Working in the cloud – why I love Dropbox

I have been playing with lots of products to see which product is easy to use, easy to access and efficient. Dropbox has won my heart. Oops, I skipped a beat!

Why?

Dropbox is a great way to experience a virtual office or “Cloud Computing.” Visit www.dropbox.com and download the software onto your computer. They give you a free 2 gb account to play with. Once the software is installed an icon appears on your taskbar. You can drag files onto the icon and upload them automatically to your online Dropbox account.

If you have more than one computer registered, or if you are sharing files with someone else, Dropbox allows you to sync your files online and across your computers automatically.

a)      Sync files of any size or type.

b)      Sync Windows, Mac and Linux computers.

c)      Automatically syncs when new files or changes are detected.

d)      You can view your files from a web browser and now there are free apps for your Iphone, Ipad or Android.

Try it out!

Twitter Followers – Making it easy for you!

Twitter is an amazing resource for me. Not only do I learn a lot by following very smart people, but I am able to leverage my relationships by asking questions and post content that could be beneficial to my followers.

I don’t have tons of follows, I have decided to grow my list organically. As I post people find me and follow me. Sometime when I get the email I don’t have lots of time to follow through and see if this is someone I would like to follow as well.

This is a post to share a simple program called Topify. It has enable me very quickly to figure out who people are who are following me and whether or not I will be following them.

You can sign up for Topify at www.topify.com.

Plain and simple it saves me time. When someone decides to follow me I am sent an email. The email

• Has buttons to easily follow or block them
• Number of followers
• Number of updates and their engagement level
• Their bio
• Samples of the Tweets

I think topify sends better twitter email notifications. Even better, if  I am reading the email on my Blackberry I can follow back by just replying. I can even reply with a direct message via email. With a click I can either follow, or block.

If you do follow someone Topify sends a confirmation message.

Sign up at Topify. Change the email in your Twitter profile to the one topify gives you and you can take advantage of this easy to use program.

Google Alert Primer

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googlealertspowerprimer.pdf (126 KB)

Great Ebook on how to use Google Alerts. You know I speak about using them in class all the time. If you thought you knew how to use them, think again. 21 pages on how to use this free tool from Google to manage your on line reputation. Amazing.

Google Alerts Power Primer: 50 Tips, Techniques & Workarounds.

About the Author Adam Green is the CEO of AlertRank.com, an online blog relationship management application. He blogs at AlertRank.com/MrGoogleAlerts. Please feel free to contact Adam with any questions or comments you might have about this eBook. His email address is Adam@AlertRank.com.

• Setting up Google Alerts
• Single Word Search
• Multiple Word Search
• Matching complete words in a URL
• Searching for inbound and outbound links
• Searching for URLS in Blogs

The list goes on . . . Enjoy!

Amy Chorew, The TechByte

Posted via email from Techbyte Talk

The Power of a Blog in your Business

I believe your blog should be the hub of your online marketing. And you need to write about what is important to you, making it relevant to your readers. And you need to block consistently.

I am a blackberry fan, thinking about the new Google phone, maybe the iphone, but still hooked on the blackberry. And I have written a couple of posts on that.

Last month I received a call from a reporter for the Blackberry Connection Magazine. There were doing an article on cool apps for the blackberry, did a Google Search and found my blog posts. So they thought they would interview me for the article!

Little ole me? herein lies the power of a Blog. Here is my interview in Blackberry Connection Magazine.

Click here to real the article in Blackberry Connection Magazine.

Now this is COOL!

Point and shoot just doesn’t cut it anymore

Wow, I couldn’t have said it any better. By Samantha Elliott Krepps of PAR (Pennsylvania Association of REALTORS(r) ) did a great review of one of my classes at TriplePlay. I spoke on taking better photos. She starts with . . .

One of Amy Chorew’s missions in life is to “rid the world of bad real estate photos.” Click here to read the rest!