Omar Alam TV: Archive

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Let's talk Sony and IMF: Fail

So unless you have been living under a rock (or on vacation!), a barrage of cyber attacks have been going on the past 1-2 months now. The primary treasure taken was the databases and customer information, though it definitely has had an extended impact beyond just data theft. Sony, the primary slap-dummy in all this, was hit repeatable, with the Play Station Gaming Network Customer Information...

Jun 12th

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Renovations Complete!!

I haven’t posted anything for awhile now, as I have been busy with the designers getting the new logos updated and various websites/social media pages completed. Well after a lot of work, revisions, and technical difficulties (thanks hosting company!), we are up and running and ready to rock. Here’s all the links for you to enjoy: Facebook Page:...

May 8th

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The Art of Protecting Your Business, Profits, and...

If that title totally confuses the hell out of you, congratulations! You actually are thinking about it in a context of your business and how it is probably something you deal with on a daily basis. What I’m going to do is show some ready-made guidelines for achieving all of this and more. So let’s get to it. Protecting Your Business - Control Access: User accounts, passwords,...

Apr 8th

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Data Breeches and Privacy...Painful!

Unless you’ve been hibernating or completely in a different universe, the word Epsilon, privacy, data breech, and “we’re sorry” all in one breath should be familiar. Check your emails, Social Media Networks, Twitterverse, and any other major media outlet if you still are lost by what happened. Legal issues and high-tech security online. One more thing to keep you up at...

Apr 6th

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Japan, Charlie Sheen, small businesses, and...

Looking around and you’ll probably see all kinds of disasters (Japan most notably), but also human inflicted disasters in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Charlie Sheen. If you think something like this hasn’t effected many business owners, well you need to think hard about that. Any business (big or small) can be effected by much less, though the damage from either can devastate and possibly...

Apr 1st

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Do you know your own data?

Anyone working with an exclusively online business, or having both an online/offline operations, is guaranteed to have lots of data. From business financial records, customer databases, order/invoices, personal data, pictures, videos, email, text messages, instant messenger logs, to locally stored backups. Yup, you definitely have a lot going on there. Forgot to mention the data on your websites,...

Mar 31st

Staying compliant, making money, without the...

It’s definitely hard enough to make your business operations compliant, much less keep up with the changes, nuances, and other mandates that seem to never end. Add in the stress of just typical business operations and you have a nice little dilemma there. And let’s not forgot the costs involved for consulting, “one-size-fits-all” compliance tools, and also outdated...

Mar 30th

Why we love what we do

So why would someone just give info, checklists, and other highly valued knowledge away freely? It’s simple. I want to help out as many people as possible, with as many things as, in as many ways, all the time. Just like that. I’ve worked and still do handle large projects for major corporations, mid-size companies, and many private companies as well. So-called “industry...

Mar 29th

Big time risk management for the rest of us

So I’ve been rambling on about what risks exist for people operating/existing online, but nothing definite on how to go about it. Well here it is. A nice score card, with dashes of NIST Publications, CoBIT, PCI, EU Safe Harbor, ISO17799, e-Discovery rules, GLBA, and all their other friends as well. You want to be big time now and use what the big boys use? Alright! You asked for it, you got...

Mar 28th

My business of 1 doesn't care about no stinkin...

Why do you buy insurance for your car? How about your life? Better yet, why do you put locks on doors, or passwords on your vital accounts? Big businesses definitely take this seriously, though it’s stunning how many small businesses and one-person shop/operations don’t put this into their strategic planning, much less think it is needed. For some reference, take a look at this...

Mar 26th

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Fact: Practicing unsafe social media rising

Looks like the economy is not going to play nice anytime soon, so more people will be looking to go their own way. Online. From folks opening their first small business, to solo-professionals, or self-employed entrepreneurs and coaches. Seems what they think is: how do I get my product/service out to as many people as possible, in as little time as possible, and for as little cost as possible?...

Mar 24th

My interview on Marketingbydeepak.com (link) →

Aug 21st

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Yourself, Inc.

It’s no secret that we live in a time where you are always broadcasting in some way, creating content, influencing people, and having an almost infinite amount of ways to quickly tell the world about who we are. Let’s say you are an amazing person will talent that needs to be shared with the world, but no one knows about this yet. It used to be you had to get formalized skill training, attend a...

Jul 8th

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Summer is here and this is what's up

Hey all, so today is officially the first day of summer and it’s time to just get things done. I want to get into some videos and blog posts about the current state of social media, why so many people are starting to get involved with it from a consulting angle. I will spend a good 2 days on one area in particular just to help ease you into the now default function of content...

Jun 22nd

What social media format do I use? There's too...

Picture this: You have a business or service and need to get the word out about it and really want to use social media and networks. You think you need Twitter, pretty sure about Facebook, maybe a blog or two, and are really considering some live streams and oh yeah, this FourSquare-Gowalla-Whrrl-Loopt-Blockchalk deal. Sound confusing? It should be. Those are each different vehicles for doing a...

May 28th

Can you say content?

The first vid went out yesterday to get the ball rolling. Going forward, there’s content on branding yourself (so easy to do), all things social media, bookmarking sites, online marketing, and also one of a kind Omar solutions for various businesses. Think of those as biz-in-a-box, but with a mix of professionalism and sarcasm. And some super easy uses and tactics with the endless supply...

May 26th

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Intro video about and what the he@l we are gonna do with this site, content, and all of you people.

May 25th

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May 15th

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