Susan Smith Nash's Blog, page 27

Free: Technical / Professional Writing in a Device-Driven World

While technical and professional writing goals have remained the same, the world in which such writing is being produced has not. Smartphones, tablets, social media, GIS-enabled extreme interactivity have changed the way we communicate dramatically in just the last 18 months. What is the impact on you? How must you change your approach to maintain effectiveness?


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Creating Quick, Responsive Web and Mobile Map Applications

It is not
easy to find a GIS web app builder that takes you all the way from the basic
initial steps of familiarizing yourself with HMTL, CSS, and JavaScript to
fairly complicated web applications. 



Building Web and Mobile ArcGIS Server Applications with JavaScript, by Eric Pimpler and published by Packt Publishing has
two main advantages: first, you can use high-quality GIS data (or at least

Narrative Milestones Capture Hearts & Minds

Narrative milestones can be your secret to presentations that capture the hearts and minds of your audience for both technical and creative writing.

Have you ever listened to a presentation or a story and lost interest because it's just a jumble of information? Did you get the sense that the forest was being lost for the trees?

Or, even though the presentation was well organized and the

Seven Top Cloud File Storage and File-Sharing Sites

Cloud-based file storage and transfer solutions change all the time, and it's often hard to keep up with their new features and plans. Here are seven excellent providers of cloud file storage and transfer, and each one has scalable solutions. I've made a quick list of their main attributes, but I encourage you to visit each site. Please share your own user experience, and let me know what you

Five Easy Ways to Improve Your Audio Recordings

I'd like to start by confessing that I am a huge audio quality offender, but I'm trying to reform. I've recorded hundreds of podcasts and videocasts, and have cheerfully distributed them, thinking that pops, stumbles, background noise, and long pauses did not matter. After all, they were just going to be listened to via smartphone from a podcast or cloud-hosted file (SoundCloud or YouTube, for

Free Image-Editing Programs: A Review

It is always useful to have viable options to Photoshop
and other expensive image editing software. However, which web-based and
mobile friendly image / photo editors really work? This article
reviews a few popular (and largely free) image editing software.




PicMonkey

Picmonkey.com

Free version (which has numerous
enhancements), which allows photo editing, creating icons, badges,
and

Producing and Sharing Presentations: Quick Methods for High-Quality Output

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Simple Ways to Create Multimedia Presentations for Online Delivery

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Post-Postmodernism: What's Next?

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Interview with Lindsey Hill, Evanced Solutions: Innovators in E-Learning Series

Game-based learning continues to be one of the most engaging methods of learning for childing (as for adults), and fun, engaging learning apps can be very effective as well. Welcome to an interview with Lindsey Hill, Lead for Reading Engagement Innovation at Evanced Solutions and Evanced Games.

1.    What is your name and your relation to elearning?
 
Hello, Susan. My name is Lindsey Hill. I’m