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Work from home? Live abroad

May 18, 2007 by Tricia

You know, due to my illness, I’ve been stuck at home for almost a year and a half now. Since I stopped getting sick pay from my workplace almost a year ago I’ve had to find a way to bring in some money so that we could continue to own our lovely home and pay all of our bills.

It’s been hard, but for those of you who have been reading this blog you know that I’ve managed to do quite well as far as creating an income that we can live off of through the internet. I’m at the point now that I think I’m actually making more than I did when I worked as an ER nurse.

I know that several of the people who read my blog have also found ways to make income from the internet. Either through creating their own businesses or doing work here and there for a multitude of internet related companies.

Have you ever thought of Living Abroad? I mean, if you are making a great income from work that you do through home, or your home based business there’s no reason that you can’t do it from any place in the world. Is there? Heck, if you choose to move to the right country you could even be making a tax free income and thus have even more money to live off of. This is beginning to sound more and more appealing isn’t it?

Where would you go if you decided to pack it all up and work from home?

I know that I’d probably enjoy living and working in an exotic location. Someplace that was fairly warm year round, and in my case it would also have to have a decent health care system since I have Crohn’s disease. Hmmm Maybe a country such as Australia or Belize would work for me.

Naturally if I were really going to pack up and move to an exotic local I’d likely end up having to buy a property abroad as well. At this point, we’d have to either sell the home we are living in now, or rent it out in order to do this, but it’s a thought isn’t it?

I’ve never been to visit Australia or Belize, but the thought of being able to work from home in one of those locations is very appealing. If we could manage it, I’d try to get a home close to the ocean and beach. Hey, since I work with my computer alone, I could perhaps even sit on the beach each day as I got my work done. Oh that’d be so nice.

I’d miss our Canadian Spring and Autumn because I love watching how the seasons change here, but I don’t think I’d miss our cold, cold winters all that much.

If you work from home, have an e-business, or have a dream of being able to work from home where would you want to live and why?

If the idea of living abroad and working from home is appealing you should visit the Living and Working Abroad Resource website that got me thinking of living in an exotic local. You’ll find articles discussing immigration laws, health care, advantages of living or retiring in other Countries and a whole lot more.

Do visit the site. It’s good to dream, and you never know, by reading the Living and Working Abroad Resource website you may find a way to make your dreams a reality.





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Alentus now offers SharePoint Hosting

May 11, 2007 by Tricia

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If you own or work for a small to large business you might be interested to know that Alentus is now offering SharePoint hosting.

SharePoint is packed with cool features for your organizations hosting needs. It’s the leading Microsoft web solution for document management, information sharing and team collaboration, and Alentus is offering the new Windows SharePoint Services in shared or dedicated hosting environments.

Some fantastic features of SharePoint are the 40 different templates that you can choose from, as well as project tracking. Each Windows SharePoint website comes pre-configured with a wealth of built in features. If you need a website for project management, a Class room or even HR management templates can be installed and customized to your exact needs. With SharePoint you can create blogs, forums, and wikis to compliment your businesses website.

This Microsoft web solution is great for document management, information sharing and team collaboration. Your employees will be able to work collaboratively on many different tasks such as documents, lists, events, images, calendars, announcements, contacts and many more projects. There’s even a new portal tool with mobile access that will allow members of your team to collaborate and manage content remotely.

Package prices begin at $30.95/month for the SharePoint professional Plan and go up to 99.50/month for the SharePoint Fortune 500 plan.

Plans include support for WSS 3.0, customized templates, 500 mb to 2 gb of Web server disk space, 40 to 200 SharePoint user accounts, 40 to 200 email accounts, 50 gb to 200 gb of monthly bandwidth, 200 mb to 1 gb of SharePoint document storage, Custom Web Parts supported, SSL certificate support, document search, and MS exchange 2003 support which is optional. All packages come with same day setup.

There are so many great features I can’t see how a small to large organization wouldn’t want to try this new Microsoft Windows SharePoint Hosting at Alentus. The prices of the three available packages seem reasonable as well.

I should mention that SharePoint is a secure tool that’s been built in a secure environment. Another important fact that any business would want when hosting their companies website.

The Alentus staff are knowledgeable, and the Alentus hosting site has a reputable uptime record.

