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How Do I: create Alexa Skills

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Earlier, I talked about how I use Amazon Alexa in my home.

This month, I launched my third Alexa Skill. You can add these to your [daily] “flash briefing” if interested.

An Alexa Skill is what Amazon calls a voice-enabled app to provide verbal content on demand.

Alexa Skills take little to no coding to create.

As a consumer or user of Amazon Alexa, an Alexa Skill can be found and enabled on alex.amazon.com as a part of Flash Briefing (think of it as a series such as a news feeds you customize to receive in audio form) or as a single on-demand app that informs you by hearing what says. News, sports scores, tips and weather updates are common content supplied as an Alexa Skill, but there are many more Skills available.

As an Alexa Skill creator/designer, anyone can go to developer.amazon.com/alexa to create and test an Alex Skill with little to no coding involved. There is a step by step instructions to:

You get to add what the user would request and receive.

If you want an even easier way to create an Alexa Skill that is less nerdy, take a look at getstoryline.com

Criteria and approval of an Alexa Skill is pretty easy within a day or so.

Here are the first three Alexa Skills I created which are available if you have an Alexa Device:

Another DAM Podcast

Blockchain Billions

User Adoption

These Alexa Skills are three of my most popular podcasts and if you enable them as part of your Flash Briefing, you will not miss any future episodes of these podcasts.

For more on marketing Alexa skills, take a look at alexabusinessmarketing.com

Start building a first voice app today.

 

 

Advisor at UMD Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship

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Henrik de Gyor is now an Advisor at the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland, based at the Robert H. Smith School of Business in College Park, Maryland.

Henrik graduated from the University of Maryland a while back and is happy to give back to the community with his time and expertise.

Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship holds Dingman Fridays which are open office hours for students and alumni to walk in and get startup advice, regardless of the stage of their business idea or their major. This is exclusively for University of Maryland faculty, staff, students, and alumni.

Many universities now have an entrepreneurship center, unless they are behind the times. Today, students do not all expect to work for someone once they graduate, but rather work on their ideas before they graduate and potentially grow their own business.

To learn more about Dingman Fridays, visit http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/centers-excellence/dingman-center-entrepreneurship/initiatives-programs/pitch-dingman