Please note, this post is out of date. These days I suggest you use WordPress as the software to set up a website. WordPress with a good host can allow you to put up a website quite quickly. I have already posted about placing a Business Card Web Page online. But what if you […]
One Phone Number to Rule Them All!
What, you don’t get geeky Lord of the Rings references? Fine. Anyway, of late my phone use has become a bit complicated; my office phone for my main job with my org, cell phone for personal and consulting and VOIP for consulting has made me a bit phone crazy. I needed a way to quickly […]
Facebook is sharing WHAT?
Every now and again I get an email or a Facebook post asking me if it is true that Facebook is sharing X. (This link will take you to all Snopes.com articles on Facebook.) The recent concern people have is that Facebook is sharing phone numbers and addresses in violation of users’ requests to the […]
iPhone v Android – So What’s the Big Deal?
Updated October, 2011 to reflect changes in the technology and availability This is not going to be your usual iPhone v Android post. This is because I think the iPhone is an excellent phone, and I think some Android phones are excellent phones. I don’t have a problem recommending either type of phone. What Will […]
Switching Carriers or Phones? Sell the Old One
With the iPhone soon to be available on Verizon and the likelihood of a new iPhone being announced for the summer I thought it would be useful to tell you how you can get a new phone without losing your shirt. Why a New Phone? You might think I get a new phone every year […]
Social Media Is Changing the World – Finding Business and Making Friends
I now have over 500 friends on Facebook, a small number of followers on Twitter, and a lot of connections on LinkedIn. As I mentioned previously when I first began to utilize Social Media I was definitely one of the people who didn’t really recognize its uses for professional purposes. In my talks with the […]
Drive Your Loved Ones Crazy – Work from Anywhere!
Inevitably when it snows people joke about how excited their kids are for a snow day and mention they too are excited to have a snow day. In a discussion on Facebook I noted that I loved snow as a child but as an adult I don’t get a snow day. I can work from […]
Personal and Professional Collide!
When I created my first Facebook account it was because a friend living in Brazil asked me to do so. She explained it would be easier for her to communicate with me and her other friends, given her limited Internet time. I sighed and created the account. Then I promptly ignored it. I will admit […]