In today’s society, social media plays a big part in the role of business (especially ebusiness). It helps your business engage with customers online and in a place where many customers already have accounts. From an ebusiness standpoint, I cannot see how businesses perform at a high standard without the use of social media. It is basically another extension of your business (especially if you have an online-based business).

Recently, we have received a large number of social media-related submissions to our directory, so I thought I would take the time to highlight some of the great aspects that our directory’s Social Media category includes, such as user-submitted resources for your use. Some of the subcategories within this category are:

• Blogs – Find blogs, blogging platforms, blog directories, and blog search engines.
• Photo Sharing Sites – Social photo-sharing sites, such as: Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa, and more.
• Social Media Marketing – Find news and services to help you get the most out of your SMM campaign.
• Social Networking Tools – Tools that will help you to get the best out of your social networking experience.
• Video Sharing Sites – Social video-sharing sites, such as: YouTube, Google Video, and others.

The aspect of social media can be quite challenging at times, and our directory’s user-submitted resources are here to help you get the most out of your social media experience.

Do you have any social media-related resources that you would like to see included within our directory? If so, please be sure to complete our directory’s easy-to-use submission form located here.

Our directory contains a lot of great user-submitted resources to help your eBusiness-related website be profitable, and one of the most submitted-to categories that our directory includes is the eCommerce category. Our directory’s user-submitted eCommerce resources will help turn your website into a profit. Without eCommerce on the web, websites would not have the juice to help your business break even.

For this publication, I would like to highlight some of the most important resources that you should review if you are thinking about going the eCommerce route for your website. These are great resources to browse, even for your research purposes if you have just got your website started.

• eCommerce News – Keep up-to-date with what is currently happening and trending within the eCommerce world.
• eCommerce Shopping Carts – Are you selling products on your website? If so, install a shopping cart on your website so that users can buy your products directly from your site. There are lots of shopping carts in this subcategory to choose from!
• eCommerce Tutorials – Are you new to the eCommerce world and don’t know where to start? Follow these user-submitted tutorials to get your eCommerce know-how up to speed!
• SSL Certifications – Make sure that your eCommerce website is secure by using these resources.

Do you have an eCommerce-related website that you would like to share with our directory users? If so, feel free to submit your website to our directory using our easy-to-use submission form located here.

Have you used any of our directory’s eCommerce services? If so, please leave your feedback about our eCommerce services below in this post’s comments section.

Blogging is a really big concentration on the Internet and has been for quite some time. As the web gets bigger, the “blogosphere” grows as well, increasing the number of personal and business-related blogs around the web.

The WebProNews eBusiness Directory contains an unlimited amount of user-submitted resources that you can use in your blogging endeavours, including resources for those who are just getting started in the blogging world, or have been blogging for a long time and want to take their blogging experience to the next level. To find these resources, be sure to browse our directory’s Blogs category.

For those of you who are getting started in the blogging world, I would like to recommend the following subcategories of the Blogs category to you.

• Blog Platforms – To start a blog, you must have a platform/software to publish your posts on. This subcategory contains a wide variety of blogging platforms so that you can find the best one that suits you.
• Blog and Feed Directories To help get your blog noticed on the web, submit your blog to these directories so that other people in your niche can find you and read what you are blogging about and the topics that you are discussing. This is a great way of acquiring targeted traffic to your blog.

If you have been blogging for quite a while, and you are looking for more resources to dig deeper in your blogging experience, I highly recommend checking out our directory’s Paid Blogging subcategory. This category is filled with many user-submitted resources that will allow you to endeavor a blogging-related career.

If you have a blogging-related resource that you would like to contribute to our directory, please feel to submit your blogging-related website using our easy-to-use submission form located here.

It is starting to become the end of the year, especially with Christmas only a little over two months away. With this in mind, it is time to start planning ahead to see how next year (2013) will be. Is your eBusiness ready? If not, our quality WebProNews eBusiness Directory contains many user-submitted resources that your eBusiness can take advantage of to help prepare for the coming year.

One of the ways that you can better prepare for the coming year is to look at where your business stands financially. You might be asking yourself questions like “Will my eBusiness be profitable in 2013?” and “What other financial services will I need?” If so, I would like to bring your attention to our directory’s Financial category, which contains the following subcategories that you can browse and/or submit to:

• Accounting Services – Accounting and book keeping services to keep your finances in order.
• Banks – A listing of banks for both your online and offline banking needs.
  
• Financial News – News sites and blogs covering trading and the stock market.
• Online Trading – Sites such as E*Trade and Schwab.com for online trading and investing.
• Tax Software – Find software applications to aid you in filing your income taxes.

All of these subcategories contain great resources to help your eBusiness’ financial needs. More great financial-related subcategories can be found here.

If you have any financial-related resources that you would like to contribute to our directory, please feel free to submit to us by completing our directory’s easy-to-use submission form.

In the eBusiness world, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a key component for how your current and potential customers view and reach your business’ website. No matter if your website recently was published online and looking for new clientele, or your website has been online for years, SEO is a very important practice to have that will retain your customers.

With this in mind, the field and spectrum of SEO can be quite broad; however, our directory provides various resources under the Search category to help you through any minefield of stumbling blocks and quotes that you may have.

A great SEO resource that the iEntry Network recently released that I would like to bring to your attention is called WebHeadTools. This is a great SEO “toolkit” that you can utilize to increase your directory and search engine visibility, along with monitoring your SEO status as well.

