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Award-Winning Hotel Website CMS Software Tool

Milestone Internet Marketing is proud to announce that out of the 3,500 nominations worldwide from organizations of all sizes, it has won a Best New Product Award from the 2014 Stevie IBA Awards for its Galexi CMS 6.0 Internet marketing software for hotels. Designed for the hospitality and travel industry, this next generation SaaS (software-as-a-service) platform is designed with search engine trends, mobile, social media, and conversion in mind.

The Stevie Awards are the world's premier business awards created to honor and generate public recognition of the achievements and positive contributions of organizations worldwide and is one of the world's most coveted prizes. These awards serve as testaments to Milestone's dedication to providing innovative and industry leading products and services that empower its clients to maximize direct booking and increased revenues from their hotel website and internet marketing strategies.

Why Galexi CMS 6.0 for Hotel Websites

As more people continue to use tablets and smartphones to perform online search, and with Google's recent algorithm updates, including Hummingbird and Panda 4.0, it is critical for hotels to have a holistic web, mobile, and social strategy when it comes to hotel digital marketing. Galexi CMS 6.0 is Milestone's proprietary hotel website content management system (CMS) optimized with enhanced features for search, conversion, and usability. The search-friendly CMS also includes schemas for the latest search algorithms, integrates social media, and provides a single interface to manage content for adaptive responsive hotel websites that target desktop, tablet, and mobile users.

Key Galexi Hotel Website CMS 6.0 Highlights:

Contact Milestone to learn more about our hotel website design and Galexi CMS 6.0 software and how Milestone can help your hotel increase direct online bookings.

Hotel Website Success Story:

Milestone client websites developed in GalexiTM CMS 6.0 are experiencing higher online performance in terms of website traffic, conversion, and direct online bookings. Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza in River North needed a well-optimized hotel website design to showcase its unique spaces and services and perform well on search engines. Milestone developed the client's hotel website on GalexiTM CMS 6.0, following the latest search and social guidelines, paired with a defined marketing strategy and using Naptune to enhance its local lsitings. The hotel website site has seen a 37% increase in visits, a 216% increase in online revenue and significant increases in traffic and conversion within just 3 months since its launch date of February 2, 2014.

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Popdeem presents: The Social Insider A video series interviewing top marketers in Ireland on today #39;s current Social marketing topics.

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Internet Censorship alive and well
Jim Rizoli on who is behind internet censorship.

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China's Internet watchdog has issued rules forcing real-name registrations on public accounts of instant messaging apps and requiring those wishing to publish or reprint political news to seek prior approval.

China has been stepping up online censorship in recent months.

While the Beijing government say the new rules are aimed at helping the fight against terrorism, rights activists believe the regulations are aimed at keeping tabs on free speech in the relatively uncontrolled world of mobile messaging.

The new rules will impact on popular mobile messaging apps such as Tencent's WeChat, which has almost 400 million users, as well other services such as QQ, also operated by Tencent, Alibaba's Laiwang, NetEase's Yixin and Xiaomi's Miliao. Twitter is banned in China, and can only be accessed using a Virtual Private Network (VPN).

Tencent, which has Asia's largest Internet company, has closed more than 100 public WeChat accounts, the official news agency Xinhua reported Thursday.

China has also told South Korea it has blocked access to two mobile messaging services, Kakao Talk and Line, which it said were used to exchange terrorism-related information.

The instant messaging provider must have professional staff, protect user information and privacy, accept social supervision and report illegal information. The instant messaging provider must register using their real identity.

"Users shall abide by laws and regulations, the socialist system, national interests, the legitimate rights and interests of citizens, public order, social morality and ensure the authenticity of the information they provide," according to the new rules.

Only approved news agencies and websites will be allowed to post or tweet the news, the rules said, and accounts that have not been approved are forbidden to publish or reprint political news.

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If youre not sure whether anonymity online is important, just take a look at this new Kickstarter project, which has already raised $283,000 of its $7,000 goal.

Its called Anonabox, and its an open-source networking device that routes wireless and wired Internet traffic through Tor software. Tor is free and works by first encrypting your digital data and then bouncing it around the Internet through random computers.

You dont need Anonabox to get Tor, but for guarding against any activity outside of Web browsing, Tor can be a little complicated for the average online privacy-seeker.

Thats where the $45 Anonabox comes in. Just run a cable from your Wi-Fi to Anonabox, which creates a secure wireless network. Or, if you want to hardwire into the network, run an Ethernet cable from Anonabox to your computer.

On top of secure Web browsing, youll be able to send email, instant messages and share files.

According to Wired, Anonabox isnt the first plug and play Tor router, but others, such as the Safeplug, have by criticized for security flaws.

Because Anonabox is open source, its developers say that if there are any flaws, theyll be easily fixed.

via Wired

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