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Book Recommendation: A Whole New Mind

Today I want to recommend a book that I have read recently. It's "A Whole New Mind" by Daniel H. Pink. Subtitle is "Why right-brainers will rule the future", and this is the very essence of the book.

You can find the full article on my secondpresentation blog.

07/04/2010 16:31:24, von Marian , 48 words, 582 views   Categories: News, quick tips, Books

Adding a youTube user to Google Reader

When I read my RSS feeds in Google reader (I do this one or two times every day), I often find blogs who writes about the RSA videos on youTube. You may have seen these too. RSA stands for "Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce" and they post videos of an artists drawing illustrations along a public speech or presentation that runs as audio in the background.

=> Read more! (Adding a youTube user to Google Reader)

07/03/2010 08:40:11, von Marian , 275 words, 3431 views   Categories: News, quick tips

e-learning platforms

When I checked my email today, I found this question from somebody in one of my LinkedIn Groups. I always like the idea that people who are new to some technology can just ask a plain question like this in one of their favorite social networking sites. LinkedIn is a site for professionals (while facebook was meant to be a hangout to chat with friends in the first place), so I always find their group discussions very valuable.

=> Read more! (e-learning platforms)

07/02/2010 13:11:22, von Marian , 529 words, 1347 views   Categories: News, quick tips

eBook recommendation

I found this interesting PDF eBook at the site makeuseof.com: The Ultimate Guide To Gmail

Please check it out on my SecondPresentation Blog.

07/01/2010 23:43:19, von Marian , 24 words, 1113 views   Categories: News, quick tips

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The Interactive Offer (strategies that did not work for me)

Two weeks ago I tried to test a new strategy to find out if I can launch a product like a free eBook based on a strategy that is now sold on the Internet as "the interactive offer". I found their system very interesting and fortunately, their videos were free at this time (now they charge about $1000 dollar for it).

The first step seemed to work fine for me. I posted an article where I asked my readers to fill out a survey to tell me what product (like eBook/tutorial) they would like to get for free; a product that would help them in their everyday work.

Here is the link to the blog post.

And here is a link to another blog post on my other blog secondpresentation.com.

I've got some replies, indicating interest in moodle and WordPress, so I decided to do the second step. I set up another survey for a follow-up, because I needed to know what exactly the people like to have in this product. Unfortunately I haven't got any replies for this follow-up so far.

Here is the link to the follow-up blog post.

I'm not sure what I have done wrong, but I know that I would really be upset if I had paid money for this method. Fortunately I caught the videos while they were free. I still think it might be a good method to find out customer's needs very easily, but unfortunately it did not work very well in my case.

It seems that I need to continue to publish stuff that I'm interested in writing about, until I find out what people really needs.

06/17/2010 17:14:53, von Marian , 277 words, 1761 views   Categories: Articles, News

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Free eBook survey: What would you like me to write for you?

As you may already know, I am offering tutoring and programming on the Internet. You may have seen some of my work already on my blog, on youTube or on WizIQ's virtual classroom. Here are some examples that I have already published:

Free eBook: Introduction to PHP
Free Video: Blender - first Steps
Free Video: Gimp - first Steps
Free Video: Become a Webmaster using Wordpress.com
Free Live Class: Google Calendar Demystified
Free Live Class: The Firefox Web Browser: Useful Add-Ons

Now I'm planning on writing a new eBook that I want to offer for free but I need your help with this because I want to make sure it's something that people really need and appreciate. I have prepared a simple survey that you can fill out, so that I get an Idea what's the most required topic for such an eBook. If several people request the same or a similar topic, I will prepare a tutorial eBook that you will be able to download for free.

Edit: Thanks for all who did participate in the survey. Please check out this blog post for a follow-up.

Edit: This attempt has failed so far. Thanks for all who responded to the first survey, unfortunately it did not work for the follow-up. Maybe I did something wrong. Still not sure what it was. See this updated post for more information.

06/04/2010 19:42:18, von Marian , 228 words, 76680 views   Categories: Articles, News

Free eBook: Introduction to PHP5

As you may know already, I offer eLearning courses about web development on my site lernpilot.de where I sell interactive courses like HTML, PHP and MySQL. These courses have been sold quite good within the last years but I never could sell them in English for whatever reason. So I decided to make the English version of my PHP course a free eBook instead (because it's already translated in English and would be a pity to throw it away).

=> Read more! (Free eBook: Introduction to PHP5)

06/02/2010 16:30:21, von Marian , 247 words, 3524 views   Categories: Tutorials, News

Creative Commons - Slideshare Presentation

This is a Slideshare presentation that provides a great presentation on the Creative Commons license.

05/12/2010 14:38:52, von Marian , 15 words, 763 views   Categories: Articles, News

Rentatutor now on Facebook

Rent-a-tutor has now a fanpage on facebook. You can join the page using the "like" button on this site and join the discussions there:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/rentatutor/120221341337831

You can also use the link and/or like-button here on the page:

05/06/2010 07:50:32, von Marian , 43 words, 2984 views   Categories: News

More fancy 3D book covers

Here comes another tutorial work in progress:

I wanted to create a fancy 3D book cover like I did in Gimp (See this blog post) but this time I wanted to use blender, the open source and free 3D modeling and rendering software.

You can see the result as a 3D camera fly-around on youTube.

04/21/2010 14:22:59, von Marian , 55 words, 1152 views   Categories: News, Gimp, Blender

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