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Athletic Republic CEO Charlie graves has been busy building his senior management team, make the following last dates: Kevin Barker, Vice President of business development;Tricia Kobos, Vice President of operations; and Trajan King, Vice President of finance.
"I'm happy to announce the addition of Kevin, Tricia and Trajan to the team at athletic Republic," said graves. "Each of you bring vast experience in their respective territories and a fresh perspective on the challenge for the future - grows the athletic Republic network."
Kevin Barker will manage the sales process and develop overall athletic Republic of sales department.The strategy includes a focus on key U.S. markets, including: Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Memphis, Orange County, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, San Diego, Seattle, Republic of Connor Sport Court International (CSCI) is South Florida and Washington, D.C. Barker athletic, where for 12 years, first as Southeastern Regional Manager and most recently as Vice President of sales worked.
Tricia Kobos joined the team in October, responsibility for athletic Republic facility operators improve their business practices and operational capabilities help.Tricia has 24 years of experience in operations, management, sales and marketing with franchise companies in the hospitality and real estate Branchen.Kobos came from the Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation, where a Senior Vice President and managed operational functions the Coldwell Banker Concierge and the Coldwell Banker Web leader programs was athletic Republic.
Trajan King is athletic Republic's lead financial management team, he, Republic King founded monitoring the financial reporting and analysis for the Unternehmen.Bevor athletic and ran a marketing company for financial planners called ReadyCampaigns.com.Zuvor, King owned and operated by several other companies including private wealth management, an investment firm and Dáil Robbins, LLC, an import/export companies.
About athletic Republic:
Athletic Republic, formerly Frappier acceleration ® sport training, is the world's premiere provider scientifically, sports development training programs. founded in 1990 on the continuous research of exercise physiologist John Frappier m.s, and Stephen C. Swanson, m.s, athletic of Republic's training programs at more than 160 institutions throughout North America, UK and Japan are available.
Visit for more information about athletic Republic www.athleticrepublic.com or contact Deb Uglem at (701) 241-9018.
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Affordable eBook management software
Most Ebook Management Software via the Internet provide a way, find and organize your eBooks and learn but as an online marketer, eBooks as create or use as collateral, you need more than the ability to organise eBooks in your Ebook Management Software.
Ideally, an online marketer Ebook Management Software should be of include.
1. Word text processing software - so text and design to create the layout of eBooks with graphics.
2. EBook compiler - Ebook compilation text.
3. EBook-converter for create of eBooks in multiple formats.
4. EBook security tools - to prevent illegal copying.
5. EBook Reader to created view eBooks.
Ebook Delivery - downloads for deploying eBooks for your goals, either via E-mail or Web.
But usually you may be unable to all of these together as a single Ebook Management Software / service, you are likely to use more than a service and/or software to get what you want exactly.And that makes it possible, a complete Ebook Management Software and services get cheap, because to breakdown what you need for your eBook publishing, and actually replace some of the products you want to use with free or low-cost alternatives.
If you have already purchased a word processing software like Microsoft Word for themselves, you can enter it in your eBook text for you, but a good alternative is the free OpenOffice suite, a free word processing software also has can use to create your eBook text and layout.
The most popular eBook formats are the formats PDF and EXE.Sie PDF eBooks with Adobe Acrobat (expensive), OpenOffice.org suite (free) and any other third party software can be found online, for free PDF documents create create.You may receive unable, eBook compiler, you can use for free however create paid eBook in EXE formats;You have to pay for EXE compilers.
Can free eBook converters and readers over the Internet to erhalten.EBook readers are built for certain eBook formats.
When compiling your eBook can you some security features with your eBook compiler Add. adding security features to order an eBook a request not free can be are eBooks but necessary for your paid products if you avoid piracy to. If your eBook compiler has no security features or only a few need other software or service to secure the eBooks you sell to use.
Can your eBooks to your destinations by e-Mails or Web links online übermitteln.Web links are most commonly for eBook delivery used, can a secure Web link for your paid eBook delivery.
All of these are either as desktop software or online Ebook Management services available to compare their prices can therefore various software and services to check use free alternatives and more search on the Internet, to obtain better options for your online business.
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Barnes and noble has released the new firmware update for the nook eReader. Version 1.5 includes a lot of new features:
Sync last page read apps about devices with nook Ereading enabled. You can organize your library to my shelves. Password protection option of purchases on a nook device. You can now set your B & N account password be entered before song van authorized download content (purchases, samples and free books). This is useful for all of you, the corners will, share with family, friends and colleagues. Pass code security for the nook eReader. You can configure, angle to the screen lock after a specified number of minutes, and then require to unlock a pass code. The pass code security feature will enable each time still life does powers that arouses form sleep mode. Faster page turns. Up to 50 percent rotates faster page than the previous version.Improved search my files in the results contains. additional battery and other performance improvements.The new firmware via Wi-Fi is available or you can manually download it to the nook support page
From the nook support website:
Software update version 1.5
Our current software update has exciting new features and improves overall performance's song van.Included in version 1.5:
1. Just! stay in sync across of multiple devices
Automatic synchronization app with another read the last page, click your song van or angle. For example, if you stop reading to a particular page on your song van, will iPad same exact location on your you automatically to the iPhone or Android-based Smartphone with our free song van apps open.
(2) New! stay organized with "my shelves"
Create, rename and organize shelves in "My B & N library" and "My documents" in "my shelves" zu.Zum example set all your cookery books on a shelf, all your spy novels in an other shelf for quick and easy access.
3. New!Password protect your song van
Their song van can now secured be two ways to prevent unauthorized use first - set up your angle to lock when it comes to sleep and then it with a passcode entsperren.Zweitens-you can require a password, content to buy so that others can buy anything without your permission with your song van.
4. Faster page breaks, improved search and other optimization
The software update is available for corners, the connection to Wi-Fi ® automatic download or via manual download available here.(Note: this update will be distributed via the 3 g network.)For an automatic Wi-Fi ® update may need ' check for new B & - N-content ' type relating to my library to initiate the update.
Octovo still don't have your Kindle 3 covers ready even though you told me you will be available before the end of the year - I hope that in time for Christmas delivery. In the meantime, their Solis light has been redesigned to fit the latest generation Kindle 6 inch eReader.
