Dale’s blog

Well.. yesterday was Earth Day and I attended a ‘tree planting’ in Colborne, Ontario - celebrating Hoselton Sculptures 40th anniversary in business and announcing a ‘new’ business named ‘Hoselton Eco Community’. We are working on a new little web site and members area and a special tree sculpture, made for this community, is now for sale. When you ‘buy’ a sculpture, you automatically become a member and part of all funds go to a non-profit organization helping the environment. All details should be on their site shortly - this is just the start - lots more to do.

With all the travelling I have been doing over the past year, one of the things that bothers me is that I am very familiar with my ‘own’ home page in IE (or Firefox) - and then, when visiting, I am on someone else’s machine and lost! Well… I get lots of newsletter, one of which is from techcoachforcoaches.com. Yesterday the Tech Coach mentioned a site where you could list your favourites(thumbnails) for easy access from any computer. They claim you can locate web sites that you visit on a regular basis, with 2 clicks. So am giving it a try - appears easy enough. Here is address: www.only2clicks.com
If this works well, it should cut down a lot of time and frustration…. crossing my fingers!

As all my clients and friends are aware, for the past while I have been trying to relocate ‘back’ to Toronto - and looking for ‘real’ employment through networking and also on-line job listings. I tend to like the search sites that go all over for their results. AND, just found another one to add to my list: Indeed

In case you didn’t know, here are a few other job sites not as big as Workopolis, but definitely worth a look — Eluta -and WOW Jobs Also, lately, one of the better sites for job listings appears to be Charity Village.

Well - finally got this blog to work. Even set up a ‘general’ category.  It is easier than I thought to create pages, etc. And lately I seem to be sending out more and more ‘info e-mails’ to clients and friends - time-consuming and my e-mail program is out of control these days. Soooo…..thought I would start a blog and simply write news or interesting information I receive here instead of sending e-mails. Besides… the time had come to take the leap…

If you are wondering about the ‘theme’ of this blog- well, considering all the snow in the past winter, I thought something ‘bright’ was in order. A few of the other blog designs were really nice but clashed with my site design. Guess I will have to spruce up my web site as well. It has been a very long, long winter.

Not completely sure on where I will go with this blog.  I guess it will just be a new adventure!

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