Based on your adopted organization(s), identify and discuss barriers in their IS/IT implementation. Whew! 2000 words for this assignment and I find it quite difficult to find related articles in the internet to. According to the instruction above the input must be from our adopted company however to make my points clearer and to make this article more interesting and reliable I also include my research understanding via the internet regarding this topic. Let’s start the discussion of the said matter. There are many identified barriers in the Information System or Information Technology implementation in an organization. For what I have read in some articles over the internet, I will categorized in into five (5) divisions in which I think the most important factors, these are the (1) Financial Problems, (2) Physical Problems, (3) Technical Problems, (4) Organizational Problems and (5) Social Problems. As an elaboration of the division of the obstacle identified in the implementation of Information System, the following are the lists of more specific problems in each category. 1. Financial Problems This should be considered in implementing an Information System in an organization. For this determined the resources needed in the processes, development and maintenance of an efficient system. If we have limited resources we may encounter insufficiency of funds to put into action the desired solution. This includes hardware replacement, software updates and maintenance and as well as funds for the specialized skills training for the company’s staff. With this, we can also determine if we can maximize the usage of Information System within the organization according to the company’s need and its users. In the side of the investors, they may be hesitant to spend money for this project for will be very costly and requires ample time to complete the system yet the results or outcome is unsure. What I can say to the investors in this matter, if we want a changes or development we must take the risk, for business is a gamble, just makes sure that you have all the weapons not to lose in the game. 2. Physical Problems When we are talking of the physical aspects of Information System we are pertaining to the hardware, software and network topology. Thus, this may involve redesigning the network, hardware replacement in order to have more improve speed and efficiency and as well as the determining the most appropriate software to used. 3. Technical Problems Infrastructure. It is the very important framework of any information organization. Effective Information access and use depends on communication facilities such as telephones, Internet, fax, computers, as well as an adequate supply of electricity. Computer literacy is almost non-existent in primary and secondary education. It is very much limited in colleges and universities due to shortage of skilled human resources and computing infrastructure. Lack of a shared, reliable computing and network infrastructure. When an institution lacks an IT infrastructure there will be a difficulty in operating technology supported programs with consistency from one office to the other or building to building. It also slows and complicates communication among the organization or other institutions Unrealistic time frames. Some information systems take considerably longer than originally planned. Time delays lead to serious difficulties in planning for and adjusting to changes in operations. Since they consume more time than they expected, the deadline will become a pressure. Difficulty of data collection and management. Data collection is considered to be the most critical and difficult part of implementing an Information System for it is the foundation of the entire system process. Thus, this convey what the system is all about, its scope and limitations. Proper management of the said data is essential. 4. Organizational Problems The organization heads set too ambitious goals that require a lot of resources that may not be able to achieve. I suggest that in making the goals of the company they should focus on what are the necessities or focus on the needs of the organization that it must meet the business requirements of the party and it should be brief and accurate. Unskilled Staff As mention above, system must be maintained and monitor from time to time and the people who will handle this transaction must be well trained and have an expertise on maintaining the system. Not having this kind of people inside the organization will add up to the barriers to the success of the system. 5. Social Problems . The resistance of the organization and its people to the technology is also a factor that I consider as one of the obstacle. Human resources as the participants to the implementation of Information System should be able to meet or abide the requirements or standards of the company’s specific IS. In planning as well as in the development of the said system, the human resources should participate hand in hand in the process. We can consider the human resources as one of the Information System barriers with regards to its implementation for they are the one who gives the specifications, requirements and standards that help to develop the functionalities of the company. These people are also the one who will utilize, manage and control to be able to acquire the benefits of technology. Communication is another factor that adds up to the impediments of technology. As what I mentioned above, every participant in the implementation must work together to make sure the success of the desired output is not impossible to attain. Without this there is no guarantee that the system will be a help to the organization or maybe it will just be add to its liabilities. Instead of gaining from what they have invested, they are more likely to lose or worsen the company’s situation. Resources: http://www.unesco.org/education/educprog/erd/english/wgesa/doc/ethiopia/appendice_2.htm http://www.unm.edu/~jreenen/dlbook/chapter9.html | |
Find three (3) URL's that talk's about "green campus computing" and suggest ways how the university can adopt this concept.
When we are talking about “green campus computing” we are talking about our responsibilities as an IT student towards our environment, our contribution on how to use our electronic resources wisely such as computer and how we can minimize electronic waste or the e-waste.
In this assignment, we were given a task to give three URL’s that talk’s regarding green campus computing and how can we adopt or implement it in our own university which is the University of Southeastern Philippines and most importantly it should all begin in ourselves.
The following are the URL’s which talks about green campus computing:
1. http://green.wikia.com/wiki/Green_Computing
The Following are their suggestions:
a) Turn off the monitor when the user will be away for a moment.
b) Set your PC’s on standby mode at a certain point of time.
c) Remove all unnecessary or unused drive.
d) Unplug the CD-ROM if this is not used most of the time.
e) Print wisely. Print only the pages you need and try to avoid print all if it’s not necessary.
f) Refill inkjet cartridges or laser toner rather than to replace it into a new one.
g) Turn off the router, cable modems and WIFI access point when not in used. Avoid turning it on overnight.
Planning to buy new PC? These are their suggestions.
a) Buy laptop than PC because laptops consume less power than desktop does.
b) Buy a computer according to your need.
c) Choose the latest Intel than AMD because it is more environmental friendly though not as powerful as the latter.
d) Consider the 80 plus energy efficient power supply.
e) Choose its parts carefully. Do not install the unnecessary parts when you’re not using them.
f) Choose Corded Keyboard and Mouse over wireless.
g) Inkjet printers use less energy than laser printer. Choose according to your need.
2. http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid80_gci1246959,00.html
In this site, it said that on earliest initiatives towards green computing the United States voluntarily labeling their program the Energy Star. On 1992, Environmental Protection Agency (EPC) was established to promote energy-efficiency on all hardware.
Here are some steps that promote green computing:
a) Power- down the CPU’s when not in used.
b) Try to do computer-related tasks during contiguous, intensive blocks of time, leaving hardware off at other times.
c) Power-up and power-down energy-intensive peripherals such as laser printers according to need.
d) Use liquid-crystal-display (LCD) monitors rather than cathode-ray-tube (CRT) monitors.
e) Use notebook computers rather than desktop computers whenever possible.
f) Use the power-management features to turn off hard drives and displays after several minutes of inactivity.
g) Minimize the use of paper and properly recycle waste paper.
h) Dispose of e-waste according to federal, state and local regulations.
i) Employ alternative energy sources for computing workstations, servers, networks and data centers.