The Octovo Solis light is created from a single block of brushed aluminium. The lighting arm accommodates a single LED bulb and fold down for storage.The light is powered by a single AA battery (included), about 25 hours between battery offer changes sollte.Der mount is designed to prevent the light at 15 degrees glare angle.
The design is somewhat similar the Kandle eReader light compared to the gooseneck style of Mighty Bright lights.I like better than the Kandle the Solis from several Gründen.Erstens it uses AA batteries during the button Kandle batteries used harder to find and expensive. The Solis is made from metal instead of plastic.
Finally, although the description of Kandle says that it is for the latest generation Kindle 3, it was originally made with a wider bezel (1 & 2 Kindle, Sony PRS-300 & PRS-600) for Ereaders.The bracket of Kandle wider than facing the Kindle 3 and if not careful I would be easy to mistakenly think bracket not gut.Ich there on the screen of the Kindle 3 that would be one Kandle, but I use it on my 3 Kindle eReader, because I am afraid I could forget and do this.
The Solis light is available from Amazon or directly from OCTOVO for $29.99.OCTOVO Solis eReader makes light in a size of the Kindle 2 and the nook eBook reader.
Panda poet is a new word game for the Kindle Ereaders. The object is available from the letters on the game board to form words.
With Panda use poet the letters on the game board to form words.Words formed from letters in open spaces create pandas. words formed from letters in the vicinity of pandas make existing pandas grow.
Aims to grow the largest Panda possible.
, You get the highest scores, either create the largest possible Panda or make the longest possible words.
To add the challenge, each for a fixed number of turns is time type verfügbar.Jedes a word come closer to expire a step all characters on the screen.When a letter expires, it is replaced by a skull, which prevents it grows your pandas in this Richtung.Dies makes, play a delicate balancing act Panda poet: must consider where a letter on the grid is and how fast it will be not simply magic you can the longest word.
Panda poet is $2.99 and is on the Kindle 2, Kindle 3 and the Kindle DX ELesegeräte arbeiten.Dies is Spry Fox that the Triple Town-Kindle made game.
From the press release:
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that soon be entitled magazine and newspaper publishers, a larger proportion of revenue from each title you earn in the Kindle store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore sell).For every magazine or newspaper that sold the publishers to earn 70 per cent of the selling price minus the cost of providing can these new 70 percent royalty terms to 1 December, 2010 be available.
"" We are constantly working to improve the Kindle magazine and newspaper experience for both customers and publishers,"said Peter Larsen, Director of the Kindle periodicals.""Building on the introduction of the Wi-Fi enabled Kindle and the upcoming availability of newspapers and magazines recent Kindle apps, we are looking forward, a better and easier than ever for publishers to add increased revenue share and a great new tool for the Kindle."
For orders delivered to Kindle with Amazon's Whispernet service delivery costs are shared between Amazon and the publishers (see www.amazon.com/kppinfo for more information).
To qualify for the 70 percent royalty terms, newspapers and magazines have multiple requests of the customer experience, including meet:
·Customers can read the title to all Kindle devices and applications.
· Customers can read the title in all over the world for which the Publisher has rights.
These new conditions apply for blog publishers because existing terms are generally more advantageous for you.
Amazon has also announced the beta version of the Kindle publishing for periodicals tool that allows publishers to more easily quickly create your newspaper or magazine hinzufügen.Verlage can Kindle store your account, add content and preview format Kindle before your title for the fast growing base of Kindle customers.
Learn more about the new royalty terms for publishers and Kindle publishing for periodicals, visit www. Amazon.com kppinfo.
So says an article in Boston.com. Start-up company to Isabella products have teamed up with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children market.
The new reader will come next summer and sport a 7-inch color touch screen.
The fable is a customized version of Google Inc.'s Android operating system, the same software on many mobile phones found running.And like the Kindle it wirelessly to the Internet through a cellular data network verbinden.Jede fable's is large library of children's books with several songs by Houghton Mifflin come preloaded, but parents can use the network to new books on the device downloaden.Titel are expected to be between 99 cents and $ $3.99 cost.
More info in the article.
1. Great post! RT @ValentineLuLu: Blogged: The enthusiasm gap and transliteracy #intlib10 I met Jamie at Internet Librarian, I really wish we’d had more time to talk, I’m impressed with her work. Jamie has some good suggestions for bridging the enthusiasm gap and I love her approach – focus on the people, the need, not the tools
When discussing and marketing tech training stop talking about the tools and start talking about the benefits. Don’t say “Learn to use Facebook” try “Tips and tools for keeping in touch with distant loved ones” and show them facebook, skype, IM, etc. Teach to the needs of our community members by letting tech play the role in was intended for: a tool”
2. The Social Physical Library: fostering connections & giving patrons a reason to come inside When Emily Lloyd isn’t drawing witty cartoon’s she’s writing thoughtful blog posts like this one. Seriously awesome idea, wish I had a prize to offer the first library that implements it,and shares how with the rest of us
One way libraries strive to build community is by offering programs–lectures, YouTube viewing nights, open mic poetry readings. Folks come together and hang out with their neighbors with similar interests (if only passively, while listening to a lecture in the same room together). The thing with events, though, is that people have to a)hear about them, usually in advance b)remember to come to them (if they’re still in the mood), etc. They also c)usually require a significant amount of planning on the part of library staff, and perhaps even some money.
What if (in addition to these events) there were neat, social, community-building opportunities for patrons to engage in whenever they happened to step foot in the library? That didn’t require planning on the library’s part, or remembering on the patrons’ part? That were targeted to their own individual interests? That fostered connections between them and their neighbors? That made stopping by the library just to see what’s up in the building worthwhile, as opposed to only using the digital branch? That helped people to learn and to better use our resources and our spaces?
Here’s what I’m thinking: a living, updated-in-real-time site (somewhat like Twitter or Foursquare in the way it works–and it would need IM capabilities built-in), ideally displayed prominently on a large screen in the lobby/entrance, but workable even if it was just on the web via a link on the library’s home page (that automatically loads when you use the library computers, and that wireless users can choose to load).
Rather than focus on technology alone, it is more useful to examine the possible social effects of technologies – the socio-technical trends.
4. great guide to understanding #broadband What is Broadband? A brief and informative breakdown of broadband and the benefits.
