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25 most recent entries:
How To Keep Yourself Updated And Why The Role Of The Newsmaster Is So Important - Video (Oct 14 2008 09:00 GMT)
How can you keep yourself updated with everything new and relevant that gets published on the Web? What is the best to find always fresh, new content for your blog to write about? Photo credit: Robin Good In this short video Robin Good explains one of the key elements everyone wanting to become an online publisher has to confront with: how do you stay updated on the specific news that are relevant to your focus of interest without wasting hours to visit tens of sites or hundreds of RSS feeds?
Convert Web Pages Content Into RSS Feeds: Web Page To RSS Converters - Sharewood Guide (Oct 13 2008 09:15 GMT)
How can you convert the contents of a web page into RSS? How do you generate a RSS feed for a website, search result page or news source that doesn't have one? Can you do this without spending any money and without having any technical HTML skill? Photo credit: Mipan In this new Sharewood Guide I have collected the best free tools to convert any web page to RSS.
Visual Communication And Video Publishing - Selected Tools And Web Services - Sharewood Guide Oct 12 08 (Oct 12 2008 09:05 GMT)
Need to convert your videos between major video file formats, create web-based charts, as well as editing or adding effects to your existing pictures? Photo credit: Antonis Papantoniou All this and more in this roundup of new cool visual communication and video publishing tools I have personally selected for you. This week: ActivePixels:
Media Literacy: Making Sense Of New Technologies And Media by George Siemens - Oct 11 08 (Oct 11 2008 10:46 GMT)
How long can we continue to add technology to teaching and learning before we fundamentally reconsider the entire process, including the spaces and structures of learning? Photo credit: Idaefix If you have not yet realized it, smart phones and other intelligent mobile devices are invisibly becoming the prime just-in-time learning tools: podcasts, "small chunk learning"
Is Web 2.0 Really Democratic? (Oct 10 2008 09:42 GMT)
Web 2.0 has revolutionized the panorama of the information society: users have become information producers and the new web platforms have become relationship venues where new knowledge and ideas emerge. Also the new tools of social networking, social tagging, wikis and blogs enable new forms of social interaction, participation and cooperation. But...
Ebooks Usage Trends And Statistics - The Springer Report 2008 (Oct 09 2008 09:20 GMT)
Are eBooks being adopted? Is eBook usage increasing? Is the Amazon Kindle a total flop? Is the eBooks long promised revolution a rapidly disappearing fad or is this a new industry that is gradually finding its proper niche? What future awaits eBooks hardware and software producers and what should you expect in the near future from eBooks content providers?
Peer To Peer: Social, Political, And Economic Issues In A P2P World - A Video Interview With Michel Bauwens (Oct 08 2008 09:09 GMT)
Beyond file-sharing, peer-to-peer is an alternative way of looking at work, live and the way we make money. Although mainstream media coverage of P2P has mostly focused its spotlights on the on-going debate around file-sharing and pirated media (music, movies, games), the social, economic, and political consequences of peer-to-peer go well beyond that narrow focus. Michel Bauwens - Photo credit: Robin Good Peer To Peer: Why P2P Is Better Than Capitalism I think if you want to know what is wrong with capitalism and how peer-to-peer is an improvement over it, you have to look at the history of motivation and cooperation.
Online Collaboration Tools - New Technologies And Web Services - Sharewood Guide Oct 5 08 (Oct 05 2008 10:11 GMT)
If you are looking for web-based collaboration tools to manage your team projects, share your screen with other people or have web-conferencing sessions, I have picked some really cool new online collaboration apps for this issue of the Sharewood Guide. Photo credit: Erik Reis Here the full set of online collaboration tools for this week: Scribblar: Engage in web-conferences with your team, featuring audio calls, text-chat and whiteboarding Mikogo Skype:
Media Literacy: Making Sense Of New Technologies And Media by George Siemens - Oct 4 08 (Oct 04 2008 09:30 GMT)
How do you know whether the information you are searching for online has been verified and comes from reliable sources? Are you getting into the mass-media habit of taking for granted whatever you read online? Is your critical evaluation attitude miserably fading? Photo credit: Stephen Downes George Siemens, MasterNewMedia official guide to education technologies and media literacy, scouts and reports from his ongoing research key future scenarios where the increased adoption of collaborative approaches and more effective learning styles unveil a new way of managing, and living successfully during these fast changing times.
