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		<title>Another Short Small Biz &amp; Tech story</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I picked up a new client the other day, and ran into a situation that I&#8217;ve seen MUCH too often: ORGANIZATIONAL CHALLENGES, and LACK OF TRAINING. This client is in the throes of opening up a retail location, where 2 businesses will be location &#8211; Event Planning and Photography (focusing on Babies and Weddings). They [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I picked up a new client the other day, and ran into a situation that I&#8217;ve seen MUCH too often:<br />
ORGANIZATIONAL CHALLENGES,<br />
and LACK OF TRAINING.</p>
<p>This client is in the throes of opening up a retail location, where 2 businesses will be location &#8211; Event Planning and Photography (focusing on Babies and Weddings). They are hoping to add a bakery later on.</p>
<p>The owner had already paid someone to design the logos and setup 3 initial websites plus a brochure. The designer had to move to Germany, however &#8211; and the owner was not comfortable working remotely (although I&#8217;m sure the designer could have done this!).</p>
<p>What I found when arriving onsite reminded me of the importance of staying organized with your data. They had data strewn across 3 different machines, weren&#8217;t sure of where the logo file were &#8211; in fact, weren&#8217;t even sure what format the files were in. It also took some time to find the login information for the GoDaddy account to see what had already been setup.</p>
<blockquote><p>[As an aside - the original designer also signed them up for "account protection" - which means that we will have to jump through some serious legal hoops before we can get the domains transferred over to MidGaHosting.com - a MUCH friendlier and less expensive option].</p></blockquote>
<p>The staff are also in some serious need of training in basic computer processes &#8211; and some decisions need to be made regarding file management, network sharing, printer setups &#8211; all with an  eye to increasing efficiency. After all, the less time spent LOOKING for a file means more time WORKING on it, right?</p>
<p>Small Biz is a tough market, yet so very important to our country. It is a TOUGH decision to spend money on training because it is an intangible thing &#8211; yet having on-site training from a GOOD trainer can pay extraordinary dividends in terms of efficiency gains and aggravation reduction!</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll be talking with the client after the dust settles about doing some onsite training. It&#8217;ll be interesting and fun!</p>
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		<title>Win Fr*e Dropbox Account for Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MaconMacGuy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AppSumo is running a contest through October 13th &#8211; the winner gets a free 50gig Dropbox account for life. If you&#8217;ve never heard of Dropbox, it is a well-done way of storing files online. You can access them through a webpage, or if you install the software on your machine you can also access them [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>AppSumo is running a contest through October 13th &#8211; the winner gets a free 50gig Dropbox account for life.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve never heard of Dropbox, it is a well-done way of storing files online. You can access them through a webpage, or if you install the software on your machine you can also access them on a local folder (which is kept synced up). Folders can be shared as well.</p>
<p><a href="http://appsumo.com/~Qleo" target="_blank">CLICK HERE to try to win this from AppSumo.</a></p>
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		<title>Quick Glance on Mac OS: OpenOffice vs LibreOffice vs NeoOffice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MaconMacGuy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have probably heard of the &#8220;Microsoft Office&#8221; clones that have been out for a good while now. I taught Microsoft Office for several years at Mercer University, and have to say it is indeed a very useful product. The ribbon interface in particular is well done and helps you get your work done faster, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You have probably heard of the &#8220;Microsoft Office&#8221; clones that have been out for a good while now. I taught Microsoft Office for several years at Mercer University, and have to say it is indeed a very useful product. The ribbon interface in particular is well done and helps you get your work done faster, compared to the standard interface in Office 2003.</p>
<p>HOWEVER, it can cost a fair amount of money, and many small businesses just can&#8217;t justify spending the money on software they will use rarely.</p>
<p>I have had some experience with Open office, Libre Office, and Neo office on both Windows and Mac platforms. Libre- and Neo- are both spinoffs from the open-source Open office suite which has been around for a couple of decades. NeoOffice wasbegun in 2003 by Patrick Luby and Ed Peterlin because there was no port of OpenOffice for the Mac at that time. LibreOffice is a fairly recent spinoff project from OpenOffice &#8211; I&#8217;ve read some blogs that purport LibreOffice is being feveloped faster.</p>
<p>All three apps will read and write Microsoft Office files &#8211; there may some small issues depending on the file and your computer, but you get those issues (things like not having the same fonts installed) anyway.</p>
<p>I can recommend all three for general Office-type tasks. If you are on a Mac, however, I really do prefer NeoOffice. The user interface behaves in a more mac-like manner (text highlighting, for example, looks like text highlighting should on a Mac. Libre- and Open-office text highlighting looks more like it does in Windows. This is disconcerting or even annoying).</p>
<p>The developers of NeoOffice have also kept up with the times in the Mac world &#8211; the current 3.2.1 version is Lion (10.7) compatible, and has support for Versions, Full Screen mode, and Resume. <a href="http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/features.php#newfeatures" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> for more details.</p>
<p>Another plus for those with older OS X Macs &#8211; they still have a current PowerPC compatible version available. It does run a bit slow on my first generation Mac mini (1.4 gHz PowerPC) &#8211; but it does run quite acceptably.</p>
<hr />
<h1>Links</h1>
<h2><a href="http://www.openoffice.org/" target="_blank">Open Office</a></h2>
<p>OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.</p>
<h2><a href="http://www.libreoffice.org/" target="_blank">Libre Office</a></h2>
<p>LibreOffice is the power-packed free, libre and open source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and GNU/Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base. Support and documentation is free from our large, dedicated community of users, contributors and developers.</p>
