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By Cecil Jones, MBA Opportunities during Adversity! Over the last few months, we all have had an opportunity to stay at or near home. Have you dealt with this as an opportunity or a problem? I have had the opportunity to turn off some of the news and media updates and get some things done. We can reach out and communicate with those that we have not talked with, IM’d or texted for a while. What things can you complete (or at least get started) during this period? We have some recommendations at the beginning of this article and thoughts to help all of us at the end. Free/Inexpensive Ways to Communicate S o m e f r e e a n d inexpensive w ays to Google Docs communicate to others include the offerings Need to share documents? Google Docs below. provides an online repository for you to post documents and share them vis as link with Freeconference.com anyone that you like. Do you want to do an online or voice family reunion? Freeconference.com provides the Become More Spiritual free telephone conference call number and/ Have you talked to God today? Is this a good or video. time to dig deeper spiritually? You have the time. Use online sites to better understand Vimeo the Gospel and Old Testament. Sites like Are you videoing and want to post and share biblegateway.com provide easy to understand a large video? Several companies offer free versions of the Bible. That excuse: “King uploading of video (Youtube, etc.), Vimeo James version is difficult to understand” is offers the uploading and sharing of huge gone. You will find a version that is just at your level. As you know, you can have your videos at an inexpensive annual fee. PC read to you, even. Excuses gone! Zoom Learn Some New Technology Tools and Many churches, corporations and others Tricks have learned and are using Zoom since the pandemic began. Zoom is easy to use and can - Emogis – get some additional cute Emojis be accessed by the people that you want to and icons to send to others when you send attend your Live session by just sending them your messages. We all can use a smile or laugh right now. a link to click on.
not need most apps to run in the background, 24 by 7. Disable them by clicking on them and following the prompts. (Now you know why you must recharge your phone’s battery more often than you would like). Get rid of the unneeded apps and set many of the rest not to run 24 by 7. Get a New Certification Is this the time to get a new certification? You may have a little more quiet time. Go study. There are free and inexpensive certifications available. See ‘Take a Free Online Course’, below. Take a Free Online Course There are thousands of free courses available. See Coursera.org, https://online-learning. harvard.edu/catalog/free (Yes, Harvard), openculture.com, www.trade-schools. net/articles/free-online-courses (includes certifications), edx.org, udemy.com, https:// www.khanacademy.org/ (for children, even software coding courses), online.stanford.edu (Yes, Stanford). Some of these sites offer free online certifications.
- Signature Lines – develop a stand signature line at the bottom of your emails and Explore the Job Market Online Microsoft is going after the team and messages When the crowd is going to the right, be sure collaboration market. They offer Microsoft Teams as a free package for sharing - Mass Communication (for those groups to to look to your left. When the stock market is documents, doing team edits real-time on a which you belong) – develop and organize going down (people are selling), consider if document and sharing information, both real- the lists of people to whom you send emails that is an opportunity for you to buy. When time and by posting information to be viewed and communications to regularly. Now is you have a bit of time, look at the job market online. Yes, some industries are furloughing a good time to send that group message of later by others on your team. people. Guess what? Some organizations are encouragement. doing even more hiring than before! YouTube - Your Phone (No, don’t download a bunch Explore Your Hobby YouTube is a good choice for quality real- of new apps) – Take the time to click on time streaming/viewing. The audio is superb, some features of your phone that you have Got a hobby that you always wanted to get and music/vocals are modulated very well not used. Be sure to look at those apps that back to and becoming engaged. Now is a are set to run (in the background). You do good time. without adjusting. Microsoft Teams
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