2009/03/26

there's no twitter in Chinese version. Sure some copy cats have shown up in China. Will twitter lost its edge in China like Google to BaiDu?

2009/02/19

Blog and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Create blog related to your company, potential customer, industry, area or product will help improve the rank of your web site. Multiple blogs will help more. You should have a Google blog, a Wordpress blog or blog created from PrimeObjects (PrimeObjects Blogging Software, Business Blog, Blog Service & Blog Management). The Google blog is important to you because we know that Google will index those blogs regularly as new content is added into your blog. The Wordpress blogs are very search engine friendly and are also very important for many of the other top online search engines such as Yahoo and MSN. You can use PrimeObjects blog to keep all the original copies of your blog post, pictures and videos, because PrimeObjects blog is the most information management oriented blog management service.

After creating blog, you should untilize your most important keywords as the part of the url of the blog post and broadly plugged into the content of the post in a natural way. This is important to you because your blogs will be regarded much better and your blogs content will rank much higher by the search engines for that particular subject matter as indicated by the text and keywords within your blogs url paths. In those blog posts, don't forget to add two to three different, relevant text links utilizing your important keywords and keyword phrases that you provide to us that will point direct to your website. Of course some of these links can point directly to your important interior web page urls. These text links will also be using variations of your important keywords so that your web site will grow in link popularity for all your relevant and related keywords.

In order to improve the value of your blog further, you should also place an occasional link to other relevant and related subject matter web sites that will add value to your blog and to your blog reader's experience. These may be links to sites like Wikipedia or some article directory etc.

To broaden the exposure of your blog and blog posts, you need to submit the RSS feed of your blog to the more RSS feed directory the better. And also social bookmark the posts to the more social bookmark sites the better.

A smart way to write test scripts in the test case

"A test case in software engineering is a set of conditions or variables under which a tester will determine whether an application or software system meets specifications. The mechanism for determining whether a software program or system has passed or failed such a test is known as a test oracle. In some settings an oracle could be a requirement or use case. It may take many test cases to determine that a software program or system is functioning correctly. Test cases are often referred to as test scripts, particularly when written. Written test cases are usually collected into test suites." -- Wikipedia

Besides a description of the functionality to be tested, and the preparation required to ensure that the test can be conducted, the most time consuming part in the test case is the test scripts. Writer, BA or QA engineer has to spend tons of time to list out the detail of input, expected output, precondition and postcondition. Knowledge transformation is also hard if there are many members involved in this test cycle. Reading test script is time consuming, communication is expensive, the misunderstanding could happen everywhere. How can we simplify the process of writing test script, modifying the test script to sync the change of the requirements and design, and improve the quality of QA? Nowadays, many companies are using screen capture or screen recorder software to generate a video as the primary part of test scripts. This will reduce the misunderstanding, shorten QA cycle and improve the productivity.

Well, after having all those test script video how could you manage them? Have a nice try on the video management feature on PrimeObjects.com Information Management System .

Web Sites to know for a small business

1. http://www.entrepreneur.com/

2. http://www.inc.com/

Inc.com, the website for Inc. magazine, delivers advice, tools, and services, to help business owners and CEOs start, run, and grow their businesses more successfully. You'll find information and advice covering virtually every business and management task, including marketing, sales, finding capital, managing people, and much, much more.

Inc.com also includes the Inc. magazine archives, an exclusive area dedicated to the Inc. 500, and detailed information on Inc-sponsored events.

3. http://www.nolo.com/

Nolo is your legal companion, empowering you and saving you money whenever the law touches your work, life or finances. We are the nation's oldest and most respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses.

4. www.sba.gov

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) was created in 1953 as an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation. We recognize that small business is critical to our economic recovery and strength, to building America's future, and to helping the United States compete in today's global marketplace. Although SBA has grown and evolved in the years since it was established in 1953, the bottom line mission remains the same. The SBA helps Americans start, build and grow businesses. Through an extensive network of field offices and partnerships with public and private organizations, SBA delivers its services to people throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the U. S. Virgin Islands and Guam.

What is Personal information management (PIM)?

Personal information management (PIM) refers to both the practice and the study of the activities people perform in order to acquire, organize, maintain, retrieve and use information items such as documents (paper-based and digital), web pages and email messages for everyday use to complete tasks (work-related or not) and fulfill a person’s various roles (as parent, employee, friend, member of community, etc.).

One ideal of PIM is that we always have the right information in the right place, in the right form, and of sufficient completeness and quality to meet our current need. Technologies and tools such as personal information managers help us spend less time with time-consuming and error-prone activities of PIM (such as looking for information). We then have more time to make creative, intelligent use of the information at hand in order to get things done, or to simply enjoy the information itself.