TEchnoGranny Show: TechPowr, Pittsburgh Women Unite Around Technology

Listen to this show archived at:  http://tinyurl.com/TechnoGrannyShow, November 30, 2009 Show

Liz DeWitt and Linda Richardson


founded TechPOWR back in March, 2009

Upcoming meetings – January, March, May

You can visit techpowr on www.techpowr.ning.com or our linked in group TechPOWR of Pittsburgh

Linda Richardson

Vice President

Business Development

NCS Enterprises, LLC

340 Mansfield Avenue

Pittsburgh, PA 15220

Tel.: 412 539 1410 ext. 104

Fax: 412 539 1415

www.ncs-pubs.com



Pittsburgh Organization for Women’s Roles in Technology



Mission Statement:

TechPOWR provides a noncompetitive environment to inform, learn among and enlighten women in technology fields.

Vision Statement:

We offer a forum for women to share the challenges and triumphs of success in their careers wherein technology is a key component. Executive-level networking, high-profile speakers, high-quality presentations and hands-on learning will be designed to provide tangible member benefits. We will continuously strive to offer experiences that prove worthy of our members’ time, money and energy.



Disclaimer: To maintain the vision of fostering relationships among women who work in technology and level of tech-networking we reserve the right to limit vendor participation. If you are a vendor looking for connections to grow your business we will offer specific meetings for you to promote your company, TechPOWR will approve each individual membership through linked-in. To become a member you must visit linked-in or www.techpowr.ning.com and register under the groups setting, TechPowr.







CONTACT:

Elizabeth DeWitt

DeWar Communications

p: 412.377.3546

f: 412.734.2969

lizdewitt@comcast.net



November Meeting TechPOWR Takes Care of Business with a Panel Discussion on Empowering Women through Negotiation



Pittsburgh, PA, 2009 – Prominent entrepreneurs will lead a panel discussion for TechPOWR on beefing up women’s negotiating skills in their business and personal lives. Whether the deal-making involves major purchases, employment or business issues, the panelists will cover the use of technology and ways to improve negotiating skills online and in person. Open to the public, the November 17th meeting is sponsored by Best Buy, NCS Enterprises and The Pittsburgh Business Times.



Panelists include Julia Bear, who is a Ph.D. Candidate in Organizational Behavior at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on gender and negotiation. Bear currently works with Linda Babcock, author of Women Don’t Ask.



Anne Fleming founded Women-Drivers.com to address the hesitation many women experience when purchasing a vehicle. Fleming’s work helps women to become more confident successful negotiators when purchasing a car. She also works with auto manufacturers and dealerships to certify “Women-Friendly Dealerships.”



Rebecca Harris is the Director of the Center for Women’s Entrepreneurship at Chatham University. Harris is working to expand the strategic initiatives and alliances established since the Center's launch in 2005. Harris’s expertise is in developing strategic alliances and mentoring opportunities.



Once named One of California’s Most Effective Prosecutors, M.J. Tocci now focuses her legal acumen on helping law firms and other corporations increase their productivity and profitability through recruiting, retaining and promoting talented women. Tocce, the founder and President of Fulcrum Advisors, applies a multidisciplinary approach to identify both the opportunities for women to thrive and the obstacles to their success.



ABOUT TechPOWR - TechPOWR is a networking group that supports continuing education for executive-level women about existing and emerging technologies used in the workplace. For professional women who want to enhance their job performance, TechPOWR provides a non-competitive environment to learn about technology that can improve our professional and personal lives.



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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

CONTACT:

Elizabeth DeWitt

DeWar Communications

p: 412.377.3546

f: 412.734.2969

lizdewitt@comcast.net



Women’s Networking Group TechPOWR Scores Best Buy as a Sponsor



Pittsburgh, PA, November 2, 2009 - TechPOWR, a networking group that provides education and peer support for women who use technology to improve their professional and personal lives, has found a like-minded sponsor in Best Buy. As a leading retailer of electronics, Best Buy’s annual sponsorship launches November 17 at a dynamic panelist discussion on how women can effectively hone their negotiation skills both online and off.

“Best Buy is committed to building genuine and sustainable relationships with organizations whose mission is to support the local communities it serves. We’re very excited about our partnership with Tech POWR and look forward to supporting their members’ goals.” says Paul C. Clymer, Best Buy, Project Manager, Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives.

Best Buy company representatives attending the meetings will be available to discuss and sometimes display some of the newer technology that is of most interest to members. Best Buy General Manager, Danielle Lang notes "I want to help other women become more educated and comfortable using the latest and greatest technology. I am also anxious to learn what we can do to provide the products and services that will make life easier for professional women."

TechPOWR, co-founded by Linda Richardson and Liz DeWitt in March 2009, has over 80 members and continues to attract professional women from Pittsburgh and the surrounding area. For more information about the November 17 meeting or to join TechPOWR, go to LinkedIn groups (TechPOWR) or Ning.com.



ABOUT TechPOWR - TechPOWR is a networking group that supports continuing education for executive-level women about existing and emerging technologies used in the workplace. For professional women who want to enhance their job performance, TechPOWR provides a non-competitive environment to learn about technology that can improve our professional and personal lives.



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TechnoGranny, Comparison of SalesForce and Zoho for CRM, Customer Realtionship Management

There was confusion between me and my guest for this show, so most of this information is either from Wikipedia or the respective websites for Sales Force and Zoho. I look forward to having Ed Denzler on the Techno Granny Show in the near future.
You can listen to this show live if you prefer audio at: http://tinyurl.com/TechnoGrannyShow

Customer relationship management (CRM) is basically the function of building a long standing relationship with a customer. This maximizes profits, since it is cheaper to retain a current customer than it is to find a new one. It also consists of the processes a company uses to track and organize its contacts with its current and prospective customers. CRM software is used to support these processes; information about customers and customer interactions can be entered, stored and accessed by employees in different company departments. Typical CRM goals are to improve services provided to customers, and to use customer contact information for targeted marketing.

Sales force management systems are information systems used in marketing and management that help automate some sales and sales force management functions. They are frequently combined with a Marketing Information System, in which case they are often called Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems.
Sales Force Automation Systems (SFA), typically a part of a company’s customer relationship management system, is a system that automatically records all the stages in a sales process. SFA includes a contact management system which tracks all contact that has been made with a given customer, the purpose of the contact, and any follow up that might be required. This ensures that sales efforts are not duplicated, reducing the risk of irritating customers. SFA also includes a sales lead tracking system, which lists potential customers through paid phone lists, or customers of related products. Other elements of an SFA system can include sales forecasting, order management and product knowledge

This is what sales force.com says about their CRM product:
Successful CRM involves many different areas of your company, starting with sales, of course. But also various other customer-facing areas, like marketing and customer service. Salesforce.com offers a technology solution for all those areas… and more. With Salesforce CRM software as a service and our Force.com cloud computing platform, you can mind your customers and your budget at the same time (very important in today’s economy). Get up and running in 30 days with the world's most proven and loved CRM solution.

The Zoho Office Suite is a Web- based online office suite containing word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, note-taking, wikis, CRM, project management, invoicing and other applications developed by ZOHO Corporation(formally AdventNet Inc.), an Indian-based company[1][2][3]. It was launched in 2005 with a web-based word processor. Additional products, such as spreadsheets and presentations were incorporated later into Zoho. [4]
Zoho applications are free to use at the entry-level and require a fee for more extensive or professional use.
Sales & Marketing
Zoho CRM aligns your Sales and Marketing by integrating sales with campaigns, leads, sales pipeline, forecasts, etc
Award-winning, complete CRM solution. Zoho CRM offers all the modules and tools that you might need to run your sales & marketing.
Value for your money. We not only provide a great CRM solution, but also have a great price too. How about... 3 users entirely free? No strings attached, not a trial, just free!

TechnoGrannyShow, Do You Speak Geek? Volume 2

Title: Techno Granny, Do You Speak Geek? Volume 2
Time: 09/28/2009 07:00 AM EDT

Listen at: http://tinyurl.com/TechnoGrannyShow
Episode Notes: Is there really a separate language used by geeks that those not so tech savvy might not understand? Well, yes and much of it has carried over into mainstream conversation at least in tech communities. Unless you want to seem passe and not so groovy, by the way a word not used probably extensively since the sixties, then you need to "get with the geek." There are actually very valuable websites to help you translate, Jargon for Business andTechnical Acronyms, Test Messages and also acronyms that you might want to know about if your kids are using them. For instance, the "word of the day" according to Net Lingo on 9-27 was beepilepsy-- The brief seizure people sometimes suffer when their beepers go off, especially in vibrator mode. Characterized by physical spasms, goofy facial expressions, and stopping speech in mid-sentence. So listen in and get updated with a little of what you didn't know you didn't know. EPISODE124 -

Most of the terms you will see here and hear on the show except for editorial comments by Techno Granny are borrowed from http://net.lingo.com/

404
I haven't a clue
Originally a technical term for Not Found 404 (which is an error message seen on a Web page to indicate a requested URL was not found on a server), in slang to say "404" is to imply someone is clueless, as in "There's no use asking him; he's 404, dude."

411
Information
Online jargon, also known as text message shorthand, used primarily in texting, online chat, instant messaging, email, blogs, and newsgroup postings, as in "Have you got the 411 on that?"

