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Moving Your Computer or Office? Eliminating the Aggravation

by Jo Golden on July 20, 2010

in Business, Professionals

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If you’re moving your computer workspace, across the country or across the room, things can go wrong. The tips below will go a long way towards eliminating aggravation, lost time, and worst of all—lost data.

1. Back up your data.

2. Lifehacker says: Back up your data. If you need a visual (whether or not you liked Sex in the City) you can watch Carrie lose her mind when she didn’t have a backup on YouTube.

3. Oh yeah, backup your data, maybe with one of these offline backup tools. You can never tell when disaster will strike, so before you make any major change to your computer (including installing new software) it is prudent to have a full backup of your data and (preferably) the system itself. Read the full post →

Tagged as: applications/services, How To, making life easier, security/privacy

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3 Simple Rules of Email List Etiquette

by Tracey Holinka on June 22, 2010

in Business

Here’s a great video from MailChimp on Email List Etiquette.

We love the MailChimp monkey so much that we pay a monthly fee for their services. You can take MailChimp for a spin by signing up for a free version.

Tagged as: applications/services, How To, marketing

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Business Research Strategies and Skills

May 18, 2010
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If you’re a consultant, freelancer, or small business owner, at some point you’ll need to do research for your business. You need a strategy, tools to work with the information you find, and the skills to manage the logistics—and that all comes before you can even start making sense of whatever you find.

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Take Charge of Your Digital Success

May 11, 2010
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There’s a lot to learn when you want to share your business passion on the social web. Blogs, video, social networks—you name it—the playing field keeps changing and expanding. How do you keep up?
Self-education is a key component of Digital Success™ so we put a great deal of energy into creating useful techniques to help [...]

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Monitor Your Online Reputation with Alerts (Video)

April 27, 2010
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In this video Tracey show you how to get started monitoring your (and your company’s) online reputation with Google Alerts and Social Mention Alerts from Socialmention.com.

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Get Video on Your Blog & Facebook Fan Page

April 20, 2010
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Including video on your website, blog, and Facebook® Fan Page can create interest in your work as well as adding new dimension to your web presence. We love the Flip Video™ camera and many of our clients are using them to capture themselves in action and gather testimonials at events.
If you can imagine video being [...]

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How To Turn Off Google Buzz (Video)

February 23, 2010
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Recently Google added Buzz, a new social feature, to their Gmail accounts. Not interested in participating in one more social network? Tracey shows you how to turn it off.

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Take Control of Your Twitter Privacy (Video)

February 8, 2010
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I’m still digging out from the over 2ft. of (mostly heavy) snow that walloped the DC Metro Area this week-end. And we have more snow to come! Am I in the South anymore? While I’m digging out my house and car, take at look at the how-to video I did back in November on Twitter [...]

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