{"id":14550,"date":"2010-05-15T13:31:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T17:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewm.com\/internalblog\/?p=14550"},"modified":"2010-05-15T13:31:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T17:31:49","slug":"my-best-kept-computer-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/?p=14550","title":{"rendered":"My Best Kept Computer Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"

After\u00a0performing his duties as a United States\u00a0Marine in the early 1950s, my father landed a job with Sperry Rand Corporation,\u00a0a company\u00a0associated\u00a0with the\u00a0\u00a0Univac<\/a> computer.\u00a0 I was born to one of the first computer “geeks” —\u00a0my father was a systems engineer\u00a0who fixed them\u00a0when they\u00a0broke — and they broke often.<\/p>\n

It is amazing how computers have changed our lives, and they have only been in existence about seventy-three years, having been invented in 1937.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Mastering any one of the thousands of computer programs and different operating systems is very time-consuming<\/strong>. According to Malcolm Gladwell<\/a>, in his book, The Outliers, The Story of Success<\/a>, Bill Gates spent more than 10,000 hours in computer labs before he became Microsoft.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Having purchased my Alienware computer and some updated Adobe programs, I started to feel “lost.”\u00a0 Besides getting instruction in Adobe Indesign from my young teacher, Angela Mihal, an agent in the Las Olas office, I subscribed to LYNDA.COM.<\/p>\n

I would recommend this highly-afordable service to everyone.\u00a0 There are mini-videos for about every computer application on the planet.\u00a0 The videos are hosted by certified instructors who have kept the topics short and to the point.<\/p>\n

Lynda.com is a healthy investment — especially for real estate agents whose schedules do not always allow them to sit in a classroom for 10,000 hours.<\/div>\n

http:\/\/www.lynda.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Information\u00a0regarding Lynda.com —<\/p>\n

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