86
Out of, over, to get rid of, or kicked out
Online jargon, also known as text message shorthand, used primarily in texting, online chat, instant messaging, email, blogs, and newsgroup postings, these types of abbreviations are also referred to as chat acronyms.
The origin of this expression comes from the restaurant industry as it is the code on the computers to signify the restaurant has "run out of" a particular dish.

anime
(pronounced: ah-knee-may)
An artistic and sensual type of Japanese animation. On the Internet, one can find hundreds of superb anime Web sites.
back button
One of the buttons at the top of a Web browser. By clicking on it, you "go back" to the previous Web page. Sometimes, this feature does not work in frames, but besides that, it's one of the greatest inventions since e-mail.

bandwidth
The technical definition of "bandwidth" involves the difference between two frequencies and the amount of information that can flow through a channel, as expressed in cycles per second (hertz). It also refers to the range of frequencies (not the speed), or the measured amount of information, that can be transmitted over a connection: the higher the frequency, the higher the bandwidth and the greater the capacity of a channel to carry information. For a digital channel, bandwidth is defined in bits per second (bps). For an analog channel, it is dependent on the type and method of modulation used to encode the data. Broadcast TV channels, for example, all have the same bandwidth, by FCC rule.
In Web jargon, you may hear bandwidth described as the amount of time it takes for a Web page to fully load. Even though this notion is widely used, it is fundamentally incorrect. You will also hear bandwidth refer to the amount of traffic on a Web site, but again this is actually not accurate. One reason why these ideas proliferate is because Internet users refer to larger graphics as "bandwidth hogs," meaning they take up so much room that the download is very slow.
In real life, the term bandwidth has made it's way into mainstream slang. It is often heard around the office to describe tech exec's inability to think about or do multiple things at once, as in, "I don't have the bandwidth to deal with your request right now." If a person is described as having "low bandwidth," it means he or she is considered slow on the uptake ;-)
cookies

a.k.a. a cookie -or- cookie technology
A funny name for a noun that describes a small piece of information about you (about your computer, actually). It is a small file that a Web server automatically sends to your PC when you browse certain Web sites. Cookies are stored as text files on your hard drive so servers can access them when you return to Web sites you've visited before. Cookies contain information that identifies each user, for example: login or username, passwords, shopping cart information, preferences, and so on. When a user revisits a Web site, his or her computer automatically "serves up" the cookie, which establishes the user's identity, thus eliminating the need for the customer to reenter the information. Basically, the server needs to know this information in order for the Web site to work correctly, and the information is nothing more than a string of letters and numbers.
Cookies are commonly "handed out" when you, as a user, login to a Web site where you've registered a username and password. The server finds the cookie information on your computer, checks with its own information, and if they match, retrieves your file. You then have either a personalized version of a portal, or easy access to your online shopping account, for example.
Former Netscape programmer Lou Montulli is credited with inventing the cookie, and it is one of those useful technologies that make the Internet and e-commerce so exciting. For example, when you purchase airline tickets online, cookies ensure that you do not have to reenter multiple frequent flyer numbers each time you revisit a particular service provider (see: sticky content).
The term has morphed into a verb: "Don't worry about the backend tracking yet, we first have to cookie them." In the Internet industry, cookies are used by advertisers to track your browsing and buying habits. In this realm, cookie technology enables advertisers to target ad banners based on what you've said your interests are. Cookies allow Amazon.com, for example, to tailor its appearance to suit a user's established preferences. It's a double-edged sword for many people, because on the one hand, it's efficient and pertinent in that you only see ads about what you're interested in. On the other hand, it involves actually "tracking" and "following" where you go and what you click on (see: clickstreams).
As a responsible netizen, you need to know a few things, and one of them is how to delete your cookies when you don't think you'll use a particular Web site any longer. Another thing to realize is that even if you delete a cookie, the server still stores your information. So don't start signing up on every online form you come across (who knows what'll happen with all that information someday).

defrag
short for: defragmentation
To optimize your hard drive, usually with a program that "cleans it up" and makes it run as smoothly as possible. Slang usage implies some much needed R&R, as in, "I'm not going out tonight. I just want to have a quiet drink at home and defrag."

Google
Google, Inc.
Founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Stanford Ph.D. candidates who developed a technologically advanced method for finding information on the Internet, its most famous product is a hybrid search engine that ranks the popularity of results that match your keyword search. It has an index of billions of Web pages. Google focuses primarily on delivering the best search experience on the Web, by providing a search site and by licensing its search technology to commercial sites. Ultimately, Web sites are now allowed to freely using Google technology on their own sites, such as Google Local and Google Maps.
Like many great Internet terms, Google has morphed into many usages, including:
• "Did you Google him" - meaning did you run a search on a potential blind date, for example, to find out more about him;
• "I got Goog'ed" - meaning someone ran a search on you to find out more about you;
• "Have you Googled it" - meaning have you run a search on a product or item;
• "Google it" - meaning run a search on it.
However, using its name as a verb may impinge on trademark violations. The company believes that it's important to make the distinction between using the word Google to describe using Google to search the Internet, and using the word Google to describe searching the Internet. FYI: Google has become so popular that a couple in Sweden named their baby boy after Google. Oliver Google Kai was born on September 12, 2005 in Kalmar, Sweden.

hot spot
In the world of IT this term refers to places that have wireless Internet connections. Many national and local retailers, especially coffee shops, are adding wireless hot spots to provide the tech-savvy another reason to stop in and spend some money and some time.

morph or morphing
From the term "metamorphosis," it is to turn one thing into another. It most commonly refers to special effects morphing and it is the animated transformation of one image into another, by a gradual distortion of the first image. Certain points of the first image move to the position of corresponding points in the second image.
Popular culture has adopted the term "morph" to refer to anything that has changed from one thing to another. For example many terms in NetLingo, including this one, originally described a certain meaning, and later came to describe a new or additional meaning, (or a new grammatical way of using the term).
The term morph also refers to the technique spammers use when they alter the header of an e-mail to avoid anti-spam software.

navigate
The act of moving around the Web by clicking on hypertext links (or paths) that take you from one Web page to another. As you navigate, you move from one computer to another and from one server to another without realizing it.
Outside of the Coast Guard and the yacht club, never before has this term been so widely used. This is due in part to Netscape Navigator but also to the fact that humans are now thought to be "navigating" their way through life, careers, relationships, etc. because of more choices and opportunities.

PING or ping
Packet Internet Groper
(pronounced: "ping" as in the sound of a submarine's sonar)
Traditionally this term refers to an Internet program used to determine whether a specific IP address is accessible or online. It works by sending a packet to the specified address and waiting for a reply. PING (pronounced "ping" as in the game "ping pong") is used primarily to troubleshoot

Internet connections. In addition, PING reports how many hops are required to connect two Internet hosts. There are both freeware and shareware PING utilities available for PCs.
Like many great technology terms, this term has morphed into a different spelling and meaning. Seen in email or text messages as "ping me when you get a chance" (not written in ALL CAPS like the acronym) it is used as slang for getting someone's attention. Another example is, "They've decided to fund the project, so make sure you ping Phil to get him on board." To "ping" someone means to send him or her an email or a text message. This new usage has lasting power and is commonly heard everyday in high-tech companies.

plug-and-play
A standard for add-in hardware that requires it to identify itself on demand (see: hot plugging). Most computer systems are now designed to be plug-and-play, so that you can buy it, bring it home, plug it in, and start playing. This makes it easier for people who consider themselves computer illiterate to use a computer, because they don't need to install devices or configure drivers-it does most of the work for you. There's also something known as "plug-and-print," a behind-the-screens technology that improves the way printers and computers communicate.
Slang usage refers to a new employee who doesn't need training. For example, "The new girl is right on; she's totally plug-and-play."

robot
a.k.a. robo -or - bot
Traditionally, it's a device that can move and react to sensory input. Robots are widely used in factories to perform high-precision jobs, such as welding and riveting, and are also used in special situations that would otherwise be dangerous for humans (for example, cleaning toxic waste or defusing bombs). Robotics refers to the field of computer science and engineering concerned with creating robots; it is a branch of artificial intelligence.
The term was coined by Czech writer Karel Capek back in the 1920's, in R.U.R., a play about technology gone awry (it predicted that robots would ultimately destroy humans). The first commercial robot firm was founded in 1961 by Joe Engelberger. Today, Bill Joy co-founder of Sun Microsystems has worried aloud that 21st-century robotics and nanotechnology may become "so powerful that they can spawn whole new classes of accidents and abuses." "As machines become more intelligent, people will let machines make more of their decisions for them," Joy wrote in Wired magazine. "Eventually a stage may be reached at which the decisions necessary to keep the system running will be so complex that human beings will be incapable of making them intelligently. At that stage the machines will be in effective control."
The term "robot" has morphed to also refer to bots, which are automated programs used in several online functions.

spammin'
Slang for speaking aimlessly on a mishmash of topics, or to stuff someone's brain with information of questionable content. For example "This guy on AOL started spammin' me about Rush Limbaugh's superior intellect."

