How People Read Web Content - Might Surprise You...

Infographic:

How People Read Online Content? 

They don’t read at all - they only scan…

6 Facts About Reading Online:

• Web-users focus 80% of their time ABOVE the page fold - barely any scrolling…
  
• Most web visitors look at 100% of the visuals (photos, slides, graphics)
  
• While the average adult reads about 250 words per minute (one page) - the average person will read less than 62 words on a web page
  
• Use high-quality, large images on your website - and place the most important content ABOVE the fold
  
• On your website use bold, italics or pops of color to highlight important content.
  
• Use numbered and bulleted lists on your website to structure your content

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See the complete Infographic here:

https://www.slideshare.net/BoostTheNews/how-people-read-online


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Books by Doris-Maria Heilmann:

Audiobooks for Success

Valuable guide book for authors, audiobook publishers, narrators, voice-over artists, and audiobook listeners. Learn how to create, produce, publish, and market your audiobooks.

https://books2read.com/u/bPRRyJ

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07W81MN2Z

111 Tips to Create Impressive Videos:
How to Plan, Create, Upload and Market Videos
https://www.books2read.com/u/3GYnpa

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BYDH41S/

111 Tips To Make (More) Money With Writing
The Art of Making a Living Full-time Writing -
An Essential Guide for More Income as Freelancer
https://books2read.com/u/bWZMjz

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1988664187

111 Tips on How to Market Your Book for Free:
Detailed Plans and Smart Strategies for Your Book’s Success
https://books2read.com/u/bMre1a

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B018RA72LY

111 Tips to Get Free Book Reviews:
Best Strategies for Getting Lots of Great Reviews
plus 1,200+ reviewer contact links
https://books2read.com/u/mZ5nx5

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B018RA72LY/

111 Tips to Create Your Book Trailer
How to Create, Where to Upload and How to Market Your Videos
https://books2read.com/u/mVZkjr

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CHWX6X2/

Book Marketing on a Shoestring:
How Authors Can Promote their Books 

Without Spending a Lot of Money
https://books2read.com/u/mZ5gdp

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1988664225

Hello Friends, visit my Author Page here:

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How to Choose the Best Web Hosting

Most site owners shop their web hosting by price.  A budget might be certainly an important thing to consider, but since the differences in hosting prices are negligible, there are other features and more important factors when choosing the perfect hosting.

PRICES

Many web hosting services let you choose from several types of packages, each with a different price and slightly different range of offerings. Prices can range from $4.25/month to over $40/month. These price differentials can be attributed to the different features included within each plan and to the eagerness of some newer hosting companies, to grow their brand by offering extremely low rates. 

CUSTOMER/TECHNICAL SUPPORT

Customer support in a web hosting service should be efficient and effective, as well as polite and responsive. Your hosting service should quickly answer when contacted and be able to solve your problems right away. 

CONTROL

Do you have all the access you need, and can you find all the functions you require for running your website?  Is there proper documentation and help articles?  Do you have a user-friendly control panel? 

The situation is ideal if you have full control of your site and can manage it on your own – most of the time.

SERVER FEATURES

A good hosting service offers both Linux and Windows servers and enables you to move between when necessary.

BACKUPS

Choose a hosting service that backs up your web content regularly.

BANDWIDTH AND DISK SPACE

Even if your site is small at the moment, you should look for a minimum of 5 GB of disk space and 250 GB of bandwidth from your web hosting plan. Many web hosts are offering an unlimited amount of both at a very favorable price. 

EASE OF USE

Choose a web host who‘s control panel is easy to use. 

RELIABILITY

Look for hosting services that guarantee uptime, and will tell you exactly how they implement this promise.

Four Popular Hosting Services:

  

iPage 

Best for: Small business owners and bloggers looking for a low-priced, feature-rich service to get their sites up quickly and affordable.

Best Value: $4.50/Month

Bandwidth: Unlimited

Disk Space: Unlimited

  

Just Host 

Best for: Inexperienced webmasters looking for a hosting provider with a well organized, easy-to-use user interface at an affordable price.

Best Value: $4.45/month

Bandwidth: Unlimited

Disk Space: Unlimited

BlueHost 

Best for: Webmasters looking for instant website setup, an intuitive control panel design and the option to purchase additional professional-grade site builders.

