Computer "Pat Tricks" - Time saving tips in less than 10 minutes
Powerpoint tip in 60 seconds - use the B key
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Smartphone tips:
Internet security tips:
- Lie about your mother's maiden name when talking to banks (short version)
- Lie about your mother's maiden name when talking to banks (longer version)
LinkedIn training expert tips in video and text:
- LinkedIn Speaker Videos
- Fun and cute - Deal or No Deal suitcase, featuring Mom as a model (2 minutes 30 seconds)
- Tip - Vin isn't the same as Vincent (50 seconds)
- Tip on LinkedIn shortcoming - keep a list (1 minute 35 seconds)
- LinkedIn for Sales and Marketing using Deb example (2 minutes)
- Real example using LinkedIn for Business Development with Walter (1 minute 30 seconds)
- Why everyone joins LinkedIn (1 minute)
- Joke at beginning of LinkedIn keynote (1 minute 40 seconds)
- LinkedIn training tips from Social Media blog
- Don't pay LinkedIn $25 - see "out of network" profiles with this trick
- Misspelling your last name in your LinkedIn Profile? Adding your maiden name?
- Text description in blog at LinkedIn tip - misspell last name
- Elearning (screen shots) video at
- Misspell last name Elearning (screen shot) video (2 minutes 29 seconds)
- Speaking version of the video at
- Tip - Misspell your last name? (2 minutes 36 seconds)
- Quick hack videos:
- LinkedIn training - adding alternate email addresses for yourself
- LinkedIn training - giving LinkedIn a list of email addresses in a text file
- LinkedIn training - what if I have two accounts (2 accounts)?
- Note about the quick hacks above - These are just quick hacks so that people can see how to find difficult items on LinkedIn. They are not my best Elearning work by a long shot, since that would have required a lot of extra time refining the audio and adding in some special effects to make it more interesting. I spent over 15 hours working around the Camtasia audio bug and the Screencast download bugs.
- Text descriptions
- LinkedIn Quick Start Tutorial - the #2 or #3 match on Google for LinkedIn tutorial
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Facebook tips:
- Facebook tip - how do I promote an event
- Facebook tip - put in your maiden name
- Facebook tip - put in misspellings of your name
- Facebook - create a fan page for your business
- Facebook mobile warning - Facebook publishes your cell phone number
- Facebook tip - creating an event page
- Facebook tip - the power of privacy settings
- Facebook tip - move the mini-thumbnail in your status update picture
- Facebook - how do I see only status updates
- how do remove things in Facebook like "is now friends with", "became a fan of", etc
- Facebook application cause you to get a virus? Facebook virus from applications
Learn Something Cool In 2 Minutes:
- Take a black negative of a picture and set it up so that if you blink you can see the original picture (not Beyonce)
- Backup your Verizon phone numbers for free
- Send text messages to cell phones from email
- Make phone calls from the road more easily
- How to find out if an email is a hoax
- bit.ly custom name tip in 70 seconds
- bit.ly using, then creating the bit.ly bookmarklet
- Powerpoint tip: jump to a slide number
- Google images: Find images & pictures on the internet, cool trick by 617-PATRICK
- LinkedIn recommendations: sort and move
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