| How to Present Yourself on the Web - a Lifetime Learners seminar | |
| Last update: 04/19/2009 | This is a page on
Marilyn's real website.
A real website requires special software and special skills and money. Today there are many other ways to have a web presence. |
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What you can do with one
Yahoo ID Sign up at www.yahoo.com |
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What you can do with one Google ID Sign up at www.google.com |
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Combined approaches |
| Janet's Greece | |
| To help finance her
trips to Greece, Janet Kroll takes others along, serving as their
trip planner and guide. Janet has a friend who has a real website,
who created pages for her on that website. http://www.techforecast.com/Janet.htm |
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| She also became a
regular in the Lonely Planet Thorn Tree forums http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/profile.jspa?userID=147202 |
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| Nancy's Silver | |
| Nancy Gluck is an
authority on American silverplate, shown on her real website:
http://www.silverseason.com/
The site has links to photos at Flickr under the commtabl name. There is also a link to ebay, where she sells silver and books and other "accumulated stuff." |
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| Nancy also has a Book & Reader Silver Thread book blog. Note that readers of the blog can also post comments. See comments under "What I read in January 2009." | |
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| A blog (short for web log) is a kind of website designed for daily entries. Anyone can have a free blog. Posting from anywhere is very easy. Journalists with laptops can post their news instantaneously. Compared to a real website, design possibilities are limited. | |
| It takes a few minutes to create a blog at www.blogger.com or www.wordpress.com | |
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Blogger blogs |
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| The website of the Westport Y's Women isn't a "real website," it's a blog. | |
| A Westport Life is a blog by an anonymous woman who posts her thoughts about everyday life. | |
| Both of those blogs use the same template. Both of the blogs below use the same template. | |
| Mal-Sal-Hal is the blog of a young family, with photos and videos. | |
| We will create a blog post right now on my little Blogger blog. | |
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Wordpress blogs |
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| In addition to the real website of Lifetime Learners, there is an Announcements blog. | |
| We will log in to my MinnieBakker Wordpress blog and look at the many possible themes. | |
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Margaret and Helen
- "best friends for
sixty years and counting" post their thoughts, and they even have an
online store. Margaret's grandson started the blog for them and
tells why
and how. See the RSS feed options. |
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Social Networking |
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Twitter provides a way to tell
your friends what you're doing every minute of the day. Linkedin is used mainly by professional people who use it to maintain professional contacts. Facebook is populated mainly by adolescents, but you might find "friends" there too. |
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Facebook
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| Now we'll log in to my
Facebook page and see how it works. See Online Safety Tips for Facebook Fogeys |
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| See Tips for nonprofits. | |