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If you’ve ever wanted to taste the delights of Business Process Management (BPM) toolsets without forking out for a new system, then your luck could be in.

Intalio are running a BPMN and BPM training workshop in Sydney for beginners and advanced BPM wannabees. Much of what is taught in these classes is re-useable on any of the major BPM toolsets, but yes there is also an opportunity ot get hands on with Intalio too.

To registers your interest in attending, visit http://imsx.com.au/intalio-training

I’ve got one of those ‘new fangled’ plugins for this site that automagically helps you to upgrade to new versions of wordpress every time a new release comes out.

I’ve stated a few times before how important it is to keep your open source software up to date so when a new major release of the wordpress came out, I was keen to upgrade.

What normally takes a few simple clicks with WPAU turned out ot be a bit more complicated this time around when my site crashed. (doh!)  As always I take a back up which is one of the great things about this plugin. It gives you the easiest way to back up the database and files for your wordpress site.

So I’m not dead, just dead busy – too busy to FTP my site back together. Proved to be one extra hassle I could do with out and customers always come before I do.

If I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Before you do anything – Take a back up.

The guys at Google are constantly tweaking the way that its ranks and indexes it results and as such for professional SEO specialists an update to the algorythm is not such a big deal and just another thing to track.

That said, Google really put a cat in amongst the pigeons today with its latest update – Caffeine. Google didn’t just update its algorithm but released a total re-write to its indexing and crawling system – wow!

The re-write means that the performance of its indexing system will be greatly improved in an effort to favour freshness of content.

The user experience won’t be wildlly different from what you current do on Google however its bound to affect results and the real consqences may take a while to ripple through the SEO community and become understood.

My personal prediction is that the days of putting up  those predictably long, single page websites with far too much capitalisation red font and exclamation marks are over – thank goodness.

Instead some food for thought. If your business still doesn’t have a blog in 2010, get one.