Yesterday I received an interesting course offer by O’Reilly Media/ createLive: a free Live Online Course about Website Architecture and design with XML. Best part: completely Free! Of course you’ll be bound to a schedule, but after the live course, the recorded DVD would cost you $ 79. Only thing O’Reilly asks the participant is to link to this course and notify twitter ( .. done!) – quite simple, isn’t it?
Of course this is beneficial for the publisher as well, because if for example 1.000 people tweet this news * 100 followers average, that’s 100.000 potential views, a typical win-win situation
free online course: Web Architecture and Design Using XML
A lot of info is freely available or at a discounted price
We see a trend of more data becoming freely available or much cheaper. The Internet creates more win-win situations. You do need to search and filter to find the best stuff. I personally like to keep an eye on:
Interesting articles / free tutorials (nettuts) / blog posts. It helps a lot to follow the important people in your industry via twitter. You get the good content pushed into your stream (be cautious with following people: your stream fills up quickly!)
Big web companies as Sitepoint usually give a one-time discounts on new books, usually one third of the price. I receive newsletters from tech book publishers. Some of them have an ebook deal a day for $ 9.99. The other day I filled in a review on one of these publisher’s sites and I got 40% off.
There are books that sell the physical version or ebook, but give free access online to the html version:
Check out this post for more free web design ebooks
Conclusion
You get the idea.. generally you need to pay for the newest stuff and that makes sense. I am the first one to love reading complete (e)books. However, sometimes attending a free webinar or checking the author’s blog posts, you can get a lot of free info already. So get on the forums, mailing lists, get to follow influential people on twitter, sharing is caring!
The Internet has made info consumption like fast food, but if we set the appropriate filters and sensors, we can keep a sane and not-to-expensive info-diet.
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Yesterday I received an interesting course offer by O’Reilly Media/ createLive: a free Live Online Course about Website Architecture and design with XML. Best part: completely Free! Of course you’ll be bound to a schedule, but after the live course, the recorded DVD would cost you $ 79. Only thing O’Reilly asks the participant is to link to this course and notify twitter ( .. done!) – quite simple, isn’t it?
Of course this is beneficial for the publisher as well, because if for example 1.000 people tweet this news * 100 followers average, that’s 100.000 potential views, a typical win-win situation
free online course: Web Architecture and Design Using XML
A lot of info is freely available or at a discounted price
We see a trend of more data becoming freely available or much cheaper. The Internet creates more win-win situations. You do need to search and filter to find the best stuff. I personally like to keep an eye on:
Conclusion
You get the idea.. generally you need to pay for the newest stuff and that makes sense. I am the first one to love reading complete (e)books. However, sometimes attending a free webinar or checking the author’s blog posts, you can get a lot of free info already. So get on the forums, mailing lists, get to follow influential people on twitter, sharing is caring!
The Internet has made info consumption like fast food, but if we set the appropriate filters and sensors, we can keep a sane and not-to-expensive info-diet.
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