Putting Together a Magazine. How I Make "Spain Is Different"

For the last two months I have been putting together a weekly magazine called “Spain is Different” It is a round up of news from Spain including oddities, sport, corruption and fun. I thought that it would be good to tell you how I do it to get the time down to around 3-4 hours to produce and distribute it and also give it a personal touch.

The magazine is a collaborative effort of course. I put it together myself but it takes a lot of input from others which I curate and place it the magazine. I use social media a lot to put this together and I thought you would be interested to know the process I use to put together the Spain is Different experience.

 
A Short Post About Appledependence

I have recently picked up my daughter from Alicante airport. She has come to visit for Christmas from University in the UK. This means that we now have even more devices connected up to the wifi signal in our house.

I have an iPad, an iPhone, a Macbook pro and Apple TV.

 
The Laptop Entrepreneur and The Crisis

Just in case you haven’t noticed, I think a few people may have mentioned it, but there are others living in denial or in some cloud somewhere, there is a World Economic Crisis going on right now. Surprised? You may have heard something about it, the Eurozone crisis, the credit crunch, companies falling like ninepins, even Kodak went recently… Yes there is a crisis going on. We are in a period of flux and change and that is certain.

However out of crisis comes opportunity. If you know how to work the crisis.

 
Keeping Productive in the Car: Podcasts and Preneurcast

Being a small businessman (That means having a small business not being under five foot tall) means that there is often a temptation to continually work. Unfortunately I succumb to that temptation, I generally work. One of the places that I often do work is in the car. Now I am not sending e-mails. I am not texting, although I have been known to do it at traffic lights for example. What I tend to do is to listen to podcasts.

Having an iPhone means that I can put the podcast on in the car and from that I can listen to whichever one I want. One of my most listened ones is by Dom Goucher and Pete Williams and is called Preneurcast.

 
Technologically Challenged Times

For the longest time now, the last few months to be exact, I have been trying to drag an iPhone4 out of the hands of Vodafone and into my grateful palms. My Blackberry is dying fast. Every day it decides it wants a quick siesta, after all it is in Spain and when in Spain… I get the coldest unblinking stare of the egg timer as the phone gives up.

Dec 282011
 
Automation and IFTTT

There are certain tasks that are repetitive and annoying to do but are necessary within an online business. What if you could automate a lot of those tasks. Those few seconds, minutes or hours per week it saves you add up over time don’t they.

Well a few weeks ago I saw a tweet by @AndrewNez about a service called ifttt. I then heard it recommended by @preneur on his Podcast (An excellent one you should be listening to at Preneur Media. So I looked into it.

Dec 222011
 
Creating Content Easily

Do you struggle to create online content? Do you know what content is? Do you make videos, podcasts, blog posts, take pictures etc…? If you do would you say there is a case for running out of steam and the initial impulse getting lost after a time.

 
The Curse Of Too Many Options and The Blessing Of Outsourcing

Sunday morning and I am cursed by options, not to mention two small children who cannot decide what they want to do.

 
Most Popular Posts

I have added a little box at the top left hand side of this page. It shows the most popular and widely read posts on the blog over the nine months that it has existed. I encourage you to explore and comment where appropriate. So whether you are looking for the famous “How to Make a Hitler Video” post, my views on “The Dynamism of the Spanish Entrepreneur” or the fact that if you have a brain then really you should use it, then you will find them there.

 
The Laptop Entrepreneur - The Anti Crisis Book

Wherever you go in Spain and, I am reliably informed, in the UK and many other places too you overhear the following words; “Crisis”, Recession”, “Lost Job”, “Unemployment” and various others of the same type. There is a generalised fear around that is making people scared of taking action to actually do anything because they believe there is no point, nobody is buying. I would just like to say one thing at this point, don’t believe the hype.

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