This morning I gave a presentation to the Minneapolis Breakfast Club http://www.minneapolisbreakfastclub.com. I am a member there, each week one member gives a presentation on their industry, and this week it was my turn. The presentation, 8 ways to drive traffic on the Internet, is available here: http://www.slideshare.net/atreacy/8-ways-to-drive-traffic-through-the-internet/ I wanted to share the presentation … Continue reading
Category Archives: Making Life Easier
How people look at web sites / US recall service
have two Bytes in one today – for web owners and non-web owners: I haven’t looked at Usability much lately but I had reason to look into it this week. I ran across a study from Jakob Nielsen. He tracked how users look at web sites (http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html). Nielsen is a well respected web site usability … Continue reading
Using the Internet for the Holidays
Everyone is busy these days, super busy. So I thought I’d send a few notes on different web sites that I use to save myself time near the holidays. Google for Coupons http://www.google.com Know you’re going to buy something specific, such as an American Doll? You can do a search on [American Girl coupon] to … Continue reading
Good Coupon Code Site
Here’s a very quick Byte today: Without giving away any big secrets I was online buying a couple of AmericanGirls Dolls, which aren’t inexpensive. When it came time to check out theyasked for a priority code. Rather than ignore it as usual I decided to lookfor a priority code online – and I found one … Continue reading
All About Microsoft
Did you know that Microsoft has a public labs page just as Google does? That was news to me until Rick in Minneapolis sent me the link: http://www.microsoft.com/events/vlabs/default.mspx It’s a great place to see what Microsoft is working on. I’ll admit that a number of the projects were too techie for me – although … Continue reading
Word for Brochures
Here is a word on Word. Last week I used Microsoft Word to create a custom brochure. Someone else created a nice logo and image for the brochure and I used the header and footer fields to keep them in place on the page and now the final client can type in the text they … Continue reading
Travel Sites
Tomorrow, thanks to a really good sister, I will be spending one night in a fancy hotel in Chicago with my husband and without my children! In preparation I got to use a lot of the online travel planning tools and I thought I’d share what I learned. Expedia.com This site lets you do fairly … Continue reading
Microsoft Templates – Worth a Look
Lately it seems as if I’ve had Bytes for folks in Minnesota, business people, or web site owners – well, today’s Byte is for everyone. I had to make a flyer this week. Whenever I have to make something like that I always start with Microsoft Templates (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/default.aspx). I did a search on “flier” and … Continue reading
Being Safe
People have sent me emails on being safe today. The world of safety differs from “how to fall from great heights” to Internet security – but it seemed as if someone was telling me to do a Safety Byte. Here are some of the resources – I hope that there are helpful but that you … Continue reading
Vacation Tips
Here in no particular order are some sites that might help you on a trip or while planning for a trip. Sadly this is purely academic for me; I’m not actually going on a trip any time soon. Oanda http://www.oanda.com/ This is a great online money conversion tool. Fahrenheit to Celsius Converter http://www.wbuf.noaa.gov/tempfc.htm Now I … Continue reading
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