Business networking is an incredibly important tool that can help you grow your influence, build new partnerships and even find new clients. However, as an Internet marketer or webmaster, you should not restrict your business networking to the web. You need to make it a point to ensure that you focus first on creating as strong a business network as you can?no matter if you?re doing things on the Internet or offline. Do not waste even one opportunity to network effectively for your business. This article will teach you a few things that you can do to improve your business networking abilities.
Focus on Giving, Not Taking: Making the business network one of your more powerful weapons is all about focusing first on giving instead of taking. In the beginning you need to see what you?re giving before you can really receive. This will make it easy for you to network effectively with others and truly get a good response from them.
If you?re the person who initiates the first contact then you need to prove that you can offer so that they will feel comfortable enough to give back to you. This is how the principle of give and take works in the world of business networking, which will prove to be highly beneficial in the long run. Pick Up the Phone: A good networker isn?t afraid or hesitant when it comes to talking on the phone. The reason you do this is so you can quickly grow your business and take it up several levels and to do that you need to be more personal. Do not limit your interactions just to the phone, there are other solutions that will work, like Skype. After you feel comfortable with this particular approach, you can keep moving forward and upward to things like having face to face meetings with members and partners in your business network when you have plans to discuss with them.These same tools are used by people in MLM Marketing
Build Your Network Online and Off: You should not limit your networking approach to just online or offline options, use both equally. There is a big need today to use both online and offline methods so that you won?t miss out on a single contact who can help you. The sort of approach you use to build your network is important because in the long run what matters most is not the quantity of contacts you have but the quality. By creating a strong balance between offline and online networking, you will benefit better than the others who keep their ideas restricted.
You need to put lots of preparation into your business networking because if you come at it haphazardly you?ll just make mediocre contacts who won?t help you out much at all. Create a plan of action and be consistent in your efforts so that you will know for sure that you?re growing your business network and building your business as you move forward. You might have to wait a little bit before you see some real results but if you make all of the best contacts there isn?t anything like it.
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BANGKOK (AP) ? Asian stock markets were stagnant Monday as investors evaluated the prospects of a global economic slowdown.
Japan's Nikkei 225 index rose 0.2 percent to 10,031.37 as the yen slipped against the dollar, helping the country's powerhouse export sector. Elsewhere, however, markets began the week in negative territory after reports in China and Europe last week pointed to a likely slowdown in those economies.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index slipped as investors contemplated what the selection of Leung Chun-ying as the semiautonomous Chinese territory's next chief executive might mean to economic growth for the city, an Asian financial center. The Hang Seng fell marginally to 20,661.36.
South Korea's Kospi index fell 0.5 percent to 2,016.50. Australia's S&P ASX/200 rose 0.2 percent to 4,278. Benchmarks in Singapore and Taiwan also fell. Indonesia and New Zealand were higher.
Commodity-sector companies rose as the dollar weakened. Since commodities are priced in dollars, a weaker dollar makes them cheaper for traders who use other currencies. Jiangxi Copper Co. added 0.3 percent in Hong Kong. Energy Resources of Australia gained 2.3 percent.
The Dow closed up 0.3 percent at 13,080.73 Friday as investors shrugged off a Commerce Department report that sales of new homes fell 1.6 percent last month. Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 0.3 percent to 1,397.11. The Nasdaq composite climbed 0.1 percent to 3,067.92.
Benchmark oil for May delivery was down 31 cents to $106.56 in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract was up $1.52 to end at $106.87 per barrel in New York on Friday.
The euro rose slightly to $1.3265 from $1.3263 late Friday in New York. The dollar fell to 82.74 yen from 82.49 yen.
One more sign of the mobile money space continuing to grow up: some significant consolidation underway. Today, the UK-based mobile banking specialists Monitise announced that it is buying Clairmail, a U.S.-based competitor, for $173 million, as part of its global expansion. The combined group says it will serve 13 million customers world-wide, processing some $10 billion of payments weekly, and will give Monitise a much bigger and more direct presence in the North American market: one-third of the top 50 U.S. financial institutions are now clients of the group.
