I bet you didn't know you could read the Dutch language! Polyglots pages!

Flag of the Netherlands 

I didn't know I could read Dutch. Until I logged onto a Dutch newspaper article from a link in Wikipedia. I was asked to sign up to read more and recognized these words:

Dutch - English

account - account

automatisch - automatically

digitale - digital

e-mailadres - e-mail address

gratis - free

hier - here

inloggen - login

registreer - register

stopt - stopped

vergeten - forgotten

English - Dutch

account - account

automatically - automatisch

digital - digitale

email address - e-mailadres

forgotten - vergeten

free - gratis

here - hier

login -inloggen

register - registreer

stopped - stopt

Should I check some more words, one by one in Google translate? It would be quicker to grab several off a wikipedia page.

I went to the wikipedia page and found these similar sounding words:

Dutch - English

bakken - to bake

breken - to break

geven - to give 

klimmen - to climb

niet - not

u - you

wegen - to weigh

werken - works

zenden - to send

zitten - to sit

It's like easy German, or English with simplified spelling. This year I am learning Spanish. Next year I could learn Dutch. Not a very common language. But probably a reinforcement for my beginner's German. 

Also it will impress other people to say that I can speak English, French, German, Spanish and Dutch. If I count English as one of my languages, in two years time I could speak six languages, and genuinely call myself a polyglot. 

How about you? Isn't Dutch easy! https://www.facebook.com/Hyperglots/olyglot page

I just logged into Facebook to find the link to my favourite polyglot page, where people ask questions, so handy for me and for you, dear readers. I found another polyglot page, geared to learning languages. 

Why would you want to learn Dutch? Where can you use it? In the Netherlands of course. But why would you go there? To see Anne Frank's house, and the Jewish museum, Rembrandt's house, and the Rijsmuseum with more Rembrandts. Delft pottery, windmills. Tulips. The Wikivoyage page has updates on the Covid situation.

Useful Websites

https://translate.google.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language

https://www.knack.be/nieuws/belgie/twee-schepen-op-drift-in-windmolenparken/article-news-1836453.html?cookie_check=1645375421

https://www.facebook.com/polyglotclub.world/

https://www.facebook.com/Hyperglots/

How does the Toastmasters or MC do online Introductions to strangers?

Some things seem easy, such as finding a work in a foreign language to introduce a visitor from overseas, or greet a foreign audience when you are travelling. Just use translate google. Other tasks are more challenging.

My VPE is off sick and I have a host of extra tasks. Every day I am learning new skills, often the simplest of things. How do I send the form for speakers at Braddell Heights Advanced for this Wednesday June 10 2020 to forward their names and speech title and self-introduction to the Toastmaster of the Day? 

Answer: create a form in google docs. Add to a whatsapp group with the date for speakers. Any other ideas?

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  Vincent Chen Email?

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  Li Xian At the beginning of the meeting, ask speakers to prepare the required info and share over the chat box on Learncool / Zoom😊

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    Angela Lansbury That is a great idea. Thank you.

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• About the Author
  Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
  I and my family have lived in the UK, Spain, the USA and Singapore. I am a trave writer and phtographer and teacher of English A level and English as a foreign language.
  
  Please come to a Toastmasters International Club where the English clubs have a langauge evaluator or grammarian.  We also have French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and other language clubs based in Singapore and many more online around the world which because of Covid-19 are now meeting online.
  
  I am President of Braddell Heights Advanced, meeting every Wednesday, on zoom the first Wednesday of the month but the other Wednesdays are workshops on app learncool.sg
  Or quicker to type and easier to remember:  tinyurl.com/BHACOOL
  
  useful Websites
  https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogs
  https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-to-say-thank-you-in-several.html
  https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/05/introducing-yourself-in-english-spanish.html
  https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2020/01/second-set-of-portuguese-words.html Please share links to your favourite posts
  https://www.toastmasters.org/find-a-club
  translate.google.com
  duolingo.com
  
  

How to promote an online meeting

Here I am, top left, with my bee toy signalling that I am busy as a bee.



