How to take a screenshot

A while back my computer crashed and it displayed one of these Error messages with a long string of numbers.  I could not type it and so the only way I could get my technician to understand the problem what by taking a screenshot.  It is really easy to take a screenshot and you can take screenshot of your screen on pretty much anything and everything.  Sometimes you may want to take a screenshot of a Facebook chat or post or even Twitter conversations.  I take loads of screenshots especially when people leave me good testimonials or comments on Facebook or Twitter.  I also take screenshots of computer errors or when I want to try and show someone how to do something.

 

keyboard

 

  • Take a Screenshot by holding down  CTRL + ALT + PrntScr  (you can find the PrntScr at the top right of your keyboard)
  • Then open up Paint on your computer, if you cannot locate Paint, go to your start menu in Windows 7 and type in PAINT.
  • Open up PAINT and hold down CTRL + V together and the image you took a screenshot of will now be pasted into PAINT.
  • Look for the crop tool top left, select it and crop the area of the image you want to use, in other words cut out all the unnecessary parts you don’t need.
  • Once you’ve selected the area you want to crop, click on crop again and the software will remove all the unwanted parts of the image and keep the section you selected to crop.
  • Once happy save the image.  Now you’ve taken a screenshot.

 

cropping an image

1 November 2013 How to do stuff No comments yet

How to link your Facebook fan page to Twitter

Many people link their Twitter accounts to their Facebook fan page and I would not recommend you do this because Twitter is a live news stream and requires a lot more tweets than your fan page.  Linking your Twitter to your fan page will eventually annoy people especially if you are updating your Twitter every hour.

However, what you can do is link your Facebook fan page to your Twitter account because you are most likely only going to be updating your fan page once or twice a day.

Here are two reasons why you may want to link your Facebook fan page to your Twitter account:

  • Twitter limits us to only 140 characters and sometimes you just have that something extra to say.
  • You can gain more fans on your Facebook fan page.

Here’s how to do it:

Firstly, you need to be logged into your Facebook account.

Then you need to type this into your browser:   https://www.facebook.com/twitter/

 

Link Facebook to Twitter

 

You should see the above example on your screen.  Click on “link your pages to Twitter” which will redirect your to Twitter’s authorise an application page.  Complete the authorisation and you are done.

 

1 May 2013 Facebook and Twitter, How to do stuff 1 comment

How to use RSS feeds to save you time.

Technology has certainly made our lives easier but at the same time it somehow has made our lives busier.  Marketing your business online is a very cost effective way to market your business and using social networking sites to drive traffic to your website is a must.  The problem is that while this is cost effective one of the biggest issues with social media management and marketing your business online is that it is extremely time consuming.  Before you know it you’ve spent 2 to 3 hrs of your time online doing different things and getting sidetracked.

If you have a blog and you are distributing your blog posts in various social networking sites you want to save yourself time by not having to manually do this every time you publish a blog.  What you want to be able to do is publish your blog post and have the post distributed automatically for you to all the social networking sites you are linked up to.  I’m going to show you a neat trick that is going to make your life just a little easier by using RSS Feeds.

 

What is an RSS feed?

RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication and this is exactly what it is!  RSS allows you to take a specified URL link address and set it up to distribute to all selected distribution channels you choose so every time you publish a blog  or article post it automatically updates on all networks publishing your latest blog post.

Now you may ask, “where is this so called RSS feed”?

Generally the RSS feed is a big orange button which looks very much like the image on the left.
When you click on that button it navigates to a page looking like the image below and you will find your RSS feed in the address bar as shown below.

 

Ok so now that I know where my RSS feed URL is, what do I do with it?

Copy the RSS URL feed and link it to your Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts suing a tool like Twitterfeed. This will keep all your social networking sites updated with your latest post.

You can also grab another sites RSS feed and add it to your Twitterfeed to share content on selected social  networking sites.  This would form part of your content strategy and it also gives you content to share with your audience who might find it useful and interesting.

Any questions on social media assistance, contact @romanythresher via Twitter.

30 September 2012 How to do stuff No comments yet
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