Publish Your Craft Lessons Online!

Compile ebooks in Powerpoint format and turn them into video

2010-07-18T02:37:00.000-07:00

I am moving into compiling my tutorials in powerpoint and video format. The reason is simple: Video is going to be the big thing! As I am already compiling my tutorials in microsoft format, I just need to turn them into powerpoint. And from here, I can turn them into video. So I found the following article from www.labnol.org very helpful.

This step-by-step guide illustrates how to convert a PowerPoint slide-show into video so you can distribute presentations more easily:

1. You can upload these PowerPoint video files to sites like YouTube or MySpace and some of your creation could go viral.

2. Transfer the PowerPoint slides to an iPod or your mobile phone and enjoy the presentations while on the move.

3. If your slideshow is like a photo album with lot of images, convert the PowerPoint to video and burn onto a DVD – you can now watch the presentations on a large TV screen.

The possibilities are endless. PowerPoint files converted to video using this technique also preserve all the voice narrations. And as expected, the total cost is $0.

How to convert PowerPoint into Video for YouTube or iPod

All you need a copy of Microsoft PowerPoint (any version), the PPT file, a webcam or microphone (if you want to record audio) and Internet access. OK, let’s get started:

Step 1: Open your PPT presentation file inside PowerPoint and switch to Slide Show menu to setup the exact time duration for each slide. You have two choices here:

a) Use Record Narration if you want to include audio in your presentations. Record your voice as your move through the slides and say yes when you are prompted to save the changes.

b) Use Rehearse Timings for silent PowerPoint videos. This option lets you define how long a slide should display on the screen before the presentation move to the next slide.

Step 2: Now go to authorstream.com and upload the PPT file you saved in Step 1. AuthorStream is a PowerPoint hosting service where you can PPT files as large as 1 GB. It’s again a good service though not so popular as Slideshare.

Step 3: When you are done uploading the PPT file to the web, Author Stream will convert the PowerPoint file into a MPEG4 video (mp4) that can be directly uploaded to YouTube or you can watch it on an iPod.

This process may take some time but you’ll get an email notification as soon as your PowerPoint video is ready for download from the web.

The conversion is not instant but definitely worth the wait. And the quality of video created from PPT files is brilliant.

There’s more – other than converting PPT to video, AuthorStream will also create a video podcast version of your presentation that can be directly imported into iTunes. This could a good opportunity for educators who have piles of PPT files on their computer that can be shared with the world.

Update: If you have the budget, you can use a screen recording application like Camtasia Studio to record PowerPoint presentations as video on your desktop.

Free screencasting software like Camstudio may also also record PPT playback but I think the above method is simpler as it takes care of conversion as well as video hosting.

Craft and Jewelry Making Writers Needed!

2010-07-04T15:49:00.000-07:00

We are a publisher specialised in jewelry making and craft. We are looking for someone who has hands-on experience in making jewelry, beading, wireworks, polymer clay, knitting and crocheting or other to work with us to compile step by step guides.

You need to have good photography skills and are able to describe the step by step guides in English.

This is a freelance home based job suitable for those who are looking for extra income while doing what you like!

Please include info such as name, age, skill and area of expertise (craft) when applying for the job. Please write to us through contact form below:

Can't see the form? Click here.

Complete Craft Book Publishing

2010-06-22T14:58:00.000-07:00

Click here:
http://completecraftpublishing.com/go.php?janecgy&1

Publish Your Own Craft Ebooks

2010-06-17T07:06:00.000-07:00

Are you someone addicted to making, jewelry, clay, crocheting, knitting and all sorts of other craft? Do you know you can easily turn your hobby and passion into making money business by just writing your passions be it in the form of ebook (even physical books) and video??

If you are like most busy people, you might be thinking that you don't have the time, or the space in your home, to devote to a home-based business. While this might be true of some businesses, you can actually operate a successful eBook publishing business from your spare bedroom, or other small work space, especially if you are a crafty person, full of ideas and like to share and make some money out of it!

