Linda Sherman

Social Media Tool Tips, Health and Well-Being Fitness Tips, Twitter Extensions

Why the Senior in Your Life Will Love an iPhone

I gave my father an iPhone in January. He loves it.

Actually I gave him my hand me down 3G when I upgraded to a 3Gs.

I spent some time training him on it while I was with him in January. Ray took photographs of some important medical papers he has, including dietary restrictions, and we put them into the photo library on his iPhone.  They are there for easy reference when needed. My Dad learned how to touch the screen to expand those documents. 

I just spoke to my father and he said he blew the pharmacist away when he showed him details of his prescription on his iPhone. The information ensured that the prescription was filled correctly because there were two similar products and only one is the one correct for my father.
My Dad also loves the nice big screen for making calls. 
I loaded all his contacts into the address book on his Macbook and he knows how to sync now.  So his contacts are easily accessible on his phone. He can replay parts of visible voice mail as needed.
If things get messy on his address book or his dowloaded iPhone apps (which are synced to his phone through iTunes), I can always iChat with him, take control of his Mac and fix things.
I recently discovered that the 3Gs would be even better for him because of the cool, new voice control feature.  Next time.

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I'll come back later to tell you about his favorite iPhone apps.
This is a photo I took of my Dad in March last year. 

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#SMCLA Jan 14 Come Enjoy Panel about Social Media for Singles

We are talking about the intersection of Single Life and Social Media.

There are five intriguing panelists, each having something to do with Dating and Relationships as well as Social Media.

We agree on many things but you will also hear different points of view as well.

One view of Single Life is reflected in this week's "Letter from Kim" (Singular Communications' co-founder Kim Calvert) called Shed Those Old Ideas About Being Single 

Shed Those Old Ideas about Being Single

Kim will be joining us in the audience as well as some very interesting members of the LA media community.

The name of this Social Media Club LA event is "Dating and Relationships: The Game Has Changed"

How has it changed?

One thing that has changed is that singles are now the majority in the U.S.

Yesterday you may have used an internet dating site to find a date, now you might find a friend or a date on any social network including Twitter, Facebook and Flickr.

Sometimes when you aren't looking for a date, but just forming relationships, come the best opportunities of all.

Singular magazine and SingularCity.com were born to support the philosophy that being single is an opportunity for great self-discovery and defining your own life.

Come hear more about enjoying your Single Lifestyle in Los Angeles.

We hope to see Andy Sternberg there, thanks Andy for previewing the event in the LAist.

AVFlox will be adding her usual spice. Here's her warm up.

Cyber Dating Expert, Julie Spira will be on hand with facts and fun information on the internet dating scene.

Liz Kelly, the smart author of Smart Man Hunting, will have tips to offer.

We actually allowed a man onto the panel. Dating coach, Evan Marc Katz is sure to deliver humorous observations on dating. 

I will be talking about being single in Los Angeles from the Social Community perspective.

Thank you to Geoff Brown at Social Media Club LA for coming up with this event.

You'll find the link to RSVP on Facebook here.  Admission is FREE.

Manhattan Beach 
12 + HIGHLAND
304 12th Street
Manhattan Beach, CA

7PM - 10PM 
Panel starts at 8PM

My Background for this Panel:

After working as an executive in Japan, I transitioned back to the United States with a product called Singelringen, a Swedish unisex ring for singles. That product demanded social media exposure and I dove straight in. I began the base for a career as a Social Media Marketing Consultant. I also built a network of 15 authors who wrote about Single Life in an empowering way and endorsed Singelringen. Several years later, one of those authors, Leslie Talbot, became a columnist for Singular magazine/SingularCity.com. Leslie realized that the philosophy of Singelringen and Singular were very similar and introduced me to Kim Calvert. 

I helped Singular Communications to launch SingularCity.com in September 2008 and have been their acting Community Manager since.  

SingularCity is about fully embracing and enjoying being single in Los Angeles. There are special interest groups, activities and opportunities to make friends in a relaxed atmosphere. 

ow.ly - how to view without the @hootsuite iframe

People on Hootsuite love the extensive stats that ow.ly provides.

But most people reading ow.ly links on the web don't realize that there is a simple way to get rid of the ow.ly iframe so that they can navigate the linked website normally and pull the actual permalink for the article so that they can bookmark it etc.

Here it is:

"The ow.ly social bar can be closed via the x in the upper-right.
You can also choose to hide the ow.ly social bar completely for all ow.ly links you visit with your current computer/browser.
To do this, click the down-arrow next to the x close box, and then check the box that says 'never show me the ow.ly bar.'"

I do think that Hootsuite should explain more about each of these points - especially #4 to their users.