3) http://www.p2000.umich.edu/energy_conservation/ec7.htm
Waste Minimization Procedure
Electrical Conservation Tips:
• Turn the computer off overnight and on weekends;
• Wait until ready to use the PC before turning it on;
• If the computer is going to be inactive for more than 16 minutes, consider turning it off. After this energy needed to run the computer outweighs the start-up energy;
• Do not turn on the printer until ready to print, even an idle printer consumes energy;
• Try to schedule computer-related activities to do them all at once, keeping the computer off at other times;
• If spending a large amount of time at the computer, consider reducing the light level in your office. This may improve cathode ray tube screen visibility as well as save energy.
Technology had given us many advantages that made our daily tasks easier. But as we all know that in all things there is an equal and opposite reaction and in this case, if technology brought us goodness well it have its disadvantages also. We belong to the IT world- the world of the new generation; we have an obligation to educate ourselves on how we can help to promote green campus computing in our university, as well as in our surroundings. Not just to promote and reinforce it but on how we can effectively implement this cause in our university. Knowing that these electronic wastes exist, and we are now informed what we can do to justify the means of green campus computing, thus our responsibility as an IT student does not end in this forum as we made our assignment, and the challenge to make this happens is in our hands.
When we are talking about “green campus computing” we are talking about our responsibilities as an IT student towards our environment, our contribution on how to use our electronic resources wisely such as computer and how we can minimize electronic waste or the e-waste.
In this assignment, we were given a task to give three URL’s that talk’s regarding green campus computing and how can we adopt or implement it in our own university which is the University of Southeastern Philippines and most importantly it should all begin in ourselves.
The following are the URL’s which talks about green campus computing:
1. http://green.wikia.com/wiki/Green_Computing
The Following are their suggestions:
a) Turn off the monitor when the user will be away for a moment.
b) Set your PC’s on standby mode at a certain point of time.
c) Remove all unnecessary or unused drive.
d) Unplug the CD-ROM if this is not used most of the time.
e) Print wisely. Print only the pages you need and try to avoid print all if it’s not necessary.
f) Refill inkjet cartridges or laser toner rather than to replace it into a new one.
g) Turn off the router, cable modems and WIFI access point when not in used. Avoid turning it on overnight.
Planning to buy new PC? These are their suggestions.
a) Buy laptop than PC because laptops consume less power than desktop does.
b) Buy a computer according to your need.
c) Choose the latest Intel than AMD because it is more environmental friendly though not as powerful as the latter.
d) Consider the 80 plus energy efficient power supply.
e) Choose its parts carefully. Do not install the unnecessary parts when you’re not using them.
f) Choose Corded Keyboard and Mouse over wireless.
g) Inkjet printers use less energy than laser printer. Choose according to your need.
2. http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid80_gci1246959,00.html
In this site, it said that on earliest initiatives towards green computing the United States voluntarily labeling their program the Energy Star. On 1992, Environmental Protection Agency (EPC) was established to promote energy-efficiency on all hardware.
Here are some steps that promote green computing:
a) Power- down the CPU’s when not in used.
b) Try to do computer-related tasks during contiguous, intensive blocks of time, leaving hardware off at other times.
c) Power-up and power-down energy-intensive peripherals such as laser printers according to need.
d) Use liquid-crystal-display (LCD) monitors rather than cathode-ray-tube (CRT) monitors.
e) Use notebook computers rather than desktop computers whenever possible.
f) Use the power-management features to turn off hard drives and displays after several minutes of inactivity.
g) Minimize the use of paper and properly recycle waste paper.
h) Dispose of e-waste according to federal, state and local regulations.
i) Employ alternative energy sources for computing workstations, servers, networks and data centers.
3) http://www.p2000.umich.edu/energy_conservation/ec7.htm
Waste Minimization Procedure
Electrical Conservation Tips:
• Turn the computer off overnight and on weekends;
• Wait until ready to use the PC before turning it on;
• If the computer is going to be inactive for more than 16 minutes, consider turning it off. After this energy needed to run the computer outweighs the start-up energy;
• Do not turn on the printer until ready to print, even an idle printer consumes energy;
• Try to schedule computer-related activities to do them all at once, keeping the computer off at other times;
• If spending a large amount of time at the computer, consider reducing the light level in your office. This may improve cathode ray tube screen visibility as well as save energy.
Technology had given us many advantages that made our daily tasks easier. But as we all know that in all things there is an equal and opposite reaction and in this case, if technology brought us goodness well it have its disadvantages also. We belong to the IT world- the world of the new generation; we have an obligation to educate ourselves on how we can help to promote green campus computing in our university, as well as in our surroundings. Not just to promote and reinforce it but on how we can effectively implement this cause in our university. Knowing that these electronic wastes exist, and we are now informed what we can do to justify the means of green campus computing, thus our responsibility as an IT student does not end in this forum as we made our assignment, and the challenge to make this happens is in our hands.
Automated Election in the Philippines
The Comelec – Commission on Election in the Philippines have been very busy for the neither previous months nor years preparing for the near May 10, 2010 presidential election. An automated election was proposed by Senator Richard Gordon and officially amended by Republic Act 9369 or the amended Automated Election System. Its main goal is to assure the Filipino people to have a fair, honest and clean election thus, to regain the trust of its people to the electoral process and to its government.
What is this Automated Election?
This is a modern electoral process and also known as the Republic Act 9369 or the Automated Election System, authored by Senator Richard Gordon.
The system involves machines to be deploy in every precincts nationwide that helps to minimized the allotted time for counting of votes, secure the votes of each Filipinos, minimized or totally eliminate cheating or election frauds and regain the trust of every Filipino to the government in terms of electoral process.
The government allotted 11.3 billion supplemental budgets for the said project. The winning bidder will provide 80,200 machines, two of these machines will be deploy on every precincts.
Instead of writing the names of the candidates in the ballot, voters will shade their chosen candidate names. So, it means there is still manual action occurs during the election proper however, the process does not end there. After the voting proper, every ballot will be scan by the Precinct Counting Optical Scan (PCOS) which records and stores the votes and hopefully it neither reduce nor minimize instances of fraud and cheating. The said ballots also feature security codes or markings to safeguard the votes of the people. Thus, this will reduce complaints for this system promises to be fast, accurate and reliable.
The system promises to give fast results in a matter of more or less two (2) days. Even though the actual voting will be manual but the counting and transmissions of votes will be fully automated thus, Comelec is confident that this automation of election will be a success one.
Automated Election Vs Manual Election.
For the recent years, the Philippines have had implemented the manual electoral process. From the word itself “manual” it literally means that every actions occur on the said election is between man to man, those who are involve in the said issue which are the voters and the election officers. From the election preparation, voting proper, vote counting, vote canvassing, result transmission to result generation it is facilitated, administered and the results are manually computed by people. In the manual scenario of election it is prone to fraud and cheating. Filipino voters had experienced to witness this kind of scheme thus; they have loss their trust to our election system. Some example to these election irregularities are vote buying, cheating in vote counting, flying voters, and harassment of voters.
