Announcement: LiveBooks|EDU launched with affordable portfolio solutions for students & teachers

For the last few years, I’ve seen about 50 online portfolios from photographers who use LiveBooks software. The sites really stand out because they look very slick, contain large images (much like a printed portfolio) and have easy to navigate thumbnails.

The following information, describing the company’s subscription-based service for students and teachers, comes from a recent press release: LiveBooks recently announced it will provide a subscription based package for students and teachers of photography for its award-winning Web-based portfolio software. LiveBooks Lite provides users with the ability to create up to three individual portfolios with each portfolio capable of housing up to 64 images. LiveBooks Deluxe offers virtually unlimited portfolios. Both versions enable photographers to create multiple libraries to store and organize approximately 1,000 images waiting to be rotated into their online portfolios. LiveBooks|EDU Lite and Deluxe are available for monthly subscription rates of 29.95 and $59.95, respectively. The monthly subscription price includes Website hosting by LiveBooks Inc. and a unique method for entering metadata to bring a LiveBooks Website to the top of Web searches.

The pro-level versions of LiveBooks (not the student & teacher version) is sold for a one-time fee of $950-3900 (depending upon the package selected) on the LiveBooks.com website. For more information, visit https://www.livebooksedu.com and https://www.livebooks.com

NEWS: The Podcast & Portable Media Expo Coming Soon (September 29-30)

Last year (Nov. 10-12, 2005) I attended the first Portable Media Expo & Podcasting Conference (Now called the Podcast & Portable Media Expo) in Ontario, California. It was amazing. I met so many fantastic people from the world of podcasting, music and media, including …prepare for some name dropping…Chris Breen, Laura Burstein, Michael Butler, C.C. Chapman, Todd Cochrane, Paul Colligan, Adam Curry, Paul Figgiani, Dave Hamilton, Jeremy Horwitz, Mark Hunter, Leo Laporte, David Lawrence, Dennis Lloyd, Brother Love, Franklin McMahon, Ken Ray, Scott Sheppard, Phil Torrone, Rob Walsh, Ben Williams and many, many more. Here’s a link to an audio podcast report I did about the show for one of my favorite podcasts: MacVoices, hosted by Chuck Joiner, https://macvoices.com/archives/2005/512.html.

The show was voted Best New Show of 2005 by Expo Magazine. Here’s a link to the main show page: https://www.podcastexpo.com. Also, PodcastAcademy 4 looks to be a fantastic full-day event, held the day before the Expo begins (Thursday, September 28). Here’s a link to the page that describes it. https://pa.gigavox.com/series/podcastacademy.html. Below is an audio slideshow from 2005 show (it includes photos from the Podcast Academy and the Portable Media Expo). I hope to see you in Ontario, California at the end of September.

[kml_flashembed movie=”/2005PME/soundslider.swf” height=”450″ width=”450″ /] Press Play to start the audio slide show or just slide the white dot to the right for manual control.

If you cannot see the movie window above, you can access the slideshow here.

The software used to produce the slide show is Soundslides. I highly recommend it for its flexibility and ease of use. It’s available for Mac or Windows.

The Imaging Buffet 002: Apple Store NYC Grand Opening

Hello once again! I attended the May 19th opening of the Apple Store on 59th Street and Fifth Ave. in New York City and it was a very memorable visit.

Click on the image above to watch the slide show (36 images) and to listen to the audio review.

I used a fantastic product called Soundslides (soundslides.com) to make the slide show. To navigate manually through the audio and images, just drag the moving icon.

To request images for licensing, contact Andrew Darlow at ad@andrewdarlow.com. All images copyright 2006 Andrew Darlow, all rights reserved. No images or text may be used without written consent from Andrew Darlow.

PRESS PLAY BELOW TO HEAR THE IMAGING BUFFET 002 PODCAST SPECIAL EDITION (13 minutes – Includes Apple Store Visit & Queen B’s Movie Review of the Martin Scorsese film, “The Age of Innocence”). Drag the moving bar to move forward or back at any time. Or Download Podcast as an mp3 Here