It’s easy to create a new contact from an email message. Click on an email message, and then drag it to the Contacts folder in the Folder. When you release the mouse button, the Contacts tab displays with any pertinent information from the email message filled in. Add additional information as needed, and then click Save And Close.
This technique can also be used to create email messages, Calendar entries, tasks, journal entries, and notes. For example, drag a Calendar entry to the Inbox in the Folder List to create an email message.
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Recently a site called acobay asked if I’d take a look at their service. They take the work out of testing bugs on your site, spotting spelling errors, and usability testing. There’s two options when you land on the homepage, and I think most readers would probably fit both categories; client, and tester.
As a client, there’s a few obvious benefits:
- start test projects at any time;
- get immediate results;
- pay only for valid bugs.
As a tester, the big bonus is that you can work at home (what we’re all about) and get paid to browse sites, and put them through the ringer. If you’d like to register as either a client or tester, you can do so here.
Once in a while someone will email the contact form here letting me know of a spelling mistake or broken link, and for that I am grateful, but I’m always left with a feeling that there must be more out there. Turning loose some human testers on your site is a cost effective way to scrub for bugs, spelling errors, and usability issues.
The phenomenon of “crowd-sourcing” has been steadily gaining traction over the past few years. I’ve used Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and found it to have a host of benefits. Whether it’s matching a clothing item to a particular category, or voting on how appealing a color scheme is, it’s comforting to know there’s some tasks out there that humans are still better than computers at. 
The next time I’m doing web testing I’ll use acobay. Looks like they’ve already been doing some discovery work on microsoft.com. Knowing Microsoft products I don’t see an end to their bug hunting any time soon!
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and some things you can’t.
Just wanted to share this quote which I think is particularly relevant in our current economic state:
“Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them – Work, Family, Health, Friends and Spirit and you’re keeping all of these in the air.
You will soon understand that Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back.
But the other four Balls – Family, Health, Friends and Spirit – are made of glass. If you drop one of these; they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that, and strive for it.” – Brian Dyson, former CEO Coca-Cola
im looking for a at home job to earn extra cash at home but seems to me there all scams
I have health reasons why I need to work at home. I have been scammed before and don’t want to get burned again. So, it doesn’t matter to me if I work for someone else or become associated in some home-based business (even MLM) just as long as I can work at home. HOWEVER, I want to associate myself only with a Christ centered, God driven company. Does anyone of such or can suggest one?
If you’re working on an online business, talking to a start-up founder who has tried, and failed, is an education goldmine. Experience is the greatest teacher, and it’s not often you get that kind of business lesson for free, but today is your lucky day.
I give you Jamie Quint (his blog here), who founded the now defunct college recruiting site SnapTalent.com. Read the letter posted on SnapTalent, then head over to his blog to read his first few lessons in what NOT to do when starting an online company.
Given you have a lot of reading to do, I won’t ramble on. Enjoy!
We’re always looking at ways to improve our site and services, so today we’re launching a weekly job alerting service. We already offer the largest work at home job database on the web (including free postings for employers) and the weekly email digest of jobs matching your skill set is a great addition to our existing services.
It’s easy to get started. Just visit whydowork.com/jobs and click on the alert service. You’ll see this window:
Enter your email address, the job you’re after (e.g. data entry clerk), and answer an extremely complex math question and you’re in! Once you join, you can cancel an alert at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link the footer of the weekly digest you’ll receive.
Hope you enjoy it and let me know if you have any feedback.
Move over Queen Elizabeth! In celebration of the upcoming winter Olympics in Vancouver, the Royal Canadian Mint is sponsoring a contest to find “The Face of the Games” in search of the ultimate Olympics fan. Two lucky mugs will end up with their face on a coin on 100 medallions each. Produced by the Royal Canadian Mint, these coins will feature the winner’s faces on one side, and the VANOC/Mint logo on the other side. Each one of the two grand prizes also includes a trip for 2 to Ottawa around or on Canada Day (July 1st for you non-Canadians) to pick up the prize directly from the Mint. Four runners up will win prizes courtesy of the Mint valued at $500 each.
If you’re Canadian and an Olympics fan (which I am), there are two easy ways to enter:
- Submit a short video (up to 30 seconds) or;
- Submit a photo or short essay (up to 250 words)
Whichever you choose, it should make it clear why you are the ULTIMATE Vancouver 2010 Olympics fan!
Winners will be judged based on the number of votes they collect, so make sure if you enter you share it with your friends (hint: Twitter/Facebook/email work well).
Logging into the site and adding your ultimate fan content is easy. Just visit Face of the Games and upload your entry now!
The contest opens today at noon E.S.T. and runs until 11:59am on March 21st.
Thanks to the Canadian Mint for sponsoring this post and letting me know about the contest. I’m working on my entry now!
As a regular visitor of WhyDoWork.com you may have noticed us pushing a contest sponsored by the US Department of Labor designed to seek out the best employment resources on the net. The top voted sites were to be included on the Department of Labor’s job site Careeronestop.org. Unfortunately we didn’t make the cut, but a great thanks to everyone who voted, and especially those who left some really positive comments.
Now I’m writing this blog post not out of bitterness or with a ‘negative-nancy’ attitude, but to highlight a gross oversight by the administration. They seemed to have forgotten about the fastest growing source of employment available to Americans and the rest of the world; work at home jobs. Its a niche where location, traditional stereotypes, or disability are not a concern. It is isolated from local employment rates, or your specific educational background, and is open to anyone with a computer.
- Specific Occupations
- State and Local
- Military and Government
- Older Workers and Seniors
- Diverse Workers
- Ex-Offenders
- Students
What about home based moms, dads, disabled workers, or anyone that wants to make additional income without having to resort to traditional on-site work? The administration has totally disregarded anything related to working from home; there isn’t one site mentioned that specialized in that niche. Whether it be call center support, transcription, or freelance work, this is an important facet of the workforce. When a town is hit with high unemployment they don’t have to abandon the city, or have people sit around on unemployment without an idea of what to do. Citizens can look at the option of maintaining their life and lifestyle through online employment and freelance work.
Your Friends in Tackling Unemployment,
WhyDoWork.com