1 Make the meeting part of your introduction. Your elevator speech yourself. For example mine might be:
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, organizer and speaker.

2 If you are asked, 'Any problems?' or 'How are you coping?' Describe organizing your meeting and how you solved the problem?

Add your position in the organization to your name in your online photo.
Add your club position on the photo.
Add your club title and meeting dates to the signature of your emails.

Create a template for each committee member of your club with space for the next meeting date so when they answer a query such as, 'May I attend your next meeting?', the committee member doesn't just answer 'yes' but adds 'our next meeting is on  (date ...........) please invite your friends and tell them our website is ............. and our secretary is .................

For privacy, you can create an email such as secretaryofclubNewYorkSpeakers200@gmail.com
You could add a date and change it so that people aren't emailing last year's secretary. It is up to the new one to change the date and create a new email.

Invite everybody in the other groups you attend to your meeting. If you are forbidden to promote rival groups, instead give out your email or phone and then promote your club when they contact you.

When doing somebody a favour by sending them information, add your contact details and meeting details.

When somebody asks you to attend their meeting, say you would be delighted, and ask them to attend your meeting.  And/or send your meetings details to their club members.

Facebook
Promote yourself on Facebook.



And Meetup

About The Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, organizer and speaker.
Toastmasters International Find a Club
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https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=upSEBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=quick+quotations
lulu.com/shop/angela-lansbury/who-said-what-when/paperback/product-21713991
learncool.sg
Braddell Heights Advanced speakers club meets every Wednesday, currently on line.
Future Meetings include
Wednesday may 13th, lucky for us, as we have Thomas Chen running a workshop on Networking.
Contact President Angela Lansbury or VPE Faith. Then login to learncool.sg and wait to be admitted by the host.
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Coronavirus And Cancelled Meetings - Singapore and Worldwide

Saturday 15 2020

How is the Coronavirus in Singapore affecting me, my travel plans and my social life?

If you know Myers Briggs personality test, used by major employers throughout the USA and worldwide, you know that one of the four pairs of opposite characteristics is judgers and  perceivers.  I call it judgers and procrastinators. Judgers want a quick decision. Procrastinators want to put off decision until the last minute.

One group of people keep saying, don't cancel your annual conference. Don't cancel your area contest. Wait and see. The health situation could blow over. We need to wait until we have permission or direction from those above us.

However, our primary responsibility is to those nearby, our family, colleagues, friends, who could fall ill or lose money, from cancelled flights and hotels, rather than people in another country, who do not suffer the consequences, are busy with other matters, and might not even be fully aware of local conditions.

I want to know.

If you are holding meetings on company premises and they are cancelling bookings of non work events you have no choice.

Is a Toastmasters meeting social or training? I would say it is training. However, the company might restrict people who do not work in the building.

If your emails are read by your employer you might want chatter on whatsapp.

The question of
I heard that Toastmasters International Area meetings would not be cancelled and turned into online.

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer. With family in the UK and Singapore and friends worldwide.

How to send a rhyming greeting or wish

Problem
No time to send a card for a birthday or even a greeting or wish you were here? Here are some options:

Answers
You have choice of: foreign card (photographed and emailed),
1 Facebook greeting - with added emoji (miniature funny face symbol)
2 Send a picture of the recipient on previous birthday or you are them with the greeting
3 Write a rhyme. and send a picture for someone special if you have time

How To  Improve A Rhyme
It's easy to improve a rhyme
All you need is a little time.

I just made that up. To find a thyme, pick a key word to end your opening and closing sentences.
From your own head, pick out some rhyming words, going though the alphabet.
You can do this with one word or two, eg
love: a/b above , d dove
love you
above you

Check rhyming dictionary and thesaurus for more.

