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Making the right tech choices
David Strom
For Gateway Computer Club
(310) 857-6867
Remember these?
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Who am I?
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My own bad choices
• First marriage
Buy high, sell low, avoid capital gains!
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Collecting 8 track tapes –
not CDs
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Tech is not like fine wine
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Bad email choices!
Time to acquire 50 million users
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Agenda
• Recommended online info sources
• Don’t believe everything on the Internet
• Facebook dos and don’ts
• How to get started with Twitter
• How to get broadband
• Telephone service choices
Two biggest info sources
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What do these people have in common?
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Things you need to know to survive online today
• Google Gmail for email
• Google Alerts
Google Alerts
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Managing your social networks and staying in touch with your family
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Fastest growing population segment
55-65 year old women!
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Facebook makes it hardsometimes
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Facebook “marriage”
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Other no-nos
• Keep politics, religion and sex out
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Facebook dos
• Don’t be a stalker
• Use it to continue in-person conversations with your family
• Don’t worry about the “numbers game”
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Average age on Facebook: 38Average age on Twitter: 39Average age on LinkedIn: 44
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The basics
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Key Twitter To-dos
• Follow the right people in your industry
• Don’t get too caught up in tweeting your every movement
• Look at what businesses are doing with it
• Use it to start conversations with people you want to get to know
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How not to use Twitter!
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How should you get online?
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How you should NOT get online:
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Home telephone choices
• Ma Bell ($$$$)
• Vonage ($40/mo)
• Your cable company ($30/mo)
• Skype or Magic Jack ($3/mo)
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David Strom, [email protected], (310) 857-6867
These slides can be found here:http://slideshare.net/davidstrom