Internet Marketing Tips and Freebies

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To busy to keep up with your social networks, Blogs and Web Site content...have I got a FREE tool for you.

Ever wish you could post to all you social networks easily?  I have wished for such at tool many, many times. Today I found a tool called Utterz

I first ran across Utterz some time ago and when I did you could call up record your voice and others could listen. Sounded pretty lame to me.  Since then Utterz has expanded the service to include cross posting to a whole list of social networking platforms, Blogs and Web Sites.  Examples are Twitter, Blogger, Wordpress, Drupal, and YouTube to name just a few.

Here is how it works

  • You can post audio, video, text or pictures to your feed.
  • Sign in and click discussion and use the web-based tools provided or send your voice or text message from your phone.
  • When you post your message it goes into your feed. 
  • Replies as sent as a text message or email.
  • You can also send private messages by inserting an @ sign before the users name anywhere in your utter or reply.

To post Utterz to your social networking sites, Blog or Website you need to set up cross posting. 

A list of cross posting sites and also have a generic connector for any website!  Content is posted to the main content section of your sites.

You can cross post automatically or choose to post one at a time.

If they don't support a social networking site you use, they have a widget that you can embed on any site where you are allowed to embed flash and post your utterz that way.

This is one tool I plan on trying this week.  I bet you will too. 

How to Open .docx documents - Free Conversion Tools

This week is a short Freebie since I am under deadline pressure.

As usual, my blog arises from my frustration or need to do something. 

Computer FrustrationI had a call from a client yesterday she was almost in tears.  She had been trying to open a document from her financial adviser and it had the file extension .docx.  She did not have a clue as to what document that was.

Just so this does not happen to you, let me explain. 

When Microsoft released Microsoft 2007 they changed the document extension save default to .docx. 

The problem with this new extension is that older versions of Word could not open the new document extension.

You can save documents in the old .doc format but you must select to do so when you save the document.

In order to open the document in an older version of Word like 2000 you need to download and install a conversion tool.

stressedBelow are a list of tools.

On-line file conversion tool.

Microsoft Compatibility Pack

DocxtoDoc - Conversion tool

The new (upcoming) Open Office 3 will open all the following extensions docx, xlsx, pptx files. (The release candidate 4 of OpenOffice.org 3.0 is now ready for testing).

In the mean time, another option is to use Word 2003 viewer which can be downloaded from this site.

 

So there you have it, you can now open any document!