Techno Granny Show Notes 9-21-09, Technology Our MOthers Told Us About

Technology Our Mothers Told Us About, the Forties
TEchno Granny and Nanno Granny are at it again. This time they are talking about Technology Their Mothers Told Them About: The forties! Understand that most technology does not reach public use sometimes for five or ten or more years. Most of the 1940's was caught up in war so often it is referred to as the lost decade. Most of the technology was centered around war but a few things managed to creep into the inventive process like the mircrowave, the hot water heater, silly putty, the frisbee, 45 rpm records and the long playing record came into use. Gas was eleven cents a gallon and a plush convertible cost half as much as the amount given for Cash for Clunkers in the current administration. But horrible killing devices were also invented, the atomic bomb and unmanned rockets that could carry bombs were killing technology.and napalm (not villainized until the Viet Nam War) that could carry bombs were killing technology. But good technology was invented also like automation and which came into use in the forties and the aqualung. Listen in to hear more and call in to tell your stories of Technology Our Mothers Told Us About, the Forties. EPISODE122 -
Money and Inflation 1940's
To provide an estimate of inflation we have given a guide to the value of $100 US Dollars for the first year in the decade to the equivalent in todays money If you have $100 Converted from 1940 to 2005 it would be equivalent to $1433.77 today In 1940 a gallon of gas was 11 cents and by 1949 was 17 cents In 1940 the average cost of new car was $850.00 and by 1949 was $1,420.00 More

A few more prices from the 40's and how much things cost Nylon Hose 20 cents Ford Super Deluxe Sedan Coupe $1395 Sealey Mattress $38.00 Example of a house for sale Example From Realty for sale in the 40's 1945 Income property Lincoln Nebraska 3 apartments furnished 2 separate baths automatic heat $5,300



was shot dead
World War II 1940's
The Forties were dominated by World War II , and after a long period of Economic Recession throughout the world, starting with Wall Street Crash in 1929 and through most of the 30's, the world would be a different place after the 2nd world war ended. As so often happens during war technological advances in any technology that is seen to provide some advantage jump in leaps and bounds the 40's provide some of the best examples The first ever use of a Nuclear Bomb during wartime when the US bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Major advancements in radar to help with tracking Enemy aircraft which after the war changed the aviation industry The improvements in the use of Jet Engines The use of unmanned rockets as a weapon ( V2 ) to carry bombs Mans inhumanity to Man exceeded anything preceding with the use of concentration camps as part of "The Holocaust " the name applied to the systematic state-sponsored persecution and genocide of the Jews. More About Hiroshima


Technology From The Forties
Jet Engines, Radar and Nuclear Fission technological advances due to the war
Colossus, the world's first totally electronic and digital computer
First Supersonic faster than sound Flight ( Chuck Yager )
First Transistor developed
Inventions The Year Invented Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use )45 rpm Record ----- 1949 USA Artificial Intelligence ----- 1947 England by Alan Turing Atomic Bomb ----- 1945 USA by Robert Oppenheimer's team Atomic Power ----- 1942 USA by Enrico Fermi's team creating first self-sustaining chain reaction Aqualung ----- 1943 France by J Cousteau and E Gagnon Automation ----- 1946 USA by Henry Ford Computer ----- 1948 England by Freddie William's team Guided Missile ----- 1942 Germany by Werner von Braun Hologram ----- 1947 Hungary by Denis Gabor Kidney Dialysis ----- 1944 Netherlands by Willem Kolff Long Playing Record LP ----- 1948 USA made of vinyl and played at 33 rpm Microwave Oven ----- 1946 USA by Percy L Spencer Mobile Phone ----- 1947 USA Napalm ----- 1942 USA from Harvard University Transistor ----- 1947 USA from Bell Laboratories Velcro ----- 1948 Switzerland by George deMestral

From Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh
Public reliance upon the Library in time of need was again demonstrated during the early nineteen-forties, this time in relation to national defense. Middle-aged men, long unemployed, and National Youth Administration students stood together at the technology shelves examining elementary books on blueprint reading, welding and the machine trades. On a higher level of endeavor, scientific books, periodicals, and patent files were in constant use by research engineers. So great was the demand for technical literature that funds were diverted from other fields to purchase more books needed by industrial workers.

In the forties, the long-playing record the first water heater and pump were invented. The very first bikini was also invented and it could fold up so small that it could fit inside of a little ring box.

Flight technology took a successful turn in the forties. Frank Whittle built the first jet engine that was used in 1941, soon becoming the modern jet engine. Also, Igor Sikorsky invented the first modern helicopter.

Transistors that are used in radios and other electronic machines were created by William Shockley.

War like a Wasp: The Lost Decade of the 'Forties
Book by Andrew Sinclair; Hamish Hamilton, 1989. 321 pgs.
Presidents:
There where two presidents from 1940-1949. They were Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.
Heroes:
Rosie the Riveter was a character who encouraged women to do their part for the war. Women worked in factories to help out. Most women did not work outside the home so this was a big step for women. After the war the women went back to the home to work and gave their jobs back to the men.
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Games:
Baseball was big in the 1940's. But then there was a Negro league and a white league.
Boxing was a big sport in the 1940's.
Freewheeling Brawl was when five girls were on roller-skates and wrestled as they skated around a ring. When one fell, it usually hurt and if you were lucky you would not break a bone. You could see it because there were big bleechers where you sit, it was not on T.V.
Inventions:
Electric water heaters and pumps were introduced in the1940's.
On July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was set off near Alamogordo, New Mexico.

The Slinky (1943)
Richard James and Betty James invented the slinky in 1943. Richard James was a naval engineer trying to develop a meter designed to monitor horsepower on naval battleships. He was working with tension springs when one of the springs fell to the ground. He saw how the spring kept moving after it hit the ground and an idea for a toy was born.
Richard remarked to his wife, "I think I can make a toy out of this." Richard then spent the next two years figuring out the best steel gauge and coil to use in making the toy and Betty James found a name for the new toy after discovering in the dictionary that the word "Slinky" is a Swedish word meaning traespiral

The Slinky was successfully demonstrated at Gimbel's Department Store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the 1945 Christmas season and then at the 1946 American Toy Fair. Richard nervous at the first demonstration of his toy convinced a friend to attend and buy the first Slinky. However, this turned out to be unnecessary as 400 Slinkys were sold during the 90 minute Gimbel demonstration.
Colour Television (1940) Peter Goldmark
In 1940, prior to RCA, CBS researchers led by Peter Goldmark invented a mechanical color television system based on the 1928 designs of John Logie Baird. You couldn't buy one though.
Production of monchrome sets started to take off dramatically after the end of the war and it wasn't until the FCC (Federal Communications Commission ) hearings of 1949-50 that a standard was even introduced, with the first sets being made commercially available in 1951.
The Jeep (1940) Willy’s Truck Company

During the second world war the US Army recognised the need for a fast, lightweight all-terrain vehicle. In 1940, the Army put out a tender to automotive companies to create a working prototype (fitting army specifications) within forty-nine days.
The company that eventually won the battle of the prototypes was Willy’s Truck Company with their MB model.
Nicknamed “the Jeep” the vehicle was adopted with great success on the battlefield US General Dwight D. Eisenhower is quoted as saying that, “America could not have won World War II without it”. Although I’m sure he meant to say that the Allies wouldn’t have won without it!
Silly Putty (1943) James Wright
The history of silly putty is quite amusing. In 1943 James Wright, an engineer, was attempting to create a synthetic rubber. He was unable to achieve the properties he was looking for and put his creation (later to be called silly putty) on the shelf as a failure.
A few years later, a salesman for the Dow Corning Corporation was using the putty to entertain some customers. One of his customers became intrigued with the putty and saw that it had potential as a new toy.
In 1957, after being endorsed on the "Howdy Doody Show", silly putty became a toy fad. Recently new uses such as a grip strengthener and as an art medium have been developed. Silly putt even went into space on the Apollo 8 mission.
Atomic Bomb : The Manhattan Project (1945) Robert Oppenheimer
On August 2, 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II, Albert Einstein wrote to then President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Einstein and several other scientists told Roosevelt of efforts in Nazi Germany to purify uranium-235, which could be used to build an atomic bomb.
Shortly thereafter the US Government began the serious undertaking known then only as "The Manhattan Project." Simply put, the Manhattan Project was committed to expediting research that would produce a viable atomic bomb. The most complicated issue to be addressed in making of an atomic bomb was the production of ample amounts of "enriched" uranium to sustain a chain reaction.

Scientists Who Invented the Atomic Bomb under the Manhattan Project: Robert Oppenheimer, David Bohm, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, Otto Frisch, Rudolf Peierls, Felix Bloch, Niels Bohr, Emilio Segre, James Franck, Enrico Fermi, Klaus Fuchs and Edward Teller.
Tupperware : Modern Invention When We Were Kids You might be suprised by just how many things were invented when we were kids
Tupperware was invented by Earl Tupper, a New Hampshire tree surgeon and plastics innovator, who began experimenting with polyethylene, a new material (invented in 1942) used primarily for insulation, radar, and radio equipment.
He patented the Tupperware seal in 1947, but more importantly used the revolutionary marketing concept of the "Tupperware Party" to sell the product, a unique and innovative way of marketing directly to housewives.

TechnoGrannyShow, Zero Cost Marketing, Web Site Tutorials 8-24-09

Dale Stefancic-Bio, Host of Entrepreneurs on Call

Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1951, had the traditional upbringing, Loving parents and sister. After high school I attended Kent State University for business. After three years I transferred to Ohio State and received a degree in Landscape Contracting and Design.
I worked my landscape contracting business successfully for 8 yrs. Before wearing all the hats became more than I wanted to handle anymore. I started out in the job market and soon took a job with a large privately held water ultility where I am still currently employed today, 27 years later.

