On Sunday, 5/24/20 we heard from several members who teach Google Photos.
On Sunday, 5/17/20 we had a members-only Zoom meeting where we got to know each other, chatted about various technology, and fielded questions about Google Photos.
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Do you, or a club you belong to, create newsletters and distribute them in .pdf format? Have you ever wished you could just put the .pdf document in a blog post?
You’re in luck, it’s really quite easy if you use Google Drive to store your .pdf files.
Google Drive is a place to store your files. Anything you place there will be viewable only by you. Even after following all the instructions to embed the file in a web page, it will only be viewable by you. This can be handy if you want it to be private.
If you want it to be viewable by the public, there’s another step between steps 5 and 6 above. Select the file, click the link button at top right and turn link sharing on.
If you’ve been reluctant to keep a blog for disseminating news because you prefer creating documents and sharing pdf files, now you can have the best of both worlds.
On Sunday, 5/3/20 we had a members-only Zoom meeting where we fielded questions and shared blogs. It was so interesting that we kept going for an hour and 15 minutes.
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Continue reading →You know that book you have in you? The one you keep telling yourself you’re going to write someday, when you have time? It might be a travelog about your RV travels. It might be a novel based on your family’s experience. It might be your life story. Whatever the nature of your book, the way to get started is to … get started.
During this pandemic with orders to #StayHome, you might just have the time to do it. Writing a whole book is daunting, and it’s a problem that you don’t get any feedback until it’s done. If you use a blog to do your writing, you don’t have to worry about the whole book, you can get started one blog post at a time. If you make the blog public, you can get other people to read it and leave you comments. If you don’t want anyone to read it until you’re ready, just make the blog private to you.
I hear you saying, “That sounds great, but I have no clue how to make a blog.” There are many ways, but I believe in easy and free, at least to start. Blogger.com is my goto website for making a blog, easy and free. All you need is a Google account.
Once you’ve done those 3 things, just click the orange button, “Create blog!” And, you’re done, that’s all there is to making the blog. Now you have to start writing. At this point you should see an orange button at the top that reads, “New Post.” If you don’t see that, look for an orange + button at the bottom. One of those buttons is how you start writing.
Next your will see the post editor. Think of it like a blank piece of paper in a typewriter. You need to give the post a title, then you can just write to your heart’s content. When you’re done, click the orange button called “Publish” and you now have a blog with one post.
That’s all you need to get started writing. For lots more about how to use Blogger, see Episode 123 How do I make a Blog?
On Sunday, 4/19/20 we had a members-only Zoom meeting where we fielded questions and shared albums. It was so interesting that we kept going for an hour and 20 minutes.
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