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Lynne Franks, Businesswoman, Author and Founder of the SEED Network, www.seednetworkingforwomen.com, is no stranger to understanding what it takes to be discovered. Starting her own PR agency at her kitchen table at the age of 21, she then went on to found London Fashion Week, created the London event ‘What Women Want’ in 1995, and subsequently travelled the world working with multinational corporations, civil servants, bureaucrats and grassroots organizations to draw attention to the changing position of women in society.

After helping Telnic to raise awareness of .tel in the UK at the launch earlier this year, Lynne realized that her members – and through them, women’s charities – would benefit from .tel as well. Here, she explains her thoughts on .tel, the internet and doing business the feminine way:

“I was delighted when I was first invited to be a spokesperson for .tel, which is the most dynamic global directory in cyber space. It has subsequently made perfect sense to create a partnership between my SEED community of women entrepreneurs and .tel which will ensure that both personally and professionally our members can be accessible and contactable very easily as well as having their search engine results maximised. .tel also enables SEED women to find the necessary business resources that they need, too – a win-win situation.”

“The most important thing in today’s business environment for small businesses or people starting out in business on their own is the need to be seen and the need to be found. It’s a highly competitive world and you need to be as visible as possible. We live in the communication age and we can’t do anything without making connections. We need to know how to get to others – and how they can get to us. Read more…

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Anthony Richardson is one of the UK’s leading commercial voiceover artists. After leaving school at 17, he trained as a sound technician at The Royal National Theatre in London, and on a few occasions was asked to do small vocal parts for sound effects in the various shows that were “in rep” at the time. Having always been interested in acting and recording so it seemed like a logical step, to combine the two, and become a voiceover. He is the proud (and profitable) owner of overvoice.tel  as well as a Qualified Google Advertising Professional.

“I have been lucky enough to have been chosen for a number of high profile gigs in the industry and have recorded commercials for the likes of Pepsi and McCoys, introduced Bill Gates on stage for his Microsoft “farewell” tour, voiced a number of animation characters for various US and UK-based studios. And I am also the voice of the “talking signs” for hospitals and Police Forces across the UK – but my favourite gig is always paying a visit to Stephen Fry’s charity, Listening Books where I record audiobooks for blind and partially sighted kids. Great fun, and my kids generally get to keep the actual paper copies of the books I read. I have to say though, I did enjoy having to sing Auld Lang Sine as a “comedy Elvis” for next year’s New Years greeting cards recently.

“Being discovered on the Internet is essential for me – it’s the only way potential new clients can see me and hear what I do. Even when I am recommended by someone, it’s much easier for them to just say: “click on OverVoice.tel” rather than have to remember all my details. I would say that most of my business now comes from the Internet in some shape or form. Nearly everyone sits down in front of a PC, at some point in the day, and there I am! Read more…

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Marketing and advertising agency Industrial Web Solutions (www.industrialwebsolutions.com), headquartered in Charlotte, NC, introduces the first ever industrial search engine leveraging .tel communications technology.

IndustrialWebSearch.com is a powerful, proprietary industrial search tool built by AIMG for Industrial Web Solutions, Inc. and designed specifically to serve the industrial marketplace.

IndustrialWebSearch.com introduces industrial buyers and sellers to the power of .tel through the comfort and familiarity of a .com website. Leveraging .tel technology, the search tool simplifies access to the full array of member seller contact information, making it easy for a buyer to connect with a seller. Based on the principals of a user-driven Web 2.0 community, IndustrialWebSearch.com provides buyers with qualified seller contact matches by bridging the gap between how a buyer searches and how a seller refers to what he offers.

Sellers have full control over contact information and associating descriptive tags (keyword phrases) they feel accurately represent their products / services.  As they assign these tags, the search tool provides suggestions based on search terms typed in by users, allowing the seller to learn and immediately incorporate the language used  by his potential buyers to find him. This allows for the strongest match possible between seller and buyer, increasing conversion to sales opportunities for sellers while the .tel provides buyers with contact information that allows for the fastest, easiest and most convenient communications. Read more…

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This year’s exclusive Hollywood Movie Celebration Weekend Party on Friday 29th May, hosted by television personalities Sway Calloway & Tim Kash, will have an added dimension to it through the participation of .tel.

