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Google Translate

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Another app I love is Google Translate.  While I've used Google Translate from time to time on the web, it's even more useful on the phone since you probably already have it with you when you need it.

It's nicely integrated with speech and with texting. While it's not perfect, it's a great resource beyond pointing and gesturing. Just make sure it gets the speech to text right:  e.g., :"robotics trip" vs. "robotic strip". Common words and simple phrases come through OK if spoken carefully.

The selection of languages is also pretty amazing, and it works in both directions in a conversational mode. When I was at Goodwill South Florida, I showed them it could not only handle Spanish but also Hatian Creole.

So this is one more tool just to have for those times when you just can't find the word in Spanish or don't have a clue how to say it in Korean. And the price is right.

We Just Do It

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OK, you need a new website.

Websites are a commodity.  You can use a website building tool and do it yourself. Just about anybody can put up the content you provide, and the result might be great or not so great, depending upon their skills and the content you provide. It all comes back to the content, doesn't it?

All too often, what holds things up is someone not having the time to deal with getting the content together.

Last Updated on Friday, 16 December 2011 11:00 Read more...

Met the Deadline - New Website for JMA Solutions

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We recently had the opportunity to create a new Joomla! website for JMA Solutions, Inc.  Their prior website had been a Cold Fusion site (yes, I've done that in the past), but their hosting provider was pulling the plug on Cold Fusion.

Within two weeks, and over the Thanksgiving holiday, the new website was up and running. It incorpoates both enhanced information on the company and the awards they've won, and an employee portal with internal policies, forms, calendar, and other features.

Everyone was very pleased with the new site, which is at www.jma-solutions.com.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 14 December 2011 10:19

Article in Quorum Magazine

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My article was just published in the July 2011  issue of Quorum Magazine, of the Metropolitan Washington Chapter of the Community Associations Institute (WMCCAI), under the title Hard Work -- Rewarded.

This article detailed the accomplishments that landed us the "Most Improved" condo association through application of CAI guidelines. I don't think I can repeat it here but I will provide a link if I can find it online.

The cycles are amazing - history has already repeated itself more than once.  So much is at stake, dependent upon a mix of volunteer efforts, overworked managers,misguided agendas, ignorance and apathy.  People buy condos so that they don't have to mow the lawn, but if they don't pay attention, the condominium concept puts their investment and home at risk. How well does it work? Stay tuned. I've submitted another article and have a history of Talltree South in progress.

Last Updated on Friday, 08 July 2011 12:42

Compliments for the Guild Site

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I recently completed and went live with the new website for the Guild of Professional Tour Guides of Washington, DC, at www.washingtondctourguides.com.
Yesterday, Joe Steinbock of the Guild passed on the following compliment to me and Shirley Timashev of the Guild:
I join everyone in the Guild in thanking you for the new web site.  The following unsolicited compliment
came today from a professional designer I met at the Destination DC "speed networking" event.
Best wishes,
Joe Steinbock
Hi Joe!
Did you just redo your website?  It looks great! Whoever did it, did a really great job.
Hope you're having a great week.
Best,
Last Updated on Friday, 08 July 2011 12:43

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