Category: GeneralHey again everyone! I am asking folks in my network to do blogs for me as I am absolutely loving my bloggin’! Wendy Blomseth of InBeaute Photography has donated a blog to Call That Girl. Wendy is a great networker and an avid social media markter. Check out her website here! www.inbeautephoto.com. She is posting a list of ‘tips and tricks” for your holiday picture taking adventures.
Here we go, enjoy!
Wendy Blomseth/Owner, InBeaute Photography
Til the season to take lots of photos. Are you excited? Are you ready? You might be smiling now but if your computer isn’t ready for your pictures, it won’t be pretty. Here are seven easy to do steps to get your computer ready to receive a large quantity of photographs from any important occasion.
PREP YOUR COMPUTER:
Follow these easy to do steps and you’ll be much better prepared and ready to download your favorite event pictures.
Here we go again…so many of you are not backing up your data! I’m going to now be the data back up annoying person. I hate to do this, but I feel that someone has to move you to wanting to at least do one back up. Can you blame me? I see this everyday in the shop…computers crash, viruses attack, they just plain fail… Your data is there and wants you to have it back asap!
You paid for that music. You stole that music. Either way, replacing your collection would be a lot of work!
Those memories off the camera? You cannot re-take those pictures. No way!
For one week, Call That Girl is offering a $1 per minute consultation. Even if you just want to check and see if your data back up is doing it’s job or going as far as setting up a whole new system that is hands freel….we want to help. We have seen many times over that people are sure their data is backed up to only find that the external hard drive or the online back up system is not backing up properly.
Many of you are not backing up on a regular basis. For the home users, this is important to get all those pictures and music collections in a 2nd home.
We can help you figure out a data back up package that fits your needs. Many of you have back up systems in place and just need a second opinion, for a buck a minute to have that checked, this is worth the price.
For the business user, you documents, excel spreadsheets and powerpoints are critical for your business to move. If your computer fails, you can at least get to your data.
This “buck a minute” special ends Wednesday, Nov 25th. If you book an appointment before then, you can book an appointment at anytime.
Email Lisa@callthatgirl.biz to schedule an appointment.
Hello folks, I hope you all read my first edition of being safe on Facebook. Enough has changed in just a few months that it’s time I put out another edition.
Login Hackers
Folks are still getting hacked the old school way on Facebook. Please change your facebook password NOW. Next, please change your email password that you log in with too and make it not the same password that your facebook has.
Weird messages/links from your friends
Never click on strange messages from your friends, “Hey check out this cool video I am in” is a regularity on facebook. Any links with weird shortcuts as well watch out for. I would even be a bit careful about clicking on links that look “legit”. I see so many links a day and I tend to only click on the ones where others have tried it first, I see their comments and if it looks like they are “ok” then I am going to be “ok”. Risking my computers security is not worth watching a video of a cat playing the keyboards (even though that is by far the funniest video I have seen on Youtube!).
Youtube/flash install virus
Another common one I have seen going on. If you click on the fake Youtube link…aka Youtube virus, you can either download a direct virus or get a message asking you to update “flash”. This of course could be true, but most folks already have flash installed on their pc’s. Flash does their own updates, you get notifications if you need them. And they aren’t that often.
The “Dear Facebook User” Login virus
If you get a login that starts with that message and tells you that they are implementing a new login system, this is a hoax too. If you have done that and did the “updatetool.exe” download, you are probably in trouble and know it already. Sorry about that! If you have been infected, I am sure by now you have changed all of your passwords to everyone online right? I hope so. That “uploadtool.exe” is supposed to be a banking phishing attack.
Quizzes/Games
The quizzes and applications are still in question for Call That Girl. I am not really seeing folks getting hacks from them directly, but it’s still up in the air how the hackers are getting passwords. I still have a feeling that the developers are getting them from the quizzes/games, etc.