Try changing rhyming couplets to alternating lines ie
instead of end rhymes aa bb
abab

Count syllables. The easiest is to make all lines end with the same number of syllables
eg 8 or 10.
Another popular scheme is second and alternating lines shorter eg 9797.

If your lines are different lengths, it is often easier to lengthen the shorter ones than to cut the longer ones.

Author
Angela Lansbury
zon See my books on writing poetry on Lulu.com and Amazon

Seeing Doctors, Dentists and Hospitals Overseas And Asking For Your Records

Problem
A member of my family needs dental work done overseas. the dentist wanted to know whether a dead tooth had had the nerve removed. She asked for the dental records.

the patient phone the home dentists and they were quite happy to send, free of charge, the dental records. They said they could not send the photos, old technology (and maybe too much time copying them?) but they emailed the dental records.

The dental records going back twenty years were an endless source of entertainment.

The letters OH appeared several times. As I suspected, this is not an exclamation of surprise, but a medical term. OH is oral hygiene.

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Please share links to your favourite posts.

Filing Photos - Under Photos

Problem
Where do you file a photo? An American friend called Bee sends an email with a photo of J, in Thailand. Where do I store it, under Bee or Jay or Thailand?

I do something very simple. I store it in a file called photos.In theory I could keep emailing it to myself, forwarding it, and saving it in all three places.

 In reality, I am trying to reduce the amount I store. So the simple method of keeping all the photos in one place, and in alphabetical order, just suits me.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer

Losing and Finding Photos On Your Phone or Laptop

Problems
1 I just took a photo. How do I share it?
2 I've lost yesterday's photo. Where is it?

Answers
The cause of your problem could be:
Too many photos. Your laptop or phone has reached its limit.

Photos on Phones
What you can do:
To make space
1 Delete your unwanted out of focus photos and pictures of your feet or thumbs. Easier to get rid of them now than have them cluttering up the place.

I have found that if I delete photos in the phone before loading up to the laptop, that saves time and space. Otherwise, I have to delete in both places, despite being asked if I want to delete on all devices, it just doesn't happen.

Having the originals stored for a month is handy if you delete by mistake or change your mind. But I keep deleting. Then next time when the laptop asks if I want to import all, all the deleted photos and duplicates are added and my laptop is overloaded.

I ignore warning. Sometimes eventually the photos storage is so full that it crashes. Then I can't delete photos to rectify the problem.

Backups
Before doing any major overhall of the photo system orgniaation, you should backup the lot of your photos library. That could mean backing up it overnight because it takes a long time. You don't want to interrupt it.

2 Learn how to use the two-storage systems on your phone. You should have a main disc. You may have bought supplementary storage at the start in the shop, or ordered it online later. When one system is full, you can switch to the other.

Find out how to do it, make the switch. When you are in the shop and buying it, ask.

Make a note of the intructions. Or find the instructions online and email them to yourself.

To Share Photos
Find the share a photo symbol under the photo on a phone or at the top of yourscreen on an ipad or laptop. It is usually an upward arrow. Select mail. You can share with another phone.

Alternatively, either email direct to the person whose photo you have taken if they are standing beside you. Or email it to yourself and then email it to them.

If you cannot connect your phone to your laptop via icloud, mail the photo to yourself and then drag it or save it to your iphoto or other photo storage system.

Lost Photo?
I hunted all over my photos and date hunts. Then I simply went into finder and found my missing photo.

Labelling and Saving
When I upload a photo, whether from my phone or the internet, I immedately label it with as many words as I can think of which I might use later in a search. For example, casa mia restaurant. I don't just label it Casa Mia, which is already labelled in the phto because I photographed the restaurant frontage. I lable it, casa Mia, Italian, restaurant, Hatch End, Pinner, London, England.

I might have several photos of the restaurant. To save time finding the right one, I add another description or two or three,  such as: wine bottle, glass of wine, dessert, manager, outside, inside, menu, decor. The date could also be useful.

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

Are You Messaging people who are asleep in Asia?

