At Electric Book Works we're lucky to be able to keep working remotely. On the side, we're contributing to a few small projects related to the coronavirus pandemic.
To help ensure that South Africans get official, up-to-date information about COVID-19, and to fight fake news and misleading stories, the government has made it compulsory for all domains that end in .za to include a visible link to sacoronavirus.co.za on their landing page. This site is the government's official 'Covid-19 South African Online Portal'.
Modifying a website quickly and elegantly can be tricky. Here is a quick and easy way to include that link. Once implemented, your site will show a small tab that users can close. It will stay closed for that visit (or 'session').
We're working with our sibling non-profit Bettercare to produce a new COVID-19 module in the best-selling 'Infection Prevention and Control' course. Like everything Bettercare creates, this will be a free online resource for professional training programmes. We're on track to make this available in early April.
Our local-bookstore friends are taking strain. We're working on a way to help people buy more books from stores in their city: instantly mail all your local stores to ask if they have a particular book you want. We'll announce more soon. Meanwhile, if you work for a bookstore and want to know more, let us know.
Parents know how hard it is keeping kids entertained under lockdown. Our colleague Arthur and his family have created Quick Kids: a simple online general-knowledge game for five-to-ten year-old kids. It's a homage to the famous South African game 30 Seconds, and can be used with your existing 30 Seconds set if you have one. It's open source, so you can contribute, too.