You can use the big genealogy sites when you are tracing your family history, but they are not the only options that you have. You can start with them, of course, but you are going to find that you need more help with your endeavors. No matter how good those sites are, there is always [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Websites & Internet'
Tracing Your Family History With Search Engines
December 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
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Power Point
December 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
When I was in college learning about running various computer programs, one of the easiest classes I has was about Power Point. This program is very useful, and very easy to use. When you have a presentation to make, this is the way to go as long as this is something your company has and [...]
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Finding Freelance Writing Opportunities Online
November 30th, 2009 · No Comments
Freelance careers are not the same as they used to be. There are always jobs out there for freelancers, but it is easier to find them than every before. When you look online, you can find many advertisements for those who have chosen to work freelance in any given career. In fact, many jobs are [...]
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Free email accounts have come a long way, baby!
November 30th, 2009 · No Comments
Back in the early days of the net, there was no such thing as free email accounts. You needed an ISP to connect to the net and along with the price of that connection, you were provided with an email account. All ISPs offered email, some with just one, others offering multiple email accounts, all [...]
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Where’s the best search engine? It depends on what you’re looking for
November 19th, 2009 · No Comments
People who do a lot of research on the net have their favorite search engines. When doing a general search, Google is probably on their short list. However, when searching out specialized topics and information, the best search engine may be the one that has its database focused on niche information. For example, if you’re [...]
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Choosing The Best Genealogy Software
November 19th, 2009 · No Comments
Finding out more about your family tree is a lot of fun if you can find the time to do it. In the past, this endeavor required mountains of paperwork and a lot of organizational skills. Today, you don’t have to worry about that stuff as much, which means you have more time to follow [...]
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Driving traffic to your website is the name of the game for your net success!
November 18th, 2009 · No Comments
Just a little more than a decade ago, the net was a brand new, virtual frontier. There weren’t hundreds of thousands of competing websites focused on your niche market. Search engines were in their infancy, a convenience to users and websites, but certainly not the sophisticated indexing devices of today.
Back in the mid-1990s, a relatively [...]
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Should your kids have their own email account? That depends …
November 16th, 2009 · No Comments
Parents are inevitably caught in a catch-22 situation, giving kids the privacy they deserve, while still being a responsible parent. When kids reach a certain age, they do think they know everything there is to know about conducting their own lives.
As a parent, cyberspace presents a particularly challenging aspect to satisfying a child’s normal developmental [...]
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Need a brochure for your small business? Online brochure design is an affordable, quality solution
November 16th, 2009 · No Comments
Brochures can be a great promotional tool for your small business. Having them done at your local printer can be costly and you may be reluctant to invest so much money from your advertising budget, fearing it won’t bring results that make the venture worthwhile. Now, there’s online brochure design services available, with thousands of [...]
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Avoiding the onus of spamming: marketing email advertising online is a delicate subject
November 13th, 2009 · No Comments
Just about everyone is aware of how devastating spamming can be to your reputation. Let’s say you’re selling the most wonderful service that millions of people want. Your service is graphic design and you’re quite talented, if you do say so. You cannot simply send out a thousand unsolicited emails to people and businesses who [...]
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