5. If you only read one blog post today make it this one RT @theREALwikiman: The Echo Chamber Live #echolib I have been following Ned’s thoughts on the Echo Chamber since he first began blogging and tweeting about it (#echolib) and I’ve really taken it to heart. I have made a concerted effort to connect with non-library related folk on Twitter and read blogs by people outside of libraryland. Lately I’ve noticed more and more librarians discussing the echo chamber and looking to get outside of their bubble. You should also check out this post Escaping the Echo Chamber – presentation
6. HOW TO: Build Your Personal Brand on LinkedIn I think this is more for me than everyone else. I’m on Linkedin, my profile is complete, I have connections, heck I even have recommendations, but I still feel like I’m not using it to its full potential.
7. AWESOME! RT @theREALwikiman: Sweet LORD, I shouldn’t be as excited by this icon-finder site as I am via @PhilBradley I have to agree with Ned, the site is awesome and my excitement might be a little over the top. Really check it out.
8. Staff Development on a Budget My post over at ALA Learning, I share some great, FREE resources for staff development.
9. Writer, technologist, futurist (and father) Cory Doctorow shares his own concerns about child safety and the Internet - Doctorow shares how he incorporates a computer screen into time with his daughter, a must read.
10. read it. then read it again. even if you aren’t “famous” How to be “famous” (wink wink, nudge nudge) I came across this old post by Karen Schneider through the magic of Twitter and the Internet last week. There is some really good advice in there. Everyone should read this, thanks to the Internet everyone will be famous to 15 people.
Jason Griffey and I are having a discussion via our blogs regarding mobile phones and the digital divide to catch up first read my original post Why Mobile Phone Are Not the Key to the Digital Divide then read Jason’s response Why mobile phones are one key to the digital divide. This is my response to his post.
Jason states:
I believe strongly that the idea that a desktop is somehow superior to a mobile phone for Internet access is an accident of the time in which we live and the historical nature of the rise of computing. One can easily imagine that 10 years from now the then-digital-natives will look aghast at the desktops of the past. “What do you mean, you had to sit at a desk to use a computer? You pushed actual buttons?
I agree with this or at least don’t doubt the likelihood of it. Except for one part, there are no digital natives. At least not in the sweeping generational assignments we technophiles want to apply. You can not say all Millennials are digital natives, or that the generation after them will be, until we close the digital divide. There are too many children without exposure to the technology they would need to be considered digital natives. *
According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), more than 100 million Americans don’t have broadband at home because they either can’t get it, can’t afford it, or aren’t aware of its benefits. Some 65 percent of U.S. households have broadband, a far lower adoption rate than in other technologically advanced countries such as Singapore (88 percent) or South Korea (95 percent). – PC World February 2010
The National Broadband Plan from the FCC looks to address the issues created by the digital divide today, not in 10 years. So when Aaron Smith states he thinks mobile phones play a key role he means now, in 2010, not 2020. That is my complaint. In 10 years this may be perfectly true.
Jason points out there are some who prefer mobile access:
There are examples, even today, of people who prefer mobile access to the Internet to using a desktop: the entire country of Japan, for instance. Many of them could easily afford desktops, but overwhelmingly they choose mobile phones as the mechanism they use for accessing the Internet.
Again he is correct. However this isn’t about choice, it is about assigning a substandard option for a class of people. We are moving toward better mobile, but in the mean time we can not apply a separate but equal philosophy to the ways in which individuals access the internet.
So unless there are some actual things that can be pointed out as to why Mobile access is second-class (and I swear, if someone says Flash, I quit)….I’m calling this cultural and historic bias.
Ok so it sounds like if I can convince Jason mobile access is not as good as a PC I might start to sway him.
For smartphones to replace PCs, they would have to take on all the features of a PC — they’d need to input and edit text as easily as a PC, create spreadsheets as easily as a PC, edit pictures and presentations as easily as a PC, and manage large databases as easily as a PC. To do that in a small mobile device, you need a color folding screen (so you can work with large documents), either a full-size keyboard or perfect voice recognition, a pointing device a heck of a lot more sophisticated than a five-way rocker, enormous amounts of storage, and a fast processor. Michael Mace CEO of Cera Technology
PC World magazine looks at Laptop vs. Netbook vs. Smartphone and asks Work, school, and play: Which portable computer is the do-everything device for you? A smart phone was not their first recommendation in any of the categories.
Here is a list of the things I attempted last night from my Smartphone, HTC Evo from Sprint. I’m sure there is a much longer list but I was tired, and my battery died 
I was able to do somethings like check my bank account or access Google docs but good grief was it slow and if you’ve ever seen me text you know I can hold my own with most 14-year-old girls.
The screen size and lack of a real keyboard are still huge issues for me. Can you imagine trying to write a paper on one of these? In an age when being a citizen in a democratic society means participation and creation smartphones are still primarily a tool for consumption.
Battery life my netbook gets something like 10 hours and its over a year old. My phone doesn’t last the day with heavy use.
My mom lost her Blackberry last week. Who knows where, somewhere at home she thinks but its gone, as is everything on it. I know your PC could be stolen (or lost I guess) but the odds are slimmer. Even if your computer crashed you still have the hardware to rebuild upon.
* Can I just add on a personal note that I hope whatever we’re doing in 10 years is more comfortable than sitting at a keyboard all day because my back is killing me.
Have you already written a great title for your eBook? No.? Now, is to get noticed a good title.
Is a great title to grab readers by the throat and drag them into your sales opportunities.
In this article we will discuss some related tasks must master to choose a title, some of the promotion work will do. It looks like an endless task, but it can control the same way we all master Anything…one step at a time.
You have probably heard some thoughts about what you're going to write.Your eBook title is the first thing your potential customers will see it has to get your attention, make subtitles and, then, read some more.
Picking your title is a very important step;one, that really the success of your project beiträgt.Jedes time when someone sees your titles on affiliate sites to certain forums relevant to your topic or in your e-Mail signature, it is actually an ad for your eBook.
Want to withdraw your eBook titles and start browsing the online Browser.Wenn eyes your title makes the prospect to stop and a second look, have a chance for a sale. If you skip over you, you are gone for good.
Choosing a catchy, interesting called is another creation with a few guidelines that if followed, will focus in the right direction.
The first point to remember is to make your title as accurate as you can and lead it to a narrowly defined target market.Capture specific titles and keep your customers attention long enough to read the next line of your sales page.
