Lesson 4 Challenge 2

There are 29 articles in the May 2001 edition of Consumer Reports.

There are 26 articles in Volume 80, Issue 9 (also known as the September 2015 issue) of Consumer Reports.

Lesson 4: Challenge 1

There are 36 articles in the June 2014 Consumer Reports magazine.

Lesson 3 Challenge

Library Marketing

I do try and use the templates provided by the Marketing department to advertise our branch events.  I also use Microsoft Publisher to create endcap displays.  For this exercise, I used Canva to create a simple poster to advertise a library book sale.  It was easy to use and I would consider using it to create endcap display posters.  Here is my poster:

Lesson 2 Challenge

• A customer shows you a “too good to be true” email about getting free money from Nigeria, and asks you to help them seal the deal with their banking information.

I would attempt to explain that this type of email is almost always a scam.  To emphasize my point, I would take them to snopes.com or a respected news site and find them information to read, something that explains the scam in detail.  I would also try and gently educate them that sharing their financial information online, with strangers, is never a good idea.

Lesson 11: Wrap Up

I enjoyed most of the 11.5 Cosas.  A few of the linked articles we had to read were not very good, I think it would be nice to find some better resources that cover those topics.  I can see that the 11.5 Cosas will be very beneficial for those coworkers who have zero technical savvy.

Lesson 10 Challenge

I live in Schertz.  This morning I noticed that there is a pothole developing on the street, in front of my driveway.  I decided to explore the City of Schertz's website to find out how to report the offensive pothole.  I started at www.schertz.com.  There was link to the 311/Customer Service department on the front page.  From there, I was able to find a phone number I can call to report the pothole on my street.  There was also an online link to report my problem.  I clicked on the link and I was able to fill out a form to report my problem.  It took about two minutes.

texas.gov was my next stop.  I wanted to see what type of information I could find on Medicare Information Sessions.  After doing a search, the first link referred me to the Employee Retirement System of Texas website.  Although the site did point me in the direction of some Medicare Information Sessions, they appear to be only for Texas state employees and not the general population.  After searching for several more minutes, I gave up on Texas.gov and just used Google. I found some of the information I needed on the AACOG website.

Lesson 9 Part 2- Zinio

While using Zinio, I looked at three magazines.

1.  Cloth Paper Scissors
2.  Games World of Puzzles
3.  MacWorld

The Zinio App is available for the following seven devices/platforms:

1.  iPhone
2.  iPad
3.  Android
4.  Windows 8
5.  Mac
6.  PC
7.  Kindle Fire/HD/HDX