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Techie Tips – User friendly instructions for learning how to use various features and technologies on our web site
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Join the Lifelines Community™ to access additional areas of the web site.
Some information is available to all visitors. Other places are for Lifeline Community™ members only. All you have to do to become a member of the Lifeline Community™ and gain access to these portions of our web site is to provide us with your name and email address.
There are many pages that you can go to without providing us with any contact information.
When you want access to other areas of our web site, we ask that you first join the Lifelines Community™. This means providing us with your name and email address.
To insure that you only hear from us because you want to, we will send you a confirming email. It will include a link. When you click on the link, you will be confirming that you want to access additional areas of our web site and to hear from us.
We will send you announcements about upcoming events, new posting for our blog, if you want to listen to the prerecording of the Introduction to Lifelines Session™ or other such offerings.
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We know that our visitors have a wide variety of technical knowledge and abilities. We therefore have included this section. Here you will find tips about how to optimize your use of our site. Enjoy.
Using the Back Button in your browser
Instructions for how to save a web page
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Our minds are more complex than the most sophisticated computer ever built. We’re thinking, writing or saying one thing and before we’re done, we’ve jumped to another. Some people have a tendency to do this more than others. I tend to do this a lot.
Anyone who’s been in conversation with me knows that when I get on a roll, when I’m excited at the topic or story I have a hard time finishing a sentence or worse, letting the other person finishing theirs. The thoughts are tumbling so quickly. And sometimes they’re very relevant and valuable, even if I do say so myself.
That’s why this web site is full of hyperlinks. There are two types of links:
1. Information Links
2. Call to Action Links
Well, that’s one reason. Another is that each of us has preferred styles of thinking. We use a blend of linear and non-linear thinking to take in, process, store, and retrieve information, and to make decisions. Hyperlinks allow us to optimize the benefits of non-linear thinking, which improves our creativity ~ including the way we brainstorm options ~ remembering old, sometimes long forgotten ones, and create new ones, or see old ones in a new light.
There are many models for describing the differences. It’s important to remember that no model is absolutely right or better than another. What is important to embrace and honor the differences and the richness the diversity brings and to explore and come to be more aware and familiar with our own inner workings.
Sometimes we’re happy jumping off into another train of thought or the link sounds like it will provide the information we’re curious about and then we’re happy to go forward from there into whatever appears. Remember, you can always use your browser’s back button to return to a previously visited page and continue your exploration from there.
We’ve faced many challenges writing content for our web site and designing the program. Both are organic, alive and ever changing and expanding. Hyperlinks have enabled us to weave together the vast quantity of information that we ourselves have found valuable.
Philosophies, approaches, metaphors, examples, and perspectives
Strategies, tools, skills and practices
So that’s why we use a lot of hyperlinks.
You can learn more about Bonnie and Lynn, the authors of this web site and co-creators and guides of the Lifelines Program™.
Using the “Back Button” in your browser
Sometimes we want to pick up where we were just before we took the detour. Because we didn’t want to clutter the writing with a lot of “Return to…” links. So we want to remind you to use the back button in your browser to navigate your way back to where you were, or close this window if a new one opened.
Instructions for how to save a web page
Some of our information is on a regular web page. To save the text you can Bookmark the specific page, copy the URL into a document you’ve created where you’re taking notes and journaling, or you can highlight the text, then copy and paste it into a word processing document.
Sometimes you’ll be reading a PDF file. One feature of a PDF file is you can’t select specific text to highlight and copy. You can either retype or handwrite the text, OR you can you can save the whole document.
Create a folder and possibly a subfolder in which to save the document if one doesn’t exist.
Click on the
icon in the upper left corner of the PDF window.Navigate to the folder where you want to save the document.
Hit the OK button.
Links to Additional Information
If you wish to know about the Lifelines to Laughlines Program™ you can read answers to our frequently asked questions (faqs).
We ask that you participate in the Introduction to Lifelines Session™, either by attending a live teleconference call or by listening to a pre-recorded session. The Introductory Session is a prerequisite for attending the other six sessions.
We would like to acknowledge and thank the many sources of talent, information and wisdom that inspired the creation of our web site:
Speed Ream, web back office.
Peb Elliott, web designer. See her web site:
www.graphic-mac.com.Brian and Jeff Eisenberg, creators of persuasive architecture, authors of Call to Action and Waiting for Your Cat to Bark?, visit their websites www.futurenowinc.com and www.grokdotcom.com to learn more.
Isabel Parlance