<h2><a href="http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php" target="_blank">NeoOffice</a></h2>
<p>NeoOffice is a full-featured set of office applications for Mac OS X. Created in 2003 when there was no Mac OS X version of OpenOffice.org available, Patrick Luby and Ed Peterlin have devoted their decades of Mac software engineering experience to create an office suite that is adapted to the unique needs of Mac users.</p>
<p>While OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice now have their own Mac OS X versions, Patrick and Ed continually add improvements to NeoOffice that our Mac OS X users will not find in OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice such as:</p>
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<li>Extremely stable Mac OS X code that has been in daily use by hundreds of thousands of NeoOffice users since 2003</li>
<li>Significant speed improvements to the OpenOffice.org <a href="http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/features.php#expandedfonts">text layout, rendering, and printing code</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/features.php#texthighlighting">Native Mac OS X text highlighting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/features.php#filelocking">Native file locking</a> support for local and networked volumes</li>
<li><a href="http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/features.php#services">Mac OS X Services</a> support</li>
<li><a href="http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/features.php#floatingtoolwindows">Native floating tool windows</a></li>
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		<title>PrestaShop ecommerce – some random thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been using Prestashop for MacMusicGuy.com for several months, and though I&#8217;d jot down some views. I was looking for an ecommerce solution that easily allowed downloadable products &#8211; this particular shop doesn&#8217;t sell physical products &#8211; at least for the forseeable future!. I looked at several different possibilities &#8211; Magento, etc &#8211; even looked [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been using Prestashop for <a title="MacMusicGuy.com" href="http://www.macmusicguy.com" target="_blank">MacMusicGuy.com</a> for several months, and though I&#8217;d jot down some views. I was looking for an ecommerce solution that easily allowed downloadable products &#8211; this particular shop doesn&#8217;t sell physical products &#8211; at least for the forseeable future!.</p>
<p>I looked at several different possibilities &#8211; Magento, etc &#8211; even looked at using WordPress, which could be theoretically doable &#8211; but settled on Prestashop because the base store is free, and it comes with a plethora of features. It is easily extensible with add-in modules (similar to the WordPress Widgets and Plugins) &#8211; many are free, and there is an active paid developer community as well.</p>
<p>Other attractive features are the options for multiple languages, multiple currencies, multiple shipping partners (which I don&#8217;t need for this particular store), and the template design setup.</p>
<p>The shop has been up and running for some time &#8211; I am still loading product into the store at odd times, so it will be some time before there are more than a few products available.</p>
<p>Overall, I am pleased with the software. The only two &#8220;gotchas&#8221; I had to wrestle with were the PHP upload settings on the server &#8211; fortunately my host provider (<a href="http://www.MidGaHosting.com" target="_blank">MidGaHosting.com</a>) allows me to change the settings to allow larger file uploads), and needing to unblock some ports on the hosting firewall, which took a bit of trial and error.</p>
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<p>Prestashop is available at <a href="http://Prestashop.com" target="_blank">Prestashop.com</a>. Tell them the <a href="http://maconmacguy.com" target="_blank">MaconMacGuy </a>sent you!</p>
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		<title>Why are you still using Hotmail for your business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MaconMacGuy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have a website, your hosting account probably already has email accounts &#8211; so DON&#8217;T USE gmail or hotmail or yahoo etc. for your primary business account. Use an account tied to your domain &#8211; this will seriously boost your brand awareness and make you seem more official in the eyes of potential clients/customers. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you have a website, your hosting account probably already has email accounts &#8211; so DON&#8217;T USE gmail or hotmail or yahoo etc. for your primary business account. Use an account tied to your domain &#8211; this will seriously boost your brand awareness and make you seem more official in the eyes of potential clients/customers.</p>
<p>For example, all of the hosting accounts &#8211; from the very cheapest all the way to the most expensive Dedicated hosting package &#8211; available at <a href="http://www.midgahosting.com" target="_blank">MidGaHosting.com</a> come with multiple email accounts. You can access your email via the traditional route &#8211; using an email client like outlook or Thunderbird &#8211; or you can use Webmail.</p>
<p>The advantage here is that using you@yourbiz.com as your business email is that is reminds people of our business, of your domain, of your website &#8211; thus boosting your brand.</p>
<p>While we&#8217;re on the subject of boosting your business through small changes, here&#8217;s another tip: Make sure your email signature is worth reading. It should include a link to your webpage, your email address, and your basic contact info. Why? Again &#8211; to boost your brand.</p>
<p>This has the side effect of making you look more professional and more businesslike.</p>
<p>But what do you do if you just can&#8217;t let go of gmail/yahoo/hotmail/etc.?</p>
<p>I have one client who just loves using Gmail &#8211; so we set his Gmail account to fetch lal of the mail from the biz account so that he receives all of his mail in one spot. Yet people are emailing him at HIS domain, so this still reinforces the brand.</p>
<p>So start using your domain to the fullest! You paid for it!</p>
<p>&#8230;and if your hosting account doesn&#8217;t have sufficient email options to suit you, check out the packages over at <a href="http://www.midgahosting.com" target="_blank">MidGaHosting.com &#8211; [it's another MaconMacGuy.com production!]</a></p>