Online Marketing Trends: Brands Meet Blogs - State Of The Blogosphere 2008 (Oct 03 2008 09:25 GMT)
Brands and blogs unite... almost. It's not a match made in heaven yet, but the trend is heading in that direction. According to Technorati's State of the Blogosphere 2008 report, an increasing number of companies are reaching out to bloggers to harness the power of the blogosphere to build their brands. In fact Technorati states that "
Making Money With Blogs: Statistics And Trends From The State Of The Blogosphere 2008 (Oct 02 2008 09:00 GMT)
Can you make money from blogging? The answer is an unequivocal "YES!" But if you're the average blogger, you don't want to quit your day job yet.
Blogging Tools And Techniques: State Of The Blogosphere 2008 (Oct 01 2008 08:53 GMT)
How do you blog? Which tools or techniques do you use to keep your content always fresh and updated? Even if you got ideas, layout and a catchy title, this is just the easy part. Creating a blog is now something you can do in just a few clicks. The hardest part comes right after.
Online Video Interview: How To Prepare Yourself For It (Sep 30 2008 09:32 GMT)
Getting ready for an online video interview? Find out how to set up your computer, webcam, lights and microphone for a perfect online video interview. Though for a geek this may be simple stuff, if you are not a technically skilled person or if you have never done an online video interview, getting to know the basics of how to avoid making this become a nightmare is something I strongly encourage you to be familiar with. In this short video I explain to you in straight, simple words, what you need to do to set yourself up for an online video interview. How To Prepare Yourself For An Online Video Interview Full English Text Transcription Hi!
Best Web-Based Image And Photo Editors - Sharewood Guide (Sep 29 2008 08:30 GMT)
Web-based image editors are online tools that anyone can use to easily modify, resize, edit and crop digital photographs or graphics files, without needing to download and install any software. Photo credit: Pixlr Interface Digital image editors, are typically free, and, in most cases, do not even require a registration in order to be used: just select an image or provide its URL, wait for the system to upload it and start editing it. No matter whether you need to rotate, resize, crop, or adjust the color tone of your images, these web-based image editors are designed to simplify your task when it comes to such operations.
Visual Communication And Video Publishing - Selected Tools And Web Services - Sharewood Guide Sep28 08 (Sep 28 2008 08:30 GMT)
If you want to convert your videos file formats, arrange your digital images inside an online photo albums, or be able to browse a huge database of free fonts and typefaces, I have gotten some tools for you. Photo credit: Mitar Gavric Here my selected visual communication and video publishing tools for this week: Jalbum: Create and share photo albums with skins and music Microsoft Image Composite Editor:
Media Literacy: Making Sense Of New Technologies And Media by George Siemens - Sep 27 08 (Sep 27 2008 10:40 GMT)
Is virtual learning better than classroom face-to-face instruction? Are the benefits for learning at a distance as effective as those obtainable from a traditional in-class curriculum? Tough to say. Different researchers report different experiences and given sometimes the shallowness of their investigation or the limited numbers on which this data is often based, it is wise to move cautiously when making important claims relative to the new emerging learning paradigms. Photo credit:
How To Publish Your Content Online Without A Web Site - Video Interview With Ryan Hupfer Of Hubpages.com (Sep 26 2008 08:49 GMT)
Ready to publish some great content online but have no site or blog where to post it to? Hubpages, like a few other competing web publishing services online (namely Squidoo and Google Knol) provides you with everything you need to publish any content you are passionate about in no time at all. In this eight-minute video interview, I recorded a few hours ago with Ryan Hupfer of Hubpages, you are going to find out what are the benefits of publishing to a ready-made content publishing portal and what are the key benefits you may have by going with Hubpages. (For a full review of Hubpages see this MasterNewMedia review.) Here the full unedited video interview along with its full text transcription:
The Typical Blogger Profile: State Of The Blogosphere 2008 (Sep 25 2008 08:41 GMT)
Bloggers are sexy men. At least according to Technorati's report this is true. Your typical blogger is male, intelligent, ranks among the high-middle class, and in his primes. Sexy is of course subjective, but having intelligence, wealth, and youth can't hurt. Photo credit:
Blog Topics And Bloggers Motivations: State Of The Blogosphere 2008 (Sep 24 2008 10:03 GMT)
What are bloggers blogging about and why? Though there a million and one reasons for people to blog, you may find yourself surprised to find out that most bloggers write passionately about their topics because they essentially want to share with others what they have themselves learned. Photo credit: Mario Lopes edited by Robin Good In this second part of the Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2008 report (Part 1), new statistical data highlight why blogs have become a significant part of the media landscape and what makes blogging so compelling for so many people. Find out whether bloggers write about multiple topics or about just a specific one and whether they prefer personal or professional topics.
