2008 Latest Edition - Did You Know 3.0 - From Meeting in Rome this Year

Ready to blow your mind?

This video is awesome. Who says the machines won't take over the world?

This is a really cool video full of all sorts of interesting facts that may just blow your mind away about what the future holds. There will be so much, much more, and it will all be different. Although based on statistics to form predictions, stats have long been used for this and is used in business all the time. Sure there may be a little give here and there, but even then the message is still astounding.

Beware of the Doghouse- Hilarious!

This is a great video, and comes to rescue us men just in time for the holidays... avoid the dog house at all costs! But check out this video!

Toyota Bina Komunikasi Dengan Pelanggan

Sebagai salah satu wujud komitmennya dalam hal kepuasan pelanggan, Toyota selalu peduli akan kehadiran komunitas pelanggan Toyota dan selalu memberi dukungan pada berbagai kegiatan mereka. Tak berhenti di situ, Toyota juga berinisiatif mengadakan ajang ramah tamah antar komunitas untuk mengoptimalkan adanya komunikasi horisontal antar pelanggan, seperti kegiatan Halal Bihalal yang digelar Oktober lalu. Kali ini, demi lebih mempererat hubungan Toyota-komunitas dan antar komunitas, Toyota bersama 6 komunitas pelanggan bergabung dalam kegiatan 2 hari 1 malam bertajuk Toyota Community Gathering bertempat di Camp Hulu Cai – Ciawi, 8-9 November 2008.

Toyota Community Gathering diadakan pertama kali tahun ini, diikuti oleh lebih dari 125 orang dari 6 klub komunitas Toyota, yaitu Avanza Xenia Club (AXIC), Toyota Kijang Club Indonesia (TKCI), Toyota Yaris Club Indonesia (TYCI), Toyota Vios Club Indonesia (TVCI), Innova Community (IC) dan Soluna. Lebih dari 60 mobil Toyota terlibat dalam kegiatan ini.

“Toyota menyadari betul, saat ini yang dibutuhkan pelanggan tidak sekedar pelayanan dan produk berkualitas. Pelanggan juga menginginkan komunikasi 2 arah dengan pihak produsen, serta antar pelanggan itu sendiri. Kami bermaksud mengakomodir kebutuhan itu melalui Community Gathering,” papar Presiden Direktur PT Toyota-Astra Motor, Johnny Darmawan. “Kami bersyukur, upaya Toyota merangkul komunitas pelanggan juga telah mendapatkan pengakuan dari media, salah satunya dalam bentuk penghargaan ATPM Care for Community dari majalah Autobild Indonesia.”

Sebelum memulai perjalanan menuju Ciawi, peserta berkumpul di New Parts Center Toyota di Cibitung yang baru diresmikan pertengahan tahun ini. Di lokasi ini Toyota memberikan kesempatan kepada peserta untuk mengenal dari dekat fasilitas dan sistem baru yang dimiliki Toyota dalam hal penyediaan suku cadang kendaraan, yang pada akhirnya ditujukan bagi kepuasan pelanggan. Sedangkan di Camp Hulu Cai, akan diadakan sharing session serta aneka games outbound.

“Yang membedakan dengan ajang ramah tamah sebelumnya adalah adanya presentasi dan sharing session antar klub pada Sabtu malam dalam suasana api unggun yang akrab. Melalui kegiatan tersebut, komunitas Toyota dapat saling melakukan benchmark untuk peningkatan kualitas masing-masing klub. Dengan mengikuti permainan outbound mereka dapat mempererat kerja sama tim,” tambah Johnny Darmawan. “Pada intinya, Toyota Community Gathering ini adalah kegiatan dari dan untuk komunitas Toyota. Kami hanya sebagai fasilitator saja,” tutupnya.

Toyota berharap kegiatan ini dapat mendukung semakin berkembangnya hubungan baik antar komunitas Toyota, serta memberikan inspirasi kepada pelaku bisnis dan pemasar lainnya, akan pentingnya memperhatian kebutuhan komunikasi horisontal antar pelanggan. /PR

What Syd's Eastside Dugg

http://digg.com/users/AutomotiveParts
If you are writing articles to promote your business, create awareness for your cause or to establish your own professional expertise, you will probably want to add Digg to your publishing resource toolbox.