Fun with Facebook
I really have enjoyed using Facebook lately, but watching all my friends download viruses or get hacked has not been fun. Even a computer repair gal, it’s sometimes too late for me to jump in and help.
Be careful on Facebook, have fun but again remember that screwing up your computer isn’t worth the fun of it all. I still am fixing “Koobface” viruses all the time. “Koobface” is the Facebook virus going through the system. Call That Girl can do a virus cleaning and a regular computer cleaning if you get infected.
Good luck and have fun!
You can’t just “call in sick” like the old corporate days. I usually have 5-8 items on my calendar everyday, so when I’m not feeling well, I have to reschedule or cancel everything. It’s not fun or something I enjoy doing. When you work for yourself, you also tend to not have so many sick days as you did in the corporate world. I noticed this early on in 2008.
I woke up today not feeling good. I cancelled all the interns today and asked them to work from home, kept all my phone appointments (as I can do those from home)…and am now heading back to bed for an hour to see how this pans out today.
Off for the day, happy blogging for the rest of you.
Edited to add: back on the horse! can put in a half day, woo! see you later Minneapolis…
Lisa
I’m beginning to wonder why I didn’t start my own business up years ago because owning my busines is just way too much fun!
Yesterday I met with Drew Beson a local artist about business and networking, this and that stuff at Stella’s. Drew’s quite the guy, if you haven’t seen his stuff, check out his website. Make sure to check out this “auction” link and watch the video. Crazy stuff there. It’s almost amazing to watch. http://www.drewbesonart.com/
Today my parents are coming up to see my new apt, see my new office and I’m taking them out to lunch at Bar Abilene. They don’t come to the cities all that often, so it’s a treat to show off all my stuff up here. I was hoping to have a new tattoo to show off, but didn’t get that done yet. Any recommendations on a good local artist?
Finally, I’m meeting up with Mike O’Neil of http://www.integratedalliances.com/ He is the founder and CEO. If you don’t know Mike, he’s my LinkedIn mentor. I got very lucky and met him last year via a friend from college. Mike is so awesome!!! He lives in Denver and comes to Minneapolis twice a year or so, each time we try to make time to catch up. Mike is in the top 40 LinkedIn. So when he gives a seminar, you should try to make it. He knows his stuff.
Tomorrow and Friday are just office days, but they are filling up fast. Have I told you folks how much I love my new office? Going to work is so much fun now! I have room to work!
Ok, that’s it for today! See you all soon:)
Lisa
Hello! I’m so happy the weekend is here..finally! I have a weekend for myself to get a few things done. One of those things is working on my business expansion plan. I am moving my store to another location here in a few months (business is growing for me enough to move out of my current office, yay!) and with that, I am looking to help more people so I can get more help for my move. Makes sense doesn’t it? Give and you will get!
In the past few weeks, I have heard of more and more company’s around the Minneapolis area giving pretty big discounts to the dislocated workers. Call That Girl is standing up and doing the same! We know how bad it is to have you use your kids computer or go to the library.
If you are unemployed, dislocated or in transition and have a computer that is in need of repair, we are offering a 50% discount for all computer repairs for a few months.
A few qualifiers…
★You must show proof that you are unemployed (Linkedin profiles showing you are not currently working are acceptable or a statement from unemployment)
★This is an “in store” service, no home or phone visits.
★This is for repair service only, does not include any hardware purchases that may be necessary to repair your computer.
★EXTRA! If you are not unemployed and pass this along to your friends, be sure to let Call That Girl know so you can be on the referral program. For every person you send to us that becomes a client of Call That Girl, you earn 20 free minutes of in store or phone support.
To schedule a drop off, call 612-865-4475.
~Lisa
Call That Girl!…
…Computer Repair with flair!
Lisa Hendrickson
Office 612-746-0566
Cell 612-865-4475
http://www.linkedin.com/in/callthatgirl
“People may not remember exactly what you did, or what you said, …but they will always remember how you made them feel”
~Carrie Bradshaw
