Free Webinar Wednesdays

Mac Chat and Tech Stuff: A Conversation About What's Possible

Date: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 1 pm Eastern

In this week's FWW, Eric and Jeff are joined by Gregory McPherson, author of the blog A Day in the Life and former high school classmate of Eric's. Greg has embraced the "Mac life" both personally and professionally and runs a successful RE/MAX Landmark real estate business. Over the past couple of years, Greg has shared some great tips on technology and other helpful programs with Eric. These tips and tricks will now be shared with our FWW audience and we're certain you'll learn some new ways of getting things done at both work and home.

Just some of the "new tools" that Eric is using now (thanks to Greg's suggestions) include the LiveScribe Pulse Pen for taking notes, use FolderShare (now called Windows LiveSync) for multi-file/computer syncronization, made the move to an Apple Macbook Pro, iPad (be sure to check out our archived session from 7/14) and so much more. So, bring something to take notes with, sit back and hang on... this session will be packed full of information!

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Free Webinar Wednesdays was created as a community building tool to bring professionals together to share pertinent business development information, provide subject matter experts with a platform to open a learning dialog, and inspire small business owners to reach their professional goals.

Free Webinar Wednesdays is sponsored by Community Bank Consulting, Inc.and WSI Internet Consulting.

So, What's The Big Deal About The New Apple iPad?

Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 1 pm Eastern

So, maybe you're one of the lucky ones that has a new Apple iPad. Or, maybe you know someone who has one and you got to "play with it" once or twice. Whatever the case, and even if you've never even held one, this week's Free Webinar Wednesdays will explore what an iPad is (and isn't) and how this may be one of the next items to put on your short list for next cool thing to buy.

Join FWW co-sponsor Eric Cook (WSI Internet Consulting) - who just happened to get an iPad for his 40th birthday from his awesome wife - and fellow techie and iPad fan Jonathan Shroyer (CorePHP) as they discuss their iPads, programs and ways they are using them for business and pleasure. Eric and Jonathan recently "geeked out" while their wives were in a wedding a month or so ago and both being in the web and Internet space, have teamed up to help you better understand what this great little device can do.

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Free Webinar Wednesdays was created as a community building tool to bring professionals together to share pertinent business development information, provide subject matter experts with a platform to open a learning dialog, and inspire small business owners to reach their professional goals.

Free Webinar Wednesdays is sponsored by Community Bank Consulting, Inc.and WSI Internet Consulting.

Online Project Management Tools: Keeping You Organized and Focused

Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 @ 1 pm Eastern

Free Webinar Wednesdays - Online Project Management Keeping You Organized and Focused from Eric Cook on Vimeo.

In today's busy world it seems there can be an endless supply of "things to do", also known as projects. And with each project comes a variety of tasks, collaborators, deadlines and items that need to be managed. If you are getting to the point with your legal pad and Excel spreadsheet has reached their end of effectiveness, maybe you need to consider some sort of a project management system to help bring your project process back in alignment.

In this weeks Free Webinar Wednesdays, Eric and Jeff will discuss the concept of online project management. There are actually web-based programs out there that can help get you organized, facilitate collaboration with others (both inside and outside your organization) and keep things on track. Eric will talk about his experience with a system called Basecamp, and Jeff will introduce a service called Manymoon, which also features tight integration into Google Apps (a topic we have discussed several times here on FWW).

So, if you are someone that seems to have a lot of projects going on and needs a better way to keep them all on track, this week's session should give you a lot of great information. Bring your questions and even a sample project idea for us to discuss and we'll see you online!

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Free Webinar Wednesdays was created as a community building tool to bring professionals together to share pertinent business development information, provide subject matter experts with a platform to open a learning dialog, and inspire small business owners to reach their professional goals.

Free Webinar Wednesdays is sponsored by Community Bank Consulting, Inc.and WSI Internet Consulting.

"Open Mic" At Free Webinar Wednesdays - What's On Your Mind?

Date: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 @ 1 pm Eastern

Free Webinar Wednesdays - Open Mic and Customer Questions from Eric Cook on Vimeo.

