Boarding fans gather round – if you’re missing the feel of surf on your heels this winter then Bleached Surf magazine could help tide you over! (sorry)
Full of beautiful photography, this is a must-read for any surfing fans. Check out Bleached Surf here.
If dreary office life is starting to get you down, then perhaps it’s time to get back to nature. If you’ve always been green with envy listening to chilled out gap-year students relating tales of their amazing journeys through the wilderness, and if you’ve always suspected there’s a more natural way to live your life, then Bare Essentials may well be worth checking out.
Join Bare Essentials Magazine on a journey through time tracing tribal traditions and tastes for a unique, richly diverse experience deeply rooted in ancient culture.
The publication has a strong ecological bent with a focus on getting travellers back in touch with nature.
With lifestyle, health and beauty, nutrition and fitness sections, Bare Essentials has everything you need to get back to nature. So let your boss know now that you’ll be taking six months out, and get packing for the wilderness!
The Internet is revolutionising every aspect of our lives, and the teaching industry is no exception. YUDU user Richard Byrne has put together a short document with details on twelve free web tools that teachers can use.
For example, Google documents is a great way to create and share documents or spreadsheets with your class. Anyone within a group can read or edit them, it’s easy to use, and best of all completely free.
Every education professional who’s looking to make the most of technology in the classroom should check out this resource. You’ll also find info on using services such as Weebly, Wikispaces and Animoto. You can check out Twelve Essentials for Technology Integration here.
Attention students! Here at YUDU we may be a little longer in the tooth, but you can bet we haven’t forgotten our student days. If you’re looking for news, lifestyle comment and the buzz on the latest indie acts, then you just might find it within the pages of Scotscampus. It’s a magazine aimed at the Scottish student contingent, but if you’re young and trendy, you’re sure to find something relevant to you.
With Scotscampus you can keep track of the latest devlopments in the festival scene, and much more.
It’s packed with news, features, opinion, interviews, deals and to top it all off It’s quite beautifully laid out. If you’re a little bored today, try flicking through the latest edition on your lunchbreak. (Or if you’re still in uni, when you wake up) You can find the latest Scotscampus right here.
If you’re new to publishing on YUDU, there are a few quick tips you can use to market your editions, and help beef up your readership.
First of all, make sure you’re publication itself is well laid out. No matter what the subject matter, people are always more likely to pass something they come across along to their friends if it’s nicely laid out. Ensure your layout is tidy, the colour scheme is not overly garish, and any images you use are of a decent resolution. YUDU lets you tag links in your article, so make sure you pepper your work with useful, informative links. Making yourself a minor hub for exploration and communication will increase your online presence.
Secondly, once you’ve published, you need to push your digital publication. YUDU gives you some of the tools you need to do this. On the publication preview page there’s a link that lets you tweet a link to your magazine or journal. Try setting up a Twitter account specifically devoted to your publication, then you can collect followers who you think will enjoy reading what you’ve produced. Always be polite – nobody responds well to people pushing their work in a rude, or overbearing manner – this kind of behaviour is liable to get you a reputation as a spammer. It’s all about building a community of devoted fans!
Consider using other social media – why not make a Facebook fan page for your publication? Encourage your friends to join up and spread the word, and before long you’ll be attracting new and eager readers from all over the world.
Submit a link to your publication to link sharing websites such as Digg. This way people interested in your subject can search out your publications for themselves.
Promote your work through a blog – with YUDU’s embedding function you can put your digital magazine almost anywhere. This is also a great way for fans to display your work on their own blogs, increasing your publication’s exposure.
And finally, the golden rule – make sure you produce quality content! It’s no secret that competing for traffic on the Internet is a difficult business, and as the volume of written content increases, producing high-quality content is the best way to stand head-and-shoulders above the rest. Remember: whilst great content often fails to get picked up, poor quality content never gets picked up at all.
Psycho Styrene surely have one of the best names that we, at YUDU have ever heard. But there’s more to this self-described ‘sci-fi fantasy horror modelling magazine’ than an excellent moniker – Psycho Styrene is an excellent representation of why digital publishing has so much potential. Continue reading