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Great article this morning by Brian Solis. I needed to remove the iframe to get the link to post to Delicious.  Thank you to @SimonMainwaring for spotting it.

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First time at Kauai House since mid-July flood

The house is still not ready yet but it's good to be back on Island.

July 18, a fire alarm shorted in the house that alerted neighbors to water streaming down from the second floor to the first. The cause: a $5 plastic piece leading to the water tank in the master bathroom upstairs broke and water flooded - probably for more than one day. It was forced water, so it flowed quickly but at least it was clean water.

Water seeped into most of the walls which had to be taken down to the studs. Kauai is not generally a quick response kind of place but the "water extractor" and electrician arrived within hours of being contacted.

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Day of discovery. When the door to the main house was opened, a flood of water gushed out.

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Kitchen today - renovation still in progress
I don't know how people without an architect in the family respond to this type of incident. Ray spent many days on plans.

The guest house is full of boxes and doesn't have a real kitchen but OK to stay in for this short trip.

We'll be eating out a lot. Choices are generally limited on the south shore of Kauai but checked Yelp and there is a new restaurant called Merriman's that sounds great. Reserved for tonight.

 

Shinnen Akemashite Omedetou Goziamasu. New Years in Japan

2010 新年あけましておめでとうございます！

In Japan up until midnight December 31, we say "yoi o'toshi wo" （良いお年を) (Have a good New Year) which is the simple version of: Yoi otoshi o omukae kudasai （良いお年をお迎えください）

After midnight and for the next week, we say "Shinnen Akemashite Omedetou Goziamasu"  - 'A New Year has opened, congratulations' 新年開けましておめでとうございます！

Followed by "Kotoshi mo yoroshiku onegaishimasu" 'Please treat me kindly again this year'

Businesses close from about December 28 to January 4th 'depending on how the day of the week falls'.

There are no wild parties on New Year's eve. The thing to do is to visit a temple with huge throngs of other visitors.  

As we watch the ball drop in Times Square on TV from a nice warm room, the Japanese televise the crowds decked out in their kimonos at Meiji Shrine.

At the shrine, there is the opportunity to pick up one's official fortune and burn the important objects you picked up at the temple the previous year in a big bonfire.

The next day there is a New Year's Day feast at home.

Temple visits continue for several days, you might hit one in Tokyo then a different one near your family's home in another city.

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Photo by Ray Gordon at Meiji Shrine

How to pronounce 'akemashite omedeto gozaimasu' at your favorite sushi bar this week

Getting ready to get out and enjoy New Year's American style.

Happy New Year!!

Ben Parr #Snapshot Experiment

Take a photo of what you are doing "now" and tweet it out. @BenParr's tweet

Reactions up to now.

Reminds me of my "View at Work" post.

I chose the Seesmic "Posterous" option for attaching pic with my post.

What I'm doing - looking out at a cloudy day in Los Angeles (while working)

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(iPhone pic) via Seesmic

Speaking of editing Posterous Posts ....

There is a lot to be liked about Posterous but I must admit I miss "draft" and "preview" from WordPress. And being able to bring in images - it would be nice if that were possible from inside Posterous so that everything doesn't HAVE to be an email. Or am I missing something?

Can anyone tell me how to remove the extra line spaces from this post. The extraneous spaces were inflicted through an editing attempt. 

Oh and I'd like to add this photo of me taken at Ray's 8-8-09 birthday party too.

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I got Posterous feeding to my WP.org blog as a widget. Thank you Rob La Gesse of RackSpace

I got the idea to do this from Rob La Gesse, @kr8tr, Director of Customer Development for the "Fanatical Support" hosting company RackSpace. Rob and I met on Twitter back in the early golden days.

I saw that Rob had his Posterous on his site as a widget in the right sidebar and I wanted one. I knew that I specifically wanted my casual Posterous posts to show up as a widget and not as regular posts to my blog.

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I tweeted about it for several hours before I realized that Rob had already answered me back on Facebook in response to where I had written out what I wanted to do in detail.  In the interim, I can say some very smart guys said "Wow" and gave their opinion on how it could be done and apparently no one seemed to know the easy fix.

I don't think that Posterous currently makes this clear on their site, but here's how to do it, to quote from Rob: (obviously replace with your own Posterous feed).

"In Wordpress go to Appearance, Widgets, drag the RSS widget to one of your sidebars and use your RSS feed (http://lindashermangordon.posterous.com/rss.xml) where it's indicated."

Voila!

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Reposted to add images as attachments instead of embedded code from Flickr. Embedded code works for YouTube but not for Flickr. Posterous did give links to the Flickr images though.