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		<title>Not enough time? Common sense online marketing concepts for the small biz owner</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MaconMacGuy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are more articles and blog posts and newspaper material available online about marketing your business online than a multigenerational family could read in several lifetimes. This is a real problem for the small business owner. It&#8217;s even bigger if you aren&#8217;t online-centric. So what do you do? Here is my take on the whole [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are more articles and blog posts and newspaper material available online about marketing your business online than a multigenerational family could read in several lifetimes.</p>
<p>This is a real problem for the small business owner. It&#8217;s even bigger if you aren&#8217;t online-centric.</p>
<p><strong>So what do you do?</strong></p>
<p>Here is my take on the whole online marketing thing. CAVEAT: I&#8217;m not getting rich from anything I&#8217;m doing online &#8211; nor do I have a realistic chance at becoming so! I use the online marketing stuff to let the world know what I offer.</p>
<p>I have indeed had some clients come from an online search &#8211; but most of my clients have come from word of mouth and from referrals.</p>
<p>So you should probably have a package from Morton Salt next to you while reading this!</p>
<ol>
<li>You can&#8217;t do everything.</li>
<li>You SHOULDN&#8217;T do everything. If you did, the business would seriously suffer.</li>
<li>The occasional &#8220;quick fix&#8221; might be OK &#8211; i.e. deal sites like Groupon, DealSaver, etc &#8211; but aren&#8217;t very good for developing a longterm business.</li>
<li>A lot of the stuff that&#8217;s HOT right now online will be gone in a few years.</li>
<li>Tell a story&#8230;.Tell it well&#8230;.and Tell it consistently.</li>
<li>Oh &#8211; and make it short. If it&#8217;s a long story, break it up into smaller segments (like, CHAPTERS!)</li>
<li>Where to tell it? Start with your own website &#8211; yes, you need one!</li>
<li>ONLY Then move on to other places &#8211; Facebook, Google Places, etc.</li>
<li>There are ways to get your stuff to automatically show up on other websites &#8211; using RSS. <a href="http://www.maconmacguy.com/2011/05/31/facebook-how-to-auto-update-your-facebook-page/">CLICK HERE for an article about gettting your blog to automatically update your Facebook Page</a>.</li>
<li>The ideal would be to write it once, and have it show up in several places online. Its&#8217; less work that way!</li>
</ol>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Any other ideas? <a href="http://www.maconmacguy.com/contact-tom/">Let me know!</a></p>
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		<title>Facebook: how to auto-update your Facebook Page</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 17:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a quick-and-dirty summary of how to automatically update your Facebook Page with entries from a blog. BACKGROUND: I have several website that are WordPress based, and thus have an RSS feed as part of the setup. Several others are using Feedburner to distribute the feed as well. There are also some Facebook pages [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a quick-and-dirty summary of how to automatically update your Facebook Page with entries from a blog.</p>
<p>BACKGROUND: I have several website that are WordPress based, and thus have an RSS feed as part of the setup. Several others are using Feedburner to distribute the feed as well.</p>
<p>There are also some Facebook pages setup as an auxiliary web presence &#8211; See the <a href="http://hamsandwichtees.com">HamSandwichTees Website</a> vs. the <a href="http://en-gb.facebook.com/pages/HamSandWichTeescom/169610306423847" target="_blank">Facebook Page</a> for an example.</p>
<p>What I wanted to do was to add an entry to the website, and then have it automatically transfer in to the Facebook Page.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s how:</p>
<ul>
<li>Login to Facebook</li>
<li>Click Pages (left menu)</li>
<li>Click on the Page you wish to edit</li>
<li>Click EDIT PAGE button &#8211; top right</li>
<li>Click APPS link on left menu</li>
<li>Find the NOTES app &#8211; click the &#8220;Go to App&#8221; link</li>
<li>Click EDIT IMPORT SETTINGS link on left sidebar.</li>
<li>Add in the appropriate RSS link (something like http://hamsandwichtees.com/feed/)</li>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 13:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been researching several shopping carts as I setup a new online store (MacMusicGuy.com, which will sell downloadable music, sheet music, etc.). It has been interesting looking at the tons of open-source options, as well as the commercial software options. Some observations: OScommerce has been around a long while, and has a tremendous community [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have been researching several shopping carts as I setup a new online store (<a href="http://www.macmusicguy.com">MacMusicGuy.com</a>, which will sell downloadable music, sheet music, etc.). It has been interesting looking at the tons of open-source options, as well as the commercial software options.</p>
<p>Some observations:</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://www.oscommerce.com/" target="_blank">OScommerce</a> has been around a long while, and has a tremendous community built up around it. My impression is that the look is dated, and debugging/configuring  the install will take quite a while.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.x-cart.com" target="_blank">Xcart</a> is something I&#8217;ve had some peripheral experience with through a former client. It is commercial software, and is quite capable. I&#8217;ve decided for budget reasons to not go commercial, however.</li>
<li><a href="download.cnet.com/osCommRes/3000-2649_4-10450981.html" target="_blank">OSCommRes</a> is an option available in my <a href="http://www.midgahosting.com" target="_blank">MidGaHosting.com</a> host account. There is little info on the web about it, though, and I really do not want to start up a new online store with dead software.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.zen-cart.com/" target="_blank">Zencart</a> looked interesting &#8211; it looks like a more modern version of OScommerce. Several posters commented that it was a better choice than OScommerce, but it would still require significant tweaking.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.magentocommerce.com/" target="_blank">Magento</a> also looked promising. It is an opensource/commercial hybrid &#8211; the so called &#8220;freemium&#8221; model. Unfortunately for me the &#8220;Community&#8221; edition was missing some features that I need in this store.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.prestashop.com/" target="_blank">PrestaShop</a> is what I decided to try. It looks like it will do what I need it to do, and the setup seems to be fairly straightforward. I am still in the midst of configuing the backend, and then will start loading product into the store. At that point I&#8217;ll make the shop active.</li>
