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All about Web Development for SMS Gateways

The web development companies provide all services for the clients according to the given requirements such as website design, web development, we application development, web hosting, web maintenance and SEO services.

Why to design a website for my HR consultancy

Today every business whether it is small or big, no matter they are developing the business on the World Wide Web. So every business is maintaining the website in order to increase their business level.

Morris Museum of Art

The Morris Museum of Art is the first museum in the country devoted to the art and artists of the American South and is dedicated to the continued interpretation of Southern art in all its forms.

ExhibiTricks

A blog that plays out some of the "Tricks of the Trade" about Exhibits (and Museums.)

The 2008 AAM Media and Technology MUSE Awards

Announcing the 2008 AAM MUSE Awards Recognizing outstanding achievement in museum media, the AAM Media and Technology Committee announces the 19th annual MUSE Awards competition.

The Research Channel

Webcast video community site with links to broadband video resources, webcasts, multicast video, etc from researchers in different domains.

Web3D.org: the Web3D Consortium

Official site for the open standards Web3D group. The site is a resource for developers of Web3D technologies as well as those interested in developing content with tools and technologies which use these standards. Downloadable SDKs and other tools for X3D, jx3D, Ajax3D, VRML, GeoVRML, hAnim, and other Web3D standards are available.

Marketing Advice for Non-Profits

Katya's Non-Profit Marketing Blog shares advice and tips for successfully marketing your non-profit organization online.

Typetester screen font explorer

Typetester enables you to explore and compare the look and feel of multiple fonts in real time, with control over css font properties.

SEO Tutorial, Tools, and Checklist

The Webconfs.com SEO Toolset provides a free tutorial, a number of free tools, and a checklist for optimizing websites for search engines.

Clark Aldrich's Blog on Simulations, Games and Learning

You Can't Learn to Lead from an Inspirational Story or Ride a Bicycle From Google is Clark Aldrich's Blog on simulations, games and learning

informalscience.org

"a place to share knowledge and support a community of learners to inform informal science learning standards and practices."

SEO perspective on 30 Popular Social Media Sites

Descriptions of 30 popular Social Media sites and their potential usefulness for driving more traffic to your website.

Museums and the Web Online Community

Online Community for the annual Museums and the Web Conference, including blogs, a discussion forum, research and references, news feeds, and polls.

Google Search Engine Ranking Factors, Ranked.

Poll of 37 Search Engine Optimization professionals on the positive and negative factors most influencing Google's page ranking algorithm.

Website Grader

Website Grader is a free automated tool for analyzing the search engine marketing effectiveness of a website.

Getting Real: free online design book

Getting Real by 37signals presents design principles and processes for quickly building effective, simple, and focused web applications.

Tips for Submitting Pages to StumbleUpon

Tips for using StumbleUpon, a social bookmarking and recommendation site, to drive increased traffic to your website, without being "spammy".

Online game as a model for studying epidemics

Scientists suggest that a disease outbreak in the massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft offers insights into real-world disease epidemics.

NTEN the Nonprofit Technology Network

Community website for Nonprofit professionals committed to using technology more effectively to achieve their missions.

SAP Global Survey on the State of Social Media

Global survey conducted by Shel Israel for SAP on the state of social media, its impact on business and society, similarities and differences in its adoption worldwide, and predictions of where it is heading.

The Education Arcade

Research and design organization exploring and promoting games in education, with a focus on "authentic and engaging play", and the "learning that naturally occurs in popular commercial games."

TechSoup.org - The Technology Place for Nonprofits

Tech Soup is a technology resource Website for non-profit organizations. It offers technology articles, a forum, links to free software downloads and technology donation programs, and TechSoup Stock, a service for connecting non-profits with technology donations.

Interface Design Articles and Papers by Luke Wroblewski

Collection of Interface Design Articles & Papers by Luke Wroblewski, Principle Designer at Yahoo! and interface design consultant. The papers provide tips, research, theory, and practical design insights.

The Differences Between Message Boards and Weblogs

Weblogs and Message Boards play different roles in online communities due to differences in who controls content, how comments and replies are valued, how content is organized, and how personal connections are made.

National School Boards Association Research and Guidelines on Online Social Networking

The National School Boards Association finds that safety concerns over online social networking are overblown, and recommends schools become more comfortable with social networks and seek educational uses for online social networking. (pdf file)

Edutopia

Resources for innovative teaching, including articles, interviews, case studies, documentary video, professional development modules, and an online community

The Committed Sardine

Articles proposing how to prepare students for the social, economic and political impact of exponential change in technology.