Problem
Every day I open emails from the USA which warn, 'this will be gone in four hours!' By the time I open the email newsletter message, it's time to delete it.

If you are running a campaign, decide whether you want to reach a worldwide audience. You might well want to speak to night owls, insomniacs, sleepless souls.

However, if you can, separate your mailings, or offer a choice of dates. If I am in Britain, Europe, Asia, Africa, or Australia, I don't want to sign up for video live calls in the middle of the night.

I am inundeated with emails from people who think I have a problem (I do - too many emails). They know how I can focus and make more money. (Yes, by getting enough sleep and not responding to messages out of sync with my clock.)

Urgent, they scream. Why did you not reply, they ask. If you don't reply in the next four hours you will miss it, they warn. Yes, I did.

If you want overseas readers and responders, allow your overseas readers a chance to reply when they are awake.

Those people who can afford to pay are probably at work.

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer.

Translating German From An Email Address

Problem
I see a lot of German words on an email. What do they mean? What can I learn easily?

Answer
I run the words through a translation service and get this:

German - English
Deutschland - Germany
dorf - valley
strasse - street
sitz - seat or base
Registergericht - register court
persoenlich - personally
Gesellschafter - shareholders
eingetragen - registered (like the words in - scribed)
ihre - its
im - in
umsatzsteuer - VAT
identifikationsnummer - identification number

English - German
Germany - Deutschland
identification number - identifikationsnummer
in - im
its - ihre
personally - persoenlick
river - floss
stream - strom
street - strasse
valley - dorf

Author
Angela Lansbury
Travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

Where To Find Hearts For Valentine's Day And Personalise Confectionery Rock

America is the home of sweetheart, heart-shaped candies. (Americans say candy. The British say sweets.)

Over in Europe, Lviv in Ukraine, produces candies with red hearts in the middle, or the word Lviv. They look like chopped up bits of candy cane, so popular in the USA, for Christmas time.

I picked them up at the Lviv stand at the World Travel Market in London, last November 2017. At the time I had the name of the place they came from but a quick look on the internet reveals many other makes of chocolates in Lviv including a seven storey shcoolate shop. (Americans write story, because Webster simplified spelling for the benefit of immigrants, but in Britain the traditional spelling story refers to a plot or tale, whilst storey with an e means levels of a building.)

Brighton Rock
They remind me of Brighton rock, a large cylinder with the word Brighton running through it. which we used to suck as children to reveal the words. This was before extended eating of candies was known to be bad for teeth and my mother banned them.

If you look up Brighton Rock in Google or Wikipedia you will get results for the film (movie in the USA) called Brighton Rock, based on the title of the book by Graham Green who lived in Brighton. I think the title of the film was an ironic pun, named after the local sweet but suggesting that the characters were hard people, or sweet people.

Stocks of Rock
Sticks of rock are made at many British seasides and tourist centres, often flavoured with peppermint. I accidentally typed stocks of rock when I meant to type sticks of rock, but I like the alliteration and assonance of stocks of Rock.

Personalised Sweeties For Sweethearts
If you want a surprise, but not necessarily hearts, or to go with a card with hearts on it, you can give or display novelty sweets such as star rock which has a swirling pattern and comes from Scotland.

If you want a name, your sweetheart's name, a company name, you can get personalised rock made from a company in London, England.

Chocolates
An alternative is chocolates in heart-shaped boxes from supermarkets, especially in the UK.

Or heart shaped muffins.  You can buy heart shaped containers for mugffins and pancakes.

You can also buy red and white heart-shape coffee cups from department stores, usually displayed in the crockery department. A week after Valentine's Day one year I bought a pair at a reduced price ready for the rollowing year.

Cheap Choices - Bread and Egg
You could have a heart-shape egg on square or heart-shape toast, or a heart-shape toasted sandwich with egg and tomato for red colour.

