[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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