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WARNING: This post will not make sense to you if you do not create rules in Outlook.
A great question came up today from an attendee in my Outlook class. He gets reports from several people, and he wants to create a rule that sends messages from these senders into a special folder. The email subject [...]
The scrollable box to the right of my blog with Recent Posts is called a blidget (a blog turned into a widget. In computer programming, a widget is an interface element that a user interacts with such as a button, check box, slider, drop-down list, etc.).
With my blog as a widget, every time I create [...]
I received a package the other day from a company that creates promotional products. Their gift idea was a nicely done 2008 Pocket Pal week-at-a-glance calendar. I chuckled when I held it up wondering why companies still spend money on these.
Hmmm…do I know anyone who could use this? All the business associates and clients I [...]
As you create or update your Website, make sure you have the right content that makes it easy for visitors to find everything they need. Below are some examples of pages to add that are often overlooked (or properly done).
Media Room
Why it’s important – 80% of business is marketing and PR is a great way [...]
Have you seen graphics in the signature line of email messages and wondered how it’s done? It’s easy as long as you already know how to create and/or edit a signature.
First, you have to save the desired graphic inside the Microsoft Signatures folder (for your signature, write it then scan and save as a graphic). [...]
September is National Preparedness Month, and I have included enough information in my blog to help you get ready. Anything could happen anytime…naturally or man-made.
A backup is not a backup
if it’s not offsite.
Here is a list of articles in my blog you’ll want to revisit.
Use technology to protect your small business from disaster
Carbonite and [...]
I’m very meticulous about backing up my files, especially since I work exclusively from a laptop, and I travel a lot speaking and training…love it!
I’ve written about Carbonite in previous posts. This service is an online vault that automatically backs up my computer files online every day as they change on my laptop. I’m especially [...]
One of my pet peeves when reading electronically, either in an email message or on a Webpage, is text that’s underlined but not a live link.
Spread the word. Don’t do this. There are all kinds of ways you can make text stand out.
Make it bold.
Change to a different color.
Change the typeface.
Increase the font size.
Change it [...]
I needed more space on my laptop’s hard drive so I did two things (after I deleted all temporary files and emptied the Recyle Bin).
Reduce the amount of space reserved for the Recycle Bin
The first thing I did was to reduce the amount of space that was reserved for the Recycle Bin. Right-click the Recycle [...]
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