Contact: Daniel Parry daniel.parry@nrl.navy.mil 202-767-2541 Naval Research Laboratory
WASHINGTON -- Scientists from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Marine Geosciences Division are assisting NASA, the US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) and the European Space Agency (ESA) in developing more accurate monitoring and sustainable forecasting of Arctic sea ice.
Recent dramatic changes in the characteristics of the Arctic sea ice cover have sparked interest and concern from a wide range of disciplines. The demand for an improved ability to monitor and forecast changes in sea ice cover is driven by diverse and varying priorities to include socioeconomics, maritime safety and security, and resource management, as well as basic research science.
Satellites provide an important and cost effective platform for instruments designed to monitor basin-wide changes in the volume of ice cover and snow pack depths. The primary focus of NRL and NASA is to collect data to aid in the validation and calibration of these data sets to further optimize instrument suites and the development of predictive sea ice models.
"Our project takes direct aim at this issue by targeting the largest identified contributors to errors in sea ice thickness measurements from airborne and satellite-based instruments," said Joan Gardner, NRL geologist. "Central to our work is the rare opportunity for a multi-scale approach to mapping the snow depth and sea ice thickness distribution using the most comprehensive set of in situ data collected to date."
In March 2011, a nine kilometer-long survey line was established on the sea ice cover by CRREL and NRL near the U.S. Navy Arctic Submarine Laboratory ICEX2011 ice camp. It was strategically located to cover a wide range of ice types, including refrozen leads, deformed and un-deformed first year ice, and multiyear ice. A highly concentrated set of in situ measurements of snow depth and ice thickness were taken along the survey line.
The first of its kind ICEX survey has proved to be of great value to both NASA and NRL in terms of better understanding the capabilities of airborne and satellite based instruments to measure varying ice types. This will aid in achieving a resolution that is adequate to minimize the degree of uncertainty in models that forecast future conditions and for monitoring decadal variability.
Once the survey line was in place, NASA IceBridge a six-year NASA mission, and largest airborne survey of Earth's polar ice ever flown flew a dedicated mission along the survey line, collecting data with an instrument suite that included the Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM), a high precision, airborne scanning laser altimeter; the Digital Mapping System (DMS), a nadir viewing digital camera; and the University of Kansas ultra-wideband Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) snow radar. The IceBridge measurements were further leveraged by complementary airborne measurements taken by NRL and submarine ice draft measurements.
"We plan to use this set of data to characterize the error on the IceBridge snow depth and sea ice thickness data products as a function of ice type," adds Gardner. "These results will also be applied to improve understanding of new sensors." Sensors to include the IceBridge snow radar, NRL radar altimeter and the European Space Agency CryoSat-2 satellite carrying a state-of-the-art Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Interferometer Radar Altimeter, or SIRAL.
Improved understanding of these measurements and their accuracies will allow scientists to develop new algorithms to incorporate this information into regional sea ice models used by the research community. The error estimates will also help tie the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) and future ICESat-2 records together.
Remote techniques to monitor sea ice extent in all seasons are well developed these observations reveal a dramatic decline in summer sea ice extent since 1979, when satellite records became available. Further, they indicate that the decline has been facilitated by a dramatic decrease in the extent of perennial or multiyear ice.
Combined estimates of ice thickness derived from submarine records between 1958 and 2000, and ICESat laser altimetry from 2003 to 2008, provided the longest-term record of sea ice thickness observations. These data suggest a decrease in the mean overall thickness of the sea ice over a region covering about 38 percent of the Arctic Ocean.
The ICESat satellite has been critical to meeting the goals of NASA's Cryospheric Science Program by providing ice elevation information at continental scales with high spatial resolution. As of October 11, 2009, ICESat stopped collecting science data increasing the urgency of continued observations during IceBridge missions. ICESat-2 is planned to launch no sooner than 2016.
This work directly addresses priorities to improve the utility of IceBridge data to estimate ice thickness and snow accumulation on Arctic sea ice. Because of its fundamental nature, the results from this research will also contribute to the priorities of improved understanding of the mechanisms controlling sea ice cover. These include quantification of the connections between sea ice, ocean and the atmosphere, and validated and improved predictive models of changes in sea ice cover, especially in the coming century, as well as, implications of these changes to the ocean, atmosphere, surrounding land areas and global system. The proposed work also addresses Arctic-related objectives of the US Navy, the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH), and the U.S. Global Climate Change Research Program (USGCRP).
