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Writing well is a great asset. A Guide to Writing Well will help you to write better reports,project proposals, blog posts, assignments, letters, technical specifications, AND job applications.
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"Podesk is a unique and complete solution for video capture, encoding and podcast delivery. Everything is automated : a single drag?n?drop publishes your video straight to your web site, iTunes+iPod or iTV ! Record directly from your webcam, and Podesk will take care of the rest." Podesk is the only solution that combines a desktop utility that encodes video, prepares meta data and uploads the video, combined with an open source blog platform with all the tools to set up video podcast distribution easily."
MyToons, which is currently in private beta, is an impressive new video and image-sharing site for cartoons. You can upload your own videos and artwork, and find the most viewed, top rated, most discussed and most recent media in these sections. The player is large, fast loading and Flash-based - it can also be expanded to take up much of the screen. Look out too for tagging, comments and the ability to share via email (strangely, there’s no option to embed clips in MySpace and blogs). Beyond media sharing, there’s also groups, messaging, networks of friends and profile pages. The profiles provide a choice of design templates, and you can also create you own.
It's a good idea to provide an option for readers to subscribe to your blog content using an RSS-to-email service like FeedBlitz (others are Feedburner and R-Mail). It's and example of 'Push Technology" that enables people to automatically receive information from your blog whenever you update it. Register for a free account. 1. Note the URL for your blog/wiki RSS feed. 2. Select My Account from the menu. 3. Select My Syndicates. 4. Select Add a New Syndicate. 5. Enter your Blog/Wiki URL. 6. Copy and paste the syndication's html code to your blog/wiki.
Here is a free site for converting files to different formats without having to download software. There is a growing list of online file conversion sites, but Zamzar has an impressive list of support file formats for documents (including MS Office docs), images, audio, and video including WMV, AVI, and many more. More importantly, the site is incredibly easy to use and very handy when you need to do an urgent file conversion and want to avoid the hassle of the numerous freeware downloads.
This is an excellent site for keeping abreast of current events. It's a good start for any project involving current affairs, allowing you to get all the info without aimless wondering through Google's dark corridors. Make sure that you register for access to My World. MyWorld is your personal collection of news within Daylife, where you can save stuff that you find interesting, or want to easily check up on later.
Use this web “whiteboard” for your own notes or collaborative note development. SKRBL is a web whiteboard. Just start SKRBL, give your SKRBL URL to your friends, and instantly start sharing online. Write notes and add images, see & edit each others notes...Everyone sees the same screen, everybody stays on the same page.
Here is a link to basic web design tutorials. You can't just take all the design elements, throw them together and make a good web page, any more than you can take some eggs, sugar, flour and throw them together and get a cake. Making a web page that works requires a lot of sensitivity to the various forces at work. A good design solution is one that balances those (often opposing) forces. And here is a link to a tutorial that focuses on Web 2.0 design.