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
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The Art of Letting Go …
There come moments in life when surrender is the only option. It could be a big project, a relationship, a gnarly rapid – even a life-threatening illness. You do everything you can to prepare, give it your all, and contend with it. To a certain degree, you might will/ force/ cajole/ entice things to go [...]
Webinar – ReadyTalk vs. GoToMeeting
Webinars are increasingly becoming a “tool of the trade” for consultants and experts. It’s a powerful way to take your message and expertise to prospects and clients. The most popular of them webinar service – at least with the info marketing crowd I hang out with – is GoToMeeting.com (GTM). It’s been around a long [...]
Save Word documents as PDFs
There are some good tools out there for converting various documents to PDF format, including this one by Neevia. But face it, the most likely documents you’ll want to convert to PDF are those you made in MS Office. Correctamundo? Well, it turns out Microsoft makes a nice little add-on that enables you to save [...]
Bypass Microsoft’s Ribbon with this add-on
I’ve now been using the 2007 versions of Word, Excel and Powerpoint for five years. And I still don’t get their stupid ribbon. In my experience, the “regular interface” was great. It was fast, efficient and customizable. Everything was “right where it’s suppose to be. So, of course in their infinite wisdom, Microsoft decided to [...]
Is using Apple’s iBooks “Author” program a “Deal with the Devil”?
Apple just launched a new software program called iBooks Author. It enables content producers to produce “enhanced ebooks”, which will soon be a burgeoning field, and one in which all authors should be looking at. By all accounts, and as one would expect from Apple, the program is great. It’s easy to use, has lots [...]