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The Marine Geosciences Division conducts a broadly based, multidisciplinary program of scientific research and advanced technology development directed towards maritime and other national applications of geosciences, geospatial information and related technologies. Research includes investigations of basic processes within ocean basins and littoral regions. Models, sensors, techniques and systems are developed to exploit this knowledge for applications to enhance U.S. Navy and Marine Corps systems, plans and operations.
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Contact: Daniel Parry daniel.parry@nrl.navy.mil 202-767-2541 Naval Research Laboratory
WASHINGTON -- Scientists from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Marine Geosciences Division are assisting NASA, the US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) and the European Space Agency (ESA) in developing more accurate monitoring and sustainable forecasting of Arctic sea ice.
Recent dramatic changes in the characteristics of the Arctic sea ice cover have sparked interest and concern from a wide range of disciplines. The demand for an improved ability to monitor and forecast changes in sea ice cover is driven by diverse and varying priorities to include socioeconomics, maritime safety and security, and resource management, as well as basic research science.
Satellites provide an important and cost effective platform for instruments designed to monitor basin-wide changes in the volume of ice cover and snow pack depths. The primary focus of NRL and NASA is to collect data to aid in the validation and calibration of these data sets to further optimize instrument suites and the development of predictive sea ice models.
"Our project takes direct aim at this issue by targeting the largest identified contributors to errors in sea ice thickness measurements from airborne and satellite-based instruments," said Joan Gardner, NRL geologist. "Central to our work is the rare opportunity for a multi-scale approach to mapping the snow depth and sea ice thickness distribution using the most comprehensive set of in situ data collected to date."
In March 2011, a nine kilometer-long survey line was established on the sea ice cover by CRREL and NRL near the U.S. Navy Arctic Submarine Laboratory ICEX2011 ice camp. It was strategically located to cover a wide range of ice types, including refrozen leads, deformed and un-deformed first year ice, and multiyear ice. A highly concentrated set of in situ measurements of snow depth and ice thickness were taken along the survey line.
The first of its kind ICEX survey has proved to be of great value to both NASA and NRL in terms of better understanding the capabilities of airborne and satellite based instruments to measure varying ice types. This will aid in achieving a resolution that is adequate to minimize the degree of uncertainty in models that forecast future conditions and for monitoring decadal variability.
Once the survey line was in place, NASA IceBridge a six-year NASA mission, and largest airborne survey of Earth's polar ice ever flown flew a dedicated mission along the survey line, collecting data with an instrument suite that included the Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM), a high precision, airborne scanning laser altimeter; the Digital Mapping System (DMS), a nadir viewing digital camera; and the University of Kansas ultra-wideband Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) snow radar. The IceBridge measurements were further leveraged by complementary airborne measurements taken by NRL and submarine ice draft measurements.
"We plan to use this set of data to characterize the error on the IceBridge snow depth and sea ice thickness data products as a function of ice type," adds Gardner. "These results will also be applied to improve understanding of new sensors." Sensors to include the IceBridge snow radar, NRL radar altimeter and the European Space Agency CryoSat-2 satellite carrying a state-of-the-art Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Interferometer Radar Altimeter, or SIRAL.
Improved understanding of these measurements and their accuracies will allow scientists to develop new algorithms to incorporate this information into regional sea ice models used by the research community. The error estimates will also help tie the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) and future ICESat-2 records together.
Remote techniques to monitor sea ice extent in all seasons are well developed these observations reveal a dramatic decline in summer sea ice extent since 1979, when satellite records became available. Further, they indicate that the decline has been facilitated by a dramatic decrease in the extent of perennial or multiyear ice.
Combined estimates of ice thickness derived from submarine records between 1958 and 2000, and ICESat laser altimetry from 2003 to 2008, provided the longest-term record of sea ice thickness observations. These data suggest a decrease in the mean overall thickness of the sea ice over a region covering about 38 percent of the Arctic Ocean.
The ICESat satellite has been critical to meeting the goals of NASA's Cryospheric Science Program by providing ice elevation information at continental scales with high spatial resolution. As of October 11, 2009, ICESat stopped collecting science data increasing the urgency of continued observations during IceBridge missions. ICESat-2 is planned to launch no sooner than 2016.