Information Age Inquiry

Information Age Inquiry is a rich collection of resources for developing and teaching information inquiry methods, with an emphasis on technology mediated learning.

RSS Mixer

RSS Mixer allows you to combine various feeds into a new one that can be viewed as RSS, HTML, an iPhone page, as well as a Web and Apple Dashboard Widget.

Wellcome Images

Images on the history of medicine, modern biomedical science and clinical medicine. Contains both contemporary and historical collections.

The Foundation for Critical Thinking

The website of the Foundation for Critical Thinking provides a free library of articles about the theory and practice of Critical Thinking, and strategies for teaching students to think critically and to engage in open-minded inquiry

Experiment Comparing Social Media and Adwords

MarketingExperiments.com compared the Return On Investment (measured in cost per unique visitor) of a 12-month Social Media Marketing Campaign against a 30 day Google Adwords Campaign. The Social Media campaign resulted in 93,207 unique visitors with a cost of 4¢ each, while the Adwords campaign resulted in 2,057 unique visitors, costing 61¢ each.

Concept to Classroom

Concept to Classroom is a set of free online workshops for educators. While aimed primarily at Classroom teachers, the theory, concepts, and strategies are relevant to educational web development.

Great Big Exhibit Resource List

A constantly-updated list of exhibit resources including contact information. Categorized and searchable according to need: everything from fake food to glow-in-the-dark laminate!

Viewing American Class Divisions Through Facebook and MySpace

Ethnographic essay describing how the use of social networking sites MySpace and Facebook by American teenagers reflect socio-economic divisions, with college bound high school students using Facebook, and students with fewer prospects or alternative attitudes using MySpace.

Walker Art Center Blogging Guidelines

The Walker Art Center makes its blogging guidelines publicly available.

Musematic

Rants and raves on the latest trends in the world of museum informatics and technology. An intrepid cast of experts from the Museum Computer Network and AAM's Media & Technology Committee share their insights, observations and tricks of the trade.

Social Networking Statistics

Statistics from a Microsoft study on why people use online social networking and tips on how businesses should approach social networks for marketing purposes.

Places & Spaces: Mapping Science

Website for an exhibition on mapping both physical and abstract informational spaces. Includes an online map gallery showing different ways of visualizing science and scientific information.

Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality

Clay Shirky describes how blog traffic follows a power law distribution, which creates a large inequality in audience, and the implications of this for newcomers and the nature of blogging.

ODI: Strategic Networking Research

Research articles on strategically using networks to achieve your mission.

The Death of the Online Community, and I Feel Fine

Robin Hammin examines the evolution of online communities and offers some suggestions for building communities in the web 2.0 world

Get Your Blog Noticed!

Practical tips to increase traffic to your blog.

23 Ideas for Finding New Readers for Your Blog

Tips compiled by Darren Rouse on Problogger.net from responses to a question he asked of his readers: 'How do you find Readers for You Blog?

Blogs and Community - Parts 1-5

Nancy White examines the structures and characteristics of online communities formed through blogs.

The Five Pillars of Social Media Marketing

Ben Willis identifies five forms of interaction within social media networks as a framework for thinking about how to use them for marketing.

Online Marketing: An Overview

C Eric Smith provides an overview of 3 online marketing techniques: Viral Marketing, Paid Search, and Affiliate/Referral sites

The Six Simple Principles of Viral Marketing

Success viral marketing campaigns give things away for free, make it easy to pass them along to others, scale well, exploit common motivations, utilize existing social networks, and take advantage of other peoples' resources.

The 9 Rules of Buzz

Cammie Dunaway, Chief Marketing Officer at Yahoo!, describes 9 rules for buzz marketing

17 Rules of Social Media Optimization

Similar to Search Engine Optimization, a practice which seeks to increase the likelihood that people will find your site through search engines, SMO seeks to increase the probability that people will pass along your message, product or website through online social networks.

Design Strategies of Successful Communities

Based on the conviction that communities online and offline share many of the same dynamics, Amy Jo Kim has developed 9 strategies and 3 underlying principles for creating and growing communities online

How to Turn Lurkers Into Posters

This article from SitePoint.com pulls together advice from the SitePoint Member Community on how to encourage people to post to forums.

The Art of Creating a Community

Guy Kawasaki provides tips for community builders derived from his experience working with Apple user-groups.

Building an Online Community: Just Add Water

Matt Haughy, founder of MetaFilter, offers tips and advice on building online communities.

Networks, Groups and Catalysts: The Sweet Spot for Forming Online Learning Communities

Nancy White describes how new online communities of practice can grow out of existing loose professional networks

Social Media Optimization: Emergence Media’s 5 Themes of SMO

Daniel Riveong provides 2 underlying assumptions of Social Media Optimization and 5 themes that should guide one's attempts to market through social media.