If you have not already done so, who decide your customers his werden.Wer will buy your book? If you don't know it, you find, you will not find your customers and you.
With a keyword tracking tool can tell you how many people are looking for information on your topic. You choose the keywords that are specific to your theme, enter to see them and the results.Two helpful resources are Wordtracker and Google AdWords: keyword tool.Check them out.
If your theme is "Square Dancing", for example, you would select three or four words that relate directly to your Topic…words, could be used by anyone looking for information on "Square Dancing" into a search engine. Input "Square Dancing" in Google returned 170,000 related websites.
There is now a huge resource you can tap to see what other writers and marketers use title.Get your ideas where you can find! copyrighted (ideas cannot be protected)
But the topic "Square Dancing" is much too wide and non-specific for your eBook to be effective. You would have what aspects of square dance are writing about in your eBook and focus on in your title to identifizieren.Einige suggestions for this example: "how to start A square dance club of your own" or "don't be square at A round dance."To see what I mean?
The entire post here is focus, focus, focus! get the same message from any of hundreds of successful Internet Vermarkter.Sie get it for free here.
Here a last point is all important title before we create on a different aspect you weiterzugehen.notieren all ideas, pop in your mind when you do normal things like TV, walking around the grocery store, dusting the books in your family room.One of them might be gold.
The final aspect of the title creation is considering whether or not you need a subtitle.May be short and specifically focused key during your eBook title, to attract attention, a subtitle answered the question, "What is all about this ebook?" or "Why do I need to read this?"
NEVER forget that really mean these two questions: "Why should I buy this?"Answer it with your subtitles, delivering the benefits for readers within your eBook.
Here is the emotional issue that is behind all decisions to buy something: "What's in it for me?"Answer, that in your focused title and use rich subtitle, and you will make sales via your faith.Think about it.How many things not buy it, or you want when you need it?
Here is to keep something in mind:
Once have a sales page for your eBook, that your signature on the bottom of each e-Mail add eighth, even to family and friends phone.This signature should include the title of your eBook (via a link with the sales page) and a few words pushing your reader's curiosity keys.
For example, if your title "35 fun things to do with A radish" is, your signature line might read "What you do with radishes?"…(Your eBook titles with links) .these signature would catch the attention of the reader puzzle him some and clicking on your sales page to find out, to get.
Most e-Mail programs offer the opportunity to add a signature to the email you senden.Es is all dead space at the end of your e-Mail; wasting it.
From now on head should your full of ways to create and use your eBook titles to promote and attract customers be should understand the importance of the subtitle in marketing your Ebook.Sie know, how to use your daily e-Mail responses, spread the word about your new Ebook.Wenn not try, we go back and re-read this article
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The New York Times reported that ebook sale of John Grisham's new the confession book were about one-third week one hardcover sales, or about 70,000.
Hardcover sales of the book are lower than those of his previous book, the associate: 160,000 vs. 223,000 and eBook sales pushed the total for the new book in front of the old.
"Mr. Grisham said"The e-book sales are amazing,"in an interview.""Someone who would have thought a year ago? the future has begun and we will consider it."
According to the article has Grisham against eBooks, feeling that would hurt its sales at independent bookstores, but after receiving numerous fan drew complaints.
Amazon says that the confession more hardcover pre-orders than Grisham's earlier books Kindle Edition asks but and sold hardcover the during the first week.
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Simply plug in a time when progress of copyright does not seem, but actually going backwards, it's nice to see, try at least one country progress. Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron has announced a six month review of UK copyright law, trying to make fit "for the Internet age".
Cameron has especially an eye to the United States doctrine of fair use, which permits limited types of unauthorized use of copyrighted material, which he believes is useful allow enterprise, innovation and new types of goods and services to produce Great Britain has currently no fair use rules - and indeed, under current UK law it is not even legal CDs, RIP mp3s.
Of course, it is uncertain how useful will be a fair use provision, given that even over here in the U.S. media companies seem to do everything, it can eliminate – most in particular passing the DMCA, which means that it is illegal DRM files such as such as e-books to strip, even if you do it, so can a legitimate fair use of it to make.
Needless to say, sounds UK media groups cautionary make deserves rewards on creator werden.Publishers Association chief exec said Richard Mollet:
"Publishers Association works closely with the Office for intellectual property during these six months verification to ensure that rightholders interests are not considered as an obstacle to the creation of Internet-based business models, as some believe, but as the foundation of UK substrate sizes creative, cultural and educational publishing industries."
(Via Slashdot you found.)
As a very new and exciting way of sharing marketing information and ideas, the electronic book or eBook quickly to the fore as the medium of choice has. With the daily gain of Internet users with high speed connections the amount of data that can be transmitted is amazing. The eBook format has developed the fastest and most useful form. Transfer not only an eBook and saved can easily, it can also be printed out in a hard copy format if the user so chooses.
For the Internet marketer, work with a small budget eBooks can be produced to a much smaller fraction of the cost of the printed media.You easily spread across the Internet and, above all in this fast paced world, you can be obtained sofort.Sie can new copies of your eBook create only as you need you can quickly update or revise changes as the information without old copies must lying around left.
EBooks can also be made to be an interactive experience. Some of the more powerful eBook compiler can create data fields that a reader can fill the ways you use to influence the book.You can password protect the book only a select group with a password to your information can access. large companies find this feature extremely important for financial or personal data reports. EBooks may be protected just as other intellectual property.
By your eBook yourself you maintain, full artistic control over how your content is presented. This is good for the writer but also leaving you with the full responsibility in the case it wrong and get your book flops. This can as a learning experience to your next book, mistakes to avoid to adapt.
It costs additional color or photographs and diagrams in your eBook include.These elements may increase the cost of a printed book out of reach of the ordinary buyer but in electronic format, it can be had just because the media is designed to be easy to use.Tracking your eBook and how well it sells can be used to determine how the next spent that you write more effectively.Using multiple marketing systems to promote your eBook will educate on the most productive distribution methods and how to avoid the plans not working are a waste of time and effort.
You can easily change part of your eBook into a report or even a sample chapter extract and use it as a marketing Werkzeug.Wenn like what you read, give you a link to the rest kaufen.mithilfe of a number of different forms of advertising reach with your Angebot.Seien try a maximum number of potential customers don't be afraid something new, the Internet is powered by thinking outside the box so your ideas than innovative can come and ultimately copied by others are actually to mimic your success.
