Internet Radio for Women

Announcing a new weekly half hour internet radio show for women called Balance and Wisdom.(www.balanceandwisdom.com). Experts from across the country will be joining the hosts of the show, Barbara C. Phillips and Joanie Winberg to talk with YOU about topics such as:

• Health
  
• Relationships
  
• Money
  
• Business
• Sex
• Travel
• and much more

Join us at BalanceAndWisdom.com ~ Internet Radio for Women!

Moving to a new home

In order to provide the level of information that we felt was good, we have been toying with the idea of moving this blog (and our other blogs) for some time now. And so now we have!

The new blog is located at http://bizrecommendations.olderwiserwomen.com/ . What's good about this is we are able to add pages, make categories, and even have a search function, all which makes it easier for you to us and find the information that you are looking for.

I encourage you to visit, subscribe to the feed or bookmark the page, share the information with others, and be sure and leave your comments. We will see you there!

Barbara C. Phillips, NP
OlderWiserWomen™
Business Recommendations from OlderWiserWomen™

News Bytes From the Web by Jim Edwards

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News Bytes From The Web

- by Jim Edwards

© Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved
http://www.thenetreporter.com
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* Sony Offers "VoIP" *

Electronics giant, Sony, jumped on the VoIP (Voice over IP) bandwagon recently to offer long distance calls through the Internet.

They join a long list of providers competing for your Internet phone call business, including: Skype, Google, and AOL.

Sony claims their service includes a video component that rates superior to all other offerings.

Their IVE (Internet Video Everywhere) can also make video calls to video enabled mobile phones, telephones and other devices intended for video conferencing.

In fact, the IVE "Meeting Room" enables you to hold video conference calls with up to six users just as you would a regular telephone conference call.

Users also receive a unique "video phone number" which other users can call and, if you don't answer, leave you a video message.

The basic plan comes free of charge and goes as high as $20 a month for the group calling and video "meeting" room features.

* Camtasia Alternative *

Camtasia software rates as the 800-lb. gorilla of the screen-capture software market.

It enables you to capture your screen, narrate the action, and publish your videos in multiple formats (including publishing to FLASH for streaming on the Web).

Unfortunately, Camtasia comes with a stiff $300 price tag which often inhibits the casual user from getting the software.

A less expensive alternative can be found at www.AimOneSoft.com which publishes the Aim One Screen Recorder.

This software captures either the full screen, window, or a fixed region of your screen as an AVI or WMV video file.

This type of software can make the creation of software tutorials and other computer training a breeze.

The one drawback to the software is that it does not convert to flash, so that limits your video delivery over the Web to the WMV file format (which will exclude MAC users).

* Urban Legends Reference Page *

Log on to www.Snopes.com and find a wealth of just the type of information that nobody should pass along to anyone else.

Bill Gates giving away a million dollars if you forward this email to 12 people?

AOL offering free housing to all Web designers?

Yahoo and Google founders set for a mud-wrestling match next Saturday with a live simulcast on both sites?

Do you need to drink 8 glasses of water per day to avoid dehydration?

The Web makes it almost too easy to create and pass along rumors, legends and outright falsehood (along with destructive "info-viruses" that cause people to delete important files from their computers and encourage unwitting friends to do the same).

The next time you hear something that sounds odd (such as Microsoft is preparing to market the "iLoo", and Internet capable toilet), you should log on to Snopes.com and check it out before taking it as "truth."

A few keywords in the search box will let you track down any errant stories and check your facts before passing along the message to your friends.

The site also offers a free update by email service so you can stay current on all the latest gossip and nonsense floating around online.

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Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the creator of an amazing course that will teach you step-by- step and click-by-click how to finally create your own money-making mini-sites...

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Consider the Product Factory!

I recently completed the Product Factory where I worked on the development of ActingYourAge! It was a wonderful process (even though I missed the last two weeks due to a family emergency)! Often times we are so full of ideas it is difficult to get anything done. The PF breaks everything down into managable chunks. Your team becomes your mastermind team, the entire product factory gives you honest feedback and support, and you end your 90 days with a completed project.

I am looking forward to participating again! I highly recommend this program!

Barbara C. Phillips, NP
OlderWiserWomen™

What happens when your computer crashes?

You may have already read, but the OlderWiserWomen computer suffered a hard drive failure...on Thanksgiving Eve! No fun at all. I was lucky enough that we had more than one in the house and my partner insists that we share.

However...all my work in locked in a non-functional disk. Fortunately, I did backup. New drive should arrive tomorrow and hopefully I'll be able to restore without difficulty.

Do you have a plan in place? What kind of back ups are you doing? How often? Do you keep a copy of your back up off premises?

You can bet my plan is getting an update! It's true...it's not a matter of if, but when...

Do you have problems getting projects done?

I dont know about you, but sometimes its so easy to get off tasks and just not accomplish the things that I want to.

