Monday, April 2, 2012

Enjoy The Ease of Digital Photo Printing

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When cameras were analogue in nature, based upon the use of rolls of celluloid film, the process of photo printing was a long, complicated and expensive one. The journey from the click of a shutter to holding the photo prints in your hands was a lengthy and arduous one, and this had a negative effect upon the number of photographs which most people felt able to take.

Prior to the advent of digital photography, cameras worked around the principle of a physical roll of film which had to be exposed to light and then developed. Because of the complicated nature of this process, and the specialist equipment and chemicals which had to be used, photo developing was something which the vast majority of people felt unable to carry out on their own behalf. This meant that it was left to specialist professionals to print photos, a fact which had a negative knock on effect on the length of time the process tended to take, and the amount it cost people.

If you wanted to take a look at the photographs you?d taken during the course of a holiday, for example, you had to wait until getting home and then hand the roll of film over to the nearest chemist, a specialist lab or even post it to a plant based in another part of the country altogether. There would then follow a wait until you finally got you photo prints in your hands, and if you wanted to get the process done any more quickly it would involve paying a premium on top of what was already a pretty steep price.

All of this tended to militate against people being able to make the most of their cameras and meant that few of them took as many photographs as they would actually have liked to, or had multiple copies made so that they could share favourites with friends and family.

Digital photo printing, on the other hand, has been made as simple as it can be and works in a way which means that people with digital cameras feel free to take as many photographs as they wish, safe in the knowledge that it will then be easy to go through these images and select the ones which they wish to keep. Once they?ve done this, turning the images stored electronically on their camera into actual prints is so easy that anyone with access to a computer and a printer can do it in the comfort of their own home with only a few clicks of the mouse.

Digital technology, however, doesn?t only make it easy to turn your images into photographs, but it?s equally simple to take these photographs and then use them to create a wide range of photo gifts and bespoke items. If you have a particularly pleasing shot of your family, for example, or a stunning landscape shot, then uploading it to the right website and then using the simple software provided will enable you to turn it into a stunning canvas print, produced to the standard you could usually expect to see on the walls of a gallery or art shop. ?

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Sunday, April 1, 2012

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Party says Myanmar's Suu Kyi leads landslide win

Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party supporters cheer upon the party's announcement outside party headquarters in Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, April 1, 2012. Supporters of Suu Kyi erupted in euphoric cheers Sunday after her party announced she had won a parliamentary seat in a landmark election, setting the stage for her to take public office for the first time. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party supporters cheer upon the party's announcement outside party headquarters in Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, April 1, 2012. Supporters of Suu Kyi erupted in euphoric cheers Sunday after her party announced she had won a parliamentary seat in a landmark election, setting the stage for her to take public office for the first time. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

Myanmar's National League for Democracy party leader Aung San Suu Kyi, center, heads towards a polling station at Wah Thin Kha village in Yangon, Myanmar Sunday, April 1, 2012. Myanmar held a landmark election Sunday that was expected to send democracy icon Suu Kyi into parliament for her first public office since launching her decades-long struggle against the military-dominated government. (AP Photo)

People cheer as Myanmar officials count votes at a polling station in Dagon port township in Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, April 1, 2012. Supporters of Suu Kyi erupted in euphoric cheers Sunday after her party announced she had won a parliamentary seat in the landmark election, setting the stage for her to take public office for the first time. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

A supporter of Myanmar's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party, center, shouts slogans while others wait for the election result for the country's by-elections outside the party headquarters in Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, April. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party supporters cheer upon the party's announcement in Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, April. 1, 2012. Supporters of Suu Kyi erupted in euphoric cheers Sunday after her party said she won a parliamentary seat in a landmark election, setting the stage for her to take public office for the first time. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) ? The party of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi said she had led it to a landslide election victory Sunday, setting the stage for her to take public office for the first time and head a small opposition in the military-dominated parliament.

As results came in Sunday night from the poll watchers of Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, party spokesman and campaign manager Nyan Win projected it would win 40 of 45 parliamentary seats at stake. It had contested 44.

No official results were expected before Monday. Independent verification of the vote was not possible.

The victory, if confirmed, would mark a major milestone in the Southeast Asian nation, where the military has ruled almost exclusively for a half-century and where a new reform-minded government is seeking legitimacy and a lifting of Western sanctions.

It would also mark the biggest prize of Suu Kyi's political career, and a spectacular reversal of fortune for the 66-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate who the former junta had kept imprisoned in her lakeside home for the better part of two decades.

A digital signboard outside the National League for Democracy's headquarters in Myanmar's main city, Yangon, announced in the late afternoon that Suu Kyi had won a seat. Supporters gathered by the thousands began wildly shouting upon learning the news, chanting "We won! We won!" while clapping, dancing, waving red party flags and gesturing with thumbs-up and V-for-victory signs.

As more counts came in from the NLD's poll watchers around the country, the crowd grew to as many as 10,000. The party's security guards tried without success to keep the traffic flowing past the people occupying much of the road and all nearby sidewalks.

The NLD captured all four seats in the capital, Naypyitaw, said one of its senior members, Tin Oo.

Results in Naypyitaw had been hard to predict, because many of its residents are civil servants and their families dependent on the government for their livelihoods, and might have favored the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party. The turnout when Suu Kyi campaigned there was noticeably smaller than elsewhere.

"It is the people's victory! We have taught them a lesson," said a shopkeeper who goes by the single name Thein who wore a T-shirt with Suu Kyi's picture on the front and her party's fighting peacock on the back.

