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Making the right tech choices

David Strom

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For Gateway Computer Club

(310) 857-6867

Remember these?

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Who am I?

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My own bad choices

• First marriage

Buy high, sell low, avoid capital gains!

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Collecting 8 track tapes –

not CDs

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Tech is not like fine wine

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Bad email choices!

Time to acquire 50 million users

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Agenda

• Recommended online info sources

• Don’t believe everything on the Internet

• Facebook dos and don’ts

• How to get started with Twitter

• How to get broadband

• Telephone service choices

Two biggest info sources

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What do these people have in common?

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Things you need to know to survive online today

• Google Gmail for email

• Google Alerts

• Facebook

• Twitter

Google Alerts

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Managing your social networks and staying in touch with your family

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Fastest growing population segment

55-65 year old women!

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Facebook makes it hardsometimes

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Facebook “marriage”

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Other no-nos

• Keep politics, religion and sex out

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Facebook dos

• Don’t be a stalker

• Use it to continue in-person conversations with your family

• Don’t worry about the “numbers game”

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Average age on Facebook: 38Average age on Twitter: 39Average age on LinkedIn: 44

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The basics

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Key Twitter To-dos

• Follow the right people in your industry

• Don’t get too caught up in tweeting your every movement

• Look at what businesses are doing with it

• Use it to start conversations with people you want to get to know

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How not to use Twitter!

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How should you get online?

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How you should NOT get online:

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Home telephone choices

• Ma Bell ($$$$)

• Vonage ($40/mo)

• Your cable company ($30/mo)

• Skype or Magic Jack ($3/mo)

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David Strom, david@strom.comstrominator.com, (310) 857-6867

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