As time moved on and I got into my fifties, plus three different sales of ownership of my company, different corporate climate everywhere, I thought it be fitting to exercise that entrepreneurial itch I have always had.

I always knew that there was more to the game than trading hours for dollars. I wanted to create a business where I could leverage my time and my money.
I began to invest in myself with education from what I considered the masters. The people who I wanted to be like. So I read everything from the likes of Don trump, Robert Kiyosaki, John Carlton, Dan Kennedy, the classic by Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich as well as many others. Still to this day , I am a student. I began to develop myown business model and incorprorated what I had learned.

I wanted to share my experience with others who faced situations similar to mine, but did not know where to go or the process to change. I knew I had a strong message to share with people. I knew I could not only share a valuable message, but also teach them what needs to be done. You have to make an investment. The most important investment you will ever make. One that will last a lifetime. The investment is you. You must invest in yourself with knowledge and then apply that knowledge with persistant action to create your desired result.

So I now not only had my vision but also a mission. I wanted to get my message out to as many people as I could, and share with people that yes, the world is changing, and you can have options in life that can make life much more enjoyable for you and your family.
With this came the birth of my talk radio show. “The Home Based Business Show”. I never in my life have even been in a radio station.

So I made another investment. I contacted my local radio station WELW 1330 am in Willoughby, Ohio and told them of my idea for a talk show.
I had no idea how I would get quality guests to share the message of what you need to do and how to do it. But a lot of the people who I studied, read their books or attented their seminars, came onto my show with great information for my listeners. This help me build a lot of creditbility and well as develop and deeper relationship with people who are mentors to me. People such as Chet Holmes, Gary Harspt, Loral Langemeier, Dan Kennedy, Bob Proctor, Michael Gerber and the list goes on.

Its been truly amazing for me. I love every minute of what I do. I am now getting engagements. Working with other companies and associations with entrpreneurship and small businesses.
My next project is to write my own book to hopefully serve as a blueprint for others to see that all is truly within your reach.

The other part of my life that has been truly amazing are my two treasures, my wife of 35 yrs. Linda and my son Matt. Without their love and support, I’m not sure if any of this would have been possible.

I am thankful of what I have been able to do so far. I also am greatful to my great friend and business partner Mike Claggett who is my techie, and also keeps me in check. Mike is a big part of my team which is so important to be successful. You cannot do it all no matter how good you are.

The best advice I can give anyone is, make the investment and “Just Get To IT”



1). Why your business is invisible without a website.

More and more the consumer looks to the Internet to provide information on the products and services they want and need. However, as a recent study has shown, while 66% of consumers search the Internet for local small business information, only 44% of small businesses have a web site. The end result is that the small local business without a website is virtually invisible to these local consumers."According to the Nielsen Online Custom Survey from WebVisible, Inc.," stated Dale Stefancic, co-owner of Entrepreneurs On Call, "92% of consumers have first researched a product on the Internet, and then have purchased that product locally at least once. The end result is that the business that has a website is much more likely to end up with that consumer in their local store.

The Internet no longer serves the global marketplace exclusively but now impacts directly the sales of the small local business. Without a website to direct and inform the local customer, a small local business will soon no longer stand any chance of real local success."This creates a real quandary for the small local business, as the design of even the most basic of websites can run into thousands of dollars. In today's economy, a website is not economically feasible for some. Small businesses have a tendency to spend money on more traditional forms of advertising such as newspaper, Yellow Page ads and television.

However, the same study shows that 50% of consumers turn to the Internet first, followed by only 24% for Yellow Pages, 4% for local newspapers and 1% for television."This does not make sense," stated Mr. Stefancic, "in that the small business owner is spending their advertising dollars in the wrong place. This is the reason we developed More Local Business Online. Now, any small business can develop a website and draw that local traffic, often for less than the cost of a single newspaper advertisement."

How can zero Cost marketing put your advertising costs on the back burner for good.

There are so many resources you can go to in your particular field with your product or service that youcan get free advertising and let prospcts know about your product or service. Ex. Artilcle marketing. People read so muchont the internet about everything you can think of. Oneof the biggest is "How To" People mwant to know how to do things. IF your product or service helps them them write about it.



How you can effectively market your product or service even if do not have a webite.

Ezines. These are a huge source of finding new customers and becoming the expert in your field. Let people identify with you. Some Ezines and 100,000 to 200,000 subscribers and many will let your promote what you have or what you are about if you write a good article for their readers for free. They are always looking for good content.

If you would like to find out more about Zero Cost Marketing with Content Management and E-Zines, you can go to: http://tinyurl.com/grannymarketing. Techno Granny says it's so easy even a granny can do it.


Dale
Dale Stefancic
dale@dalestefancic.com
440-463-7095
www.EntrepreneursOnCall.com

TechnoGrannyShow, Professional Speakers Tips on Microphones, Stephanie Silverman 9-14-09

BIO:
Stephanie Silverman is an Executive Coach specializing in Public Speaking and all areas of spoken communication.
She earned her MFA at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey and has been working as a performer and voice/speech/presentation coach for over ten years.
In addition to being a public speaker and speaker trainer, Stephanie has worked with executives in a broad range of industries and sectors. She has also helped professional actors develop or diminish dialects for performances on stage and film.
As an award-winning voiceover performer, Stephanie can be heard in numerous audio books and educational materials from publishers such as Simon & Schuster; The Penguin Group; Houghton Mifflin; Little, Brown & Company; Mira; McGraw-Hill and Pearson Education (most often credited as Stephanie Wolfe).
Stephanie's most recent project has been her blog elaborating on the 10 Secrets for Great Communication that she authored on her web site. http://stephaniesilverman.blogspot.com

BASIC TALKING POINTS:

Do your homework (whenever possible):

Find out what type of equipment you will be using (lavalier, or lapel, microphone; traditional mike on stand, handheld, etc.)
Where are the speakers located?
See if it is possible to test out the equipment in advance of the event

• If you can't get information in advance:

o speak to A/V person to understand how to use the equipment as you are being miked
o understand that you almost never hear what your audience hears
o plant someone in the audience who can signal you during the event if you cannot be heard

• General guidelines:
o when using a lapel microphone, position it wisely
o avoid loud jewelry!
o when responding to other panelists next to you stay facing the mike (front)
o touching the head of the microphone generally produces an unpleasant (and sometimes very LOUD sound)
o plosives - b's and p's - can often be very exaggerated when amplified
o Look at your audience and judge by their behavior if there is a problem being heard
o if there is a problem, fix it immediately - don't make do
o if holding a mike, keep it a consistent distance from the mouth and don't forget to use it every time you speak
o repeat questions asked by un-miked audience members before answering them
o if you have a stationary mike, position it close to your mouth and speak toward it every time
o if you must share a mike, reposition it every time you speak



Best wishes,

Stephanie Silverman

silvermanspeechconsulting
718-701-5858
Stephanie@SilvermanSpeechCoach.com

http://www.silvermanspeechcoach.com/

Archived version of this show can be heard archived at: http://tinyurl.com/PosPittsburgh or on Techno Granny's unique radio channel on the Pittsburgh Internet Radio Network, PositivelyPittsburghLiveMagazine.com at: http://tinyurl.com/pospittlivemag

TechnoGrannyShow, Techno Granny Favorite Websites 8-10-2009

Some people collect and read magazines, so do I but while the magazine languish in my bathroom library; I am always discovering new websites with different reasons for making them my favorites. While I rarely read the magazines and end up recycling them a year later, I often visit the websites.

FOR COUPON CUTTERS AND BARGAIN HUNTERS:

Shortcuts.com, coupons linked to Grocery Card
Shortcuts.com electronic coupons
can currently be used at any of the following stores

Black Friday Ads for Black Friday 2009 and Black Friday Deals!
Black Friday Ad for Black Friday 2009, with a complete listing of the Black Friday ads and Black Friday ad scans, along with online coupons.

http://www.blackfriday.info


http://ebay.com
Look here first for whatever you want to purchase, you may not have to leave your house and find it cheaper also get rid of your old junk and make a few bucks.
• Bid, buy and find bargains from all over the world

• Shop with confidence with PayPal Buyer Protection


FOR THOSE WHO LIKE SOULFUL EVENTS:

Pittsburgh's Premier Minority Community Website Showcasing...
The Soul Pitt is Pittsburgh's Premier Minority Community Website. Focusing mostly on what interests Pittsburgh's African-American community The Soul Pitt...
www.thesoulpitt.com/


FOR THOSE WHO ARE BUYING A CAR OR HAVE RECENTLY PURCHASED A CAR:

Women-Drivers.com

Women-Drivers.com: Women & family friendly car dealers...
Women Drivers.com connects women and families to women-friendly car dealers. Consumers rate and review their actual purchase, buying, browse and service.
http://women-drivers.com/


FOR WOMEN WHO WANT TO CONNECT INTERNATIONALLY TO DO BUSINESSS:


Connected-Women.com
Aug 7, 2009 ... Professional women, lets get together and make a difference! Connected-Women.com is an online community that enables professional women to interact internationally to do business.
www.connected-women.com/


FOR THOSE WHO MAY WANT TO CONNECT TO FRIENDS, RELATIVES, BUSINESS ASSOCIATES ON YOUR OWN SOCIAL NETWORK:

Ning lets you create and join new social networks. ...
An online service to create, customize, and share a social network.
www.ning.com/

Positive Pittsburghers, http://www.pospittlive.ning.com


FOR THOSE WHO WANT POSITIVE NEWS AND EVENTS ABOUT PITTSBURGH AREA BY PITTSBURGHERS AND SURROUNDING AREA NATIVES.

http://www.PositivelyPittsburghLiveMagazien.com
On line magazine and Pittsburgh internet radio and TV channel for on line short programming.