Best Value:$6.95/month

Bandwidth: Unlimited

Disk Space: Unlimited

  

Host Monster 

Best for: Professional or novice webmasters who require speedy customer phone support and are looking for a plan offering unlimited email accounts.

Best Value:$5.95/month

Bandwidth: Unlimited

Disk Space: Unlimited

  
The features offered by each provider, as well as the cost of their services, changes over time, so it is important to do your own vetting before deciding which service works best for your business.

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Women Power: Who Runs the World?

Who runs the world?  148 women, you can take as your role models. 
We have made a canon.  This is the thing that usually says which male artists, scientists, thinkers are necessary for the world. 
But not with us!  Let's start with the canon of women in Science:

• Florence Nightingale, a nurse, invents the visualization of data material.
• Getrude Belle Elion, pioneer of chemotherapy
• Hedy Lamarr invented the frequency hopping method in 1941.
• Hildegard von Bingen, Benedictine, abbess, poet, composer, universal scholar
• Jane Goodall, a behavioral scientist, studied the behavior of chimpanzees.
• Josephine Cochrane invented the hand-operated dishwasher in 1872.
• Maria Sibylla Merian, natural scientist, and artist
• In 1947 Maria Telkes develops the solar heating system for single-family houses.
• Marie Curie, Nobel Laureate in Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911)
• Shirley Ann Jackson, physicist. Her research work made mobile faxes, tone dial telephones, solar cells and fiber optic cables possible.
• Tabitha Babbitt invented the circular saw in 1812.
• Ada Lovelace invented the first computer algorithm.
• Alice H. Parker developed an adjustable gas heating system in 1919.
  
• Theory and Politics
• Akiko Morimatsu and Mizue Kanno are fighting for better protection against the effects of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima.
• Angela Davis, civil rights activist, philosopher, humane scientist, and writer
• Asli Erdogan, publicist, author of the essay collection "Not even silence still belongs to us".
• Audre Lorde, writer, and activist
• Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, Historian
• bell hooks, literary scholar and advocate of feminist and anti-racist approaches
• Betty Friedan, publicist
• Carola Stern, co-founder of Amnesty International Germany
• Christiane Amanpour, journalist, an international chief-correspondent for CNN
• Elinor Ostrom, a political scientist
• Elisabeth Bronfen, cultural and literary scholar
• Ellen DeGeneres, actress, presenter, comedian and author
• Emma Goldman, anarchist, peace activist, antimilitarist, atheist and feminist theorist
• Eva Illouz, sociologist
• Fatima El-Tayeb, historian and screenwriter
• Femen, feminist artists and protest group critical of the government founded in Kiev in 2008
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Professor of Literary Studies
• Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel
• Grada Kilomba, author, psychologist, theorist, and interdisciplinary artist
• Hannah Arendt, political theorist, and publicist
• Hedwig Dohm, writer, and feminist
• Iris Marion Young, a political scientist
• Ijeoma Oluo, Author
• Joan Didion, journalist, and writer, author of "Das weiße Album" (The White Album)
• Judith Butler, philosopher, and political scientist
• Julia Kristeva, literary theorist, psychoanalyst, writer and philosopher
• Katharina Oguntoye and Dagmar Schultz, authors
• Laurie Penny, journalist, and author
• Lynn Hunt, historian
• Madeleine Albright, former US Secretary of State
• Margaret Bourke-White, Photographer, War Coverage
• Martha Nussbaum, Philosopher, and Professor of Law and Ethics
• Mary Beard, ancient historian, and feminist
• Mary Wollstonecraft, author, philosopher, and feminist
• May Ayim, poet, teacher and activist of the Afro-German Movement
• Michelle Obama, attorney, former First Lady of the United States.
• Naomi Klein, journalist, globalization critic and political activist
• Nellie Bly, journalist, "Ten Days in the Madhouse."
• Noah Sow, author, musician, label operator, activist, media critic, producer and artist
• Olympe de Gouges, revolutionary, women's rights activist, writer, playwright
• Petra Kelly, politician, peace activist and founding member of the Green Party
• Pierra Aiello, a politician, sits for five stars in the Italian Parliament
• Pussy Riot, feminist, government and church critical punk band founded in Moscow in 2011
• Rebecca Solnit, writer, journalist, essayist and cultural historian
• Rosa Luxemburg, theorist, and author
• Silvia Federici, scientist, lecturer, and Marxist radical feminist activist
• Simone de Beauvoir, writer, philosopher and feminist
• Simone Veil, politician, and former French Minister
• Tupoka Ogette, trainer, cultural expert
• Vandana Shiva, scientist, social activist and globalization critic
• Virginia Woolf, writer, "A Room Alone."
• Wendy Brown, a political scientist

Authors

Adrienne Rich, An Atlas of the Difficult World.