Well right now, Im participating in something called the 90 Day Product Factory. Its been wonderful. Its like a giant, supportive mastermind group where everyone is working hard to come out with a product in 90 days or less. Many are producing more than one. The support, education, and partners are wonderful. I can hardly wait to bring everyone the new resources, partners and products that Im discovering (and making).

But thats not what this article is about. In the Product Factory, I learned about something called an Integrity Day and its been awesome! What is it?

Basically, you commit to something that you are going to accomplish and then check in with the group (via a bridge line) on an hourly basis. For example, you commit to say...writing an article or a page on you website or even clean your bathroom. You call in on the top of the hour, say what you are going to do, and then hang up. The entire hourly call lasts 5 minutes or less each hour. When you hang up, you actually do what you said you would. When you call back in the next hour, you report what you have gotten done and tell them what you will do in the next hour. People get amazing amounts of work done!

Why?

First of all, you get totally focused on what you want to get done. Secondly, you are committing to what you want to do to a group of people not your partner or friends who may let you off the hook. What happens if you dont follow through? No one gets on your case...chances are you will do that yourself. Its your own word, your integrity that is at stake.

Give it a try...I think you too will be impressed. Personally, this is something I would like to keep going long after the completion of the Product Factory.

And by the way, check out the Product Factory. Its amazing.

Barbara
OlderWiserWomen

Building Your Own Website.

This is the course I needed a few years ago. I love this course and reference it frequently. While I do lots of reading, the videos are excellent in showing you step by step how to do something.

I think Jim talks about it clearer than I can, so here's some information from him. If I can answer any questions about this, don't hesitate to ask.

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Can You Really Get Your Own Website?

- by Jim Edwards

(c) Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved
http://www.7DayeBook.com

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Despite the fact that most of us take the Internet for granted, it still holds a lot of mystery, even for people who use it every day.

Plenty of people surf the web, send email, get news, check stock information, and use instant messenger, but the thought of putting up their own web pages leaves them shaking with fear.

However, with all the changes online in the last few years, putting up your own website rates easier than ever and creating any website breaks down to 5 main elements.

** HTML Pages:

Seven or eight years ago it cost $75 an hour to get a web designer to hand-code an html document for you to display on the Web.

A simple website used to cost thousands of dollars.

Now, software will do it for you better, faster and for less than the cost of dinner and movie.

In fact, Microsoft Word (the ever-popular word processing program from Mr. Bill Gates) allows you to convert your word processing documents to html pages automatically.

They may not be as "s~xy" as a high powered web-designer's work, but my experience shows that the slicker pages with all kinds of dancing and flashing "junk" don't do as well as the sites that load fast and get to the point!

Bottom line: After just some minimal instruction, if you can use a word processor, you can create your own Web pages and link them together to form an effective Web "site."

** Domain and Website Hosting:

Domain names used to cost $70 or more to register for a year, but now you can get your own dot-com for only $8.95 per year at www.GoDaddy.com.

I personally paid more than $100 a month for basic website hosting back in 1998, but you can get better, more full- featured service now for less than $10 a month!

In fact, for smaller sites, you can get a domain name AND a year's hosting at www.DotEasy.com for only $25 a year.

** FTP To Your Web Server:

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) intimidates people more than any other part of the website building process... probably because it *sounds* intimidating.

The word "Protocol" makes me think of some dreadful medical procedure out of a Frankenstein movie!

Yet FTP is simply the process of transferring (uploading) your web pages from your computer to another computer called a Web "server."

A Web server is just a computer permanently connected to the Internet to "serve" files to your website visitors.

That's all it is... just another computer that Web surfers connect to in order to view your Web pages.

Go to www.SmartFTP.com for a free program that works virtually identically to "Windows Explorer" and allows you to just "drag and drop" html files to your Web server.

** Pay Me!

If you wanted to accept credit cards on your website five or six years ago, it cost hundreds of dollars just to apply and it felt like you needed a National Security clearance to get accepted for a merchant account.

Now you can quickly, easily, and securely accept credit card and even check payments through your website with no monthly fees.

Check out PayPal.com, ClickBank.com, and PaySystems.com for more information.

** Targeted Traffic:

Unless your Website exists strictly to serve family or friends, eventually you'll need some traffic.

Hundreds of books exist to teach you how to get website traffic from free search engines, your own affiliate sales force, publishing articles online, and even how to quickly get hundreds of other sites to link to you.

No matter how you choose to get traffic, remember, "All clicks are not created equal!"

The key is to only pay for tightly targeted traffic with a specific interest in what you sell on your website.

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Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the creator of an amazing course that will teach you step-by-step and click-by-click how to finally create your own money-making mini-sites...

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"Finally! A Quick and Easy Way For YOU to Painlessly Set Up Your OWN Moneymaking 'Mini' Websites... Without Being a Computer Geek, Buying Expensive Software, or Paying
Outrageous Fees To A Webmaster!"

Click Here => http://www.MiniSiteCreator.com
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