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Chris Pudney and Gihan Perera share their latest ideas on Internet tools. Primary Format : Unknown Language : English Also Listed as: City : Perth State/Province : WA Country : Australia Country : OC User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of Focal Point Podcasts Trumix.com listings of Focal Point Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs. If you like this podcast, you might also like:

Contributing to Online Forums It's in your best interests - as well as the interests of the group - to participate actively in online forums related to your expertise. Gihan and Chris discuss the do's and don'ts of taking part in on-line discussion groups. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tapping Into Online Forums Online forums can be a rich source of knowledge and expertise. In this podcast, Chris and Gihan discuss the benefits of forums, how to find them and how to evaluate the advice you get from forum members. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Phone a Friend - or Ask the Audience In school, it's generally called cheating; but after school, it's allowed - and extremely valuable - to ask experts for advice. Chris and Gihan discuss how to tap into individual and collective expertise on-line. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Comparison Shopping Online One of the reasons that Internet business is booming is because of sophisticated online shopping comparison Web sites, that help consumers find the best bargains. In this issue, Chris and Gihan talk about the pros and cons of using these shopping comparison sites. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Free Phone Calls - Skype and VoIP Since its debut in 2002, Skype has changed the face of the Internet and the telephone system. But there's more to Skype than just free phone calls. Chris Pudney and Gihan Perera explore some of the other features - and even the dangers - of Skype and other Internet telephone technology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Find Your Market How do you find profitable, responsive markets on the Internet? Most experts over-estimate their knowledge of what their customers want. In this episode, Chris and Gihan talk about simple, practical market research you can do before you invest time in new products and services. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website There's a Market for Everything A Perth man recently sold his life on the on-line auction site eBay. Which just goes to show that there's probably a market for everything on the Internet! In this podcast, we show you how to do simple market research to discover the price people are willing to pay for your products on-line. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Think Before You Write It's easy to type and send a quick e-mail message without putting much thought into it. But have you considered that everything you e-mail may be recorded and used in evidence against you. In this podcast, Chris and Gihan talk about the importance of thinking carefully before starting to write, let alone before you press Send! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music on the Web Chris has a large music collection, and for many years has used the Internet to help him build his collection. In this podcast, we talk about how he has used various music sites over the last 10 years, and how he also created a Web 2.0-like music community long before the phrase Web 2.0 came into being. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Wisdom of Crowds Internet communities can be valuable sources of insight, ideas and information. Gihan and Chris discuss how to make the use of the "wisdom of crowds" in making better decisions, choosing providers and discovering new and interesting opportunities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Focal Point - Always On How do you manage your time and maintain your sanity in today's "Always on, always connected" world? Gihan and Chris talk about three broad principles that you can apply to your own unique circumstances. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Focal Point - Back to the Future One of our friends, Kathleen Franklyn, just gave birth to a baby girl, Isobel Ann. What will the Internet look like when Isobel turns 21? Gihan and Chris discuss the future of the Internet by looking at the past, turning the clock back 21 years to when they first started using the Internet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Focal Point - The E-Mail Tax One suggestion to combat the scourge of junk e-mail is to charge a small fee on every e-mail sent. The United States Congress will pass this into law from 1st July 2008, but the rest of the world is up in arms at the prospect. What are the facts, or is this just a cruel April Fool's joke? Join Chris and Gihan as they discuss the pros and cons of this controversial proposal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Think For Yourself How do you evaluate information on the Internet with a more critical and skeptical mind? Gihan and Chris share some principles for sharpening your thinking, especially when looking at other people's claims on the Internet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Focal Point - Creating Authority You might be an authority in some area of expertise, but how do you SHOW that authority on-line, especially when you're competing with so much rubbish out there? In this episode, Chris and Gihan talk about how to create authority on the Internet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It Must Be True - I Saw It On The Internet With so much information available on the Internet, how do you assess whether something you see is authoritative, credible or even just plain true? Chris and Gihan discuss one rule of thumb that will get you 80% of the way there, and then suggest how to dig deeper to be even surer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Focal Point - Election Follow-Up In November 2007, Gihan and Chris talked about their hopes and expectations for political parties to use the Internet effectively in the Australian Federal Election. In this podcast, we follow up with our verdict on who performed well, and how we can all learn from it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Copyright and Copyleft Chris Pudney and Gihan Perera discuss the do's and don'ts of copyright of digital content on the Internet - including music, videos, e-books, graphics and software copyright. