Publish and Prosper: Blogging for Your Business

While personal blogs take up much of the blogosphere, blogs are quickly gaining popularity in business as an inexpensive and amazingly effective marketing tool. It's time for a practical book about business blogging: this is the first book to demonstrate how businesses are blogging and how you can use blogging technology to converse with your customers to build your brand and sell your products.Written from the business person/designer's perspectives, this book shows how businesses can leverage current, real-world blogging techniques, tools, and platforms to promote and enhance their ventures.
The key idea is that the conversation with your market is stronger and more meaningful with a blog. Filled with practical information and a how-to approach, this book provides case studies of companies as large as Boeing or General Motors and as small as Clip-'n-seal. Readers will learn about the types of business blogs, how companies use blogs, how to sell blogs to management and IT, effective blog design, content, and conversation, pitfalls to avoid, how to develop Web presence, and more.

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Secrets of Videoblogging

Here's the perfect introduction to the art of the videoblog, or vlog, whatever your subject. Filled with both technical and creative tips, this fun, fast, full-color guide provides everything you need to get started vlogging.

You'll learn:

• How to find and keep track of your favorite videoblogs

• How to create your own vlog under Windows or Mac OS X

• Where to find free vlog-hosting services• Tips on lighting, shooting, sound, and video compression for vlogs• Where to download free, legal music for your vlog

• How to build an audience with RSS feeds

• And many more insider secretsVlogging pioneers Michael Verdi and Ryanne Hodson are co-founders of NO DE101, an international network of videoblog classrooms, and FreeVlog.org, NO DE101's online equivalent.

Verdi also vlogs at www.michaelverdi.com, while Hodson produces vlogs at http://ryanedit.blogspot.com

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http://revlog.blogspot.com Video training pioneers Diana Weynand and Shirley Craig are co-owners of Weynand Training International, an Apple Authorized Training Center that provides training services to the entertainment industry.

They vlog at www.weynand.blogspot.com.

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Hacking Google Maps and Google Earth (ExtremeTech)

Hacking Google Maps and Google Earth is one-of a kind resource contains 500 pages of jaw-dropping hacks, mods, and customizations. These include creating smashups with data from other sources such as Flicker, building a space station tracker, hacking Maps with Firefox Piggy Bank, and building a complete community site with Maps and Earth.

Now you can map out locations, get driving directions, zoom into any point on the globe, display real time traffic, and much more.Google Maps allows users to map out single locations, get driving directions, or map a group of locations.

Google Earth enables users to zoom into any point on the globe and display various information using satellite and high altitude photos for display.

For hackers and modders, Google Maps and Earth are ripe for some very interesting projects users are creating their own virtual site-seeing tours and displaying real time traffic.

and that's just the beginning.

Language: English - 753 pages -

Format: PDF

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (28 Jul 2006)more information from

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Foundations of Software Testing ISTQB Certification

Foundations of Software Testing ISTQB Certification is Your One-Stop Guide To Passing The ISTQB Foundation Level Exam Foundations of Software Testing ISTQB Certification is your essential guide to software testing and the ISTQB Foundation qualification. This book is an essential purchase if you want to benefit from the knowledge and experience of those involved in the writing of the ISTQB Syllabus.Foundations of Software Testing ISTQB Certification adopts a practical and hands-on approach, covering the fundamental principles that every system and software tester should know.

The authors are seasoned test-professionals and developers of the ISTQB syllabus itself, so syllabus coverage is thorough and in-depth. This book is designed to help you pass the ISTQB exam and qualify at Foundation Level, and is enhanced with many useful learning aids. ABOUT ISTQB ISTQB is a multi-national body overseeing the development of international qualifications in software testing.In a world of employment mobility and multi-national organizations, having an internationally recognized qualification ensures that there is a common understanding, internationally, of software testing issues.

Language: English - 258 pages -

Format: PDF

Publisher: CENGAGE Lrng Business Press;

1st edition (December 19, 2006)

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