What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
ChaCha has gone from a really great service to a mostly entertainment service to completely useless to me. I have given them multiple opportunities to redeem themselves but they continue to disappoint. Most recently I was in West Bend, Wisconsin visiting my parents when my mom told me she thought it might be fun to go to Germanfest. Only one problem, she wasn't 100% sure it was taking place the weekend I was visiting. Having only my iPhone with me, I did a quick Google voice search and within seconds was on the Downtown West Bend events page. But shame,… Continue reading...
Up until a week ago, I believed that Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook, had everything handed to him on a silver platter. He just whipped up this little thing called The Facebook (that's what it was called back then) on his laptop in Harvard and then just sat back and stockpiled the money that poured in. Then I read The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World and my entire perspective changed. There was nothing easy about how Mark Zuckerberg got to where he is today. He flat out earned it. Period. Crazy or… Continue reading...
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Here is this week's roundup of Twitter highlights posted from my Twitter account: RT @Brandswag: 26 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed http://ow.ly/2t6Cp Love this! RT @MegFlyn: Reinventing E-mail, One Message At a Time http://nyti.ms/9SdgsZ --- a little tidbit into bit.ly via @nytimesbits Sweet! @DaveOBrienHank just called me to wish me happy birthday. Thanks Dave! Any tips for a 40-club noobie? Celebrating my 40th at Scotty's @brewhouse. Can't wait to try the Irish Stout burger. Score on the "Voices of the 70s" CD from Mrs. Noobie. Rocking out now to Van Morrison, James Taylor and Don McLean :)… Continue reading...
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Q: Do you use an online fax service? If not, do you know about any of them? I am thinking about getting rid of our landline, and I need a solution for the faxes. A: I use the free version of eFax. Pretty decent but for inbound faxes but I still use a real fax machine in the rare cases I send an outbound fax. A potential downside to the free account is that you usually won't get a local number. In fact, I think the eFax number I was assigned has its area code based in Washington. It still… Continue reading...
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It's no secret. I despise PowerPoint presentations. They are almost always jammed with too many words jammed between too many bullets. And they serve as a crutch for presenters who feel the audience will be more informed if they can read along with what the presenter is saying. I have probably given over 50 (maybe even closer to 100) presentations since starting Noobie 4 years ago and I can count on one hand the number of times I've used a PowerPoint presentation. And all of those were against my better judgment or the result of peer pressure. So why am… Continue reading...
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