One of my customers lost a substantial amount of money to a
Nigerian internet scam. You would think I would know better,
but I helplessly watched a friend get scammed two weeks later.
Laptop keyboards are evil.
For a year www.JewishNetwork.com and www.DanceCalendar.info
were ostracized by Google. Not any more.
Be there in spirit even when you cannot be there in body.
Broadcast your events for your members.
If you need help with any of the things mentioned in the
articles, get in touch with me.
Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,
Andrew
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In This Email:
1. Article: Scams
2. Article: Laptop Ergonomics
3. Article: Google Follow Up
4. Article: Be Your Own TV or Radio Station
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1. Article: Scams
One of my customers lost a lot of money in a Nigerian internet scam.
Apparently, this is big business in Nigeria.
My customer is an intelligent, educated, sophisticated person, who
you would never think would get caught by one of these scams. I wrote
an article in another newsletter warning the readers.
Two weeks later I was helping a friend move. The movers told my friend
that her cost would be $5,000+, instead of the $1,500 quote. I knew
they were cheating her, but I could not figure out how the scam worked.
(Maybe because we had been up all night packing.)
My customer reported her loss to authorities and she is going
through a legal process, but she may not get anything back.
The next night I figured out how the moving scam worked and we managed
some damage control, but my friend had already left behind half her stuff
to lower her fees.
Searching on google turns up endless entries for Nigerian and moving
scams. Anyone can easily take a second to educate themselves.
My point is this, you can get scammed even when you know you are
getting scammed. Try not to lose too much money.
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2. Article: Laptop Ergonomics
My right hand has been inflamed for six months.
Why? From the contortations my poor hand was making on the laptop
mouse pad, and reaching for the navigation and control keys
bunched together on the right side of the keyboard.
It is surprisingly easy to upgrade your work station and the
benefits are well worth the trouble.
Am now writing this on a full sized keyboard, with a regular mouse
at hand.
Have put my laptop on a wire stand, for better air flow to keep it cool,
and for viewing the monitor at eye level. Helps to improve my posture
for dancing.
Plugged in a second, external monitor that I had sitting around.
Nice to see two full sized windows at once.
Added a semi-permanent, external hard drive and moved all my media
files off the laptop drive. Cleaned up the laptop drive and registry,
and now my computer boots and runs much faster.
For as much as you and your employees use computers, anything you
can do to make your work station more comfortable has to be worth it.
Some upgrades for laptops:
- USB hub to give you more USB ports
- Full-sized keyboard
- Full-sized mouse with scroll wheel
- Raise the height of your laptop
- Second, external monitor
- Semi-permanent harddrive for media files
- Second external harddrive for backup of everything onsite
- Third external harddrive for offsite backup
- Fourth external harddrive for offsite backup rotation
Cannot have enough backup
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3. Article: Google Follow Up
Previously I had written about the rankings of some of my
websites on Google. Here is a quick update.
www.JewishNetwork.com is now #1 on Google in searches for
"Jewish Events".
www.DanceCalendar.info is now on the first page in searches for
"Dance Calendar".
Being on the first page of Google is possibly the best way to get
found on the internet by people who do not already know you.
You can get your websites to the first page of Google if you
spend a little time doing the right things, such as:
- The right content, with matching key words,
internal links and content that grows
- Incoming links
- Keyword domain name
- Blogging
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4. Article: Be Your Own TV or Radio Station
With the Internet, everyone can be their own TV or radio station.
YouTube is an easy way to get started. You can post videos up
to about ten minutes long. If you have an hour show, break it
into parts.
Live audio or video is more complicated and more expensive,
but not outrageous.
My friend Phil put in live, audio streaming at our synagogue
to broadcast the Friday night and Saturday morning services.
He set the system up to come on automatically before Shabbat
so that it is in keeping with Jewish law.
People like to tune in when they cannot make it to services
in person.
Another benefit is the recordings are archived, so people have
a record of their special occasions, like bar mitzvahs and
baby namings.
This has been a big success for our congregation.
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