</ol>
<p>The short list of my requirements:</p>
<ol>
<li>mysql/php based</li>
<li><strong>Easily</strong> add downloadable products</li>
<li>Some carts can do &#8220;multiple stores&#8221; inside one install. That might be useful later should this store branch out into shippable products.</li>
<li>Backup capability inside the admin panel</li>
<li>multiple admin users &#8211; I&#8217;m going to need some help later!</li>
<li>Ability to add free products to the mix.</li>
<li>Builtin RSS feed</li>
<li>Multiple currency capable</li>
<li>Builtin hooks to Paypal and Google Checkout</li>
</ol>
<p>More later as I continue this journey!</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will be teaching 2 sets of computer courses Summer 2011 at the Georgia College Macon Campus.  These are 2 &#8220;sets&#8221; of classes designed to help you make your computer work better, and to help you see the possibilities of using the tools better. Small Biz Tech You are a small business owner and know [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I will be teaching 2 sets of computer courses Summer 2011 at the Georgia College Macon Campus.  These are 2 &#8220;sets&#8221; of classes designed to help you make your computer work better, and to help you see the possibilities of using the tools better.</p>
<h1>Small Biz Tech</h1>
<p>You are a small business owner and know you really need to get your  technology more integrated into your workflow- or you need a basic  introduction to websites in plain English, including why you would want  to have one, how to go about getting one inexpensively and the pluses  and minuses of all those decisions you have to make . Or, you&#8217;d like to  know more about Microsoft Office, or even if you HAVE to have it! These  classes in &#8220;plain English&#8221; will help you get up to speed.  Bring your  questions, ideas and vague notions-we&#8217;ll try to get them all covered!</p>
<p><strong>Day 1 &#8211; Websites: Why and How?</strong> Most business owners know they &#8220;need&#8221; a website but many don&#8217;t have a  megabuck budget to get one created.  And then there&#8217;s the question of  what to do with it after it&#8217;s completed?  This class takes a look at  some easy online solutions and offers suggestions for how to create a  website, what to do with it, what it should have and how and why to keep  it up to date.</p>
<p><strong>Day 2 &#8211; Practical Online Marketing</strong> There&#8217;s a ton of hype on information &#8220;out there&#8221; telling you all the  things you should be doing online.  The problem is that the only way you  can get all of it done is to ignore both your business AND your life!   We&#8217;ll explore several options and discuss how to best spend your time  marketing your business, including websites, blogs, all of that social  media stuff  like Facebook and Twitter, and perhaps even touch on online  advertising.</p>
<p><strong>Day 3 &#8211; Small Biz Tech I:</strong> Working Your Machine Not really sure how to work your machine?  Let&#8217;s take a look (and  practice!) at all the &#8220;basics&#8221; of using a computer &#8211; things like  Windows, your mouse, printing, saving documents, applications (finding,  installing and uninstalling), the internet, email, downloading files,  installing new software, finding quality free or inexpensive software,  dealing with file formats (what&#8217;s a PNG anyway?&#8221;), etc. Bring your  questions &#8211; we&#8217;ll try get them all answered!</p>
<p><strong>Day 4 &#8211; Small Biz Tech 2:</strong> So You Have a Computer What do you do with it?  Let&#8217;s take a look at what you are doing and  come up with additional possibilities for using this tool better and  perhaps using it in more ways!  We&#8217;ll take a NON-TECHNICAL look at  things like networking, printing, sharing files, Internet searches (how  do you quit wasting time looking for information online?) and even look  at free software that might be useful!  Do you really NEED Microsoft  Office?  Do you NEED to use Windows?  Maybe, or maybe not!</p>
<p><strong>Day 5 &#8211; Excel and Spreadsheets Part I:</strong> the Basics in Plain English Learn the basics of using a spreadsheet, why it&#8217;s a useful tool, what it  can be used for, and the concepts for creating a well-designed and easy  to use spreadsheet.  We&#8217;ll practice designing a basic budget during the  class, and even see how many days old you are (but we won&#8217;t tell!)   Questions?  We&#8217;ll get them answered!</p>
<p><strong>Day 6 &#8211; Excel and Spreadsheets Part 2:</strong> Sheet, Functions and Being Useful Learn more Excel including dealing with multiple sheets and when that&#8217;s  needed, built in functions like SUM, MIN, MAX, COUNT and PMT, and tricks  to make your spreadsheet useful.</p>
<p><strong>Day 7 &#8211; Excel and Spreadsheets Part 3:</strong> Charts, Pictures and Stats, Oh  My! Learn to create charts, what type to create,  how to make them look good  and even use those charts in other programs or online.</p>
<p><strong>Day 8 &#8211; PowerPoint:</strong> Get Beyond the Prefab and Get Your Point Across Almost everyone knows the basics of PowerPoint, but far too many people  stop there.  We will spend some time playing with the features that you  can use to easily customize your presentations. We&#8217;ll also look at a  process to follow when creating a presentation that can save time, and  we&#8217;ll discuss some of the design and presentation issues so your project  will be far better than average.  Bring your questions!</p>
<p><strong>July 12 &#8211; August 4, 2011 &#8211; Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM, 8 Sessions</strong></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="https://coned2.gcsu.edu/CourseStatus.awp?&amp;course=12122550">CLICK HERE for more information and to sign up!</a></strong></h2>
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<h1>This Digital Life: A Beginner&#8217;s Guide to Home Computers</h1>
<p>This is a series of classes focused on people who are curious about  computers, don&#8217;t know much about them and want to ask the really simple  questions but are too embarrassed to ask, or who are tired of asking  their kids for help.  These classes have a lot of hands-on plus a lot of  &#8220;plain English&#8221; explanations of how to work computers to get some  things done. So bring your &#8220;how to&#8221; and &#8220;why&#8221; questions &#8211; we&#8217;ll get them  answered!  Optional, but useful &#8211; bring a thumb drive to each class  (also known as a flash drive.)</p>
<p><strong>Day 1 &#8211; How to Work the Blinkin&#8217; Computer</strong> Learn to turn your computer on, understand basic technology, print  documents and pages, save what you&#8217;ve been working on without losing  your mind, use a flash/thumb drive, connect new gizmos to your computer,  and understand basic networking.</p>