Agatha Christie, Miss Marple, and Hercule Poirot

Alison Bechdel, "Fun Home - A Family of Drawn."

Anna Akhmatova, poetry

Anna Seghers, The Seventh Cross.

Arundhati Roy, "The God of Little Things."

Astrid Lindgren, "Pippi Longstocking"

Audre Lorde, "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House"

Azar Nafisi, "Read Lolita in Tehran"

Barbara Yelin, Irmina

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, "More feminism! A Manifesto"

Christine Nöstlinger, "The Fire-Red Friederike"

Elfriede Jelinek, "The Piano Player"

Emily Brontë, "Storm Heights"

George Eliot, Middlemarch.

Grace Metalious, "Peyton Place"

Han Kang, "The Vegetarian."

Harper Lee, "Who's bothering the Nightingale"

Ingeborg Bachmann, "The Hourly Time"

Irmgard Keun, "The Artificial Silk Girl"

Jane Austen, "Emma"

Jeanette Winterson, "Oranges aren't the only fruit."

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter.

Johanna Spyri, "Heidi"

Judith Kerr, "When Hitler stole the pink rabbit."

Margaret Atwood, The Story of the Maid.

Marge Piercy, "The Woman at the Abyss of Time"

Marguerite Duras, The Lover.

Marjane Sartrapi, "Persepolis"

Mary McCarthy, The Clique.

Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"

Maya Angelou, "I know why the trapped bird sings."

Nino Haratishvili, "The Eighth Life"

Sylvia Plath, "The Glass Bell"

Suzanne Collins, "The Tributes of Panem"

Virginie Despentes, "Baise-moi - Fuck Me"

Wisawa Szymborska, poetry

Zadie Smith, "Show your teeth"

Art & Culture

Alice Guy-Blaché, film pioneer

Aretha Franklin, soul singer, songwriter, and pianist

Artemisia Gentileschi, painter

Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed, artist

Ava du Vernay, film director, producer and screenwriter

Beyoncé, singer

Carole King, composer, and singer-songwriter

Cher, singer

Cindy Sherman, photo artist

Coco Chanel, fashion designer

Edith Head, costume designer

Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer

Fanny Mendelssohn, composer

Fatima Begum, director

Frida Kahlo, painter

Georgia O'Keeffe, painter

Guerilla Girls, group of artists

Courtney Love, rock singer

Ida Lupino, Actress, Producer, Director, Writer

Jane Campion, Director

Jane Goldman, Screenwriter

Janis Joplin, rock singer

Käthe Kollwitz, graphic artist, painter, sculptor

Kathleen Kennedy, film producer

Kathryn Bigelow, director

Lena Dunham, director, actress, artist, writer

Lynne Ramsay, Director, Screenwriter, Producer

Lynn Hershman Leeson, artist, researcher, filmmaker

Madonna, singer, songwriter

Marina Abramovic, action artist

Martha Argerich, pianist

Meret Oppenheim, Artist

Mira Nair, Director

Missy Elliot, hiphop superstar, and producer

Nina Simone, jazz and blues singer, pianist and songwriter

Pauline Kael, film critic

Pina Bausch, choreographer

Pipilotti Rist, video artist

Sofia Coppola, Director

Tazuko Sakane, Japanese director-pioneer

Tina Turner, singer

Tove Jansson, writer, comic writer, graphic artist, illustrator, and painter

Valie Export, media artist, performance artist, and filmmaker

Yoko Ono, artist, peace and human rights activist

The 100 Best Companies to Work from Home

As more and more companies accept and integrate telecommuters into their business models, 2018 is an ideal time for job seekers to pursue their search for a better, more flexible job.  Some of the fastest-growing remote career categories are therapy, virtual administration, client services, tutoring, and translations. Get lots of tips for freelance working in 111 Tips To Make Money With Writing.

