More Ram in my computer

My ex came over and installed a gig of ram to my computer.

It runs so much better now.

We bought the ram from ebay, that was cool because I'd never bought anything from ebay before. They have a "buy it now" button if you see what you want for the price you want to pay for it. I discovered that if you see something priced on ebay for a price that's too good to be true, it is. Every time you bid on something, someone outbids you within seconds. I suppose it's possible that someone else was bidding the same time I was but I don't believe it. I think the seller had a minimum price set. If that's true why did he or she start the bidding for half of what they were really going to accept? I'm avoiding anything that doesn't have a buy it now button for the foreseeable future.

The ram came from ebay within 3 days, so that was kind of cool.

Apparently if you view a lot of pictures and especially if you view a lot of videos or edit videos for uploading to youtube your computer can slow down a lot. It seems to require more power or something to mess with videos. Since this is my work computer and my only source of income right now I'm a happier camper than I was last week.

I've spent many, many hours reading and learning from forums. There are dozens (maybe hundreds?) of different kinds of forums on every topic conceivable. I'm signed up for webmastering forums and marketing forums and writing skills forums (the writers seem to all prefer books to computer screens or ebooks).

Forums used to be called Bulletin Boards I'm finding out, they all seem to be using similar software as the layout of each one is remarkably similar. They all of a Control Panel (often called a CP) and they let you upload a picture of yourself. Not sure what an avatar is yet, but they all have one. They all seem to have an "off topic" section and an "introduce yourself" section.

I'm really embarrassed to ask questions where the people there seem to know extreme geek stuff, I'm not really required to know all that geek stuff but I should know a rudimentary amount of the terminology.

Some forums are less intimidating than others, will keep you posted:)

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Learning from spending time on SEO forums.

Online Forums

Learning from spending time on SEO forums.

I'm an intern, for me that means on the job training. I was instructed to spend time on SEO forums to give me enough background on our industry to enable me to understand what the end result of our video interviews should be.

My boss is paying me to learn, I was told to sign up for dozens of online marketing forums and webmastering forums and scan the questions everyone asks. This is known as "lurking", after I felt comfortable enough, I was urged to ask my own questions. That is known as "posting". Having a conversation on a forum, where people are posting Q & A's and then you include your participation, this entire process is known as a "thread".

I'm relieved to discover that I'm not the only newbie.

The first forum I spent a lot of time on was WebDigity.com

Someone asked a question that caught my eye, they asked can someone really make SEO into a career. You can tell from the clumsy grammar used, this person likely uses english as a second language.

"Is it really worth with SEO as career that can make money with SEO services. How important is seo as career to someone that use it to make money online...

what do you all think about that?"

[quote author=Nikolas link=topic=8306.msg39105#msg39105 date=1230545798]
Yeah it is a great job. You can check some good arguments on that here
[/quote]

Hi Nikolas, Thank you for posting the link to SEOBook, I'm very new at all of this. I'm a new intern and my boss is constantly saying to learn this, that and everything. There is so much information to mentally absorb, it can be a bit overwhelming. I just spent the last couple of hours reading and watching related videos (by LeFever) through SEOBooks. I learned more in the past few hours than I have in the past 3 weeks. Which is especially useful, as my boss is paying me learn, in addition to working. The info from both SEOBook and the Lefever YOUtube videos, were comfortable and easy to follow and absorb. I now subscribe to both.

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How to Set Up a Blogger Blog

I've been told one of the best ways to learn is to teach, at least going through the process of teaching helps cement in ones own mind what is supposed to be happening. The act of actually getting your students to learn is or might be another issue altogether. Learning is different for everyone. We all learn at different speeds and in different ways. Some of us learn by watching, by listening, and then there are the ones of us who learn best by hands-on. Just diving in, sink or swim and learning from the mistakes we make along the way. This is pretty much the technique I used when I was the senior Driver Trainer at F.O. Day Company. Mind you driving a CDL heavy construction dump truck is quite a bit different than blogging or computer work of any kind, but the hands on principals are the same.


So this post I'll cover the steps I took to create this, my very first blog (the one I made because my boss wont let me learn what I want to learn until I can understand the basics of blogging)


What is a blog?
wikipedia says this:

A blog (a contraction of the term "weblog") is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (Art blog), photographs (photoblog), videos (Video blogging), music (MP3 blog), and audio (podcasting). Microblogging is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts.

As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs.

If you want a blog you have to decide on a blog platform, there are a few to choose from.

There are 3 top blogging tools, 2 are free, the 3rd costs money.


Blogger.com (Google owns this)
Wordpress.com (very good but has certain limitations, pros and cons)
Typepad.com (not free)


If you want to blog, have it be easy, hands down the best place to start a blog is on Google's blogger.com

From Video Journalism

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My First Video Ever

Webcam... it's fun

My first attempt at a video is a video message to my oldest daughter, Marie.
She lives in Ohio with her husband and two of my grandchildren.

Video to Marie

Facebook is truly amazing, I'm told it brings families together... it does. My Facebook Profile is http://www.facebook.com/judybelt/
It did for me! It did for the small business clients of my new job: Frederick Web Promotions

We make company Facebook pages for our small business SEO clients, most of them did not have a personal Facebook profile so we create one for them. Within minutes our clients see people they went to school with and haven't seen in 20 years, or they discover that their clients have a Facebook Fan page and they "friend" each other.

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My first post ever to a blog

Learning to do video interviews for youtube commercials and hopefully video documentaries for a Maryland search engine marketing firm: Frederick Web Promotions.

In a past life, I was a CDL truck driver, now that the economy has tanked, I'm switching careers totally. My boss wants me to learn the ins and outs of blogging, social media, social networking, social bookmarking and more crap than you can shake a stick at.

I'm not really sure what blogging has to do with me creating, and being a news anchor for video documentaries, but he's telling me that a video on youtube is a blog, photos on flickr can be either someone's family vacation, pictures of their kids but ultimately they are photo blogs.

RSS feeds?, I'm really unsure about what an RSS feed is, but he says that's what makes a blog different from (and he says better than) a conventional website. Something about syndication and blasting a feed all over the internet. It's confusing now, but he sure knows what he's doing.

He's a master of breaking his arm to pat his own back, shameless self promotion. However, he occasionally forgets that it was I, who taught him how to use the computer with DOS, Windows 3.1, just roughly 12 years ago. Go figure, he now blows me away ten fold on the computer.

My God, I've created a monster!!!!

To ease the pressure I put upon myself, he often has to reminds me, that 50 million people start their first post by typing "Well, I'm here, now what?" So on that note, "Something is better than nothing and you can't do it wrong, you can only make it better". In the words of Nike "Just Do It" and so that is my new motto for the time being.

So how did I do? Feedback anyone?

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