Renee Crabtree's (myassistantcan) Blog

I can't get the time to log in to Facebook throughout the day but I want to know what my friends are up to. Logging in at the end of the day requires me to browse through perhaps 100 updates. I get lost. I get behind. Well what did I find today? Facebook provides an RSS  feed for your friend stat...

Lists make me happy. I like planning out goals I want to accomplish and things I want to do. Problem is, I'm addicted to lists. They are everywhere. And I can't find them. So, a lot of good they do me now, huh? Alas, the internet has come to my rescue! There are wonderful list-making, task priori...

      I went to my local grocery store for square orange cheese crackers. In particular I was looking for Cheese Nips because they were on insane sale. Cracker isle. Found the Cheez-Its but where are the Cheese Nips????? Can't find them anywhere. But they're on sale. They must be around. Cruise d...

  I get asked quite often to put animated graphics on websites. When I think of gifs (graphics interchange format) I think of dancing elves or cats licking their paws. I think of cheesy stuff. But now with great technology you can make your own classy gifs. At Picasion.com you can upload a series...

Are you rolling in marketing dollars this year? If you're like a lot of companies you are forced to give a hard look to your marketing plan and rule out what is working and what is not. Here's what I'm hearing. Not working: Newspapers Homes & Lifestyles Open Houses Working (in our area and across...

Microsoft Office is pretty much the norm in computer world. Microsoft has a monopoly. Until now. OpenOffice.org is a free alternative to Microsoft Office. OpenOffice is made up of 6 basic programs : Writer - a word processor comparable to WordCalc - a spreadsheet editor and creator comparable to...

Google's page rank system is virtually dead. Google is producing more sophisticated methods or ranking websites and are becoming better and better at weeding out dead sites. Sites that don't offer fresh content, sites that don't bring and retain visitors are going to suffer page rank. Google used...