<p><strong>Day 2 &#8211; Online, Social and Safe</strong> We&#8217;ll cover the different ways you can keep up without getting  overwhelmed with email, the web and all of that Facebook and Twitter  stuff-what they are, how to stay safe online, how to use them and why  they can be fun!</p>
<p><strong>Day 3 &#8211; Practical Internet: Quit Wasting Time Unless You Want To</strong> Have you ever felt like you wasted time searching for something on the  Internet or ever wanted an easy way to create a website?  Then this is  the class for you!  Well take a look at these activities and actually  practice online.</p>
<p><strong>Day 4 &#8211; Digital Pictures</strong> So you&#8217;ve taken all those pictures with your digital camera. Now what do  you do with them?  We&#8217;ll explore a variety of things from editing  software to posting those pictures online.  Bring some digital photos  with you that you&#8217;d like to experiment with, or we&#8217;ll have some for you  to use.</p>
<p><strong>July 11 &#8211; August 1, 2011 &#8211; Mondays from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM, 4 Sessions</strong></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="https://coned2.gcsu.edu/CourseStatus.awp?&amp;course=12120150">Click here for more information and to sign up!</a></strong></h2>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been putting together an Ubuntu system for my parents, who just setup internet access at their house. Sadly they will be using wireless at the house (more on my opinion of wireless in another article), so I had to pickup a PCI wireless card for the machine [the motherboard is an Acer with a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been putting together an Ubuntu system for my parents, who just setup internet access at their house. Sadly they will be using wireless at the house (more on my opinion of wireless in another article), so I had to pickup a PCI wireless card for the machine [the motherboard is an Acer with a P4 1.6Ghz processor &amp; a gig of ram.]</p>
<p>It&#8217;s been interesting trolling the &#8216;net for installation instructions &#8211; I&#8217;ve seen conflicting reports on the process, and nothing that specifically mentioned Ubuntu 10.10.</p>
<p><strong>So here &#8211; for the sake of others and myself &#8211; is how I got Ubuntu 10.10 to work with a Netgear WG311 PCI wireless access card:</strong></p>
<h2></h2>
<h2>What you&#8217;ll need:</h2>
<ol>
<li>A working Ubuntu 10.10 system</li>
<li>Admin access (i.e. your admin password)</li>
<li>Internet Access &#8211; and all the passwords and such to access the home network</li>
<li>A Netgear WG311 PCI card already installed into the machine</li>
</ol>
<h2></h2>
<h2>The Process:</h2>
<ol>
<li>Start the machine running. Login. Get to the desktop.</li>
<li>Start a console (<em>Applications&#8211;&gt;Accessories&#8211;&gt;Terminal</em>)</li>
<li>Type this: <strong> lspci | grep Marvell<br />
</strong></li>
<li>You should see something like this showup: <em><br />
Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8835 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless (rev 03)</em><br />
(As long as you see something related to &#8220;Marvell&#8221; you are OK. Your screen will likely look somewhat different)</li>
<li>Get the drivers from either<br />
<a href="ftp://downloads.netgear.com/files/wg311v3_1_0.zip">ftp://downloads.netgear.com/files/wg311v3_1_0.zip</a> or<br />
<a href="http://www.soft32.com/Download/Free/NETGEAR_WG311v3_80211g_Wireless_PCI_Adapter/4-181522-1.html">http://www.soft32.com/Download/Free/NETGEAR_WG311v3_80211g_Wireless_PCI_Adapter/4-181522-1.html</a> or<br />
possibly <a href="http://www.marvell.com/drivers/upload/MV-S800374-00.zip">http://www.marvell.com/drivers/upload/MV-S800374-00.zip</a></li>
<li>Open up the &#8220;Downloads&#8221; folder (Places&#8211;&gt;Downloads).<br />
Doubleclick the zip archive you see there to unpack the archive.</li>
<li>Fire up the Synaptic Package Manager  (<em>System&#8211;&gt;Administration&#8211;&gt;Synaptic Package Manager</em>).<br />
Search for  &#8220;ndiswrapper&#8221;.<br />
Install <em>ndisgtk</em>, <em>ndiswrapper-utils-1.9</em> and <em>ndiswrapper-common</em>.</li>
<li>Back at the console/terminal, type this:<br />
<strong>ndiswrapper -h</strong>.<br />
If you get a reply with some help text, that means ndiswrapper is indeed installed. If it isn&#8217;t, redo Step 6.</li>
<li>Switch back to your open downloads folder.<br />
Open up the folder you extracted back in step 5.<br />
You&#8217;ll see several folders there &#8211; find the WinXP folder inside the Driver folder and open it.</li>
<li>Set your screen &#8211; i.e. move the windows around -  so you can see both the console and the contents of the WinXP folder at the same time.</li>
<li>In the console type this: <strong><br />
sudo ndiswrapper -i</strong><br />
-make sure you leave a space at the end of the line, and DON&#8217;T HIT ENTER YET</li>
<li>Switch to the WinXP folder.<br />
Click and drag the file <em>WG311v3.INF</em> into the console.<br />
Let go of the mouse button when your pointer reaches the end of the line you typed in step 11.<br />
The line should end with the full path of the .INF file. Hit enter now.</li>
<li>Type <strong>ndiswrapper -l</strong>.<br />
The console should reply:<br />
<em>wg311v3 : driver installed,           device (11AB:1FAA) present<br />
</em></li>
<li>If that doesn&#8217;t work, try typing this:  <strong><br />
ndiswrapper -a </strong><em>devid</em><strong> wg311v3</strong>.<br />
[Replace "devid" with the PCI ID or the USB ID of your card, in the form <tt>XXXX:XXXX</tt>.<br />
To get those numbers, run the command <strong><tt>lspci -n</tt></strong> or <strong><tt>lspci -nn</tt></strong> (for PCI cards, the -nn option adds a human readable device name so you  can easily identify the device your are targeting) or the command <strong><tt>lsusb</tt></strong> (for USB devices]</li>
<li>Now you have to insert the software module into the system. Type this: <strong><br />
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper<br />
</strong></li>
<li>Check to see if it worked by typing this command:<br />
<strong>iwconfig</strong><br />
You should see a reference to &#8220;<em>wlan0</em>&#8221; in the output. If you do, it&#8217;s working!</li>
<li>Now add it to the list of things to automatically startup by typing this command:<br />
<strong>sudo ndiswrapper -m</strong></li>
<li>&#8230;and then type this: <strong><br />
sudo gedit /etc/modules</strong><br />
[gedit is a text editor- you could also use pico or any other text editor you have available in your system.]<br />
Add a line that says <em>ndiswrapper</em><br />
Hit CTRL-X to write the file.<br />
Exit your text editor.</li>
</ol>
<p>That should do the trick! I suggest shutting down the system and then restarting, just because I like to make sure things are working &#8211; and will continue to work after I&#8217;ve gone back home!</p>
<h2>Sources for more help:</h2>