Ron is the owner of the 5 star eBooks diary .Eine website dedicated to helping others start and successfully run an Internet marketing business by documenting how to do.
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I spend a lot of time reading, some of it related to libraries or work or transiteracy or the digital exist divide so I've been thinking about a way to share it then I realized, hey! This is a blog by a librarian shouldn't I be required to post what I'm reading here? This weekend I asked on Twitter and Facebook if there was any interest in what I'm reading. The answer was yes.So here it is!
Once a month I'm going to write a what I'm reading post. It will include books, reports, publications, manifestos any other number of official things, it wont include blog posts or articles found online, I already share those via Twitter and this blog.
I live in the future and here's how it works: why your world, work, and brain are being Creatively disrupted 
It wasn't about print vs. digital.It was about immediacy, details, links, interactive graphics, videos, and most important, hyperpersonalization.
Paper is still number one for reading gadget content; It's disposable, relatively inexpensive and relatively simple to create in small or large quantities and it doesn't need batteries or a power outlet.
Ask for it: How women can use negotiation to get what they really want 
Keep in mind that what you really want may not be about more more responsibility, more money, more status. Changing your life for the better isn't always about being on the fast track or moving higher up the corporate ladder, sometimes it's about slowing down or moving sideways.So forget about the typical pathways to success in your profession.Take a fresh look at every aspect of your life and figure out what suits you. Consider hiring a personal coach to help you zero in on what would make you happier or help you strike the right balance among your many interests, goals, and commitments.
I wish I could hirer a personal life coach, but mostly I'm thinking that being successful at something doesn't mean I have to keep doing it I can say ok, did that and move on to something new.
WHAT WILL YOU RAIN SONG?Researchers have found that people experience two different kinds of regret: regret about things they've done and regret about the things they didn't do overwhelmingly, people regret the things they didn't do far more.When asked to identify the biggest regret in their life, people are two to three times more likely to describe something they didn't do instead of something they did.
Don't of think I need to elaborate on this one.
There's to app for that! Libraries and mobile technology: An introduction to public policy considerations (pdf) from the Office for information technology policy
As the information revolution continues to unfold, libraries will experiment with mobile devices and services to support the information needs of their users wherever they may be. The adoption of mobile technology age the traditional relationships between libraries and their users and introduces novel challenges to reader privacy.At the same time, the proliferation of mobile devices and services raises issues of access to information in the digital age, including content ownership and licensing, digital rights management and accessibility.This policy brief explores some of these issues and is intended to stimulate further community discussion and policy analysis.
Universal broadband: targeting investments to deliver broadband services to all Americans (pdf)A project of the Aspen Institute communications and society program and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Eighty percent of the households with incomes of less than $20,000 subscribe to premium television services whose monthly fees are comparable to and often exceed, the cost of broadband.This might surprise some who view broadband as more essential than premium television, but it should come as no surprise for a variety of reasons.
First, while television brings value to the individual, broadband's value depends to a significant degree on how many people in one's social circle are so using it and how they are using it second necessary to find there is a large gap between the tools and locate trustworthy, substantive content; how to safely interact online, and how to protect personal information.Moreover, using the Internet requires its users to be literate.Fourteen percent of the adult population in the United States, or 30 million people, read at below basic literacy levels, while another 63 million read at just the basic level.Literacy levels do not interfere with television usage, but without sufficient content geared towards those with lower reading levels, the utility of the Internet for those Americans drops dramatically.In short, there is no digital literacy without basic literacy.
Triton called screen first in an eReader by Chinese company Hanvon. The new screen can display 16 levels of grayscale and thousands of colours. E Ink says full viewable are display in the sunlight.
In addition to color the new screen is one to 20% faster rendering time to haben.Keine release date for the Hanvon unit was announced.
The public should have mentioned it is used to fully saturated, high contrast colors on device Bildschirmen.Meine guess is that this new screen, such as some of the other producers in the area by "Pastel".I wonder if this will be acceptable for the market - I do not suspect.
Update: some more info found .the will screen only 4 bits color depth for a total 4,096 colors. Moreover, the contrast ration is only 10: 1 what means that pretty muted werden.Ich do not believe the colors, the market about this to go wild.
Can be an established author and a homemade Editor, by learning from the best EBook writing techniques. Actually, there are no written rules writing EBooks. You must follow only a few successful methods used others, promote career writing to your EBook. Here are 5 simple and easy techniques in e-books to write.
1. Write have topics that you are familiar with.There are after finding what schreiben.Unsere topics are enough daily experiences no need to bring, to great lengths and are good source of inspiration.
2. Each topic is an important issue.There are no small or large topics; as long as you can provide useful and engaging information to readers, then sell your EBook like hotcakes. Write the key to the EBook provides general information to readers, and this is its selling point.
3. Make don't your eBook too long.Their readers could lose interest and throw your EBook after reading a 10 page Einführung.Sie need as a Web content writer write. Their sentences should be short, but full of information. Keep in mind that EBooks are electronically read and it is a burden to your readers eyes, if your sentences and paragraphs are very long.
4. Publish your EBook to a file or commonly used format. PDF or Word documents are the best applications because you frequently used programs.You are limiting your market if your EBook is formatted files not accessible to your readers.
5. You must make a summary or blurb for your EBook.A blurb offers insight, what your EBook is all about.Sie can use this to your EBook to promote it's also a ready copy for sites that want to sell your EBook.The blurb must be short, but should it the full picture the EBook.
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EBook creation can be a lucrative online business for you. The eBook industry audience WINS and more and more popular with young savvy Internet generation.
To benefit from eBook creation, you have several tested techniques beschäftigen.Hier are 6 key elements to profitable targeted eBook creation:
(1) You must be a good writer to create eBooks, but you need a sharp researchers in this effort to be successful.You have your target market Forschung.bestimmen which segment eBooks purchase online consumers are more receptive. You need to align your themes to these consumers, so that you sure can have market basis.
2. You must for research, what are the most popular topics. There is no sense one eBook writing, when very few will be interested in.Determine the information of your audience needs, and choose a theme that can really benefit.
3. Research on the Wettbewerb.finden you out, what other writers on writing are.Create a new angle to your theme so that you can have a unique niche in the eBook market.
4. Spend hours and are carefully in your design eBook cover and Innenseiten.Dies can value your creation and it's easier to market a well-designed eBook.
