Jay Jennings consistently puts out useful little tools.
His latest one won’t costs you a cent:
http://www.jayjennings.com/stuff/eternalcontactinfo.php
It will allow you to easily change your contact information on all of your websites. Or, if there’s any other information that you need to change from time to time, such as your copyright notice, you can easily do so with this tool as well.
Thanks Jay!
I have been looking at the various free CMS systems out there.
The one that has currently caught my eye is Plone (www.plone.org).
There are others: Drupal, Joomla, XOOPS. Apologies if I didn’t mention your favorites. Oh, and people are also using WordPress for non-blog applications.
I like the look and feel of Plone, right out of the box.
It can be used as website, an intranet, or as a personal data keeper program.
Yes, you can install it on your personal PC, Mac, or Linux box to keep all of those “snippets” of information that so easily get lost.
To run it on your web server is a little trickier, as I’ve been told that not all web hosts can handle it.
A new version was released a few days ago. I thought it may be useful for managing content with virtual partners and employees remotely. Of course, there are many options and methods that people are already using for collaboration.
What do you think?
This is a a great little article on using Google Docs:
http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9732473-2.html
I find myself using this app more and more because it’s so easy to share and collaborate with others. Of course, my tendency to do heavy-duty spreadsheet work means I can’t rely on Google completely. Yet.
How about you?
I stumbled across this cool Squidoo lens:
http://www.squidoo.com/mindmapresources
(Have I mentioned how much I love Squidoo? You can find a link to my lenses on the right hand side of this blog.)
True to it’s description, it covers just about every Mind Map application available: free and paid, online and offline. Plus, there’s a bunch of help for using Mind Maps.
Don’t waste another second, Mind Maps can be an incredibly effective tool for learning and for organizing your thoughts, and this Squidoo lens is just what you need.
This tip works in Internet Explorer and Firefox for Windows, and may work in other browsers and other platforms, too.
Adding extra toolbars to your browser can save time with various tasks. The downside is they take up valuable screen real estate.
So, if you need a quick view more of your computer screen, here’s what you do:
Press the “F11″ key.
That’s all there is to it. Your tool bars and task bar (at the bottom of the screen) will disappear. Press F11 again to get them back.
Now back to your regularly scheduled programming…
If you’re an information junkie (and what marketer isn’t) then listen up.
You simply must check these out if you haven’t yet.
First, Google Notebook for saving urls, web pages, images and more, from any location. I had known about this tool but put off learning how to use it. Why, I cannot fathom. If you have a google account, this tool is super easy to use.
Second, Evernote. Evernote is PC-based rather than internet based. It gives you a way to store all of those little snippets of data that don’t really belong somewhere else. I’m just now beginning to scratch the surface of what it can do. Plus, there is a very active user forum—almost always a good sign that people are happy with the product and trying to maximize the benefits of using it.
Microsoft has a page with gobs of templates you can download and use.
Looks like there’s templates for Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, and Powerpoint.
There are hundreds of documents you can use, including budgets, resumes, and many more.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/fx100595491033.aspx
Wow am I thrilled or what!
I had purchased XsitePro (a website builder program especially tailored for internet marketers) months ago and didn’t take the time to learn it until now.
I decided to read through the documentation today and was able to put up the following website:
http://www.guitarconfidence.com
If you’re an aspiring guitarist, go ahead and take a look.
For more information on XsitePro, check out this link:
I’ve launched a new Quickbooks site:
http://www.quickbooksrevealed.com.
If you use Quickbooks, check it out!
I just discovered this cool feature of Firefox. If you already knew about it, don’t tell me so I can keep pretending I discovered it.
Almost everybody knows that you can have multiple tabs open in Firefox.
Here’s the cool part.
If you visit the same handful of websites every day, or first thing every day, you can tell Firefox to open up all of those sites in separate tabs whenever you start the program.
Here’s how you do it:
Pretty nifty.