WordPress Tips & Tricks - A Flag Tech Talk lecture

Join us for our next Flag Tech Talk entitled “WordPress Tips & Tricks” held on Wednesday, January 20th at 6 p.m. at Bookmans.

Joe Bodin of “Reliable Web Designs” will be diving into fun features and basic tips that you should know if you have or want to get a WordPress website.

This lecture will focus on tricks that will help you make it easier including our favorite Theme Companies; neat Plug-ins to add features like Social Media, Online Forms, and Search Engine Optimization; ways to make sure your have the appropriate Security & Backup; and other helpful hints that will help you make WordPress work for you. We encourage you to bring your favorite tips and share them with the group!

This lecture is part of the Flag Tech Talk discussion series that is held on the third Wednesday of every month. These free technical lectures are designed to help educate regular people so they understand more about computers, the internet, and the resources available to them when it comes to managing their small business or organization. They are sponsored by Reliable Web Designs, Bookmans, and Coconino SBDC. These are more personal discussions than lectures and we’d encourage everyone to come armed with questions…!

Go to www.flagtechtalk.com for more info.

No Techno-Babble Allowed!

Creative Technology Tools | A Flag Tech Talk lecture

Join us for our next Flag Tech Talk entitled "Creative Technology Tools" to be held on Wednesday, November 18th at 6 pm at Bookmans.

Bret Carpenter of the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) will be talking about 3D Printers, CNC Machines, 3D Modeling Software and other tools that are used to create art, medical devices, fabric, toys, consumer products, musical instruments and more. We will have a 3D printer at the talk for you to see.  Bring your ideas into the real world…!

This lecture is part of the Flag Tech Talk discussion series that is held on the third Wednesday of every month. These free technical lectures are designed to help educate regular people so they understand more about computers, the internet, and the resources available to them when it comes to managing their small business or organization. They are sponsored by Reliable Web Designs, Bookmans, and Coconino SBDC. These are more personal discussions than lectures and we’d encourage everyone to come armed with questions…!

Go to www.flagtechtalk.com for more info.

No Techno-Babble Allowed!

Google Analytics & Website Statistics - A Flag Tech Talk lecture

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Join us for our next Flag Tech Talk entitled, “A Look at Google Analytics & Website Statistics” to be held on Wednesday, October 21st at 6 pm at Bookmans.

This discussion is geared towards helping you see how successful your Internet Marketing has been and help you plan for the future.  It will be presented by Joe Bodin of Reliable Web Designs.

Do you have a clue how your website is doing this year?  Did you get more visitors?  Are you being found on all the major Search Engines?  What Search Words have people used to find you?  Are they using Desktop Computers or Mobile Devices?

We’ll be looking at a number of different Website Statistics programs to answer these questions with a focus on Google Analytics. No other form of marketing can give you the wealth of information that Website Statistics can as to how your marketing campaign is doing.  You can’t know how many people saw your ad in a newspaper or magazine, or how many people heard your radio ad.  But, you can know exactly how many people came to your website, where they came from, how they found you, and what information they actually looked at.  This can help you in so many ways to make your business or organization more successful!

We will be looking at a number of webstat programs that are standard on most web servers or can be installed into your site like Google Analytics & Webmaster Tools, Yahoo/Bing Webmaster Tools, Webalizer, AwStats, and a few others. Come make better use of your online marketing by learning about your website statistics!

This lecture is part of the Flag Tech Talk discussion series that is held on the third Wednesday of every month. These free technical lectures are designed to help educate regular people so they understand more about computers, the internet, and the resources available to them when it comes to managing their small business or organization. They are sponsored by Reliable Web Designs, Bookmans, and Coconino SBDC. These are more personal discussions than lectures and we’d encourage everyone to come armed with questions…!

Go to www.flagtechtalk.com for more information!

No Techno-Babble Allowed!

Using Google Apps

Join us for our next Flag Tech Talk lecture entitled “Using Google Apps” held on Wednesday, September 16th at 6 p.m. at Bookmans.

Google offers a variety of applications that are extremely useful and are mostly are free or very inexpensive. We will show you how you can use Google Apps for Work to get a personalized domain email, set up custom email addresses for your company, and will explore Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs, and Google Calendar. Learn how any entrepreneur or small business can use them successfully to grow their company and make administrative tasks easy.

We have invited a guest lecturer to present this talk.  Sara Troyer is the Marketing Manager & Executive Assistant at Maricopa Center for Entrepreneurship. She is a long time resident of the City of Maricopa. She is a graduate of Maricopa High School, former CEO of Maricopa DECA, a Finance and Accounting student at Southern New Hampshire University, and a growing small business owner.

