This guest post is by Danny Iny of Firepole Marketing. A few weeks ago, I wrote a post here at problogger.net about how Firepole Marketing makes money. I explained that even though we’re less than a year old, we’ve already made over $20,000, and that over half of that came from offline sources. We wanted [...]

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Earlier this year a #cmgrchat that took place where community managers from across the country discussed the reading they do for work and for fun. More than a community managers talked about the professional and personal inspiration they gain from a good book. There are a number of titles out there that are written about social [...]

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Nearly a generation of children got turned on to reading by LeVar Burton during 155 episodes of the PBS television series Reading Rainbow. The creative minds behind that successful series, which ran from 1983 to 2006, are behind a new venture called RRKidz that plans to apply the concepts behind Reading Rainbow to iPad apps.


Read More: Reading Rainbow Re-Imagined For The iPad

This guest post is by Danny Iny of Firepole Marketing. How much time do you spend reading blogs? A few hours per week? Maybe even a few hours per day? I spend at least an hour per day, and sometimes more. You have to, if you want to keep up with the happenings in an [...]

Read More: Reading Blogs for Fun and Profit

I recently spent some time talking to Sarah Morales of Vertical Measures to discuss the new Engage and we wound up having a fun and in-depth conversation that I felts was also worth sharing with you here. Sarah: This is the updated version of the book that championed, "Engage or Die!" What are the main [...]

Read More: Reading Between the Lines: An interview about Engage and what’s next

I was not impressed by the giant dual-screen Kno tablet hardware (now gone). And, I was not impressed by Kno's iPad app when it was relesed earlier this summer (June).


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The British Library just release a freemium iPad app that provides access to more than 45,000 historical titles. It differs from other ebook readers by attempting to capture the physical visual qualities of the books including embossed covers, marbled paper, engraved illustrations maps and colored plates.British Library offers e-classics app for iPad (Reuters)British Library 19th Century Collection (iTunes App Store)A $2.99 per month subscription is required for unlimited access to the full libr [...]

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