5. Promote your eBook in your blogs or website.Provide a promotional gimmick such as discounts or free copies for the first customer.
6. Start by commissions for those who help your eBook to sell your own affiliate program.This ensures, wide dissemination of your eBook and a steady stream of income from your creation.
Targeted eBook creation is fun and profitabel.Sie can earn serious money through this store and you can do it directly to the comforts of home.
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A while ago I was approached to a guest post to write for broadband for America. I jumped at the chance to let such as the role of libraries in equal access to broadband (outside the libraries know others.
Read the article libraries are essential to bridging the broadband gap and the digital opportunity GAP
As we a push of the national broadband plan from the FCC and organisations such as America broadband high speed Internet access is available to every household in America to see we have to take a realistic look at the role libraries play be scanned.the benefits of access to broadband connections are fully documented; it is the access gap, we have received.
Broadband for America
"Broadband for America's mission is broadband access to the Internet available to every household in the nation;""stellenGeschwindigkeit of data transmission, that broadband experience valuable to users; and bandwidth for content providers continue to make the Internet a cultural, social and economic engine for growth."
Kno has released the prices on its 14-inch tablets and tablets, the price tags are considerable. Kno claimed that if the mathematics to do, the average college student is to be set kno use numbers and one other $1300 to study digital textbooks rather than saving with printed textbooks.
There are currently four configurations listed:
Single screen 16 GB $599 single screen 32 GB-$699 dual screen 16 GB-$899 dual screen 32 GB-$999
Actually, the prices are iPad not so much different than that, when you consider that the size of the screen.Of course have not kno the Apple app store behind; instead it is on the basis of the developer community to come that will succeed no doubt forward and apps for es.Wie depends on how many tablets are sold. The kno primarily for students, digital textbooks to study, and it seems a nice Suite study tools.
Some of the information:
Single or dual 14, 1 LED multitouch display. Weight: Single screen 2.6 kg; Dual screen 5.6 lbs size: Single screen 13.8 x 9.1 x. 55 inch; Dual screen 13.8 x 18.3 x 1.14 inches.NVIDIA Tegra T200 CPU;CPU speed up to 1 GHz. 512 MB of internal memory.Micro USB;Microphone with noise cancellation (a future software update feature be added);3.5 mm stereo headphones Buchse.Die battery life up to six Stunden.Wi Fi Bluetooth.Beschleunigungsmesser and ambient light Sensor.Flash Unterstützung.Audio- and supports popular formats publication will be added with a software update to the Tablet's video playback.Kno expected shipping on DEC 20, 2010 to start.
We have mentioned piracy company Attributor, a few times, as if you were selected for use in piracy campaigns by the Associated Press in 2007 and John Wiley and sons in 2009. Recently, she came with a few figures provoked suggest an increase in piracy, a certain skepticism and refutation.
Attributor has in recent years, a report suggesting that newspapers need not rely on legal action, produced as such as the sorting of copyright troll Righthaven carried out pirated content away.
During a five month study, which the company this year taken Attributor identified more than 400,000 unlicensed copies of 70,101 articles on approximately 45,000 pages, including stories from national and local newspapers. Attributor then randomly selected 107 pages from this group hosted full copies of 10 or more texts in a 30-day period (Attributor defines full copies as texts, the 80% or more of the original articles).
Attributor first sent a "courtesy notice" to the owner who demand that you remove or license the content and if you do not have an answer within two weeks a second reminder and contacted ad networks that used and search engines, which listed requesting site stop to do so.At the end of the process, 75% of these sites had removed or licensed content without a DMCA notice.
It's good to see that Attributor has a pretty high usage threshold for what it considers "Piracy" – is 80% or more of the original Artikel.Dies help, worry about a possible effect on fair use of smaller parts is also interesting to avoid costly litigation in so many cases cool to zerstreuen.Es - something that did not even bother to Righthaven, goal true to versuchen.Aber then Righthaven's is not newspapers copyright protect but to make money.
Anyone can write their own money making eBook… Also you!
You can to be a writer not consider themselves, but if you have some information and know to share able to convert this information into an eBook, you can sell on the Internet for money.
It is well-known that people want and information brauchen.In of fact many people are willing to pay good money for the information you are looking for.
This provides a wonderful opportunity for Internet marketers make money online from the provision of information by writing and sell your own eBooks and infoproducts
3 Steps to writing and publishing your own profitable eBook
What should you write?Make your knowledge sell the best thing is to write a theme that you are about understanding have or one that you are interested in.
For example would be a good choice of theme, a hobby than your knowledge both the interest level is high and you would be able
Write with a certain amount of authority.
Consider and investigate the following criteria before setting a price for your ebook...
The quality of the information research competition to see what you are popular eBooks ChargingPurchase your competition and analyzing your quality compared to a vis YoursHow is much of a demand for your ebook's information package and distribute your eBook?One is the most popular type of packaging your eBook in PDF format, which can be downloaded by anyone with PDF reader-
free application which most users on their computers.
Your eBook can be marketed, distributed and sold worldwide over the Internet.
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E Ink holdings has published a press release, the US, which is his new color e-ink screen called Triton and says that it will be on display at FPD International 2010 in Japan. This is the reminder that want to use in the new color e-ink eReader from Hanvon presented at the same event.
While e-ink end color sound like and think how many consumers have allegedly wait for you, that this first Gen colour display from E Ink video can play, a function, which I think most buyers of one color eReader want würde.Keine of multimedia books and not much functionality here.
What is the most popular way to read an e-book? Isn't that what you think. According to a survey by Forrester wired the Kindle actually comes something behind laptop computers as a consumer e-book reading the reports for e-reading platform of your choice. More than 1/3 of those respondents preferred laptops.
Laptops trump only slightly the Kindle, 35 to 32 percent.Coming in third was the iPhone, with 15 percent followed by a Sony e-reader (12 percent), Netbooks (10 percent) and Barnes and noble nook (9 percent) .even was 9 percent of the iPad.
Only 7% of adults in the United States online read e-books currently, the evidence suggests, although to expect 8% a year.
Forrester's results suggest some good news for the Kindle as the e-book business grows.
