Digitizing
Alaska; Broadband Strategies
Resources
for Epublishing and Entrepreneurship
Click through this webtour at
http://lone-eagles.com/digitizing-alaska.htm
Email
updates to Frank Odasz
frank@lone-eagles.com
Video Introductions to Epublishing via Amazon and the Apple Ibookstore:
10 minutes
Video: Publishing your book to Amazon/Kindle
http://screencast.com/t/375Mf1NRnBvr
Sci-Fi Author Brian Rathbone shares how to
self-publish on Amazon/Kindle in 5
minutes.
NOTE: Brian's recommended Epublishing links and
a one-hour video interview with the author
of “Author, Publisher, Entrepreneurs: How to
Publish a Book” at http://apethebook.com
by Guy Kawaski
are at the top of the long page of epublishing resources at http://lone-eagles.com/alaskan-epublishing.htm
as the source of this shorter list of Epublishing resources.
Video: Publishing to the Ibook
Store using Itunes Connect, Part 1.
http://www.screencast.com/t/AN0Ece8oh1 2 minutes
Video:
Publishing using Itunes Connect: Part 2.
http://www.screencast.com/t/4qQt92yqxZB 2 minutes
What is Itunes?: http://www.apple.com/itunes
Book Publishers: Frequently
Asked Questions (Answers from Apple)
http://www.apple.com/itunes/content-providers/book-faq.html
See
also the links at this site for; Marketing, Affiliate programs, Selling your Book
Sell your book on the IbookStore
Sign
up today to offer your books to customers with Ipad, Iphone, and Ipod touch in 51
countries.
1. Sign up Complete your application for either a Paid or Free
Books Account.
2. Confirm account Click through your account approval email to complete
your application and confirm your email address.
3. Download iTunes Producer Download our delivery application,
iTunes Producer (requires OS X v10.6 or later).
4. Deliver Using iTunes Producer, provide
your book’s basic information and click Deliver.
Once
your application has been approved, use the guides on iTunes Connect for best
practices and style guidelines for publishing books.
To
offer your book on the iBookstore, you must submit a
complete work and must also work in the latest version of iBooks
without
technical issues. It will be reviewed to avoid inaccuracies, illegal content,
orthographical and typographical errors,
low-resolution images, and
so on. To avoid delays, be sure to test and review your book fully to make sure
it complies with all iBookstore
policies
before submission. Learn More
iBooks Author. The app that rewrote the book.
With
iBooks Author,
a free app from the Mac App Store, anyone can make a book for iPad — complete with rich graphics, movies,
photo galleries, Keynote
animations, 3D objects, and more.
Comparison
chart explaining ebook formats from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats
This
comparison of e-book formats used to create and publish e-books.
A
writer or publisher has many options when it comes to choosing a format for
publication.
While
the average end-user might arguably simply want to read books, every format has
its proponents.
The
myriad e-book formats are sometimes collectively referred to as the "Tower
of eBabel".[1]
Nonetheless,
some eBook formats are demonstrably more popular, and more widely supported
than others.
The
EPUB format is the most widely supported[citation needed]
vendor-independent XML-based
(as opposed to PDF) e-book format; that is, it is supported
by the largest number of e-Readers.
The
popularity of Amazon.com's Kindle devices in America
has led also to the prominence of KF8 and AZW formats;
Kindle
does not support EPUB. The file size for texts without images depends on the
file format, but is always relatively
small compared with a richly illustrated text.
Monetizing
Self-Published Content Online
Author, Publisher,
Entrepreneurs: How to Publish a Book
http://apethebook.com - new book on
self-publishing by Guy Kawaski with 400 resource
links
Self-publishing Emagazines via Newsstand:
Magcast
webinar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=81lhXxItkYQ#!
SEE RIGHT
SIDEBAR for more videos.
Online publishing and Emarketing
free lessons
http://challenge.co/training
Ed Dale has been doing interesting things for 10 years or more
Monetizing Original or Collected Videos on Youtube:
Making money from Youtube
(monetizing your channel)
YouTube for Profit
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/business/media/11youtube.html
PBS Stations Need to Become the Youtube of Local Communities
http://currentpublicmedia.blogspot.com/2012/05/pbs-stations-need-to-become-youtube-of.html?spref=tw
Epublishing online courses:
ItuneU
as online course format
http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/?ref=http://itunes.com
Udemy.com A new way
to make six figures on the Web: teaching
http://benton.org/node/123470
DIYUbook.com – Do It Yourself University
http://diyubook.com – Free Ebook
on free self-directed learning resources with dozens of models
for successful Elearning
businesses.
Quiltuniversity.com
http://quiltuniversity.com – A dozen ladies
teaching quilting online for-profit.
Self-Publishing and
Selling Apps.
