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Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me (especially in teaching) and I'll understand.
~ modern adaptation of "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." ~ attributed to Confucius
The Today show had a story about "Fiftysomethings taking their turns as interns." The theme: Laid-off publishing professionals forgo pay to pick up Internet skills. Pros previously making six figures in traditional print outlets but unemployed because of dislocation in the industry took on internships at wowOwow, a network for women over 40, hoping for better prospects in electronic media. Read or watch the story here. "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all."
~ Harry S Truman
When you're figuring out what to write, ask yourself this key question: Who's your audience, and what do they need or want that you have?
If youre not prepared to be wrong, youll never come up with anything original.
~Sir Ken Robinson
"A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules.... It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness."
~ novelist Edith Wharton
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
~ Flannery O'Connor
"The voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes but in having new eyes.'
~Marcel Proust
"There is no excellency without difficulty."
~Ovid
"Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it whole-heartedly and delete it before sending your manuscripts to press. Murder your darlings."
~ Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, often quoted as rephrased by William Faulkner: "Kill all your darlings"
"When a new writer defends his 'style,' the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style voice arrives on its own, as an extension of a writer's character. When style is done self-consciously and purposefully it becomes affectation, and as transparent as any affectation an English accent on an old college chum from New Jersey, for example."
~ Bill Roorbach
"The ego is a primitive device installed in your brain to tell you when to flee from tigers. Unless you regularly interview tigers, it will misinform you during any interview, hectoring you with concerns about your next question or whether you dressed properly."
~ Eric Nalder, Loosening Lips
"If you think training is expensive, try ignorance."
~ Tom Peters
"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."
~ Ernest Hemingway
"Technique alone is never enough.You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder."
~ Raymond Chandler
"Writing freezes thought and offers it up for inspection."
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E-mail Pat (pat at patmcnees dot com)
Dying: A Book of ComfortThis site built to support the book expanded into Illness and Recovery
Writers on Writing(complete archive of the NY Times series, writers exploring literary themes. Requires free membership.)
Letters of Note (fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos--that you were never expected to see)
Aha Moments (from the brilliant Mutual of Omaha campaign to record people's stories about moments of clarity, defining moments when they gained the wisdom to change their life)
TED: Ideas worth sharing Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world
Freelance National Anthem (Bill Dyszel, 4 minutes)
KeepMeOut (addicted to a website? bookmark this page and it will remind you to get back to work!)
Today's Front Pages (check out Newseum's U.S. map -- move your cursor across the map and see the front pages change)
Online Education Database150 resources to help you write better, faster, or more persuasively
Help a reporter out (HARO)(useful for reporters and for sources)
Paris Review "Writers at Work" Interviews (selections from 1953 on, a gift to the world, and with a single click you can view a manuscript page with the writer's edits)
The Onion (if the news is making you sick, try this approach)
Truth-o-meter (St. Petersburg Times, www.politifact.com)(St. Pete Times on whether, and how much, various notable people are telling the truth)
Fact Check (Annenberg sorts political truths from half-truths)
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Improving your writing, reporting, and speaking skills,
mastering multimedia,
making the most of Word and other software, equipment, and tools
· Improving your writing, reporting, and speaking skills
· Mastering multimedia
· Making the most of Word software
· Equipment, software, tools, and tutorials for working in multimedia
· Tech tutorials for computer novices
Why are topics such as Toastmasters and multimedia training listed here? In today's market, you need to know not only how to write a sentence, develop a narrative, hold the reader's attention, explain complex ideas clearly in plain English, and so forth, but also how to attract people to your work, build a platform, work in multimedia, and so forth. Additional links to improving your sentence-writing craft will be found under Style, grammar, word choice, and pronunciation.
I've included a section on equipment here because for many of us new equipment, while it promises much and often delivers, almost always comes with a new learning curve and a fair degree of anxiety before the equipment is mastered. I remember that day in 1981 when I opened my first computer and burst into tears at the thought of pressing a wrong key and destroying it. There have been many computers since them, and I still get nervous!
I've listed the mentoring program of one writers' organization. Please let me know if others are good and should be mentioned.
