Unconditional Listening

I’ve always been called a good listener. People I barely know feel comfortable sharing intimate details with me, and I am always honored by that. Most recently though, I have wondered what it is about my listening style that engages people so quickly and effortlessly. I’ve never thought of myself as being particularly talented in this area, but have grown to accept that I possess some natural skills and some learned ones that facilitate my ability to communicate more effectively with others.

SEO’s Relationship With Website Architecture

Search engine optimization for today’s search engine robots requires that sites be well-designed and easy-to-navigate. To a great degree, organic search engine optimization is simply an extension of best practices in web page design. SEO’s relationship with web design is a natural one. By making sites simple and easily accessible, you are providing the easiest path for the search engine robots to index your site, at the same time that you are creating the optimum experience for your human visitors.

Googleopoly: The Motivation Behind Gmail

Just before the close of business on Wednesday, Google announced that it will be launching Gmail, its new free e-mail service set to offer 1000 megabytes of free space to its users. This announcement comes after a flurry of changes at Google, all of which are geared to securing their place as the dominant search engine in light of recent competition offered by Yahoo! and soon MSN. The search engine wars have been predicted for some time now by search engine insiders, and the launch of Gmail is Google’s attempt to win the war before it gets fully started. But is Google really ready to take on the big portals?

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