WHEN YOU WANT TO FIND SOMEONE OR FIND OUT WHO IS CALLING YOU:

Anywho.com
Reverse look up, find, people, places, businesses
http://anwyo.com


FIND OUT ABOUT CHARITABLE EVENTS, ORGANIZATIONS, FUNDRAISERS AND THE BEST PARTIES AND GALAS

http://www.blacktie-pittsburgh.com
Bring together non-profits and the people who connect them


LISTEN TO INNOVATIVE AND INTERESTING LIVE RADIO PROGRAMMING ON JUST ABOUT ANYTHING YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN OR RECORD YOUR OWN AT NO CHARGE.

http://www.talkshoe.com


CONNECT. TRADE. SAVE. http://www.itex.com/


A nationwide community of small businesses trading for what their businesses need and their families want...without spending cash. A trusted system. A growing phenomenon. A better way to do business.




FIND GREAT GRAPHICS AND CREATE LOGOS

CoolText.com
Cool Text is a free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. Simply choose what kind of image you would like. Then fill out a form and you'll have your own custom image created on the fly.

Cool Text is the world’s most popular graphics generator. Online since 1998, our servers have rendered over 300 million free images
http://www.cooltext.com


LIKE TO WRITE?

Blogger: Create your free blog
Blogger is a free blog publishing tool from Google for easily sharing your thoughts with the world. Blogger makes it simple to post text, photos and video...
http://www.blogger.com

FOR SOCIAL MEDIA ENTHUSIASTS:

Twitter.com Share and discover what’s happening right now, anywhere in the world about just about anything in 120 characters. This is truly the microwave generation.
http://twitter.com
Follow me @technogrannysho

TweetLater.com, as of August 29, now called Social Oomph, was originally to manage all of those tweets but now adding other social media applications:
A great way to keep in touch with multiple friends instead of calling or e-mailing also great applications for business to keep in touch with customers:
http://www.socialoomph.com


LinkedIn

LinkedIn exists to help you make better use of your professional network and help the people you trust in return.
With more than 45 million users representing 150 industries around the world, LinkedIn is a fast-growing professional networking site.
Get in touch with former business associates, find synergistic professionals to network with, and enlarge your sphere of influence.



Facebook
Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life. Use to keep up with multiple family, friends and business associates all at once.
http://www.facebook.com
Friend me at Joanne Quinn-Smith but please let me know how you know me.

Pdfonline.com
Create PDF Online Free, PDF Toolkit API for .NET, VB, Java
As a Free Web Based Service, PDF Online allows you to quickly create PDF from anywhere in the world (PC, Mac, and Linux compatible).
www.pdfonline.com/ - 40k - Similar pages
Doc2PDF Online: Document to PDF...
PDF2Word Online
Create PDF
Convert to PDF


Gutzy Women.com•

GutZy Women Support Business Growth while Removing the Fear of ...
GutZy Women join forces to create more freedom and abundance in their lives by starting and growing small business success using new technologies
http://gutzywomen.com

Alexa

http://alexa.com/
Free web traffic metrics, top sites lists, site demographics, hot urls, and more...

Wikipedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia is a free, web-based and collaborative multilingual encyclopedia, born in the project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.


www.wikipedia.org

This show and further explanations of reasons for picking these sites can be heard archived at: http://tinyurl.com/PosPittsburgh or on Techno Granny's unique radio channel on the Pittsburgh Internet Radio Network, PositivelyPittsburghLiveMagazine.com at: http://tinyurl.com/pospittlivemag

TechnoGrannyShow, Michelle Cutler, Hi-Definition TV Makeup Tech

 Talking points:
>
> I think the most obvious would be television's change to Hi-def, and
> the changes in makeup techniques and/or thickness that it has
> required.
> This would include lightening up the look, more blending, and
> employing air brush makeup application.



Michelle Cutler
Makeup Artist
(917) 359-0452
michellecutler1@gmail.com




BIOGRAPHY

Michelle Cutler has been a professional in the makeup industry for over 20 years, with an extensive background in all media.

Upon obtaining her certification in her hometown of Miami, FL, she quickly became a much sought after makeup artist. After gaining experience with photographers and television programming in the South Florida area, she re-located to New York.

Once in New York, Michelle became a favorite freelancer of the major television networks, providing makeup services from national news shows to soap operas to entertainment. In 1993, she was made Key makeup artist of ABC’s Good Morning America, where she made up not only the anchors, but all guests appearing on the show as well. As a result of this exposure, her work began gracing the covers of various top magazines and book jackets. She has been quoted in several magazine beauty articles as well.

In 1998, Michelle continued to Key other shows with a growing list of personal clients in both the news and entertainment industries.

From 2002 until 2008, Michelle was on staff at CNN, working with the various anchors and guests that appear on the Network. She also continues her freelance work with private clients. She is known as an expert in perfectly matching colors to clients and having a light hand.

Michelle offers a wide variety of services, from the softest of looks for the blushing bride to special FX. She is fully experienced in new technologies such as air brushing and hi-def television.

Michelle lives in Riverdale, NY, with her husband, Emmy award winning makeup artist Alan Cutler, and their two daughters.



Michelle Cutler
Makeup Artist
(917) 359-0452
michellecutler@gmail.com IATSE Local 798


TELEVISION

ABC CNN
Good Morning America Staff Makeup Artist
Behind Closed Doors with Anderson Cooper 360
Joan Lunden Connie Chung Tonight
The View Showbiz Tonight
All My Children Larry King Live
One Life to Live Paula Zahn Now
20/20 Nancy Grace Show
World News with Peter Jennings Campbell Brown Show
What Would You Do? 2008 Election Coverage

NBC
MSNBC

Today
Later Today
Conan O’Brien Show
Rosie O’Donnell Show
CBS
CBS This Morning
As The World Turns
60 Minutes
Eye to Eye with Connie Chung
Geraldo Show
Ananda Lewis Show

PRINTWORK
Various magazine covers, ads, book jackets, publicity shots and promos for a wide variety of celebrities. Names available on request.
Photographers: Annie Leibovitz, Andrew Eccles, Theo Westenberger, Timothy White,
George Lange, George Holz, Stephen Danelian, Bob Lasky


INTERVIEWS & QUOTES; Allure, People. And In-Style Magazines

Follow Michelle on Facebook or Linked In

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Michelle-Cutler-Television-Makeup-Artist/76169701167

TechnoGrannyShow, AnnelieseRN, Caring4You.com, NCLEX Help

Anneliese Garrison

I have a associates in nursing from cumberland county college

I have a bachelor's degree from Stocton State College ( both in New Jersey )

I am a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant from the Vicki Milazzo Institute in Texas. This means I help lawyers decide whether they have a mal practice case or not when called upon.

But my passion lies with helping nursing students. My web site is caring4you.net and was established in 1997.

I also travel and do live seminars when I can.


My website got started because I failed my NCLEX Boards 2 times. You have to get a license to practice nursing after you graduate but you have to pass the nursing national exam then get a license. I failed this twice. Devastated with nowhere to turn to help me, I made a web site to help nursing students who were in the same boat as me.
The current passing rate for first time test takers is 90%
For repeat test takers it is 73%
Internationally trained nurses 43%

My website taps into the the quite a large number of canidates that to not pass the boards.

I started the site in 1997 free

in 2003 I started doing live seminars on how to pass the NCLEX

In 2005, I had a baby and put my seminars on audio for sale. As the years went by and since I am just a small entity, I have lowered the cost of my seminars especially now due to the economy.

Trying to find a cheap economical way to interact with my students online and sell my material at the same time, I found an interactive whiteboard type classroom called wiziq
http://caring4you.net/liveseminar.html

I also use talkshoe both of which are free but I have utilized them on my website to generate some income.


in 2003 I started doing live seminars on how to pass the NCLEX

In 2005, I had a baby and put my seminars on audio for sale. As the years went by and since I am just a small entity, I have lowered the cost of my seminars especially now due to the economy.


anneliese,RN
http://caring4you.net
healing the community by caring 4 you

TechnoGrannyShow, 7-27-09, E-Mail, Control the Clutter

Is your e-mail making you crazy? Is it just one more thing in your long line of to do lists that never gets caught up? Do you worry that you have ignored a really important invitation or some wonderful You-Tube video from your cousin Lacretia of your Aunt
Vicki playing the harmonica? I just did exactly that. I am so overwhelmed with e-mails from organizations that I belong to and Linked In and twitter followers and radio fans that when I have someone who consistently sends me just silly things that I would love to read but haven’t the time for.

Increasingly e-mail has become a business necessity and is used for myriad communications: updates on projects, business conference calls, confirming appointments and requests for business information.

Well don’t feel bad if you have just had a family faux pas like I did with Aunt Vicki’s harmonica. I had just gotten so overwhelmed that I began deleting thins that looked unimportant and I am usually especially wary of videos. I rarely watch them. They require opening and there has been so much hype about viruses in them. So I missed a precious family moment because I just started deleting things that was not apparently about an urgent family matter or was not business. Bad move! Just went to family reunion, heard my aunt, you guessed it, playing the harmonica. I commented that I never knew that she played and one of our cousins piped up accusingly, “Well I sent you a video!” Yikes. So you are not alone in worrying about deleting those unread e-mails without opening them.

