Category — High Tech

According to Allan Walzak’s count, nearly 40  StrongLand members and one guest attended the StrongNet meeting… interesting, some of the services being offered and products on the market.

Tony Colecchi of Minuteman Press is talking about how the business printing industry has evolved to short runs, typically less than 5000 sheets compared to 100,000 or more in years past.  The technology that makes short runs possible is a plate-maker that takes a digital file and creates a plate for the printer in fifteen minutes, mostly automated.  It’s amazing when you consider how far we’ve evolved since the Gutenberg Press was invented in 1436 (Thank you, Wikipedia).

Check out Minuteman Press in Lower Burrell.  Out of 780 sister companies in the Minuteman, only 18 awards were given in 2009 for outstanding quality… Tony’s company received one of them here in the Kiski region.

Location:  m425.local4all.com

What a pleasure it is when I  can communicate with customers via email.  Although I received the initial artwork by snailmail and scanned it, the ad proof can be sent by email and edits, too.  It’s a good day!

Ferguson Glass ad - December 2009

Sticky: Contrary to the views of many older citizens, the Internet CAN help families come together.  Among my 36 ‘FaceBook friends’ are 17 family members, many of them MUCH, MUCH younger than myself and, through Facebook, I’m learning more about them and they are learning about me.

Hayley thinks I’m NOT old and grumpy (haha, being online and using smileys help) and I’ve been able to chat online with my niece from NY state Kim – COOL!  (alt:  KEWL!).  Brian and Ben Fisher confirmed they are my relatives, but I already knew that.  Again, cool!

Stay tuned for my intermittent high tech ramblings and, if you know anything I don’t, please comment below.

My favs: My WordPress blog, LinkedIn, FaceBook, and Local4All maps
Dubious about: MySpace, Digg, and Microsoft (even though I’ve always been a PC user.

The starting line for the swim event is here, not hard to find at all if you have the right map.

Just standing here on Dave’s computer showing him the online maps that I’ve done recently to help some of our advertisers.  Montgomery Underground Winery is one and I just mentioned the one for Crooked Creek Park.  I wouldn’t have been Race Director without it and the online events page.  (Event  page updated annually since 2003:  http://e509.local4all.com, map page m18.local4all.com)

We made a map for Dave and then both forgot what the unique number is, so go to Shelocta’s list at 15774m.local4all.com and check it out… it goes from A-Z.  Dave’s business is D.R. Gentile Computing.

Gotta go for now… Dave has a business to run and I have placemats to deliver.  His neighbor Traci has a hair shop and tanning… who knows, we might see a map for her business next.

Mike Snyder of MDS Energy raised the bar when he increased his placemat advertising to all areas, all the time.  Mike, thank you.

Local4All readers, does your property have untapped potential?  You could have natural gas reserves and not know it.  There’s only one way to find out and that is “call the experts” at MDS Energy.

Phone:  724-548-2501
Office hours:  8-5 M-F

Although the new Crooked Creek Triathlon brochure doesn’t include a link to this web page, I still have the course maps and location map online at cc.local4all.com.

Carl Bromley
Race Director
2002-2008

PS:  If you need a simple or not-so-simple web page to save TONS of your time, consider doing what I did… create a Local4All  events page and then add/edit content each year.  Just the online map helping athletes find Crooked Creek Park  saved a huge number of hours.  Hundreds?  Thousands?  How can you tell when nobody ever called for directions?

List of forms:  -> forms.local4all.com

When I woke up this morning, I had no clue that I would be signing up for a Twitter account before 1 pm… not that I’m sold on it yet but it DOES LOOK INTERESTING! Or, as Sgt Schultz in Hogan’s Heroes would have said years ago, VELLY INTELLESTINK!

http://www.local4all.com/stories/Twitter_story.pdf

If I seem to wander around in my blog, it might be because:

• I have a lot of interests and love to explore new things.
• I like to solve problems, aka challenges… and not just my own.
• I just recently met ActionCoach Bob Crytzer.  In our first FREE meeting, he gave me some pointers that got me thinking about what I’m doing and how I might get my message across to others.”

I’m not going to steal his thunder but read my article under ’self-publishing’ titled “USA Business Owners, you can get half your advertising for free!” and see if it makes sense to you.  By all means, if you have friends or family who are business owners, share it with them.

Not a business owner?  How about this idea?

“Consumers!  How savings in advertising COULD bring prices down!”

Shared by Carl Bromley, Local4All Advertising
Helping Individual and Organizational Goals Become Reality

m262.local4all.com – This map enabled Habitat for Humanity volunteers to

Showcase Mobile Homes - generous donor

park a big rig truck only 200′ from an unmarked roll-up door when they arrived to pick up a generous donation from Showcase Mobile Homes, Shippenville, PA.

On the real map page (link below), top and bottom maps can be zoomed independently of each other.

Re verification of this map:  The first attempt at mapping this location based solely on their driving directions was off by approximately  three miles but one phone conversation helped us get it right.

Thank you again, Showcase Mobile Homes.

Map URL: m262.local4all.com

Re tags:

• Anything to do with Habitat for Humanity is good for kids – http://www.habitat.org/youthprograms/
• Online tools – this map was created with Local4All’s  ‘mapmaker’ form – mapmaker.local4all.com
• Verified map – I was one of the three volunteers to make the trip to Shippenville.  Yes, this is an accurate map.  m262.local4all.com

m317.local4all.com – if the red marker appears to be on bare ground (see map below), the only reason for that is that the satellite photo has not been updated yet. The map maker, Justin Nolder of Armstrong County’s Planning and Development Dept, assures us that the pointer is in the right place, that there is really

Map for Dynamic Manufacturing's Northpointe facility

a 14,000 sf manufacturing facility at the spot indicated. Another building that shows up on the map slightly to the northwest belongs to someone else.

Map URL:  m317.local4all.com