An eBook publishing business doesn't have the space requirements that some businesses do. For example, some people have attempted to start a business reselling merchandise on eBay, only to discover that before long, their entire house is cluttered with items. A craft-based business can not only create quite a mess in your home, but also requires the investment in supplies, before you start making profits.

An eBook publishing business doesn't have any of these pitfalls. You can use a spare bedroom, or other small area of your home as your "office". The only supplies you really need are a home computer and Internet connection, and your own ideas. There aren't any messy supplies to have to buy, store, and keep organized. In fact, students can even run a successful eBook publishing business from their college dorm room.

If you are using a laptop computer, your space requirements are even smaller. Although many authors find that they are more productive if they have a specific work space to use when writing, this is strictly a personal preference. If you enjoy writing your eBooks on your laptop, while sitting outdoors on the patio, then your patio could even be your office!

This blog is dedicated to coach and share with you how I turn a hobby into a ebook publishing business. Follow me to learn more!
For those who likes to find out more about my publishing business, visit me at www.handmade-jewelry-club.com and www.diylessons.org.

You'll discover a fantastic resource that I've put together for you that will help you launch and grow a profitable home based craft eBook publishing business WITHOUT having to spend a lot of money and waste a bunch of time.

Partnership

2010-06-17T06:43:00.000-07:00

This blog is affiliated to www.DIYLessons.org with the objectives of gathering craft enthusiasts who are interested in writing or publishing their own lessons in ebooks or video format and would like to sell their content to us.

DIY Lessons is a publisher of craft lessons in the following areas:
- Jewelry Making
- Beading
- Wireworks
- Crocheting
- Knitting

There are 2 ways of partnership:
1. Freelance writers: you can write craft lessons or ebooks for us. We will pay you every ebook or article you make for us.

2. You can sell and publish your own ebooks. We have an DIY craft ebook marketplace for you! Just register yourself at DIY Lessons.

If you are interested to discuss further on the potential partnership, please feel free to contact me at diyjewelryclub at gmail dot com.

For others, you may just simply follow our articles and learn how to publish your ebooks and how to promote them through online media.

Import blog into fan page

2010-05-13T10:10:00.000-07:00

http://www.erincolbert.com/bid/9797/Importing-Blog-Articles-Into-Your-Facebook-Fan-Page-Wall-Using-Notes

Add fan page to blog

2010-04-30T17:09:00.001-07:00

http://www.facebook.com/facebook-widgets/fanbox.php

Add feed to facebook fan page

2010-04-30T16:10:00.000-07:00

Here is the application to use: http://apps.facebook.com/blogrssreader/

Set up google analytics

2010-04-30T06:45:00.000-07:00

Next step, i signed google analytics and add new website profile for http://www.malaysia-real-estate-property.com/.

Just need to generate tracking code and paste it into html template before before the 'body' tag.

This will allow tracking of web traffic..

Setting up new website : www.malaysia-real-estate-property.com/

2010-04-30T06:20:00.000-07:00

Few days ago, I have set up a new website called www.malaysia-real-estate-property.com/. As usual, I turned to my favorite domain name provider - Netfirms to buy domain name. I still found that they offer the cheapest domain name in the web.

If you are interested to set up your website, do buy from them.

By the way, I also get to earn by referring customers to them :)

Page directed to smashingfeeds.com

2010-01-24T02:46:00.001-08:00

Here is the culprit:

Alexa

2010-01-05T05:30:00.000-08:00

Added:
meta content="'3OEd8e_45MmcBrHaC_JpJ6lo4_k'" name="'alexaVerifyID'/"

Before
head

under template.

How to add adsense within blog post for Blogger.

2009-12-28T19:23:00.000-08:00

Today, I have added in adsense within blog post. Pretty cool.

This blog provides very good guide to do so.
http://www.cooltricksntips.com/2009/06/adding-adsense-to-blogger-blog-posts.html

Following the instruction, I first generated the google adsense codes. Then I look for > under html of 'Edit template'.

I found the following line:

To have the advertisement posted on top of the blog post, I added an image adsense codes above . To have the advertisement posted at the bottom of the blog post, I added the text adsense codes below .

