When you are working in a computer application you aren’t as familiar with, I suggest you try right-clicking on various areas of the screen, you will usually see a popup menu with all sorts of options you might have been unaware of. This is a great way to learn about the program, and pick up some quick tips for using it.

 

You can also try variations on this – click on different elements and areas of the screen, in a word-processing program, highlight text and right-click on it.

How do you leap frog past all of your competition to land the perfect job that fulfills both your passion and your salary needs? Even in a bum economy? – With the right strategy!

My dear friend Lynn Strigh (“The Corporate Exit Strategist”) is teaming up with Liz Lynch (networking guru and author) to offer a special series of classes called the “Job Search Marketing Blueprint”.

They will cover the following topics (check out the link for a more detailed list):

1. Mindset of Successful Job Seeking Candidate

2. Branding yourself as the Expert within your field

3. Creating your Marketing JOB searching Campaign

4. Smart Networking strategies

5. 30 day job searching business and follow up plan

6. Showing your Brilliance – Side Jobs

The classes are offered by telephone, with recordings available for download afterward, so no matter where you live, if you are in the throes of a job hunt right now, I highly recommend you check this out.

Job Search Marketing Blueprint System | Lynn Strigh and Liz Lynch

If you are like most web surfers, you like to keep track of useful and interesting website and pages. You probably bookmark them somehow in your web browser. And I bet your list is getting pretty long. And I’m sure you are thinking “one of these days I’m going to sort them all into folders, I swear…” and in the meantime, you have to scroll through dozens (hundreds? thousands?) of links when you want to find a certain page (“I know it’s in here somewhere…”).

If you aren’t yet familiar with social bookmarking, I highly suggest you check it out. There are several sites to use, I personally use Delicious for my bookmarking (http://delicious.com). You just sign up for a free account and add some little buttons to your browser. You use these new buttons to bookmark pages you like (instead of the built-in browser buttons) and they are saved to your account online. You can add a description to a link, and as many individual tags (keywords) as you like. You don’t need to sort them into folders because the tags act as dynamic folders. When you want to use a bookmark, just visit your Delicious page and click the link. You can search your links, see all of the links with certain tags, share links with others, etc. The bonus is that since your bookmarks are no longer attached to your browser, you keep one bookmark list for all the different web browsers and computers you use, and you can access your bookmarks when away from your primary computer (at a library, for instance).

Just for fun, I’ve opened up a little Zazzle store where I am selling some of my Mandala Art printed on useful products. I plan to add additional items, more designs, and some other fun stuff, but thought I’d share as soon as I had the basics up.

Take a look and let me know what you think.

create & buy custom products at Zazzle

If you are planning to head out this weekend for a fireworks display, definitely take a minute before you do to read these helpful photography tips from my great friend, Nikki Incandela.

Nikki Incandela Photography: Tips on Capturing July 4th's Fireworks!!

An email I received from the Free Press Action Fund ... It takes just a moment to show your support to the FCC.

The issue of Net Neutrality affects anyone who uses the web for entertainment – or business.

The Email:

"I'm a guy who sees nothing good having come from the Internet. Period." Michael Lynton CEO of Sony Pictures

Typical.

The media exec to the right just launched an attack on the Web, saying that he sees "nothing good having come from the Internet. Period."

But Michael Lynton is just the latest in a line of old media bosses who see the open Internet as a threat — something they need to control in order to keep prices high, access limited and users in check.

Those of us who rely upon the Internet every day now have a chance to tell Michael otherwise:

Make Sure Lynton and His Cronies Don't Stifle the Internet

At this very minute, the Federal Communications Commission is crafting America's first national broadband plan. Whether the plan will give more control over our Internet to the likes of Sony Pictures, Comcast, AT&T, Time Warner Cable and Verizon depends on what we do right now.

These companies' well-heeled lobbyists are flooding the FCC's public docket with comments in support of policies that let them:

• Tilt the Web’s level playing field to favor the Web sites of corporate partners;
• Deploy content-sniffing devices that would randomly open and sift through our private Web communications;
• Impose usage penalties on people who use the Web for more than simple e-mail and Web surfing;
• Block innovative Web services that compete against their phone, cable and entertainment products; and
• Disconnect users for any reason or without justification

Acting FCC chairman Michael Copps has called the creation of the broadband plan "the most formative — indeed, transformative — proceeding ever in the Commission’s history." He added: "The Commission must act to ensure that the genius of the open Internet is not lost."

Copps is right. Michael Lynton is wrong. We need to tell the FCC that a more open open and accessible Internet is a good thing that will revitalize our economy, engage millions more people in our democracy and give new meaning to freedom of speech. And we reject the nonsense that open Internet backers are all conspiring to promote piracy.

It’s time for the FCC to get behind a people-powered vision of 21st-century media media that’s participatory, open and democratic -- and not to hand the keys to the Internet to the old guard.

Tell the FCC: The Internet Is Good for Democracy. Period.

