About Donna Serdula

DonnaTechDesigns is a Social Networking, Web Site Design, Video Production and Internet consulting firm dedicated to assisting small businesses in establishing and optimizing their presence on the Internet through the use of affordable web technologies.

The News Journal Article, ‘It’s where people find jobs’

Last Wednesday, I spoke at the Community Matters Networking Group on how to craft an amazing LinkedIn Profile. Aaron Nathans, a reporter for Delaware’s The News Journal contacted me to learn more. On Friday, he interviewed me and today his article was in the paper! Here it is:

‘It’s where people find jobs’
Proponents say LinkedIn can be invaluable for your career

BY AARON NATHANS • THE NEWS JOURNAL • NOVEMBER 15, 2010

It’s not as friendly as Facebook, not as hyper as Twitter.

But in a world already saturated with social media, having, and cultivating, a LinkedIn site is the professionally prudent thing to do, said several well-placed observers.
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Construction Specifications Institute Presentation

At around 2pm yesterday, I got a call from an old friend and old customer of mine (from my old job back when I sold design software to architects and engineers), Walt Zapor.
“Hey Donna, I keep up with you on LinkedIn and see you are always out doing Social Media presentations!”
“Yeah, I do a couple a month.”
“Well, my group is meeting tonight and our Social Media presenter cancelled on us…” Continue reading

Google Voice and Vonage Tips

I love Vonage! I love Google Voice! And I found they play very well together.

Here’s how I have it set up:

I use Vonage for my home phone and Google Voice for my business. What this means is I give out my Google Voice number as my “business” number. When someone dials my Google Voice business number, the call is automatically forwardd to my Vonage number and cell phone. And as of just a few days ago, the call can be answered via Gmail!
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Google Voice Caller ID in Gmail

I’ve been using Google Voice for about a year now. It was by far the easiest way of getting a second number without paying a dime! As much as I loved Google Voice, I wanted enhanced functionality… specifically I’ve wanted the ability to see who’s calling me by getting a little pop up caller ID window on my computer screen. It seemed like such an easy thing but I couldn’t make it happen. Continue reading

Back Up Facebook

I just had two friends recently contact me because out of nowhere Facebook cancelled their accounts! Neither know why it occurred. They can’t seem to get any type of answer from Facebook and now they are struggling to rebuild their profiles from scratch.

Hearing their woes got me thinking… we back up our hard drives, why not Facebook? Continue reading