Some things to remember:

E-mail addictive and time stealing. So set a certain time limit on e-mail reading and usage and stick to it. If you have 30, 60 or 90 minutes, make the best use of your time. Set a time or schedule other important activities, if they are on your calendar with timer alerts then you will have to leave the e-mail or suffer the consequences of getting behind in other projects. Remember E-mail Expands to fill time available so set a realistic amount of time and remember when you are adding something to your schedule, you probably have to reduce the time spent elsewhere or take something off your schedule.
Stick to your e-mail time limit, if you let it, it can consume your day and make your day unproductive.

Delete messages that are no longer relevant especially if they are three months old or older, probably no one cares at this point that you did not read them and they are no longer relevant anyway so reading them would be a waste of time. To help with this,
put e-mails into “To read” folders. These are folders that require nothing other than to read them. Add a date stamp on these folders, like September, 08 or July 09. If in six to twelve months you haven’t read them, do you think it’s safe to assume that you no longer need or want to? Schedule 30 minutes each week to purge everything you can and then you will see how uncluttered your e-mal will soon become.

Use different e-mail addresses for various things. I have one that I use for business, one for each of my radio shows that all are forwarded to my business e-mail. I also have one for family and friends and things that I subscribe to and I have another just for newsletters that I may go to for inspiration.

E-Mail Musts for organization, respect from others and to others.

1. Be sure to fill in the subject line with a concise descrition andyes ther are sometimes ongoing discussions that will e-mail track the discussion but each time you add something be sure to differentiate it in the subject line. For instance if you are giving a Project update, please add the name of project. Then if the response adds a clarification, Please marke it, Marketing Project Update, Clarification and continue this on as the e-mail dialogue may have several responses. You will appreciate this subject line clarification later when you have to search for the e-mail with answers and your recipient will appreciate it also. This will also help yout to get a quick reply and keep your e-mail from delted. Even though I sometimes make this error myself, I almost always feel like deleting an e-mail that has “no subject” in the title. If I know the sender I am careful not to do that as everyone slips up now and then, but to make it easier to find, I will forward it with appropriate title to myself and the sender.
2. There is nothing more frustrating than getting an e-mail that says, “yes” and since you sent out forty the day before, you have no idea what the respondent is saying “yes” to, especially if there server does not re-send all replies and previous copy and some do not. So cut and paste the part of the message you are responding to and it is also a good idea to make it a different color from the senders e-mail so that they can quickly differentiate your reply. This will save both of you time and energy.
3. Please check your spelling and grammar and what you have written before you send the e-mail, this helps prevent embarrassments, misunderstanding and miscommunications. It also makes you look more professional and readers will take your messages more seriously. Also if you are sending an attachment, check before you send to make sure attachment is there.
4. Virus detection is not just a must to protect your computer but also a must to avoid sending viruses to others. NOTHING more embarrassing than having to apologize for sending a virus or worm to someone, if you get the chance to apologize.
5. Long winded e-mails are not polite or stylish. If you must give a good deal of information, add an attachment or at least bullet point the information so that your reader will find it easier to manage. Always avoid ranting, negative posts and stay on the topic and be brief as much as possible. One topic per e-mail is always a good idea.
6. Carefully target those you are sending an e-mail to, Reply All is not always a good option unless you have considered all the recipients first. Also remember, if you don’t want an e-mail to get into other hands, then don’t send it. Sometimes even marking it private does not help. If it is negative about someone else, there is an irrefutable copy of what you said. OOPS!
7. Never reply to an e-mail when you are angry. A wuick response is never a good one. A good rule of themb is to wait for 24 hours and then reply when you are calmer or how about making a phone call when possible?
8. Always include an e-mail signature with your address and phone number, reply e-mail and any other information you think is helpful, like your twitter, linked in and Facebook information. This will help your readers to know who you are and establish your credibility.
9. Be careful of attachments. Make sure it is something that your reader will want and also make sure it is virus free. In my observation readers do not like to open attachments, it’s an additional step so if you want your e-mail read unless it is lengthy put the gist of it at least into the body of the e-mail, then you can add the lengthy attachment with a note for them to peruse if they still need additional information or add a website address which is often even better.
10. Always consider what your reader will think when they get your e-mail. Is it clear, is it polite, is it consise, is it professional and especially how would you feel or what would you think if you received it?


This blog post can be reproduced in its entirety with the following information:
© Joanne Quinn-Smith, Techno Granny Show™ 2009,
Dreamweaver Marketing Associates, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15230, 412-628-5048
Listen at: http://tinyurl.com/TechnoGrannyShow
Or on its unique radio channel at:
http://tinyurl.com/pospittlivemag
Joanne Quinn-Smith is the Creative Energy Officer of Dreamweaver Marketing Associates in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and an expert on Web 2.0 Branding.
2009 SBA Small Business Journalist of the Year

TechnoGrannyShow, 25 Things to Hate About Facebook or Love with Joan Stewart, Publicity Hound

If you don’t have a penny to spend on advertising but you want the world to know about your product, service, cause or issue on Facebook, you’ll get lots of advice this morning.
Joan Stewart, also known as The Publicity Hound, will tell you how to use world’s largest social networking site to create a presence for yourself online, promote your expertise, and build your tribe.
Joan’s own promotion campaign started at age 10 when her hometown newspaper wrote a story about a blue ribbon she won for a 4-H sewing project at the Ohio State Fair. Today, she works as a media consultant and publishes her own print newsletter as well as a free on-line newsletter called The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week.
--Are there, indeed, 25 things you hate about Facebook?
You can find the video on YouTube.)
---What do you think are the top 3 or 4 most confusing things about Facebook, and can you help clear up the confusion for us?
Facebook URL
Where’s the Wall?
Limits to 5,000 friends, but no limit on fans
- --If so many people hate Facebook, why is it important for small business people to have a Facebook profile, or is it enough just to Twitter?
Instead of free offers, create a note with tips from your free offer.
---What’s the best way for people to promote their businesses on Facebook?
Creating Pages.)
Most small business owners are short on time. How much time do people need to spend each day on Facebook?
Be disciplined, update your status. Check Inbox.
---What’s the best kind of content to share on Facebook?
---What’s the best way to measure the return on investment?
---Do you have a special offer you can share with our listeners?
Special Offer for Techno Granny Listeners, Until July 29, 2009

½ off on Facebook Info Product if you mention Techno Granny Show, June 29, 2009. Call or e-mail only, Joan would love to connect with you.
Joan Stewart
The Publicity Hound
Contact info: jstewart@publicityhound.com or 262-284-7451 or follow me on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/joanstewart
This show is available archived at: http://tinyurl.com/TechnoGrannyShow or on its unique radio channel at: http://tinyurl.com/pospittlivemag

Techno Granny Show: Technologies that Teens Wouldn’t Know About, the Fifties

Blog 7-20-09, TG Show: Technologies that Teens Wouldn’t Know About, the Fifties

If you were born since 1989 your experience with science and technology is unique with respect to the speed and frequency of inventions and innovations. But it wasn't always that way. Things moved a little slower for most of the baby boomers especially those who were youngsters in the fifties.


The adolescents and teens of that area thought colored kitchen appliances and transistor radios, were a big deal. Aside from watching Star Trek which was science fiction we never anticipated the PC, cellphones, DVDs, flash drives or MP 3 players. It is often said that the science fiction of today is the science of tomorrow. We thought it was cool when 78 rpm (rotations per minute) records became 33s. We were astonished when records that they could be heard in stereo and 3 D movies were a rare treat that some mothers would not let us attend because they thought it would make us go blind at an early age.

Also just because something was an invention of the day did not mean that it readily trickled down to the average population. Initially it was probably too expensive for the workaday individual. It oten took time for prices to drop enough on an invention before the average person could afford it.

Here's a list of some of the major inventions and innovations of the Fifties that did not go main stream in the very beginning.

Between 1950 and 1954:

Zenith introduced "lazy bones" tuning. This was the first time that the channel changer was not called “Junior”. It could change all television stations from the comfort of your easy chair. It was a hand held device that plugged in to the TV.

Telephone Answering Machine was created by Bell Laboratories and Western Electric, very prominent companies who are not so prominent any more. As a matter of fact those were the only two brands of phones you could buy at one time. The first answering machines were as large as a man’s shoe box and office versions were sometimes larger.

The Eckert and Mauchly Computer Co. of Philadelphia (which was soon purchased by Remington Rand) sold the first commercial computer, the UNIVAC 1, to the U.S. Census Bureau. UNIVAC stands for Universal Automatic Computer.

Perhaps the most famous computer of the era was the ENIAC, a computer developed for the U.S. military during World War II. Other computers developed in the 1940s were mostly used by academia. But the UNIVAC I was the first computer to be widely used for commercial purposes - 46 machines were built, for about $1 million each.

Super glue was invented and it was touted as holding anything even a car weighing over two tons. Speaking of cars the American automobile manufacturer Chrysler Corporation introduces power steering., which they called Hydraguide. Until then you had to have some muscle to steer a car.


Mr. Potato Head was patented.

