Walter Soldierer’s Blog

Microformats contribute to the principles of a semantic web in a very useful way. With microformats any structured or unstructured information on web pages can be given a meaning. Name and address information anywhere on the page can be tagged as belonging to personal contact information. Words like “Walter Soldierer” are meaningless to a program, but they can be turned into something the program can deal with by tagging them with microformats. The following code makes the words semantically belong to a “formatted name” (fn):

<span class=”fn”>Walter Soldierer</span>
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“Bux schneidet man im Februar”, sagte man uns im VHS-Kurs. Im Frühsommer 2007 hatte ein Nachbar uns seine ca. 20 Meter lange Buxbaumhecke geschenkt. Wegen des späten Umpflanztermins hatten wir auf einen Schnitt im gleichen Jahr verzichtet. Die Hecke ist gut angewachsen. Bei einem Teil der Pflanzen verfärbten sich zwar die Blätter gelb bis braun, dennoch brauchten wir bisher keine zu ersetzen. (more…)

Endlich hat das Gartenjahr angefangen! Nachdem ich vor zwei Wochen bereits einen Kurs der Volkshochschule Goch über das fachgerechte Schneiden von Sträuchern besucht hatte, waren heute die Obstbäume dran. Ein solcher Kurs ist sehr empfehlenswert. Zunächst standen zwei Stunden Theorie auf dem Programm über den richtigen Schnittzeitpunkt, das richtige Werkzeug, die Schnittarten usw. Danach ging es auf eine Obstwiese um das gelernte “am lebenden Objekt” anzuwenden.

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There are three main reasons to use a professional email marketing platform for sending email newsletters: measurability, personalization, and targeting. With good email marketing software you can target email newsletter recipients in three different ways. Each of these targeting options has its pros and cons.

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Web 2.0 hit company intranets, too. In 2006 the term Enterprise 2.0 was coined to describe the implementation and use of Web 2.0 technologies (”social software”) in an enterprise. Working in a big international cooperation involves lots of communication and collaboration. Some of the social tools offer great solutions to facilitate the working together.

At a conference last week I met Simon Revell, a Pfizer UK employee who had successfully helped implementing enterprise 2.0 in his organization, mainly blogs and wikis. Very interesting presentation.

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A few days ago I was asked how the Internet has changed my life, apart from it being the reason why I no longer work as a veterinarian. I spent 35 years of my life without having access to the Internet, so there are indeed a few important changes that I can talk about. If you wonder why this topic is worth a blog post you probably grew up with the Net and therefore have no idea how life would be without it.

So how did the Net change my life?

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