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What Gives You the Chills?

By on October 24, 2012 in Conversations, Social Media, Video with 2 Comments

Here’s J.J. Abrams (Lost, Super 8, Revolution) and one of my favorite question-askers/storytellers, Morgan Spurlock (A Day in the Life, Super Size Me) in a short video about choice, technology, and how to know which possibility to go after:

Isn’t this true with some of the Social Media choices we face? With so many choices – which do you go after? Certainly not all of them – that would turn into a slow process of none of them. Go after the one that thrills you first!  Hate Facebook but love Pinterest?  Go with Pinterest first.

When it comes to which Social Media track (or which “duck”) to go after first, what gives you the chills or thrills?

By the way, I’m lovin’ Zeitgeist Minds. Lots of great thinking going on.

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Stop Stealing Dreams [Video & eBook] from Seth Godin

By on October 19, 2012 in Education, Video with 0 Comments

Seth Godin shares a recent TEDx video he did on the future (and past) of education. The video is below. The ebook links are below that. How can some of these questions translate to your business practices?

Stop Stealing Dreams Resources

A Non-Techie Way to Embed a YouTube Video

By on October 17, 2012 in Blogging, Cool Tools, Video with 2 Comments

Before the words “embed a video” can contort a face, I quickly soften the crinkling frown with “by simply pasting the URL” and smile.

With almost every site I work with, we use the plugin Tentblogger’s Vimeo, YouTube, RSS Embed. It allows you, the publisher, to simply grab the URL of the video and paste it into a box. The video gets embedded without you having to mess with any “code”. It allows your RSS readers to see a link to your page if they don’t see the video.

Whether it’s a video you’ve made yourself, a clip from someone else, this plugin makes a big impact with a small step.

Here’s a short video from the folks at Manta. I simply grabbed the URL and pasted it using the plugin:

Easy. A small step with big value.

Here’s a how-to on this great video plugin from the author himself.

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Capturing Conversation Using Skype and Snagit

By on October 5, 2012 in Conversations, Cool Tools, Social Media, Video with 2 Comments

Ginger Johnson and her WEB mobileI was visiting with Ginger Johnson of Women Enjoying Beer yesterday as she was packing things up and going to the Great American Beer Festival ’12 in Denver, and we decided to shoot some video.

Keep in mind that Ginger is in Oregon, I am in Nebraska. We visited via Skype. I turned on Snagit to capture the conversation audio/video.

I asked a few questions (and then edited my voice out) and now we’re uploading snippets (edited in iMovie) to her site and YouTube.

“Face to Face” yet not “Belly to Belly”. The latter is better, but not always possible.

If you’re looking to shoot some video, have some video edited and uploaded, or just want another voice to coach along during your recording – it’s one of the new SmallBizTracks offerings we provide.

If you’re going to the GABF12, make sure to visit Ginger and her team (look for the T-Shirts).

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Project 2012: Video-a-Day – #VaD12

By on January 1, 2012 in Blog Coach, Blogging, Video with 2 Comments

Many of us have heard, if not participated in, some of the Photo-a-Day communities around. One thing I’m trying this year is a Video-a-Day. And here’s my first entry here on the first:

At this time last year, Instagram and Pinterest weren’t even on your radar. Wouldn’t be great if when the cool video app comes out (maybe Instagram goes video?), you’re ready and practiced?

 

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Strong End Summit [Videos to End the Week Strong] – 12/12/11

By on December 2, 2011 in Brain Stew, Video with 0 Comments

Friday afternoons are often a bit more relaxed, but relaxed doesn’t mean lazy. The Strong-End Summits (videos that will keep brains and hearts afire) are a way to end our week strong and come back refreshed. I haven’t done one of these for awhile, here are some of the videos I’ve saved for later viewing.

Have a good week strongend

Google+ Hangouts for Business: Dialing 8 Members and ConverStations

By on November 11, 2011 in Conversations, Dialing 8, Social Media, Video with 0 Comments

Google Hangouts are a fantastic tool for business, especially those in distanced collaborative situations or consulting. So much so, I’m going to make them part of a regular part of business.

With Dialing 8 Project launching this weekend, we’ll be using Hangouts for regularly scheduled workshops (members only). For ConverStations, we’ll be offering open co-working hangouts during the daytime (much like I used to do at Panera U)

Here’s the schedule (subject to change with notice):

Dialing 8 Project:

  • Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:00a – 10:30a CT and again 7:00p – 8:30p CT
  • Each session will have a 30-minute focused lesson, and then open workshop for the remaining hour.
  • Each day will have two similar session. One in the morning, one in the evening. The 30-minute lesson will be the same.
  • With eight sessions each month, we’ll cover every sphere on the dial and be able to focus most attention on the streams sphere.
  • If you can’t make it to the Hangouts, members will have access to a Notes & Ideas gleaned from the sessions by the next day.
ConverStations:
  • Mondays & Fridays, those who have “circled” Converstations will have access (space permitting) to an open, co-working each Monday, Wednesday, & Friday afternoon between 1:oop-3:00p CT
In addition, I’ve been using a cool tool to set-up appointments and short introductions through vCita (see sidebar). These 30-minute discovery sessions are a great way to get more information on Dialing 8, how we work at ConverStations, how to set up a Shingle Page and find out how  Google Hangout works.
How are you going to use Google Hangouts for your business?
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The Dialing 8 Project: Intro Video

By on November 6, 2011 in Blog Coach, Blogging, Dialing 8, Marketing, Social Media, Video with 0 Comments

This video is now up on Dialing 8 (launching on 11/13/11) and on the sidebar here at ConverStations

Show ‘Em Your Backstory

By on October 10, 2011 in Blog Coach, Social Media, Video with 0 Comments

We see  a video of a juggler extraordinaire or some mechanical dancing dudes and our jaws drop. And we wonder . . .

As we look at the video, we recognize the talent. Some may ask “Why” A great question – but only if you follow it up with an “I Dunno – Let’s Find Out” – but watch your attitude, because many of us fall into asking “Why would anyone do that?”

Douglas Karr shared a creative video on Google Plus, a stop-motion short of a talented artist creating a chalk lettering sign for a spirits company.

Why?  ”I Dunno – Let’s Find Out” (or at least consider some possibilities):

  • Shows off the talent for hire
  • Shows off the passion
  • Shows off the way work gets done
  • Shows the end-of-the-DVD type of backstory we are attracted to – the “inside” scoop
  • Repurpose your content, your creation, your “can’t miss” whatever that may be

And find yourself on the top (and maybe throughout the top ten) results of Google for your market. And as folks find you, they watch you . . .and by the time they call you . . .

They’ve already decided, because they’ve already seen. And now they believe . . .

They want to hire you.

Aren’t you glad you showed them something?

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Be Ye Not Afraid of Creating Video Content

By on September 22, 2011 in Blog Coach, Video with 0 Comments

If you’re in business – whether it’s behind a counter or beside a cup of coffee – you would do well to start creating some video content. It’s getting easier and easier.

Don’t be so concerned about perfection at the beginning, just swing away.

Here are two examples:

That didn’t turn out too bad (and it surely didn’t waste any film). The first one was .. well, it wasn’t good:

I’ll be shooting some more video for the next few weeks. Let’s see how things improve, hmm?  By the way, if you’re using WordPress, the Tentblogger video plugin

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