Nibby Priest -Life On Purpose

Living at Mile Marker 803.9 of the Ohio River in Downtown Henderson KY

Google Docs

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image Chuck Stinnett of the The Gleaner (Henderson KY) newspaper wrote a great article in Sunday, May 17, 2009 newspaper about Google.com docs and how a small restaurant business here in Henderson is using Google docs to market his business.

Click HERE to read the article.

Surprisingly this is a very simple process as he outlined.

Several examples of Google docs are used in my small business website.  Our Privacy page is a Google document so are several of our frequent asked questions pages for our partner companies.

My church has used Google Docs with our Upward Basketball League.

Google Docs is a great tool and a alternative to those who need to get information out fast and don’t want to spend a lot of money.

Google provides a great video that explains how it all works.

What ways can you use Google Docs in your business,  church or home computing needs?

Do you really need Microsoft Office Suite of products?

Email Clean Up

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Recently I have been working to decrease the amount of email  that hits my inbox. Over the years I have used rules inside of outlook to automatically move messages from some senders to various folders inside of outlook and review them when I have time.
Now the problem exist that those folders are becoming over flowing.
image Google Reader has helped me greatly to improve my email organization. Many emails that I receive are also available as RSS feeds so I have unsubscribe from the emails and subscribed to the RSS feeds through Google Reader.  Google reader is organizing all my once emails into a nice RSS feed.  An example I read several hundred blogs.  I used to have emails come in whenever new blogs are posted to remind me to read them.  With Google Reader I no longer have to subscribe- they come to my Google reader.
Google reader gives you several other tools.  If you have a item that you think others might like to read you can email to them right out of Google Reader.
Google Reader also allows you to create a shared items page of your favorite reads for others to read.  You can read my shared items page at  https://nibbypriest.com/recomended-reading/.
Using all this new web 2.0 technology I still get the dreaded forward messages from many people. Most of which I always delete.
image I found http://www.stopforwarding.us/ its a great kind way to encourage people who send you those redundant forwards to stop.

What have you done to help rid yourself of email hell?

Email Bomb!

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We just returned from a few days of adventure and relaxation and just plain ole doing something different with my niece and nephew River & Sister Kally in St Louis Missouri.

We did several things all of were quite different and somewhat ordinary.

We laughed a lot, played games, talked listened to music.  All good.

Constantly I am working because of my *choice* to have technological gadgets (e.g. iPhone) and make myself totally connected.  I realized what a impact that has on my ability to disconnect.   Having and being a part of a small business has its perks, but many times you pay the cost in other areas of your life.

I constantly checked my iPhone for the latest email messages.  Several came and really didn’t realize how many came in till I consciously decided not to look at it every time I heard the chime of a new email in the box.   I felt the need to constantly check my twitter feed and my Facebook notifications.

Many times when I looked at my email they were another “bomb email” from the office and it put a damper on my mood and ability to communicate with the people that I was with.

So I few times I felt this was a negative in my ability to have a good time on vacation.

Do you think it is important when you go on vacation to turn off your email and other means to be connected?

Plasma TV troubles

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The colors on the Panasonic Plasma have gone nuts! Yellows are blues, blues are red etc on all signals from My Insight DVR Box. Only the OTA HD antenna is returning correct color. (Color is also OK on DVD’s) Even programming that ‘son an HD station is not correct if it’s not filmed in HD. Example the weather channels on WEHT and WFIE.

I have replaced the Insight cable box. Replaced the cables done everything! But still consistently the same problem.

The dilemma now is should I buy a new TV and get this one fixed the put in basement or just live with it a few months! Well have decided to live with it a while.