Appsme, AppMakr or
Flow.net, allow just about any user to build simple apps by adding text, images
and other features into a ready-made template
App-Empire: APP creation and Marketing
(no coding required)
This
video tells you how Chad got started in apps. It starts with a car
accident...literally!
Here
about Chad's story here
http://www.appempire.com/video/myth-optin/
Apps empire youtube
videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wATPjoM5xWI
SEE RIGHT
SIDEBAR for more videos!
IBuildApp - Create Apps without Coding
Codeschool
http://www.codeschool.com/ Enroll now
to play; learn by doing
Code Academy:
http://www.codecademy.com/#!/exercises/0 learn to
code
Article: Branson Backs Code Academy
Future of apps and the web (article)
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Future-of-Apps-and-Web.aspx
Codeforamerica.org
http://codeforamerica.org - 650+ public domain egov apps, and hundreds of volunteer coders to
help communities create local apps.
Article: Local Coders Help Improve Government Functions
There’s a new breed of software developer helping local
government.
http://www.governing.com/topics/technology/local-coders-help-improve-government-functions.html
Create Games for a
Living:
Game Salad
http://gamesalad.com/ A very major STEM game creation
tool….
AgentCubes-in-a-Box:
Introduce Computing Through Game Design
Scalable Game Design Wiki
http://scalablegamedesign.cs.colorado.edu/wiki/Scalable_Game_Design_wiki
Alexander Repenning bio page
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~ralex/
Edutopia
article and resources on game design
http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-game-design-video
Youth Entrepreneurship
Articles and Videos
Young, Rich, and Calling Their Own
Shots
http://www.matr.net/article-30779.html
And don't forget Leanna Archer, who was
barely 10 years old when she launched
a line of all-natural
hair-care products. This year, she's set to bring in $150,000.
In October,
she turns 13. 30 similar profiles: http://www.inc.com/30under30/2008/prolist.html
Ultralight
ecommerce startups
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/07/BUKQ1F7CM4.DTL
Ridiculous ideas that made people rich
http://www.businessinsider.com/ridiculous-ideas-that-made-people-ridiculously-rich-2010-2#ridiculous-idea-1-yellow-smiley-1
Cheeseburger Millionaire
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/how-one-mans-online-pet-project-netted-him-a-30m-fortune-2187958.html
Mark is Obama’s IT guy from
Anchorage
http://www.colby.edu/colby.mag/issues/current/articles.php?articleid=891&issueid=48
There are
many more wonderful stories of success
at this website:
http://upstart.bizjournals.com/entrepreneurs/hot-shots
Exciting Video Shorts
Mobile phone growth video (3 minutes)
Social Media Revolution 2
(Refresh) by Socialnomics™ (6 minutes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGzAHbBmcnk
A one minute video related to info-diets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lNFNOSzik14
How Web Video Powers
Global Innovation
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/chris_anderson_how_web_video_powers_global_innovation.html
Youth Entrepreneurship
Education
Student
Entrepreneurs
http://www.youngmoney.com/student_entrepreneurs/
A great article on start-ups that came unexpectedly out of
a course at
Stanford to use facebook apps as
a Launchpad was particularly interesting.
Teaching Kids Business
http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/games/
http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/games/
Young Entrepreneurs Council
http://theyec.org/mentors
We also recently stumbled on a VA startup called www.Whinot.com
which is a “Q&A with experts” site
designed more for our much more typical rural mom and pop or microbusiness.
Kauffman
Labs Education Ventures competition; http://sites.kauffman.org/labsapp/index.cfm
4-H-
Student Entrepreneurship www.ace.org.
Jump
Start - Youth entrepreneurship www.jumpstart.org.
This is a coalition starting from pre-kindergarten
(!) through college age youth to support them in making smart financial
decisions!
Youth Service
Learning
http://dosomething.org
The Kauffman Foundation’s
All Terrain Brain
Elementary Youth Entrepreneurship site
www.allterrainbrain.org
Starting START-UPS
http://www.kurzweilai.net/decentralizing-education-how-startups-are-dismantling-the-university
Resources
for starting your startup
http://mashable.com/2009/11/05/resources-for-starting-your-startup/
Harvard pitchomatic
article
http://www.matr.net/article-52774.html
TED 21 young innovators to change the
world
http://www.matr.net/article-52770.html
The art of the elevator pitch: simplified
http://medcitynews.com/2012/11/the-art-of-the-elevator-pitch-simplified-into-one-interactive-tool/
Ecommerce Resources
SDRC national extension ecommerce
initiative
Connecting Commnities Toolkit, by Bill Shuffstall and others
http://www.connectingcommunities.info
http://srdc.msstate.edu/ecommerce/curricula/connecting_communities/
http://srdc.msstate.edu/ecommerce/curricula/beginners_guide
Find out how your skills stack up, skills
assessment tool:
Meetup.com is
an online network of local groups. You can start or find a group in your area
with a huge variety of interests — everything from languages to
dancing to education to politics,
and lots in between. Udacity.com
even has meetup groups in 292 cities where students
can
interact
and supplement their courses.
