Beyond the vCard There is BusinessCard2!

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From napkins to paper business cards, to Rolodex files and on to electronic business cards; all for the sake of exchanging information such as names, phone numbers and addresses. Lest we forget, we should mention the mid to late 1990s innovation called the vCard. The vCard was and still is a standardized file format for electronic business cards.

Now comes "BusinessCard2!" with a new innovation—That's them, explanation point and all. These days everything is about your "presence," whether it is Web presence, Twitter presence or some other kind of online presence. Here is an excerpt from the BusinessCard2 Website:

"Take control of your online professional identity. Assemble and manage your online presence into one centralized, portable package. Control how customers see you on search engines and websites."

There it is again, "your online presence. . . ." Although not something new, presence marketing in social media has recently been gaining popularity among the so-called marketing gurus. However, what has been lacking is a means for individuals and businesses alike to manage what is typically a collection of independently spectacular places to visit that are spread haphazardly throughout the outermost regions of the Internet.

Before a stable process can be determined, we might look at what assets and other resources might be available to aid in an economical, centralized marketing campaign. Large firms might opt for costly online services. But what about the rest of us?

The answer is BusinessCard2! They offer a Flash based solution that displays your electronic business card on a web page hosted at BusinessCard2.com. Your electronic business card and hosting are both FREE.

Your online Flash intro [presentation] on BusinessCard2.com is packed with features, including but not limited to: Contact Info, Let's Do Business, Website, Experience, Special Offers, Social Sites, Files, Social Links, External Links, Podcasts and the most recently added feature, a Billboard. In addition, readers can easily send you a message and embed, send or share your business card.

Visit the BusinessCard2.com website and browse the alphabetized directory. View contact information, send messages and a lot more. Login to your BusinessCard2 account to add business cards to your account as contacts. Can't find who you are looking for in the directory? Just use the convenient search feature to search for their first or last name.

Online statistics are available for daily and monthly performance. For each section of your card, the number of views per month are presented in a tabular format accompanied by a colorful pie chart clearly showing the distribution. Daily activity is shown in a bar chart. BusinessCard2 frequently adds new features and tools. BusinessCard2's community pages and features will be coming soon.

Here it is again, "your online presence. . . ." Now, like they say at BusinessCard2, "Pass it along." Promote your BusinessCard2 presence, and see your electronic business card listed on the first page results for Google Search: BusinessCard2.

Let's Do Business http://bit.ly/egwME - Create your own FREE BusinesCard2!

Takeaway - Tips for a Better Web Presence:

Focus on the quality and the content of your website. Readers are searching for original blog or social media content that is updated regularly.

Build a dedicated audience. It is important for any web site or blog site to build a strong daily following of visitors that can attract advertisers.

Invest in your site's technology. Sites that have a dedicated domain name and are hosted on their own are likely to receive a steady flow of new visitors; however, sites hosted as sub-domains on a network site like Blogspot.com and others might not achieve the same degree of visitor loyalty.

Knowledge Management Systems Today - Tentatively Selects Joomla!

Today, October 14, 2009, is the official start date for the KMSToday.com Joomla! project. It has been a few weeks since completion of our preliminary investigation when it was tentatively determined that open source Joomla! 1.5 will serve as the content management system for the new Knowledge Management Systems Today website at KMSToday.com. With that being said, it's back to the Joomla! website at Joomla.org for more information.

The Knowledge Management Systems Today website is hosted by GoDaddy.com, which provides one-click installs of Joomla!, however, for various reasons we will be performing either a Web Browser Installation or a Manual Installation. Our entire Joomla! project can be short lived if server side security interferes with either of these installation processes.

We'll know more tomorrow as we make our first attempt at Joomla! installation.

Knowledge Workers and BPO by LANWANMAN

Knowledge Worker, "A knowledge worker in today's workforce is an individual that is valued for their ability to interpret information within a specific subject area. They will often advance the overall understanding of that subject through focused analysis, design and/or development. They use research skills to define problems and to identify alternatives. Fueled by their expertise and insight, they work to solve those problems, in an effort to influence company decisions, priorities and strategies." - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

With an additional website scheduled to join the eCommerce Safe Services family of networks, websites and blogs before year-end 2009, we look forward to establishing contacts and opportunities with other knowledge workers worldwide.

The new website now being designed and development is named the Knowledge Management Systems Network, and it is located at KMSToday.com. Although our eSafeServ.com website has always been the parent site for all eCommerce Safe Services' networks, websites, blogs and other web based resources, it is anticipated that the new site will become the focal point for all operations within eCommerce Safe Services.

To learn more, see the Freelance Writers Website (FWW) Knowledge Workers page. Join our Freelance Writers Network (FWN) Knowledge Workers 2.0 Group (FREE).

Did You Know that Intranets are a type of knowledge management system.