Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

My family and I wish you all the best and for a happy and joyous Holiday season. I'm thankful for you, and please continue to feel right at home at HelpfulAdvisor as I continue to bring you articles you will want to read and tell others about.

Happy Holidays!

-Jay
Your HelpfulAdvisor

A Note of Encouragement

For just a moment, I'd like to talk to any new or inexperienced computer users out there.  Even though this blog is for varying levels of expertise, I'd like to have a heart to heart chat with just the novices, or those that don't think they know very much about computers.  And if you are an experienced computer user, maybe by reading this, you can pass along some of what I'm about to share over to your friends who may not know as much as you.

Setting Up Instant Collaboration Quickly and Easily: Final Recap

As I've reviewed each of the tools that you can use to set up quick and easy collaboration with your family, project team, or small business; let's recap how everything fits and works together to give you a complete solution for absolutely no money out of your pocket.

Automatic Blog Posting Issue Is Resolved

I'm going to interrupt my normally scheduled posting of articles to keep you up to date on an issue that happened earlier this week where automatic posting of this blog's articles to my Google Group stopped working suddenly.

This was preventing the group's members from automatically receiving new blog posts in their inbox. Read further as I explain how I found the issue, and what I did to resolve it, and how you can benefit from the answer.

Setting Up Instant Collaboration Quickly and Easily: Google Groups

In this article, I highlight the final tool in my series on how to set up instant collaboration quickly and easily, I'm going to save the best for last: Google Groups.  This one is a hidden gem that many of you probably don't know about but should.  Let's find out why this is probably one of the most powerful, yet easiest to use tools in your collaboration arsenal.

Setting up instant collaboration quickly and easily: Google+

In my continuing series on setting up collaboration quickly and easily, we're going to cover Google+ as a powerful social media-driven method of collaborating.  What many don't know is that social media networks can be used to create private networks within them.  That way you can leverage all the benefits of communication and media sharing features for your own private and public networks.  The difference here is that Google actually created Google+ to enable you collaborate with both private and public networks in a very easy and intuitive way.  Let's find out how to use this powerful tool for your home and work collaboration needs.

Setting Up Instant Collaboration Quickly and Easily: Google Talk

Continuing on with my article series on setting up instant collaboration quickly and easily, we're going to cover how to use Google Talk as a very powerful tool for collaboration.

And before you dismiss the article and think you don't need this info, I think you might want to read further and see what you may not have known about Google Talk.