Your Internet Lessons

YIL008 Internet diary saves the farm

rossum — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:24:04 +0000

You need to remember what you’ve done. You need to remember where you’ve been on the internet. And you need to remember difficult computer steps. You could use a paper notebook – easy to lose. You could use your browser’s history – too hard to re-find. Best to use an online notebook like Evernote. Evernote is best because: [...]

YIL007 Do You Want to be a Writer? – publish your writing today.

rossum — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:03:16 +0000

Want to be a Writer? Publishing your writing has to be one of the big advantages of the internet. You don’t have to find a publisher, or spend big gobs of money printing on paper. All you need is a computer with an internet connection, and a blog. My mate Rosemary’s a writer. She meets with other writers [...]

YIL006 Seven Reasons Why Internet Banking is for You

rossum — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:19:58 +0000

Using the Internet for something as secure as banking is the last thing an Internet new starter is likely to do. However it is the most useful of all the jobs I use the Internet for. I use it at least three times a day. An important reason for you Internet banking is secure. If you use [...]

YIL005 Social Media – how to get people who hate the internet using it

rossum — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:09:44 +0000

httpv://au.youtube.com/watch?v=SnV5G2nEUds&feature=related How to Get People Who Hate the Internet Using It Two people who hate the internet stand out in my memory. One was a hobby farmer in Beverley, West Australia. He was an ex-orchardist and had lots of lovely stories to tell. But when the subject turned to computers, he said “I want to get through [...]

YIL004 RSS, a better magazine

rossum — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:11:38 +0000

How the Passion Gets Into These Posts Each week a topic is chosen for YourInternetLessons.com. Do I choose it because it’s the next logical step in your internet education? Nah. I look down the list of stuff yet to be written. When I get to the one that excites me, I start writing. So here goes. StumbleUpon [...]

YIL003 Your Online Magazine

rossum — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:33:11 +0000

Passion It’s time for me to inject a bit of passion into these proceedings. My shame, but the part of the internet I use most is surfing. Surfing turns your internet into an online magazine. Surfing is random, or mildly directed browsing wherever you get taken. The most important web site for this is StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon StumbleUpon has two [...]

YIL002 Catch 22 – Geeks, how to get the news to newbies

rossum — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:05:53 +0000

Internet lessons in this Web 2.0 world are easy. You can learn all you need by watching videos, and attending webinars. The least you need is to be able to open and read emails, and click on an link. However newbies don’t even know how to do this. Newbies pester geeks to show them how to [...]

YIL001 Have You Ever Said “I must take internet lessons”?

rossum — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:06:06 +0000

Nearly a year ago my mate Silvana said “I should learn about computers”. When I asked her what she wanted to do with computers she was a bit unclear, but said she wanted to do desktop publishing. My point is she thought that people mainly used computers for desktop publishing these days. She was about ten [...]