[NA-Discuss] Ebooks and Audio Recordings
Loris Taylor
loristaylor1 at icloud.com
Tue Feb 3 01:25:03 UTC 2015
Dear Glenn
As a newcomer, I especially welcome your proposal. Navigating ICANN’s Ecospace has been very murky at times and I believe the development of these resources will be beneficial to all of us at Native Public Media and to all newcomers.
Loris Taylor
Native Public Media
> On Feb 1, 2015, at 10:01 AM, Glenn McKnight <mcknight.glenn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks to all for the vote of confidence..
>
> Here is more details on the idea
>
> ICANN has created introductory guidebooks for newcomers/ learners on
> various aspects of the ICANN Ecospace. These materials are either limited
> print format or on a non interactive PDF Format
>
> This proposal suggests an updating of the materials to become E Book
> resources for use on mobile, Kindle and other devices. Secondly the
> material would take advantage of the add on feature of audio reading
> capability providing audio transcription to the existing materials
>
> Key Benefits
>
> -
>
> Ebooks are searchable. You can easily search for any information in an
> ebook, instead of turning page after page.
> -
>
> Ebooks can be interactive and contain audio, video and animations, which
> can enhance the message that the author is trying to convey.
> -
>
> Subscribers to Ebooks get automatic notifications of updates for
> downloading so the most current versions are always available and
> distributed
> -
>
> Tracking of downloads and clicks throughs
> -
>
> Free widescale distribution channels to distribute Ebooks ie. Google
> Play, Archive.org, Itunes, Amazon and more
>
>
>
> Glenn McKnight
> mcknight.glenn at gmail.com
> skype gmcknight
> twitter gmcknight
> .
>
> On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Eduardo Diaz <eduardodiazrivera at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Good idea.
>>
>> -ed
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 8:37 PM, Glenn McKnight <mcknight.glenn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The Finance and Budget for FY16 has asked for submissions for
>>> consideration . I have proposed to the committee the idea of converting
>>> the myriad of ALAC Training materials into E Books with Audio
>>> recording capacity to enable the community to use the resources on their
>>> phones and e-readers. This expands the utility of these resources
>>> beyond the pdf format, plus it provides more accessibility for the
>>> resources.
>>>
>>> I am posting a request from NARALO on the community interest in
>>> supporting
>>> this idea
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Glenn McKnight
>>> mcknight.glenn at gmail.com
>>> skype gmcknight
>>> twitter gmcknight
>>> .
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