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Category Archives: Tips for Living Life Online
Mmmmm….Yummly
Happy 4th of July!…a little early. For the month of July, Learning for Life Online will higlight tools that help with party and travel planning. From holiday BBQs to potlucks to block parties, from a day trip to a two-week … Continue reading
Posted in This Week on LLO, Tips for Living Life Online, Tools
Tagged finding stuff online, recipes, searching, yummly
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Scan It! – Mobile grocery shopping
Grocery shopping seems like the last place you’d be living life online, but new mobile apps are making it easier than ever to pick a few things up from the store. Mobile shopping inside the store Stop & Shop’s ScanIt! … Continue reading
Where’s My Bus? How’s the Traffic? – Transit Information Apps & Websites
As the weather gets warmer and we spend more time outside, more people are out on the roads and on public transit. There are many tools to help keep tabs on when the next bus or train is due, and … Continue reading
Posted in Resources, This Week on LLO, Tips for Living Life Online
Tagged about.com, apps, bing, boston bus map, boston.com, catch the bus, finding stuff online, google maps, mbta, nextbus, pocket mbta, primospot, sigalert, surprisingly useful tools, tleave, traffic boston, traffic.com, where is the t?
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Facebook – Account Settings
My apologies – we never went back and looked at the main Facebook Account settings after walking through the Privacy Settings. For our final April is About Accounts post, let’s quickly look at Account Settings in Facebook. Facebook Account Settings … Continue reading
Posted in This Week on LLO, Tips for Living Life Online, Tools
Tagged account.settings, facebook, privacy.settings, settings, third-party ads
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Finding and Using Online Help
Out in the wild world online, getting help using a particular tool is often up to you. However, using help centers, support pages, live chat, and discussion forums, there are many ways to figure out how to make things work … Continue reading
Finding and Changing Account Settings
When you’re using online tools, you almost always have to create an account by entering your email address, creating a username, and choosing a password. Sometimes it will ask for more information, but typically, you sign up and then you’re … Continue reading
On “Knowing Enough”
For the month of April, Learning for Life Online will show you how to learn more about the settings and features of the tools you use online. We’ll start by exploring the new Facebook Timeline and the security and feature … Continue reading
Posted in Basics, Big Ideas, This Week on LLO, Tips for Living Life Online
Tagged big ideas, life online, thinky
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Finding Jobs & Careers Online
While we’re on the topic of finding things online, let’s look at some of the better job and career resources out there. From mechanic to teacher to nurse’s aid to architect, there are employment resources and job finding sites for … Continue reading
Posted in Resources, This Week on LLO, Tips for Living Life Online
Tagged about.com, career transitions, careerbuilder, coolworks.com, craigslist, employers, finding stuff online, fraud protection, hcareers.com, indeed.com, job resources, job seekers, library databases, library resources, linkedin, LISjobs, monster.com, newspapers, online library catalog, searching, simplyhired, us.jobs, usajobs.gov
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Finding Neat Stuff Online
Last week, we described many of the ways you can share the interesting links, images and videos you find online. Before we look at some places to find that neat stuff, let’s answer a reader question first: Why Share? What’s … Continue reading
Posted in Resources, This Week on LLO, Tips for Living Life Online
Tagged BBC, boing boing, buzzfeed, cake wrecks, cnet, daily beast, finding stuff online, five thirty-eight, gadgetwise, google news, huffington post, i can has cheezburger, mobile devices, neat stuff, neatorama, new york times, sharing, this is colossal, wired
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Getting Social – Sharing the neat stuff you find online
When the internet began, the only way to share interesting information online was to copy and paste it into an email, or forward one email message around and around. Nowadays, the web is built for sharing neat stuff. From social … Continue reading
Posted in Basics, Big Ideas, This Week on LLO, Tips for Living Life Online
Tagged big ideas, facebook, flickr, google plus, life online, sharing, uploading, youtube
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