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Inspired by the famous quote from Gandhi about being the change you want to see in the world, we've launched the BeChange Package. This is a bundle of services designed for individuals and small businesses creating positive change. Our current focus is to support coaches and teachers in the health and wellness industry but we'll soon be expanding it to include other social entrepreneurs. The BeChange services include managed marketing and logistics backed by an integrated website and CRM system.

Nelson radio station CJLY, 93.5FM in Nelson BC launched a new website today. The new site a sweeping upgrade for the station with sections for each show, a member forum, downloaded files, news, comments and more. In addition to creating the site, Yellowseed created a podcasting system for the station that currently delivers weekly shows through iTunes to the world.

We're pleased to introduce Yellowseed's lead programmer (and newest staff member) Balakrishnan Somasundaram.

Simple question: if you had 2-hours a day to devote to no-cost, off-blog (even off-line) marketing for your blog, what would you do� The author posed this question to a collection of some of the world�s top bloggers and social network marketers�and here�s what they revealed. Click here for the article.

Centennial Canoe Outfitters Inc. take viewers on a scenic ride down the wild rivers of Colorado in a new video released today on You Tube.

Marty Generaux and Julia Gumper, owners, shot the video over a whole summer and sent it to Yellowseed for compilation and upload.  The canoeing video will also be displayed at http://www.centennialcanoe.com.

Proposed model for the future of e-commerce exploits a novel peer-to-peer video sharing application

We launched NCES.ca today, a website for a local non-profit group (NCES = Nelson Citizen Empowerment Society).

Facebook has just released an API that gives company the ability to develop software (called "Widgets") that can be used within Facebook - think of Facebook like an operating system, say Windows, and widgets like software that runs on the OS, say Adobe Photoshop.

DoubleClick, an online advertising company founded in 1996, provides display ads on Web sites like MySpace, The Wall Street Journal and America Online as well as software to help those sites maximize ad revenue. The company also helps ad buyers — advertisers and ad agencies — manage and measure the effectiveness of their rich media, search and other online ads.

Here's a good glossary of SEO terms used by search engine marketing professionals.

Social Media Optimization (SMO), a new term recently coined by Rohit Bhargava, has since been taking on life of its own. In his introduction to SMO, Rohit draws similar comparisons to SEO...

The choice quotes:

Google controls more network fiber than any other organization. This is not to say that Google OWNS all that fiber, just that they control it through agreements with network operators.

RSS is a funny old thing - once it takes hold in a person's daily routine it becomes as essential as checking ones email or reading the morning newspaper - but as far as mainstream usage goes, it's a long way from attaining widespread approval.

There won't be much mistletoing or hearts a-glowing among e-commerce sites if they aren't ready for what's supposed to be their most wonderful time of the year.

So you weren't born on MySpace and you didn't cut your teeth chatting on MSN Messenger. So what do you do when some kid throws an STFU or ROTFL at you? A good place to start is with a translation from the Acronym Finder, a searchable database of tens of thousands of acronyms - an essential tool for translating chat into english.

"Splash pages are the pages that the user sees before they actually get to a website; typically, they're flash and offer some kind of introductory animation. The user clicks "Skip Intro" or "Enter Site" and from there is taken to the site." Here is a good article on why splash pages can be a bad thing.

Over the last 10 years, thousands of companies have spent hundreds - of - thousands of hours experimenting with search engine optimization. Thankfully, the results and opinions have been openly shared among Internet marketers and has formed into something close to knowledge. Of course, every time Google or Yahoo changes their code that determines their page-ranks, some of that knowledge becomes obsolete. The core principles, thankfully, do not change...

"If visitors to your Web site become annoyed, it is very easy for them to broadcast their irritation: They are already online!

Here's a brief look at some problems with the new Internet Explorer Browers (IE7), spotlighting some areas and features that may pose problems to developers, as well as tools available to help with application development. This is a pretty technical article but it might help you understand some of the problems that your web site might be forced to deal with.

Wikipedia has a great article on customer relationship management (CRM), which is gaining a lot more attention these days. Wireless is everywhere, so why can't we use the Internet to store our company contacts, manage our group scheduling, and handle our customer support? Well, there's no good reason why not, and hundreds of reasons why it makes sense to think about this for your business. This article will get you started on understanding the basics.