Let's say you're typing an email and you want to include a link to a website. Sometimes if you copy and paste the web address into your email composing window it doesn't show up as a link.
Not to worry. Here's the deal with web links in an email message:
Even if the link doesn't turn blue and have an underline it will show up correctly (and clickable) as long as there is an "http://" in the front of the web address.
Works every time - even in junky, plain text email systems!
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Lowest Common Denominator
We sat down together and we discussed what we are hoping to accomplish with this committee. We pondered a mission statement. We talked about merging with Education. We covered quite a bit.
We agreed that the local skill sets vary greatly (no surprise) and that leaves us in a position where we really cannot help everyone at once. With that understood it's important to establish a lowest common denominator of technical skills we agree a licensee should have in our Association today.
Certainly, the list begins with being able to use Paragon - running searches - printing or emailing results, managing a contact list etc.
If licensees are fluent with Paragon, we can now assume that they're used to operating Internet Explorer, using the back button and using web form controls as well.
If a licensee is this far with their skills, adding managing an email account professionally is next. Creating a signature, using an email client like Outlook, adding attachments.
Getting a grasp of the common and usable file types is a good idea. A licensee should be familiar with the filetypes: PDF, DOC - and understand that beyond PDF, it may not be able to be opened/read.
That moves us into using Word (or equivalent) and perhaps a splash of Excel usage - making a simple spreadsheet.
Each of these items can certainly be embellished as I'm just listing some opening items - what do you think?
It'd be great if we could post a little "cheat sheet" of "10 things you HAVE to be able to do on the computer" and have Anne add it to the next CMCAR publication or something.
We agreed that the local skill sets vary greatly (no surprise) and that leaves us in a position where we really cannot help everyone at once. With that understood it's important to establish a lowest common denominator of technical skills we agree a licensee should have in our Association today.
Certainly, the list begins with being able to use Paragon - running searches - printing or emailing results, managing a contact list etc.
If licensees are fluent with Paragon, we can now assume that they're used to operating Internet Explorer, using the back button and using web form controls as well.
If a licensee is this far with their skills, adding managing an email account professionally is next. Creating a signature, using an email client like Outlook, adding attachments.
Getting a grasp of the common and usable file types is a good idea. A licensee should be familiar with the filetypes: PDF, DOC - and understand that beyond PDF, it may not be able to be opened/read.
That moves us into using Word (or equivalent) and perhaps a splash of Excel usage - making a simple spreadsheet.
Each of these items can certainly be embellished as I'm just listing some opening items - what do you think?
It'd be great if we could post a little "cheat sheet" of "10 things you HAVE to be able to do on the computer" and have Anne add it to the next CMCAR publication or something.
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