As the technology evolves, Comelec sees that there is a need of a change in our electoral process. And this change leads to the amendment of automation of our election system. In this connection, the realization of the quest of the Filipino people to have a reliable, clean, honest and fair election results to the approval of Republic Act 9369 or the amended Automated Election System.
May 10, 2010 election is the target date of the first nationwide automated election to take place. The said automation had been tested on the Autonomous Region in Muslim Minadanao (ARMM) election on August 2008. That said election was made to be an experiment to test if the proposed automation of election process in this country would be applicable, effective and credible. In result, according to survey conducted by Social Weather Station (SWS) in the ARMM August 2008 election it said to be a successful one and it satisfy the voters in the ARMM.
The following statements is based on the survey conducted by the SWS:
Among ARMM people, 75 percent said that the automated voting in their regional election the previous August gave them “much more” or “somewhat more” confidence that the election was free and fair. In the national survey, on the other hand, only 40 percent said that the automation of the ARMM elections in August 2008 gave them added confidence that the ARMM elections were free and fair. In other words, actual participants became more assured of the fairness of the election process, while mere onlookers mostly stayed skeptical.
Unsurprisingly, the great majority (69 percent) of ARMM voters agreed with the proposal to implement automated voting in the 2010 presidential elections. Only 8 percent disagreed; 24 percent were undecided. (This question was not asked in the October national survey.)
Directly from the people who have actually experienced the automated election, in this case it shows that it is in favor to the automation of 2010 election.
To automate or not to automate the 2010 election.
As an Information Technology student in the University of Southeastern Philippines I would suggest or I will stand in the side of the automation of our electoral process. As mention above it is more advantageous for our government and most importantly to us – the people of the Philippines. The said modern system or the modernization of our election system is not just a mere accessory on our government that we are embracing the high technology around us but this system offer us a secure, reliable, fast, time saving, free, honest and clean election. We all need a change. We all need to hear our voices in this matter. We all need a government that we can trust. And we have the power to make it all come true. To safeguard our votes with this system, to put in position the people that we think best suited for the given positions. All we need is to trust this change; this automation of election will bring good to all of us. With this system, we can guarantee that are votes are safe, accurately recorded, securely stored and will give us accurate and fast results. Why stop the change, when it brings development to our nation? Come to think of it. We want an honest, free and a clean government, why not starts it now? Let us support the 2010 Automated Election System.
The Comelec – Commission on Election in the Philippines have been very busy for the neither previous months nor years preparing for the near May 10, 2010 presidential election. An automated election was proposed by Senator Richard Gordon and officially amended by Republic Act 9369 or the amended Automated Election System. Its main goal is to assure the Filipino people to have a fair, honest and clean election thus, to regain the trust of its people to the electoral process and to its government.
What is this Automated Election?
This is a modern electoral process and also known as the Republic Act 9369 or the Automated Election System, authored by Senator Richard Gordon.
The system involves machines to be deploy in every precincts nationwide that helps to minimized the allotted time for counting of votes, secure the votes of each Filipinos, minimized or totally eliminate cheating or election frauds and regain the trust of every Filipino to the government in terms of electoral process.
The government allotted 11.3 billion supplemental budgets for the said project. The winning bidder will provide 80,200 machines, two of these machines will be deploy on every precincts.
Instead of writing the names of the candidates in the ballot, voters will shade their chosen candidate names. So, it means there is still manual action occurs during the election proper however, the process does not end there. After the voting proper, every ballot will be scan by the Precinct Counting Optical Scan (PCOS) which records and stores the votes and hopefully it neither reduce nor minimize instances of fraud and cheating. The said ballots also feature security codes or markings to safeguard the votes of the people. Thus, this will reduce complaints for this system promises to be fast, accurate and reliable.
The system promises to give fast results in a matter of more or less two (2) days. Even though the actual voting will be manual but the counting and transmissions of votes will be fully automated thus, Comelec is confident that this automation of election will be a success one.
Automated Election Vs Manual Election.
For the recent years, the Philippines have had implemented the manual electoral process. From the word itself “manual” it literally means that every actions occur on the said election is between man to man, those who are involve in the said issue which are the voters and the election officers. From the election preparation, voting proper, vote counting, vote canvassing, result transmission to result generation it is facilitated, administered and the results are manually computed by people. In the manual scenario of election it is prone to fraud and cheating. Filipino voters had experienced to witness this kind of scheme thus; they have loss their trust to our election system. Some example to these election irregularities are vote buying, cheating in vote counting, flying voters, and harassment of voters.
As the technology evolves, Comelec sees that there is a need of a change in our electoral process. And this change leads to the amendment of automation of our election system. In this connection, the realization of the quest of the Filipino people to have a reliable, clean, honest and fair election results to the approval of Republic Act 9369 or the amended Automated Election System.
May 10, 2010 election is the target date of the first nationwide automated election to take place. The said automation had been tested on the Autonomous Region in Muslim Minadanao (ARMM) election on August 2008. That said election was made to be an experiment to test if the proposed automation of election process in this country would be applicable, effective and credible. In result, according to survey conducted by Social Weather Station (SWS) in the ARMM August 2008 election it said to be a successful one and it satisfy the voters in the ARMM.
The following statements is based on the survey conducted by the SWS:
Among ARMM people, 75 percent said that the automated voting in their regional election the previous August gave them “much more” or “somewhat more” confidence that the election was free and fair. In the national survey, on the other hand, only 40 percent said that the automation of the ARMM elections in August 2008 gave them added confidence that the ARMM elections were free and fair. In other words, actual participants became more assured of the fairness of the election process, while mere onlookers mostly stayed skeptical.
Unsurprisingly, the great majority (69 percent) of ARMM voters agreed with the proposal to implement automated voting in the 2010 presidential elections. Only 8 percent disagreed; 24 percent were undecided. (This question was not asked in the October national survey.)
Directly from the people who have actually experienced the automated election, in this case it shows that it is in favor to the automation of 2010 election.
To automate or not to automate the 2010 election.
As an Information Technology student in the University of Southeastern Philippines I would suggest or I will stand in the side of the automation of our electoral process. As mention above it is more advantageous for our government and most importantly to us – the people of the Philippines. The said modern system or the modernization of our election system is not just a mere accessory on our government that we are embracing the high technology around us but this system offer us a secure, reliable, fast, time saving, free, honest and clean election. We all need a change. We all need to hear our voices in this matter. We all need a government that we can trust. And we have the power to make it all come true. To safeguard our votes with this system, to put in position the people that we think best suited for the given positions. All we need is to trust this change; this automation of election will bring good to all of us. With this system, we can guarantee that are votes are safe, accurately recorded, securely stored and will give us accurate and fast results. Why stop the change, when it brings development to our nation? Come to think of it. We want an honest, free and a clean government, why not starts it now? Let us support the 2010 Automated Election System.