The original Mr. Potato Head toy consists entirely of pieces! We used a real potato for the body! The Mr. Potato Head toy is the first toy ever advertised on network TV.

Sony, a brand new Japanese company, introduced the first pocket-sized transistor radio Masaru Ibuka of Sony made profound improvements in techniques for manufacturing transistors, a new technology, and Sony was able to sell his radio more cheaply than any competitor.

This created a revolution! Now music was portable and just in time to play the soon to be introduced Rock and Roll.


The first 3-D movie was shown: Arch Oboler's Bwana Devil, starring Robert Stack. Movie studio executives worried that the new medium, television, would steal away their audiences. What was required was a hook to bring people back into the movie theatre. As the strippers sang in "Gypsy," you gotta have a gimmick.

Even though 3-D movies had been around as far back as 1922 and had lost favor, it was decided to try again. Arch Oboler's "Bwana Devil" started the 3-D craze of the Fifties. It premiered on Nov. 26, 1952 and starred Robert Stack, Barbara Britton and Nigel Bruce.

An African adventure film (A Lion in Your Lap, A Lady in Your Arms!) about man-eating lions which would jump off the screen at you, it made for pretty exciting watching when the process worked right. People were issued glasses which facilitated the 3-D effect.

Dr. Jonas Salk announced discovery of the vaccine for poliomyelitis
White Rose Redi-tea was s the world's first instant iced tea
Dow Chemical created Saran Wrap and women all over the world praised it while husbands cursed it for getting tangled.
TV color broadcasting began in 1953, but remember not everyone had color TV’s, a black and white then was often considered a luxurty.
1955 Zenith engineer Eugene Polley invented the "Flashmatic," which represented the industry's first wireless TV remote, now it no longer had to be plugged into the television and you could lose it in the couch.
The first home microwave ovens were manufactured by Tappan. They cost $1300 which really slowed sales!

1956

Secretary Bette Nesmith Graham got tired of retyping and invented "Mistake Out" later renamed, Liquid Paper

1957
Fortran (computer language) was invented
Velcro was patented by George de Mestral of Switzerland.
Eveready produces "AA" size alkaline batteries
The Hula Hoop was invented by Richard Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Melin. HULA HOOP
Richard Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Melin, founders of the Wham-O Company, were the architects of the biggest fad of all time - the hula hoop!

In 1957, they heard from an Australian tourist that in his home country, children twirled bamboo hoops around their waists in gym class. That’s how they got the idea for the hoola hoop.

They found a winner in such an item could be and began to manufacture one made of plastic, Marlex specifically, a lightweight but durable plastic then recently invented by Phillips Petroleum. With the price of oil today would they have taken off so rapidly?

The name "hula hoop" came from the Hawaiian dance its users seemed to imitate. Wham-O sold 25 million hula hoops in two months. Almost 100 million international orders followed. They were manufacturing 20,000 hoops a day at the peak of popularity.

Not all nations thought this was such a great idea. Japan banned the hoops thinking they might promote improprieties. The Soviet Union said the hula hoop was an example of the "emptiness of American culture." They always were a bunch of fuddy duddies until they started exporting exclusive brands of vodka.
Maybe this is not politically or historically correct but then most teenagers have no idea what the “cold war” was about anyway.

1959
Joseph-Armand Bombardier of Valcourt, Quebec, Canada patented the Ski-Doo, originally christened the Ski-Dog, but renamed because of a typographical error that Bombardier decided not to change. You know it today as a snowmobile.

Above statistics, compliments of: http://www.fiftiesweb.com/pop/inventions.htm
Additional asides by Techno Granny herself.


Techno Granny, Joanne Quinn-Smith and self named “Nanno Granny,” JoAnn Forrester discuss this and loads of other “technologies of the fifties” on the July 20th episode of the Techno Granny Show which can be heard at:

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TechnoGrannyShow, Another Tech Savvy Granny

This show was originally broadcast on Techno Granny Show on Monday 7-13-09 at 7 AM. Listen to archived version at: http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/tscmd/tc/30986or on it's own unique radio channel at: http://www.positivelypittsburghlivemagazine.com


• Yvonne spent 25 years in the garment industry, but in 2001 she saw the bottom falling out of the garment industry. I searched for an industry that would allow me to pursue my entrepreneurial dreams and went to school to learn computer technology.
• Her first job after leaving the garment industry was as a telephone tech support job for a tech company, and the second was as an IBM field computer consultant working on the Washington Mutual account.
• Yvonne worked late-night hours at IBM, leaving daytimes available to market her own IT support business. In April 2004, her IBM job was eliminated, so she turned to Computer Community Hospital as a full-time job
• Yvonne Graber was a recent finalist of the popular Make Mine a Million $ Business competition, a business-growth marathon designed to encourage women entrepreneurs to reach their goals.

About the Business
• Computer Community Hospital is a computer-services business providing a wide range of solutions designed for small to mid-size businesses (SMBs) and consumers with personal computers.

• The company’s tagline is “Where the Doctor is Always In.”

• Computer Community Hospital offers 24/7 service, human response to customer calls and a comprehensive suite of service offerings at $99 per hour for in-person support and less than $2 dollars per minute for remote support.

• The brand’s colorfully wrapped car serves as its most visible marketing channel and is a required component of the business opportunity. The popular computer logo with a thermometer in its “mouth” also has helped the company distinguish itself from other computer service vendors.


TECH TIPS:
• Backup Strategies-Inexpensive Flash Drive …How to use…Always check to make sure your backup WORKS!
• Unused Icons – What are they and do you need them
• How to keep you Computer running smoothly – self help PC Wellness: Defrag/clean Internet temp files/Cookies etc.
• Make sure you are running an Antivirus Program- Run Check regularly I CAN SUGGEST IF YOU LIKE
• Don’t run a lot of programs in the background – startup items
• ALWAYS have a Battery UPS hooked up to you computer in case of loss of power. So you do not get damage
• Always keep the disks that came with your computer in a safe place where you can find them….including Printer software.
About the CCH Franchise Opportunity

• Plans include regional growth in Florida, followed by national expansion.

• Computer Community Hospital is expanding initially in Orlando, Jacksonville and Tampa.

• The affordable $40,000 franchise fee includes ongoing training, car purchase/leasing guidance, the ongoing research and development of new service offerings, and continuing, effective marketing programs.

• The franchise opportunity is ideal for individuals in search of a business with low overhead and which allows independence.

• Individuals with some tech knowledge who have been laid off or are in search of new work during the economic downturn are ideal candidates; they instantly become part of an organization which provides the support and tools needed to run the business.


QUANTUM EMR: Called Pwer
• Quantum EMR- I have partnered with them to do All the Assessments for any practice in Florida that will be using their web based EMR



QUANTUM EMR: Called Pwer
• Quantum EMR- I have partnered with them to do All the Assessments for any practice in Florida that will be using their web based EMR

• Quantum has developed and deployed PWeR™ (www.myPWeR.com), a cutting-edge, patent-pending healthcare technology system that has been designed to bridge the gaps of communication and exchange of patient information throughout the healthcare industry.


Yvonne Graber
Computer Community Hospital
Office: 561-852-0900
Cell: 561-239-3939
Fax: 561-892-3380
http://www.CCHPC.com

Techno Granny Show, Custom Designed Software with Microsoft Access

This show was originally broadcast on July 6, 2009 and archived version is available at: http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/tscmd/tc/30986 or on TechnoGrannyShow's unique radio channel at http://www.positivelypittsburghlivemagazine.com


Dana Del Bianco is president of DCDB Inc, a custom database development company. She is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, and has been designing databases for 12 years.

DCDB Inc designs databases for small- to medium sized businesses. We primarily use Microsoft Access as the development platform. Access is an incredibly powerful tool. It allows for sophisticated programming in Visual Basic. But—most importantly—it is very cost-effective for the client. Since Access is part of Microsoft Office, most companies already own it. There is no additional software licensing costs. Its very easy to maintain, so companies without full-time IT support can still take advantage of the benefits of having a custom software program.

Why custom software? Customized software works the way you do. Off the shelf software will make you adapt your business practices to the way it works.

Many people ask “What type of information can I track in Access?” The short answer is—anything! If you have data, you can track it. In many cases, people will have numerous linked Excel spreadsheets tracking their data. The problem with this approach is that Excel does not have data validity checking. It will let you type anything into a field. Someone can accidentally type text in a number or date field, and Excel will let it. Access allows you to control this type of data entry and more. It protects the quality and validity of your data.

Also, report generation is very difficult out of a spreadsheet. Reporting from a spreadsheet can be extremely time-consuming. You have to hide columns, sort columns and more. With Access, reports can be designed to run at the click of a button. They easily prompt for dates or other criteria, making it very simple to customize your data to answer the question at hand.

Access is a relational database. That means that data is stored in different tables, and the tables are related to each other using a key field. The beauty of the relational database is that you never have to type the same information more than once. For example, if you are entering customer contacts into a database, you would have the company name in one table, and the individual employees’ names in a different table. You would then just relate the employees to the company where they work. You would not have to type the company name for every employee. In addition to saving lots of time with data entry, this design also eliminates the chance of having a company’s address typed in many different ways.

You may have opened Access on your computer and been very intimidated by what you saw. You quickly closed it and just went back to entering information into the more familiar Excel. What you didn’t realize is that what you were looking at is the nuts and bolts of the database that developers use to create a database. The finished product is very different. When you open up a completed database, it will be menu driven, just like any other software. You navigate screens by clicking on the appropriate buttons. You easily tab through fields entering data. A well-written database is extremely user-friendly. Don’t be intimidated! You honestly don’t need to know a thing about Access development to use an Access database!

