A few weeks ago, I shared that I’d submitted a webinar presentation for the Jamboree Webinar Extension Series the Southern California Genealogical Society hosts. I am so pleased to share that my webinar was accepted! On Saturday, October 5th, 2013 I will present “Genealogy News at Your Fingertips: From RSS Feeds to Digital Magazine Platforms.” […]
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Wow! What a great couple of months it has been! I’ve recently completed my 4-part webinar series with DearMyrtle on using WordPress for your genealogy website and have been ever so pleased with the outcome. Myrt is a wonderful hostess and everyone’s questions throughout the series really helped shape the content. Thanks to everyone! I
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Don’t you just love it when you visit a library and they are on the ball when it comes to using technology? I visited the Tennessee State Library & Archives yesterday and was happy to learn that they now have a digital book scanner. Scanning book pages to USB is a dream come true –
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Thanks again to all that turned out for last night’s webinar with DearMyrtle on using WordPress for your genealogy site. In this part of the series, we focused on using the self-hosted version of WordPress. From installing it on your server , going through the initial setup checklist, to choosing from all the plugins, it
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Last night we had another great webinar on WordPress! We had around 75 attendees or so as I checked throughout the session. While last week we introduced everyone to WordPress and looked at the .com hompage, this time we really spent time going through most of the features of the Dashboard. We covered a lot,
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Tonight was a great night! I completed my very first full webinar and had the opportunity to start teaching how to use WordPress! Many thanks to DearMyrtle for offering it and extending the invitation to me to teach it. During tonight’s webinar, I shared information on the history of WordPress, it’s overall philosphy and gave
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Today I am appearing on an episode of FGS Radio to discuss how WordPress can be used for your genealogical society website (or, historical society, family society, USGenWeb site, etc.). I am delighted to have this opportunity to share with anyone whose interested, my love of WordPress! The show starts at 2pm Eastern Time, and
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Can you say ecstatic! That is the feeling I am having this weekend after my geneabuddy Billie gave me a microfilm reader. She got it from a library that was closing several years ago. Finding herself not using it any longer, during a recent conversation we had about microfilm, she said she’d be willing to
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Today I learned of a website analytics software package called Woopra that is a very interesting application for sure! The premise of it is that you install a tracking script on your site, and you are then able to view your site visitors “in real time” as they navigate around. As a test, I set
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I heart the Tennessee State Library & Archives 🙂 This week they announced on their blog the new availability of two microfilm scanners attached to computers to allow for digital capture. I was quite happy to hear the news because I have been wanting this for years now. The Nashville Public Library has two
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