It’s even more common place to not just have a website, but to have social network presence, such as Twitter and Facebook. Our expertise brings both together for interactive websites. Capture your customers attention in the social streams and direct them into your website. With a strong call to action your visitors can turn into customers.

Imagine a website that can communicate to most major social networks. Picture hundreds of ways you can interact with your customers and potential customers. As of this month, Facebook alone has 350 million users with 175 million users logging in daily. Twitter has 26 million active users.  55 million professionals use LinkedIn. Last December, 26 million people used Yelp.

The purpose of integrating your website with all these technologies is to make it easier for you to spread the word out. We handle near everything and come to you for your (business) guidance and approval.

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We have been researching syndication, oauth, wcms, and social networks. We can give you the ability to send a blog post and have it replicate out to many social networks and vice-versa. Increase your customer base by hundreds if not thousands with a single announcement.

Plus, as long as you are a customer with Arizona IT Management, you get free unlimited hosting through us.

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We have embraced the technology and studied replication technologies. Picture adding a new post to your website. That post, moments later, shows up on your Twitter site, your Facebook page, your MySpace, your Yahoo profile, your Windows Live Space, and your FriendFeed website. Drive that traffic to your site.

We can even set up your Google Adsense so that those posts are replicated as well. Make money with Google Advertising while adding relevant posts.

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Twitter is a way of keeping in touch with customers. Companies that tweet have the ability to share quick ideas and a small bit of advertising with an audience that follows them.

To use Twitter, you read and write messages that are equal to or less than 140 characters. All messages put in are public so always be nice and professional.

You can search for your product, service or market and see posts on and get a feel for how things are within that product, service or market. If you want to see who is posting for Microsoft, just search for Microsoft within Twitter, the results will be people talking about Microsoft or new things about Microsoft. You will be able to follow people simply by clicking on their avatar or name and choosing follow.

Since the 140 characters is somewhat limiting, Twitter uses a URL (universal resource locator, or Internet address) shortener. So if put in an entry such as http://www.azitmgmt.com/2010/02/twitter-for-business/ it will come out shortened with a http://bit.ly or http://tinyurl.com address. Have no fear, these are url shorteners that do go to where you are pointing your followers and other readers.

To generate interest in your topics within Twitter, what sometimes works is give a problem statement, and post a URL to where you know the solution is. This gives bloggers a reason to write. They think of a problem statement, write a blog post, then tweet the problem statement, the URL to their blog post. Use the Trending area to see what is common for that day.

Twitter has created this page about the lingo. That way you can understand what Tweeting, Following, @usernames, and #hashtags are all about. You’ll even learn about the RT and DM features.

Twitter for business is a good idea. You can follow us @AZITMGMT. Create your account and DM us when you do!

We have been experimenting with many great technologies on a personal level. Especially in the realm of website replication. There are myriad of technologies out there that can reach potential customers. Technologies such as social networking: Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Blogger, Yahoo!, MSN Live Spaces, and RSS Feed Readers.

There are also other sites that tie into these social technologies such as Ning, Xing, LinkedIn and Plaxo. We have worked hard and researched and have come up with the right solution for replicating your blog and directing customers to one spot. Your website.

Hire Arizona IT Management to work with you to figure out your strategy and reach, so that we can get your website communicating.

If your strengths already lie in social networking, we can configure your social networks to deliver content to your blog.

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• I predict more Internet integration with everyday items. I predict more and more Internet phones, especially with Google’s Nexus One phone which will break the consumer away from having to have contracts with cell phone giants for voice. I’m rant more on this later.
• I predict more appliances that are user friendly and connected wirelessly to the Internet.
• I predict Internet connected billboards.
• I predict Internet and GPS to be more integrated.

How does this all tie together? What does this mean for your business? It means more potential customers. It means more opportunity. With everything Internet enabled, a customer can be made aware of your name and the products and services you offer.

Google Voice debuted not that long ago, early 2009. The abilities were pretty cool. You get free phone calls that can travel through VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and have the ability to record your calls and have Google transcribe them. Once a call is transcribed, keywords can be picked out, and advertising is then associated and shown through Google’s other programs.

Appliances that are user friendly already exist. Fridges that can scan and create a list of the contents and their expiration dates, or when the start to fail to call notify you and a service company. A new item, probably not heard about much yet, is the Microwave that can play YouTube videos. Most items put into a microwave are set between 1-10 minutes. Most videos on YouTube last 2-8 minutes.

Digital billboards are out there on the road, it’s a matter of time before they all get replaced with video, connected to the Internet, with advertising changed on the fly. Global market businesses can centralize management and overhead, relocating products to other stores and advertise to local markets.

As GPS gets more integrated with Internet, location aware phones and GPS devices will be able to place ads based on where you frequently travel, be it down the street, or across the world.

So what’s our point? The point is, this is a huge potential market that needs to lead to information, centrally contained, with your business name on it. It starts with a website. Webhosting is not only very affordable, but the right hosting package can give your business unlimited space, unlimited domain names, databases, email addresses, the works! Tie that in with free services, such as Twitter, Facebook, Plaxo, Picasa, Youtube, Yelp, Google local business center, Google Apps (docs, spreadsheets, presentations and forms), and LinkedIn, you have a complete online solution. Anybody can enlist these services and anyone can purchase hosting. We can tie it all together for you. We can even connect your business to the Internet, and backup all your data into the cloud.

Contact us today and let’s talk.

Twitter is a great networking tool, but … things to be aware of the URL (web address) shortening programs such as http://tinyurl.com/ among others. Some tweeters may find sweet deals online and tweet that there is, for example, an amazing product at Amazon for 60 percent off but to click a shortened URL that may redirect one to a user name and password harvesting site. After entering credentials the Web site stores the information in its database and then forwards the victim to the real site’s bad password page. Figuring a typo, the victim actually authenticates none-the-wiser.

Web applications designed to get money from you are out there as well. Social networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook among many others, are a great way to stay in contact with family and friends and how better to interact with each other than to play games or answer quizzes to see who is smarter, better looking, or which zodiac signs are compatible. The quizzes are normally very easy, but when it comes time for the results, the application will ask for a cell phone number to text the answer to. This also puts the victim into a one-year contract for a notification service, billable at $9.99 a month.

Rogue security software is advertised on many Internet sites, claiming that a person may have a virus and to install their product to keep their computers safe. Truthfully, they do scan and remove one virus (whether the computer has the one virus or not), but they inject many others and open a backdoor. Purchase only reputable antivirus products. Most new computers come with a trial version that can be upgraded.