Click on the link above and tell the FCC that our national broadband plan must guarantee an open, fast, affordable and people-powered Internet without corporate gatekeepers.

Thank You,
Timothy Karr
Free Press Action Fund
www.freepress.net

If you’ve recently lost your job, or are just thinking about the future for your career, and wondering if staying in a corporate job is the right thing for your – or if maybe another option exists, I suggest you take an hour and attend Lynn Strigh’s free tele-class. Details from Lynn –>

The Corporate Employee’s “PLAN B” - Transitioning from your corporate job to financial freedom

In order to respond to my clients needs in these uncertain economic times, I am hosting my first F*R*E*E tele-class starting on June 1^st at 1PM EST. 

You will benefit tremendously from this F*R*E*E call if:

(1)  You are currently employed in corporate, but not happy with your job because:

• You are worried about the stability of your job
• There are salary freezes at your company
• Bonuses are being eliminated or reduced
• You are working more hours with less or the same pay
• Your total compensation package is decreasing (Employee contribution for Health Care is increasing, Employer 401(k) match has been eliminated /cut or Pension plan has been eliminated)

(2) Or… You have been laid off/terminated from corporate and are looking for a new opportunity

This tele-conference will run every Monday at 1:00 PM EST starting June 1^st. 

In order to reserve a spot for a tele-class, please send an e-mail to service@corporatemomscoaching.com with your contact information (name, phone & email address).  Once we receive this information, my team will reserve a spot and send a confirmation e-mail to you.  The confirmation e-mail will also include the date and time of the call, plus the dial in number information.

Please Note:  At the present moment, all transactions for this tele-class will be processed through the Corporate Moms Coaching Website.   Because of the great demand for these services, we are launching this tele-class prior to the completion of our rebranding process (website and company name).  So, please know that all corporate employees will benefit from joining this conference call, not just mothers.

Here are the topics I will be touching upon during this 60 minute conference call on June 1^st :

Module #1:  Design your lifestyle (this includes: personal and professional lifestyle) – In this module, we’ll reverse engineer the process in order to determine what is your T*R*U*E lifestyle you want to design for yourself and your family.

Module #2: Corporate VS Entrepreneurial track – In this module, we’ll discuss the Pros and Cons for staying in Corporate and explore what track will help you achieve your lifestyle goals.  As an extra bonus, I’ll give you some secret tips on how to land your next corporate job (even during this recession).

Module #3: Creating your business idea --  In this module, we’ll use three components to determine the perfect business idea that will fuel your passion and your bank account at the same time.

Module #4: Market Research – NOT all business ideas will support your lifestyle and financial goals.  So, prior to taking the next step, we’ll identify your target audience, the services or products your target audience will want to purchase and your competitors who are providing these services.

Module #5: Marketing and Selling ---  In this module, I’ll show you how to become a client magnet to place the right spotlight that will pull your clients towards you.

Module #6: Packages/ Leveraging – In this module, I’ll show you the strategies to position yourself to have multiple streams of income that will recession-proof your business model and your bank account.

Module #7:  Business infrastructure ---  In this module, we’ll discuss what pieces must be in place to support the foundation of your business but won’t bust your budget.

Module #8: Developing a Business Plan – In this module, we’ll pull all of the pieces together from above and create an implementation plan for the next 30, 60, 90, etc. days.

Module #9: Creating the Mindset of a Successful Entrepreneur --  You can have the greatest business idea, marketing tactics, and infrastructure, but if you are lacking in the self-confidence or faith department your business will crash and burn.   In this module, I’ll share the secrets that all successful entrepreneurs must have to not only survive but thrive in their businesses.

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I have now installed BlogEngine.Net on HeatherFloyd.com. I hope to consolidate all my blogging to this location and figure out a way to pull relevant posts out to my various other umbraco websites. We'll see how that goes...

Hmm... As an organizing/efficiency expert, I am a bit skeptical about Eric Abramson's concept of "optimal messiness." - I don't necessarily disagree with his main premise, that over organizing (organizing continually for organizing sake) is detrimental to productivity, but I am afraid that this could become an excuse for people who are in absolutely no danger of being "too organized."

I am not in favor of guilt-tripping people into neatness, and this book will certainly make people who feel shameful about their inadequately organized lives breathe a sigh of relief, but it sort of becomes a useless good feeling if your business is falling apart and you spend hours looking for things each day.

From what I heard on the radio program, this is all common sense and I personally don't know anyone who is missing great business opportunities because they are insistent about tidying their desktop before taking advantage of it. (The only people who could be guilty of such a thing are either procrastinators who are afraid of going after the opportunity, or those that are suffering from some form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.)

But listen to the show yourself and let me know what you think.

WNYC - The Leonard Lopate Show: A Perfect Mess (January 19, 2007)

It may seem counterintuitive that disorder can lead to efficiency and success. But in A Perfect Mess, management professor Eric Abrahamson argues that messy systems can lead to better solutions and greater cost effectiveness than highly organized ones.

Originally posted to floydinnovations.blogspot.com, transferred 12/11/2009