Into the Driver's Seat

Beautiful Audio Editor is a free audio editor that you can use in the Chrome and Firefox web browsers. Beautiful Audio Editor lets you record spoken audio directly and or import audio that you have previously recorded in MP3 and WAV formats. You can edit and blend multiple tracks in the Beautiful Audio Editor. When your audio editing project is complete you can download it as an MP3 file, download it as a WAV file, or you can save it in Google Drive.

For the last few years I've recommended using Twisted Wave to record and edit audio on Chromebooks. Beautiful Audio Editor offers more options and is what I'll be using on Chromebooks from here on.

Via John Evans, Linda Foote

There is no curation without original content. However, curators can expand the readership and help their niche find meaning and insight in the material as it relates to them. 

 

There is too much information. The author explains that the real power of content marketing lies in the orginal content creation. Mixing curated content with your original content builds authority. There is a video "Is Your Content Good Enough To Be Curated"? That's where it is for all of us that write. Why would anyone curate my post?

 

Commentary first written by Jan Gordon "Covering Content Curation, Social Media and Beyond" and I adapted her commentary.

 

Read full article here: [http://bit.ly/w104L6]

Via janlgordon, Barbara Bray

Registration required, free to use. -JL

 

Robin Good: This has got to be a dream come true.

 

Create professionally-looking interactive graph charts (and soon also full infographics) with the best tool and easiest interface available out there.

 

Infogr.am makes it as easy as it can possibly be the creation of charts that will always look great and effective no matter what your design skill level is.

 

You simply choose the type of graph you want (bar, line, pie, matrix) to create, edit the existing data with your own, and you are ready to go.

 

Each chart is designed following some basic information design principles, allowing data to be easily read and for the chart to look very credible and "professional".

Also: each chart created with Infogram can be easily embedded on any web site, and customized in size and colors used.

 

Infogram integrates an online library where to save your completed work, and an upcoming online store.

Try it out now: http://infogr.am/app/  

 

Awesome. 10/10 

Via Robin Good