Filed Under: Internet, Sales and Marketing, Services, Web and Technology, Web Design Tagged With: Alentus, Alentus Hosting, announcements, blogs, business, calendars, contacts, custom, document management, documents, employee, events, hosting, images, information sharing, lists, Microsoft web solution, pre configured, secure, SharePoint, tasks, team, team collaboration, websites, Windows SharePoint Services

Getting into college or university just became a Zinch

April 18, 2007 by Tricia

We keep hearing in the news and documentaries and even magazine articles that while universities and college are interested in enrolling students with high grade point averages, they also wanted well rounded students. Students who have goals, and have made interesting achievements, not always academic, in the past.

Well, that’s where Zinch.com comes in. High school students can create vibrant online portfolios on Zinch to showcase their skills, talents and abilities. Colleges and Universities have been searching through the comprehensive Zinch database to find and recruit students that match their schools criteria and specific needs.

If you are the parent of a child who is currently in high school and you want your child to have as much opportunity as any other to get into the college or university of their choice you really should talk to your child about Zinch.com and help them create an online portfolio.

A Zinch portfolio evens out the playing field. Students from areas such as the inner-cities, rural areas and even foreign countries can increase their exposure and maximize their chance of being admitted into college or university.

Take a look at the Zinch demo to see how Zinch works. Basically, high school students, as early as sophomore or junior levels can create a detailed online portfolio that can be viewed and searched only by US university and college admissions officers. The students can create profiles and portfolios that include everything from their grades, interests such as extra curricular activities, family life, and college or university preferences. They can share as much or as little as they’d like, and they can make their portfolio public or private. Public portfolios will only be viewed by US admissions officers, and private portfolios will only be seen by those who are actually invited to view the portfolio.

Students are given a web address for their portfolio that they can add onto their college and university admission forms, or , for example, use when applying for internships.

There are many other features of Zinch that are worth exploring. Students might be interested in applying for Zinch scholarships. At this time there are 7 different scholarships to which students who have created a Zinch portfolio can apply.

If I had a child that would soon be applying to colleges and universities I’d want them to take this opportunity to highlight their skills, abilities, interests and academic scores. There’s nothing to lose and absolutely everything to gain for a student who creates a Zinch portfolio. Be sure to tell your children or any high school students that you know about zinch.com. I’m sure they’ll appreciate it.

Filed Under: Culture, Education, Internet, Web and Technology Tagged With: admissions officers, applications, college, college admission, exta curricular activities, high school, high school students, interests, skills, students, university, university admissions, zinch portfolio, zinch profile, zinch.com

DMG – Dedicated Hosting for your website

March 29, 2007 by Tricia

If you run a business, an online business I mean, or if you are simply a private individual with either a lot of websites or some very successful and popular websites you might find that there will come a time when you start to think about hosting your sites on a dedicate server. In fact, if your sites traffic levels are very high that might be one of your only commercial hosting options.

If you are thinking about hosting your website on a dedicated server think about using DMG Dedicated Servers. DMG is a dedicated hosting service provider.

I’ve looked through their site and looked them up on the internet and I must say that they have a lot of customers that are happy with the reliable service and the support that they have received when they’ve need assistance. It’s always good to know that others are saying good things on the net about a company when you are thinking of placing your sites on their servers.

DMG says that their customers are their most valuable asset – and I believe that any company that wants to succeed in business must feel that way. Without customers, particularly happy satisfied customers a company won’t last or grow.

DMG operates their own datacenter, in fact they own their own datacenter. Check out their site if you are interested in hosting your website on a dedicated server.

Filed Under: Internet, Sales and Marketing, Web and Technology, Website Promotion Tagged With: customer support, dedicated server, DMG, hosting website, network status, reliable service, satisfied customers

IDrive-E online backup

March 29, 2007 by Tricia

Do you remember back at the beginning of February when I had to suddenly change my web host and I didn’t have a back up our sites? I was in a total panic! Between my husband and I we’ve got 14 or so websites and blogs. The importance of backing up data regularly became very clear when that happened to me.

However, there’s times when you might not want to back up your data onto your own computer. What if something happened to your hard drive, or what if your hard drive just doesn’t have the space? Or perhaps kids use your home computer. You know how kids are always downloading things from the internet? How many times have you had to clean your computer of virus’ and spyware? Is your data really safe on your home computer after all?

Why not use IDrive-E Online Backup? You can safely and securely back up your data online. IDrive-E offers a free plan that allows you to store up to 2GB of data free of charge. If you own a business or have larger storage needs you can back up even greater amounts of data for the low price of just $4.95 per month. Their system is easy to use. Visit IDrive.com to see how they can help you store and backup your valuable data.

Filed Under: Internet, Services, Web and Technology Tagged With: 2GB storage free, IDrive.com, online backup, safe online backup, secure online backup, store your backup online

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