To earn your CCNA or CCNP certification, youve got to understand the basics of trunking. This isnt just a CCNA topic – you must have an advanced understanding of trunking and etherchannels to pass the BCMSN exam and earn your CCNP as well.

The Google boys have come a long way since their start-up days in a rented garage. AP reports Brin and Page have purchased the home (and the garage) where the company first started.

At the close of the Podcast and Portable Media Expo, the feeling is that you are among an elite group of Web 2.0 trailblazers. True, they’re all running businesses and promoting their brands, but they still carry with them the now traditional mantra “content is king” like a Coat of Arms.

Paul Colligan seems a big fan of over-delivering. Though his presentation at the Podcast and Portable Media Expo was entitled “7 Proven Strategies to Monetize Your Podcast in 30 Days or Less,” my notes reached a length of five pages, containing no fewer than 20 websites to consider, and an entire industry compacted into one hour.

“This is really the holy grail,” said Patrice Curtis, of Curtis Research Group to a nearly empty room at the Podcast Metrics session of the Podcast and Portable Media Expo. “Everyone should be in this room.” Maybe everyone was at the Turning Passion Into Profits, or Marketing’s New Change-Agent.

This is Part IX in an (epic) Series on Functional Web Analytics.

Newspaper publisher McClatchy Company and local online ad tech firm WebVisible have deployed SearchMax at The Miami Herald as a follow up to its deployment at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Ask.com has given users a twofer to start off their Monday morning.

Beck showed up at the Yahoo Open Hack Day. Wow. Michael Arrington, who helped arrange the event, begged me to come and said I’d really be blowing it if I didn’t go.

Leesa Barnes, author of the book Jumpstart Your Podcast, is a veteran, if there can be one in the podcast world, of using the medium as a marketing vehicle.

It’s only fitting that Leo Laporte should open this year’s Podcast and Portable Media Expo with the first keynote – he’s some sort of god among this crowd – the phrase “star-struck” was a steady drumbeat in the pact, and hushed, ballroom.

According to WebMastersWorld Forum there is a Google PageRank update happening right now.

Microsoft released its newest chat client, Messenger 6.0, for the Macintosh platform in Universal Binary form.

Jensense writes that a growing number of publishers are seeing hackers edit their websites, substituting the publisher’s AdSense ID for another, in order to basically steal that publisher’s revenue.

Why your company should be selling on eBay Summary Sale on eBay accounts to 10% of the entire world’s ecommerce sales and in the UK, eBay accounts for more page views than Google, Yahoo and MSN put together.

Perhaps realizing that limiting to just the audience of Gmail created an unnecessary barrier, Google now allows absolutely anyone to create an account for use with Google Talk. Good call!

One blogger decided to try to be honest and buy a legal copy of Windows XP in China, and found out the hard way that honesty just wasn’t going to pan out.

Google has made some significant upgrades to its Google Reader RSS aggregator platform. As TechCrunch explains…

The first day of the Podcast and Portable Media Expo in Ontario, Calif., kicks off today with an all-star lineup of speakers and experts on the new media form of podcasting. WebProNews made the 2,100-mile trek to glean all we can from this emergent medium.

Sales force automation, or SFA, is a term that refers at its most basic to automating critical sales functions like lead and account management.

The PG SEO (pre-Google) and master linker, Eric Ward has recently launched a new newsletter on link building called, The Ward Report.

Microsoft and the BBC shook hands yesterday, but it was something of a soft, tentative handshake. Microsoft described a “nonexclusive memorandum of understanding” that both companies signed as “a step toward strengthening their working alliance.” Despite this rather weak language, the meeting may have had important implications.

Advertising will come to Facebook, the social networking site formerly restricted to those possessing .edu addresses and now opened to the public for membership.

Supply Chain Management is a decisive element of good overall business management. To ensure profits, customer satisfaction, repeated sales and future growth a company needs to have an efficient supply chain management for any type of sales.