<p><a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Device/Netgear_WG311_v3">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Device/Netgear_WG311_v3</a></p>
<p><a href="http://madwifi.org/">http://madwifi.org/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://switch2linuxnow.com/home/netgear-wg311-ver-3-wireless-network-cards">http://switch2linuxnow.com/home/netgear-wg311-ver-3-wireless-network-cards</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-5141.html">http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-5141.html</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.linux-wireless.org/Drivers/">http://www.linux-wireless.org/Drivers/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/marvell-88w8335-chipset-netgear-wg311-pcicard-driver/">http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/marvell-88w8335-chipset-netgear-wg311-pcicard-driver/</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>I have a client who was asking some questions about adding material to their website &#8211; which is WordPress based.  I thought this might be useful for someone.</p>
<div id="_mcePaste">The client was having trouble deleting a table using Visual view in WordPress. They could delete the data in the table, just not the table itself, in an entry.</div>
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<h2>Tip 3</h2>
<div>Probably the easiest method is to delete the text inside the table, and then add in some &#8220;marker text&#8221; that is easily see-able (like a bunch of dollar signs) at both the top and the bottom of the now-empty table.</div>
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<div>Switch to HTML view &#8211; there&#8217;s a tab at the top of the editing window. You&#8217;ll see both your text and all the html codes there &#8211; it&#8217;s a visual mess unless you know html. Fortunately, you don&#8217;t have to worry about that.</div>
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<div>Scan down until you see your &#8220;marker text&#8221;. Tables always begin with the code &lt;TABLE&gt; and end with &lt;/TABLE&gt; &#8211; so you should see a &lt;TABLE&gt; tag just before your top marker text, and &lt;/TABLE&gt; just after your bottom line marker text. Delete those tags and everything in between.</div>
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<div><em>BTW &#8211; the tags may have some extra stuff in them &#8211; like &lt;TABLE style=&#8221;yadda yadda&#8221;&gt;. Its still a &lt;TABLE&gt; tag.</em></div>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>I have a client who was asking some questions about adding material to their website &#8211; which is WordPress based.  I thought this might be useful for someone.</p>
<h2 id="_mcePaste">Tip 2</h2>
<div>The headlines and such in a WordPress Page or Post are set using what&#8217;s similar to Word&#8217;s headings &#8211; i.e. you mark it as a heading, and Word auto-formats it to whatever font/size/style &#8211;&gt; which can be changed in Words styles area.</div>
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<div>The web has something similar &#8211; &lt;H1&gt;, &lt;H2&gt; etc.  When creating or editing a Page or Post you should see the &#8220;Format&#8221; pulldown in the editing toolbar when typing up stuff with &#8220;Heading 1&#8243; &#8220;Heading 2&#8243; etc. That is exactly what those are referring to.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">Making it even odder &#8211; what you see in the editing box is not necessarily exactly what you&#8217;ll see live on the website &#8211; in terms of the look. This is NOT a big deal, but you do need to be aware of it. How different the editing box and the final result are depends on your theme and a whole slew of CSS settings&#8230;..but generally it is not a huge deal as long as you are aware of it.</div>
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<div>The bottom line is that you mark some text in the editing box as &#8220;heading 1&#8243;, BUT what exactly heading 1 looks like is set elsewhere. That&#8217;s why there&#8217;s no specific font option inside a post.</div>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="_mcePaste">I have a client who was asking some questions about adding material to their website &#8211; which is WordPress based.  I thought this might be useful for someone.</div>
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<div>You do NOT want to  copy/paste information from Word into the website. Word&#8217;s html is extraordinarily odd, and makes things difficult to  change later.</div>
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<div>There IS a good way to do this, though &#8211; which is especially handy if you like typing material in Word because you are comfortable with it.</div>
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<div><strong>Open up a new page or post (as the case may be). </strong></div>
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<div>If you are in Visual view (click the &#8220;Visual&#8221; tab, not the &#8220;HTML&#8221; tab, you should see a row of tool icons at the top of the editing area. Click on the icon that looks like a clipboard with a W on it.</div>
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<div>A window will popup. THAT&#8217;S where you paste from Word.<strong> </strong></div>
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<div><strong>Paste the info from Word into the Popup.</strong></div>
<div><strong><br />
</strong></div>
<div><strong>Click the button at the bottom what will insert the new material.</strong></div>
<div></div>
<div>WordPress cleans up the wonky Word html and pops it into your new page/post. At that point you can continue formatting it as needed &#8211; often you want it to look different than how WordPress formatted the text.</div>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just installed Ubuntu 10.0.4 [Lucid Lynx] on a vintage 2000 Apple iMac DV [Blueberry color]. There is a ton of old information about how to do this on the web, but most of it relates to Ubuntu 6 or earlier.</p>
<p>The primary issue is that Ubuntu out of the box doesn&#8217;t talk to the internal monitor correctly. The monitor is limited in terms of refresh rates and screen resolution &#8211; granted, it was fairly advanced for it&#8217;s time, but time moves on.</p>
<p>First, some links:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCDownloads" target="_blank">Ubuntu PowerPc Downloads page</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ" target="_blank">Ubuntu PowerPC FA</a>Q</li>
<li><a href="http://mac.linux.be/" target="_blank">Mac-Linux site</a> &#8211; has a PowerPC wiki that is useful, not much Ubuntu info, though</li>
</ul>
<h2>Here is the procedure to install Ubuntu onto an iMac DV:</h2>
<p><strong> 1.</strong> Download/create an Ubuntu PPC live cd. See links above.</p>
<p><strong>2.</strong> Turn the machine on, pop the CD into the slot, and hold the C key until you see type on the screen.  The C key makes the machine to boot off the CD.</p>
