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Social Media at the Workplace-Helpful or a Hazard?

The survey says…LinkedIn is moving up in the rankings of popular social media tools. Survey’s are listing 43% of businesses noted they use LinkedIn as a networking and relationship building tool.

Social Media Benefits: marketing, research, employment, networking, communication, expanding your market area, low or no cost options, and many, many more.

Social Media Tools:  LinkedIn, FaceBook, Twitter, MySpace, Blogs, Texting, You Tube, Bing, Google, Flickr and more.

Many organizations report that they are not using social media tools mainly because they lack knowledge or expertise in using them, suggesting a possible need for training or education.

Some of this can be confusing so do your homework before jumping in.  Learn the difference of a Face Book Personal and Business Account, set up company policies and define your goals of what you want Social Media tools to accomplish for you. 

Below you will find several links to survey’s and articles to help pull some of this information together for you.  Also, we are offering a 2 ½ hour class on Social Media.  You will learn how to setup and use the popular tools.  The class will be held on Wednesday, December 2nd from 1 pm – 3:30 pm.  The cost is $49 per person and seating is limited so register today.

Feelings are mixed but the numbers are climbing.  Survey’s are listing 43% of businesses noted they use LinkedIn as a networking and relationship building tool.  Follow us, Are you a Twitter, do you have a company Facebook, or are you LinkedIn? it's a critical part of their daily communications with co-workers, colleagues, and others within their industry.  

Has your organization added a policy on Social Media or evaluated the cost?  With big benefits for HR and Marketing departments, it may be well worth checking into.

ERC Survey Briefing - September 2009 http://www.ercnet.org/research/studies/Social%20Media%20in%20the%20Workplace%20Results.pdf

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_at_work_helpful_or_a_hazard.php

Are people are obsessed? http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/social_networking_use_triples_from_only_a_year_ago.php

Nielsen reports 17 percent of time spent on the internet in august devoted to social networking and blog sites, up from 6 percent a year ago.  http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/InternetSpend_SocialNetworks.pdf

http://marketing.about.com/b/2009/08/30/social-media-marketing-benefits-for-nonprofit-organizations.htm

http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/

Face Book Business Accounts; http://myventurepad.com/MVP/79470

Windows 7 -

Windows 7

Office 2007 Tips:

What are the green, blue and red squiggly lines under my text?  Office 2007 has some great hidden features, like Contextual Spelling.

For example, in Word 2007 we'll catch errors in each of these sentences, not just the first two:

As always, the red squiggly underline indicates a spelling error and the green squiggly underline indicates a grammar error. Word 2007 introduces blue squiggly underlines to flag words that are likely inappropriate given their context. In the third sentence, when you right-click on "loose" we suggest "lose."

If you would like to learn more tips on using Office 2007, give me a call 608-769-4203.

New Version of the FREE AVG Anti-Virus Software - 9.0 (11/4/09)

Important: You must upgrade to version 9 by December 1, 2009

AVG 8.5 is being replaced by AVG 9 and you will have to upgrade to stay protected. Updates for your current AVG Free will not be available after December 1, 2009.   Here are the instructions to run the new version:

1.   Close all programs you have open except for your internet browser (like Internet Explorer).

2.   Click on this link to open the web address for the download. http://www.avg.com//ww-en/upgrade-appf8590-1b

3.   Click Download under the FREE version column.

4.   Click Run.

5.   When prompted with the option to install the FREE version or the TRIAL version, make sure you click FREE.  Then click NEXT.

6.   When prompted for Standard or Custom Installation, chose Standard and Click Next.

7.   Uncheck the Yahoo as the default then click NEXT.

8.   Click Finish then click Yes, to restart the computer.

1.       If you have any questions or need further assistance please call (608) 769-4203 or email me.

New Version of the FREE Ad-Aware 2008 Software from Lavasoft

Ad-Aware includes Threat Detection against Spyware, Adware, Trojans and Hijackers.  Also protects your computer against password stealers and keyloggers.

To download the Ad-Aware 2008 Anti-Spyware Software:

1. Close all programs you have open except for your internet browser (like Internet Explorer).

2. Click on this link to open the web address for the download. http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-2008/3000-8022_4-10045910.html?part=dl-ad-aware&subj=dl&tag=top5&cdlPid=10844457

3. Click Download Now.

4. Click Run.

For the Ad-Aware Product Manual - click here.

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