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Internet Predictions for 2008 What will the new year bring on the Internet? Chris Pudney and Gihan Perera review some tech predictions from 2007, and make their own forecasts about what's coming in 2008. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Focal Point - Shopping Security Internet retail sales will be at their biggest this Christmas season. Do you know how to shop safely on-line? Chris and Gihan discuss the facts, fears and fiction about on-line shopping, so you can shop safely and securely all year round. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Social Networking Have you tapped into the social networking buzz, with LinkedIn, Facebook and mySpace? Chris Pudney and Gihan Perera help you understand these popular social networking services, and how to tap into them in your personal and professional life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Australian Federal Election and the Internet In Australia, a Federal election is just around the corner - perhaps the first in Australia where a mature Internet might have an influence on the result. Chris Pudney and Gihan Perera talk about the lead-up to the election, and rate the major political parties on their use of the Internet during the campaign. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Focal Point - Social Bookmarking You've got a Web site or a blog, but is it getting "dugg"? And is it "del.icio.us"? These are just two of the services promoting "social bookmarking". Listen to Chris Pudney and Gihan Perera discuss this important new trend on the Web, and learn how to use it to improve your Internet research skills and your business position on-line. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Focal Point - Information Feeds If you're suffering from information overload, that's good! Your clients and customers expect you to take information, filter it, and present it in relevant, meaningful ways for them. But how do you do this without collapsing under the weight of all that information? Chris and Gihan talk about ways to gather and process relevant information easily, while ignoring the mass of irrelevant junk on the Internet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website YouTube and the Politician Get a life. With the interactive Web 2.0 world, it's not enough to make a token effort to be in the "in crowd" - as Australian Prime Minister John Howard discovered after his first lame foray into on-line video. Learn why he got it wrong, and how you can avoid the same mistake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Focal Point - Wikipedia Wikipedia, the world's free on-line encyclopedia, is a success story in the power of Web 2.0: Community collaboration to build a free resource to serve the Internet community in return. Gihan and Chris talk about the site, the concept and the ways you can take part in the Wikipedia experience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Focal Point - Phishing Protect yourself from Internet scammers! The increasingly common scam of "phishing" takes advantage of people's implicit trust in authority and their fear of financial loss. Learn what it is and how to protect yourself from it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Focal Point - eBay eBay is more than just a Web site for consumers to sell their unwanted goods. It's now a multi-billion dollar marketplace, and a viable distribution outlet for any on-line business. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What is Web 2.0? Just what is Web 2.0 - the phenomenon sweeping the Internet? Chris and Gihan give you the big picture overview - explaining the principles of Web 2.0 and how to change your thinking to take advantage of it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Focal Point - Flickr.com Learn how to use Flickr.com, one of the world's leading photo-sharing sites, in your personal and professional life. Chris and Gihan share tips about loading photos, making them accessible to others, and managing copyright issues. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Google, Privacy and You Are you a private person? Really - are you sure? The Internet makes it so much easier for people to find out about you, your lifestyle and your habits. Chris and Gihan talk about how you could be exposing yourself (so to speak!) to a world-wide Internet audience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Be An Affiliate Even if you don't have your own products to sell, you can become an"affiliate"to sell other people's products. Chris and Gihan talk about the pros and cons of affiliate marketing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Outsourcing - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly A couple of weeks ago, an article in the Sydney Morning Herald asked whether computer science was dead. In this week's podcast, Gihan and Chris ponder the question and talk about the growing trend of outsourcing IT services. Is it really such a bad thing, and can you take advantage of it in your business? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blogging - The New Wave In the last two years, everybody's been talking about blogs. In this chat, Chris and Gihan talk about their blogs - why they create them, how they update them, and what value they create on the Internet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website