Improving your writing, reporting, interviewing,
and speaking skills
On interviewing:
The Art of the Interview, Dale Keiger's presentation at the CASE Editors' Forum (3-30-09)
Elizabeth Arnold on Interviewing (The Transom Review)
Mary Pat Flaherty (Wash Post) on interviewing and writing (Patrick Cassidy's Investigative Reporting webpage)
Secrets to a Successful Interview (Valerie Holladay, ancestry.com, 1-1-05)
So What Do You Do, James Lipton, Creator and Host of Inside the Actor's Studio? (Amanda Ernst's interview for Media Bistro, 4-4-12)
Pat McNees's links to good interview questions and guides online
Books on interviewing (especially for journalists):
The Craft of Interviewing by John Joseph Brady
The Talk Book: The Intimate Science of Communicating in Close Relationships (explains reflective listening and disclosure)
Creative Interviewing: The Writer's Guide to Gathering Information by Asking Questions by Ken Metzler
Interviews That Work: A Practical Guide for Journalists by Shirley Biagi
The Art of the Interview: Lessons from a Master of the Craft by Lawrence Grobel (memoir of a top interviewer who prepares deeply for long interviews; don't expect helpful instruction for quicky interviews).
The interviewee's right to "edit" a transcript or story (Pat McNees)
Analytical writing for science & technology (T.M. Georges)
Associated Writing Programs
"Basic" plots in literature (Internet Library)
Bulwer-Lytton Contest (craft the worst opening line for a novel)
Choose the right way to tell your story (API)
Conferences, workshops, and other learning places
Design Makeovers (Layers Magazine)
Poynter. Training (Essential Skills for the Digital Journalist, and other training, in person or online). See also Poynter's Syllabus Exchange (encouraging educators to share ideas and teaching materials).
Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully: in Ten Minutes (Stephen King's now-classic article, which appeared in The Writer in 1986, reprinted on the Great Writing site).
Joyce Carol Oates on Productivity
Layer Magazine (a how-to magazine for everything Adobe)
Math Test for Journalists (Phil Meyer, UNC-Chapel Hill)
Math Test #2 for Journalists (Stephen Doig, ASU, inspired by Phil Meyer)
Memoir, biography, and personal histories
Mentoring program of ASJA (American Society of Journalists & Authorsan organization of independent nonfiction authors & journalists)
Mind Mapping, Tony Buzan (YouTube video), useful for note-taking, creativity
My Rules of Information (Marylaine Block on how to find the information you need, which may not be on the Internet)
Narrative nonfiction
News University (NU), Poynters online training for journalists, inexpensive and often free, with funding from one of the Knight Foundations--check out their excellent lineup of courses!)
No train, no gain
Training for newspaper journalists
Patrick Cassidy's Investigative Reporting links include many pages of excellent practical advice, such as Writing the Project: Using Story Structure to Shape Your Reporting (James Neff, Kiplinger Reporting Program)
Plain English (before-and-after examples from Plain Language website)
The Power of the Opening Sentence (Alan Rinzler, The Book Deal)
Poynter Online links to articles on attribution; bylines, credit lines, authorship; corrections; credibility; fact-checking; grammar, spelling, typos; photomanipulation; plagiarism
Rx for Writers (topical index for articles and transcripts on writing for children (Institute for Children's Literature). I am told the newsletter subscription is well worth $20 a year.
Scared Speechless? Join Toastmasters (Washington Post story by Pat McNees)
ShawGuide to Writers Conferences and Workshops
Statistics Every Writer Should Know (Robert Niles)
Ten Rules for Writing Fiction. Inspired by Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing, the Guardian asked several authors for their personal dos and don'ts. Read what Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, and AL Kennedy (part 1)and Hilary Mantel, Michael Moorcock, Michael Morpurgo, Andrew Motion, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Proulx, Philip Pullman, Ian Rankin, Will Self, Helen Simpson, Zadie Smith, Colm Tσibνn, Rose Tremain, Sarah Waters, Jeanette Winterson (part 2) have to say.
Thirty tools for writers (Roy Peter Clark)
Tip Sheets: Online & Media (David Shedden's useful links, Poynter Institute)
Tip Sheets: Writing and Editing extremely helpful long list of articles from the Poynter Institute, thanks to David Shedden
Toastmasters International website
Tom Robbins: "My Advice to Writers" (on Alan Rinzler's writing blog)
The Top 100 Freelancer Blogs, many of them about improving your skills (Heather Johnson, Bootstrapper)
When This Guy Talks, NPR Listens (Paul Farhi, Washington Post, quoting media trainer David Candow about how to come across better in front of a microphone)
"Write now is good" (Kristin Gorski's remarkably eclectic blog about words, sweat, and inspiration)--plan to spend some time here!