, ReflectionCOMDDAP means computer manufacturers distributors and dealers association of the Philippines. This association, had their exhibition here in Davao last July 2-4. IT was held on the Apo View Hotel. By the way, for some who does not know about COMDDAP, this is their brief information about the association:
“COMDDAP is an association of the country's top information technology businesses. Its primary objective is to promote the sustainable development of the of the country's information technology industry through voluntary collaboration of its member companies. It is the goal of COMDDAP to be able to provide its members general views and updates from different sectors - private and government, and highly regarded individuals to further uplift the morale and knowledge of its organization.
The vision of promoting and elevating the standards of Information technology (IT) in the Philippines fueled a group of prominent computer companies to form the Computer Distributors and Dealers Association of the Philippines or COMDDAP. Its initial member-companies represent the world's leading makers and providers of computer products, solutions and peripherals.
In 1997, the manufacturing sector - represented by industry leaders Hewlett Packard, Epson and Compaq, among others - was integrated into the COMDDAP membership, making the association a more diverse representation of the IT sector and thus the new name, COMPUTER MANUFACTURERS, DISTRIBUTORS AND DEALERS ASSOCIATION OF THE PHILIPPINES.”
This was of course taken from their site, http://www.comddap.org/.
So much for that, I will be talking about my experience on the COMDDAP exhibition on the Apo View Hotel. I arrived on the Hotel most likely around 1:40 or 2:00 pm. There was a sign showing where the exhibition is being held so it was easy finding the venue of the event. But when I saw the façade of the exhibition, I was primarily confused on where to sign up so that I can enter the said exhibition. That was a funny experience since I was not able to see the booth where students are
suppose to go and get there sticker for the exhibition. Good thing I noticed that the people that were signing forms are the people that will be taking the Adobe seminar. I did not went to that seminar since there will be a payment for each seminars, namely for the Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Flash, Adobe Fireworks and Adobe Contribute. I have a sufficient knowledge about what the seminars except for the Adobe Contribute. Well then, after much confusion, I got the sticker
for the student pass. I was amazed when I entered the exhibition. There were a lot of these things for techy guys from different brands. There were also other booths that showcases their service instead of their products. I saw our facilitator talking to some people in the exhibition. I tried looking for the place where the seminar will be held, which was my main purpose of coming in the first place. As I was looking for it, I saw some fellow USePians looking for the seminar also. We asked a personnel where the seminar is being held and he pointed us to the back of a booth where we can see a door. To make it short, we arrived at the registration confirmation table, where we asked if it was the room that the seminar is taking place. Good thing we are right but the bad thing is, we are told that we cannot go in anymore… the room is packed and we will have to wait for the next session, which will be the HP thin Client session. Well, since it was our fault then, we waited for the first session to finish. But we didn’t wasted time doing nothing there. We looked around at some numerous booths. There was this one booth that took my undivided attention (that was an exaggeration, hehehe). They were showing on the new graphic manipulation software. I think it was the new version of Corel Draw. I was amazed on the way it was presented and also, the new Acrobat reader presentation was nice. We toured the entire exhibition and after that, we went back to the place where the seminar is being held. We were a bit early so we had to wait for a few minutes for the first session to finish. We verified if our name was listed on the participants of the next session. After that, the first session finished but it seems like the people are not piling out. So as we went in, it was understandable. Most of the people on the first session was from USeP. We were able to find a seat just before the session started. The session is all about the HP thin client. The thin client is a computing device similar to the system unit of a personal computer. This is an exerpt from the site of the HP thin client, http://www.hp.com/sbso/solutions/pc_expertise/article/thinclients_consider.html:
“Thin clients are computing devices that function as an access device on a network. These solid-state devices connect over a network to a server where the bulk of the processing takes place. Thin clients have no hard drive, allowing for more secure storage of data and applications on the server. In fact, keystrokes, mouse events and screen images are all that is sent between the client and server. This makes the device much more secure than a standard desktop or notebook computer. With no hard drive, fan or other moving parts, thin clients have a much longer lifespan than standard computers and use significantly less power. Lower maintenance costs are another benefit as software application updates, virus scanning and patches can be executed on the server. Deployment costs are also reduced as thin clients can be remotely configured and do not need to be set up individually. Break-fix simply requires replacing the thin client. “
Basically, the thin client is more of a business tool rather than for personal use. Based on what I have understood on the session, The TCO of the Hp thin client is lesser than buying desktops. They have this certain features that are really nice to have especially for business and medium enterprises. After the presentation, there was a question and answer portion where prizes were given to those who can answer correctly. I was a fun session, not the type that makes you yawn. Hehehe.. After that, the next session was a proprietary system session and it was for only those who received an invitation. So sadly, we went out. But on the following day, we went back to the exhibition to join the sessions that we missed during the first day of exhibition.
“COMDDAP is an association of the country's top information technology businesses. Its primary objective is to promote the sustainable development of the of the country's information technology industry through voluntary collaboration of its member companies. It is the goal of COMDDAP to be able to provide its members general views and updates from different sectors - private and government, and highly regarded individuals to further uplift the morale and knowledge of its organization.
The vision of promoting and elevating the standards of Information technology (IT) in the Philippines fueled a group of prominent computer companies to form the Computer Distributors and Dealers Association of the Philippines or COMDDAP. Its initial member-companies represent the world's leading makers and providers of computer products, solutions and peripherals.
In 1997, the manufacturing sector - represented by industry leaders Hewlett Packard, Epson and Compaq, among others - was integrated into the COMDDAP membership, making the association a more diverse representation of the IT sector and thus the new name, COMPUTER MANUFACTURERS, DISTRIBUTORS AND DEALERS ASSOCIATION OF THE PHILIPPINES.”
This was of course taken from their site, http://www.comddap.org/.
