to keep both their staffs and their rosters of ongoing IT projects largely intact - due part ...