The Writer (magazine for writers at all levels)
Writers on Writing (the New York Times series) Requires free membership
Writing Tics: Now You See Them, Now You Don't (The Subversive Copy Editor, 7-22-10, an interesting way of framing a common problem)
Writing with Numbers (Journalist's Toolbox links)
Writing workshops (Preditors and Editors list and links)
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Mastering multimedia
Digitizing and editing photos, tapes, and the like
Acrobat 9 Tutorials (Lynda.com, which many rely on for guidance)
Alpha Geek: How to digitize cassette tapes by Rick Broida (Lifehacker)
Audacity training. Two helpful guides: Simple guide to editing in audacity (text with visuals, from Steeple), and, even better, Using Audacity (a multimedia presentation, one of many useful Teacher Training Videos from Russell Stannard ( http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/). See also: Top Tutorials & Tips (an Audacity wiki).
BBC Tips for Radio News (useful for anyone gathering and editing audio)
BBC training and development (free online courses)
BlogTalkRadio 101 (screencast tutorials and live training to help get started as a host)
Capture analog video using a digital camcorder (VideoHelp.com)
Creative Cow (peer to peer support community for media production professionals)
The DV Show (podcasting the ins and outs of digital video)--looks like you have to pay to see the good stuff.
Editing for the Web (Thom Lieb, skip ahead to basics on images and sound)
Edit Smarter (Master Mac's Final Cut Studio and Digital Media with Larry Jordan)
Elizabeth Arnold on Interviewing (The Transom Review)
Family Legacy Video Producer's Guide (CD-ROM)
FileInfo.com, a searchable database of thousands of file extensions with detailed information about the associated file types. You can use FileInfo.com to look up information about unknown file types and find programs that open the files. Along the left you'll find categories of common file types: text files, data files, audio files, 3D image files, raster image files, vector image files, page layout files, spreadsheet files, executable files, game files, CAD files, GIS files, Web files, Plugin files, font files, system files, settings files, encoded files, compressed files, disk image files, developer files, backup files, and misc. files. Who knew?? Subsections of the site (helpful for personal historians, especially) include:
Answers to common questions about file extensions
Audio File Types (includes compressed and uncompressed audio formats, which contain waveform data that can be played with audio playback software. This category also includes MIDI files, musical scores, and audio project files, which typically do not contain audio data).
Video File Types (a wide range of video formats, which use different codecs to encode and compress video data)
Software Information (another helpful section of the FileInfo.com, with information about popular software programs and a star-rating system to indicate a program's popularity).
Page Layout file types
Vector Image Files . It sez there: "Vector graphics are made up of paths, rather than individual pixels. These paths can be used to represent lines and shapes within the image. Most vector image formats can also include colors, gradients, and image effects. Since vector graphics store image data as paths, they can be enlarged without losing quality, which makes them a good choice for logos and other types of drawings. Common vector image file extensions include .EPS, .AI, and .SVG. Other image file categories include Raster Graphic and 3D Image files."
Journalism 2.0 (a digital literacy guide for the information age, Knight Citizen News Network)
JournalismTraining.org (searchable database of journalism training that meets your needs)
Journalists' toolkit (Mindy McAdams training site for multimedia and online journalists)
Ken Stone (about Apple's Final Cut Pro editing software)
Knight Digital Media Center tutorials (KDMC tutorials on audio, computing, data visualization, Flash, mashups, photography, public records, reporting, social media, video, and Web development), seminar archives (rich in material--browse by year or by topic), and blogs.
Knight Digital Media Center Multimedia Workshop (regular workshops and online tutorials)
Lifehacker's Step-by-Step Guide to Digitizing Your Life
Lynda.com (self-paced hands-on learning for software such as Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Final Cut, InDesign, Photoshop, $25 a month) -- a lot of people swear by this site!