Stacked with a performance from Now Wave Rock Band ‘KUDU’ whose drummer, Deantoni Parks, is featured in Mark Ruffalos’ New film “Sympathy For Delicious”, this year’s Movie Celebration Weekend Party will be haute!

.tel is the hot new online service which has sold over 200,000 accounts in the six weeks since its launch. Telnic, the company behind .tel, is joining a handpicked selection of other key sponsors with Sway and Tim on the red carpet and then will be partying with exclusive A-list celebrities, artists and musicians into the night. Guests will be provided with .tel accounts so that they can get the benefit from ‘the new way to communicate’ and securely share all the ways they want their fans, friends and acquaintances to interact with them. So, whether it’s Twitter or the telephone, they’ll be in control of how people can reach them to congratulate and celebrate with them this Movie weekend! Photographs of the red carpet will be available after the event on request from news@telnic.org.

1. Venue, Stone Rose http://www.stonerosela.com/, 8555 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, 90048 (located across from Beverly Center)
2. Hosted by Sway and the cast of ‘Sympathy for Delicious’ (including confirmed guests, Orlando Bloom, Juliette Lewis and Mark Ruffalo)
3. Special live performance, introduced by Orlando Bloom, of soundtrack artist, KUDU, http://www.myspace.com/kudu
4. Special live performance by DJ Kudi

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.tel Story of the Olympians

Being on the move all the time means that current and retired Olympians are never in the same spot for long. Here are just some of the stars from the United States that are using .tel to keep in touch with friends, family and fans.

amandabeard.tel –  Model and Olympic Gold medal winning swimmer Amanda Beard is also a photographer, sports presenter and spokeswoman for several animal rights groups. Beard made her first Olympic appearance at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games at the age of 14 and since then has captured a total of seven medals at four Olympic Games. Amanda says: “I always like to stay in touch and be accessible to my family and friends. Being on the road and splitting time between two homes, I need to be able to easily change my contact info and .tel makes it easy for me to point people in the right direction.”

cobijones.tel – Cobi Jones is a Southern California sports legend, scoring the first goal for the LA Galaxy and keeping the title of the longest standing member of the MLS dynasty as a 12-year player for the club and now in his second season as assistant coach. A two-time MLS Cup winner (2002 and 2005), Jones also was a permanent fixture with the US Men’s National Soccer Team from 1992-2004, playing in three consecutive World Cups (1994, 1998, 2002) and representing the US at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Jones then went on to play overseas in both Europe and South America, spending time with Coventry City of the English Premier League and Brazilian side Vasco de Gama before heading to MLS. Jones, considered to be one of the best soccer players the US has ever produced, works closely with youth soccer organizations around the US as an ambassador to HOLA, Cal South (inducted in the Cal South Hall of Fame in 2009), AYSO, US Soccer Foundation and AmericaSCORES.

allisonbaver.tel – Two-time Olympian Allison Baver is an American short track speed skater. She is currently training hard in Colorado Springs, CO to achieve her goal of winning four gold medals at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver in 2010. Allison says: “I always like to be accessible to my family, friends, and people who like to come and watch me compete. I also need to be able to easily change my contact info whenever I find a new social networking site, or want to link to a new event .Tel makes it easy for me to point people in the right direction – to my official site, to my Facebook page, or any other communication channel. I also can set up a private area and share my personal contact info just with my friends.”

summersanders.tel – Summer Sanders is a retired Olympic gold medalist in swimming, sports broadcaster and also appeared in Jerry Maguire (1996). At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, she won gold medals in the 200-meter butterfly and in the 400-meter medley relay. She also won a silver medal in the 200-meter individual medley and a bronze medal in the 400-meter individual medley. She also co-hosted Skating With Celebrities on the Fox television network in 2006. courtesy http://telnic.org