This week on Free Webinar Wednesdays Jeff and Eric are stepping away from a formal presentation and opening up the mic to see what's on YOUR mind. While PowerPoint slides are cool and we've had some great presentations recently, we want to hear from YOU, our valued listeners.

Did something strike a chord recently and you want to talk more about it? Have some questions from a past presentation and interested in digging "deep" into a specific topic? This week's your chance to bend our ears and who knows, we may just get some good ideas for future presentations down the road.

So, bring your questions, comments and ideas to this week's session and let us know what's on your mind. Of course, we'll have a few things lined up to chat about to get the conversation started, but we are looking forward to your participation and making this session a real community effort.

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Free Webinar Wednesdays was created as a community building tool to bring professionals together to share pertinent business development information, provide subject matter experts with a platform to open a learning dialog, and inspire small business owners to reach their professional goals.

Free Webinar Wednesdays is sponsored by Community Bank Consulting, Inc.and WSI Internet Consulting.

Business Email with Google Apps - Same Time, Save Money

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Date: Wednesday, April 7 @ 1 pm Eastern

Join our resident Google Apps expert, Jeff Simpkins, as he discusses using Google Apps to host your business email.

When most people think of Google and email, they think of personal Gmail addresses.  Google Apps actually offers email hosting using your unique business domain name with their Gmail application in Google Apps.  Gmail in Google Apps is a very feature rich offering at a bargain basement price.

Jeff will share some tips on adding automation to your Google Apps Gmail to increase efficiency, reduce errors, and make retention of data effortless.

Jeff Simpkins is President and CEO of Community Bank Consulting, Inc., one of the sponsors of FreeWebsinarWednesdays.

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Free Webinar Wednesdays was created as a community building tool to bring professionals together to share pertinent business development information, provide subject matter experts with a platform to open a learning dialog, and inspire small business owners to reach their professional goals.

Free Webinar Wednesdays is sponsored by Community Bank Consulting, Inc.and WSI Internet Consulting.

42 Day Creative Retreat Process: How to go away every day

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Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 @ 1 pm Eastern

You want to do bigger things in life but sometimes those bigger, more meaningful projects seem impossible to get off the ground.  How do you take time out of your busy day to dedicate to the things that really matter to you?  And more importantly how do you overcome that ever present inner critic that tells you that you can’t do it?   Join Annie Hart, creator and developer of the 42 Day Creative Retreat Process, which helped her create a nearly complete body of work in only 42 days.

Annie Hart helps individuals and businesses to harness the power of change.  She has brought her work to the fields of Business, Education, Healthcare, Non-Profit, Youth at Risk & Community Organizations.  She is fun, funny, fiery and out of the box. Annie believes that Stories Change the World and she can be found passionately sharing stories, insights and tools of change both on her blog and her popular Radio 42 show.

Find Annie Hart online at:

www.anniehart.com

www.blogtalkradio.com/radio42

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Free Webinar Wednesdays was created as a community building tool to bring professionals together to share pertinent business development information, provide subject matter experts with a platform to open a learning dialog, and inspire small business owners to reach their professional goals.

Free Webinar Wednesdays is sponsored by Community Bank Consulting, Inc. and WSI Internet Consulting.

Continuing the Google "Love Fest": More Discussion on Google Apps

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Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010 @ 1 pm Eastern

While last week's session on analytics didn't necessarily focus on Google, their Google Analytics system is one of the market dominators and a great way for businesses to start getting an idea of what's happening with with visitors online. In a past episode of Free Webinar Wednesdays we also started the conversation about the online suite of services called Google Apps.

In today's episode of Free Webinar Wednesdays Eric and Jeff will expand the conversation on Google Apps as a viable alternative (or enhancement) to many of the office productivity suites. Many don't realize that you can use word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, calendar, mail and even online chat with one online system. This makes it easy to collaborate over the web and get more done.

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Free Webinar Wednesdays was created as a community building tool to bring professionals together to share pertinent business development information, provide subject matter experts with a platform to open a learning dialog, and inspire small business owners to reach their professional goals.

