How to Create an eBook and Get it Published

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Six months ago I decided to write my first eBook and publish it on my blog. This would be in PDF format. It seemed simple enough. I would start with an outline, come up with some compelling content, and put it together into a format that would work for my readers. I took a look [...]

Creating an Interactive iPad Multi-Touch Book with iBooks Author: First Take

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The educational community was all abuzz over the last few weeks about the new interactive textbooks coming out from Apple. Instead of static pictures and text, these new books come alive with audio, video, and interactive diagrams and charts. These interactive texts are viewable on the iPad and other iOS devices. The creation software, iBooks [...]

Is Your Writing Holding You Back Online? Five Quick Ways to Improve

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This is a guest post by Ali Luke. She is a writer and writing coach, and blogs about writing on her site Aliventures. You can find her on Twitter as @aliventures, where she’s always happy to answer questions about writing. Although podcasts and videos are becoming more and more popular online, we still live in [...]

10 Free Gifts That Can Change Your Life

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It’s gift giving time again and you have probably spent hours at the shopping centers, malls, and online stores buying gifts for everyone on your list. But what about yourself? After all this hard work, you deserve a gift or two for you. Well you are in luck. I have compiled a list of 10 [...]

Making Time Stand Still

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Have you ever wanted to make time stand still. To stop everything around you and have utter silence. To look around and have everything stopped… no cars honking, no TV’s blaring, no children crying. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a switch that you could turn time off with. You just flip it and everything [...]

Weekly Highlights

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This was our fourth theme based week on Success Begins Today. The theme was metaphor, but it really should have been about blogging frequency. The week ended with an important creative decision on my part. Theme: Metaphor The week started out with a fundamental argument on blogging. It boiled down to this. Should I blog [...]