Documents for Emailing Attachments

I have updloaded the documents that explain how to email an attachment using GMAIL or Hotmail. I have uploaded these documents to my GMAIL docments area. I have setup these documents so that you don't need a login ID for GMAIL.

These documents are the same documents I emailed the group, but I wanted to put them out on the internet so that we have them in a central location.

Here are the links:

• Email attachments using Hotmail: http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0BzLD5kNjIMyMYWZhM2M3ZjUtZWNkOC00ZjQ0LWIwNWQtY2I5MjMwNzBiMjky&hl=en
• Email attachments using GMAIL: http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0BzLD5kNjIMyMZGJkN2ZhNmYtMGYyYi00YWY2LWJhNzktYjE1NGVlYjk3NTM3&hl=en

Have a fun day..

August 27th Meeting on Emailing Attachments

I wanted to post an update on our meeting last night. I brought my laptop and we went through the steps for emailing an attachment in GMAIL. This went very well. I was able to answer questions and we had good dialogue regarding GMAIL and its features.

We also discussed some future topics for upcoming meetings. Here are some of the topics that were suggested: Using a Web Cam with Skype, Facebook basics, and Twitter basics. If you have a topic suggestion, why don't you add a comment here on our blog or email me your suggestion.

The food, service and free WIFI was great at the Chocolate Cafe.

Our next scheduled meeting will be on Sept 10, 2009 at the Chocolate Cafe in Greeneville, TN and will start at 5:00 pm. I look forward to seeing you there.

Video Tutorial Links for Sending Email Attachments

We are scheduled to cover emailing resumes using Gmail or Hotmail at tomorrows meeting. To help jump start your learning I went out and found some youtube videos that should help give you a basic understanding. We can always go over any questions you may have tomorrow at our meeting.

Gmail Tutorial Links:

• Overview of Gmail – Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvWsYk531mo
• Organizing your Gmail – Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lErySsL-Kwg&feature=related
• Settings in Gmail – Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk058WJpDL4&feature=related
• Composing email in Gmail: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovbLwjiME1M
• Using the Calendar feature in Gmail: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqcM_hhiMlI&feature=channel

Hotmail Tutorial Links:

• How to send an attachment in Hotmail: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIWNmJq6VQA
• How to send email attachments: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jGRBzGTiSc&feature=related
• Retrieving/viewing an attachment that was sent to you in hotmail: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnW4mmqH7AM&feature=related
  

Windows XP File/Folder System Basics Links:

• Detailed instructions of working with Windows XP file system: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-j0yF7E43s
• Search your computer for files: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4fCXfpkoQM

You can always go out to youtube.com and perform a search for other tutorials, but these are the ones I found that I thought would be helpful for the group. This will help you to have a better understand of how to email a resume.

It is a good idea to try and practice emailing a file to someone as a test before tomorrows meeting. This way you can see if you are able to do so, and what questions may arise.

I look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow evening.

Emailing Attachments - Resumes and Photos

Hello. I want to get a jump start on the topic for our upcoming meeting, "Emailing a Resume". Which is also known as emailing an attachment.

Attachments can be lots of different types of files. Here are a few of the most common type of attachments:

• Resumes (Word documents, Works documents, PDF files, etc..)
• photos (jpg files, gif files, tiff files, png files, bmp files, etc..)
• videos (Flash files, Widows Media, MPE4, etc..)
• music files (mp3 files, wma files, wave files, etc..)
• zip file (these are files that are generally compressed so that the file size is reduce for sending/emailing)
• just plain old text files (no formatting, just straight text).

We are going to focus on emailing Microsoft Word documents, since that is what one of our members needs to do

Now there are lots of different email programs and email service providers out there. We are going to focus on hotmail and gmail for this meeting.

I have gone out on youtube.com and performed a search for some video tutorials that cover how to email an attachment. Here is a list of the links that I found:

• Resume tips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8QNiZxcvpg
• Sending photo attachments in hotmail: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOeaIs5jDko
• Sending attachments in hotmail, yahoo mail, and gmail: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jGRBzGTiSc&feature=related

Video tutorials are nice. They allow you to see the process being done step by step. They don't allow you to ask questions, but it is a really good tool for getting started or as a review on how to do something. So check out these video links and see if you are able to send your own resume or photos. You can practice sending stuff to a friend or family member.