Blog Trends And Statistics: The State Of The Blogosphere 2008 - The Technorati Report (Sep 23 2008 09:30 GMT)
Blogs are not just an opportunity to have a personal online press, or to express one's own thoughts and ideas freely. On one hand blogs have become the pivotal points for the new market conversations companies are starting to entertain with their customers. On the other, blogs have now become full information and news outlets, training grounds, learning platforms, personal portfolios but key, to the deeper transformation we are witnessing, the key vehicle allowing for the first time vocational interests to realize themselves into sustainable small businesses. Photo credit: Mario Lopes "
Online Collaboration Tools - New Technologies And Web Services - Sharewood Guide Sep22 08 (Sep 22 2008 08:23 GMT)
Want to have a video conference with up to 8 people at cost zero? Need to send huge files without worrying of their size? I have the collaboration tools you need right here. Photo credit: Vlad Kochelaevskiy In this collaboration tools digest here the best tools and services I have hand-picked for you:
Visual Communication And Video Publishing - Selected Tools And Web Services - Sharewood Guide Sep21 08 (Sep 21 2008 10:20 GMT)
In this issue: Sync up any YouTube video with any Slideshare presentation. Finally get the chance to easily mix together the video recording of you delivering a presentation alongside the slides you were actually showing at that time. Sync it all up, publish it online or embed it anywhere you want. And this is just one of the eight new visual tools and web services that I have picked up for you here.
Online Video Advertising: State Of The Industry Report Q3 2008 (Sep 05 2008 10:40 GMT)
Online video advertising is going to grow at a breakneck pace in the near future offering plenty of opportunities to online independent publishers looking forward to create additional revenue channels to their present content lineup. Photo credit: Cornishman Thanks to this exhaustive report on the state of the network just published by LiveRail, it becomes evident how a confusing array of different technologies and video ad-unit standards is presently limiting the current growth rates. Understanding what is the best video format and ad-type integration has just not yet reached an established plateau as publishers, distributors and advertisers are still testing out new and different ad serving solutions. What looks unambiguous is online video advertising high paying rates which, just on average, have reached CPMs of over $15.
Online Ad Optimization: YieldBuild Explains Itself - Paul Edmondson Video Interview (Sep 04 2008 10:50 GMT)
Online ad optimization is the science of identifying on the basis of statistical data the best performing ads / ad network providers as well as the best performing ad position, layout, color and font style on your web pages. Paul Edmondson, Co-Founder and CEO of YieldBuild, a online web service designed to "take the guesswork out of ad formatting", has kindly agreed to have a good conversation with me to understand better how this service differs from already established online ad optimization services that focus specifically on real-time ad network optimization (such as Pubmatic and the Rubicon Project). Paul was in San Francisco and I was in Rome, when, a few days ago, I recorded this interesting video conversation.
The New Google Chrome Browser - All Of The Best Video Clips To Learn Everything About It (Sep 03 2008 10:36 GMT)
The Google Chrome browser is out and fully available for download right now. "Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.", that's what Google says.
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