No Fear Guide to Multimedia Skills (Mindy McAdams handout for National Writers Workshop)
Photo Organizing Software Review (from TopTenReviews.com - organize, archive, re-size and publicize your digital photos)
Recording phone interviews:
Going Digital (Jordan Raphael, Online Journalism Review 1-12-04)
Recording Phone Calls (Jeff Towne, Jay Allison, transom.org, 2-26-09)
How to Record Skype Conversations: Tools, Resources, Tips (Amit Agarwal, Digital Inspiration 6-7-06)
How to Record Phone Calls to a Hard Drive Automatically (Alexander Poirier, eHow, 11-5-10)
How To Record Skype Video Skype Video Call Recording Tools (ReelSEO.com online video guide--this is a review of various software options)
Free Skype call recorder: http://voipcallrecording.com/
Recording Skype calls in video-audio or audio-only with Evaer software (inexpensive)
SuperTintin, another Skype video call recorder
Photoshop: 60 Photoshop Tutorials for Photo Touch-Ups (Vandelay's Web & Graphic Design Blog) and 60 Photoshop Actions for Photo Touch-Ups and Enhancements (Steven Snell, DesignM.AG)
Scanning old photos? Tutorials and explanations of how to make a digital file of an old photograph:
Scanning Basics 101 (Wayne Fulton's wonderfully useful site), which includes pages such as Scanning and Printing Resolution Calculator.
Preparing Stills in PhotoShop for Import into Final Cut Pro (FCP) (Ken Stone).
ScanCalc (a little helper to calculate image scan resolutions when working with video)
Strobist (learn how to light your photographs
Theres Lots of Tech Help, Yes, on the Internet by Azadeh Ensha (NY Times, 12-24-08). A good list of online-help sites.
Time-Coding Transcripts. This blog from the Audio Transcription Center provides a good argument for going to the extra time and expense of time coding a transcript, using this interesting recording and transcript from the Kentuckiana Digital Library as an example.
Tip Sheets on Photojournalism (David Shedden, Poynter Institute)
Transom.org (tools page with equipment reviews and tutorials on how to use the equipment)
2-pop (digital filmmaker's resource site, including forums)
Vermont Folklife Center Field Research Guides
Video Editing (Tutorials):
Edit Smarter, Master Final Cut Studio and Digital Media with Larry Jordan (sign up for free newsletter)
Knight Digital Media Center video tutorials, including tutorial on Editing in Final Cut Pro.
The Basics of Video Editing: The Complete Guide (Adam Dachis, Lifehacker Night School)
Multimedia Shooter's tutorials
How to fail at online video (Glen Canning's tongue-in-cheek guide to how to do it wrong)
Ken Stone's Final Cut Pro resources, including all this on video editing
Media College Video Camera Tutorials
Apple tutorials
Editing Resource Library (Edit Smarter, with Larry Jordan)
GeniusDV tutorials, including Learning to Use Modifier [shortcut] Keys in Final Cut Pro (GeniusDV.com)
(Recommendations courtesy of Alan Haburchak, a panelist at the ASJA 2011 conference, with Michael Cervieri and Dave Cullen; tips also from Dave Morrison.
Web 2.0 top tools and resources
When This Guy Talks, NPR Listens (Paul Farhi, Washington Post, quoting media trainer David Candow about how to come across better in front of a microphone).From Paul Farhi's story about media trainer David Candow ("When This Guy Talks, NPR Listens") Farhi: "In radio, 'the big adjective is a verb'... a single punchy verb can describe someone better than a string of flowery adjectives. For example, Candow recalls a radio story about a 105-year-old woman named Alice. The reporter told her listeners that upon their first encounter, Alice 'flits' into the room. 'Flits!' repeats Candow. That one verb is 'more powerful than any description I can make up.'"
Equipment, software, and other tools for interviewing, writing, editing, designing, creating multimedia
(plus tutorials)
Audio Field Recording Equipment Guide, Andy Kolovos's list of retired equipment, mostly analog (Vermont Folklife Center). See also his important Digital Audio Field Recording Equipment Guide
CNET product reviews (equipment in many categories) and reviews of freeware (free software downloads for Windows). Or check out reviews at Macworld.
**** Digital Audio Field Recording Equipment Guide (Andy Kolovos's excellent list, Vermont Folklife Center). See also his list of list of Audio Field Recording Equipment Guide -- Retired Equipment (mostly analog)
Digital Oral History Workshop (Baylor University's online guide to principles in selecting and using digital equipment and software for recording, preserving, and disseminating oral history)
** Family Oral History Using Digital Tools. Technical whiz kid Susan Kitchens reviews equipment and, as a consultant, can help you with technical questions. FileInfo.com, a searchable database of thousands of file extensions with detailed information about the associated file types. You can use FileInfo.com to look up information about unknown file types and find programs that open the files. Along the left you'll find categories of common file types: text files, data files, audio files, 3D image files, raster image files, vector image files, page layout files, spreadsheet files, executable files, game files, CAD files, GIS files, Web files, Plugin files, font files, system files, settings files, encoded files, compressed files, disk image files, developer files, backup files, and misc. files. Who knew?? Subsections of the site (helpful for personal historians, especially) include:
Answers to common questions about file extensions
Audio File Types (includes compressed and uncompressed audio formats, which contain waveform data that can be played with audio playback software. This category also includes MIDI files, musical scores, and audio project files, which typically do not contain audio data).
