Happy Birthday Will! Party-goers sing “Happy Birthday!” to Will: Photos from the birthday party for Joanne and Will: Photo album of the party – (goes to an online album)
Example of a Great Speech – Bill Clinton at DNC
Competition is fierce, and it seems creating online marketing success is requiring small biz owners to create ever more intimate relationships with their customers. One way to learn more is to watch a master of the craft. And Bill Clinton is one of the best orators alive. His speech at the Democratic Convention was incredible. [...]
Blue Yeti Microphone “Poof Screen” mounting hack
If you’re doing information products, podcasts, etc., having good audio is critical. And the best way to do that is by investing in a good USB microphone. One of the best is the Blue Microphones Yeti USB Microphone – Silver Edition. You can buy it on Amazon for something just north of a hundred bucks. The [...]
Cataract Falls Hike (Video)
Here’s a 3-minute video I put together with photos from a hike I did a few days ago. My primary goal in putting this together was to learn how to use the pan and zoom features in Camtasia 8 – a video editing program that I recently purchased. I wanted to see figure out how [...]
Field test of Canon 310HS camera while on Mt. Tam
This is a test I did of the Canon Powershot Elph 310HS while on a hike on Mt. Tamalpais. This is one of the best, small point-and-shoot cameras you can get. Here’s a picture of the camera:
Change Kindle book prices easily
Flexible, real-time pricing is one of the advantages of selling ebooks. I asked Kindle about how easy it would be to change the price on my book. Here’s their response: You can change the list price of your title whenever you want to. We allow publishers to set their Kindlebook prices anywhere from $.99 to $200.00 [...]
Free (great) software for managing your Amazon S3 files
If you’re using video or audio on your website, you know what a pain it can be to get all the pieces to work together. I’ve hosted both audio and video files on several sites and, hands down, the best place to store them is on the Amazon S3 storage service. It’s unbelievably cheap. But [...]
Writing Course – WHY are you writing your book?
In this vid, I explore the question of WHY you’re writing your book. This is one of the questions Carol Kline will be exploring in her writing course.
Transformational Author Course – Take 2
Okay … tweaked the video settings to see if this vid plays better than the previous one.