"" Sure other Ereaders introduced, that are interesting, but Amazon has a secret weapon: an existing relationship with a large proportion of all book buyers, "Forrester said.""Four in 10 people own or expect, an eReader store at Amazon for physical books to kaufen.Genau 50% of people who bought one eBook last month eBooks purchased by Amazon's Kindle store."
Forrester has just published a five-year forecast for the e-book purchase published, but at $499 it is a bit expensive for the average consumer to read.
PaidContent has a piece of Forrester Research Analyst James McQuivey into more detail about some of his Implikationen.Forrester expected annual e-book sales to $2.8 billion triple by 2015 and not quite attain last one billion dollars to be to buy the e-book reader e-book sales for 2010 but total half of all the books.
You didn't Verizon would start selling his iPad / MiFi bundle without an ad Flash you? big red's new commercial run.
Isabella announced products, Fable - a new Tablet drawing for children read, gaming and designed Exchange mobile broadband capability. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is a partnership with Isabella, provide content and the fable come the Publisher preloaded with some well-known kids material.
Fabel's easy-to-use interface, coupled with a secure connection with Isabella's VizitMe.com content management system,
interact you children school or on the go with educational and entertaining content at home. Fabel's core applications include reading, drawing, games, and photo sharing. Fabel is selected content from HMH's treasured storybook collection vessel. The e-reader application a child provide access to the fable library, personal collection, includes preloaded and purchased material available for immediate viewing.Parents and children are eBooks of Isabella's VizitMe able additional bookstore or directly from the Bookstore is located on the fable device kaufen.Mit of a wide selection of books and interactive content offers an entertaining digital experience for children of all ages and interests fable.
In addition to the e-reader application provides Fable:
Drawing - an artistic tool set of various sizes and colors tags contains brushes, magic pens or shapes that can be applied to a blank page including coloring book pages or photos. Gaming - interactive games focusing offers to include, read nutrition, colors, shapes and other educational issues, supports all of HMH and other publishers unique characters and stories.Photo sharing - supports the delivery of photos of family and friends to fable's own gallery. An onboard camera also allows users to take photos of fable and share you as well.Photos can be used as coloring sheets in the drawing application.Is to ensure a safe and secure experience fable of Isabella's VizitMe.com managed content management system that it controls access to new content, friends and family and the VizitMe Bookstore.Fabel's settings can be adjusted on the device, by parents through a PIN code or through a password-protected account at VizitMe.com remotely administered. all purchased created content on VizitMe.com stored where parents can also load and manage your family and friends's interaction with the child device.
Powered by a mobile broadband connection, families will be able, Fable with you almost anywhere your child take - like a fun interactive and entertaining tool in the car, a sibling element of the football game or Schulbus.Fabel's robust construction one considered child's handling of the device and the external factors in different Umgebungen.Gehen for more information about fable please www.isabellaproducts.com.
The fable Tablet is released is expected in the middle of the 2011 werden.Preise and specifications TBA.
Amazon has just announced that publishers will soon be eligible a license fee 70 percent of the purchase price (minus the delivery costs) of newspapers and magazines sold to earn. The new conditions on Dec. 1, 2010 will be available.
To qualify for the 70 percent royalty terms, newspapers and magazines have multiple requests of the customer experience, including meet:
Customers can track on all Kindle devices and applications lesen.Kunden can read the title in all over the world for which the Publisher has rights.These new conditions apply for blog publishers because existing terms are generally more advantageous for you.
Amazon has also announced the beta version of the Kindle publishing for periodicals tool that allows publishers to more easily quickly create your newspaper or magazine hinzufügen.Verlage can Kindle store your account, add content and preview format Kindle before your title for the fast growing base of Kindle customers.
Can be an established author and a homemade Editor, by learning from the best EBook writing techniques. Actually, there are no written rules writing EBooks. You must follow only a few successful methods used others, promote career writing to your EBook. Here are 5 simple and easy techniques in e-books to write.
1. Write have topics that you are familiar with.There are after finding what schreiben.Unsere topics are enough daily experiences no need to bring, to great lengths and are good source of inspiration.
2. Each topic is an important issue.There are no small or large topics; as long as you can provide useful and engaging information to readers, then sell your EBook like hotcakes. Write the key to the EBook provides general information to readers, and this is its selling point.
3. Make don't your eBook too long.Their readers could lose interest and throw your EBook after reading a 10 page Einführung.Sie need as a Web content writer write. Their sentences should be short, but full of information. Keep in mind that EBooks are electronically read and it is a burden to your readers eyes, if your sentences and paragraphs are very long.
4. Publish your EBook to a file or commonly used format. PDF or Word documents are the best applications because you frequently used programs.You are limiting your market if your EBook is formatted files not accessible to your readers.
5. You must make a summary or blurb for your EBook.A blurb offers insight, what your EBook is all about.Sie can use this to your EBook to promote it's also a ready copy for sites that want to sell your EBook.The blurb must be short, but should it the full picture the EBook.
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Pizarro: I bet, have never juggled an iPad
Audience some really innovative elements for the Flying Karamazov Brothers should Silicon Valley during your show at the San Jose Rep to juggle to offer this week.
Read more at San Jose Mercury News
Apparently there are some rumors, Amazon currently in negotiations with German publishers to open a German version of the Kindle store as part of Amazon.com. Currently Germany customers can order the Amazon.com Kindle Ereaders, but if the rumors are true, this may change in 2011. At the moment there are not many Kindle books in German language available, except for some public domain titles.
Negotiations have been difficult because - surprise - publishers, prices and would like to Amazon can set eBook prices.
Via eReaders.nl
Internet Librarian starts on Saturday and where its your first Conference or your 20th here is something here for you. Learned here are tips that I have shared above and new the hard way. Among these, I've added a list with proposals on networking and tips for introverted.
Other via FriendFeed, Twitter, or blogs.
Exhibits, imagine taking loot "would I want this, if it not free?"And it is inappropriate to push people out of their way to get an advance reading copy.-Steve Lawson everything you buy, do you get home I want a small flattened carton and a role of packaging tape in my suitcase to e-Mail home stick free books. -Jason p. ALA is very spread out.Must factor a meeting/meeting is where if a schedule - Tombrarian planningKaren Schnieder has a great list I have a few of my favorites for grabbing the whole thing but go read it to steal.
