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Great Find: YUDU!

August 3, 2008 by Liz

Document Elegance

I’ve been having a conversation about working with a digital publishing company in the UK. So naturally one of the first things I did was try their product. It was of particular interest because of my recent eBook experience and also because I’m always looking for new ways to share information with readers, clients, and friends. After years in publishing, I like to stay current on digital publication tools.

YUDU Freedom is elegant.

Great Find: YUDU
Permalink: http://www.yudu.com/
Target Audience: Anyone who shares digital documents
Content:
YUDU Freedom allows you to publish any document online for free. I did myself and can speak from experience. I uploaded two documents — both .pdfs, 24 pages and 68 pages, both with photos. The upload took seconds. I was able to title and tag my file. The email with the link to my file arrived far faster than I expected, maybe within 90 seconds. The links inside are private unless I choose to share them.

But what impressed me most was the beauty of the result. In particular, the document below was designed to showcase light and space . . . the YUDU enhances the design far more than any other document reader. I hadn’t prepared or edited the document here — for example the Table of Contents isn’t true and I haven’t spent time considering the type font — still YUDU show this work in progress beautifully. Click the screenshot and stretch your browser to full screen to see the entire 24-page document online inside YUDU.

Notice how you can turn pages like a book using the lower corners or like a .pdf using the arrow above. Nice touch. Options allow you to remove the sound or the page turn, if you don’t want to be distracted by them. YUDU has more features rolling out soon. Watch this product.

Updated to take to you to yudu.com

–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Does Your Blog Have It’s Own Personality?

August 3, 2008 by Guest Author

Beach Notes by Guest Writer Suzie Cheel

When I was walking on the beach last Friday, I asked Des if he thought blogs had their own personalities.

Because my blog was not happy. I had been for weeks talking about getting a theme that was less cantankerous, than the one I had been using. Blog heard this I think and went into total meltdown. I really must watch the words I use!

Des commented that he didn’t know why I had kept this theme for so long!

I can be stubborn and I was still searching for the perfect design. Well I am an artist and my NLP style is strongly visual so that was natural for me to focus on the look. I won’t be doing that again in the near future as this limits the amount of content that my blog receives. That doesn’t make blog too happy as the comments dwindle and subscriptions subside.

I then wondered what I had done to attract a very broken blog, just before Liz’s Blog Showcase too. The law of attraction was matching my not so positive vibes!

The personality of The Abundance Highway aka Law of Attraction in Action definitely is inspirational. I can see why it broke:( It wasn’t being fed it’s inspirational daily diet. Clearly what was needed was a theme was that was functional as well as looking good.

So does your blog have it’s own personality?

–Suzie Cheel, AbundanceHighway.com

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Liz Live on the Aaron Brazell Show Tonight!

August 2, 2008 by Liz

Dial In or Text In to Be Part of the Conversation!

Aaron Brazell — technosailor — has invited me to be his guest on his TalkShoe talkshoe tonight.

Here’s some Twitter conversation we just had . . .
technosailor What do you want me to ask Liz Strauss (@lizstrauss) tonight on the show?

ME What questions do you want me to ask @technosailor when I hijack his talk shoe at talkshoe tonight?

AmberCadabra @lizstrauss In 140 characters? are you crazy? LOL

technosailor @lizstrauss is this a hostile takeover of the Aaron Brazell Show by you? Geez… I guess I had it coming 😉

ME @technosailorYou never know what will happen when you and I are together. That’s part of why people always show up.

technosailor @lizstrauss we’re not going to talk about Vegas casino stories in the wee hours of the morning are we? :-p

ME @technosailor What happens in Vegas . . . hmmmm . . . I’m bring my brothers Angelo and Pasquale. http://is.gd/RYT

Be There!!

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–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Thanks to Week 145 SOBs

August 2, 2008 by Liz

Successful and Outstanding Bloggers

Let me introduce the bloggers
who have earned this official badge of achievement,

and the right to call themselves
Successful Blog SOBs.

I invite them to take a badge home to display on their blogs.

the Secret Diary of a Bonafide Marketing Genius

They take the conversation to their readers,
contribute great ideas, challenge us, make us better, and make our businesses stronger.

I thank all of our SOBs for thinking what we say is worth passing on.
Good conversation shared can only improve the blogging community.

Should anyone question this SOB button’s validity, send him or her to me. Thie award carries a “Liz said so” guarantee, is endorsed by Kings of the Hemispheres, Martin and Michael, and is backed by my brothers, Angelo and Pasquale.

Want to become an SOB?

If you’re an SO-Wanna-B, you can see the whole list of SOBs and learn how to be one by visiting the SOB Hall of Fame– A-Z Directory . Click the link or visit the What IS an SOB?! page in the sidebar.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

August 1-2, 2008 — Site Meter Code Crashes Thousands of Blogs

August 2, 2008 by Liz

This Blog Was One of Them

Apologies to anyone who tried to visit this blog using IE6 or IE7 last night. Site meter code was bring down this site whenever it was loaded by those browsers.

Thousands of sites including b5media sites and Consumerist.com use site meter code as part of their tracking an analytics.

What to do if this is happening on your blog?

Remove the site meter code and paste it into a notepad document. It’s usually placed in the header or the fooler and is bookmarked with

Then visit www.sitemeter.com using Internet Explorer. Makes sense that when their error is gone, yours will also be.

Thanks to Darren Paul, Consumer/Lifestyle Publicist for the email this morning about this.
Hat tip to oneprojectcloser for the verification.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Document Elegance

Beach Notes by Guest Writer Suzie Cheel

Dial In or Text In to Be Part of the Conversation!

9 EST / 8 CHICAGO TIME

Want to become an SOB?

This Blog Was One of Them

What to do if this is happening on your blog?

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