How great would it be to grab all of your favourite Blogs, dump them into one site and have all of that content formatted into your own personal magazine?
Enter: Tabbloid.
Here's how it works:
1. Enter the Blog URLs or feeds that you like.
2. Select when you would want your own personal magazine delivered to you.
3. On schedule, you get emailed a print-ready PDF.It works, it looks great, it has a very clean and nice design, it's a one-step process and it's completely free.
Tabloid is an HP "hatchling project" (I was unable to find any info on what, exactly, a hatchling project is) and it speaks to three recent issues we've discussed on this Blog.
1. Marketing Needs To Shift From Trick To Treat -
2. The Feeding Frenzy Has Just Begun -
3. The Power Behind A Faith-Based Initiative -
If you find that you don't have enough time to read all of your feeds, check out Tabbloid and see if publishing your own personal magazine and reading them when you're not on a computer (travelling, on the couch, sitting on a park bench, etc...) creates a whole new experience with your content.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Turn Your Favorite Blogs Into A Personal Magazine
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
CONSTRUCTION STIMULUS WILL BOOST EMPLOYMENT AND CAPITAL SPENDING
Ohio general contractor Brian Burgett today told members of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure to recommend to the full House economic stimulus activities that would have an immediate positive impact on economic activity.
"An infusion of federal infrastructure funding would have a direct stimulus effect by putting more contractors and their employees back to work," said Burgett, President and CEO of the Kokosing Construction Company, Fredericktown, Ohio. "We have excess capacity at Kokosing and throughout the construction industry. Federal investments will create jobs in the Midwest and throughout the country. Additional public infrastructure projects will allow our industry to maintain our work force and necessitate hiring more workers. It will allow us to purchase equipment and preserve manufacturing jobs."
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CONSTRUCTION STIMULUS WILL BOOST EMPLOYMENT AND CAPITAL SPENDING
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Steve Jobs at the whiteboard (c. 1991)
Some 17 years before The Back of the Napkin was published, and before death-by-PowerPoint was a familiar refrain, Steve Jobs was not only a master of the slide presentation, he was a clear and thoughtful presenter at the whiteboard as well. I love this old presentation below featuring Steve Jobs at the whiteboard as he methodically, yet passionately, explains NeXT's positioning and future growth opportunities. Sure, his projections did not pan out and NeXT never really enjoyed large commercial success, but NeXT's influence in the computer industry was big (and Jobs would go on to sell NeXT and its object-oriented operating system to Apple in 1996 for over $400 million...and the rest, as they say, is history).
A lot of what Steve covers in this short "chalk talk" are the kind of things an entrepreneur would cover in a pitch: The market, the competition, sales and the channel, challenges and solutions, etc. This is a good and interesting presentation, but many people — especially business educators — will find the content illuminating as well. Steve states the fundamental questions right from the start: "Who is our target customer? Why are they selecting our product over the competition's? What distribution channels are we going to use?" The video is quite low-rez which makes reading the whiteboard difficult, but this is well worth a look.
Part 1
Part 2An early Jobs demo on interpersonal computing
If you still have not had enough of going down Memory Lane, then check out this NeXT demo by Steve Jobs circa 1991-92. Pretty impressive stuff actually, especially when you consider that this was before most people ever heard of the internet or email, etc. (There are three additional parts to this demo on YouTube: 2, 3, 4.)This is from Presentation Zen, and written by Garr.
