Richard Seltzer, author and publisher

• Since 1974, runs own book-publishing business.
• Since 1993, runs ebook publishing business, starting with PLEASE COPY THIS DISK, which sold public domain texts on PC diskettes. Distributors include The National Braille Press (under their "Vanilla Press" imprint) and Amazon.com  In 2001 began selling book collections on CD ROMs, and in August 2004 expanded to offering book collections on DVD as well.
• Since January 1994, has published a free electronic newsletter, Internet-on-a-Disk, which discusses Internet trends and points to Internet resources for business, education, and the blind. It is frequently cited as one of the best resources for education and for the blind (who can "read" electronic texts with computer devices that provide voice output). In February 2006 began posting that same kind of content in a blog -- "Blogging About Books" http://www.samizdat.com/blog
• Since 1995, maintains Web site http://www.samizdat.com/which was named one of the top 50 in the world by Net Guide magazine (September 1995), the best personal Web page of 1995 by Internet World Magazine (January 1996), and rated four stars by Magellan. Here you'll see the Internet the way it was and should be: useful information for free, with no advertising, and no annoying graphics or glitz. Uses content to build traffic for this Web site, which serves as a sandbox to test Internet marketing ideas (now over over half a million pages views/month, by over 150,000 visitors/month.)
• Since Jan. 2002, runs online stores at Yahoo http://store.yahoo.com/samizdat and at eBay
• Since Feb. 2006, writes and manages blog, "Blogging about Books" at http://www.samizdat.com/blog
• From June 1996 to November 2003, Richard hosted a weekly chat session about business on the Web, with entrepreneurs as guest speakers.  You can see links to edited transcripts of all those sessions at http://www.samizdat.com/chat.html In March 2006, Richard together with Sudha Jamthe started a new business chat series, this time bi-weekly and taking place at http://iblogcom.blogspot.com/

INDEPENDENT WRITER/SPEAKER/CONSULTANT -- October 1998 - October 2005, see www.samizdat.com/consult.html for details
 

• Providing Internet business consulting and redesigning the Web site of Financial Engineering News (converting pdf files -- images of the print publication -- to HTML Web pages optimized for being found by search engines and also opening opportunities for Web-based business, including advertising)
• Getronics (the Netherlands), helped make their pages more easily found through search engines
• AltaVista, wrote an extensive tutorial and help files
• Compaq, advised their ActiveAnswers project on how to build online discussion communities
• Coola, provided marketing advice and help to startup with technology to easily move content from the Web to palm and cellphone
• Datalign, provided marketing advice and help to startup which is establishing a common dictionary to facilitate online shopping
• Otter Group, managed chat sessions for a distance learning pilot involving MIT's Sloan School and Merrill Lynch
• Otter Group, served as "Master Learning Director" for pilot distance learning project being run for Harvard's Kennedy School of Government ("Managing for Value: Organizational Strategy for Nonprofits")
• Learnlots.com (now Attenza.com), wrote tutorials on How to Find People Online, Online Shopping, Best Web Stores (details on how to get the most out of Amazon, eToys, Barnes and Noble, SmarterKids, FogDog, Reel.com, Outpost, Bluefly, etown, 1-800-Flowers, and CDNow), and Create Web Pages Without HTML
• AuctionRover (now owned by GoTo Auctions), wrote weekly column ("Beyond the Basics") for the auction support site AuctionRover.com, now owned by GoTo Auctions
• Wrote a regular column for the shopping comparison site CompareItAll.com
• Broadcast a weekly segment on the radio program "The Computer Report," which is broadcast live on WOTW 900 AM, Nashua, NH and WGAW, Gardner, MA, 12-2 PM Sundays

Internet Evangelist, Internet Business Unit (Dec. 1997-Oct. 1998), Internet Business Group (Sept. 1994-Nov. 1997)

• Helped develop strategy and marketing messages for Internet-related business. Supported various Internet-related sales and marketing activities (including serving as on-line interviewer/host for Webcasts). Wrote Internet-related articles for publication in print and on the Web.
• Spoke at Internet-related events and consulted with customers, emphasizing new mind-set and new business models.
• Wrote book for Digital -- The AltaVista Search Revolution -- published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill, now out in a second edition and also available in Braille, from the National Braille Press, and in Hebrew and Japanese translations. "Indispensable," said Library Journal, Feb. 1, 1997, p. 102. "This complete guide to using the AltaVista web searching/indexing system will be indispensable to both librarians and patrons... Get one copy to circulate, nail one down in the computer lab, and pass one around the reference desk." Winner of the "Distinguished Technical Communication Award", the highest award given by the Society for Technical Communication Publications.

