11 Nov 09 Keeping Long Term Business Relationships

Forming long-term business relationships is a very important practice. Without them, you are force yourself to replace the resources you would have from a trusted business relationship. But how do you maintain these relationships? Well first, you have to think the right way; you’re not looking for friends, but associates.

Keep track of all your personal associates. Keep a good record of when and where you first made contact, how often you usually keep in contact with them, and the last time you had a meeting. Usually programs like Microsoft Excel are good for forming a quick chart that you can change and read on the fly. All of this can be useful later.

You have to keep using your business contacts so that they do not forget about you, but don’t call them everyday. Keeping an accurate record of how often you communicate allows you to keep on that system, so that you maintain the relationship by keeping up with them as often as you should. You can also keep track of their opinion of you this way. If they usually call you right back after an attempt to contact them, you are high up on the importance list. If you find they do not usually make an effort to contact you, you’re not that high priority.

Make your contact time count. Remember, you are not friends; the whole purpose of this relationship is to keep advancing each other professionally in some way. So keep your messages short, and to the point. Provide valuable information quickly, and they will return the favor, and turn to you more often.

But make sure that the business relationship is a two way street. It’s called a relationship for a reason, both of you are looking to benefit from what the other offers. So if your contact is there for you, make sure to return the favor. That’s one of the most important ways to keep a business relationship over a long period.

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19 Oct 09 Using Information Technology With Your Business

Information Technology is a vital component of almost every business in the modern age. Without having a good internet marketing campaign, you’re looking at a very limited amount of success. So you would think it’s basically a no-brainer as to why IT could change your business. Information Technology could improve your productivity in ways you can’t imagine. So make sure you always find the time and effort to make use of IT concepts, they could change the way you run your business for the better.

Investing in computers and computer networks enables you to develop more convenient ways of carrying out day to day operations. IT tools can help you automate functions that normally someone would have to go through each time, enabling a person to focus on a more important task. This way you save money for the time they don’t have to spend on a pointless task, and also allow for that person to be free to attend to a more pressing concern.

Information Technology will allow you to create a broader spectrum of easy collaboration with your staff. By networking their computers you enable everyone to communicate quickly, and more effectively on the fly. This way they can accommodate for changing needs and services as the changes happen in real time. All enabling you to keep relevant no matter how quickly the times change.

Finally information management will completely change with the influence of modern IT methodology. Through IT you can effectively store your information and vital business data in a different way, allowing you to access your archives faster with more accurate information. This could prove invaluable, and just another reason that your business should make sure to have a plentiful IT budget. With Information Technology you could change the face of your business, and maneuvering yourself for success like never before.

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01 Jan 09 Script.aculo.us – a fabulous javascript framework

Script.aculo.us has gained much recognition from javascript programmers as a useful animation framework. It is available for free and can be used for adding the much needed eye candy that is becoming predominant in today’s multimedia rich websites. Fly out menus, text fading in and out, and objects zooming in and out usually required the use of specialized software to create.

Years before, Internet Explorer introduced DHTML or Dynamic HTML to allow these kinds of effects to be done from within the browser. However, this was available to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer only. There is a way to implement these effects via Javascript however, you had to know about animation and mathematical and physics equations to create them. However, with the arrival of Script.aculo.us, these effects can now be easily created.

Script.aculo.us is not only for animation though. It also has several functions that allow the programmer to add drag and drop functionality, in place editing, dynamic creation of Document Object Model(DOM) elements on the page, AJAX functionality, playing sounds, and unit testing. That’s quite a mouthful of useful features that could not only make pages you make attractive but also make it functional and easier to program.

Checking out the homepage of Script.aculo.us, we can find links for all the features of the framework. They are categorized into 6 groups. These categories include: Core Effects, Combination Effects, Effect Helpers, Behaviours, Controls, and Miscellaneous.

The functions for the animation effects are found in the Core Effects, Combination Effects, and Effect helpers groups. Some of the effects that can be created include:

highlight
morph
move
opacity
scale
parallel
queues

Parallel and queues are not really separate effects but are instead a way for the programmer to string together several effects to create the illusion of one continuous effect. Combination effects are a mixture of the core effects that have already been customized in a way so that they appear to be one smooth effect.

As for behaviors, script.aculo.us includes the following functions:

draggable
droppable
sortable
form element dalayed observer

These functions allow the programmer to create elements on the page that can be dragged and dropped using the mouse, sort values and text, and provide a way to monitor page events and respond to them after a specified time delay.

For AJAX programmers, the controls group of script.aculo.us would be beneficial. These functions include:

in place editor
in place editor for collections
auto-complete
auto-complete with results from a local array
slider

The in place editors allows the programmer to allow the user to change values of elements on the page and save them immediately. The auto-complete features on the other hand allows the user to experience a more responsive system while typing information in the form of auto-suggest lists. Finally, the slider feature allows the user to use slider bars to choose from a range of values instead of typing in the values manually.

The miscellaneous group of features are truly varied. The builder feature allows the programmer to insert new elements to the page, while the sound feature provides a way to play and stop music on the page. Finally, the unit testing features allows the programmer to test sections of their program without much difficulty.

So if you’re a web programmer looking for a way to integrate great effects and features to your page without the pain of creating them all from scratch, you may want to give script.aculo.us a test drive today!

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