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FlexJobs released its annual list of the top 100 companies with the highest number of part-time or entirely remote job openings:

https://www.vipkidreview.com/tag/applying-to-vipkid/

https://join.appen.com/

https://www.conduent.com/

https://www.rev.com/freelancers

https://www.liveops.com/

https://www.ttecjobs.com/

https://www.amazon.jobs/

https://www.sykesassistance.com/

https://jobs.dell.com/

https://workingsolutions.com/

https://www.languageline.com/

https://careers.kellyservices.com/ca/en/


See the complete Flex list of 100 companies here: https://www.flexjobs.com/

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Books by Doris-Maria Heilmann:
111 Tips to Create Impressive Videos:
How to Plan, Create, Upload and Market Videos
https://www.books2read.com/u/3GYnpa

111 Tips To Make Money With Writing
The Art of Making a Living Full-time Writing
An Essential Guide for More Income as Freelancer
https://books2read.com/u/bWZMjz

111 Tips on How to Market Your Book for Free:
Detailed Plans and Smart Strategies for Your Book’s Success
https://books2read.com/u/bMre1a

111 Tips to Get Free Book Reviews:
Best Strategies for Getting Lots of Great Reviews
plus 1,200+ reviewer contact links
https://books2read.com/u/mZ5nx5

Book Marketing on a Shoestring:
How Authors Can Promote their Books Without Spending a Lot of Money   
https://books2read.com/u/mZ5gdp

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Trump Refuses to Help - Please Donate for Syrian War Refugee Families

Canadian volunteer Charmaine Craig who is now helping families for over two months in a war refugee camp in Lebanon, near the Syrian border, wrote an update about her humanitarian efforts during one of the worst winter conditions in years.  

Please see also her ebook HELPING WAR REFUGEES, 

which covers her time as a volunteer in Greece 2015/16 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MUA95AL/

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It's only $2.99 and revenue goes 100% to feed people whose homes are bombed, who have no job, lost everything... and help them to heat their tents.

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Charmaine writes: "I just realized that I haven't done an update on here in awhile. Since the last update, I sponsored a food and fuel distribution to 55 families in honor of my granddaughter Hailey's birthday. Each family received enough rice, chickpeas, lentils, bulgar, pinto beans, sugar, salt, tea and cooking oil for one month.  In addition, each family received 20 litres/5Gal of fuel to help keep warm.  And trust me they needed it - that day a major storm front came in. .

Recently I co-sponsored a blanket and heating fuel distribution to a small settlement camp of 46 families 

that had not received any aid at all in over a year!

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"I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your donations.  All distributions at SalamLADC are funded by volunteers and their generous supporters--without you this would not be possible.   Donations can save lives - and they give hope to those who had none."

Thank you!
Love Charmaine

Please help Charmaine to feed and buy heating material for people who have to live during this harsh winter.  Read her book where she explains the refugee situation and that the large organizations and many governments NOT helping at all...   Americans, Russians and several others have billions for bombs and airplanes, but don't care or give any food to the victims of this horrible 6-year war!!! 

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How Silicon Valley Could Take Down Trump

Tech leaders in Silicon Valley know from personal experience how damaging Donald Trump’s immigration ban is for the United States because many of them were born somewhere else themselves. A 2016 study found that 51 percent of billion-dollar U.S. tech start-ups were founded by immigrants. Here are 11 chief executives and founders of tech companies who immigrated to the United States. See them all:
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/photos/2017/02/12-immigrants-behind-some-of-silicon-valleys-biggest-companies

What exactly could these companies do? The better question is: What couldn’t they? Google could ensure that search results around important topics, like immigration and the environment, point to the work of factual nonpartisan groups, not the nonsense from "fake-news" Web sites, or even messaging from the White House. For example, when people search “Is crime at an all-time high,” which Trump has falsely asserted, Google could ensure it sends users to F.B.I. data that shows that crime, in fact, has fallen steadily for decades.
Apple, likewise, could push an update out to Americans’ iPhones giving them an option to add contact information for their local and state officials. When you open Twitter in the morning, the social network could figure out how to marry contentious tweets with corresponding viewpoints. Amazon could mail everyone a copy of the U.S. Constitution. (At the very least, they could send a couple of copies to the White House.)