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This lecture is part of the Flag Tech Talk discussion series that is held on the third Wednesday of every month. These free technical lectures are designed to help educate regular people so they understand more about computers, the internet, and the resources available to them when it comes to managing their small business or organization. They are sponsored by Reliable Web Designs, Bookmans, and Coconino SBDC. These are more personal discussions than lectures and we’d encourage everyone to come armed with questions…!

For more information, go to www.flagtechtalk.com.

No Techno-Babble Allowed!

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - A Flag Tech Talk lecture

Join us for our next Flag Tech Talk entitled “Search Engine Optimization” held on Wednesday, August 19th at 6 p.m. at Bookmans. 

Presented by Joe Bodin of Reliable Web Designs.

Having a website doesn’t mean anyone is ever going to find it! One of the most important things you can do to make your internet presence work for you is to have your site prepared correctly for the search engines. This discussion will look at lots of techniques to make a website ready for Google, Yahoo, Bing, and the thousands of other engines out there. Learn all about Meta Tags, Picture/Alt Tags, and how to get more Keywords into your website! Analyze some website statistics to make the right choices with your marketing. With this knowledge, your website traffic should sky rocket!

This lecture is part of the Flag Tech Talk discussion series that is held on the third Wednesday of every month. These free technical lectures are designed to help educate regular people so they understand more about computers, the internet, and the resources available to them when it comes to managing their small business or organization. They are sponsored by Reliable Web Designs, Bookmans, and Coconino SBDC. These are more personal discussions than lectures and we’d encourage everyone to come armed with questions…!

Go to http://www.flagtechtalk.com for more information.

No Techno-Babble Allowed!

Business Systems - A Flag Tech Talk lecture

Join us for our next Flag Tech Talk entitled

“Exploring Business Systems”

held on Wednesday, July 15th at 6 p.m. at Bookmans.

Join us at Bookmans for Flag Tech Talk’s Business Systems presentation with Bret Carpenter of the Coconino Small Business Development Center (SBDC). We will be discussing setting up systems within your business and cost effective technical tools to implement the systems with. Client management, accounting, point of sale, project management and digital marketing tools will be part of the discussion.

This lecture is part of the Flag Tech Talk discussion series that is held on the third Wednesday of every month. These free technical lectures are designed to help educate regular people so they understand more about computers, the internet, and the resources available to them when it comes to managing their small business or organization. They are sponsored by Reliable Web Designs, Bookmans, and Coconino SBDC. These are more personal discussions than lectures and we’d encourage everyone to come armed with questions…!

Go to www.flagtechtalk.com for more information about our lecture series!

No Techno-Babble Allowed!

Self-Publishing Tips & Tricks - A Flag Tech Talk lecture

Join us for our next Flag Tech Talk entitled “Self-Publishing Tips & Tricks” held on Wednesday, June 17th at 6 p.m. at Bookmans.

Presented by Tony Nester.

Tony Nester, author and survival instructor, will speak about his experiences in the indie-publishing industry and marketing methods for authors.

He will also cover the pros & cons of selling directly through Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and other digital platforms as well as what’s involved with getting your book into print.

Nester is the author of the bestselling Practical Survival Series as well as a successful fiction author of the First Wave Series (aka JT Sawyer, writing Post-Apocalyptic Zombie Novels).

This talk is for aspiring Authors to learn how to get their writing out in today’s electronic world.

This lecture is part of the Flag Tech Talk discussion series that is held on the third Wednesday of every month. These free technical lectures are designed to help educate regular people so they understand more about computers, the internet, and the resources available to them when it comes to managing their small business or organization. They are sponsored by Reliable Web Designs, Bookmans, and Coconino SBDC. These are more personal discussions than lectures and we’d encourage everyone to come armed with questions…!

No Techno-Babble Allowed!

Instagram | A Flag Tech Talk lecture

Join us for our next Flag Tech Talk entitled “Instagram” held on Wednesday, May 20th at 6 p.m. at Bookmans.

Instagram is a social media site that is all about Pictures and Images.  Many of us haven’t figured out or used this platform yet, and our Tech Talk this month will help remove the mystery and make it easier for you to understand.  Mike Russell of the Flagstaff Convention and Visitors Bureau (Flagstaff CVB) will be discussing his own experiences with Instagram.  His goal will be to demystify the site both for your personal usage and also as a business marketing platform.  He will show you Apps that he uses to make it easier to post and control your account, show some before and after photos, and give composition and lighting suggestions.  Mike will also discuss InstagramAZ and other photo sites that offer daily, weekly, and monthly competitions.