Video File Types (a wide range of video formats, which use different codecs to encode and compress video data)
Software Information (another helpful section of the FileInfo.com, with information about popular software programs and a star-rating system to indicate a program's popularity).
Page Layout file types
Vector Image Files . It sez there: "Vector graphics are made up of paths, rather than individual pixels. These paths can be used to represent lines and shapes within the image. Most vector image formats can also include colors, gradients, and image effects. Since vector graphics store image data as paths, they can be enlarged without losing quality, which makes them a good choice for logos and other types of drawings. Common vector image file extensions include .EPS, .AI, and .SVG. Other image file categories include Raster Graphic and 3D Image files."
PDF programs reviewed. Softonic's pages of reviews, listed by frequency of download, of software for creating and reading "portable document format," or PDF, files (which Adobe invented, which preserve the integrity of the pages they capture, yet are viewable and printable on almost any platform).
Recording phone calls, interviews. The excellent Transom Tools (for National Public Radio) offers advice non-NPR people can use. There are reviews and advice here on Analog Phone Couplers and Hybrids, Digital Hybrids, Cell Phone Taps, Skype and Computer-based Telephony, etc. Not Advice for Dummies!
Record Your Own Radio Documentary (a tutorial by producer David Isay, Sound Portraits). An interview guide and an interview list.
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Making the most of Microsoft Word and other software
How to find online help when your personal techie is sleeping, on vacation, or otherwise unavailable.
Word is a powerful writing program that is commonly used in publishing, but it is definitely NOT a page-layout program.
FAQs on Suzanne S. Barnhill's Word Tutorial site
Making the Most of Word (Shauna Kelly)
Download Making Word Work for You: An Editor's Intro to the Tools of the Trade by Hilary Powers, $10.25, 80 pages, or order the book for slightly more. Her strength is editing/modifying text, not formatting.
Macro Cookbook for Microsoft Word by Jack Lyon, a new book that will be good news for users of Editorium (Jack Lyon's helpful "macros" for dealing speedily with mind-numbing tasks that eat up time, done manually in Word) and Editorium Update. For wordsmiths who work with Word, "In no time at all, he'll have you recording, running, borrowing, and modifying macros to make your work shrink and your income grow."
8 Microsoft Word Shortcuts You Probably Dont Know (Becky Worley, Yahoo! News, 3-14-12). For example, add the date: "How many times a day do you type the date? If you do it even once, that's too much. Next time, just hit Alt-Shift-D (or Control-Shift -D on a Mac) to add the date automatically."
100 Essential Tips for Microsoft Office 2010 (Jill Duffy, Edward Mendelson, PCMag.com 6-16-11)
The Editorium (Jack Lyon's program add-ins that make Word do a number of things it can't normally handle). For example, FileCleaner for Microsoft Word cleans up common problems in electronic manuscripts, including multiple spaces, multiple returns, unnecessary tabs, improperly typed ellipses, ells used as ones, and so on. It turns double hyphens into em dashes, and hyphens between numerals into en dashes. It can also remove directly applied font formatting (such as Times 12 point) while retaining styles (such as Heading 1) and character formatting (such as italic and bold), quickly cleaning up those messy documents imported from other word processors or CR programs. Click here for a page on Using found macros. Jack Lyon's book Microsoft Word for Publishing Professionals comes so highly recommended that I have just ordered it myself, despite the $35 price tag.
Effective Onscreen Editing: new tools for an old profession by Geoff Hart (available electronically or as book from Lulu.com)
EditTools for MicrosoftWord , with macros for achieving consistency in style, especially useful with medical citations--for correcting incorrectly abbreviated journal names or odd/incomplete/inconsistent punctuation (e.g., N. Eng. J Med. the first time and N Engl. J. Med the second, when the client wants N Engl J Med), the only limitation being the dataset. You add the incorrect form in the dataset for The Journals portion of EditTools the first time you come across it; then that incorrect form gets corrected automatically. The Journals macro highlights in green journal names that are correct, leaving only the incorrect names and those not in the dataset, says Rich Adin, whose firm released this Microsoft Word add-in. Other features: Superscript Me (changes bracketed in-text references to superscript references), Insert Queries (to the author), and a Toggle macro (change one letter or sign to another by pressing a key combination). There's a free 15-day trial period for the macros.
