Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Monday, August 17th, 2009
A Kindle book on iPhone
Thanks to JR, a fellow cyber author and publisher, I’ve come across another article about publishing and reading via Kindle, Sony, Blackberry, PC, and other electronic readers. Peter Svensson’s August 15 article Phones, PC’s put e-books within reach of Kindle-less focuses on the popularity of reading from paperless media and the technology that’s responsible for it. Only a few years ago, publishing for portable electronic readers and PC’s was a road less traveled. According to Svensson’s article, it’s hard to keep new e-books down; sales are beginning to climb. Intrepid entrepreneurs turn paper manuscripts into cybertext as quickly as the new software appears and just as importantly, readers are logging on in ever increasing numbers.
Tags: blackberry, Chrysalis Publications, e-book, electronic readers, free-lance writing, iPhone, kindle, pc, publishing, Writing
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Thursday, June 11th, 2009
I was recently interviewed for a profile article about me and my novel, Flying Wires. Click here for a JPEG of Timmy Gelles’ article in the 11 June 2009 issue of The Gazette or here for a link to the online version. Only recently, have I had the time to do some marketing of Flying Wires and I’m quite pleased that this opportunity came along.
In the meantime, my Examiner.com articles and my work for NAMI Howard County are keeping me quite busy. Now that the first phase of the NAMI contract is complete, I will soon be working about 10 hours per week for the next twelve months on the second phase.
To purchase the PDF version of Flying Wires, click here. To purchase the Kindle version – which is also downloadable to an iPhone and iPod Touch – click here.
Tags: Aviation, carol plotnick, Chrysalis Publications, Flying Wires, iPhone, iPod Touch, kindle, Laurel Community Volunteer Examiner, NAMI, pdf, publishing, The Gazette, Timmy Gelles, ultralight, Ultralight Flying, Writing
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
National Alliance on Mental Illness
Today I received a call from the NAMI Howard County office. NAMI [National Alliance on Mental Illness] is a national organization that does a wonderful job of educating and supporting people effected by mental illness, their friends and families and the public, in general. Their trained facilitators run support groups for both the person effected by the illness and for friends and family. NAMI has specific educational training sessions for family members, parents of children with mental illness, Hispanic groups and for consumers who want to become presenters for NAMI’s various outreach programs. Last week, I began attending their 12-week Family to Family course that gives family members a better understanding of mental illness and tools to better interact and support their loved one. After only two classes, I’m impressed with how much new information I’ve picked up.
The purpose of the call from them today was to ask if I was interested in a contract position with the organization. I’ll have more information about the project after I attend a meeting in their office on Monday. Basically, I’m one of two contractors who will be redesigning one of the NAMI brochures and then meeting with health care professionals in Howard County, Maryland and giving them the brochures for their patients who have or may have a mental illness. I’m happy to be associated with this fine organization and I’ll post more information after Monday’s meeting.
Tags: carol plotnick, Chrysalis Publications, contracting, contractor, customer, Family to Family, NAMI, National Alliance on Mental Illness, service to others, Services
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Kindle on iPhone
I was invited by the Maryland Writers’ Association to write an article for their blog about my publishing experience for Kindle. Click here to read the article.
Tags: carol plotnick, Chrysalis Publications, company profile, e-book, free-lance writing, iPhone, iPod Touch, kindle, pdf, publishing
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
For additional company and personal posts and links to information, please visit Carol Plotnick at Facebook and Twitter.
Tags: blog, carol plotnick, Chrysalis Publications, Community, company profile, Facebook, Food Donation Connection, free-lance writing, Laurel Community Volunteer Examiner, publishing, service to others, Services, Twitter, volunteer, women, Writing
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Saturday, March 21st, 2009
If you’re looking for something at either the Chrysalis Publications, LLC web site or on the big WWW, check out the links in the column on the right side of this blog. In the past few days, I’ve added some new links that may help you find what you’re looking for. Happy surfing!
Tags: blog, carol plotnick, Chrysalis Publications, customer
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Saturday, March 14th, 2009
Flying Wires is now available for download to your Kindle, Kindle 2 or iPhone [also iPod Touch]. That’s right. After a February announcement about Amazon.com’s Kindle 2, the e-books available for the Kindle products are now available for the iPhone. Perhaps Amazon.com is responding to the demand for the popular e-book format to be available on other media players besides the Kindle and Kindle 2. In this struggling economy, companies often fall back to the “whatever sells” game plan. For Kindle and Kindle for iPhone owners, take a sneak peak at Flying Wires. [See link for "Try it free."] Don’t have a Kindle or iPhone? Click here to see a sample from one of the chapters.
Click Kindle for additional information about this product; and for Kindle for iPhone.
Tags: carol plotnick, Chrysalis Publications, company profile, e-book, flying, Flying Wires, iPhone, iPod Touch, kindle, Kindle 2, publishing, ultralight, Ultralight Flying
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Thanks to open source software, affiliate marketing, and paid advertising, document conversion is literally, free and easy. Open source software like Open Office allows you to open a Microsoft Word document, for example, edit it and then save it in a variety of document formats. Most useful is the option to save the document as a PDF [portable document format]. The Open Office Suite software [word processor, presentation, drawing, database and spreadsheet programs] is free. I use the word processor and spreadsheet functions almost exclusively; rarely venturing to the Windows side of the fence.
In the realm of paid advertising and affiliate marketing, there are a number of online document conversion software companies that will let you convert electronic files for free. The advertisers help to defray the cost of using the bandwidth and web servers. These web sites offer a broader spectrum of file conversion. For example, audio, video and archive file options are available. One such company is Media-Convert. The only caveat I’ll mention is, check the company’s limitations on file size. You’ll probably find the file conversion format you want, but – using the example of Media-Convert – you’re limited to a file no larger than 150 Mb.
Tags: affiliate marketing, file conversion, Microsoft, Open Office, open source, pdf, Services, virtual assistant, word processing
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
In looking for software upgrades and installation instructions last night, I came across a rather unique web site – Softpedia. Don’t let their “…the encyclopedia of free software downloads!” one-liner lead you in the wrong direction. Yes. They have, what I think is one of the most comprehensive, easy-to-use and attractive web sites devoted to free software that I’ve seen in a long time. But, their site doesn’t stop there. They post news about software, various electronic products and the people who make/design them. You’ll find reviews and analysis. What drew me to them were their precise instructions for installing Ubuntu ver. 8.04 [Hardy Heron]. So, if you’re shopping or just keeping tabs on the cycber marketplace, Softpedia is definitely worth a look. As another slogan announces, “Updated one minute ago.”
Tags: downloads, Softpedia, software, Ubuntu
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