The tools currently included within WebHeadTools are:

• SubmitterBot – This is a service that allows you to submit your website to 500+ search engines and directories around the web at no cost. This will help your visibility within the directories and search engines by increasing the amount of backlinks into your website. Submitting to the various directories and search engines will also help you acquire targeted traffic to your website as well.
• PRTracking – This quality tool from WebHeadTools allows you to keep track of the progress pertaining to your website’s PageRank in Google. When your site’s PageRank has increased or decreased, you will receive a notification via e-mail of this change.

The WebHeadTools website has been added to our directory’s Online Search Tools category. Other great user-submitted SEO tools can be found in this category as well to help benefit your SEO needs.

The web, as we know it, is growing and moving in a different direction, especially in the business and eBusiness worlds. With this in mind, our directory provides various resources to help you broaden your knowledge about the new direction that the Internet is heading towards. This new direction that I am talking about is called “Web 2.0,” and a lot of websites are already following its practices.

If you are unsure of what Web 2.0 is, I have provided an elaborate description below from Wikipedia:

Web 2.0 is a concept that takes the network as a platform for information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. A Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators (prosumers) of user-generated content in a virtual community.

Thus, I would like to bring your attention to our directory’s Web 2.0 category, which contains the following subcategories:

• Blog and Feed Directories – Directories that help you to find new blogs and feeds that you can submit your site to.
• Blogs – Find blogs, blogging platforms, blog directories, and blog search engines.
• Podcasting – Find all of the resources you need for creating and sharing your podcasts.
• Social Media – SMM services, social networks, social bookmarking sites, and more.
• Wikis – Wikis and Wiki resources for those interested in Wikis.

Do you have a Web 2.0-centric website that relates to any of the categories listed above? If so, please be sure to submit your website to our directory for inclusion by completing our easy-to-use submission form.

Our directory contains a wide variety of user-submitted resources to help you within the eBusiness world. These resources provide you with tips, tutorials, services, and blogs to help you advance your eBusiness so that you can stay ahead of your competitor; however, since our directory contains a lot of resources that you may become overwhelmed with, we provide the following features on our directory to help you decide which resources will be the right choices for you.

• Popular – These are the categories on our directory that are the most submitted to and get the most attention. These are also the categories that contain the most resources.
  
• Our Picks – These are websites listed within the current category that are the most clicked on by the majority of viewers in our directory. We recommend these websites to help you excel in your eBusiness world.
  

If your website is not listed within our directory, and you would like to see your website visible within our directory’s listings, even in the Popular and Our Picks sections, all that you have to do is to complete our easy-to-use submission form located here.

Now that it is officially summer, it is a great time to recharge the batteries and assess where your business stands. One way to achieve this is by attending business and eBusiness-related conferences. These conferences will help you analyze your business, along with making new contacts, so that you can network with various other entrepreneurs and business owners to help your business run smoothly.

If you are looking for conference-related resources, the WebProNews eBusiness Directory can help you. Please be sure to browse our user-submitted conference-related resources, separated into the following categories, so that you can find what you need in a timely manner.

• IT Conferences – Conferences for information technology professionals.
• Marketing Conferences – General marketing conferences including (but not limited to) the search industry.
• Sales Events and Conferences – Events and conferences where sales people can network.
• Technology Conferences – Technology-themed conferences, such as: E3, CES, and Macworld.
• Web Developer Conferences – Find conferences for web developers to share information and network.

Are you planning to attend an upcoming conference relating to these fields that you would like to share with other directory users? If so, please be sure to submit it to us, and we will gladly publish it within our directory so that others can take advantage of the conference that you are attending.

This past Friday, the country (and the world) was stunned to learn about the shooting at the premiere of the latest Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises, at a local movie theatre in the small, peaceful town of Aurora, Colorado. This story has taken the world by storm, and it has been a viral and trending topic on various websites around the Internet.

Our very own WebProNews writing staff has been covering various angles on this tragedy. One of the great aspects of these articles is the reaction from the public via social media, because they do bring various opinions and aspects to the incident as well. Below, I have provided a list of some of the most-recent articles from WebProNews on this tragic event:

• Colorado Shooting: Movie Industry Responds, 911 Calls Released
• Colorado Shooting Suspect Will Feel “Full Force” Of Justice System
• Colorado Shooting: Holmes Appears Dazed In Court
• Good Lord, There Are Already A Lot Of James Holmes Facebook Pages
• Second Person of Interest Investigated by Colorado Police

To find out even more information about this tragic event, be sure to visit our directory’s General News Sites category. This category contains news websites (both aggregated and non-aggregated) from various sources that have been submitted by members of the WebProNews community.

In the eBusiness world, it is very important to consult, give advice to, and communicate with other peers within your business niche. This is important, because this helps you and your business stay current within the competitive business world that we live in. Staying in touch and up to date with other niche-related points of contact is also a great way to network and stay competitive. With this in mind, our directory provides you with a content-rich Forums category.

Our directory’s Forums category includes various user-submitted forums that you can participate on. Do you have a question relating to something in your business niche? Try one of the forums in this category to help get the answer(s) you need. To help you find the forum that you are looking for, we have divided this category up into the following subcategories:

• Developer Forums – Online communities for developers to exchange ideas and information.
• IT Forums – Online communities for IT managers and others in the IT field.
• Marketing Forums – Connect with others in the marketing industry discussing related topics.
• Sales Forums – Find online communities for sales professionals to interact with each other.
• Search Forums – Online community listings dealing with the search industry.
• Web Design Forums – Find online communities to share advice and information with designers.

Are you the owner of a forum that fits into any of these subcategories? If so, you are more than welcome to submit your forum to us. All that you have to do is to complete our directory’s quick-and-easy submission form.