I also performed a Google search and found some web sites that have written instructions on how to email an attachment. Here are some of those links:

• Emailing Hotmail attachments: http://www.ehow.com/how_2064426_add-attachment-hotmail.html
• File size limitations with Hotmail: http://email.about.com/cs/hotmailtips/qt/et061202.htm

If you have specific questions that you would like to cover in our next meeting, please email me or call me ahead of time so I can make sure I can cover your question(s) and provide any resources (links to video tutorials, web sites with the information you need, etc..) that may be helpful.

Of course I would invite you to go out to your favorite search engine (Google, Yahoo, Ask, or Bing) and search on this topic and see what web sites you find that may be helpful to you and the group. Also consider searching Youtube for other tutorial videos that may be helpful. If you find anything, let the group know by posting the links to our blog or emailing me the links.

I look forward to seeing you all at our next meeting.

Become a Follower of this blog

Some of you have expressed that you don't know what it means to be a follower of this blog and how to perform the steps in becoming a follower.

A Follower of a blog is someone who basically is showing their interest in the blog and is hopefully reading the blog. Think about it like a subscription to a newspaper, with two big exceptions: the blog is a free subscription (becoming a Follower of the blog) and not a paid subscription (newspaper). The newspaper company knows it has x amount of subscribers and they hope that all the subscribers are reading their newspaper, but there is no way of knowing that sure. A blog is also on the internet (online content) and not in printed form, like a newspaper.

You can clearly see the advantages of a blog. It is free and it is in an electronic format so it is not being printed on paper that uses a lot of vital resources, that we can use for other uses.

Now, I'm not against newspapers at all. I actually love newspapers and I love holding them in my hands and reading them and smelling the paper. I even use them in my garden. But the world is changing, and this one of the changes.

I have written a simple Tech Note (Technical Note - A document explaining the steps/procedure for accomplishing a certain task) that outlines the basic steps for become a follower of this blog. You can view this document by going to the link on my web site: http://pwcreations.net/Elevate/PDFs/BlogFollower.pdf.

Upcoming Meeting

Just wanted to post a quick note about our next meeting. It will be August 27, 2009 at the Chocolate Cafe in Greeneville, TN at 5:00 pm. Remember they are the 2nd and 4th Thursday of every month.

I'm trying to put together what topics we'll be covering and learning about at this meeting. Once I have the details together, I'll post them. Stay tuned..

Facebook Sharing

For those of you who have facebook accounts you can now share one of my blog posts on your facebook with ease. I added a facebook sharing link to the bottom of each blog post. Go to the bottom of the blog post you want to share and just click on the link the "Share on: facebook". A facebook permission window will appear. Grant permissions and the blog post will be shared on your facebook wall/account. Now, that is pretty easy. Have fun.

Meeting Notes - Our First Meeting - 08-13-09

We had our first meeting yesterday evening. It was a small group (4 people), but this gave us the opportunity to do a lot a sharing about who we are, what are the goals of the group, what we are looking to get out of these meetings, how often to meet, and a question and answer session about some computer technology.

First, I want to cover the business stuff regarding our group meetings. We decided that we would meet twice a month. The 2nd and 4th Thursday of every month. The time will be 5:00 pm, and the place will be "The Chocolate Cafe", where we held our meeting yesterday evening. We all agreed that we really like The Chocolate Cafe. The food is really good, service is great and the place is clean, nice decor, and it has a really nice atmosphere.

We also talked about the name of the group, "Elevate User Group". Most people don't know what a user group is, so we decided that we should make the name more descriptive. We decided on "Free Computer Learning" (Leigh came up with this name. Thanks Leigh). We not only wanted to be clear about the fact that the meeting is focused on computer learning, but that is also a free meeting for our local community.

We also discussed ways of making more people aware of what we are doing and hopefully get more people to attend our meetings. We feel that there may be other people who would not only enjoy attending these meetings, but would also find these meetings helpful in learning more about the computer. We wanted various ways of reaching people that involved the internet and non-internet (such as newspapers, newsletters, flyers, etc..). A lot of the people we are trying to reach, may not use the internet very much or at all.

