4/09/2009
I was e-mailing someone not long ago and I had mentioned Google Alerts. In doing so I realized this person did not know what I was talking about so I posted the following on Lumberjock's a woodworking community I belong too. I got such a wonderful response that I just thought I would post it here. I am simply copying and pasting what I wrote there. Too lazy I suppose to re write the whole thing again. LOL!!
The outcome is the same.
I do not know if a lot of LJ’s folks use Google, but I just wanted to share something with you all in case you were not aware of it. When you have a Google account, you also can sign up for Google alerts. When I first learned/owned/used a computer less than 3 years ago, I wanted to find wood working sights, along with patterns etc. So I signed up with Google alerts and wrote the words intarsia and scrolling. I immediately was bombarded with intarsia and scrolling sites. The problem was intarsia is a form of knitting I guess, (or sewing, in that category) and scrolling has a zillion different ways the word is used, from scrolling a page etc. LOL!!! Anyhow I changed those two and added woodworking with both words. To this day I still receive my google alerts. It was through these alerts that I found Lumberjocks! So I just thought I would pass this along in case you were not aware of it. I have also used this for free woodworking patterns. Just make your alert for free woodworking patterns (or be more specific, say intarsia, or fretwork, etc) I also love to crochet and found hundreds of free crochet patterns and crochet sites by doing this.I hope this post helps other wood workers out there that may not be on LJ's (Lumberjock's)
Just be more specific than I was my first time. LOL!!! It is a pretty cool way of searching for things without searching yourself, instead of you going to look for the sites, the sites are brought to you to choose from. You also can say how many times a day/week you want to be alerted.
I hope this helps someone, and Happy Surfing!
PEACE!!!
