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Meetings R Marsha For sure meetings and training are a huge part of my job and many of my off hours as well. So what do YOU do during meetings? As a presenter, it used to annoy me when administrators...
View ArticleDropbox v Google Docs
Not all technology eliminates frustration and irritation from my life, but for the most part these two applications do. Although I use Google Docs almost daily, I should be a Dropbox salesperson. For...
View ArticleCreating Teasers
If you are kind enough to read this blog, then you know it is an experiment in how to work with blogs and websites. Yesterday at National History Day California, the technician, Josh, tried to teach...
View ArticleSocial Media
I met Mike Lebsock on Facebook when he responded to a post. He was wearing a red colonial jacket with a white ruffly shirt. I was intrigued. I looked on his wall and found out he was a social...
View ArticleJournal anyone?
Some people froth at the mouth — at a meeting, a party, on the phone, or during a disagreement leaving the non-frothers fettered in foam, and dying to excuse themselves. Ops, sometimes I am the frothy...
View ArticleUbiquitous
ACADEMIC VOCABULARY Academic Vocabulary is one of the six major shifts in language arts standards as states are moving to implement the Common Core Standards. Teaching academic vocabulary is going to...
View ArticleWriting to a Prompt: A Complicated Subject
The WP Prompt: Take a complicated subject you know more about than most people, and explain it to a friend who knows nothing about it at all. If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about,...
View ArticleTrackbacks, Pings
… [Trackback]… [...] There you will find 77615 more Infos: tchistorygal.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/spam-and-stats/ [...]… Not Spam | Delete Permanently “A trackback is an acknowledgment. This...
View ArticleInternet Purgatory Solutions
I’m beginning to feel jinxed as I struggle technologically to blog. First I had my problems just learning the ropes, then I started jumping unannounced and uninvited into people’s spam boxes. That...
View ArticleWhy Fly Through Cyberspace With a Vanity Blog?
There are basically only two things one can do with a blog, read them or write them, but most bloggers do both. I just learned that what we have here a vanity blog. It’s called vanity because Marsha...
View ArticleYou’re Invited to Renee’s Online Birthday Party
Featured Blog Who’s Renee? I started following Renee and her mom’s blog 6 month’s and 2 weeks ago, making her the 8th blog I followed. I followed her because she gave me one of my first awards...
View ArticleSUNDAY POST : Concept
Concept is hard to visualize. It can be anything and nothing all at the same time. Without concepts, we can work, and play, but we can’t do it sustainably effectively or with passion. Most of the...
View ArticleComment Competition Ends Midnight Dec. 31, 2012 PST
Autty Jade has taken up the challenge. For months she has led the pack for numbers of comments – and numbers of words, too. Today, her record was broken by Ralph with a total of 55 comments to...
View ArticleAnother New Career: Designing Brochure Covers
I decided instead of not posting while I’m working, I would bring you into my workspace. Although I am not a graphic artist, I am designing covers for a new brochure for California Council for the...
View ArticleMy First Photography Up for Sale on Fine Art America Website
I saw Enice’s photography on this website http://fineartamerica.com/, so I thought I’d give it a try as well. So far I only have 10 pictures posted, but they are also advertised on my Facebook page....
View ArticleUsing the Creative Cloud by Adobe
As many of you know, the job of designing a brochure somehow dropped on my unartistic shoulders. I created something using the Creative Cloud for our Board Meeting on Saturday, and received immediate...
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