The Interactive Multimedia Marketplace

A review of the events which took place in 1992-1993-1994 in the interactive multimedia marketplace

Increasingly, multimedia content—from music, movies, games, news, books, and digital art to sharable educational material, e-government services, and e-health services—is delivered over broadband networks. With technological advances, cloud computing applications, and social networking approaches, many exciting applications are emerging to deliver this content as Interactive Digital Media (IDM). Understanding the Interactive Digital Media Marketplace: Frameworks, Platforms, Communities and Issues presents the results of a large, industry-oriented, multi-national research program. This research seeks to discover usable business models, technology platforms, market strategies and policy frameworks for the emerging global digital economy, particularly for digital media researchers and industry entrepreneurs who wish to reach users around the world.

Here is your new author's guide to writing winning book proposals and query letters. Learn how to find free media publicity by selling solutions to universal problems. The samples and templates of proposals, query letters, cover letters, and press kits will help you launch your proposed book idea in the media long before you find a publisher. Use excerpts from your own book proposal's sample chapters as features, fillers, and columns for publications. Share experiences in carefully researched and crafted book proposals and query or cover letters. Use these templates and samples to get a handle on universal situations we all go through, find alternatives, use the results, take charge of challenges, and solve problems-all in your organized and focused book proposals, outlines, treatments, springboards, and query or cover letters.

Learn how to write, finance, produce, distribute, publicize, launch, and market documentaries-videos on DVD or similar formats and/or movie scripts. Use your personal computer and your camcorder linked together for editing. Learn about the best script-formatting software to use. Make time and money budgets. Learn how to get funding by fundraising. Write Audio-Visual scripts and turn them into reality-based documentaries for information, travel, or education. Use the Internet's Web to syndicate and disseminate your content in text, audio, or video formats. This can be a career, business, or hobby. You can work online. Documentaries may be based on reality video, life stories, or current issues in the news or in society. Popular subjects for linking your personal computer to your camcorder can be anything from world or local travel, your lectures, or life issues. You can link your personal computer to the tapes in your camcorder and broadcast at home part time or whatever hours you desire. You can transfer your files to CDs and DVDs and save them or mail them out. Podcasting refers to uploaded MP3 audio files to a Web site that offers 'podcasts'-broadcasting from a Web site online. RSS feeds are put on Web sites that offer content syndication of your writing or 'Blogs' which are online publications, diaries, or sites that allow content and comment to be inserted regularly. Now anyone can publish or broadcast via the Web and/or print-on-demand publishing software. Learn how to start and run 25+ low-cost online home-based scriptwriting or video production businesses at home. Use your video scriptwriting, public relations, and documentary producing interest.

Your Mentor's Complete Guide to 25+ Freelance Writing and Digital Video Businesses and Other Home-based Online Businessess in E-Publishing and the Digital Media. Also part two is writing skills techniques.

How to Make Money Organizing Information is about preparing, packaging, writing, creating, developing, producing, designing, locating, navigating, selling, and marketing information. It's also about writing scripts, producing videos with your camcorder, and using your personal computer hooked to your camcorder with a cable to transfer information or videos, sound, or other content to your computer. This book gives you practical information about working online at home with flexible hourseither part or full time. How to Make Money Organizing Information is for all ages and all situations. It doesn't matter whether you're home-based, have a disability, are over age 60 or a young student who wants to work part time, or need a full-time business to support yourself and your family. More than 26 businesses described can be operated using either a computer or camcorder or both linked together to transfer text, graphics, or sound at the same or different times. The guidebook is about how to start on a tight budget and operate many low-capital businesses dealing with the creation, development, and dissemination of information of all kinds for a variety of businesses and purposes. Part Two of the book is about writing for the new media/digital media and how to sell or launch your freelance writing in the media before it is published. The chapters focus on how to create, promote, and sell your information and how to research your intended markets. You can start many types of businesses at home part time from gift baskets to making dolls for medical offices, but these business-based homes work with information online and on disk, in print, and sent through e-mail attachments. Check out the associations and training programs information in the appendices.

How can you quickly make money at home and online with your digital 8 video camcorder, your personal computer, some software such as PhotoShop and Windows XP, and perhaps, your digital camera? You can develop training materials for businesses or students. Prepare reports, a video news clipping service, package information or products. For every service or product sold, somebody can benefit by writing how-to or learning/training materials. Here are more than 25 different stay-at-home businesses that you can operate online with your digital 8 camcorder and your personal computer as a low-capital start-up business. The creative home-based persons guide to making money online with a digital 8 video camcorder, digital camera, a Personal Computer, and Video-Editing Software. Make money with your digital video camcorder and Your PC. Create training materials, business reports, services, or entertainment in a home-based business online with your personal computer. Calling all creative people to write and/or produce digital 8 camcorder videos or still picture scrapbooks and databases with sound, video, text, and graphics in their PCs. The movie-making process in Windows XP starts as you first capture home or instructional videos with your camera. People remember seven items in short-term memory. So anything you create would be better off it it came in a package or database, advertisement, or training segment based on remembering seven items. Submit what youve developed on a Tuesday, the most productive day of the week, and present only seven items to remember in a segment.