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How to monitor your name on the Internet

December 1, 2008

Some friends and people I like have had their good name bad mouthed on line recently and I wanted to write about how you can find it out and how to respond.
I use Google Alerts and Tweet Later to monitor my name, company name and brands.  And Qwitter to track people who quit following me [...]

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iTunes Online Training

November 24, 2008

During a recession which we are technically in you have a choice.
You can ignore it which is actually a good strategy.  You can increase your innovation as your competitors go out of business.  And/or you can increase your skills.
iTunes U give you access to colleges and universities around the world for free.  It’s available 24/7 [...]

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To Do Gmail Gadget

November 17, 2008

My favorite to do manager Remember The Milk now has a Gmail gadget which allows you to manage your tasks in Gmail.

Review your upcoming tasks for the week
Add new tasks and edit existing ones
Easily complete and postpone tasks
Review your overdue tasks
Optionally show tasks with no due date
Display tasks from a particular list or Smart List
With [...]

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Productive Firefox Plugins

November 6, 2008

I use FireFox as my web browser because of the plugins.  Here are my favorite productive plugins.  Followed by some new ones I’m trying and not sure about yet.
Current Favorites:

Update Notifier – Notifies you when updates are available for your extensions and themes. Allows quick access to your extensions and themes and the ability to [...]

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How to keep your software up to date

August 11, 2008

I’m tried to use software update checkers for my computers for years.  In the past they all were awful.  FileHippo.com has changed all that.  They have a beta program that is fantastic and easy to use.  I have no idea why they are still calling it beta when it works so nicely.  Their update checker [...]

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Portable affordable office phone numbers

August 6, 2008

A former business associate pays $120 a month for a business phone line even though they are between offices so they are not even using it.
I told them about Skype In phone number and how you can choose what country and area code.  You can also receive the phone call from anywhere in the world.  [...]

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How to travel with DVDs

July 30, 2008

I travel quite a bit.  I wanted to bring some DVD material with my on my current trip to France.  I’m currently in Paris.  But, taking a collection of DVDs is not practical, there is no room in my suitcase.
I tried using many tools to convert my DVD to a computer file but they didn’t [...]

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Who loves accounting?

July 25, 2008

Who loves accounting? I don’t. Even though I had accounting at the honor level at university and aced it, I don’t love accounting. I don’t like QuickBooks, Quicken or the Microsoft versions, too complicated.  I just need a simple tool to do invoices for parts of my business.
In comes Freshbooks.  It has [...]

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Evernote

July 1, 2008

I’ve had a personal, private blog for many years now.  I would blog website, notes, things I’ve learned and anything I want to remember.  Easy to search my blog and find out the answers.
Well, a very nice web applications has come out that may change how I remember things. Evernote allows you to easily capture [...]

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Traveling with books

June 19, 2008

I travel a lot. I usually travel and stay for a while though.  Like at least a month at a time.  I still have full high-speed Internet access and live is good.
But, traveling with books is hard.  There is just only room for one or two books in my luggage.  I don’t want to travel [...]

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Missing bookmarklet in WordPress 2.5 found

June 17, 2008

New WordPress 2.6 has an excellent bookmarklet, this old one is no longer needed.
I got a new computer and went to put my handy WordPress bookmarklet in my browser to make blogging easier. And I couldn’t find it. In WordPress 2.5 they removed it. Why? They are going to add a [...]

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Automating appointment making

June 9, 2008

I am now publicly offering free 30 minute consultations on website mastering and automation and delegation coaching.
I also am using TimeBridge to help schedule people’s appointment. Stop wasting time scheduling time! Use TimeBridge to schedule your next meeting — it’s fast and easy.
So far I love the service and it is reducing time me or [...]

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1-800-GOOG-411

May 8, 2008

I went a small two day trip. I’ve been trying out Google’s 411 service. Google’s new 411 service is free, fast and easy to use. Give it a try now and see how simple it is to find and connect with local businesses for free.
It’s amazing and I wanted to share it with everyone.

1-800-GOOG-411: [...]

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Footer Plugin Released

April 22, 2008

I’ve released a new plugin for WordPress 2.5 that allows you to add html code to your footer.  That way you don’t have to add your footer information to your theme or worry about theme updates.
For Abundance Unlimited web clients you have this installed already and you are good to go.
It’s free.  Enjoy.
AU-Footer | Abundance [...]

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