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Bucaro TecHelp Newsletter
Maintain Your Computer and Use it More Effectively
to Design a Web Site and Make Money on the Web.
~ ~ ~ July 6, 2005 Volume 5 Number 12 ~ ~ ~
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FREE Ebook - How to be a Published (Non-Fiction) Author
Originally a journalist (and a Watford College graduate) Canadian-born freelance business
writer Suzan St Maur became a leading advertising copywriter in the UK before extending
into the live events/corporate video field. With that added to her more recent experience
in online writing, she offers a broad-ranging combination of business writing skills that
enables her to put power into any words, anywhere.
Suzan has written nine published books, her latest e-book,"Get Yourself Published”, shows
you how to devise, write, launch and market your own nonfiction book. This ebook gives you
an insight into the powerful knowledge you'll receive when you read Suzan's latest e-book,
for example:
- Why a books title is so important, and how to create a title that will sell your book.
- Advantages and disadvantages of using a conventional publisher.
- Approaching publishers and submitting proposals.
- Things to consider before signing a contract.
- The advantages and disadvantages of self-publishing.
- When it's useful to get involved with a commercial sponsor.
- Planning the structure, writing and editing of your book.
- Why the cover design is a critical element in the of sale for your book.
- Should you let the publisher do the marketing, hire a publicist, or do the marketing yourself?
- Do you need an Authors Web site for your book?
In addition, this ebook includes three bonus articles by Suzan St Maur: "How to Write More
Powerful Brochures, Leaflets and Catalogs", where you learn how to use "chunking" to
structure your brochure. "How to Write Powerful Newsletters, Offline and Online" where you
learn the importance differences between an external publication and an internally produced
newsletter. And "How to write more powerful reports" with eignt key points to focus on
when writing a report.
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FreeCard Freeware E-card Creator
FreeCard is a neat little Freeware e-card creator that lets you create multimedia greeting
cards that play graphics or video, music, digitized sound, and display text messages. It
takes standard Windows bitmap (.BMP), video (.AVI), MIDI music (.MID), WAVE sound (.WAV)
files and creates e-cards into self-contained, standalone Windows executable (.EXE) files
to run on any Windows 3.1, 95/98, or NT systems.
Use the buttons near the bottom of the applications window to choose an image file and a
music or sound file for your e-greeting. You can use your own images, but they must be in
the Windows .bmp file format. In the drop-down list choose an effect; Fade In, barn Door,
and Verical Blind are available.
Type your text message in the right side of the applications window. Unfortunately FreeCard
does not allow you to choose a font. One advantage to using your own image is that you can
add text in your chosen font to the image.
When you have completed your design, click on the [Send] button. You can save your e-cards
on diskettes or send them with e-mail to friends or family. To make a Windows executable,
make sure the Make e-card into EXE file only radio button is set. The e-card will be
saved in the applications card subfolder. You can rename the e-cards executable if
you prefer.
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Get Ahead by Faking It
By Stephen Bucaro
Are you working in a "no stretch" organization? To succeed at work, you need to "stretch" your
capabilities. You need to perform tasks above your skill level, tasks you've never done before.
In a no stretch organization, workers are assigned only tasks they've done before.
Because you have no experience in a task, you're not assigned that task. Because you're not
assigned that task, you have no experience in that task. Because you have no experience in
that task ...
- Well run organizations make a deliberate effort to give their employees assignments that
require them to stretch. If you work in such an organization, there is no need to finish
reading this article.
You can break the cycle of stagnation by faking it. When your boss asks if you've done a task
before, mumble something ambiguous like "yeh - easy shot". That's right, outright lie to your boss.
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