Recently, they created a wiki page at my office for the project documentation. Good for the project, But, I think they missed a lot of details that is needed to make the wiki a effective project management tool. I was unaware of what my role could be on the wiki. I thought my job is to just read the wiki, because no one prompted me to contribute to the wiki, which is really important for project documentation.
Here are a few good points to make the wiki a effective project or business management tool. It also talks about how to make the transition from the old Project management tool to wiki a smooth process and how to make people contribute to the project documentation on wiki.
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If you want to start a web based startup, its important to come up with a good business model. Business model is the most important part of any business which answers the question, How you are going to make money? Many companies don’ t answer this question when they venture out or they don’t even understand it (Sad). Here are a few business models that can fit into your business.
It’s not compulsive to fit into any of the above mentioned business models. You can draft your own business model for your startup, But, Make sure you understand it to the core. Most startups fail, because they don’t have a good business model.
Here is a very nice article about what startups should do in their first 90 days to get their venture going. Very clear and precise article. In these days the marketing strategy is equally important as your product that you are trying to sell and today there are numerous channels that a marketing team should concentrate like the social branding, affiliate marketing and its very important too. The article talks about press releases and blogging and fan pages to get the fever on to the consumers. First impression is the best impression. If you can get the users talking about you. You have started off well.
Getting the Fever on! Will be back soon
I came across some pretty nice articles about the Search Engine Optimization and it’s importance to the small and medium business owners. SEO has been a spam topic for a long time and at least now people have started giving SEO the importance that it needs. Mere web presence for small/Medium business will not do any good. The website should be available to the targeted users, when they need it. Today, Search Engines have become Doctor’s for any kind of problem, someone can face during their lifetime . So it’s better you introduce your website to the search engine and familiarize it. The search engine will take care of the rest.
Here is one article that talks about the Importance of SEO to SMB’s and here is another article that talks about How to choose a SEO Company?
Was thinking about learning some new stuff for the week end , and So came the Idea of Grails. This framework has been creating some buzz around me for quiet some time and here I’m getting my hands on it. Of course, getting dirty.
Prerequisites for the Grails Installation are : JDK 1.4 or Higher. I hope you can find millions of web pages talking about the JDK installation and setting the JAVA_HOME environment variables. So lets get into business.
Grails can be downloaded from Grails Download section. I downloaded the Binary zip of the stable version, Grails 1.1.1 . Since we are dealing specically about installation on Mac, I’m going to reference everything related to Installation on Mac.
I moved the Zip file to /Users/my_username/grails1.1.1/. Changed the permissions to 755 on the contents of the bin.
chmod 755 /Users/my_username/grails1.1.1/bin/*
Do the following steps.
pwd /Users/my_username/ (In your case it will be your home directory)
ln -s grails-1.1.1 grails (create a soft link to grails directory)
Set up the environment variables
GRAILS_HOME=/Users/my_username/grails;export GRAILS_HOME
PATH=$GRAILS_HOME/bin:$PATH;export PATH
That’s it. You are done.
Type in Grails on the command line. If you see the following message, then the installation was successful.
Welcome to Grails 1.1.1 – http://grails.org/
Licensed under Apache Standard License 2.0
Grails home is set to: /Users/acv/grails
No script name specified. Use ‘grails help’ for more info or ‘grails interactive’ to enter interactive mode