Get Your Online Google Content, Offline

Check your laptop, no signal. Check your phone, no signal. How can you review the document one more time before stepping into a meeting? While wi-fi access and hot spots are growing leaps and bounds, so does our dependency on access...and so ANY time we are without a signal, is of course, the exact time we absolutely need access.

There is a downloadable tool by CloudMagic 2.0 which allows one to search for their online content - EVEN WHEN THEY ARE OFFLINE.

Sounds crazy, right? Well, I thought so too! Here is a short video explaining the process:
One thing you might notice is that you must be using Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox internet browswers to communicate with CloudMagic 2.0, so if you haven't changed to a new browser yet, you might be motivated to do so now.

Want to give it a try? Check it out at: http://www.cloudmagic.com/. Make sure you have the appropriate browser and install the utility. Let me know how you rate it.

eCommerce Bootc@mp Workshops - Quick and Intense

YOUR business is only a click away - with just 2 face to face meetings per workshop!

Ever considered selling online? Already have a regular business and a website and need to promote it? How about creating a blog and selling your ad space? This spring, JCC brings to you an innovative offering to help you get your web presence the attention it deserves…

eCommerce Workshop Bootc@mp – each of the workshops are offered with only 2 face-to- face meetings. Students receive online support and are finished within a month. This is excellent for those with a tight schedule, but who want to get a jumpstart on their business today.
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Workshop #1 (CIS135) - Open Source Web Design (explore risks; maximize benefits; launch a content management website with a shopping cart, start selling online from your own store immediately. )

Meets 5/6 and 5/20/11; 1pm - 4pm; in-between weekly meetings online.
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Workshop #2 (ECM120)- eBusiness I (Google Apps, social media; web 2.0; internet marketing – get your site or store noticed! Maximize the FREE web!)

Meets 5/26 and 6/23/11; 8pm-4pm; in-between weekly meetings online.


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Workshop #3 (ECM220) - eBusiness II (Search Engine Optimization; analytics – understand your web visitors and how to keep them. Which social medias bring in the most traffic, should you use a pay-per-click campaign, are the keywords you are using helping people find you? Get answers to these questions, and more,)

Meets 5/27 and 6/24/11; 8pm-4pm ; in-between weekly meetings online.

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Need a Qwiki? Try this...

Qwiki is a platform that turns information into an experience - through the machine. It's an interactive way to get a 'quick' amount of information like a 'wiki,' but in a very engaging method. You may decide that using Qwikis can help promote your product or blog topic, if you visit



View Jackson Community College or search over 3,000,000 other topics on Qwiki. It's fun, quick, and informative. Even the average web visitor can help develop and improve Qwikis by electing to press the 'improve' button and linking to additional images and web content. Check yours out today!

Facebook Questions Tool...Advertising or Market Scanning?

sYou may have noticed the influx of bar graphs in Facebook, as it launched the new "Questions" tool. Is it just for fun, or could this be a strategic way for companies to gather market data about their customers? Or could businesses use this new tool to advertise options at their store. Imagine....

It's a hot, sunny, summer day. You are relaxing around the house, trying to escape the heat, trying to escape the chore list for sure...and so you are Facebooking. All of a sudden the ice cream parlor a block away posts a question: Which treat to you prefer? A twisted cone, a chocolate sundae, or a banana boat? FB friends have already answered, and there is a race to see which treat is the community favorite. You click YOUR favorite, and realize that, all of a sudden, you have a craving for a banana boat. Before you debate too long, off you head to get it.

It's a reasonable use for the tool, it's fun because any of us can create it, and it's priceless for the local ice cream store to find out a 'favorite' that can be used in promotions. Have you created a question in Facebook yet?