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Insurance Industry
Welcome to the
online companion to the Internet Seminar.
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Check your persona right now. Make sure you understand what webmasters know about
You.
Internet Overview
- Internet Growth statistics
-See how quickly the net is growing by domain name and country.
- Getting
Connected - How to pick an Internet provider, purchase a computer, and
load it with all kinds of useful software
- Connecting to AOL via an Internet
Provider - having the best of both world
Business Uses of the
Internet - Illustrates the creative ways that organizations are
incorporating the Internet into many of their processes.
- Online demonstrations of
marketing, sales, customer service, credit card, transactions and much more.
- Online
resources related to the Insurance industry
Where did that Web
page come from?
- Determining the Source of
online information - Determining the true origin of a web
site. Knowing the website's origin may help you judge the validity
of web site's content
- How to read a URL -
- Domain Name Overview
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- Whois Overview - Find the
registered owner of a domain name
Traceroute Overview - See the
network path between two computers
Domainsurfer - This handy site lets
you do a keyword search against domain name titles. (i.e. how many domain
names include the word "insurance")
Internet Communication
channels
Privacy Links
- Connection_Persona
- The persona created by a User's Internet connection. This
information is sent to web sites by web browsers, and used by webmasters.
- Online Privacy
Information - includes ways to test & secure your PC
- Cookies - See how web
sites recognize you and track your movements.
Internet
Implementation Tips (and tips for users)
- Internet
implementation tips - to ensure that the Internet becomes an asset, not a
liability to your organization, as your employees become Internet users.
- How to read a URL -
- Search Tool
Overview - Understand the difference between a directory, search engine
and virtual library.
- Searching the
Internet - Find anything you want - with this list of search tools...
- How to open
multiple Web browser windows - this is one of my single most useful
tips. You will never wait for a web page to download again.
- Bookmark tips and
tricks - Learn how to manage a most important resource.
- Effective email Techniques
- Covers some of the more important issues with effectively using email,
including tips for managing hundreds of emails per day.
- Usenet Newsgroups Overview
- There are over 35,000 usenet newsgroups where Internet users exchange
messages on specific subjects.
Future of the Internet
- Future of the Internet -
(Electronic commerce, Intranet, extranets, push technologies, multi-media,
high-bandwidth access) Emerging Internet Standards and protocols. Ways of
anticipating Internet's future direction
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Gifwizard - shows how efficient
(or inefficient) you web site is. Also calculates the download times for
your web site.
GRC.com - try their "Shields up" to see
just how vulnerable your windows-based workstations is on the
internet.
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