Here are some of the ways we discussed: letting the local Moose Lodge know about what we are doing and see if they would put something in their newsletter (Larry said he would take this task on), seeing if the Greeneville Sun would do a write up about what we are doing (this was a great suggestion offered by David), and putting something on Craig's List (my suggestion).

Our question and answer session covered these topics: what is twitter, what is a blog, how to email resumes, computer hardware failures and software scanning.

Some topics for future meeting would be: covering the basics for Microsoft Word (MS Word), Microsoft Excel (MS Excel), Microsoft PowerPoint (MS PowerPoint), how to email a resume or other files, how to find information on the internet, GMAIL, and navigating Windows XP folder system.

I let everyone know that I could cover the basics on these topics to get folks started, but they would really need to continue their learning at home or somewhere else. I also expressed to everyone that there are free tutorials on the internet and there are a lot of video tutorials on youtube.com that are free and very helpful, but they would be required to follow-up on this on their own time. I can provide some links for everyone as part of the meeting when we cover various topics.

One of our goals was to get everyone using this blog. We talked about how to access it and how we could use this blog as our online repository of information, but also as a way for the group to communicate between meetings. So, hopefully everyone at the meeting last night is reading this – smile.

All in all, I feel that this was a really good start. I'm not sure where we are going with this, but the journey has begun.....

Reminder - Our First Meeting is this evening

Come join us this evening for our first Elevate user group. This is a local community minded group that will focus on sharing Information Technology and building a local community group.

Come share your thoughts around what you would like to learn more about or share with the group at future meetings. We can cover topics like: email, surfing the internet, blogs, twitter, using Word or what ever we are interested in learning more about.

Chocolate Cafe & Coffee Co

665 Erwin Hwy

Greeneville, TN 37745

Phone: 423-638-6221

Time: 5:00 pm.

Come out and network with us and be a part of building some new.

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone this evening.

Have a great day!

Linked Asheville - Monthly Face-to-Face

Yesterday evening I attended my first Linked Asheville meeting. I really enjoyed myself. The group was an interesting and lots of fun. They were open and interested in talking about what they do for a living. We exchanged business cards and shared a few interesting and funny stories.

I have gone to other meet and greet type meetings; they were no where as interesting or fun as this group. So, if you are looking to network with other business people and enjoy doing it, consider checking out the Linked Asheville group. You can join LinkedIn.com for free and then join the Linked Asheville group. They have discussion areas and they post up coming meeting here.

Have a great day!

What is a User Group

I have been putting up flyers around town about the upcoming "Elevate" user group meeting and I have had a lot of people ask me "What is a user group". I thought I would offer some kind explanation here.

User Group meetings are usually public meeting/events that are focused on a topic. Usually they are computer topics. People come together at these meetings and learn more about the topic. There is usually someone giving a presentation and maybe even demonstration.

The user group (Elevate) that I'm trying to start will focus on computer skills. Such as using Word or maybe surfing the internet, etc.. I'm looking at these meeting as an educational event. A way of sharing computer information. It is my hope with this first meeting that we can come up with a list of topics to cover at future meetings.

To see a definition of the word "user group" on Wikipedia web site, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_group.

I hope this helps some.

I'm looking forward to seeing you at the first Elevate user group meeting

Some Things of Interest ??

I went to a user group meeting in Johnson City, TN about a week ago. The user group is called Geek South. Nice group of folks. They had one of their members (Ben Collins) do a presentation on High Dynamic Range (HDR) Images. It was really interesting and he did a good job. He posted some HDR related links on the Geek South web site (geeksouth.com) and one of the links was to Dave Hill's web site. Dave creates some amazing digital photos. Here is a link to his web site: http://www.davehillphoto.com.

Kick Off Meeting - Our First Meeting

This will be our first meeting for our newly formed Elevate User Group (EUG) meeting. At this first meeting I want everyone to get a chance to meet one another and to talk about what people are looking to get from this user group and hopefully come up with a list topics to cover at future meetings.

The meeting will be held on August 13th, 2009 at 5:00 pm and we'll be at the Chocolate Cafe & Coffee Co, 665 Erwin Hwy, Greeneville, TN 37745. Phone: 423-638-6221.

WIFI is available.

If you have any comments or questions, leave a post here.