Tech T!PS Jam - Part 1:
Creating a marketing campaign to promote products or services by maximizing demand… Your Ace of diamonds in the rough: Content is King; Good design fit for an affluent queen; and Code H(J)acks are wild. The Fustino brothers discussed the 5 “P’s” (People, Pain, Promise, Process, and Price) that promote targeted product advertising.

The Fustino Brothers - Russ, Gary & Rich hosted the lasted session on business social media and application development series. Gary discussed- Top 5 Biz Social Media T!PS.

Social media marketing can be both good and challenging for small businesses. It’s good there are online branding, marketing and advertising strategies that can be employed, readily available, and for a limited budget. However, as more consumers are barraged with miscellaneous social media content, they may ignore your produce or service message if not targeted correctly.

Standing tall amongst hundreds giant trees in a forest can be a challenge. Similarly so, if potential customers are especially loyal to another competing brand it can be an up-hill climb. So, what are the best solutions for winning over customers? What are the best practices for your social media campaigns? During the webinar we discussed these challenges. As demonstrated, when they are considered together become 5 best strategies and do coincide with our theme: Learn, Knowledge-Base, Reward. Enjoy the live video here: Click/Tap.

Russ, Gary & Rich Fustino of FBI Apps and MADTampa worked together to host this informative webcast on the IoT (Internet of Things). Our guest presenter Tim Chaffee discussed... ASP.NET Core on an IoT Raspberry Pi (Linux).

.NET Core runs on Windows, macOS, and many UNIX/Linux variants including x86/x64 architectures as well as ARM32/ARM64 but will it run on a Raspberry Pi? What about your favorite libraries? ASP.NET? Json.NET? Identity? Entity Framework? Can you connect to SQL? What about IoT? Join us in this overview to see how all the pieces fit together and you can run your ASP.NET Core website on a Raspberry Pi with your favorite .NET Standard Libraries. Mix in some digital inputs for your IoT directly in ASP.NET. You can even interactively debug the application running on the Pi from Visual Studio. We will walk through setting up your environment and the tools / tricks needed to get your ASP.NET Core website running on a Raspberry Pi and connected to your SQL Server.

About the Guest Speaker - Tim Chaffee, Principal Systems Engineer Tim Chaffee is an avid technology enthusiast, software engineer, speaker and experienced IT executive who has worked in a variety of industries including Insurance, Accounting, Travel, eCommerce and Transportation where he has spearheaded the adoption of agile engineering and the design/development of modern technology infrastructure and applications architectures.

You can find Tim on:
Twitter at @TimChaffee
Github: https://github.com/timchaffee
Repo is here: https://github.com/timchaffee/MobileDevTampa
Links are here: https://github.com/timchaffee/MobileDevTampa/blob/master/Links.md

Benefits of Search Engine Optimization

• With 250 million websites  – Makes you business stand out
• Higher brand credibility – People trust organic search results
• Takes your advertising to the next level
• Increases traffic to your home page
• Results are low, low cost–FREE
• Your competitors are doing it

These "T!PS" and topics were discussed and more. Review the PowerPoint here. Enjoy.

Russ Fustino and the Fustino Brothers (Rich and Gary) presented an informative developer session on using APIs in your app. Covered were tools to use when developing software that consumes APIs, from Postman to Paw to using collections to implementing C# code to use the APIs.

* Postman
* Paw
* Using collections
* Implement in C#
* Upcoming dates

About the Series:
IBLN-FBI Free Social Media and Apps Development webinar series. Presented quarterly, online with an open Q&A forum. Our focus: Business social media, "netWORKing", Internet branding, mobile apps and web design. Webinar’s time of day may very. Please check each quarter for theme and topic of discussion. Archived webinars are available at www.inbusinessseo.net - enjoy!

A comparison of leading online audio & video, screen sharing and demonstration collaboration software. Make your meetings more personal and engaging by adding screen sharing, a live demo, slides or video with the right software. Find out which is easy to use, convenient to join-in and without a challenge to switch presenters. The discussion and demo focused on bring remote teams together, number of user capabilities, international dial-in/toll-free access, custom greeting and branding, training features, online tools, recording, third-party plugins/integration, conference session storage and archive retrieval. Click/tap on the slide presentation- Here.

Want to get started in Azure? But how? This recent IBLN-FBI live webinar may assist. In this presentation this is what was discussed:

• Free Account and monthly usage credits
• Azure Portal
• Billing and Usage
• Marketplace
  
• Virtual Machines
• Web ASP.NET
• Azure CLI
• SQL Database
• Documentation/Solutions/Status/Support
  

Click/Tap Here to View the PowerPoint and Here for the Video from the Live Demo. Enjoy.

July 10, 2017 - The IBLN-FBI "T!PS" for business and apps development webinar series moves to the evening! Starting at 10:30pm of July 10th those in attendance learned how to build a mobile app on the Azure Portal using the Quickstart for Xamarin Forms. They saw a demo on how to create the database and Service API for a Xamarin Forms application to consume, utilizing an Azure mobile service. Shown was the portal to create a mobile app and use the Xamarin Forms Quickstart to create a database for the app. The Quick Start also provides creating a app service using the Table API. This approach is Russ’ (Fustino) new “File New”, for Xamarin Forms apps. This was an advanced webinar. See the Live Video of Webinar Here!