Heart Shape Apple
The cheapest choice is to cut a single heart shape out of a red apple. You could have the apple with the heart cut out and the heart shape piece on the side. To stop cut apple going brown, cut immediately before eating, and/ or put lemon juice on the cut part or replace the cut piece and remove it at the last moment.

(Practise for a week until you can cut it and dispaly it neatly on a suitably contasting plate.) Online photos show an apple cut with numerous hearts.

If your spouse or sweetheart is away, you have time to look for an animated email or emoji to send with a message or a Robbie Burns poem or Shakespeare sonnet - or write your own.

https://www.therockpeople.co.uk/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweethearts_(candy)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_rock
vistibritain.org
https://www.visitbrighton.com
https://wikitravel.org/en/Lviv

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

Why Use What's Ap?

Problem
You don't want constant emails and chats in your work emails.

Answer
The solution is to contact people through what's ap and check it at breakfast time, your elevenses toilet break, lunch time, tea time, and on the train home. This is useful if you have an evening social meeting.

It also means that if you are working late, you don't have to work out who to tell that you are cancelling or being late for your evening meeting. You just message a brief text apology.

It's important to put dates and times in messages. Otherwise you have dozens of messages saying, yes I can, no I can't, and I'll be late, meeting today, no idea what is today and what is yesterday or last week.

You can also form a new group for a particular event.

Author
Angela Lansbury, author and speaker.

Planning For Self-Portraits, Promotional Pictures And Selfies

Problem
How do I get good pictures of myself?

Answer
EVENT PHOTOS; parties, weddings, funerals
Any time you are dressed up, for Christmas, a party, a dinner, a wedding, a funeral, take a picture of  yourself. Also ask another person to take a picture of you.

If nobody is taking photos, suggest a group photo.

If the group refuse to be photographed, or to take a photo, try the head waiter, the chef, the waiter, the receptionist, another tourist.

My Photo Coup
At a grand restaurant in London, England, my family and friends wanted to concentrate on eating their meal, then went to pay, and to go to the toilet. Afterwards they would be rushing off. In the hallway, I spotted the chef who I recognized from the publicity email we'd been sent about the half price midweek lunch offer.  The restaurant owner was delighted that I wanted to photograph the chef. The chef could not refuse because the restaurant owner wanted the photo. I managed to photograph them separately, together, and with myself.

Get in the picture with the flowers, the sweep staircase, the sign on the door.

Be photographed with the bride, the camera man / woman, the cameraman's wife / spouse / business partner.

Even the corpse. Not allowed? Be photographed with a photo of the deceased at a funeral. Take a photo of the widow or widower with the order of service, the person who sent the wreath with the wreath.

Take the names of the people in the photo. Simpler and quicker, ask for their email, or ask them to type it into your mobile phone, and send them the photo immediately. That way:
1 You have photos matched with names and emails.
2 You collect all the emails of useful contacts.
3 Saves time later.
4 No trouble reading your own handwriting, nor losing the paper with the emails and names.
5 If they didn't receive the photo, you have time to check you have the correct email whilst they are there and if necessary get any typos corrected.
6 If they don't like their photo, you can take another.
7 If they like the photo, they can tell you, so you get the feedback.
8 They may reciprocate with a photo of you taken on your camera or theirs.

Take a photo of yourself with your new book and the publisher.
Do a rehearsal at home, even if you are planning a professional shoot at home, in a studio or out on location. You want to check:

Clothes
Shoes
Accessories and jewellery
Nails
Hands
Poses - standing or sitting
Accessories
Glasses and reflections

Hide Imperfections
If you have crooked top teeth, you can be photographed smiling with your mouth shut.
If you have crooked bottom teeth, see whether you can cover them with your lower lip or your tongue.
If your neck is creased, you have a prominent Adam's apple, or a double chin, cover your neck with a polo neck, scarf, high blouse or Mandarin collar. Alternatively, hold a paper, newspaper or book.

