“There is no more powerful sales tool than word of mouth endorsements from your customers” – Ratepoint
Clean Web Design agrees with that statement. Get and share feedback easily with Ratepoint’s online tools (mailing lists, surveys, feedback, twitter & facebook integration).
The only thing that has frustrated me about Google Voice (which I have been using since it was Grand Central) was that I couldn’t share it with more people, but now they’ve opened up to everyone! Read more in the official Google Blog or go straight to sign up.
S.3480 - “Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset” Act of 2010?
People, please contact your Senator and tell them we are not OK giving the government power to squelch free press and speech nor to attempt to control and regulate internet growth.
Lieberman Wants to Boost President’s Cybersecurity Power (from nbcnewyork.com)
Turn off the internet? Soon the President might be able to do it.
The U.S. Senate is considering a bill that would allow the president to declare “national cyber emergencies” and requires that “the owner or operator of covered critical infrastructure shall immediately comply with any emergency measure or action” demanded of them, in section 249.c.1.
On June 8th at 5pm Google announced it’s new indexing system “Caffeine” on the Official Google Blog.
At first you may only notice that some links that used to be up top in your search results are now on the side, but this update has a lot more under the hood. The new index can slurp up and deliver content nearly instantly now:
“We process it immediately so we can serve it seconds later,” said Matt Cutts, head of Google’s webspam team at the Search Marketing Expo in Seattle.
What does that mean to us? Well, if you’re putting information up on the web, (note to self) hesitate a moment before hitting “Publish” – read and re-read your post – or your typos could be available to the public even before you’ve noticed them. But DO blog, tweet, and post to social networks often because freshness matters. Keep in mind as always, that quality content is king.
According to PCWorld:
Information included in Google searches that is indexed immediately using Caffeine will say that it was posted “seconds ago,” Cutts said.
Not every change on every site will appear immediately, though. Google looks at factors such as page rank to determine which sites to crawl faster, Cutts said. It also checks news sites and blogs more often than other sites.
Lisa and Raymond Chambers on their wedding day, June 12th at Soldier Mtn Ranch
Inc. Magazine announced its 2010 Top Small Companies and has this to say about Biomark:
Because Biomark believes cross-training and variety make for higher job satisfaction, all employees have the opportunity to do fieldwork and get their hands dirty tagging fish and animals. Staff members from the CEO to the customer service reps tag salmon with the staff biologists. When choosing his new company headquarters, CEO Dean Park passed on cheaper options and chose a location to minimize commuting time (and maximize the number of employees able to bike to work).
This press release expounds a bit:
Winning Workplaces, a national nonprofit dedicated to helping small and mid-size businesses create engaging and productive work environments, selected Biomark and 19 additional companies as winners from a pool of more than 500 competitors throughout the United States…The project is co-hosted by Inc. Magazine. Biomark and the other of the winning companies will be featured in the June issue of the publication.
Clean Web Design has developed and managed of Biomark’s web site since April 2003.
Biomark Web Site Screen Shot - June 9, 2010
Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms gets what it’s all about.
