Hi all,
Have you iGoogled yet?
No it's not some sort of weird eye condition, it's another feature of the Google search engine many have no idea even exists.
The fundamental premise is simple: you customise the home page with what ever elements are most useful and interesting to you. Big deal? The big deal is that google effectively store that information and that "home page" if you like is available on any PC when you log into Google.
Its a great feature and very useful.
For instance, as described in a previous post around how to deal with email I have;
A view of my Gmail inbox - so I don't have to go and look anywhere else, it's right there in my browser, I have my Google calender - which I put my daily exercise and positive affirmations into (which get SMS'ed to my phone every day - but thats a topic for another day :-), I have a date and time gadet, top stories news feed from CNN, NASA image of the day (stars & planets are quite cool up close!), weather for the day, car pictures, how to of the day and a really cool thing called "my gadget". My Gadgets are also quite new but really quite funky. Personalise a component, have it in front of you daily and share it with loved ones if you so desire. In short real cool.
Another thing that can be quite useful if you are moving around a bit, is the web history. Like your browser on your Pc can store where you have been, likewise so can iGoogle.
Here's a great pracitical example. You've gone to someone's home to talk about the business. You don't have a laptop or your own machine, however they have their PC. You know that you have recently visited all of the useful Photomax and GPN sites before, so now you go to Google, you login to your iGoogle page on their machine, hey presto, there are all the pages you have visited before - no need to try to remember urls and web addresses or carry around a notebook (which is a good habit - don't get me wrong). If your smart, you go t the addresses you want to show the prospect te day before and then when you go into web history the following day, all of the links will be laid out nice and neat for you to demo.
So how hard is it to establish such wonders? Very straight forward. Look for the iGoogle shortcut, top right hand corner of your screen. Click on that, you then get to add the various elements you want to put onto your page. If you want to get real sexy, add a theme and then you get some interesting effects in terms of look and feel for the home page. I'd strongly suggest created an iGoogle account - they are a real asset!
As we move to more and more online business, using the tools of the trade are useful and valuable skills. I hope that some of the things that I have found useful over the years, you too can make use of in running your Photomax business (or any other part of your life for that matter!)
Cheers
Darren
Have you iGoogled yet?
No it's not some sort of weird eye condition, it's another feature of the Google search engine many have no idea even exists.
The fundamental premise is simple: you customise the home page with what ever elements are most useful and interesting to you. Big deal? The big deal is that google effectively store that information and that "home page" if you like is available on any PC when you log into Google.
Its a great feature and very useful.
For instance, as described in a previous post around how to deal with email I have;
A view of my Gmail inbox - so I don't have to go and look anywhere else, it's right there in my browser, I have my Google calender - which I put my daily exercise and positive affirmations into (which get SMS'ed to my phone every day - but thats a topic for another day :-), I have a date and time gadet, top stories news feed from CNN, NASA image of the day (stars & planets are quite cool up close!), weather for the day, car pictures, how to of the day and a really cool thing called "my gadget". My Gadgets are also quite new but really quite funky. Personalise a component, have it in front of you daily and share it with loved ones if you so desire. In short real cool.
Another thing that can be quite useful if you are moving around a bit, is the web history. Like your browser on your Pc can store where you have been, likewise so can iGoogle.
Here's a great pracitical example. You've gone to someone's home to talk about the business. You don't have a laptop or your own machine, however they have their PC. You know that you have recently visited all of the useful Photomax and GPN sites before, so now you go to Google, you login to your iGoogle page on their machine, hey presto, there are all the pages you have visited before - no need to try to remember urls and web addresses or carry around a notebook (which is a good habit - don't get me wrong). If your smart, you go t the addresses you want to show the prospect te day before and then when you go into web history the following day, all of the links will be laid out nice and neat for you to demo.
So how hard is it to establish such wonders? Very straight forward. Look for the iGoogle shortcut, top right hand corner of your screen. Click on that, you then get to add the various elements you want to put onto your page. If you want to get real sexy, add a theme and then you get some interesting effects in terms of look and feel for the home page. I'd strongly suggest created an iGoogle account - they are a real asset!
As we move to more and more online business, using the tools of the trade are useful and valuable skills. I hope that some of the things that I have found useful over the years, you too can make use of in running your Photomax business (or any other part of your life for that matter!)
Cheers
Darren
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