Take photos from left, right, looking straight at the camera, looking up, down, smiling, not smiling.
Clear the background of clutter.

If you wear glasses, try wearing them at the end of your nose and pushed right back. If they create reflections, take them off. If you feel that is concealing the real you, wear the glasses on top of your head like a hairband, or hold them in your right hand as if you are about to put them on or take them off, or rest them on a table or in a glasses case..

Check and correct. If you have a friend, family member or neighbour with a better mobile phone or camera than yours, ask them to take a picture of you.

If you are going for a professional studio picture, you can remember to wear the best clothes, turn to show  your good side, look up or down, and conceal your imprfections and reveal or promote your assets.

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

What's the difference between Adsense and Affiliate marketing? How do I get them?

Problem
You may have seen suggestions that you sign up for Adsense or Affiliate marketing.  What are they" What's the difference? Any advantage or disadvantage? Any cost? Will they pay me? How much? When?

Answers
For year people involved with selling books were telling me to go to their websites to buy books from Amazon because they (the authors or writers clubs) would get a percentage at no cost to me. They also advised that I and other authors and wiring clubs could make money by signing up.

However an SEO adviser, my son, in MarketAppeal, told me I would not make much money.

Only recently I discovered the differences and tried to sign up.

ADSENSE
Adsense, by google, runs advertisements on a pay per click basis. Every time somebody clicks on an advertisement, even if they don't buy anything, you receive, or are credited with, a fraction of a pound, maybe one penny. I signed up years ago and never saw any money. My son had told me I would not make much. I recently with his help started logging in. I found my Google password, which would not work, changed it to another. Hey presto! I find that over several years I have earned about £13.

AFFILIATE
Then I looked at Affiliate marketing. This is totally different. You don't earn anything if somebody doesn't buy. If they buy you get a small sum. If you are recommending books, such as Harry Potter, and you get under ten or under five per cent of the cost, that is not much. On the other hand if you have a million clicks, or were linking to sites selling expensive cars and diamonds, you might be making much more.

I have a famous name and the lovely actress who shares my name could well be doing jolly well on her sites, and the same goes for world famous singers and actresses with a huge following. What of most of us, lesser known, with fewer clicks, or start up businesses.

Adsense, naturally does not want its ads appearing on dubious sites of business which fold or disappear, start ups which never start. So they are currently only accepting blog websites which have been going for over six months and generate content. I qualified on those grounds.

Readers and click
They ask how many readers you have. I have been working hard to bring up my readership. I have now reached two of my early goals, to move from day one's modest 25 readers to over 100 a day, and to reach 5,000 a month.

PLACE
Watching my numbers on the statistics page, I could find out the readers, and where they were, right now, today, this week, this month, and all time. When I wrote about getting a Russian keyboard, I suddenly had hundreds of readers in Russia. Not just two or three. Five hundred!

I mentioned Java, when talking about expats from Java in Romania, suddenly hundreds of readers in Indonesia!

TIME
I could check the time of day and see that I was getting more American when it was gone midnight in London but still afternoon in the USA.

When writing my posts, from London, England, I had to remember that it was already tomorrow in Asia and Australia, but still time for people in the USA to buy dinner, or watch evening fireworks in person on New Year's Eve and live on the internet.

Signing up for Affiliate Marketing took longer. My son advised me to watch a video on YouTube which I did. My problem is that if I am not familiar with tenhicla terms, even such simple as advice as look in the menu bar, or click on the settings symbol, will not help, if I spend ages looking top, left, right, scrolling up and down, getting tired, frustrated, depressed, losing confidence and enthusiasm.

VIDEO
The video is a great help. A lot of it is trial and error. You just have to devote the time to it. Think of it as a ladder with twenty steps. The first step is finding the link to the web pages. Then choose which to open. You could start at the top. Find a free one or one with a free introduction.

EMAILS
Signing in with your details. Which of your emails?

