BNS formally welcomes the team from Cagayan State University and we have engaged Ramon Gutierrez, Masters in IT to coach them on several in-house development projects.
Photo shows the students:
Category: News
Get International funding for your Web Projects
Lets say you have a great business idea and would like to see it through. You have assembled your team and would like to go out to the world – blazing with your game changing projects. You only have one little problem- funding. You need money. Where do you get it?
After attending the garag3.com sponsored event in Singapore, here are some ideas I was able to learn and share with you here:
Getting Donations:
http://www.kickstarter.com/
Kickstarter lists projects from the creative arts—Art, Dance, Film, Music, Photography, Publishing, and Theater—as well as projects from the diverse and creative fields of Food, Design, Fashion, Technology, Games, comics and jouranlism. People then choose which projects they would like to fund. It could be yours.
One sample success story is from the Moonchild project. Sara Chong and Chen Yanyun, was in dire need of donations in order to finally finish their animated film – “Moonchild” They aimed for only 2000 USD in 60 days, but already got more than 4000 USD in 6 days!
Getting Equity Investors:
http://www.profounder.com/
ProFounder was created to ensure all entrepreneurs have access to the resources they need through the engagement of robust, supportive communities. Traditional funding sources can be expensive, difficult to access, or not a great fit for many small enterprises. Instead, we believe that communities can be the best source for the energy, encouragement, tools and capital small business entrepreneurs need to succeed.
Getting Loans:
http://www.kiva.org/
Kiva’s mission is to connect people, through lending, for the sake of alleviating poverty. Kiva empowers individuals to lend to an entrepreneur across the globe. By combining microfinance with the internet, Kiva is creating a global community of people connected through lending
I am sure that the Philippine government has counterpart funding scheme of some sort similar to Singapore’s Spring, MDA and IDA programs, but I am not aware of any at this point. If you have information about this, kindly share it with us here.
Seminar on Social Media
Learn how to tap into the growing number of Internet users, including SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) that are using social media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, blogs, etc.) to connect with friends and loved ones.
These same channels are now used by a growing number of businesses to reach new customers. This briefing will share case studies and practical tips on how can Dagupenos maximize the potential of social media to reach new customers and engage existing ones.
Seminar: Using Social Media to Promote your Business
Speaker: Ms Janette Toral
When: January 13, 2011
Where: BFAR Auditorium, Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan, Pangasinan
Time: 9am to 12pm
Target Audience: Company executives and web developers in Luzon area
Participant Limit: 100 seats only
Price: 450.00 per person
Interested parties are urged to reserve their seats by click here.
Websites help increase sales
Source: http://dealnews.com/features/Survey-85-Research-Online-Then-Hit-Black-Friday-Stores/404165.html
Online retailers will probably be scratching their heads at this conundrum of statistics: While 85% of people now research and compare prices online on Black Friday, the majority of them then turn off the computer and head to the stores to do their actual spending.
A new poll released exclusively to dealnews by Lightspeed Research shows that 64% of people still end up buying in stores, even though the vast majority of them now research online first.
“No matter how convenient online shopping may be during the holidays, it appears that the majority of consumers still enjoy making their final holiday purchases in-store,” said Chris Urinyi, CEO, The Americas, of Lightspeed Research. “We can only make assumptions as to why, but I would suspect that it may simply be that people enjoy the holiday shopping experience in itself, or that the desire to browse and touch gifts in person before making a purchase outweighs the convenience of shopping online.”
PLDT Equipment Failure at MGO
One of our multiple links to the internet went down at 11:40 am today. While our surviving links are capable of handling the traffic, it may not take the most optimal route and so some slowdown in access may result.
As of this time, PLDT MGO equipment failure in Makati has been identified as the cause. No restoration time has been given. We will post more info on our website as we get more details.
As of 4:50pm the link went back up. BNS is currently monitoring the line. Thanks to all our clients for the feedbacks.
Information Security Event
With Internet use becoming a more popular activity among Filipinos today, we recognize the need to have a secure environment that will protect the corporate and user environment. In this regard, DigitalFilipino Club and Posh Marketing Services presents the InfoSec Conference 2010 that gathers top practitioners who will share best practices on Information and Technology security.
