Essential iPhone Apps For Every Blogger

As mobile high speed internet connections become faster and more reliable, we can expect blogging to become more mobile as well. Typing out a full blog post including images and media on an iPhone used to be a chore. Nowadays, blogging from your iPhone is relatively painless and hassle-free with the use of a few handy applications from the iTunes Store. Here are 8 of the best blogging apps on the market today for the iPhone platform. WordPress When most people think of blogging, they think Wordpress. The Wordpress iPhone App gives anybody the ability to update their Wordpress-based or hosted blog quickly and easily. Featuring an intuitive and responsive interface and support for nearly every capability baked into Wordpress, the official iPhone app is all you need to blog on the go....

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How to Effectively Promote Your Blog with Social Media

Facebook What you already do: Post your blog on your personal wall and on your Facebook brand page. What you should also do: If you have a friend that would be interested in the blog but is notorious for not looking anywhere but his own page, post it directly to his wall. If your blog mentions any other brands, tag them when you post to your personal wall or brand page. Take it a step further: ‘Like’ Facebook pages that are either mentioned in your blog or would be interested in it. Take some time to research: Do they let users post links on their wall or do they delete them? If they allow it, post your blog on the brand’s wall. If they don’t, go into the discussion board and either add to a current discussion or start a new topic. Leave a well-constructed comment and a link to your blog....

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Oracle Buys Cloud-based Customer Service Company RightNow For $1.5 Billion

Oracle this morning announced that it has acquired RightNow – both companies are listed on NASDAQ – for $43 per share or roughly $1.5 billion net of RightNow’s cash and debt. With the acquisition, Oracle is adding a robust cloud-based customer service offering (see graph below) to its own Public Cloud solution – more info on that here. RightNow’s share price closed at $35.96 last week, so the deal represents a premium of roughly 20 percent on its closing price on Friday the 21st of October. RightNow’s solutions help companies handle customer interactions across a multitude of channels, including call and contact centers, the Web and social...

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Oracle VPD implementation

1. What is Oracle Virtual Private Database VPD Oracle has provided several solutions to ensure and secure the database. An efficient security policy not only prevents the database against the database corruption or hacking threats but also minimizes the risk of unprivileged user access. Several data security surveys have concluded that unauthorized data access to unprivileged users is a frequent Oracle VPD implementation...

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