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Fall Publishing Update

Designers have to be publishers as well ... with the internet and social media, the publishing industry is faced with a complicated road ... here's the latest publishing update:
* Newspapers are running out of time to adapt to digital future
* Newspapers' Next Move In Expanding The Reach Of Digital Ads
* The digital game plan: Is anyone doing it right?
* 3 things you must know about print marketing
* For newspapers, a less than daily future
* Print is dead? Not so fast September 20, 2012

Marketing Update : September rag

Designers need to know almost as much about marketing as marketers do!... this issue:
* 3 must-have investments: Social media, content marketing and mobile
* The Three Most Underrated Internet Marketing Strategies Of 2012
* Content marketing 101 - essential questions and answers
* 4 tips for a common-sense approach to mobile marketing
* 5 top tips for a successful event PR strategy
* 7 tips for creating amazing videos
... and more September 19, 2012

Novus Scan, a Plagiarism Scanner For Mac OS X

Novus Scan, an offline plagiarism checker, enables users to build a database of documents and then scan the database, searching for copied text. Users can import documents into its database using drag-and-drop or a file open dialog, import text that they'd like to scan, and Novus Scan compares the text to its document database using a two-step, word-by-word scanning algorithm. September 18, 2012

Search for AMERICA’S NEXT AUTHOR

American Idol set an all time record when 132 million votes were cast for the competition's season finale. What if the publishing industry could capture similar buzz -- excitement -- even passion? eBookMall wants to give it a go ... September 17, 2012

Print Advertising delivers Best ROI

For some years we've preached that online advertising is a hoax. The web turned advertising upside down -- traditional advertising has been beneficial to both the advertiser and the publisher. Not so with web advertising. Now, Shweiki Media has compiled facts and statistics from multiple studies and reports explaining why traditional print advertising WORKS. August 24, 2012

Marketing Update : August kick-off

August is BACK TO (Design) SCHOOL and designers need to know almost as much about marketing as marketers do!... this issue:
* Why content marketing is a great SEO strategy, not a short-term tactic
* Content marketing metrics: How to drive action instead of reaction
* Breathe new life into your marketing with visual content
* Eliminate 'to be' verbs in business writing
* 7 tips for creating amazing videos
... and more July 31, 2012

iPhone Scan, Print, Fax, Download and Store Documents

Mobile smart phones are changing the way we live, socialize and do our businesses. Our phones have replaced many other once-common tools, from GPS devices to handheld gaming consoles, notebooks, calendars, point-and-shoot cameras, newspapers and portable audio players. July 23, 2012

Awesome Calendar 2.0 Includes Sync To Google Tasks Feature

Yunasoft has just released the latest update for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. Awesome Calendar 2.0 retains its original features, such as auto syncing to Google Calendar, photo embeddable note making, localized current and forecasted weather, todo list management and sharing from within the app. July 22, 2012

Marketing Update : Back to (Design) School

Rolling toward August with marketing tips and tricks all designers, and developers need to know . . . it's BACK TO (Design) SCHOOL ... this issue:
* How to Tackle Your Most Aggravating Social Media Marketing Pet Peeves
* 7 expert email marketing tips you're probably missing out on
* How To Prevent Your Newsletter Emails From Ending In Spam
* PR teams can boost SEO (and sales) through Twitter
* Study: Video Boosts Mobile Ad Engagement Rates
* 7 reasons your PR efforts aren't working
* In synch with synchronized marketing
... and more July 21, 2012

Invoicing for Humans, and their Macs

Warsaw based developer, Macoscope announces availability of Invoices 1.5.1 - Invoicing for humans. This Mac app is created to make invoicing workflow easy and quick. It includes elegant document template, clients and products databases and is EU VAT regulations and sales tax compliant*. We have spent significant amounts of time, making sure that you will spend definitely less time issuing documents for your customers. July 19, 2012