Most of you do not know this, but I am a big fan of the game called Carcassonne. I will not go into a whole lot of detail about how the game it played, or about what goes on during the game.  For that, you can go to the Website for Carcassonne. I have all the “large” expansions, and most of the smaller expansions.  I am excited, because this year, they are coming out with 2 more expansions.  There is a “large” expansion coming out called “Bridges, Castles & Baazars“.  Then there is also a “small” expansion coming out called “Crop Circle & Tunnels”, this one is actually a combination of two mini expansions.  But anyway, I am most excited for the “Bridges, Castles, & Baazars”, because I love all of the Large expansions.

I have mentioned in a previous post that I am trying to get into the whole social networking, and social media.  Well, my quest continues with a new discovery.  I have recently become interested in being able to send out coupons to customers via text message.  I have not yet, been able to find a way to do this.  I know that services for this type of thing exist, but I also need to find something that is very cheap and affordable, and so far I have not been able to find this. 

My goal is to get something where I could get on, and send out a message to anyone that has “subscribed”.  I could send out coupons, special rates, or even a text message informing our guests of what is going on in the Bar.

Lately, I have been playing around with the Beta Version of Microsoft Office 2010.  I downloaded the Professional Plus version, because I wanted to be able to play around with several of the programs.  There are several things that I have liked so far about the new version. One of those, is that with PowerPoint, I can create a PowerPoint presentation, and then have it saved as a Windows Media File.  This has been great for me, because I work for the Rodeway Inn, and we have a couple of PowerPoints that we are trying to save to a video file.  We were able to do it using software that was created for just that purpose. However, unless I wanted to pay $80+ for the software, then there was always a “watermark” somewhere in the video. 

One other feature that I love, is available with all the new Office Products, and that is Sharepoint.  This allows a single file to be worked on simultaneously by multiple users.  All one has to do, is to upload to the Sharepoint “Cloud”, and then give the others the link, and you can all work on the file at the same time.  This is possible with Excel Spreadsheets, Word Documents, Access Databases, PowerPoint Presentations, etc.

For More Info, go to Microsoft’s Office Website.