Bring more business cards as you need think.Always run out.I know I am ready to go home when I start other people cards austeilen.Wenn you get back, go through your cards and people write.Visit always the exhibits.ALA conferences survive because suppliers continue to send entire character dance of personnel and equipment to the exhibition hall.At the very least, go and greet the provider that uses your library (Yes, even the vendors don't like) .Aber if you have more time, walking the halls.Tip the people the our visit as pleasant to makeTip the shuttle driver, hotel, Concierge pulling your bags in the lobby, the writer brings your luggage up to the space, the hotel front desk clerk that retrieves your bags the maid that cleans your hotel rooms, restaurant wait staff, and the taxi driver tips you around the city hustle.Ihre mean much for these service workers and improve the image of the profession as a maintenance release Gruppe.Dollar notes for the smaller tips (I rarely tip under $2 in these days for everything) to bring and a $20 (at least) for the hotel maid.
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Television was only some prime time (Yes, we actually do, from time to time) and we saw the pretty impressive iPad commercial Verizon unten.Es is certainly two things we really in a commercial iPad seen...
According to The Bookseller publishers in Germany speak to Amazon from a German Kindle store open in 2011. During the Kindle available in Germany 2009 since the majority of books on it are available in English and Amazon.com no own Kindle store.
It is not surprising that the World eBook writing spread is. Many people this deal because it is convenient and can derive a significant amount of profit from it. Thanks to various eBook guides and sources eBook success is never been so easy. If you have a talent to write, there is no doubt that can you become an excellent eBook author.
Many authors would want to know about breakthrough eBook writing, which is why you try every means to achieve this.If you want to become an eBook Creator should the steps and the key to amazing eBook creation kennen.Du must not be better to qualify as Emerson as an eBook author.
One thing you really need is patience. You have some knowledge of marketing and publish the do's and Don'ts to know. Select the topic like best.EBook should know a lot of information on the subject in a position to come up with a very creative, you can express this way sein.Auf and evaluate your perspective. Once you have selected a theme, you can decide to publish ezine offer websites.
Circulating your eBook could open more doors. If you're lucky, your products and services to support could hire a company. EBooks are like magazines and posters.Their impact on clients is great, that is why you should come with a worthy eBook.If you have your own business, you can try linking to other companies or Web sites, to your eBook more to promote you can one eBook, which serve different purposes.It could be a purchase guide or a manual, if your customers want it kaufen.Die best thing about the eBook writing is your develop writing skills to earn money.
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My personal select top ten from the links I shared on Twitter 10/1/2010 through 10/7/2010. The best of the best and/or the most important stuff I tweeted last week
1. broadband is the great infrastructure challenge of the early 21st century #broadband – a broadband.gov post from Phoebe Yang – Senior Advisor to the Chairman on Broadband. It’s no great secret how I feel about broadband and the digital divide.
2. Three more folks on the Bloggers@IL2010 list and now WordPress.com and WordPress Self Hosted are tied again.- Going to be at Internet Librarian and blogging your sessions? Let ITI know so you will be on the resource list for those who can’t attend
3. 8 Bad Habits that Crush Your Creativity And Stifle Your Success via @copyblogger @DanielPink
Creating and evaluating at the same timeThe Expert SyndromeFear of failureFear of ambiguityLack of confidenceDiscouragement from other peopleBeing overwhelmed by informationBeing trapped by false limits4. E-rate in a Broadband World - This week, the Commission released the text of an order that modernizes and upgrades the E-rate program to bring fast, affordable Internet access to schools and libraries across the country.
… the Commission conducted a survey which found that almost 80 percent of E-rate recipients believe their current Internet connections are not sufficient to meet their current needs.
To begin to address this gap, the Commission’s order will make it easier for schools and libraries to get the highest speeds for the lowest prices by increasing their options for broadband providers. The key provisions in the order include:
Allowing participants to use E-rate funds to connect to the Internet in the most cost-effective way possible, including via unused fiber optic lines already in place across the country and through existing state, regional and local networks;Making permanent a waiver that allows schools to create “School Spots” by opening up their doors to greater community use of E-rate supported services and facilities. Schools are already taking advantage of the existing waiver allowing them the option to provide Internet access to the local community after regular school hours. We’d love to hear your community use “success story” so please let us know if you are opening your doors as well.Launching a pilot program to support off-campus wireless Internet connectivity for portable learning devices;Indexing the cap on E-rate funding to inflation so that the program can more fully meet the needs of students and communities;Allowing the program to support connections to the dormitories of schools that serve students facing unique challenges, such as Tribal schools or schools for children with physical, cognitive, or behavioral disabilities;Bolstering protections against waste, fraud, and abuse by codifying competitive bidding requirements and clarifying restrictions on gifts from potential service providers; andStreamlining the E-rate application process.
5. I’m working on this and I’m so busy RT @gretchenrubin: No More Complaining, “I Feel So Tired.” – I’ve learned that saying how busy I am only makes me feel more busy and hurried and doesn’t accomplish anything. Luckily I don’t often complain that I’m tired but I can apply these same principals to complaining about how busy I am.
6. The real cost of free - well-written, calm take-down by @doctorow
7. “If you want everyone to have the same mental model of a problem, the fastest way to do it is with a picture.” Great article on why sometimes the best, most clear form of communication is not words.
8. Schedule Your Work to Avoid Choking Your Calendar with Interruptions via @TheLiB @Lifehacker#timemanagement – a must read post on time management and productivity.
In my experience, most people don’t schedule their work. They schedule the interruptions that prevent their work from happening.
9. great tool for those like me who are super sad Google Reader discontinued page change tracking Page2RSS
10. Scientific American: Why Broadband Service in the U.S. is So Awful#KnightComm #broadband
The average U.S. household has to pay an exorbitant amount of money for an Internetconnection that the rest of the industrial world would find mediocre. According to a recent report by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, broadband Internet service in the U.S. is not just slower and more expensive than it is in tech-savvy nations such as South Korea and Japan; the U.S. has fallen behind infrastructure-challenged countries such as Portugal and Italy as well.
11. Gmail Priority Inbox: 5 Tips for Better Productivity #timemanagement – Just when I thought Gmail couldn’t get any better they rolled out Priority InBox. I love it! I get a lot of email and I’m a busy lady. These 5 tips from Mashable will help you conquer your email
Prioritize FiltersCustomize SectionsStart With a Clean SlateUse Your “Inbox” for FoldersTest Priority with Multiple Inboxes