So much for that, I will be talking about my experience on the COMDDAP exhibition on the Apo View Hotel. I arrived on the Hotel most likely around 1:40 or 2:00 pm. There was a sign showing where the exhibition is being held so it was easy finding the venue of the event. But when I saw the façade of the exhibition, I was primarily confused on where to sign up so that I can enter the said exhibition. That was a funny experience since I was not able to see the booth where students are
suppose to go and get there sticker for the exhibition. Good thing I noticed that the people that were signing forms are the people that will be taking the Adobe seminar. I did not went to that seminar since there will be a payment for each seminars, namely for the Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Flash, Adobe Fireworks and Adobe Contribute. I have a sufficient knowledge about what the seminars except for the Adobe Contribute. Well then, after much confusion, I got the sticker
for the student pass. I was amazed when I entered the exhibition. There were a lot of these things for techy guys from different brands. There were also other booths that showcases their service instead of their products. I saw our facilitator talking to some people in the exhibition. I tried looking for the place where the seminar will be held, which was my main purpose of coming in the first place. As I was looking for it, I saw some fellow USePians looking for the seminar also. We asked a personnel where the seminar is being held and he pointed us to the back of a booth where we can see a door. To make it short, we arrived at the registration confirmation table, where we asked if it was the room that the seminar is taking place. Good thing we are right but the bad thing is, we are told that we cannot go in anymore… the room is packed and we will have to wait for the next session, which will be the HP thin Client session. Well, since it was our fault then, we waited for the first session to finish. But we didn’t wasted time doing nothing there. We looked around at some numerous booths. There was this one booth that took my undivided attention (that was an exaggeration, hehehe). They were showing on the new graphic manipulation software. I think it was the new version of Corel Draw. I was amazed on the way it was presented and also, the new Acrobat reader presentation was nice. We toured the entire exhibition and after that, we went back to the place where the seminar is being held. We were a bit early so we had to wait for a few minutes for the first session to finish. We verified if our name was listed on the participants of the next session. After that, the first session finished but it seems like the people are not piling out. So as we went in, it was understandable. Most of the people on the first session was from USeP. We were able to find a seat just before the session started. The session is all about the HP thin client. The thin client is a computing device similar to the system unit of a personal computer. This is an exerpt from the site of the HP thin client, http://www.hp.com/sbso/solutions/pc_expertise/article/thinclients_consider.html:
“Thin clients are computing devices that function as an access device on a network. These solid-state devices connect over a network to a server where the bulk of the processing takes place. Thin clients have no hard drive, allowing for more secure storage of data and applications on the server. In fact, keystrokes, mouse events and screen images are all that is sent between the client and server. This makes the device much more secure than a standard desktop or notebook computer. With no hard drive, fan or other moving parts, thin clients have a much longer lifespan than standard computers and use significantly less power. Lower maintenance costs are another benefit as software application updates, virus scanning and patches can be executed on the server. Deployment costs are also reduced as thin clients can be remotely configured and do not need to be set up individually. Break-fix simply requires replacing the thin client. “
Basically, the thin client is more of a business tool rather than for personal use. Based on what I have understood on the session, The TCO of the Hp thin client is lesser than buying desktops. They have this certain features that are really nice to have especially for business and medium enterprises. After the presentation, there was a question and answer portion where prizes were given to those who can answer correctly. I was a fun session, not the type that makes you yawn. Hehehe.. After that, the next session was a proprietary system session and it was for only those who received an invitation. So sadly, we went out. But on the following day, we went back to the exhibition to join the sessions that we missed during the first day of exhibition.
To my lady
This could be an overused cliche to you
but what I have right now, in this moment,
I will not trade for anything, and that's true
For I will do everything, just to be with you.
I may not utter the words I hold as a secret,
But let this be a sign, that there are no words
To describe how I feel about you.
For no one could make my day the way you do.
Promises are made to be broken, and that is true for me,
All I can do is show, in my own way,
That with my actions, you will know...
Ands I'll surely prove it by the end of the day.
Now let me hold your hand, for it gives me the chills,
Making this makes me laugh, but that's how it feels
When you are thinking of someone, it seems...
You will not mind the things you thought before as silly.
To my lady, let me say this to you,
There will be troubles and hardship ahead
It will not be an easy trail, for the both of us,
But I am here, just follow my lead, the only thing I can do
Is do everything in my ability, to make you happy,
I am not good; I am the best, that's what you said...
And now would be a good time to prove it all...
from: 10112912
This could be an overused cliche to you
but what I have right now, in this moment,
I will not trade for anything, and that's true
For I will do everything, just to be with you.
I may not utter the words I hold as a secret,
But let this be a sign, that there are no words
To describe how I feel about you.
For no one could make my day the way you do.
Promises are made to be broken, and that is true for me,
All I can do is show, in my own way,
That with my actions, you will know...
Ands I'll surely prove it by the end of the day.
Now let me hold your hand, for it gives me the chills,
Making this makes me laugh, but that's how it feels
When you are thinking of someone, it seems...
You will not mind the things you thought before as silly.
To my lady, let me say this to you,
There will be troubles and hardship ahead
It will not be an easy trail, for the both of us,
But I am here, just follow my lead, the only thing I can do
Is do everything in my ability, to make you happy,
I am not good; I am the best, that's what you said...
And now would be a good time to prove it all...
from: 10112912
Automated Election in the Philippines
The Comelec – Commission on Election in the Philippines have been very busy for the neither previous months nor years preparing for the near May 10, 2010 presidential election. An automated election was proposed by Senator Richard Gordon and officially amended by Republic Act 9369 or the amended Automated Election System. Its main goal is to assure the Filipino people to have a fair, honest and clean election thus, to regain the trust of its people to the electoral process and to its government.
What is this Automated Election?
This is a modern electoral process and also known as the Republic Act 9369 or the Automated Election System, authored by Senator Richard Gordon.
The system involves machines to be deploy in every precincts nationwide that helps to minimized the allotted time for counting of votes, secure the votes of each Filipinos, minimized or totally eliminate cheating or election frauds and regain the trust of every Filipino to the government in terms of electoral process.
The government allotted 11.3 billion supplemental budgets for the said project. The winning bidder will provide 80,200 machines, two of these machines will be deploy on every precincts.
Instead of writing the names of the candidates in the ballot, voters will shade their chosen candidate names. So, it means there is still manual action occurs during the election proper however, the process does not end there. After the voting proper, every ballot will be scan by the Precinct Counting Optical Scan (PCOS) which records and stores the votes and hopefully it neither reduce nor minimize instances of fraud and cheating. The said ballots also feature security codes or markings to safeguard the votes of the people. Thus, this will reduce complaints for this system promises to be fast, accurate and reliable.
The system promises to give fast results in a matter of more or less two (2) days. Even though the actual voting will be manual but the counting and transmissions of votes will be fully automated thus, Comelec is confident that this automation of election will be a success one.
Automated Election Vs Manual Election.
For the recent years, the Philippines have had implemented the manual electoral process. From the word itself “manual” it literally means that every actions occur on the said election is between man to man, those who are involve in the said issue which are the voters and the election officers. From the election preparation, voting proper, vote counting, vote canvassing, result transmission to result generation it is facilitated, administered and the results are manually computed by people. In the manual scenario of election it is prone to fraud and cheating. Filipino voters had experienced to witness this kind of scheme thus; they have loss their trust to our election system. Some example to these election irregularities are vote buying, cheating in vote counting, flying voters, and harassment of voters.