This work directly addresses priorities to improve the utility of IceBridge data to estimate ice thickness and snow accumulation on Arctic sea ice. Because of its fundamental nature, the results from this research will also contribute to the priorities of improved understanding of the mechanisms controlling sea ice cover. These include quantification of the connections between sea ice, ocean and the atmosphere, and validated and improved predictive models of changes in sea ice cover, especially in the coming century, as well as, implications of these changes to the ocean, atmosphere, surrounding land areas and global system. The proposed work also addresses Arctic-related objectives of the US Navy, the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH), and the U.S. Global Climate Change Research Program (USGCRP).
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The Marine Geosciences Division conducts a broadly based, multidisciplinary program of scientific research and advanced technology development directed towards maritime and other national applications of geosciences, geospatial information and related technologies. Research includes investigations of basic processes within ocean basins and littoral regions. Models, sensors, techniques and systems are developed to exploit this knowledge for applications to enhance U.S. Navy and Marine Corps systems, plans and operations.
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The cotton growers lobbied the US govt to outlaw Hemp. Australian Mining Companies are doing everything they can to stop the looming Mining Tax. A vocal minority continues to say climate change is a hoax when 97% of climate scientists believe climate change is real.
Are these groups right or wrong? Well hindsight will tell us, but for now we must remain vigilant.
Feathers ? the need a-ruffling!
According to Michael Weinberg, a staff attorney at advocacy group Public Knowledge, the idea that anyone can scan, design, and 3D print anything will be a revolution that will ruffle some feathers.
?3D printing is a disruptive technology,? he said. ?When you are disrupting, when you?re making it so people don?t have to do things anymore, the people who are disrupted, and the people who charge for those things, aren?t always as excited as you are about them.?
Weinberg used the Internet as an example of disruptive technology.
?In the mid 90s, lot of people doing incredible things with computers, networked computers, all over the world,? he said. ?The disrupted industries and congress tried to find a solution, and in 1998, Congress passed the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). Basically, it sets the rules of the game for digital copyright. DMCA is not all bad, but it doesn?t necessarily reflect all the ways we would want things done if everyone who exists today had been tuned in in 1998.?
Physical Things generally don?t have copyright on them
Now, 3D printers aren?t computers. The things that people can create or copy on a computer and then easily distribute, such as music files, are protected by copyright. But 3D printers work in the physical world. ?While every photo and every article is protected by copyright, most physical things aren?t protected by copyright or any kind of intellectual property copyright,? Weinberg said. ?Objects that do things can?t be protected by copyright. Useful is drawn broadly. Clothing is a useful object. You can patent a pattern on a piece of clothing, but you can?t patent the cut.?
Enter DMCA
However, there have already been legal cases over 3D printing. A user on Thingiverse designed and printed the?Penrose Triangle, a famous optical illusion that isn?t supposed to be buildable in reality. Shortly thereafter, another user figured out how to print the Penrose?and posted the files on Thingiverse.?That first user sent a DMCA takedown, ?and the 3D printing world freaked out,? Weinberg said.
When someone sends a DMCA takedown, the article in question is removed (and if someone contests the takedown, the article is put back up). The problem with this case, Weinberg said, is that someone else invented the Penrose Prime, and an optical illusion might actually be considered a useful product. The case was settled when the user who initially figured out how to print the optical illusion dedicated the rights to the community and dropped the suit.
?There have been times when people have downloaded props from movies to 3D printed websites, and companies send DMCA takedowns,? Weinberg said. ?The sites say, ?okay,? and take them down.?
Weinberg reckons existing laws are handling 3D Printing ok
So far, Weinberg said, existing laws seem to be handling the 3D printing boom pretty well. But that could change. He said there are several ways to protect 3D printing, including introducing it to (the US) Congress now, and in a positive context. Heaven forbid that an Australian politician even knows what 3D Printing is!
?It should not be introduced when someone comes in an says, ?This pirate box is ruining my business!?? Weinberg says.
The best way to protect 3D printing, though, is to use it.
