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Welcome to everyone especially if you've just signed up. Every month I send out two emails - one with a tip, book review and quote and this second one. This one has links to a couple of my blog posts. That means I send an excerpt and a link you can click to go to the post on the blog. Reading a full blog post here isn't a good user experience: it's much more pleasant to read them as written on the blog :-)

There are also excepts from and links to several posts that I've read that I hope will be as interesting and useful to you as they were to me.

I hope you enjoy this second monthly mailing.

Some of my posts on technology

How to make technology your friend
When I was a kid all phones were black and had dials, typewriters were manual, cameras had film and music was on records. Now in 2015, phones are "dialed" by tapping on them, typewriters don't exist, your phone is your camera and music is on mp3 players. Oh how technology changes the way things are done! By the way, why do we still say that we dial a number when we actually press buttons? Hmmm.
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How to know if you're technically savvy. Do you think of yourself as technologically illiterate - a technophobe? When I was in grade 11 in 1965,  I had to choose between taking Latin or typing. Back then taking Latin meant going to university and taking typing meant being a secretary so of course I chose Latin. Little did I know that 25 years later I'd need to learn typing!

 

I would call myself "technically savvy" and a super user. After my short stint with programming in 1978 (I taught myself BASIC for a Commodore PET), I vowed never to become a programmer.


My computer died. What do I do now? Well, the easy answer is "Buy a Mac" (I'm a long-time Mac user) but ... most of the world uses PCs so ...  

Here is what I suggest to all my clients and friends. Do this ...

  • Don't panic. Don't assume you did something wrong - pressed the wrong key or need the updated version of that program. It probably wasn't you. Technology ALWAYS has problems.
  • more things to do ....
Hot latte coffee cup in a white cup on a table laptob in coffee shop.

Three of the articles I've read

 

 

Ask Denise Wakeman - How often should I post to get visibilty? "One of the most perplexing things about social media marketing is wrangling all the social sites you're on and knowing what, when and how often to share content. I received this question from Trudy Van Buskirk:"

How many times a day do you have to post to get visibility?



How to become an "Idea Machine" - you can solve any problemIdeas are the currency of creativity.

Ideas change lives.

Most people wait and hope that the right ideas will come into their life at the right time. Many people waste a lot of energy and time being stuck on certain problems.  

 

I hope this article changes things for you. Starting today, you don't have to passively wait for life-changing ideas anymore.


The 7 reasons that science says you should pay for experience, not things Your big travel plans might seem like a waste of money. What will you come back with, besides some photos on your phone and a few memories. If you bought a TV with that money instead, you'd watch it every day. While that might seem more valuable, it's been determined way beyond reasonable doubt that experiences are more likely than material goods to lead to happiness. Since this new truth was first unearthed back in 2003 by psychologists Tom Gilovich and Leaf Van Boven, pioneering researchers have been joining the dots of previous work and conducting new studies to work out why: why are experiences so much better than material goods at making us happy?

 

Here are seven key reasons they've identified:

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