<p><strong>3.</strong> Once you get some type on the screen and the machine is waiting for a response, type this:<br />
<strong>live video=ofonly</strong><br />
Hit enter</p>
<p><strong>4. </strong>It will take several minutes for the machine to boot, and the screen will flash a few times. At some point you will see a warning dialog box telling you that ubuntu is running in &#8220;Low Graphics mode&#8221;. Click the OK button.</p>
<p><strong>5.</strong> Then you will see a selection box &#8211; select &#8220;Exit to Console login&#8221; and click the OK button.</p>
<p>====<br />
<em>I would think the odds are good that someone on the planet trying this would actually get lucky and Ubuntu would finish booting. In that case, once everything is up &#8211; it will take a while! &#8211; switch to console mode</em><em><br />
</em><em><br />
</em><em>To switch to Console mode -&gt; Press Ctrl + Alt + F1</em><em><br />
</em><em><br />
</em><em>You&#8217;ll need to kill gdm and X at this point. Some sites have said the command to do this is</em><em><br />
</em><strong><em>killall gdm</em></strong></p>
<p><em>Other sites said that wouldn&#8217;t work.</em><br />
====</p>
<p><strong>6.</strong> In either case, at the command line, type this:<br />
<strong>lspci | grep Rage</strong></p>
<p>Write down what you see there.</p>
<p><em>The lspci command gives a ton of system hardware information. The | part &#8220;pipes&#8221; the information into another program, grep, which prints to the screen any lines with the word &#8220;Rage&#8221;, which is the video card used in this model.</em></p>
<p><strong>7.</strong> Then type:<br />
<strong>sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf</strong></p>
<p>You are going to create a configuration file [<em>named xorg.conf that will be stashed in the  etc/X11 directory</em>] that will tell the GUI how to talk to the internal monitor.</p>
<p><strong>8.</strong> Type this:</p>
<p><strong>Section &#8220;Device&#8221;</strong><br />
<strong>VendorName &#8220;****&#8221;</strong> <em>&lt;- the vendor from the lspci command</em><br />
<strong>BoardName &#8220;*****&#8221;</strong> <em>&lt;- the card from the lspci command</em><br />
<strong>BusID &#8220;*****&#8221;</strong> <em>&lt;- the RIGHTMOST three numbers at the beginning of the info from the lspci command</em><br />
<strong>EndSection</strong></p>
<p><strong>Section &#8220;Monitor&#8221;</strong><strong><br />
Identifier &#8220;Generic Monitor&#8221;<br />
Option &#8220;DPMS&#8221;<br />
HorizSync 60-60<br />
VertRefresh 43-117<br />
EndSection</strong></p>
<p>=====</p>
<p><em>For example, for my iMac the lspci command returned<br />
00000:00:10.0 Ati Technologies Inc Rage 128 PR/PRO AGP 4x TMDS</p>
<p>So those lines from the Device section read like this:</p>
<p>VendorName &#8220;Ati Technologies Inc&#8221;<br />
BoardName &#8220;Rage 128 PR/PRO AGP 4x TMDS&#8221;<br />
BusID &#8220;00.10.0&#8243;</em></p>
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<p><strong>9.</strong> Hit <strong>CTRL-O</strong> to write the file</p>
<p><strong>10.</strong> <strong>CTRL-X</strong> to exit from nano</p>
<p><strong>11:</strong> Then give this command:<br />
<strong>sudo startx</strong></p>
<p>You should see the desktop popup onto the internal monitor &#8211; but it WILL take some time.</p>
<p><strong>12.</strong> Now you are ready to install Ubuntu onto the internal hard drive.  There is a command to &#8220;Install Ubuntu&#8221; &#8211; it will either be on the desktop, or inside either the System or Administration menus. Find it, select it, and follow the prompts.</p>
<p>The internal drive on my machine is only 10gig, so I opted to wipe the hard drive and put Ubuntu on the entire drive &#8211; goodbye OS X 10.2 and MacOS 9.2.2!  After all of the updates have been installed I still have about 40% of the drive still available.</p>
<p>Using Mac OS 10.2 the machine was barely usable for even basic web work (email etc). I&#8217;ve found the speed under Ubuntu to make the machine useful again for a variety of tasks, especially anything office-related.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was aired back in 1994 &#8211; and is a reminder that the internet was once a great mystery to most people. Take a look at the NBC email address as well &#8211; at that time they didn&#8217;t even have their own domain. Also of interest &#8211; when this aired, the World Wide Web was [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This was aired back in 1994 &#8211; and is a reminder that the internet was once a great mystery to most people. Take a look at the NBC email address as well &#8211; at that time they didn&#8217;t even have their own domain.</p>
<p>Also of interest &#8211; when this aired, the World Wide Web was only 2 years old!</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[I teach Powerpoint as part of Mercer University&#8217;s CSC125 class, and have studied presenting for a number of years as part of my teaching in various locales and situations. I find it fascinating how the technology has changed over the years. granted, I&#8217;m a bit of a maverick &#8211; I selected Astound to use for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I teach Powerpoint as part of Mercer University&#8217;s CSC125 class, and have studied presenting for a number of years as part of my teaching in various locales and situations.</p>
<p>I find it fascinating how the technology has changed over the years. granted, I&#8217;m a bit of a maverick &#8211; I selected <a href="http://www.ideaforum.com/astound.htm">Astound </a>to use for presenting way back in 1998 because it was cross-platform and way ahead of Powerpoint in terms of animation and video playback. I&#8217;ve used one of the tools mentioned below for a couple of years, and am planning on checking out the other soon.</p>
<p>Both use the &#8220;freemium&#8221; model &#8211; accounts are free for basic functionality, and advanced features are available for a subscription.</p>
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<a href="http://slideshare.net/">Slideshare.net</a> allows you to upload presentation files in several formats &#8211; Powerpoint, of course, but also Keynote. Others can easily view them and navigate through the presentation in a web browser. The coolest feature, though, is the &#8220;Screencast&#8221; &#8211; where you upload the presention into Slideshare.net, upload an mp3 file to a web-enabled location, and then use an intuitive interface to link the two together.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s an example of quickie presentation I threw together for my Mercer class &#8211; I was out sick, but needed to go ahead and cover the material.</p>
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<a href="http://prezi.com/">PREZI.com</a>&nbsp;is something I just found this week. It allows easy creation of ZOOMING presentations, which are visually interesting (as long as they are designed well!).
