Advantages of SharePoint Intranet

In any big organization, keeping oneself updated on things happening around is difficult —be it about some change in the company policy, arrival of new projects, so on and so forth. Hence, a centralized place where all employees in an organization can keep themselves updated is undoubtedly requisite. And this is where SharePoint Intranet plays its significant role.

SharePoint Site used for internal use by an organization is an Intranet website, with a centralized location for company policy documents, project information and data. Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) for intranet hosting ensures that all employees can access the changes in policies and procedures and project work changes. SharePoint intranet software enables them to collaborate on a project, track changes to documents, and access the latest information and data. (more…)

How video content can benefit your SEO

Video is not the optimal content for search engine optimisation. Quite simply, the search engines have trouble dealing with it. It’s much harder for the search engine spiders to interpret anything about video content, and when something is hard, it is quite possible they won’t even try. If video is such a difficult thing, you might think it best to leave it off your site altogether. Bad move.

The sort of audience video content can attract makes it a great addition to your SEO. Although videos may be well nigh impossible for the search engines to examine, they are very appealing to internet users. As time goes by and more types of sites feature video content as a matter of course, it is becoming important for all site owners to consider this type of content as part of their search engine optimisation plan. (more…)

Using Asterisk PBX for Web Conferencing

Today when organizations are distributed at various locations, getting everyone together is a bit difficult at times. For instance, in case of most of the organizations, sometimes half of the team of a company would be based somewhere in the US, and half in some other part of the world. In such cases, web conferencing is a savior! Web conferencing technology is now a mainstream medium through which individuals or groups can meet face-to-face in real time to interact.

Web conferencing technology supports sharing of slides (PDF and PPT), video, whiteboard, chat, voice using Asterisk PBX, and desktops.

Web Conferencing features include the following:

Asterisk based web conferencing allows instantaneous conference calling where the user can select any group of contacts, or any e-mail or calendar appointment and automatically initiate a conference call to all the recipients
• Web conferencing allows to join the Asterisk VOIP based voice conference from within the client using a built-in SIP phone
• Hosted Asterisk based web conferencing allows chat with other users including private chat
• Web conferencing facilitates to view the presenter’s slides and cursor
• It helps share a video stream (webcam) with other participants
• Web conferencing also facilitates uploading of slides (PDF or any office document supported by Open Office)
• In web conferencing, the presenter can mute or eject listeners from the voice conference. In web conferencing, the presenter can share their desktop (yes, even on Linux).

Also, don’t forget to enjoy the benefits of the best application hosting solutions, such as hosted VOIP PBX, Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, etc., which has become the preferred way for companies to implement business software.

Content to be Profitable

Websites today do not mainly bank on images and scripts. It is all about what your site contains. To understand what your site is all about, you need to narrate and explain what its purpose is and what people can expect in it.

Putting up websites are not guessing games. People land there for a reason. They are normally the inputs for search queries on the web to which you will be putting in a number of words that fit your site. If these words are fitting, you can expect a lot of hits from various origins.