As the technology evolves, Comelec sees that there is a need of a change in our electoral process. And this change leads to the amendment of automation of our election system. In this connection, the realization of the quest of the Filipino people to have a reliable, clean, honest and fair election results to the approval of Republic Act 9369 or the amended Automated Election System.
May 10, 2010 election is the target date of the first nationwide automated election to take place. The said automation had been tested on the Autonomous Region in Muslim Minadanao (ARMM) election on August 2008. That said election was made to be an experiment to test if the proposed automation of election process in this country would be applicable, effective and credible. In result, according to survey conducted by Social Weather Station (SWS) in the ARMM August 2008 election it said to be a successful one and it satisfy the voters in the ARMM.
The following statements is based on the survey conducted by the SWS:
Among ARMM people, 75 percent said that the automated voting in their regional election the previous August gave them “much more” or “somewhat more” confidence that the election was free and fair. In the national survey, on the other hand, only 40 percent said that the automation of the ARMM elections in August 2008 gave them added confidence that the ARMM elections were free and fair. In other words, actual participants became more assured of the fairness of the election process, while mere onlookers mostly stayed skeptical.
Unsurprisingly, the great majority (69 percent) of ARMM voters agreed with the proposal to implement automated voting in the 2010 presidential elections. Only 8 percent disagreed; 24 percent were undecided. (This question was not asked in the October national survey.)
Directly from the people who have actually experienced the automated election, in this case it shows that it is in favor to the automation of 2010 election.
To automate or not to automate the 2010 election.
As an Information Technology student in the University of Southeastern Philippines I would suggest or I will stand in the side of the automation of our electoral process. As mention above it is more advantageous for our government and most importantly to us – the people of the Philippines. The said modern system or the modernization of our election system is not just a mere accessory on our government that we are embracing the high technology around us but this system offer us a secure, reliable, fast, time saving, free, honest and clean election. We all need a change. We all need to hear our voices in this matter. We all need a government that we can trust. And we have the power to make it all come true. To safeguard our votes with this system, to put in position the people that we think best suited for the given positions. All we need is to trust this change; this automation of election will bring good to all of us. With this system, we can guarantee that are votes are safe, accurately recorded, securely stored and will give us accurate and fast results. Why stop the change, when it brings development to our nation? Come to think of it. We want an honest, free and a clean government, why not starts it now? Let us support the 2010 Automated Election System.
The Comelec – Commission on Election in the Philippines have been very busy for the neither previous months nor years preparing for the near May 10, 2010 presidential election. An automated election was proposed by Senator Richard Gordon and officially amended by Republic Act 9369 or the amended Automated Election System. Its main goal is to assure the Filipino people to have a fair, honest and clean election thus, to regain the trust of its people to the electoral process and to its government.
What is this Automated Election?
This is a modern electoral process and also known as the Republic Act 9369 or the Automated Election System, authored by Senator Richard Gordon.
The system involves machines to be deploy in every precincts nationwide that helps to minimized the allotted time for counting of votes, secure the votes of each Filipinos, minimized or totally eliminate cheating or election frauds and regain the trust of every Filipino to the government in terms of electoral process.
The government allotted 11.3 billion supplemental budgets for the said project. The winning bidder will provide 80,200 machines, two of these machines will be deploy on every precincts.
Instead of writing the names of the candidates in the ballot, voters will shade their chosen candidate names. So, it means there is still manual action occurs during the election proper however, the process does not end there. After the voting proper, every ballot will be scan by the Precinct Counting Optical Scan (PCOS) which records and stores the votes and hopefully it neither reduce nor minimize instances of fraud and cheating. The said ballots also feature security codes or markings to safeguard the votes of the people. Thus, this will reduce complaints for this system promises to be fast, accurate and reliable.
The system promises to give fast results in a matter of more or less two (2) days. Even though the actual voting will be manual but the counting and transmissions of votes will be fully automated thus, Comelec is confident that this automation of election will be a success one.
Automated Election Vs Manual Election.
For the recent years, the Philippines have had implemented the manual electoral process. From the word itself “manual” it literally means that every actions occur on the said election is between man to man, those who are involve in the said issue which are the voters and the election officers. From the election preparation, voting proper, vote counting, vote canvassing, result transmission to result generation it is facilitated, administered and the results are manually computed by people. In the manual scenario of election it is prone to fraud and cheating. Filipino voters had experienced to witness this kind of scheme thus; they have loss their trust to our election system. Some example to these election irregularities are vote buying, cheating in vote counting, flying voters, and harassment of voters.
As the technology evolves, Comelec sees that there is a need of a change in our electoral process. And this change leads to the amendment of automation of our election system. In this connection, the realization of the quest of the Filipino people to have a reliable, clean, honest and fair election results to the approval of Republic Act 9369 or the amended Automated Election System.
May 10, 2010 election is the target date of the first nationwide automated election to take place. The said automation had been tested on the Autonomous Region in Muslim Minadanao (ARMM) election on August 2008. That said election was made to be an experiment to test if the proposed automation of election process in this country would be applicable, effective and credible. In result, according to survey conducted by Social Weather Station (SWS) in the ARMM August 2008 election it said to be a successful one and it satisfy the voters in the ARMM.
The following statements is based on the survey conducted by the SWS:
Among ARMM people, 75 percent said that the automated voting in their regional election the previous August gave them “much more” or “somewhat more” confidence that the election was free and fair. In the national survey, on the other hand, only 40 percent said that the automation of the ARMM elections in August 2008 gave them added confidence that the ARMM elections were free and fair. In other words, actual participants became more assured of the fairness of the election process, while mere onlookers mostly stayed skeptical.
Unsurprisingly, the great majority (69 percent) of ARMM voters agreed with the proposal to implement automated voting in the 2010 presidential elections. Only 8 percent disagreed; 24 percent were undecided. (This question was not asked in the October national survey.)
Directly from the people who have actually experienced the automated election, in this case it shows that it is in favor to the automation of 2010 election.
To automate or not to automate the 2010 election.
As an Information Technology student in the University of Southeastern Philippines I would suggest or I will stand in the side of the automation of our electoral process. As mention above it is more advantageous for our government and most importantly to us – the people of the Philippines. The said modern system or the modernization of our election system is not just a mere accessory on our government that we are embracing the high technology around us but this system offer us a secure, reliable, fast, time saving, free, honest and clean election. We all need a change. We all need to hear our voices in this matter. We all need a government that we can trust. And we have the power to make it all come true. To safeguard our votes with this system, to put in position the people that we think best suited for the given positions. All we need is to trust this change; this automation of election will bring good to all of us. With this system, we can guarantee that are votes are safe, accurately recorded, securely stored and will give us accurate and fast results. Why stop the change, when it brings development to our nation? Come to think of it. We want an honest, free and a clean government, why not starts it now? Let us support the 2010 Automated Election System.
