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The term “Intranet” is not to be confused with the “Internet”. An Intranet is a private website that exists to serve an organisation internally. It basically brings all of the threads of information and workflows together in a way that is organised so that the right people within that organisation has access to it, making their jobs easier with improved efficiency.

Online purchases are booming in the new golden age of the digital economy, but that doesn’t automatically guarantee that your website will hit pay dirt. Like anything that involves people parting with their hard earned money, trust in your business will determine the level of your success. In this article we discuss what is needed to generate the trust needed to make it in the digital economy.

If you’re at the planning stages of building a website, don’t be overwhelmed by the task, read this article and make sense of it all.

No matter the type of business, these days Information Technology is essential at some level to its successful operation. At the very least, a business needs to keep its computers running in good order and have a reliable way to restore them and the information they contain if anything goes wrong. If you run a business, one very important question to ask is “who do I trust with my businesses reliance on technology?”

There are so many ways to reduce your business communications costs these days with VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Services and so many ways to access them. What if you could roll up as many of these services as you wanted into one so that you got the best rate on the market every time you made a phone call? Sound difficult? Guess again!

The sheer number of blogs on the Internet is staggering, with millions upon millions of personal and business blogs and hundreds of new ones starting up every day. Today’s AWD blog entry looks at the blog phenomenon that has swept the online universe and how hosting a blog can help your business.

If your business is looking at the options available for a business server, it makes sense to choose a virtual server as your best solution.

Before virtualisation, IT would run one application per physical server. For example, your typical business IT setup would involve a single machine that acted as a mail server, one for central file storage, another machine that runs your sales software etc. For small businesses, this was not very cost effective, especially when things went wrong and needed fixing or parts needed replacing.

This week, we take a good, hard look at websites from the visitor’s perspective. What do they expect from your website and what will put them off. Even though more and more people are using the Internet on a daily basis, a large proportion of them are becoming much more discerning. Giving them what they want is the key to success with your online business.

Having a business computer network for sharing access to the Internet as well as data among your staff is not something to be taken lightly and there are a lot of security issues to take into account if you want to keep your valuable data safe from being lost or stolen. The other motive for many hackers breaking into networks is to use the network as a cover for their crimes, basically making your business a patsy to lead authorities off of their trail.

When it comes to the task of marketing your website, traffic is important. Yet it is also important to make your visitors want to contact you without thinking about whether they are wasting time and money in the effort. The answer is a very clever tool for your website that is the subject of this article.