Webcast description

When you search the Internet, do you type a word or two into Google.com, hit enter and hope for the best? You don’t know what you’re missing! Actually, you’re missing 99% of online information and tapping into only a tiny fraction of Google's capabilities. The webcast reveals how to instantly improve your search powers, increase your web productivity, and automatically retrieve the latest and best information on any subject — quickly and efficiently. 

No matter how web savvy you think you are, you're guaranteed to learn simple yet effective search strategies that will take you to the next level of online intelligence gathering. You'll see immediate and measurable results every time you go online and learn powerful online discovery techniques that will transform how you use the web in your professional and personal life.

• optimize and personalize Google for maximum speed, privacy, security, and online discovery power.
• set up web alerts that automatically search the web and instantly connect you to the latest and best information on any subject.
• automatically monitor all your favourite websites from one central research dashboard.
• scan the web, and communicate online in 40+ languages.
• tap into the full power of the mobile web and search the Internet using your smart-phone, tablet, and other portable devices.
• search the Internet using your voice, images, bar codes, and QR (quick response) codes.
• leverage the entire Google eco-system of online discovery tools for finance, books, magazines, legal, and academic content, news, products, maps, images, video, filetypes, domains, and much more.

Presentation outline  

• Why Study Web Search?
• Google is Great but it's Not Perfect
• Quick Search and Online Efficiency Boosters
• Google Optimization and Personalization
• Google Alerts
• Google Reader
• Google Mobile
• Google Hacking: How to Improve Relevancy with Advanced Search Strings
• Invisible Web
• Social Media Search

System requirements

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                   A screen shot of the "test your system" tool

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Garrett Wasny, MA, CMC, CITP/FIBP, is an award-winning author, speaker, and professional development consultant (and former management consultant for Price Waterhouse) in Vancouver, Canada. His specialty is web productivity consulting for accountants. Garrett is the author of two books, World Business Resources.com (published by McGraw-Hill in New York) and How to Conquer the World (published by Government Institutes in Washington, DC). He is co-author of Using the Web to Compete in a Global Marketplace (published by John Wiley and Sons in New York). 

Garrett has also published more than 100 articles on Internet and global trade topics for scores of leading business magazines and media outlets including Internet World, Financial Post, Business in Vancouver, Backbone, World Trade, Trade and Commerce, Access Americas, Pacific Coast Trade, Global Production, and Expansion Management.

Since 1995, he has delivered more than 700 in-person presentations and webcasts on Internet topics to leading corporations, industry associations, and government organizations across North America, Europe, and Asia. His accounting clients include Thomson Reuters, Western CPE, CPE Link, CPE Credit, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bermuda, Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, and numerous CA and CGA provincial institutes across Canada.