Speakers from global enterprises, technology leaders, certified security professionals and law enforcers will identify risks, threats and vulnerabilities your companies are facing today. Expect speakers to provide preventions and solutions to protect your business.
Date: August 25, 2010 Time: 9am to 5pm Venue: Intercontinental Hotel, Makati City
Reducing your email’s spam score
BNShosting came upon several of our clients whose emails were tagged as spam by spam assassin. Obviously, a score of 4.3 and above would generally trigger the [spam] message and other email clients would send it off to the junk folder. So their email may not end up being read by their recipients.
To learn how to reduce the spam score of emails being sent out, you need to avoid things that spammers generally use in their emails. This site offers valuable ideas: http://help.campaignmonitor.com/topic.aspx?t=104
The summary of things to lower spam score:
1. Avoid using words like “Click below”, “Risk free” , “To be remove, reply via email”
2. Avoide using HTML format
3. Excessive capitalization (Yelling)
4. Avoid using toll free number
5. Avoid making Offers, discounts, promotions, $$$,
6. Do use SPF (Sender Provider Format) on your email domain
7. Dont include a disclaimer that your email is NOT spam.
8. Use open and conversational language
To check out your email before you send them out:
http://www.contactology.com/check_mqs.php
OpenDNS issue raised by ASTI
ASTI shared OpenDNS workaround to an issue with Asia Pacific users hitting their west coast servers and consequently not getting optimal DNS results.
We are actively spending resources on both of these to increase performance and connectivity for users such as yourself. In addition, we do a have workaround that will allow you to gain better performance from the major CDN providers. While the specifics vary depending on your DNS server, the short description is that we will need to configure your DNS server to not send certain requests to OpenDNS directly. Doing so will not affect your Content or Security filtering as these zones are exclusively used for Geo location and content distribution. The zones are as follows:
akamai.net
akadns.org
akadns.net
akamaiedge.net
akamaitech.net
edgesuite.net
edgekey.net
nsatc.net
llnwd.net
l.google.com
b.yahoo.com
yahoodns.comIf you would like instructions on how to do this for your DNS server, please let me know and I’d be happy to provide those for you. We’ll be notifing all of our customers as we press forward on this and continue to deliver better service optimized for all of our users globally.
If you have any questions, please let me know!
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***Solution for Windows DNS***
****************************Open the DNS Server management console and follow these steps:
1. Left click on the DNS server you wish to manage
2. In the right hand pane, double click Forwarders
3. Add a zone that you do not wish to forward to OpenDNS by clicking the New button4. Set the Forwarders to either your ISP or another DNS server that does not forward to OpenDNS.
5. Click Apply
You’ll want to repeat those steps for each zone listed below:
akamai.net
akadns.org
akadns.net
akamaiedge.net
akamaitech.net
edgesuite.net
edgekey.net
nsatc.net
llnwd.net
l.google.com
b.yahoo.com
yahoodns.com
For the domains listed above, try using 202.12.27.33 and 199.7.83.42
BNS enters Pilot Testing with Lyceum WIFI
BNS started pilot testing the wifi hotspot system at Lyceum over the weekend. The system is powered by newer 11N+ series (300mbps bandwidth) access points that covers Lyceum Northwestern. The pilot testing phase will last up to August and provide free access to all LN students until then.
Please email us your comments and feedbacks about this system. Thanks!
BLOGS & SOCIAL NETWORKS – THE NEW MEDIA
After the successful National E-Commerce Conference Blogworld Philippines2010 held last March 5, 2010 at the Crossroad Convention Center in Quezon City, the Social Thinkers, one of the country’s dynamic event organizer in IT and e-commerce will be bringing the e-commerce conference to Northern Luzon entitled “BLOGS AND SOCIAL NETWORKS – THE NEW MEDIA” to be held on July 26, 2010 (8am-5pm) at the Music Warehouse, Perez Boulevard Dagupan City.
Guests: International Speaker Ms Janette Toral of digitalfilipino.com and SEO Expert Mr. Gary Viray (Search Opt Media). See you there! -Jonathan Jay Daoana (GCF Dagupan Masters Commission)
BNS has limited number of tickets available. Kindly contact Marichu. For more details, interested Parties may wish to visit : http://www.thesocialthinkers.com/northern-luzon-e-commerce-conference.html