?The worst mistake would be to try to imagine a 3D printing dystopian future and then pass laws today that address those concerns in the dystopian future,? Weinberg says. ?That future would never have happened anyway, and the laws that you pass today are going to stop production innovation and shape it in a way that?s not useful. So instead of imagining a bad thing in the future, have a little confidence in the hundreds of years of intellectual property law up till now, where it?s always been possible to replicate physical objects. Ask: Is this a real problem? Are the laws we have now unable to address them? This technology is something worth protecting, or at least something worth not immediately smothering.?
So in short, use 3D Printing, tell people about it, and remain vigilant to copyright trolls.
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The rest is here: The looming Legal Battle of 3D Printing
These pointers are created to allow you to get to your phase where you can stop functioning that annoying typical career and devote fulltime effort on your Internet advertising and marketing company. During this report we?re going to discuss about Seo link vine.
You will more than likely notice that when you are running a business that your customers use social media sites. Your business or marketing campaign belongs on these same social networking sites. You can potentially increase your number of customers by targeting your marketing efforts on some of the better-known social network sites.
Consider the smaller or lesser-known social media networks, when choosing where to invest your time. If you do a little research you will find that it is somewhat easy to find sites that will target your specific audience. This is especially important if you have a narrow target audience.
The basics still work in social media marketing. Good business agendas still trace their initiation to a thoroughly thought out press release, and determining the perfect audience. Implementing these traditional and newer methods together is what gives SMM the mass of influence that it has obtained.
To increase your marketing clout, link your blog to LinkedIn. One quick way to do this is to simply add a ?share? button for LinkedIn users to click. Place it is a spot where it will be prominent and easy to find. Your visitors can then share your site with others on LinkedIn, helping you raise your visibility. 100 million users on LinkedIn who might potentially share your blog with their friends translates into a lot of potential profit for you.
The incredible popularity of social network marketing is not an invitation to jump into this trend without thinking through your approach. First learn how to do this kind of marketing. Then plan your marketing campaign. Expect setbacks and have a plan for dealing with them. Running a campaign with both education and planning under your belt will help you beat your competitors and develop even more effective strategies.
Make sure you are listening to your customers. Thank everyone who gives you feedback, and make sure you listen to everything they have to say. Keep records of the feedback you receive, and see if any patterns emerge.
Social media is a great way to promote limited time offers. Make the offer short enough so that a sense of urgency exists, but long enough so that the consumers have time to reach your storefront. The customers who then realize they?ve missed good deals will begin paying some more attention to the updates you provide. You can convince more people to become update subscribers if you mention this on your website.
One way to increase interest in your social media campaign is to host employee blogs directly on the company website. This blog will give your customers an idea of how your business is run. This serves as a window into your business? culture, atmosphere and operations that are used to provide the products and services your clientele come to you for. The more your customers know about how your business operates, the more trustworthy they will find it.
Use YouTube to promote your blog. Don?t forget when you are posting on YouTube that you should start each video description with a link to your website or blog. Start off descriptions with keywords, and make sure they are clearly visible and understandable in relation to your working niche. Select descriptive keywords for use in the tags also.
If you decide to utilize a marketing company to help you with social media marketing, be cautions. Many of these types of companies are fraudulent and scam business owners that are inexperienced in Internet marketing. Businesses use myriads of fake social media accounts that they use bots to build. The fact that they are using fake registration to portray the image that you are being exposed at excellent levels will cost you a great deal in money for little or no benefit in reality.
You can really give your business a boost, starting this very minute, by utilizing the power of social media. Use the strategies included here, and get acclimated to social media. The results that you see should encourage you to continue using social media as a marketing strategy well into the future. Your business can do nothing but gain when it comes to social media marketing, keep that in mind.
One more sign of the mobile money space continuing to grow up: some significant consolidation underway. Today, the UK-based mobile banking specialists Monitise announced that it is buying Clairmail, a U.S.-based competitor, for $173 million, as part of its global expansion. The combined group says it will serve 13 million customers world-wide, processing some $10 billion of payments weekly, and will give Monitise a much bigger and more direct presence in the North American market: one-third of the top 50 U.S. financial institutions are now clients of the group.![[ Back to EurekAlert! ]](http://www.eurekalert.org/images/back2e.gif){kind=small}
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