This lecture is part of the Flag Tech Talk discussion series that is held on the third Wednesday of every month. These free technical lectures are designed to help educate regular people so they understand more about computers, the internet, and the resources available to them when it comes to managing their small business or organization. They are sponsored by Reliable Web Designs, Bookmans, and Coconino SBDC. These are more personal discussions than lectures and we’d encourage everyone to come armed with questions…!

Go to www.flagtechtalk.com for more information.

No Techno-Babble Allowed!

Our Favorite WordPress Tips - A Flag Tech Talk lecture

Join us for our next Flag Tech Talk entitled “Our Favorite WordPress Tips” held on Wednesday, April 15th at 6 p.m. at Bookmans. Presented by Joe Bodin of Reliable Web Designs

WordPress is one of the fastest growing website builders available on the Internet. Learning the ins-and-outs of this Content Management System (CMS) can be difficult and frustrating, but we are here to break through some of the difficulties. This lecture will feature little tips and tricks that will help you make it easier including our favorite Theme Companies, neat Plug-ins to add features, Security/Backup ideas, and other helpful hints about WordPress. We encourage you to bring your favorite tips and share them with the group!

This lecture is part of the Flag Tech Talk discussion series that is held on the third Wednesday of every month. These free technical lectures are designed to help educate regular people so they understand more about computers, the internet, and the resources available to them when it comes to managing their small business or organization. They are sponsored by Reliable Web Designs, Bookmans, and Coconino SBDC. These are more personal discussions than lectures and we’d encourage everyone to come armed with questions…!

No Techno-Babble Allowed!

Our Favorite Tech Tools | A Flag Tech Talk lecture

Join us for our next Flag Tech Talk entitled “Our Favorite Tech Tools” held on Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 6 p.m. at Bookman’s. This lecture will be presented by Bret Carpenter of the SBDC.

We will show and tell about a number of our favorite apps, websites, devices and programs that can make your tech life more productive.  Photo editing, video editing, task management, password management, screen casting, project management and social media management are just some of the topics to be covered.  Feel free to bring or talk about your favorite tech tools too!


This lecture is part of the Flag Tech Talk discussion series that is held on the third Wednesday of every month. These free technical lectures are designed to help educate regular people so they understand more about computers, the internet, and the resources available to them when it comes to managing their small business or organization. They are sponsored by Reliable Web Designs, Bookman’s, and Coconino SBDC. These are more personal discussions than lectures and we’d encourage everyone to come armed with questions…!

Go to www.flagtechtalk.com for more information!

No Techno-Babble Allowed!

Analyzing Your Website Statistics - A Flag Tech Talk lecture

Join us for our next Flag Tech Talk entitled, “Analyzing Your Website Statistics” to be held on Wednesday, February 18th at 6 pm at Bookman’s.  This discussion will be presented by Joe Bodin of “Reliable Web Designs” and is geared towards helping you see how successful your Internet Marketing has been.

It’s a new year and most people have absolutely no clue how their website did last year. No other form of marketing can give you the wealth of information that Website Statistics can. We will be looking at a number of webstat programs like Webalizer, AwStats, Google Analytics, Yahoo/Bing Webmaster Tools stats, and a few others. Come make better use of your online marketing by learning about your website statistics!

This lecture is part of the Flag Tech Talk discussion series that is held on the third Wednesday of every month. These free technical lectures are designed to help educate regular people so they understand more about computers, the internet, and the resources available to them when it comes to managing their small business or organization. They are sponsored by Reliable Web Designs, Bookman's, and Coconino SBDC. These are more personal discussions than lectures and we'd encourage everyone to come armed with questions…!

Go to www.flagtechtalk.com for more information!

No Techno-Babble Allowed!

How to be Safe on Public Wi-Fi

Join us for our next Flag Tech Talk entitled “How to be Safe on Public Wi-Fi”held on Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at 6 p.m. at Bookman’s.  This lecture will be presented by Bret Carpenter of the SBDC.

This discussion will address the security for your phone, laptop and tablet. We will talk about being safer on public wi-fi, on our home computers, and security at the office.

Be safe out there!

This lecture is part of the Flag Tech Talk discussion series that is held on the third Wednesday of every month. These free technical lectures are designed to help educate regular people so they understand more about computers, the internet, and the resources available to them when it comes to managing their small business or organization. They are sponsored by Reliable Web Designs, Bookman's, and Coconino SBDC. These are more personal discussions than lectures and we'd encourage everyone to come armed with questions…! 

Go to www.flagtechtalk.com for more information!

No Techno-Babble Allowed!