Today we talk to the Southern Berkshire Technology Commitee.  We find out what is going on here in MA with hooking up the underserved areas.  We also talk about the stories in the news and tips to make your computer and web site run better.

We talk about how to SEO, SEM, your site.  We give you some real tips that can help you do a better job in google and the other search engines.  Then how do you know what anyone is doing on your site?  We look at stats.  What do they say and how do you read them.

We talk about all the things that can get us in trouble at work or any other time we should be doing something useful.  Online games, youtube.com and many other place to go and things to see.  But should we do this at work? 

Paul and I have fun with Technology in our time.  We say happy birthday to our country.

We talk about Security and how to protect yourself on the web.  We talk about how you can get what you want and not let any of your personal information.

Today we talk to Steve from the Snap Shop in Great Barrington, MA. about film vs digital photography.  Snap Shop opened it doors in 1972, we talk about the change in photography and what we can do to take great pictures and keep them, print them and show them to everyone.

Call the Snap Shop in Great Barrington at : 413 528-4725

We talk to David Rooney about the Berkshire Economic Development Corperation.  What their goals are and how they plan to put them into action. We talked about bringing new companies to the Berkshires that would acgment the current companies and increase buisness.  How new buisness can be brought to current companies by buying products and services local.  There are many times that companies just don't know that there is a company that can provide a service.  We can use Web 2.0 tools to bring the county together.  Apps like Twitter, linkedin.com to name a few.  David wants to hear from you the consumer, the buisness person on what would make it easier to do buiness in the Berkshires and how you think we can grow it.

Listen to out discussion:

Berkshire Economic Development Corperation

Social networking is a valuable tool that can be used to contact , stay in touch with your firends and if you are in the gen y set you already know what it is and how to use it.  The next generation of the web is hear and you need to learn how to use it in buisness. Stay in touch with your clients and find new clients.  Find out what they are looking for and how they want it delived to them.  With the economy like it is small rural commiunities need to work together to create wealth in their commiunities.  We talk about tool you can use and things you can do to reach out and bring the money home.

 An 1 hr disscussion: 

We talk to Brian Killeen from the Southern Berkshire Chamber of Commerce about the services availible for small buisnesses in Berkshire County to help them create a buiness plan, finacing, and other help you can get for free.  We also talk about Linkedin.com and how we can use it to create buisness in the local area.  Learn how we can use what we have to create buiness in our local area. Call the chamber at  413 528-4284

A 25 min disscussion: 

 Listen to show 129 - Social Web Communities: Networking, Bookmarking, Links, Video and more…

We look at Social Networking why is it working? A bottom up view of Social Web Communities.  Find a network that is good for you.  Make business contacts through your friends contacts using linkedin.com.

Listen to show 29 - A discussion with Dr. Karen O'Flynn about Social Networking.

I talk with Karen O'Flynn about how social networking is used and what the benefits and pit falls could be. We talk about how anyone can use social networking to move their personal/business goals forward. Where do you start? Find Out.

Everyone uses them and now they are more useful than ever.  Buisniess can use them advertise for free.  Help your clients and customers find you and pick you over the next guy.  Oh ya you can also use them to find out where to go.

Today we talk about free email programs, like gmail, yahoo mail, hotmail, AOL and many more.  Once you get into the free email can you get out?  Should everyone have one or more?  What are people and companies using them for?  We talk about all that and more on Computer Therapy.