PASSWORDS
Remembering your log in for Google or Amazon.
If it won't work, generating another.
Noting down the new one somewhere you can find it but nobody else can find it.

EARNINGS
Logging into your account and finding what you have earned.
Nothing if you have just started. Never mind. Get started.

They owe you money but haven't paid. Why? They won't pay less than £50.

Bother! Never mind. Now you must earn more.

You must make sure they have the right address for you. (You may have moved house or given the address of a relative who had moved house. Or your post may be going to a relative who thinks it is a circular and chucks it in the bin.)

BANKS BIC and IBAN
Now you have to give them your bank details. They want the BIC and IBAN numbers. What's that and how do I find it?

Simple. They just need to know who to pay.
BIC means ..
IBAN means ..

My son says that if you look for a French word starting with an initial letter a series of initial letters makes sense. These two are bank codes generated by different organisations in the early days, a bit like Apple and Microsoft having their own different systems.

So BIC for a bank means something like Banco or Banca, meaning Bank, I will be something like Interntional and C will be something like code.

OK, now we know what it is, where do we find it?

Either on documents from your bank, or log into your bank account website. If you are lucky, your computer will log in automatically. If it's a shared account, your family member of business partner may have a laptop or computer near them and be able to give you the details quickly.

COPY AND PASTE
Don't write down and then type in the number. You could be mistyping and sending all your money to somebody else. Always copy and paste to reduce the chance of error. The same goes for email addresses.

I have had no end of trouble. People have double letters in their name. Linda and Lynda. Such and Sush. Banco and Banca . Spell checker tries to help and changes what I typed.

So, heeding the advice, copy the correct number.

WHY ADD TAGS?
Now, they want you to add a tag. Why? It's just a quick code for your name or website name. Why? Because a link on your site sends your reader to Amazon, but Amazon doesn't know that the reader was referred by you, unless the tag tells them (from Aunty Angela - or whoever - pay commission to Aunty Angela).

ADVERTISEMENT SITING
On some systems you have a choice of choosing which advertisement to add, where to put the advertisements, at the top or bottom of the page, only on your home page, on every post or both, adding a tag or letting the system add the tag for you.

If you are smart at technical stuff, or have an assistant who is, you can start refining. Or you can look for a system which does everything for you automatically. My idea was to get started fast.

I hope this helps you. Good luck.

BENEFITS TO YOU
Even if you don't do it, or don't gain a fortune, now you know who is benefitting financially, and how you can help your friends, family and colleagues.

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Please follow me, bookmark, and share links to your favourite posts.

Having Trouble Emailing Your Trip Videos?

Problem
I have been taking videos at Toastmasters International meetings but I've had trouble emailing the videos, although I can usually email about three or four photos through Gmail.

Answers
Dropbox. You have to join it, which is free. Then you upload your photos and somebody else down loads them. The videos are kept on the website for about 30 days. By this time you should both have a copy.

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Thumb Drive
Our first solution was a techie member of my family decided to copy the photos onto a thumb drive. If you don't know how to do it, ask somebody else and video them telling you what to do. If you know what to do and you are teaching somebody else who doesn't get it first time, make them a video of the instructions.

Shorter Videos
I was having rouble sending videos by email. This week I tried videoing shorter chunks, each about one minute. The very shortest one of about 45 seconds went through by email. How long is the video? How big? The message telling you that the video can't be sent will tell you.

What's WhatsApp?
Then somebody I videoed suggested that I send photos using WhatsApp. You down
load WhatsApp for free. If you are looking for the symbol on your phone later, it is green.

Tips
How big is too big? Your rejection message will tell you. I received this message:
Your message has size 116.5 MB, which exceeds 35.9 MB, the maximum allowed by the server.


Using What's Ap to send a photo when you are still in a group is much quicker than my previous method, which was copying photos from my phone onto a lap top and then emailing them from home. You can send the videos to somebody whilst you are out and about taking photos. Much quicker than trying to find photos of a particular date and person later.

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