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There are a lot to learn about managed hosting, especially if you are new in the online business. Managed hosting is costly and before you decide on availing this type of service, you should be able to get all the information you need for you to be able to know the essentials of this service.

One of the things that managed hosting offers is the monitoring of all your servers. This is done to make sure that there are no interruptions to the connection and operation of your website. Also, technical support is available anytime you need it, especially in case of server downtimes.

As an added extra, the resources of your server will also be carefully monitored. This will ensure you that your applications or programs do not consume too much memory to avoid lag times. Each of these alerts and notifications are usually sent via email.

Managed hosting will also monitor your log files regularly. This will make sure that your site is monitored each day for intrusions and hacks. This will free your mind of any security threat that is posed on your site.

Not only does managed hosting protect your site, they also protect your files as well. The hosting service will be the one to filter all the software in your website for defects and the hosting service will also protect your files from certain viruses.

These are some of the essentials offered by managed hosting to ensure that the operations of the business are on going.

Guest Post By Sharon Housley

Subscribe to an RSS Feed

There are generally two different kinds of tools that allow visitors to subscribe to RSS feeds. These tools are known as aggregators, or RSS news readers. As the content of an RSS feed changes, the RSS reader/aggregator will update itself automatically and display the new RSS feed items.

There are two types of aggregators — desktop aggregators, and web-based aggregators…

Desktop Aggregators

These are downloadable desktop applications that contain all of the RSS subscriptions. In most cases, you can group and categorize the RSS feeds that you subscribe to. When open, the RSS desktop reader will update all the RSS feeds that you have subscribed to, and new posts will appear in the RSS reader.

Web-Based Aggregators

Web-based RSS aggregators are applications that reside online, through which you can subscribe to RSS feeds. The feeds are displayed on a webpage using a web browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox. For example, one of the more popular web-based aggregators is Google Reader.

How To Subscribe To An RSS Feed

In order to subscribe to an RSS feed, look for the RSS icon on the websites you visit. Find the URL for the RSS feed, and paste it into your RSS reader and subscribe to it.

Many web browsers, such as Firefox, include auto-discovery features which will automatically detect RSS feeds. With those browsers, you will see an RSS icon in the left-hand side of the URL box — just click the icon to obtain the link to the RSS feed.

Once subscribed, the aggregator or reader will periodically check to see if the RSS feed has been updated.

About the Author:
Sharon Housley manages marketing for FeedForAll software for creating, editing, publishing RSS feeds and podcasts. In addition Sharon manages marketing for RecordForAll audio recording and editing software.

Are you a webmaster looking to improve your search engine marketing skills to provide additional services to your clients? Or perhaps you are interested in learning more about how to build a search-engine friendly website to help your clients improve their search engine ranking? If you want to increase your skills and become a better webmaster, you need to attend the search engine marketing training workshops at SES San Francisco on August 20.

One of the largest online marketing shows in the United States, SES San Francisco has plenty to offer for webmasters, including full-day and half-day sessions on August 20 designed to improve your search engine marketing skills. One half-day session is devoted to creating site architectures which are search-engine friendly. Hosted by Shari Thurow, founder and SEO director at Omni Marketing Interactive, this session will give you cost-effective ways to create search-engine friendly websites for your clients.

Other sessions touch on topics such as search analytics and keyword research. For more information on the SEM training workshops at SES San Francisco, visit http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/sanfrancisco/training.php.

Do you remember your favorite teacher? Perhaps it was a math teacher who helped you overcome your fear of trigonometry, a chorus teacher who gave you the solo you so badly wanted, or a coach who pushed you to become the MVP you are today…whoever your favorite teacher was, we want to hear about him or her!

As this school year comes to an end, we are paying tribute to America’s heroes - our teachers - and we need your help. Bing would like you to submit a comment about a teacher who positively impacted your life (or the life of a child) at bing.com/education and in return, we will give you a $5 donation to help fund a teacher’s classroom project on DonorsChoose.org. Consider it conscientious conversations online: share a story about your favorite teacher and pay it forward to another one. How easy is that?

On average, teachers spend more than $1,000 out of their own pockets to fund classroom projects, and with impending budget cuts this number is expected to rise even higher. By sharing memories of favorite teachers, we can honor them by giving back to the teacher community. Share about your favorite teacher and help another teacher. Help one teacher and impact the education of a whole classroom of children.

Together we can help teachers get the materials they need to provide all students with a great education. 

Here’s how it works:

· Visit bing.com/education and submit a comment about a teacher who positively impacted your life or the life of a child you know. You may comment on up to five teachers.

· Receive an email from Bing with your $5 donation code and link to DonorsChoose.org.

· Decide what classroom project to fund with your $5 donation from Bing.

· Search for your comment on the Bing map. Bing will send every teacher their comments in a congratulations letter.   

So what are you waiting for? Get out there and start commenting about your most favorite teacher and start giving back to education!

Barbara Blanchard – Bing

Ok, it is not Friday yet…but I know a few weeks back Stefan mentioned getting the local listing center team on camera and today we have Mikko, Bing’s local listing center Senior Program Manager to answer some of your questions we have seen in the Bing Community Forums.

We hope to have Mikko back fairly regularly to bring us updates on all things Bing local listing center.

Thanks Mikko!

Kristin Meldahl - Bing

Other useful links:

Bing Local Listing Center

Bing Local Listing Center Community Forum

We’re happy to announce two new features to the Bing app for Windows phones. The first is a redesign to the home page. We changed the navigation to give people faster access to common searches, such as Movies and Traffic.

 The second feature is turn-by-turn navigation for Windows 6.x phones, powered by Bing Maps. We took advantage of the Microsoft Tellme team’s expertise in voice applications to deliver an amazingly lifelike voice experience for the turn-by-turn navigation. If you have a Windows phones on Sprint, T-Mobile, or AT&T you can use the voice guided navigation.

Now when getting directions with Bing, you’ll see a new “Navigate” button. By selecting it, Bing will calculate your route, and guide you as you drive. You can select the fastest or shortest route, choose to avoid traffic and/or tolls, get a map or a list of directions, and see arrows and hear alerts to know which way to turn next.  

The navigation feature is compatible with the phones below. If you have one of these and are in the U.S., check your phone for the update or go to m.bing.com.

Windows phone

HTC Fuze

HTC Pure

HTC HD2

HTC Tilt 2

HTC Touch Diamond 2

HTC Touch HD

HTC Touch Pro

HTC Touch Pro 2

Motorola Q9c

Samsung Jack

Samsung Omnia II

Samsung Propel

T-Mobile Dash 3G

 Justin Jed - Bing for Mobile