Working at Home on the Internet

Google Apps for Your Domain Available

 

As of today, Google is offering a free service to host your domain called Google Apps for your Domain.  With your Google Account (required, but free) you can get all of the regular services such as Gmail, online calendar, and instant messaging.  Using your domain name rather than an @gmail address is one of the advantages not found with other free services.

You get a Page Creator to set up your own Webpage, with certain restrictions.  It will be Ad supported.  In other words, Google or any third party they deem fitting will be displayed on your page.  They pick ALL positioning of their Ads.  There is no revenue sharing, Google gets the profits.  They will put a Google Search where they think it will work, but at least you can share the income (only) from that if you already have an AdSense account.

They determine where your content is placed, within their templates.  You can use advertisements of your choosing in your portion of the alloted space, as long as it doesn’t differ from their Terms of Service.  They only control you have of your own webpage is through an Administration site that is mostly restricted to only your own content.

So far, the only application I can find for this service is still in Beta, which was released in February to a few Colleges and Universities.  It is difficult to find even within your Google account, you have to look in Bussiness Apps at the bottom of the page and you should find it at the end of the list of Apps.

My biggest question is:  If you own your own domain already, why bother with a free hosting service that can control all of your advertising?

Google should be releasing a Paid Hosting Service for Business by the end of the year.

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August 28th, 2006 at 02:00pm | Posted by Joe | Google, Tools | 4 reader remarks | Print This Post

This Weeks Helpful Reads… Week 20

                                                            

This is an ongoing series of interesting and helpful reads that I have come across on the Internet.

I try to include the most helpful articles and links each week to provide the widest range of information for the home business entrepreneur.

 

5 Signs Your Blog Post Is Going Horrible Wrong by Brian Clark… Brian explains how a good idea can turn into a bad post.

Marinating Ideas into Blog Posts-My Posting Work Flow by Darren Rowse… Darren shares how he goes about creating his pillar posts.

10 + 1 Things to Make Me Love Your Business Email by Liz Strauss… If you work on the internet you need to use your email effectively.  Here’s how.

Joining ranks of at-home workers by Jean Chatzky (NY Daily News)… Jean shares some good tips on setting up a home office.

Job experts: Work-from-home can sometimes be too-good-to-be-true by Jane McBride (The Beaumont Enterprise)… What to look out for if you want to avoid scams working at home.

 

I hope you find some of these articles informational and helpful. I think they will be enjoyable reading nonetheless.

~~~ All the above can be considered infected with the Link-Leak Virus ~~~

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August 27th, 2006 at 07:22am | Posted by Joe | Weekly Helpful Reads | reader remarks | Print This Post

Janice Scott 9/11 Victim

Janice Scott, age 46

Died: 9/11/2001

Place: The Pentagon

Residence: Springfield, VA.

Unfortunately, that is all of the information I have about Ms. Scott.

This may be way off topic about working at home, but it’s ok. I came across a site today that I think is one of the Better Examples of Blogging. 2,996: A Tribute to the Victims of 9/11. When I saw the site and read what it was about, it took less time for me to sign up than to type this sentence. I’ll explain why, for me that day hit home.

On Tuesday September 11, 2001, I was doing tree work as usual. We were in the back yard of a property removing some small trees and dragging them to the front of the house to the chipper. On the roof of the house were some contractors fixing the downspouts and doing repairs to the roof. They yelled down, that a plane hit some building in New York.

We continued working as did the others until we noticed Military Jets zooming overhead. We all started commenting on what type of jets they were and joking if they were going to NYC. Shortly thereafter, I had to move the chopper truck so that the contractors could move some equipment around.

The radio was on in the truck and every program was interrupted by the news that the World Trade Center had been hit. That immediately started me thinking of a week back in September of 1985 when I had meetings with people from Albany, in the South Tower on the 103rd Floor. Through that week I got to know some people that worked in the building for the New York State Government.

I remembered, and still do, the names and faces of all of them. I never had the guts to look up anyone I had gotten to know in that short time to see if they were victims. I’m sure most have moved on to higher positions and got transferred to Albany. At least that’s what I tell myself.

I don’t know how to end this story, guess because it isn’t over yet. I do know that I will remember that week back in 1985 with a different perspective. The perspective of 9/11/2001.

If you are related to Janice Scott of Springfield VA, or have more information about her and her life, Please contact me, AND leave a thought in comments to share with everyone.

I was the 2805 th to sign up for this worthy project. That leaves 191 people to be honored through this endeavour. If you haven’t signed up and would like to, go to http://www.dcroe.com/2996/ to join in.

August 25th, 2006 at 01:56pm | Posted by Joe | Attitude, Community, General | 1 reader remark | Print This Post