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Betreff: Free Online OpenOffice Tutorials
Datum: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 11:15:00 -0500
Von: Chris Charuhas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
An: 'Florian Effenberger' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Florian,
We just released a series of free online OpenOffice tutorials at:
http://inpics.net/
Press release is below. Best,
Chris Charuhas
Visibooks
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Frederick, MD, 8 January 2007 - Today In Pictures launched its new line of
free computer how-to tutorials, available at www.inpics.net. There are 12
online tutorials on subjects such as Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org, and
Dreamweaver 8. The tutorials can be used by anyone, free of charge.
In Pictures tutorials are based on pictures, not text. They contain
one-tenth as many words as a typical computer how-to book. How-to books
typically contain 50,000-100,000 words of text, but these online tutorials
contain only around five thousand.
The tutorials were developed as part of a U.S. Department of Education
study, to make it easier for people with learning disabilities to learn
computer subjects. When the study was completed in 2006, it showed that the
illustration-based tutorials worked well for everyone, not just those with
special needs.
All of the tutorials are free to use by anyone. Revenue is generated for In
Pictures by banner advertisements on each page. In Pictures' founder, Chris
Charuhas, says, "Our ad-based revenue model wouldn't have worked two years
ago. But now, with the growth of online advertising and the advent of
content-indexed ad systems such as Google AdSense, we think it's very
promising."
Later this year, In Pictures will release new free tutorials on Microsoft
Office 2007 programs, as well as Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, and
Fireworks. There will also be new Web programming tutorials for
non-programmers, on MySQL, PHP, and Perl.
About In Pictures
In Pictures tutorials are published by Visibooks, LLC, based in Frederick,
Maryland. The company provides two brands of illustration-based computer
learning materials: In Pictures tutorials for individuals, and Visibooks
textbooks for classroom use. In Pictures tutorials are available at
www.inpics.net.
Media Contact:
Ellie Whims
301.696.0318
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