• Helped awaken Digital to the business opportunities offered by the Internet and, with a handful of others, helped move the corporation in a new direction. Helped launch Digital's Internet business -- drafting marketing plans, doing customer presentations/demos, advising sales people, preparing for trade shows.
• Acted as a change agent, an Internet advocate -- responding flexibly to changing circumstances, helping to publicize and pull together related efforts of people who work in disparate organizations, but have common or complementary goals.
• Built awareness of Digital's Internet capabilities so Marketing and Sales people could use them more effectively and take advantage of opportunities as they open up.
• Used articles, public speaking, presentations, demos, direct personal contact, and video production to accomplish these goals. ("Glimpse of the Future" , Internet video, awarded "Best Internet Marketing" at Internet World, June 1994) .

Senior Communications Consultant & Editor of MGMT MEMO 1984-93

Editor of DECWORLD 1980-84

Associate Editor of DECWORLD 1979-80

Benwill Publishing, Boston, MA, Editor of technical trade magazines 1973-79
Editor -- Electronics Test Magazine; Managing Editor -- Circuits Manufacturing Magazine; Contributor -- Microelectronics Times, Minicomputer News, Electromechanical Design, & Digital Design.

Various teaching and translating jobs 1968-73

US Army Reserves, Russian Linguist (Army Security Agency), top secret/crypto security clearance, 1969-75

The Cobb Group/Ziff-Davis, Contributing writer, 1997-1998 Wrote column for The Internet Search Advantage, a monthly newsletter.
Nova Southeastern University, Tutor, 1997-1998 Provided on-line help for students who are working on an Ed.D. in distance education.
 

• My Internet: a Personal View of Internet Business Opportunities by Richard Seltzer, on CD, includes four books, 162 articles, and 49 newsletter issues that will inspire you and provide the practical information you need to build your own personal Web site or Internet-based business, helping you to become a player in this new business environment.
• Web Business Boot Camp: Hands-on Internet lessons for manager, entrepreneurs, and professionals by Richard Seltzer (Wiley, 2002). No-nonsense guide targets activities that anyone can perform to achieve online business success. Reviews.
• Take Charge of Your Web Site, ebook, MightyWords, March 2001.
• Shop Online the Lazy Way, paperback, Macmillan, August 1999. Braille edition published by National Braille Press.
• The AltaVista Search Revolution, paperback, Osborne/McGraw-Hill, Nov. 1996. Second edition April 1998. Hebrew and Japanese translations. Braille edition published May 1997 by National Braille Press.
• The Social Web: social aspects of the Web and how to build a successful personal or business Web site, on diskette and CD, on diskette and CD form B&R Samizdat Express, 1998.
• The Way of the Web: the Internet business environment and how to adapt to it, on diskette and CD from B&R Samizdat Express, 1995.
• "Why didn't the walls come tumbling down? An outsider's view of distance education," chapter in Perspectives of Web Course Management, published by Canadian Scholars Press, 2000.
• "Reinventing Publishing in a Global Electronic Mall," chapter in The Electronic Publishing Business & Its Market , edited by Brian and Margot Blunden, International Electronic Publishing Research Centre (IEPRC), Reading, England, 1994.

• The Attic, a romantic thriller, co-author with Ethel Kaiden, 2006 (unpublished)
• Breeze, a time-shift novel, set in the present-day as well as in the time of the Trojan War, 2002 (unpublished)
• Everything but the Internet (novels, children's books, articles, criticism, short stories, plays, poems and book reviews by Richard Seltzer), a text CD containing all of Richard's non-Internet works, soon to be available from B&R Samizdat Express http://store.yahoo.com/samizdat
• The Name of Hero, an historical novel,  first novel of trilogy set in Russia, Ethiopia, Manchuria and Mount Athos, 1896-1919, hardcover, Tarcher/Houghton Mifflin, 1981, re-issued on diskette by B&R Samizdat Express, 1994.
• Sandcastles, a contemporary novel, 1987,1989,1991 (unpublished)

• The Lizard of Oz, an underground classic, paperback, B&R Samizdat Express, 1974.
• Now and Then and Other Tales from Ome, paperback and hardcover, B&R Samizdat Express, 1976.

• Screen plays
• Family on Demand, proposal for and first episode of sitcom, co-written with Ethel Kaiden
• Spit and Polish, set at Fort Polk, LA, basic training in 1970, during the Viet Nam War.
• Stage plays
• Without a Myth, a multi-media production of this play was performed by the Valley Repertory Theater in Spokane, WA, Nov. 2001.
• Mercy, based on Mercy Warren and General Johnny Burgoyne at the time of the American Revolution, included on text CD -- The American Revolution and Early Republic, B&R Samizdat Express 2001.
• Rights Crossing, based on Susanah Wright and events near Wright's Crossing, at the Susquehanna River during the American Revolution, included on text CD -- The American Revolution and Early Republic, B&R Samizdat Express 2001.