These are not partisan issues, but democratic ones. And modern brands, which purportedly stand for things, should be allowed to express a viewpoint in our post–Citizens United world—and they should also have the courage to do so confidently without fearing reprisals from investors on Wall Street.

For some tech companies, even the biggest ones, going up against the Trump administration is probably a little daunting. Take, for example, Trump’s taunts toward Amazon and Jeff Bezos.  “Believe me,” Trump said about Amazon during one of his public fulminations last year, “if I become president, oh, do they have problems; they’re going to have such problems.”

With Jeff Sessions as the attorney general and his alleged history of unethical statements and actions, you could easily imagine anti-trust threats being used to fend off a tech giant like Amazon. But at the end of the day, Trump isn’t going to want to do anything that could hinder his job growth. 

And going after a company that employs more than 268,000 people won’t be a smart move.

Read the whole article at Vanity Fair:

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/02/how-silicon-valley-can-take-down-trump

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October 8, 2016: Indie Author Day

Mark your calendar for October 8, 2016: Indie Author Day.  On this day, indie authors and all members of the writing community will gather at their local libraries to participate in community-based activities like author panels, book readings, writing workshops, presentations from local industry specialists and more.  

Why Should I Participate in Indie Author Day?

Besides being a unique opportunity for libraries and authors to connect locally and globally, Indie Author Day offers an exciting chance to network, discover new friendships and form business partnerships. It’s incredibly important for all authors, regardless of whether they’re traditionally or independently published, to get involved with their fellows in the writing community, shop at their local bookstores, and frequent their local libraries. These are the individuals and the institutions who will be your biggest support group.

Read more at: IngramSpark    

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Edward Snowdon's Security Advice for Internet Users

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Journalist Micah Lee met Edward Snowden in his exile in Moscow, Russia.  Lee described in an article their meeting and what advice Snowden has for the average digital user.  In most of Snowden’s interviews he speaks broadly about the importance of privacy, surveillance reform, and encryption. 

Here are some easy, but important snippets from their conversation. It will help people of all technical backgrounds understand and begin to strengthen their own security and reclaim a level of privacy:

Step 1: Encrypt your Phone Calls and Text Messages. 
You can do that through the smartphone app SIGNAL, by Open Whisper Systems.  It is free, and you can just download it immediately.  And anybody you are talking to now, their communications, if it’s intercepted, can’t be read by adversaries.  SIGNAL is available for iOS and Android, and, unlike a lot of security tools, is very easy to use. 


Step 2: Encrypt your Hard Disk.
This way if your computer is stolen the information is not obtainable to an adversary — pictures, where you live, where you work, where your kids are, where you go to school. Micah Lee wrote a couple of months ago a great article how to encrypt your laptop. 
Snowdon: “At every page that you land on, information is being stolen. It’s being collected, intercepted, analyzed, and stored by governments, foreign and domestic, and by companies. You can reduce this by taking a few key steps.”


Step 3: Use a Password Manager, such as KeePassX. 
One of the main things that gets people’s private information exposed, are data dumps. Lee: “Your credentials may be revealed because some service you stopped using in 2007 gets hacked, and your password that you were using for that one site also works for your Gmail account. A password manager allows you to create unique passwords for every site that are unbreakable, but you don’t have the burden of memorizing them.  Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, GitHub, Battle, and tons of other services all support two-factor authentication." 


Step 4: Use Tor, a Free Software  
Snowden: “I think Tor is the most important privacy-enhancing technology project being used today. I use Tor personally all the time. Tor provides a measure of security and allows you to disassociate your physical location.  Tor Browser is a great way to selectively use Tor to look something up and not leave a trace that you did it. It can also help bypass censorship when you’re on a network where certain sites are blocked.”


“You don’t need to hide everything from the adversary.  You don’t need to live a paranoid life, off the grid, in hiding, in the woods in Montana.  What we do need to protect are the facts of our activities, our beliefs, and our lives that could be used against us in manners that are contrary to our interests.  Everybody doesn’t need to know everything about us. The idea here is that sharing is OK, but it should always be voluntary.”


Read the whole interview with Edward Snowdon on Micah Lee’s site, and get lots of more in-dept information about all things internet security.  And don’t miss all the other valuable tips in the articles at Lee’s site. 

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