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One of the creators of Prezi has one called <a href="http://prezi.com/hgjm18z36h75/why-should-you-move-beyond-slides/">Why You Should move Beyond Slides</a> that clearly demonstrated the capabilities and advantages. It is worth checking out.</div>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m closing in on completing a site for the Society of Clinical Nursing Specialist Educators, a professional organization dedicated to enhancing the education of Clinical Nursing Specialists. This is a new organization, and their website needed to be clean, easy to navigate, and yet allow for conference registration&#8230;. and not cost a lot to develop. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m closing in on completing a site for the<a href="http://scnse.org" target="_blank"> Society of Clinical Nursing Specialist Educators</a>, a professional organization dedicated to enhancing the education of Clinical Nursing Specialists.</p>
<p>This is a new organization, and their website needed to be clean, easy to navigate, and yet allow for conference registration&#8230;. and not cost a lot to develop.</p>
<p>I created several tie-ins with Paypal in the site, working with the groups treasurer. For a new organization cost containment is obviously a critical issue, and we found that <a href="https://merchant.paypal.com/cgi-bin/marketingweb?cmd=_render-content&amp;content_ID=merchant/wp_standard&amp;nav=2.1.0" target="_blank">Paypal&#8217;s pricing</a> for handling the credit card payments was significantly lower than the SCNSE&#8217;s bank.</p>
<p>I also added a feedburner tie-in so that anyone can be notified when news is added to the site.</p>
<p>Behind the scenes I am working with the organization&#8217;s board to create a communications structure, including email addresses, contact information, and training a &#8220;PR&#8221; person on adding news to the site.</p>
<p>&#8220;Being online&#8221; means more than just having a website. It has to integrate into the business (or in this case, the organization) &#8211; and that means having a communications process setup to answer questions and comments, add material to the site, etc.</p>
<p>There is a lot of additional activities and features that could be added to the site, but for now what is there is enough to get a new national organization started.</p>
<p><strong>Check it out for yourself:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://scnse.org/" target="_blank"> Society of Clinical Nursing Specialist Educators</a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Originally posted in 2008 and republished over at TechRepublic.com] ‘Twas the night before Christmas (or “holiday break”) But I was still working — I kicked off a rake. Secure shells were placed on my desktop with care, So no one could sniff what I typed away there. My clients’ hot issues were all put to bed, [...]]]></description>
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<p>‘Twas the night before Christmas (or “holiday break”)<br />
But I was still working — I kicked off a <a href="http://rake.rubyforge.org/" target="_blank">rake</a>.<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell" target="_blank">Secure shells</a> were placed on my desktop with care,<br />
So no one could sniff what I typed away there.<br />
My clients’ hot issues were all put to bed,<br />
But what those had preempted still caused me to dread.<br />
So I in my bathrobe (’twas cold in that room)<br />
Had just settled down for a long game of Doom.<br />
When out on the WAN there arose such a mess<br />
I thought that it must be a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack" target="_blank">DDoS</a>!<br />
Away to the firewall I flew like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_Li" target="_blank">Jet Li</a><br />
Denied all incoming, even SMTP.<br />
But as I more closely inspected each packet,<br />
I realized with awe what was causing the racket:<br />
A download! What format? I couldn’t have known it<br />
But I found it included a textual component:<br />
“Now JavaScript! Perl! Now Python and Ruby!<br />
On Haskell! on Clojure! on Scala and Groovy!<br />
To the Web-facing site, to the edge firewall,<br />
Now bash away, bash away, bash away all!”<br />
The download completed, though I tried to abort,<br />
And a little man popped out a USB port!<br />
His glasses — how thick! His gut — a real softy!<br />
And his beard was all stained with cold pizza and coffee.<br />
He was nerdy and plump, a right jolly old geek,<br />
Though he smelled like he hadn’t had a bath in a week.<br />
He spoke not a word, but went right ahead<br />
He wiped off all Windows, installed *nix instead<br />
The software I’d need, he downloaded it all<br />
(Still using less space than a fresh Win install).<br />
In the USB port he inserted his thumb<br />
And vanished right into it the way he had come<br />
But I heard him exclaim, ere I even had missed ‘im<br />
Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good system!</p>
<p>&#8211;Chip Camden</p>
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