Andi Gibson

I was looking around the other day for information on ITIL. I was told “It’s taking over from PRINCE2″ This is totally misleading. So i thought id do this post to clear things up

 
Information Technology Library (ITIL)  is about the Management of IT services , Incident management, Error Control, Configuration management , Change Management, and post implementations review ),  it is a framework that defines a standard practise for providing IT services support and delivery.

PRINCE 2 is a Project management methodology. it is a standard method for managing a project from project initiation, scope management, time management, quality, procurement, communication, risk  management to the closing of the project,  It has standard procedures,  specific forms, to accomplish the project activities.

So basically ITIL and PRINCE 2 are not the same thing but i would advise everyone who wants to further their career in the IT sector to get them both under their belt.

 
Credit to: http://www.nairaland.com to whom i got most of the information

I don’t know why but from about the age of 15 i thought that giraffes were really cool and i started being bought little giraffe soft toys and they are positioned in various cubby holes around the house. I thought id put a picture on here to show the world!!

anyone else end up getting bought loads of themed gifts because they mentioned they liked them once?!

I do love being bought them now though, it fantastic!!

Oh my god, iv’e some time lately to get back into my music and boy are there some good tunes around at the moment!! Im putting together a booty bass demo this week and i hope to get it posted on here just after the weekend!! All i can say is id appreciate people referencing this blog as i want to raise awareness of a few Producers that i feel deserve the recognition!

My Favourite Producers at Present are:

Stupid fresh – http://www.myspace.com/stupidfreshproduction

Herve – not sure of link?

Crookers – http://www.myspace.com/crookers

I love the energy and feeling i get when i listen to this kind of music it makes me feel like a kid in a sweetshop.

For more discussions about DJs producers or music related articles visit www.socialaddict.co.uk as we are re-launching the site shortly!!

DJ Andoi x

Swiss researchers have discovered by analysing the signals produced by keystrokes they can determine what a user is typing.

The researchers developed several attacks that work on a wide variety of computer keyboards.

Many keyboards have not been branded as “not safe to transmit sensitive information”.

The attacks were dreamed up by doctoral students Martin Vuagnoux and Sylvain Pasini fromSwitzerland.

The amount of threats on the internet seems to be constantly on the increase and it does worry me somewhat that it will spiral out of control.

What do you think?

ok so i bought a couple of Killers tickets and im going to give them away as part of a relaunch of my music site! so check out the info at my blog

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Can’t get traffic to your blog? A 12 year will show you how!

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You have been trying to get some killers tickets? failed miserably? Dont worry loads of people missed out but i have a couple of tickets to give away for there March Gig in Manchester!.. Read on…

OK so im re-launching my Clubbing and entertainment website in the next month so i though id get hold of some Killers tickets to lure some new people my way!

The site that is giving the tickets away is www.socialaddict.co.uk and is now online! It has many new pages and developments being added every week so please show your support and say hello on the community!!

Ok ive been doing a lot of work recently on seo and boosting hits to websites. Although i havn`t implemented this on my site i have done it on a few small customer sites and want to do a quick and albeit basic guide of things to do.

1. Site Content

Ok first things first you need to make sure that your site is full of useful and informative content. Google loves keywords and popular phrases so make sure you have lots of content that is updated on a regular basis.

2. Submit your site to search engines

Right so you have a site put together for example a blog. Most blogging software (like wordpress – the one i use) uses URL rewriting to make sure the website address has plenty of keywords in it. Google loves this! And of course you have made sure that you have lots of regular updates with new articles, news, reviews etc.

Submit your website to all the top search engines! You want your site indexed ASAP to get yourself on the search listings.

Submit yourself to the following sites:

http://www.addme.com/submission.htm

http://pingomatic.com/

Get on yahoo quickly by adding a refee in your account like this:

http://add.my.yahoo.com/content?url=http://www.yourblog.com/urblog.xml

You can submit your site to google directly if you want. Id advise signing up for the analytics feature which is free. This gives you stats on traffic to your swhich is great!

3. Link to your site from busy blogs

Digg, technorati and all the sharing/social tools out there are the best way to get traffic. Make sure you are talking on other blogs and that they are getting involved with what your doing. Once you get a few people linking to your site then your sorted. Its always a little bit slow getting going but put in the effort and you will have a busy blog in no time!

i really appreciate others views and comments so hope to hear from you all

So i havn’t written a blog in a long time so i thought it was about time. I was looking into Google Adsense the other week and remembered id set up an account a few months ago and forget all about it. When researching on the net about ways to make an extra quid or two many articles were talking about Adsense.

This article isn’t about to telling you the way you can make money on the web but just a few thoughts that i have and some pointers in the right direction.

1. Adsense – Provided by google, a way of placing there ads on your website and generating revenue when people click on them
2. Amazon Ads – get upto 15% on refferals

1. Adsense

BE CAREFULL. Check the Terms of Service (TOS) as you can’t give out specific information about what you make or clicks it takes to earn $100 etc. If you breach there terms by clicking your own adverts you will get a good opportunity for free cash taken away from you!

It takes a few minutes to get setup and working, the longest part is waiting for them to accept your account (make sure you have enough content on your website for them too approve it)

So the big question how much can / do people earn?

In my first month ive earn $6. Yer yer i know, a bit rubbish! But then ive been a bit rubbish and not being using it properly. I had one advert on a website that is getting redeveloped as we speak. Was never going to make me rich! But i have seen stories of people earning $100,000 a month from adsense! If you have a blog, website, a page with some content or somewhere to put an ad box,  you will notice the income start coming in. If your site isn’t busy then yes it will take some time to earn decent money but if you keep writing content that has plenty of informative and interesting text google will like your pages more and thus more people will end up finding them.

So come on, who’s making it big time through adsense?

Few Other blogs i read when looking into adsense:

http://www.blogcatalog.com/group/blogging-money-and-traffic/discuss/entry/how-much-do-you-make-a-month-on-adsense

http://www.profitblogger.com/wordpressadsense/

2. Amazon Affiliate scheme

With Amazon associates scheme you only earn money for people who buy via your adverts. But you can earn up to 15% on some referrals! Potentially you could earn a fortune from this, but it really depends heavily on the content of your site. If your are reviewing products on your site then people are there probably to find out if something is good. If you have a good review and within that is a amazon advert to buy it – you are likely to get a referral. This all sounds really easy doesn’t it? Review loads of products and make loads of money? If you have a busy site then it is this easy but thats the hard part, driving traffic to your site (which i will cover in my next blog)

All comments and monthly taking on your advert schemes (providing the individual ad schemes allow this) are welcomed as i want to here about your solutions and experiences!!

I have created a .xsl file to format google mini’s output into xhtml , if anyone wants a copy of this file then comment on here and i will email it to you immediately, i will turn this into a full tutorial on google mini when i get chance!

Andi