self publishing 2018

Hi everyone! Just a note to say that Dorothy has been very ill for nearly two weeks. She wrote me to apologize for her absence from this group, and lack of feedback. She'll post in more detail later, but I wanted to let you know that there's a reason you haven't heard from her recently.

You may have noticed a change in the categories in our community. If you have posted works in progress (WIP), I’ve created a category for your name. This will make it easier for us to see all of your work together, and make it easier to comment. If you don’t yet have a name category, don’t worry. As you post your WIP, I’ll create one and move your posts there. Our live session will be this Sunday, September 23rd at 03:00 GMT. You can check what time this is for you here: https://timeanddate.com/s/3nuy The link for our virtual room is: http://itdipro.adobeconnect.com/spfepiidz/

The assignment for this week is to convert your file to .epub and/or .mobi. Before you do that, you're going to want to share the doc here to get some feedback on content. To do that, you'll need to upload your word doc to Google Drive, and then get a shareable link that allows comments. Share that link in the category "Works in Progress". Google community only allows us to share links, so documents need to be stored somewhere online, and Google Drive works well for this. After you upload your doc to Google Drive, click on "get shareable link" and then make sure that you choose the permissions option that says "Anyone with the link can comment". Just in case you aren't familiar with how to do this, I've attached a short video tutorial that I hope is helpful. (It's actually from last year's course, just in case you wonder why the community looks different.) If you are still having problems after watching, please let me know so we can...

If you aren't sure where to look for resources like the links to further readings, calendar of assignments, and the weekly recordings, chat transcripts and slides, they're sometimes hidden under the "about community" drop down menu. On a computer, that's to the left of the screen. Click on the arrow to the right of that label and everything will appear in a drop down menu, as in the photo I've attached to this post. Let me know if you still have problems finding the links :)

The link to our virtual classroom for live sessions. http://itdipro.adobeconnect.com/spfepiidz/ Our meeting time each week is Sunday 03:00 AM UTC. Here's how that time translates for countries where our participants live: Saturday / 20:00 pm / Los Angeles Saturday / 22:00 pm / Mexico City, Quito Saturday / 23:00 pm / Toronto, Boston 0:00 midnight / Buenos Aires Sunday / 4:00 am / London Sunday / 5:00 am / Zagreb, Rome, Budapest Sunday / 6:00 am / Athens, Sana'a Sunday / 8:30 am / Mumbai Sunday / 12:00 noon / Seoul, Tokyo Sunday / 14:00 pm / Melbourne For some of you it will be Saturday night, and for some of you it will be early morning or afternoon Sunday. If your time isn't covered in this chart, you can check here: https://timeanddate.com/s/3nbd Don't worry if you can't attend live. We'll send recordings and resources after each session, and share them as links in the community.

I'll mostly be in the background during this course, along with Phil Brown, Steven Herder and Gareth Knight. You'll get email messages from me after each live session with a link to the recording, a transcript of the chat, Dorothy's slides, and any resources shared. Those will also be added to this community for your convenience. If you run into problems figuring out how things work, you can always send me a message by email, or here. Just post your problem in the "Help" category. You can make sure I see your message by putting a "+" in front of my name. I'm excited to have a chance to learn along with you!