Ethiopia Through Russian Eyes, translation from the Russian of two books by Alexander Bulatovich about his travels in Ethiopia in the 1890s -- From Entotto to the River Baro, and With the Armies of Menelik II. Published in paperback and hardcover by Africa World Press/Red Sea Press in 2000.

University and High School

• U. of Mass., Amherst, M.A., Comparative Literature (Russian, French, and German), 1972-73
• Yale Graduate School, Comparative Literature (Clark-Eldridge Fellowship), 1969-70
• Yale, B.A., English major, 1965-69
• Brentwood School, Essex, England, GCE "A-level" exams in French, Modern History, and English, 1964-65
• Holderness School, Plymouth, NH, high school diploma, 1960-64

• San Angelo Air Force Base, TX, Russian linguist training, 1970
• Defense Language Institute, Monterery, CA, refresher courses in Russian, Aug. 1972 and June 1973

• The Weber Group, one-on-one tutorial in public speaking, 1995
• Dale Carnegie, 1993
• Executive Technique, Presentation Skills, 1991

French, German, Russian

"Surviving as a small business in the age of Google. Tips on how to generate search-engine traffic." Speech delivered at NEXPO, the newspaper technology show, in Washington, DC, in June 2004. Article based on it.

"Selling your own stuff at eBay, tips for serious sellers." Speech/tutorial delivered in Boston in June 2004. Article based on it

"Why didn't the walls come tumbling down? An outsider's view of distance education."

• keynote speech delivered Oct. 4, 1999, at NAWeb 99, a distance education conference in Fredricton, New Brunswick, Canada.

• keynote address at Cities of the Androscoggin Annual Dinner and Business Forum on Technology and the Future," Lewiston, ME, May 1999 (videotape available from our online store at http://store.yahoo.com/samizdat)

• keynote address at IT Vision: Seeing the Future in Marketing, at an American Marketing Association event at Bentley College, Waltham, MA Nov. 1998
• Boston ISIG (Internet Special Interest Group), Cambridge, MA, Thursday, Oct. 22, 1998

• ExpoManagement 98 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 1998

• keynote address, Web Week 97, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Tennessee, Sept. 1997
• NT Wizards, Vienna, Austria, Oct. 1997
• Brown University Industrial Partners Program, Nov. 1997
• Women in Networking, Chelmsford, MA, Feb. 1998
• Shared Engineering Services organization at Digital Equipment, Littleton, MA, Sept. 1997

• keynote address, Comdex, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 1997
• Digital partner event, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, Jan. 1998

• NERCOMP, Sturbridge, MA, March 1997
• keynote address at Internet World, Bogota, Colombia, May 1997
• Digital customer events, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Campinas, Brazil in May 1997
• Web-Net, Cambridge, MA, May 1997
• NT Wizards, Vienna, Austria, Oct. 1997
• Internetcom 97, Moscow, Russia, Oct. 1997
• Digital Equipment's Engineering Education Distinguished Speakers Program, Littleton, MA, and Nashua, NH, Nov. 1997
• Boston Internet SIG at MIT, Nov. 1997
• Boston Bar Association, Feb. 1998
• NT Wizards, Seattle, WA, Feb. 1998
• Mass. Association of Buyers Agents, Framingham, MA, March 1998
• SAS Users' Conference in Nashville, TN, March 1998
• CA World, New Orleans, LA, April 1998
• New Hampshire Internet Special Internet Group, Nashua, NH, May 1998
• DocuWorld, Toronto, Canada, May 1998
• DocuWorld, Edmonton, Canada, June 1998
• DocuWorld, Vancouver, Canada, June 1998
• 10th International Genome Sequencing and Analysis Conference in Miami Beach, Sept. 1998
• IHEEP (highway engineers), Colorado Springs, Colorado, Sept. 1998
• NA Web (Web-based education), U. of New Brunswick, Canada, October 1998

My Internet: a Personal View of Internet Business Opportunities by Richard Seltzer, on CD, includes four books, 162 articles, and 49 newsletter issues that will inspire you and provide the practical information you need to build your own personal Web site or Internet-based business, helping you to become a player in this new business environment.

Web Business Boot Camp: Hands-on Internet lessons for manager, entrepreneurs, and professionals by Richard Seltzer (Wiley, 2002). No-nonsense guide targets activities that anyone can perform to achieve online business success. Reviews.

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