Web Books

I purchased this book when it first came out. He gave the name of the company he did this for in his ad for the book at the time. I simply typed in "cell phone" into each search engine and his site was number 1,2 or 3 on ALL of them. It's a great book and since then I've spoken with him numerous times on the phone he's also a consultant...all's I'll say is this guy KNOWS the inside dope on marketing...HIGHLY recommended.

I read through Nothing But 'Net this morning and must say that Michael Campbell has done an outstanding job of explaining the state of the art in Internet promotion techniques, tools and resources.

I think it is one of the best "How To" books on Internet Marketing techniques that I've seen. I highly recommend it.

What is beneficial to you as a writer, what do you need to make your career in the writing world possible? A guide to bring you a step closer to reaching your dreams.
If you are starting out as a new writer, whether you want to get into or do write poetry, e-books, articles, even audio books, or have been writing for awhile and want a little help getting published and recognized. This practical guide is for you.

Concise explanations of definitions, detailed examples of the different types of publishers, book reviewers, editors, literary agents, etc. Followed by names of companies and a brief description of what formats they want and the genres they are interested in. It also includes links to their websites, e-mail addresses and who to contact, what they offer and prices to get you started on the road to a successful writing career.

A lot of research and patience has gone into this book; well arranged and methodical, easy to read and written in plain English. Although many of the website links provided were unfortunately not connecting, do not exist or the domain name had expired. It would be hard to keep a guide like this updated as so many websites do not always survive, but otherwise it has very useful information.

For those of us who do not know or understand the writing world language and where to start, this book is a great first step on your road to becoming a successful writer. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is trying to start a career in the writing world.

As an author as well as freelancer, this reader of Ms. Jackson's book has provided invaluable information on the how-to's and wheres to gain access to almost any question a writer could ask. Organized in easy to read, well organized and informative sections and topics, Ms. Jackson offers her experience and know how to both novice and veteran writers. An added bonus is her easy, friendly manner in approaching her topics, and the friendly way in which she offers advice. I felt like I was getting advice from an old friend.

Jeanette's book outlines several tips you can apply right away. She makes generating online profits easy, affordable, and fun! Use this book to generate increased traffic to your website and more content for your web visitors to read.

Jeanette Cates' Online $uccess Tactics: 101 Ways To Build Your Small Business is a simple, straight forward, no-nonsense, "user friendly" collection of tips, tricks, and techniques designed to harness the power of the World Wide Web for low-cost promotion, visibility, sales, service and support, and more. Each page lists a different helpful idea, offering an excellent starter spark for go-getting businesses everywhere. Written for the entrepreneur and business owner, Online $uccess Tactics will prove a practical, accessible, immediately applicable "how to" manual that will swiftly improve and enhance a company's performance where it really counts -- the bottom line.

The book is well-written, particularly helpful for people they have little or no experience in Open Source. It saves time giving advice and proposing GNU products for various web-services. The most important for me was Part III, where the subject becomes more demanding and difficult : Scalability, Availability, Site-Management and Load-Balancing. Though I have not test them yet, the proposed solutions seem applicable, sound and reasonable and integrate the endeavour for a complete Open Source environment.

I'm a little biased because I hooked Thomas up with the SAMs editors, my brother was a collaborator on his earlier book, and I helped out with this one, but I only confess this to put my biases on the table: I would not have done any of that if I didn't think Thomas Schenk was up to the task, and he exceeded my wildest dreams as an opensource writer.

This is not just another book about configuring webservers. Yes, it includes how to configure the systems, how to cluster servers and all that hot jazz, but far more importantly, this book asks you to face those hard questions that make the difference between a webserver and a business webserver. This is a book from someone who knows what he's talking about; Tom was the server master behind Deja.com and currently consults for Penguin Computing. He knows your server is not a mere capital asset; a successful web venture depends on vitality and communications as much as it depends on throughput and uptime.

This is also not just another book about Linux and Apache; Tom goes to the heart of the business case for opensource on mission critical systems. There are example applications of many alternative server, eBusiness and content management packages, but these are brandnames that will change with time: The essential lessons of opensource that emerge from the many case studies will continue to be valuable long after all these names have vanished from memory.

Written much like the math textbooks of your youth (complete with exercises at the end of each section), Oracle Web Application Programming for Pl/SQL Developers is a godsend for those of us who knew you could write web apps using PL/SQL, but lacked the actual syntax to do so. Book can be used as either a reference or a tutorial guide, given that it is both comprehensive and chock full of sample code. Companion website is handy so you can copy and paste. Bottom line, if you want your browser to talk to your database and make it do neat tricks, this book will serve you well.

I found this book very helpful as it explains the basics in a very clear, easy to understand language and has lots of examples. It's a high quality interactive manual: first the concepts are described, then I was presented with exercises, which is very good as most of us learn through practice, experince. The answers and clarifications which are given after the exercises unit helped me monitor my understanding and in the end I had the complete application and a great feeling of achievement.

