Marketing Charts posts the top 10 converting ecommerce sites. If you follow the updates, you’ll see usual suspects like Schwans, Proflowers, 1800flowers, Office Depot and QVC popping up month after month. Sure, a lot of these retailers enjoy high conversion rates for no-brainer, repeat purchases but that kind of loyalty is earned — and requires a smooth checkout process to make it happen.

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[Via Ben Hickman's Blog]:

Starting tomorrow, there is a 10-part webcast series led by two SharePoint MVPs: Robert Bogue and Andrew Connell that covers 10 fundamental developer topics on SharePoint. The schedule is:

• Every Tuesday and Wednesday from May 20, 2008 (tomorrow!) to June 18, 2008
• Starts at 9AM PST (12PM EST)
• 60 minutes for each webcast

You can register for each webcast separately:

Date	Topic	Register
20-May-08	Web Parts	Register Today!
21-May-08	Data Lists	Register Today!
27-May-08	Silverlight and SharePoint	Register Today!
28-May-08	Using Event Handlers	Register Today!
3-Jun-08	Page Branding	Register Today!
4-Jun-08	Workflows	Register Today!
10-Jun-08	Web Services	Register Today!
11-Jun-08	Page Navigation	Register Today!
17-Jun-08	User Management	Register Today!
18-Jun-08	Custom Content Types	Register Today!

The benefits of implementing an Enterprise Intranet by using Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server  (MOSS) 2007 to enhance collaboration and maintain consistency throughout your organization are clear and well-documented.

However, without proper governance, even the best planned intranet can eventually become out of control and lead to chaos.

What can you do to prevent this and get the most from your Office SharePoint Server 2007 investment?

Here is a whitepaper from Microsoft that would help - http://office.microsoft.com/download/afile.aspx?AssetID=AM102321871033

The SharePoint test data load tool (WSSDW.exe) is a performance testing tool that populates data for testing deployments of Office SharePoint Server 2007. The SharePoint test data load tool is available as a command-line executable program that accepts an XML configuration file that specifies the objects to be populated. The SharePoint test data load application calls a Microsoft .NET assembly (WSSDWLib.dll). WSSDWLib.dll can also be called from other applications.

This is a must use tool for all deployments over 50 users.

Here is more -- http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/301ed832-95da-4251-b266-7be6288f7ea01033.mspx?mfr=true

We got an R&D server farm running with MOSS 2007 SP1 on SQL 2008 and Windows 2008.

Here is an interesting blog from the SharePoint team http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/01/16/windows-server-2008-and-sharepoint-resources.aspx

We will be posting the results of our testing very soon!

Microsoft CRM 4.0 has RTM'd. Aivea CRM 4.0 consultants have been working closely with Microsoft engineers and partner managers.

Check out the Aivea Customer Experience Portal for CRM 3.0/4.0 - Priced at $1,995 per Server, Unlimited Users/Customers.

We are happy to announce the MSRP of the software (CRMLive.com is not included)

Due to the great success of Aivea's engineering talent and the wonderful support of our customers, we bought a new Class A office building in Beaverton, OR near Nike. We're in the process of doing the interiors tailored for the SCRUM software development process. We need more square feet per employee than most companies because every Aivea employee can get a full 10' x 10' office to themselves. Construction started this past Monday and we're supposed to be moved in entirely by February 2nd week.

We have been looking at an IP based integrated messaging solution (Phone, Instant Messaging, Conferencing, Presence, Integration with our offices in Seattle, Sunnyvale and Bangalore). Microsoft Office Communication Server (OCS) 2007 Enterprise Edition is a great fit for our needs of messaging and voice collaboration for about 100+ employees.

We are implementing OCS 2007 with Polycom CX 700 devices in the reception and conference rooms and Office Communicator 2007 for individual employees. The media gateway is from Audiocodes. OCS 2007 will be running on a HP Proliant D140 hardware with Windows 2003 standard and SQL Server 2005 enterprise.