Community Development In The Cybersociety of the Future

Howard Rheingold is one of the best known writers on the topic of Virtual Communities. He discusses online community building in this talk given at The BBC Online Communities day in 1999.

Study of User Generated Content Popularity

Forbes magazine story on a Jupiter Research Study that found 49% of online users engage with user-generated content.

David Rumsey Maps

The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection contains over 15,800 maps. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials. The site offers several browsing applications that allow you to view the collection of high resolution maps.

Museum Virtual Worlds

A wiki for educators and museums to share information and resources about online virtual worlds.

Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines

Design and usability guidelines based on actual user testing and research, and rated by relative importance and strength of evidence

Is Twitter TOO good

Discussion of the twitter phenomena (Kathy Sierra).

BarCamp

A very cool way physically connect, and swap ideas with hardcore web development geeks in your immediate geographic area.

programmableweb.com

Keep-up with the latest mashups, what's new and interesting with Web 2.0 APIs, and the Web as Platform in general

Unfashionably Late: the future of blogging

Unfashionably Late examines the difficulty faced by bloggers just starting out in an already crowded blogosphere

Best Practices for PBS Member Stations

An excellent general web site resource (not for Web 2.0 inspiration, just solid 1.0 :-). In particular, has information about how to do quick, inexpensive usablitly testing.

Don't Make Me Think

Great, quick read on usability. Sort of a classic, really. Much of it might seem obvious, but then that's the point!

See your site in IE on a PC - IE NetRenderer

See what your or anyone else's website looks like in IE5, 6, or 7 on a PC.

PHP tutorial for beginners

The site contains what seems a rather good tutorial for novices. Other parts of the site contain much more advanced resources on PHP coding.

Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

Displays numerous methods for displaying information.

Masheable! - The Social Networking Blog

Blog that tracks new and emerging social software.

WDIL del.icio.us bookmarks

del.icio.us bookmarks of articles, blog posts, and resources related to developing interactive educational websites.

411Sync

411sync is a service that allows you to make your rss feed available to mobile phone users.

Museum Blogs - museum and exhibit blog directory

A directory of museum blogs which currently holds links, descriptions, and feeds for 118 blogs exploring art, history, science, museum studies, and other museum-related topics. An "auto-aggregator" consumes blog feeds.

Fangs

A screen-reader emulator - Firefox extension

Stumbleupon

A firefox extension that acts as a channel-changer for web surfing...of highly rated websites suited to your stated preferences

A list apart

A List Apart Magazine explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.

safari.oreilly.com

Online resource for tech books

Pew Internet & American Life Project

Research on how people are using the internet

Yahoo! Pipes mashup creator

Yahoo tool designed to make it pretty easy to create mashups

The Machine is Using Us

A well-produced short video that gives a quick history of the evolution of content and form from the early web to web2.0

.net Online Magazine

Online version of .net magazine, a UK-based magazine for web developers

Global Neighborhoods Blog

Weblog of Shel Israel, social media observer and PR consultant to tech startups.

Sitepoint Community

Community site for professional Web Developers

Online Community Toolkit

A collection of articles and resources for people building online communities

Nova Interactives Archive

Web interactives designed to allow further exploration of concepts introduced in Nova's television programming.

Interactive Health Tutorials

For inspiration: Interactive health education resources (tutorials) from the Patient Education Institute. Using animated graphics, each tutorial explains a procedure or condition in easy-to-read language. Tutorials were designed to also work as audio only, for the visually impaired.

Annenberg Media Exhibits

Interactive extensions of concepts or themes explored in one of Annenberg's video resources. You can learn more about the video resources that inspired an exhibit and visit a related teacher professional development workshop or course available for free from Annenberg Media.

levitated.net

This website is an inspirational tour of what is mathematically & programmatically possible with flash and actionscript. The designs are based on natural algorithms, and the code is simple and elegant. Check out "Open Source" for flash source files. My personal favorite is "The Sea Thing."

macromedia showcase

a place to look at what others have done with macromedia products.

Beyond ALT Text: Making the Web Easy to Use for Users With Disabilities

75 Best Practices for Design of Websites and Intranets, Based on Usability Studies with People Who Use Assistive Technology

Drupal Community

where to go to download drupal, themes and modules. also - tutorials and support

Free book : Version Control with Subversion

Online O'Reilly book on using the subversion version control system to manage your projects.

php manual

this is the official manual for the php web scripting manual