Even if you are not an article writer, Digg.com seems to have caught on because it allows users to list, promote & view each others news, images & videos found anywhere on the net. So it would also come in handy for photographers, graphic artists, videographers and podcasters, as well.

And being able to recommend not only your own works, but the stuff on the internet that you find and want to share with your friends is really what social networks are all about, anyway. And because of its broad range of coverage, Digg is easily a great tool that is intertwined as a news, photo, art and video promotion service by the online community as a whole.

See what Syd's Eastside has Dugg on Digg:
http://digg.com/users/AutomotiveParts

Our Page on SearchWarp

http://searchwarp.com/Author69559.htm
SearchWarp is also a great place to use for article distribution. But please note that we don't simply write an article and upload it for redistribution on other websites, we usually hold onto them for a period of time before we allow them to be redistributed, thus establishing that our website is the original source for such duplicated content.

Our own article directory can be found in our own Syd's Eastside Auto Parts website Articles section. By keeping an archive of our articles here for some time before redistribution, Googlebot will have scanned our website articles and had any particular article available through search long before it shows up on any article site. This can usually be verified by using the WayBackMachine.

Finally, after a period of time on our own website, we may release any articles we have written through article directories such as SearchWarp.

SearchWarp is a unique website though, because it is more than an article directory. It is also a writer community and offers assistance to those who want to learn how to write, or to learn how to write better. This is why SearchWarp is also identified, to me, as a social networking site, because of the existing community and the effects a membership can have on that community. Plus little contests are run for writing articles on certain subjects as are appropriate and relevant to the time.

Our Page on SearchWarp:
http://searchwarp.com/Author69559.htm

Squidoo

http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/SydsEastside
Squidoo offers great Social Networking Site Integration and Easy Article (Lens) Publishing.

Squidoo offers a great place for those who are interested in articles on any particular subject. Squidoo actually refers to each article as a lens, and their writers as lensmasters. They claim they are doing it just to be difficult, but I gather it has something to do with good old fashioned marketing. It is interesting, though, how they are a popular social networking site without relying so heavily on generic keywords.

Although I found the article editor hard to use because of the lack of good instruction while using it the first time, after posting the lens (article) I easily was able to realize my first time mistakes and will probably get it right the next time. However, if you are using Squidoo to distribute previously written articles, it seems that it might be a little harder to use as simply another distribution outlet because you shouldn't simply copy the article and paste it in as on most article distribution websites such as one of our favorites, SearchWarp.

Our Page on Squidoo:
http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/SydsEastside

On Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/people/Rork_Feimer/1625856528
Facebook is actually quite a lot more interesting than I thought it was. It also can act like a homepage for the not-so-geeky oriented who like an easy way to setup a homepage, much like Blogster or CarSpace, but it goes yet further by incorporating many of your other social networking services, too. Its easy to setup groups, as well. It's also easy to upload & share photos and video. Your default public profile page acts as a "wall" that you write on and you can easily communicate with your friends this way.

I suppose some may say that I had cheated, as I had put-up a profile to represent and promote my employer. The name RorK Feimer I used is actually derived from the owners of Syd's Eastside Auto Salvage, Ron & Kathy Feimer. And this may be so, but you have to remember that I am employed to promote the Syd's Eastside Auto Parts website, and not to promote my own websites and business interests. In the same manner, I still want a profile on Facebook that reflects me and my own interests, both personal and business related. On top of that, the business and my opinion may differ on a variety of things.

That said, if I am cheating, so are a great deal of other businesses which are doing the same thing on Facebook. All we are looking for is a profile that we can promote as an employee, while maintaing a separate personal profile for ourselves outside of work.

So, I'm actually not worried about it. Heck, this blog entry will appear on Facebook, anyway. Because Facebook is configured to post my blog entries that I post here on that site, as well. So by adding blog entries here, I am also updating Facebook.

Facebook also supports a variety of other social networking websites. Twitter is one, Digg is another. As these services are updated, so is Facebook.

The Syd's Eastside Auto Parts Page on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/people/Rork_Feimer/1625856528