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1. Create and Control your Communications Hub
   The .tel enables you to create a fully interactive and live communications hub to take control over how and where customers communicate with you. Using YourCompany.tel, you can publish all your means of communication, for example: phone, mobile, fax, premium numbers, VoIP and IM handles and email addresses. You can also store web links, geo-location data and keywords describing your business.
2. Join the Only, Real-Time, Global Directory
   YourCompany.tel offers you an entry into the first global directory, allowing you to own and control all your contact information and update it in real-time whenever you wish. By contrast to existing directory services that are highly fragmented and very expensive, the .tel provides worldwide coverage, full control and real-time updating for only a fraction of the cost.
3. Effectively Route Customers to appropriate Departments and Locations
   YourCompany.tel allows you to easily route customers to the department or location of their choice using a quick and intuitive navigation structure based on innovative DNS technology.
4. Increase Online Discoverability
   YourCompany.tel increases your business’s discoverability online by allowing you to publish multi-lingual keywords for each department and location. These keywords are indexed by leading search engines, which improves your online visibility.
5. Connect with your Customers from any Device
   YourCompany.tel makes your business or brand instantly accessible from any device connected to the internet. Your customers simply type in YourCompany.tel into a browser, select a method of contact and click to initiate communication. Read more…

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If you need to know how many people use the phone numbers that you publish on your .tel, you can subscribe to a service called “remote call forwarded phone number” or “market extension line”.

Most phone companies offer this service, which gives you a tracking phone number that you put into .tel. When somebody uses that number, the call is forwarded to your actual line, but call duration and the total number of calls is tracked by the phone company. You then get a report with all the data to demonstrate how your .tel phone line is working.

If your phone company does not provide the service you need, setup a tracking line forwarded to a toll-free number, which will provide you with similar statistics. Most phone companies charge for the tracking number service, but it’s usually a relatively small investment that can give you a lot of useful information.

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Telnic reports 200,000 registrations for .tel domain name.

Telnic Limited (www.telnic.org), the registry operator for the new communications-focused .tel top level domain (TLD) nominated for a 2009 World Technology Award and InfoCommerce Group 2009 Model of Excellence Award, today announced that over 200,000 registrations of domains had been received within two months of General Availability.

“This is a truly remarkable milestone considering current economic conditions and with the attention of the world on global events, but proves that a simple but compelling service under the control of the individual has significant potential,” said Khashayar Mahdavi, CEO of Telnic.

“As early adopters start using the .tel as their single point of contact, more and more individuals and businesses are seeing that it’s an incredibly useful way to manage the complexity of communications choices in one single place online.”

The success and momentum of .tel continues as new resellers start to address their specific audiences with the benefits of .tel, from German directory services specialist iWelt (http://www.iwelt.de/) through to new directory services entrants such as US-based Industrial Web Search (http:// www.industrialwebsearch.com).

Mahdavi adds: “The innovations that the community around the .tel is building means that every day we are seeing new purposes and opportunities for revenue generation, from individuals promoting themselves with the .tel domains online through to large organizations completely refreshing their existing business models fuelled by .tel technology. It’s an exciting time for us and one that many still have the opportunity to participate in. This is just the beginning.”

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New site aims to become the most user friendly free online guitar chords (http://guitarchords.tel) book for guitarists around the world thanks to the latest domain name technology called dot Tel. While there are many websites where guitarists can find chords online, most are graphic intensive and are not well optimized for mobile devices. The creator of the new dot tel site, Eric Ha, who is a beginning guitar player himself put the site guitarchords.tel together so he and others can find guitar chords easily. Eric uses an almost four year old phone, but can find chords with it at the new site faster than searching with a computer at a traditional website.

The .tel domain extension operated by Telnic is different from all other domain extensions such as .com and .org because pages are easy to set up and load fast. Registrants of a .tel domain populate their web pages by typing their content in a form and the content is entered directly into the DNS. Due to this revolutionary method of storing online data, pages are downloaded extremely quickly even from a mobile device. This new method of storing data also eliminates the requirement of webhosting, programming and web designing in order to establish an online presence thus saving individuals and businesses a lot of money. Read more…

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Monetelize Inc. announced today that it has completed version 1.0 of TelGooey™, a software application that automates many of the functions of .tel domain management.

TelGooey™ software will serve as the backbone to a suite of deployment and monetization services that the company plans to introduce to the market this year. The application will initially be released as ‘software as a service’, targeted to entrepreneurial domain owners wishing to monetize their domains, and corporate entities with complex directory structures.

TelGooey™ software will speed deployment time for domain owners who wish to import a large number of records into their domain. This is particularly helpful to those who need to create a directory.

TelGooey™ will also reduce maintenance time for large domains by synchronizing online contact information with data stored in external databases. Monetelize is working closely with Telnic’s technical team to ensure compatibility. Read more…

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