Learn how the Midwest is becoming the next
entrepreneurial hotspot - click here.
Startup Nation
http://startupnation.com - 100,000
resources for starting an online business (too much to be helpful?)
Stanford University
Entrepreneurship Center
http://ecorner.stanford.edu Videos and
podcasts on entrepreneurship from Stanford Univ.
Check out SBA's new online learning center for entrepreneurs.
New three-part series by ICMA on asset-based economic
development and building sustainable rural communities.
Click here to get started with part 1.
Stanfords
Online Free Technology Entrepreneurship
Course
Sign-up
here for free:
https://venturelab.stanford.edu/venture
Last
time, nearly 40,000 students from around the world participated and worked in
teams together.
By the
conclusion of the course, it is our hope that you understand how to: Articulate
a process for
taking a technology idea and finding a
high-potential commercial opportunity (high performing students
will be able to discuss the pros and cons of
alternative theoretical models).
Create
and verify a plan for gathering resources such as talent and capital.
Create
and verify a business model for how to sell and market an entrepreneurial idea.
Generalize
this process to an entrepreneurial mindset of turning problems into
opportunities that
can be used in larger companies and other
settings.
Take your
entrepreneurial knowledge to a whole new level with these free online courses
from Stanford.
Classes
start this week, so REGISTER NOW! http://bit.ly/Q75RwT
Technology
Entrepreneurship Video>> http://bit.ly/Ryy7LB
A Crash
Course on Creativity Video >> http://bit.ly/Ryxrpp
Finance
Video >> http://bit.ly/SB73Yt
Startup
Boards: Advanced Entrepreneurship>> http://bit.ly/QVMZB1
See all of the courses available from Stanford Online. http://bit.ly/RPpJDI
Mobile Emarketing
Mobile Marketing Infographic
http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/2011-mobile-%20statistics-stats-facts-marketing-infographic/
SBDC
Network E-marketing Resources
http://www.sbdcnet.org/small-business-information-center/e-marketing
SBA
Exporting - 3 podcasts
http://www.sba.gov/tools/audiovideo/Podcasts/index.html and include
transcripts.
Doing Business Online is an educational series available on-line to teach small business owners
the basic tools that strengthen their online presence. The pre-recorded introductory webinars can be
downloaded at no cost here.
https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/adeelahmed/webinars
Topic include:
Mobile
eMarketing – the Basics
Using Pinterest for Market Research
International trade
Google’s free international
trade and translation tools:
http://Google.com/insights/search
http://google.com/landing/exporttool
http://translate.google.com/toolkit
The video series, Take Your Business Global, http://www.inc.com/exporting features five main topics
that guide small businesses through the process of exporting: Getting Started in Exporting; Planning for
Export success; Connecting with Foreign Buyers; Financing; and five Case Studies of successful small
business exporters.
The videos begin with answers to the frequently asked question, Why Export? They feature SBA Deputy
Administrator Marie Johns; U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke; U.S. Trade Representative,
Ambassador Ron Kirk, and a variety of small business exporters. Other modules feature exporting
experts discussing "how-to" take your business global. The videos are posted at.
Community
Engagement and Digital Inclusion
Why Every
School in America Should Teach Entrepreneurship
As an educator of at-risk youth for over thirty
years, and NFTE's founder, I've seen only one thing
consistently bring children raised in
poverty into the middle class: entrepreneurship education.
The 10 Commandments of Student
Entrepreneurship” at
www.youngmoney.com/entrepreneur/student_entrepreneurs/050124
It’s
a great, simple, and concise article help get the wheels in motion.
New Digital
Divide Seen in Wasting Time Online
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/us/new-digital-divide-seen-in-wasting-time-online.html?_r=4&pagewanted=all
Six stages
of digital community engagement
http://www.digitalcommunityengagement.com/
Profound Reports:
Outstanding
Conference and participants; on digital citizenship
http://knightfoundation.org/digitalcitizenship/
http://www.knightfoundation.org/digitalcitizenship/participants/ wow!
Boston Indicators Project Report, 2012
http://www.matr.net/article-53014.html
World Bank Maximizing Mobile 2012 report
(google it)
The
report, Information and
Communications for Development 2012: Maximizing Mobile,
http://www.worldbank.org/ict/ic4d2012 says more than 30 billion mobile
applications, or
“apps,” were downloaded in 2011 – software that extends the
capabilities of phones, for instance
to become mobile wallets, navigational aids or price
comparison tools.