Time for the next installment in my “Screencast Like a Pro” series. Between client work and then getting deathly ill, I haven’t kept up with this series as planned and a couple weeks slipped by, but here we are now, so let’s dive in. By the time you’re done reading this, you’ll have a good…
Watch the blog conference survival video on the blog if you don’t see it below. My advice for surviving big blog conferences? Flow like water. Here’s some of the story of what happened at BlogWorld Expo ’09 and how I managed it. People mentioned: Grant Griffiths, Naomi Dunford, Christine O’Kelly, and Joel Williams.
In my blog post on How to Embed Video in a Blog Post, Scott asked in the comments if I could show how to get text to wrap around a video. If you want to learn how to embed video first, you should go check out that post. It is totally possible to do this,…
If you can’t see the video, watch it on the blog. If you don’t like to hear salty language, don’t watch this video, because Loren swears quite a bit. Loren is one those “love him or hate him” guys. I love him. If you’ve never seen what he does or how he does it, you’re…
You’ll want to watch this one full-screen — click the arrows at the upper right of the video. I’ve had some interesting conversations with clients and others who are having a difficult time really understanding how to use Twitter–even some basic things like what is all the stuff on the screen. I realized there’s some…
Jason Falls of Social Media Explorer posted an interview with Liz Strauss of Successful Blog. Liz is the main organizer behind SOBcon, happening this May in Chicago. I’ll be going, and if you can swing it, I think it would be a tremendous benefit to anyone. Here are some of the highlights: It’s small: only…
Pop17‘s Sarah Meyers got the scoop by asking Steve Chen (founder of YouTube) when they were gonna do live video. The answer is: 2008, this year. Check it out below: The question and answer is shortly after the 3:00 mark. What do you think? Any takers? Will YOU ever do live video? I definitely will…
Watch If You Can’t Blog It, Don’t Do It on YouTube. If you were going to start a new business, what kind of business would it be? Here’s the new litmus test: if you can’t blog it, don’t do it. Some businesses don’t have blogs and shouldn’t have blogs: oil companies, Blackwater, KBR, Halliburton, whatever….
The practice of accepting money for links is longstanding and has always been controversial. Services exist to broker and facilitate paid links between buyers and sellers, taking their cut off the top. The most famous of these is Text Link Ads. Some new ones have appeared, recently, but I’ll get into that later. Paid links…
I call this post the Accidental Disclosure Manifesto because that’s what it became in the course of writing and recording it. Sometimes, these things happen. So kick back, grab a beer, and enjoy the ride… Disclosure If you’re catching this in a reader, you can watch the video on my blog, or here’s the Veoh…
Ethical Commenting is a great way to drive traffic back to your blog and network with other bloggers. In fact, that is ALL it does. Links in comments do not affect your search engine rankings, as 99.99% of them will not be seen by Google (it’s called “no-follow” and it’s code your blog automatically adds…
When you’re new to blogging, you have a lot of different voices clamoring at you with competing messages about what gets results. Basically, there’s a high road and a low road. Another way to look at it is you can earn your results… or you can cheat. What I want to do identify some tactics…
I’ve said that mobile blogging will be big in 2008. That means that more folks will be both creating and consuming blog content via mobile devices. So the question has come up: Do you need a .mobi domain for your blog? There is a lot of .mobi FUD and madness out there, and the combination…
My Blog Booster project is a great success, but it brought me face to face with a lot of new blogs. Although I hate to say it, I saw some common beginner’s mistakes. Of course, I want to help everyone do the best they can, so as my little holiday gift to everyone, I made…
Tim Ferriss speaks at a viral marketing conference, but not about blogging. Except that it is about blogging, if you look at it that way. By telling how he marketed to bloggers, you can learn a lot about how to market yourself and your blog.
Blogging, commenting, tagging, and social media are all chief drivers in what’s happening with how people create, think about, and work with information. This brilliant video gave me goosebumps, and I just wanted to share it with you.
What is your blog about? Who are you? Why should we trust you? These are 3 questions your blog should answer within the first 5 seconds of a visitor’s arrival by its design and content.
Gateway blogging is a term I created that helps to frame business blogging activities so that the blog supports the business, and not the other way around.
What are the differences between a so-called “normal” website and a business blog? Are there real advantages to a business blog that a normal website can’t give you? The video covers the following:
I don’t often post the work of anyone here but myself, but this is such great productivity advice that I can’t help but share it with you. Bloggers tend to be total information junkies and Tim’s radical advice for dealing with it is something I think we could all benefit from.
You can start video blogging for less than $40 and in under 2 hours. I explain how, with tips, and with a video, of course!
Watch a video from Tubetorial on how to set up the Google Sitemap generator plugin for better WordPress SEO.
I like to have something going on the side in addition to my regular job. In the past, I’ve run my own websites and designed websites for others. I’ve had a go at a couple of different ways doing things, some of which have worked out to greater or lesser degrees of success. For all…
Tom Peters writes about how business used to be “ready, aim, fire!†and later it became “ready, fire! aim,†but that nowadays it’s just “Fire! Fire! Fire!†When I first conceived the idea for Video Bubble, I didn’t think about it very much before acquiring a domain, hosting, and slapping up a sign-up homepage. I…
Today I received an email from someone who said they were impressed with my choices and the effort I put into it. This person offered to keep GVOD alive. He said he was from a video site start up and had the time. I had said in my farewell post at GVOD that I wouldn’t…
UPDATE: GVOD is alive and well! After a hiatus, I couldn’t bear to let it die. So please head on over there and gimme some love! GoogleTube Video of the Day wasn’t fun, anymore, so today I killed it. I killed my blog! I had always said that when it wasn’t fun anymore I’d quit…
That’s right. At least the ones from Google Video do, and at a site called Google Video of the Day, those were the only ones I had on there. Archive pages actually crashed both Firefox and Internet Explorer. Before Google Video made it possible to copy the player code, I would download a thumbnail from…
At first, it seems no better than some child’s toy, but keep watching: it gets better, and then it gets amazing. Like any real instrument, the basics are immediately grasped, but when you see how the settings can be changed and how they’re applied and how the instrument is played, you realize you could spend…