Concentrix
Global delivery, local results. Concentrix maximizes the long-term value of our clients' customers with solutions that support the entire customer lifecycle and provide a high return on investment. And, by delivering from our locations in Asia, Latin America, and the United States in 12 major languages, we give our clients the global reach essential for business success. Our results: satisfied clients, some with relationships of 12 years or more.
High-quality, experienced technical support drives customer satisfaction — and overall business success. Your customers won’t be happy with your technology product if they can't get it to work correctly. Today's global consumer demands prompt, knowledgeable support that’s easy to understand. To meet this need, we deliver quality technical support to our clients' customers over multiple channels from our centers in Asia, Latin America, and the United States, in 12 major languages, 24/7. From basic help desk to advanced hardware support, Concentrix can help you choose the most efficient combination of solutions for your customers.
When Concentrix becomes your customer support partner, we also become your voice. We incorporate your organization's culture, brand, training, quality, technology, language and security requirements into your program. Flexibility is key, and we work with you to continually evaluate and improve all aspects of your program and its performance. The result: improved customer experience and satisfaction, increased support capacity, and reduced costs.
Services we provide include: Accounts payable and receivable
• General accounting
• Order fulfillment and vendor claims
• Purchase order processing
• Data entry and document scanning
• Accounts payable automation
CallBox
Search Engine Optimization
Organic search engine optimization is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a website from search engines via "natural" or "algorithmic" search results for targeted keywords. Usually, the higher it ranks, the more searchers will visit that site. Search engine optimization experts can target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, and industry-specific vertical search engines.
Get professional search engine optimization from Callbox. Professional SEO from Callbox means having SEO experts working on your website meticulously to get you the search engine results and page rankings you want. With our cheap search engine optimization, you can utilize our team of SEO specialists or simply consult about the entire SEO process with our search engine optimization consultant. Callbox’s search engine optimization SEO services aims to get you to the top spot in search engines’ results page, giving you unlimited business opportunities.
Database Cleanup
You may have a database of prospects and customers, but is it updated? Are the names on your list the actual decision makers? Could you be wasting mail efforts, time and money due to old information? Don't let the value of good data be lost by years of sloppy data entry.
You've spent many years collecting valuable data. Over time, a database can become outdated, contaminated, disorganized or just plain messy due to improper data entry. Make sure that it is organized effectively so your sales and service people can find what they need accurately and quickly. This is where database cleaning can help, and we are experts.
Callbox offers Database Cleanup services that will significantly increase the accuracy and value of your database marketing efforts. Let Callbox contact companies in your database to confirm company information, qualify the decision-maker, and assist in database management by adding additional information like e-mail addresses and other valuable information to your existing list.
Benefits of Database Cleaning include:
• Improved data accuracy
• Reduced effort in transforming data
• Data integrity
• Data consistency
• Removal of data duplication
A profile cleanup service can save your company time and money. Our goal is to put everything in its place, and fill in all the blanks. No duplicates, just clean, complete, updated data that will speed up report generation and filtering.
Keyword Research
Keyword research is a very important aspect of your search engine optimization campaign. If your site is using the wrong keywords, the search engines and your customers may never find you. If you’d like to know what search terms your target market is utilizing, conduct extensive keyword professional research. Callbox can do that for you.
Callbox’s keyword research service helps you find appropriate words and phrases to include in your web pages’ text to aid in effectively promoting your products and services and drive traffic to your site. Our keyword research services involves brainstorming all the words your potential customer would type into their search box when trying to find you. This includes thinking of phrases that are broad and targeted, buying and research-oriented, single and multi-word. Through google adwords keyword research, we will come up with the right words to cover all the services your site offers and narrow it down to the essentials. After all, it’s the targeted, buying-oriented terms that will maximize conversions.
Keywords will be inserted in the following elements of your website:
• Title Tag
• Meta Description Tags
• Meta Keywords Tag
• Headings
• Image Tag
• Alt text
• Anchor Text/ Navigational Links
Web Copy Writing
Web users are active, not passive. If they don't see a reason to stay on your site, all it takes is one click and they're gone. Your website’s content will not only determine whether visitors find your site through search engines, but will determine if they stay to learn more about your services. This is where a skilled online copywriter from a professional seo copywriting company comes in.
Website copywriting from Callbox focuses on content that will appeal emotionally to a CEO, corporate executive or large corporation. We know the importance of search engine copywriting to your business so our professional seo copywriting service is designed to deliver only clear, compelling information. Our online copywriting services involve creating content that informs, educates, entertains and stimulates perspective clients to stay and ultimately motivate them to take action. Overall, we make sure that your copy addresses your site's most important audience directly and lets them know in clear terms what you can offer them.
Our web copy writing process includes:
• Researching your market in relation to your products and services.
• Developing a strategy to present and sell your products and services online.
• Creating unique and effective content based on the results of our research.
• Creating landing pages with high conversion rates
Link building
Your website's rankings for various keywords depends to a certain extent on the link popularity of your website. That is why it is a good idea to tap a link building company that offers affordable link building with websites in your area of business that can help you in attracting more targeted audience to your site. Link building campaigns are very cost effective compared to other forms of advertising. Moreover, a link building program has better accountability and results can be tracked very easily.
Callbox can provide all forms of link building services that can help you increase and improve the link popularity of your website. Our link building campaign includes one way linking, reciprocal linking and three way linking. Our link building experts can provide a platform for buying one-way and text links. Your website will achieve higher rankings, better search traffic and higher internet exposure with our link building service in the long term.
If done correctly, increasing your linkage will:
• Increase your traffic significantly.
• Improve your visibility in the search engines.
• Provide an added resource to your website.
• Save you a lot of advertising money.
• Save you time.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Faced with constant challenges from the economy, competitors, regulators and customers who demand new service offerings and personalized customer care, leading telecommunications providers are re-evaluating their customer support strategies.
At Callbox, we work with you to develop customer, workforce and technology strategies aligned with your overall business objectives. We enable local, long distance and wireless providers and telecommunications equipment manufacturers worldwide to meet business challenges and grow their customer base through a broad range of cost-effective, customer-focused programs, covering everything from campaign management and welcome calls to complex tech support.
Our integrated customer interaction solutions will help your company increase revenues by consolidating marketing and sales efforts and improving customer loyalty and demand by providing consistent high level service, and reducing costs and operational efficiency.