The digital screen displaying results also flashed a message from Suu Kyi to her followers noting that they were understandably happy but should avoid gloating. She cautioned them to "Please refrain from rude behavior or actions that would make the other side unhappy."

All results must be confirmed by the official electoral commission, which may not make an official declaration for days.

The victory claim came despite allegations by her National League for Democracy party that "rampant irregularities" had taken place on voting day. Party spokesman Nyan Win said that by midday alone the party had filed more than 50 complaints to the Election Commission.

He said most alleged violations concerned waxed ballot papers that made it difficult to mark votes. There were also ballot cards that lacked the Election Commission's seal, which would render them invalid.

Sunday's by-election was called to fill just 45 vacant seats in Myanmar's 664-seat national Parliament and will not change the balance of power in a new government that is nominally civilian but still heavily controlled by retired generals. Suu Kyi and other opposition candidates would have almost no say even if they win all the seats they are contesting.

But her candidacy has resurrected hope among Myanmar's downtrodden masses, who have grown up for generations under strict military rule. If Suu Kyi takes office as expected, it would symbolize a giant leap toward national reconciliation.

"She may not be able to do anything at this stage," said one voter, Go Khehtay, who cast his ballot for Suu Kyi at Wah Thin Kha, one of the dirt-poor villages in the rural constituency south of Yangon that she is vying to represent. "But one day, I believe she'll be able to bring real change."

Earlier, crowds of supporters mobbed Suu Kyi as she visited a polling station in the village after spending the night there. The tiny community of 3,000 farmers has no electricity or running water, and its near-total underdevelopment illustrates the profound challenges facing the country as it slowly emerges from 49 years of army rule.

Despite the reports of widespread irregularities, a confirmed victory by Suu Kyi could cheer Western powers and nudge them closer to easing economic sanctions they have imposed on the country for years.

Suu Kyi herself told reporters Friday that the campaigning for Sunday's vote been anything but free or fair, but that she was pressing for forward with her candidacy because it's "what our people want."

Last year, Myanmar's long-entrenched military junta handed power to a civilian government dominated by retired officers that skeptics decried as a proxy for continued military rule. But the new rulers ? who came to power in a 2010 vote that critics say was neither free nor fair ? have surprised the world with a wave of reform.

The government of President Thein Sein, himself a retired lieutenant general, has freed political prisoners, signed truces with rebel groups and opened a direct dialogue with Suu Kyi, who wields enough moral authority to greatly influence the Myanmar policy of the U.S. and other powers.

Suu Kyi's decision to endorse Thein Sein's reforms so far and run in Sunday's election represents a political gamble.

Once in parliament, she can seek to influence policy and challenge the government from within. But she also risks legitimizing a regime she has fought against for decades while gaining little true legislative power.

Suu Kyi is in a "strategic symbiosis" with some of the country's generals and ex-generals, said Maung Zarni, a Myanmar expert and a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics.

"They need her and she needs them to break the 25 years of political stalemate," Zarni said. "She holds the key for the regime's need for its international acceptance and normalization."

Sunday's poll marks the first foray into electoral politics by Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party since winning a landslide election victory in 1990. The military annulled those results and kept Suu Kyi in detention for much of the next two decades. The party boycotted the last vote in 2010, but in January the government amended key electoral laws, paving the way for a run in this weekend's ballot.

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How to Make Your Company More Likable

The latest buzzword in our marketing vocabulary is ?likeability.? There has been a noticeable shift in the way companies communicate with customers. Social media and a renewed focus on service put unprecedented word-of-mouth power into the hands of our clients and customers. Big brands across the country are refocusing marketing efforts on becoming more likeable. While likeability is a new buzzword, it certainly is not a new concept. It?s actually one of the most basic rules of sales: People want to do business with those they like and trust.

Becoming ?likeable? sounds easy?and it is. Just think, in everything you do, ?how can we add value to the customer?? Answer that question in new and creative ways and you will be liked and trusted by customers and potential customers. Being likeable is a crucial part of your marketing and strategic planning.

Here are a few ways to add value and be likeable:

1. Be generous. Customers and potential customers are always looking for added value, and in most cases you can deliver this through free advice, education, product add-ons or complimentary services (like consultation). All companies should provide great website content that educates people on the business, product or service, or related industry topics. This content shouldn?t be all about sales. Always think about how to add value to your customers? lives. If you help them in some way, they will return the favor with their patronage.

2. Be transparent. Be open about your process and your product. Obviously, you don?t want to give away your ?secret sauce? or your entire strategic plan, but you can be transparent enough that your customers understand what you do and how your process helps them.

3.? Be social. Connect with people online in the right communities. For credibility purposes you may wish to have a company page on Facebook, but that might not be where your customers are talking about your services or products. If you are a B2B business, you should be on LinkedIn and connect with potential customers through targeted groups. If your industry has a lot of chatter on Twitter, or is an industry with rapidly evolving news and practices, Twitter might help you easily connect with new clients. At the very least, you should make all the content on your website and blog sharable with ?share this? buttons.

4. Be accessible. Customers should have access to more than just sales reps when they need something or have questions. In larger companies, they should have access to a director or VP-level decision maker. In smaller companies, they should be able to call the business owner directly. Being accessible to all your customers tells them that they are important and ensures that their needs are being met at every level of the company.

Think about the brands you love. What makes them likeable?

Howard Shore is a strategic planning consultant who works with companies that need leadership development and business management coaching. Based in Miami, Florida, Howard?s firm, Activate Group, Inc. provides strategic planning and management coaching to businesses across the country. To learn more about business strategy development through AGI, please visit www.activategroupinc.com, contact Howard at (305) 722-7216 or email him.

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