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Sunday, August 30, 2009

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

Monday, August 17, 2009

TechnoGrannyShow, Michelle Cutler, Hi-Definition TV Makeup Tech



 Talking points:
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> 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

Monday, August 3, 2009

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

Sunday, August 2, 2009

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

Saturday, August 1, 2009

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