Thursday, February 28, 2013

Vlogging with Viddler


How many times have you gone to a website or went onto your Facebook feed that contains a video? Videos are a wonderful way to promote yourself dynamically. Many videos are hosted by YouTube.

Disadvantages of YouTube: Advantages of YouTube:
unwanted advertisements
limited thumbnail options
limited video length (10 min)
popularity
free

Viddler is much friendler for those who want to use videos on their webpages with a much more professional experience for your visitor.

Disadvantages of Viddler: Advantages of Viddler:
not as popular
cheapest plan = $42 per month
limited by filesize: 500mb per video (not much of a disadvatage)
link to websites with ease
choose video thumbnail
no unwanted advertisements
easy upload
no video timelimit
responsive
privacy controls
customize player styles
integrated analytics
technical support

Social Media Apps found through Listio

There are all types of social networking available: Facebook, Google+, linkedIn etc. We can choose these networks for personal use,  to promote our businesses or find our next job. As a web developer I look for applications to help with researching, organization and promotion of small business and/or personal static websites or blogs. I have chosen the following three applications for these three purposes.

Downloadanystuff
There is an immense amount of information, pictures, videos out there that can be inspirational, but what if you are in a crunch and don't have time to produce something from scratch? In order to prevent stepping on anyones toes with copyright infringement this is the perfect solution. Powered by Google, downloadanystuff finds free images, ebooks, games, software, etc.

StumbleUpon
How often do you find you have found a great site. It could be one that is:
  • informative
  • inspirational
  • a network
  • you're own site/sites
StumbleUpon is a network where you can save all of your bookmarks in one place, tag them and share them with others within the network. They can be rated according to popularity and content.

Mysurveylab
All businesses need to promote themselves in one way or another. The internet has many ways this can be accomplished:
  • Social Networking, ie: Facebook
  • Email Marketing
  • etc...
With mysurveylab you can contact the people that have liked your business page, or those within your email contact list so they can help improve the quality of your services and/or products. All of the results can be stored in a spreadsheet for an easy comparison.