Electronic Editing: With Your Computer, Not Just On It (Hilary Powers' presentation to BAEF, 3-16-04--notes by Dawn Adams). Plus a tip sheet, with macros, for the same presentation.
HP Learning Center: Microsoft Office and Adobe (free online classes, available 24/7; topics include Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint,Digital Photos, etc. Go to www.hp.com/go/learningcenter.
Keyboard shortcuts for Word 2002, Word 2003, and Word 2007 (Microsoft Support). And see Some of the most useful Word shortcuts (Microsoft Most Valued Professional site)
Tracking Changes with Word 2003
AnyCount (software that counts words or characters in any file format, and unlike Word counts footnotes and textbooks, too -- available for one-month free trial).
Count Anything (a free word-count utility for Windows in a variety of file formats)
Allen Wyatt's Word.Tips.net
Why Use InDesign Instead of MS Word? by David Blatner, InDesignSecrets.com (for those of you stubbornly and very very slowly trying to format a book in Word)
WORD VS. INDESIGN and other common first-time questions from our design customers (Jonathan Gullery, Publishing Basics 5-29-08)
7 Reasons NOT to Use Word to Typeset Your Book (Walt Shiel, View From the Trenches 5-21-11)
Why Use InDesign Instead of MS Word? (David Blattner, InDesign Secrets.com, quoting Bevi Chagnon, a consultant for the federal government)
Word PC e-mail list. Frequented by Word MVPs (most valued professionals), it's one place to ask for help when you've done all you can to resolve a Word problem.
Microsoft Word MVP FAQs. Word's Most Valuable Professionals resources include Word Tutorials, links to articles on other sites, and reviewed and recommended books.
Word Processing (James Marshall's helpful articles on About.com)
Word tutorials by "most valued professionals" (as named by Word), including a tutorial on creating an exclusion dictionary (making a word that Word thinks is spelled correctly show as a spelling error).
Word Hacks: Tips & Tools for Taming Your Text by Andrew Savikas ("exposes the inner workings of Word and releases your inner hacker" for those who know how to use VBA code)
Word 2010 Beta available free from Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/default.aspx
All the Office 2010 Beta is now available.
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[Back to Top] Tech tutorials for computer novices
Karen's Directory Printer (quickly print the list of files in your computer's directory).KarenWare.com, which also publishes Karen's Power Tools Newsletter
How to download files from the Internet (how to download download programs, zipped files, HTML files, graphics, and clipart, etc. from various places on the Internet)( Autumn Web's tutorial)
Using Winzip to download zipped files (tutorial by Roxy Flanagan, about the mysteries of working with "compressed files," files made smaller for travel on the Internet)
Download Mysteries Solved (The Newbie Club)
Basic HTML That Everyone Should Know (Michael Rohde, HTML Goodies)
Banner Primers (Joe Burns, HTML Goodies). Learn to make your own advertising banner from scratch
30 steps that make javascript fun to learn (Javascript Primers, HTML Goodies)
VLC Media Player. VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols (VideoLAN). Here are answers to frequently asked questions
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A GREAT READ
and communities of book lovers
Best reads and most "discussable"
Fact-finding, fact-checking, and news and info resources BOOK AND MAGAZINE PUBLISHING
New, used, and rare books, Amazon.com and elsewhere
Blogs, social media, podcasts, ezines, survey tools and online games
Entrepreneurship for creatives
And finding freelance gigs
Blogs, video promotion, intelligent radio programs
Indie publishing, digital publishing, POD, how-to sources
Includes original text by Sarah Wernick WRITERS AND CREATORS
Plus contests, other sources of funds for creators
Copywriting, speechwriting, marketing, training, and the like
Literary and commercial (including genre)
Writing, reporting, multimedia, equipment, software
Translators, indexers, designers, photographers, artists, illustrators, animators, cartoonists, image professionals, composers
Groups for writers who specialize in animals, children's books, food, gardens, family history, resumes, sports, travel, Webwriting, and wine (etc.) ETHICS, RIGHTS, AND OTHER ISSUES
Google Books Settlement (Pro and Con)
Plus media watchdogs, FOIA EDITORS AND EDITING
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