Excellent! Usually I am half way through a novel before I want to read rather than peruse. Not this time! It brings to mind a Dean Koontz novel, Dark Rivers of the Heart, but saturated with a twisting and turning conspiracy that sucks you in keeps you in an anxious state of suspense. A pragmatic fictional story that forces you stop and consider the world around you and question the fine-line ethics associated with our society's technological advancements--not many novelists can evoke this type of thinking in a reader.

Wow! What an incredible read, right up with the ranks of Tom Clancy, but with tecno descriptions more easy to follow for the average reader or non-computer expert. This is the type of book that is difficult to put down or to leave to casual intermittent reading. A classic example of "fiction" being more close to reality than the average person might like to think. It is a fitting sequal to Orwellean 1984. A must read for the trusting embracers of the computer age.

This book is just wonderful! It is the story of a female peregrine falcon as she migrates from Alaska to Argentina, an 8,000 mile journey. The areas the falcon visits along the way are all beautifully illustrated - the mountains of Alaska and the Yukon, the autumn hills of British Columbia, a skyscraper in Seattle, the deserts of Utah and New Mexico, and seven other places as well. A map in the front of the book shows the route the peregrine follows and the different resting areas she visits along the way. The book is written as a story, but includes lots of interesting facts that are woven beautifully into the narrative. I highly recommend this book!

I found this book to be an excellent read-along book for 5-9 year olds. Behind the lovely writing style and beautiful pictures is a plot that invites lots of questions from kids about many different subjects. (And that's the way they learn!) The book follows the migration of peregrine falcons from the arctic, through the tropics and all the way to the sub-antarctic of Argentina. It was obviously well researched, yet it is not stuffy - it has heart! Highly recommended.

I found this translation easier to read than other translations of Aristotle. It is much easier to unpack and follow, only the content needs to be wrestled with, which is a project in and of itself. It includes the Becker numbers, which makes it easier to have a discussion with a group.

A couple of years ago, I got Podcast Solutions and was really impressed with its' overall content. For its' time. Of course, with everything on the web, practically everything changes and thus, a new edition of this book had to be released. And it's still probably the best book out there. Lots of updated information on how to create, edit and upload podcasts and for the most part, do it on the cheap since if you're really looking to make a million bucks doing this, keep looking. Lots more stuff on video which has truly taken off thanks to YouTube and similar sites and newer ways to promote and get advertisers to your site. You'll also learn how to use WordPress and similar blogs and create a podcast site as a result. That's what I did with one of my clients. Not as thick as the Bibles out there but at least you won't get a hernia trying to lift it. You should be getting ideas for your own (or your clients own) podcasts within minutes of surfing thru this book.

Yes that's right, this is the perfect book for any and all podcasters. If you are a podcaster, or want to be one or just want to find out what it's all about buy this book.

The title says it all; Podcast Solutions. Chock full of info, written concisely, humorously, intelligently, informatively and in language that anyone can understand (even me) this is the one book to buy on the subject. It takes you step by step down the road to conceiving, creating, recording, producing and profiting from your show idea. This book covers every nook and cranny of the considerable field of information on both podcasts and vodcasts.

I personally have used both editions of this book to help me get my podcast going as well as optimizing it once it was up and running. What I really enjoyed about this book is how the authors explain things so that not only do you know what to do next but also why it works. Not only that there are many highlighted sections where the authors share a personal experience that really drives a point home. This brings the whole process into very sharp focus.

And their personal experience goes way beyond the technical aspects of podcasting and vodcasting. On page 85, for example, they share a tip that is critical to anyone who really wants to make effective communication with their material. And that is this; "speak as if you are speaking to one person". That one piece of advice can turn a blah and lifeless presentation into one with depth and impact. This book is loaded with tips like that.

I can't say enough good about this book. Without it I may not have gotten my podcast going. The two guys who wrote it have been doing this since it began and they know all the tricks. Don't think about, just buy the book. You'll thank me and more importantly you'll thank the authors Dan Klass and Michael W. Geoghegan.

Geoffrey Leigh Tozer
Producer - Sly Crooner

Funny that I have to rate this book if only in theory. I'm sure it would have been worth all 5 stars except, when I had trouble ordering it, I wrote to the author who said, "It was never written." Amazon should really know this. I still went ahead and ordered his book, Promoting Your Podcast: The Ultimate Guide to Building an Audience of Raving Fans. Promoting Your Podcast: The Ultimate Guide to Building an Audience of Raving Fans

Jason Van Orden was kind enough to inform me right away on this matter. I also ordered Podcasting Solutions which seems to be a favorite for lots of people, including Jason Van Orden.

Rachel, Santa Monica

Having spent hours listening to his podcasts and receiving his advice I can tell you that Jason knows about podcasting. He knows all the tricks to making your podcast sound like it was recorded professionally in a studio. He has also written another book on promoting your podcast that I would highly reccommend.