Social Media and Networking ideas for SCCCC members

These are the websites shared at today's SCCCC general meeting.

Examples of Social Media and Social Networking
Christchurch Earthquake: map of destruction and emergency services information
Ravelry: knitting and crochet heaven (you'll need to join up to view everything)
Wikipedia Community Portal: this is where you can get involved in editing and sharing what you know with the world!
State Records NSW on Flickr
State Library of NSW on Flickr

Twitter (twitter.com)
Practical Tips for Twitter Beginners from the University of Leicester
Twitter for Beginners from Mashable
Examples of Twitter accounts to follow: @702sydney, @OurCentralCoast, @mygosford, @abcnews, @abcgrandstand
Examples of Twitter hashtags: #SBSTDF, #London2012, #spbkchat, #qanda

Facebook (www.facebook.com)
Permanently deleting your Facebook account
Facebook settings - a complete guide: this article is up to date and if you ignore the ads, really useful.

Blogs
Blogging Flavours from Christchurch City Libraries
Talkin' bout my Generations - personal family history blog
The $120 Food Challenge
Clones 'n' Clowns
Raspberri Cupcakes
Smitten Kitchen
The Wednesday Chef
Garden Rant
Top 50 Gardening blogs from Blogrank
Top 100 Australian blogs index
Australian Genealogy and History blog list
and finally, you thought I was joking . . . here's the Vienna to Pyongyang blog that I spent 5 hours reading in the middle of the night (you've been warned!).


Photo Credit: khalid Albaih via Compfight cc

Monday 14 May

Thanks for such great morning and afternoon sessions, I hope you are enjoying them as much as me!


And thanks to Helen for prompting us discover the joys of a bigger cursor!!  Here's how:

• Open Systems Preferences
• select Universal Access
• then Mouse & Trackpad (or it might be just Mouse)
• Use the slider to move the Cursor size bigger and smaller, it will change as you slide making it easy to decide how big you need it!

Don't forget: Command + Q for quitting a program completely. 


Two websites which you may find useful:
My First Mac
Switching to Mac


Web browsers and the internet: 21 May 
Pages/Word and printing: 28 May
iPhoto: 4 June
No class (public holiday): 11 June
Classes in AM and PM (topics TBA): 18 June
No class (last week of term): 25 June


See you on Monday!

13 February 2012 (part 2)

And we're back for part 2:


Making a collage for your Desktop Background - iPhoto doesn't "do" collages but this blog has a workaround using the book function in iPhoto.  (I will add this to the list for the week we cover iPhoto).

How to print in greyscale:

We also discussed search engines, in particular Google. DuckDuckGo is an alternative search engine which has a very clear no tracking and bubble policies (the bubble will make sense when you read the link!) and privacy policy.


And lastly, here is my suggested calendar for the rest of term 1.  It is open to change and subject to approval by SCCCC.

• 20 February - Basics
• 27 February - iPhoto
• 5 March - Pages/Microsoft Word for Mac/OpenOffice
• 12 March - Mail
• 19 March - iTunes
• 26 March - App Store, installing and uninstalling applications
• 2 April - (open to suggestions or for a recap of the term).

And that is it! See you next Monday.

13 February 2012 (part 1)

Firstly a big thank you to everyone who came to the first Mac Beginners group on Monday morning and also to everyone who came to the Mac Users group in the afternoon.  I am really enjoying learning with you all and have high hopes for the rest of the term.  (And a big thanks to SCCCC, in particular Beverley who has worked hard on publicity for the group and setting up the Mac Mini and fixing the Wifi!)


We got through a lot of topics on Monday and I hope I have remembered them all.  If I have left something out, please email me and I will add the relevant information here.


In the morning sessions we spent some time going through Systems Preferences.  I hope everyone will find some time between now and next week having a bit of a play with some of the settings (Desktop & Screen Savers for example).  Practice and repetition will help you become more familiar with your Mac!


I've created a video on How to Create Smart Groups (lists) in Address Book and is the answer to Ann's question about having lists of New Zealand and Australian addresses in her Address Book.

Dropbox: for anyone interested in the security issues with saving documents to the "cloud" this article details encryption and making files in Dropbox even more secure.


iCloud (note: is only available for those Apple devices that are running the latest OSX).


Margaret had a question about her email on the Mac and iPad.  When she was deleting emails on her Macbook they were still showing as unread on her iPad.  This link gives one solution.  


This blog post has become so long I've split it into two parts.  Part 2 should be up in a couple of hours.