I have followed the instruction by putting in before adsense codes and after adsense codes. It appears nicely after 10 mins.

Yeah! Let's monitor if the adsense income from this is good.

Cheers

Submit to RSS sites

2009-06-28T02:04:00.001-07:00

http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/

My RSS feeds:
http://diylessons.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?xn_auth=no
http://www.handmade-jewelry-club.com/feeds/posts/default
http://bestsale.ning.com/activity/log/list?fmt=rss
http://malaysiaparent.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

Submited to:
http://rss001.com/create-content/add-feed
http://www.feedsee.com/submit.html
http://www.feedest.com/feedInsert.cfm

Twitterfeed

2009-06-28T01:24:00.000-07:00

Have added blog feeds into twitter through http://twitterfeed.com/.

Aggregated RSS

2009-06-27T01:58:00.000-07:00

Found a way to aggregate RSS into 1 URL at http://www.rssmix.com.
Have generated this URL: http://www.rssmix.com/u/239951/
Once url is generated here, then register with feedburner and get a feed URL.
Then import this URL thru Facebook's note application.

Set up DIY Lessons

2009-06-01T00:15:00.000-07:00

1. Set up feedburner
2. Set up Google Analytics
3. Submit to search engine
http://www.google.com/addurl/
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx
4. http://www.addthis.com/register

Table formating for blogger - eliminate white space

2008-12-19T07:56:00.000-08:00

http://mlawire.blogspot.com/2007/01/table-formatting-in-blogger.html

Emi Kaz

Creating Sitemap

2008-12-12T20:05:00.000-08:00

Added sitemap in handmade jewelry club.

Reference:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34654&ctx=sibling
http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/details-www.handmade-jewelry-club.com.html
http://theos.in/hakuna-matata/adding-google-sitemap-to-bloggercom-blog-account/

Sitemap

2008-12-12T19:58:00.001-08:00

Added sitemap in handmade jewelry club.

Reference:
http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/details-www.handmade-jewelry-club.com.html
http://theos.in/hakuna-matata/adding-google-sitemap-to-bloggercom-blog-account/

Twitter

2008-11-17T18:19:00.000-08:00

Sign up twitter

How to use twitter to promote:
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/03/25/how-i-use-twitter-to-promote-my-blog/
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/03/25/how-i-use-twitter-to-promote-my-blog/
http://www.johnjantsch.com/TwitterforBusiness.pdf
http://www.squidoo.com/handmade-twitter

StumbleUpon

2008-11-17T18:15:00.000-08:00

Achievement so far

2008-09-07T16:19:00.001-07:00

For my blog at http://diyjewelryclub.blogspot.com/, I have managed to grow the web traffic to 653 visits in the short span of 1.5 months thru various blog marketing channels, Not too bad an achievement, right?

The above tracking on web traffic is done thru Google Analytics. https://www.google.com/analytics. You can easily setup such tracking at your website.

I will share with you what I have done so far in my next post.

Discovering Dig!

2008-09-07T07:23:00.000-07:00

I am in the midst of discoverying Dig. Will update soon.
Added in Digg button in www.handmade-jewelry-club.com.

Tutorial:
http://tips-for-new-bloggers.blogspot.com/2007/03/add-digg-button-to-blogger-or-blogspot.html

3-column template for blog

2008-09-07T00:34:00.000-07:00

Most templates from http://www.blogger.com/ are 2 columns. If you prefer 3 column template, you can get it from sites such as :
http://bloggertricks.com/
http://www.thurstemplates.com/2007/02/new-minima-3-column.html

They show you step by step guide to download the template into your blog.
If you like my blog template, you can download from http://www.thurstemplates.com/2007/02/new-minima-3-column.html

2008-09-07T00:17:00.000-07:00

I am always interested in online media and marketing. Needless to say, it is the most important channel for advertisement and what so ever.

To get some handson exposures, I have started 2 blogs:
http://diyjewelryclub.blogspot.com/
http://malaysiaparent.blogspot.com/

I will put up my tips, learnings into this blog along with my discovery of online media and marketing.