We can market these products and services:
* Voice Over IP (VOIP) solutions and equipment
* Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
* IP phone systems
* High speed internet
* Web Hosting
* Broadband wireless
* Mobile, data and internet services
Our services include:
* Lead generation
* Company profiling
* Data management
* Tech support
* Welcome calls
* Sending prospects information
* Following up prospects from mailings or conventions to set appointments
Global delivery, local results. Concentrix maximizes the long-term value of our clients' customers with solutions that support the entire customer lifecycle and provide a high return on investment. And, by delivering from our locations in Asia, Latin America, and the United States in 12 major languages, we give our clients the global reach essential for business success. Our results: satisfied clients, some with relationships of 12 years or more.
High-quality, experienced technical support drives customer satisfaction — and overall business success. Your customers won’t be happy with your technology product if they can't get it to work correctly. Today's global consumer demands prompt, knowledgeable support that’s easy to understand. To meet this need, we deliver quality technical support to our clients' customers over multiple channels from our centers in Asia, Latin America, and the United States, in 12 major languages, 24/7. From basic help desk to advanced hardware support, Concentrix can help you choose the most efficient combination of solutions for your customers.
When Concentrix becomes your customer support partner, we also become your voice. We incorporate your organization's culture, brand, training, quality, technology, language and security requirements into your program. Flexibility is key, and we work with you to continually evaluate and improve all aspects of your program and its performance. The result: improved customer experience and satisfaction, increased support capacity, and reduced costs.
Services we provide include: Accounts payable and receivable
• General accounting
• Order fulfillment and vendor claims
• Purchase order processing
• Data entry and document scanning
• Accounts payable automation
CallBox
Search Engine Optimization
Organic search engine optimization is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a website from search engines via "natural" or "algorithmic" search results for targeted keywords. Usually, the higher it ranks, the more searchers will visit that site. Search engine optimization experts can target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, and industry-specific vertical search engines.
Get professional search engine optimization from Callbox. Professional SEO from Callbox means having SEO experts working on your website meticulously to get you the search engine results and page rankings you want. With our cheap search engine optimization, you can utilize our team of SEO specialists or simply consult about the entire SEO process with our search engine optimization consultant. Callbox’s search engine optimization SEO services aims to get you to the top spot in search engines’ results page, giving you unlimited business opportunities.
Database Cleanup
You may have a database of prospects and customers, but is it updated? Are the names on your list the actual decision makers? Could you be wasting mail efforts, time and money due to old information? Don't let the value of good data be lost by years of sloppy data entry.
You've spent many years collecting valuable data. Over time, a database can become outdated, contaminated, disorganized or just plain messy due to improper data entry. Make sure that it is organized effectively so your sales and service people can find what they need accurately and quickly. This is where database cleaning can help, and we are experts.
Callbox offers Database Cleanup services that will significantly increase the accuracy and value of your database marketing efforts. Let Callbox contact companies in your database to confirm company information, qualify the decision-maker, and assist in database management by adding additional information like e-mail addresses and other valuable information to your existing list.
Benefits of Database Cleaning include:
• Improved data accuracy
• Reduced effort in transforming data
• Data integrity
• Data consistency
• Removal of data duplication
A profile cleanup service can save your company time and money. Our goal is to put everything in its place, and fill in all the blanks. No duplicates, just clean, complete, updated data that will speed up report generation and filtering.
Keyword Research
Keyword research is a very important aspect of your search engine optimization campaign. If your site is using the wrong keywords, the search engines and your customers may never find you. If you’d like to know what search terms your target market is utilizing, conduct extensive keyword professional research. Callbox can do that for you.
Callbox’s keyword research service helps you find appropriate words and phrases to include in your web pages’ text to aid in effectively promoting your products and services and drive traffic to your site. Our keyword research services involves brainstorming all the words your potential customer would type into their search box when trying to find you. This includes thinking of phrases that are broad and targeted, buying and research-oriented, single and multi-word. Through google adwords keyword research, we will come up with the right words to cover all the services your site offers and narrow it down to the essentials. After all, it’s the targeted, buying-oriented terms that will maximize conversions.
Keywords will be inserted in the following elements of your website:
• Title Tag
• Meta Description Tags
• Meta Keywords Tag
• Headings
• Image Tag
• Alt text
• Anchor Text/ Navigational Links
Web Copy Writing
Web users are active, not passive. If they don't see a reason to stay on your site, all it takes is one click and they're gone. Your website’s content will not only determine whether visitors find your site through search engines, but will determine if they stay to learn more about your services. This is where a skilled online copywriter from a professional seo copywriting company comes in.
Website copywriting from Callbox focuses on content that will appeal emotionally to a CEO, corporate executive or large corporation. We know the importance of search engine copywriting to your business so our professional seo copywriting service is designed to deliver only clear, compelling information. Our online copywriting services involve creating content that informs, educates, entertains and stimulates perspective clients to stay and ultimately motivate them to take action. Overall, we make sure that your copy addresses your site's most important audience directly and lets them know in clear terms what you can offer them.
Our web copy writing process includes:
• Researching your market in relation to your products and services.
• Developing a strategy to present and sell your products and services online.
• Creating unique and effective content based on the results of our research.
• Creating landing pages with high conversion rates
Link building
Your website's rankings for various keywords depends to a certain extent on the link popularity of your website. That is why it is a good idea to tap a link building company that offers affordable link building with websites in your area of business that can help you in attracting more targeted audience to your site. Link building campaigns are very cost effective compared to other forms of advertising. Moreover, a link building program has better accountability and results can be tracked very easily.
Callbox can provide all forms of link building services that can help you increase and improve the link popularity of your website. Our link building campaign includes one way linking, reciprocal linking and three way linking. Our link building experts can provide a platform for buying one-way and text links. Your website will achieve higher rankings, better search traffic and higher internet exposure with our link building service in the long term.
If done correctly, increasing your linkage will:
• Increase your traffic significantly.
• Improve your visibility in the search engines.
• Provide an added resource to your website.
• Save you a lot of advertising money.
• Save you time.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Faced with constant challenges from the economy, competitors, regulators and customers who demand new service offerings and personalized customer care, leading telecommunications providers are re-evaluating their customer support strategies.
At Callbox, we work with you to develop customer, workforce and technology strategies aligned with your overall business objectives. We enable local, long distance and wireless providers and telecommunications equipment manufacturers worldwide to meet business challenges and grow their customer base through a broad range of cost-effective, customer-focused programs, covering everything from campaign management and welcome calls to complex tech support.
Our integrated customer interaction solutions will help your company increase revenues by consolidating marketing and sales efforts and improving customer loyalty and demand by providing consistent high level service, and reducing costs and operational efficiency.
We can market these products and services:
* Voice Over IP (VOIP) solutions and equipment
* Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
* IP phone systems
* High speed internet
* Web Hosting
* Broadband wireless
* Mobile, data and internet services
Our services include:
* Lead generation
* Company profiling
* Data management
* Tech support
* Welcome calls
* Sending prospects information
* Following up prospects from mailings or conventions to set appointments
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