More and more books are coming out just on the kindle platform – but can you still read them if you don’t have a kindle? The answer is YES! Kindle offers free applications for reading kindle books for the mac, pc, iphone, ipad, and android. Here are the links:
All this information is of course so that you can read the greatest kindle book of all time – Facebook Fame!
You’ll be assisting our team in creating and marketing and educational content. You will have the opportunity to take the helm, come up with your own ideas, and write your own articles, reports, and presentations. (With our guidance and assistance to make you an even better writer.)
YOU are positive, responsible, organized, creative, forward-thinking, and easy going. You’re a creative person who loves to write (you’ll be doing a lot of writing). You’re extremely web-savvy and popping up a blog is no big deal to you. You’re a quick learner and thrive in a great community of people.
Some of your responsibilities will include:
Marketing Communications Intern
- Assisting in creating and updating our editorial calendar
- Writing content to be published on the web
- Optimizing content for search (we’ll train you on how to do this)
- Editing articles, blog posts and presentations
- Repurposing content
- Online research
Logistics:
- You MUST have your own mac computer. Non-negotiable.
- You’ll be working from your own home (or coffee shop or beach), so you need to be good at directing yourself and managing your own time.
- 20 hour/week position
Compensation: $500/mo stipend
I’m constantly coming across website and blog posts that I want to reference for later, but don’t want to clog up my bookmarks menu with. And some way to organize them and actually be able to find them later would be nice as well!
Enter one of my most-used freebie web tools: delicious.com
Delicious allows you to bookmark anything on the fly, save it in your own personal directory and tag it however you like. Delicious even helps you out by automatically showing you how others have tagged a page. You can also use delicious as a sharing site to show other people what you’re looking at and discover new sites, but truthfully I find it most useful for keeping track of my own web surfing.
Start by signing up with an account on delicious.com, then go here to download a tool for whatever browsers you use. Delicious is MUCH more useful when you can just hit one button on your web browser of choice and create a bookmark. My best hint is tag each page with more tags than you think you need. Sometimes you’ll look for something later and won’t remember whether you tagged it “Los Angeles” “LA” or “California” so go ahead and use all three when you’re tagging your bookmarks. It doesn’t hurt to have lots of tags and only helps to refine categories and find things easier later.
Ning is a super cool free tool that allows anyone to create their own social network. That means you can create a private or public facebook-like site with user profiles, blogs, forums and more.
If you’re thinking about creating your own site – stop right there buddy! Why start your own site when you can just leverage someone else’s?
I want you to join at least one Ning site where your prospects are talking. They might be there discussing exactly what they buy from you (for example, you sell surfboards and search for a Ning site about surfboards) or you might need to be a little more abstract. For example, someone who sells to bookkeepers could search for a Ning site about quickbooks, a tool that bookkeepers often use.
There are two ways to find Ning sites. Ning does have discovery tool on its homepage but let’s be honest people – it sucks. Go to http://www.ning.com/ and click on the circles to see what I mean.
A better way to find Ning sites is our old friend google. Simply go to google and add the word ning to your search term. So in the examples above I would type “ning surfboard” and “ning quickbooks” into google. When you’re scanning the search results just look for sites with ning in the URL (which is pretty easy as it will be bolded in your search results).
Once you find a targeted site, dive in a start talking! Comment on a blog, post on the forums, have some fun and see what happens.
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