Glossary - Blog

A Blog, or Weblog, is a hierarchy of text, images, media objects and data, arranged cronologically, that can be viewed using a web browser.

"A Blog is an online personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking news outlet. A collections of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world." 

an anonymous writer 

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• Wikipedia

Glossary - Cusomer-to-Consumer (C2C)

Cusomer-to-Consumer (C2C) is transaction between a consumer and othr consumers, mostly through online auction.

A good example is eBay, which is an American online consumer-to-consumer corporation that manages an online auction and shopping site.

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Glossary - Consumer-to-Business (C2B)

Consumer-to-Business (C2B) is a means through which consumers decide what they want to pay, and the vendor decides whether or not to accept. This is also called reverse auction.

An example of C2B is where consumers form groups to strengthen their bargain, and the vendor gives in to the large number of purchases.

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Glossary - Business-to-Consumer (B2C)

Business-to-Consumer (B2C) is a transaction that occurs between a company and a consumer. The term may also describe a company that provides goods or services to consumers.

The online version of B2C is where the transaction takes place on the Internet, or by electronic means.

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Glossary - Business-to-Business (B2B)

Business-to-business (B2B) is the exchange of products, services, or information between businesses. From an online perspective, B2B is e-commerce between businesses.

An earlier and much more limited kind of B2B prior to the Internet was Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

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Glossary - Marketspace

Marketspace is a virtual market place such as the Internet in which no direct contact occurs between buyers and sellers.

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• Wikipedia 

Glossary - Decision Support Systems

Decision support systems are computer systems that store data and transform them into accessible information.
These include databases and softwares.

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Glossary - Data Warehousing (or mining)

Data warehousing, or data mining is the storage and analysis of customer data gathered from their visits to websites for classification and modeling purpose so that products, promotions, and price can be tailored to the specific needs of individual customers.
This is the use of powerful computers to work through large volumes of data to discover purchasing patterns among an organization's customers.

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Glossary - EDI

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is an electronic link between suppliers, manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and retailers that allows the exchange of structured data, by agreed message standards, between the computer systems of these trading partners.

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Glossary - Cookies

Cookies are bits of information about website visitors created by websites and stored by client computers.

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Glossary - Clicks and Mortars

Clicks and mortars are online retailing business who also have physical retail stores complementing the online ones.
Bricks and mortars, on the other hand, are physical retail stores.

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Glossary - e-CRM

Electronic Customer Relations (e-CRM) is using digital communication technologies to maximize sales to existing customers and encourage usage of online services.

The concept is an online approach to the traditional Customer Relations Management (CRM) which is defined as the approach to building and sustaining long-term relationships with customers.

Wikipedia

Electronic CRM concerns all forms of managing relationships with customers making use of Information Technology (IT). more

Glossary - Web 2.0 Concept

Web 2.0 refers to a collection of web services which facilitate behaviors online such as community participation and user generated content, rating and tagging.

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The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. more

Blogging Tips: Be Cautious at third party 'Expert' Advises

Even though most of the third party information that we pick around from Web 2.0 may be helpful, a good number of them can be misleading. As a Blogger you should be cautious, especially when you are stuck and looking for a way out.

The routine

It all starts when what we think we kow begins to show that we don't know it yet. All of a sudden, we become frustrated at the fact that blogging is not as easy as we initially thought it to be, or, as we were initially told it is. This can be a time when you want to integrate that cool social media button to automatically appear below all your posts, or, that time when you don't want your adSense unit on the sidebar anymore, rather, inside the content of your posts.

The next step is finding a solution, and we always want it to be fast, easy and straight forward. So, we get down to the search engines. The high ranking results take us directly to either groups, forums or Yahoo answes, and, the first few comments... That's it!

Reasons

Some good reasons that explain why you should be cautious include:

• The Internet is just full of experts.
• We interact with all kind of people online, including those who may want to mislead you intentionally.
• Some people do strange things that only work for them - as they claim. They are very kind to share the tips too!

My advise

1. Take your time, research and make a list of a few trusted sites that you can run to for help.
2. Always pay attention to details and seek clarity where you don't understand.
3. If you use Blogger, the Blogger help should not be taken for granted.