Free Webinar Wednesdays is sponsored by Community Bank Consulting, Inc. and WSI Internet Consulting.

iPhone and Droid Apps To Make Your Life Easy (and FUN)

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Date: Wednesday, January 6, 2009 @ 1 pm Eastern Time

With the growing popularity of mobile devices making it easier than ever to keep in touch (with each other, the web, music, you name it) the 100-pound gorilla in the mobile device market is Apple's iPhone. However, for people that just don't want to tolerate the poor service quality in their area that comes along with the iPhone from AT&T, Motorola has recently come out with a formidable opponent on the Verizon network called the Droid, running on Google's Android software platform.

In this weeks' Free Webinar Wednesdays Jeff and Eric will share thoughts on these two devices and what apps they are using that have helped to make their lves easier (and yes, more fun). Jeff has been using the iPhone for just over a year now and recently switched over to a Mac for his primary computer, so he's loving life. Eric, on the other hand, has been on a Mac for over two  years as his primary computer but has been through "several" phones in search of a device that will sync data easily that doesn't run on the AT&T network. Good news, Santa brought him a Droid for Christmas and he's dug in and is using Google Apps along with his phone and Mac to make live much easier.

If you are an iPhone or Droid user, bring your list of favorite apps to share with the rest of the FWW crowd. With thousands of apps for the iPhone and over 20,000 (and growing) Droid apps now available, chances are there are some good ones out there yet to be discovered!

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Free Webinar Wednesdays was created as a community building tool to bring professionals together to share pertinent business development information, provide subject matter experts with a platform to open a learning dialog, and inspire small business owners to reach their professional goals.

Free Webinar Wednesdays is sponsored by Community Bank Consulting, Inc. and WSI Internet Consulting.

Ideas and Timesavers From 2009 - Tools That Made Our Lives Easier

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Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 @ 1 pm Eastern time

In this session of Free Webinar Wednesdays Eric and Jeff will share some of the tools they have used over the past year that have made their lives easier, especially when it comes to working with technology. Some of these items have actually been touched on in prior sessions of Free Webinar Wednesdays, but as you look towards 2010 and the additional demands of businesses to "do more with less", some of these tools may help play a vital role in getting the most out of your time-starved day.

Some of these items will include a review of things like Jing, Google Alerts, Ping.fm, RSS readers, podcasts, Google Apps and more. The best part of many of these tools is not only are they easy to use, but in most cases they are free (or at least there is a free version of them available).

We'll also be interested in YOUR suggestions for tools you've used over the past year that others would be interested in learning about. While we won't be going into detailed demonstrations of each of these services, we'll at least give you enough information to get started and can post further information into the Comments section of this post to learn more. We look forward to seeing you online and sharing our ideas...

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Free Webinar Wednesdays was created as a community building tool to bring professionals together to share pertinent business development information, provide subject matter experts with a platform to open a learning dialog, and inspire small business owners to reach their professional goals.

Free Webinar Wednesdays is sponsored by Community Bank Consulting, Inc. and WSI Internet Consulting.

Practical E-mail Management: Minimize Time - Maximize Efficiency

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Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 @ 1:00 pm EDT

If you are overwhelmed and drowning in e-mail there is something you can do about it. We are throwing out the life preserver - join us to learn strategies and tactics to stop drowning! This webinar is for you if you receive and send an average of 100 e-mail per day or more. You are loosing 100 days per year to email. Isn’t that frightening?

Join us as Frumi Rachel Barr MBA, Ph.D. shares he insights on Practical E-mail Management.

Frumi’s Bio:

Frumi is the business advisor to call when you’re feeling stuck! She helps dynamic accountants and financial services professional who are stuck from overwhelm to underwhelm into focused action. Her clients call it a "Frumi Fix" - a strong dose of hope, inspiration and motivation based on experience and expertise. Frumi’s clients report clarity, improved communication and accelerated results.

Find Fruni online at:  http://www.frumi.com/