If, however, you would like to develop your own Access databases, here are a few basics for you.

Access is made up of different types of objects that work together to create a database.

Tables—this is where you store your data. You create different fields that belong to a single record. All of the fields in a record are always associated with each other—you can’t accidentally sort one column and lose the connection to the rest.

Queries—queries allow you to ask questions of your data. You can use multiple joined tables in a single query. You can also place criteria on a query to limit the data you see. For example, you can only show records that are within a certain date range. You can even use formulas in queries, much like you would use them in Excel.

Forms—forms display the data from tables and queries in a more user-friendly manner. They make data entry very easy. You can also place data integrity controls on forms. For example, you can put a drop-down menu on a field to limit the options that can be entered into that field. Forms are also used to create menus to help navigate your database. Virtually all of your database interactions is through forms.

Reports—reports allow you to take data from a table or query and format it in a more useful manner. You can use different sorts and different groupings with subtotals to make your data more meaningful.

Macros/Modules—macros and modules are where you can use more sophisticated programming to automate database tasks. For example, you can write a module in visual basic that looks up information in a table when a particular option is selected on a form. This is truly where Access is most powerful. You can use visual basic to write extremely sophisticated code to run in your database.

Dana Del Bianco
DCDB, Inc.
412-244-5370
dana@dcdbinc.com
http://www.dcdbinc.com

Techno Granny Show, eBay, is that a Shore Thing?

Tom and Charity Sutton
Known on E-Bay as blackgold777x, favorite slot machine
http://www.e-classpgh.com
How and why did you start your business on eBay ?

Tom talks about how he got started in the eBay business purely by accident selling all of a relatives stuff that they just had too much of.

“It was all just a fun hobby in the beginning, something we did on the weekends. You see, we didn’t have any idea what we were doing. We were learning as we went along, not just how to sell on eBay, but what to sell. We were having so much fun and making some decent money at the same time but none of it was planned.

Before long, we noticed a strange new logo next to our user name on eBay and when we clicked on it we found out that we had become PowerSellers! We didn’t even know what a PowerSeller was, we had to look it up! Then we noticed that we were starting to buy shipping and office supplies in bulk and we looked at each other one day & said “I think we’ve started a business here!”

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The list of things you can start selling on eBay is almost limitless, but the best thing you can sell on eBay if you want to start a business is something you know a lot about, and it definitely should be something you love working with.

For instance, someone who is an avid fisherman should think about selling what else? Fishing gear of course. Especially if he happens to make it himself, or perhaps he buys a thing in bulk for his own use and has plenty of surplus. He has a ready made inventory and if he gives his potential buyer’s tips on how to get the most out of his gear in his listing he’ll create happy return customers who will also tell others about his eBay listings or his eBay store if he opens one.

Well, it would be easier to ask what we don’t sell! We tend to buy things that are collectible or just things that catch our eye that are old and can’t be purchased in a store because they aren’t produced anymore. We’ve had a lot of success with things that are new in a box but old, commonly referred to as “NOS” or “New Old Stock”. When I say things, I really mean just about anything that is “New Old Stock”, but things like kitchen appliances, tools, sheets, pillowcases, clothing and toys not to mention electronics are always good to resell if they are NOS.

Your listeners can see our listings by going to eBay’s home page, at www.ebay.com & clicking on the “Advanced Search” link in the right hand side of the yellow title bar at the top of the page, then on the top left side of the next page under Advanced Search if they click on “By seller” then enter blackgold777s where it says “Enter Seller’s User ID” and click search they will be able to view our active auction or fixed price style listings or they can click the link to our store.

What’s an eBay store?

Oh yes! We opened our store as an experiment that was supposed to last about three months just to see if it would work, that was about three years ago! I guess I should explain what an eBay store is before I go into detail about how we use ours.

You see, eBay has three types of listings: Auctions, Fixed Price, and Store Listings.
Auctions are listings that you set up to run for anywhere from one day to ten days, most people including us run them for seven days. You set a starting bid price as low as you can afford and if there are people looking for what you’re offering then hopefully it will get bids that will earn you what the item is worth or if you’re lucky your bidders will get into a bidding war and run the price way up. If no one bids then the auction ends and you still have your item.

Fixed price listings are listings that have a fixed price, called a “BIN” or “Buy It Now” price that last for 30 days or until sold. Fixed Price listings are a great bargain because they only cost 35¢ each. Fixed Price didn’t exist when we started our store, but if it had, it would have been a great way for us to test whether or not a store would work for us.

Store Listings are about 5¢ each for 30 days but they get almost no visibility on Google’s searches. Fixed Price and Auction get the highest Google rankings, especially if you offer free shipping. A lot of people don’t know that eBay is Google’s number one customer! They buy more search rankings on Google than any one else.

So an eBay Store is just a place to park things for your auction or fixed price customers to browse through while they are looking at your listings. You can mention that you have a store in your listings and invite your customers to click on the little red door next to your name and that will take them into your store, or they can get there buy clicking on your store listings that appear in a scrolling gallery at the bottom of your listings.

A scrolling gallery is a service that is provided by several third party vendors who offer listing services to eBay sellers to improve their listings. You can also have a dedicated domain name that points directly to your eBay store so you might have something like www.BigRoysFishingLures.com and that would just be a re-direct to your eBay store, but you can put that on business cards or even on the side of your truck and boat to help drive customers to your eBay store.

There are several different levels of stores, the starter package costs about $20.00 a month, we have a PRO Store that costs about $49.00 a month, but it makes us about $800.00 a month from failed auction style listings. You see, when an auction ends with no bidder, you have to decide what to do with that item. Do you re-list it at auction again, donate it, or throw it away? That depends on the item, but most of the time if you think the item has value some one else will too. You just need to sit it on your store shelf and wait for that someone to come along.

E-Bay Classes

There was a point where we started treating it as a business and things just continued to get better. Then Charity’s Sister, Faith wanted to try selling on eBay so we started teaching her and now she is a PowerSeller as well. By the time that happened several people had started asking us to show them how to sell on eBay or give them tips to help them sell more so we became eBay Certified Education Specialists and began offering classes at the Regional Learning Alliance Center in Cranberry, PA.


Well, if you don’t want to sell on eBay, you certainly should consider buying things on eBay.

, eBay is the world’s largest market place. A few years ago at the eBay live convention in Las Vegas, the Post Master General of the United States Post Office was a Keynote speaker. He was there to announce the new U.S.P.S. & eBay co-branded Priority shipping boxes that the Post Office gives you for free to encourage you to use their shipping service. He explained that 80% of all the parcels that were going through the Post Office at that time were eBay related and that was the reason for offering the free shipping supplies.

Now surely you don’t think that 80 % of the parcels flowing through the U.S. Postal Service are weird potato chips, chockies or fishing gear do you? Granted some things don’t make sense to buy from eBay because you need them right now, today, or because the cost of shipping would negate anything you might have saved over buying the item in a store near you, but I have a challenge for you. Over the next 90 days no matter what you are about to go to the store to buy, type it into eBay’s search field first and see what comes up, I know you are going to be amazed and thrilled with the savings you’ll find there. You’ll be hooked.

3. Well, that sounds great, but is this a good time of the year to get started?

This is a great time to get started because the busiest selling season is coming up fast. Back to school and then the holidays are always big on eBay. Our next class is scheduled for Saturday July 18th at the Regional Learning Alliance Center in Cranberry, PA.

4. What is included in your class?

Well Joanne, we hold the class in a computer lab so you will be in front of a computer the whole day and though the lab seats 24 students, we like to keep the class down to 20. We provide an eBay university work book so you can review everything once you get home, the course begins at 8:00 AM & it ends at 4:00 PM. The goal of the class is to get you registered on eBay and PayPal if you’re not already & then teach you how to put up a listing by the end of the day including tips on taking good photos for online listings. There is plenty of Q & A time and you have access to us via email & phone after the class if you need help.

You say they have access to you after the class, is that for a limited time?

No Joanne, if they need help, all they have to do is call or email and we’ll be glad to help get them started or get through any problems they may encounter. There is no time limit on this offer because we know from experience that once they get going they’ll catch on and won’t need to keep calling us, but they are always free to call.

Can anyone attend or is there an age requirement for these classes?

The average age of our students seems to be mid 40’s and up but anyone 18 years old or older can register for the class. You have to be at least 18 years old to register for an account on eBay.

What is the cost of your classes?

Our students get a full day in a computer lab in front of a state of the art computer, the eBay University workbook and access to us via phone & email all for just $150.00

Wow, that’s great, I’ve heard of course with books and DVDs about eBay that cost a lot more than that! But Tom, do you have any type of special offer for my listeners?

Sure! If your listeners mention that they heard me on the Techno Granny radio show we’ll knock off $25.00! So they get the class, the workbook, and access to us afterwards for help all for $125.00 but they should hurry if they want this special price because our classes fill fast & remember we like to hold the class size down to 20 people.


So tell us again, where can people go to register for your upcoming classes?

That’s easy Joanne, www.eclasspgh.com
And they can pay us with PayPal or any major credit card. We also accept personal checks or money orders but they have to get them to us at least two weeks before the start of the class.