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		<title>Geeky Mobile Presentation Trick Using QR Codes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 18:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Luna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever gone to a presentation or meeting and spent all your time writing down exactly what was being beamed on the projector? Well I came up with a trick to help reduce this kind of redundant notetaking and to distribute the presentation without killing any trees.

The presentation trick uses QR Codes, those funny little scrambled bar code looking things that you're now seeing all over the place.  Smart phones with QR Code scanners can scan these QR Codes and be taken to the associated web address that are embedded in the code.]]></description>
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<p>This presentation trick uses QR Codes, those funny little scrambled bar code looking things that you&#8217;re now seeing all over the place.  Smart phones with QR Code scanners can scan these QR Codes and be taken to the associated web address that are embedded in the code.</p>
<p><strong>What we&#8217;re going to do is to add QR codes to a presentation, then allow your audience to scan or link to a mobile version of your presentation.  That&#8217;s right, they&#8217;ll have the presentation in their hands and don&#8217;t have to do things like take pictures of the screen or re-type every single note into their laptops.</strong><br/></p>
<h5>This is how to do the trick:</h5>
<p><strong>1)</strong> Create a special link for your presentation.  I use the &#8220;Pretty Links&#8221; plugin in WordPress to generate these redirecting links.  For example, if I have a presentation for the Santa Paula &#8220;Good Morning Santa Paula&#8221; event, I&#8217;ll make the link be: &#8220;http://www.jpluna.com/gmsp.&#8221;  Using Pretty Links, I can direct the link to anywhere I want on the Web, including pages that are not on my JP Luna Media site.</p>
<p>If you use something like Pretty Links, you can also build in tracking codes but that&#8217;s an advanced topic.  If you don&#8217;t have Pretty Links, you can create a Web page that uses that name and do a Meta Refresh to the new presentation Web location or use your other preferred redirect method.</p>
<div><img src="http://www.jpluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/pretty-links-view-Wordpress.jpg" alt="Pretty Links plugin in WordPress" width="400px" /><br />
(<a href="http://www.jpluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/pretty-links-view-Wordpress.jpg" target="_blank">view full size</a>)</div>
<p><strong>2)</strong> Create your Power Point presentation then generate a new QR Code that redirects visitors to your custom web address.  You can use my <a href="http://www.jpluna.com/qrcode/" target="_blank">QR Code Generator</a> tool to create the QR Code. Yes, now you&#8217;re starting to understand the full extent of my geekiness.</p>
<p>Snapshot of QR Code Generator tool</p>
<div align="center"><a href="http://www.jpluna.com/qrcode/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jpluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/qr-code-generator-tool.jpg" alt="QR Code Generator Tool by JP Luna Media" width="400px" /></a></div>
<p><strong>3)</strong> Upload your Power Point presentation to <a href="http://www.slideshare.net">Slideshare.net</a>.  This puts your presentation online immediately.  Slideshare is a great tool because it has a strong social component and it works well on most smart phones.</p>
<p><strong>4)</strong> Go back to your Pretty Links setting or your Web page redirect resource and make the pretty link redirect to the new slideshare.net web address for your presentation.  The slideshare.net link will be something like &#8220;http://www.slideshare.net/<em>yourusername</em>/<em>your-presentation-title</em>&#8221; where &#8220;yourusename&#8221; is your Slideshare username and &#8220;your-presentation-title&#8221; is a portion of your presentation title.</p>
<p><strong>5)</strong> At the beginning of the presentation, tell your audience that they can view the presentation on their mobile devices either by scanning the QR Code OR by typing in the pretty and shortened link into their mobile devices.  This will direct them to a great mobile version of your Slideshare presentation and they can focus on your message and not on writing down everything they see on the screen.</p>
<p>Want to try a QR Code Scanner for you iPhone?  So far, my favorite scanner is the <strong>ATT QR Code Scanner</strong>.  You can either look for it in your iPhone&#8217;s app store or you can<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/at-t-code-scanner/id381292358?mt=8" target="_blank"> link to the online iTunes store</a>. If you already have another QR Code scanner and want to try this one out, you can scan this code and it will take you to the app on your phone.  This is a good example of why QR Codes are powerful.</p>
<div align="center"><a rel="attachment wp-att-882" href="http://www.jpluna.com/2011/05/31/geeky-mobile-presentation-trick-using-qr-codes/att-qr-code-scanner-app-link/"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-882" title="ATT-QR-Code-Scanner-App-Link" src="http://www.jpluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/ATT-QR-Code-Scanner-App-Link.png" alt="AT&amp;T QR Code Scanner App" width="150" height="150" /></a></div>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<div id="attachment_876" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 330px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-876" href="http://www.jpluna.com/2011/05/31/geeky-mobile-presentation-trick-using-qr-codes/scanning-a-qr-code-jpluna-media/"><img class="size-full wp-image-876" title="scanning-a-qr-code-jpluna-media" src="http://www.jpluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/scanning-a-qr-code-jpluna-media.jpg" alt="Scanning a QR Code using and iPhone" width="320" height="480" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Scanning a QR Code using and iPhone</p></div>
<p>It&#8217;s hard to describe the glee that shows up on people&#8217;s faces when they see the presentation on their mobile devices.  This is especially true if their geekiness is rewarded for having a QR Code scan application on their mobile device.</p>
<p>First page of the presentation:</p>
<div align="center"><img src="http://www.jpluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/qr-code-presentation-first-page.jpg" alt="Presentation using QR Codes" width="400px" /><br />
(<a href="http://www.jpluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/qr-code-presentation-first-page.jpg" target="_blank">view full size</a>)</div>
<p>Note, I found that embedding Slideshare on a WordPress page/post works fine for Web visitors using regular PCs, but it will only show a link to the Slideshare presentation on mobile devices. Clicking the link takes the user to the Slideshare site that will then properly load the device. But that&#8217;s an extra click.  That&#8217;s why I link directly to the Slideshare site now.</p>
<p><strong>Would you like to see a VIDEO TUTORIAL of how I do this?  If so, I will create a video once I get to a total of 100 retweets of this blog post, Facebook comments on the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/jesselunadotcom">JesseLuna.com FB page</a> and Facebook &#8220;Likes&#8221; on this post. </strong></p>
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<p><strong> Resources:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a title="Good Morning Santa Paula presentation using QR Code" href="http://www.jpluna.com/gmsp" target="_blank">View the Good Morning Santa Paula presentation on Slideshare.net</a></li>
<li><a title="How to add QR Codes to your blog" href="http://www.jpluna.com/wordpress/2011/03/04/how-to-add-a-qr-code-to-your-blog-video/" target="_blank">How to Add QR Codes to your blog (VIDEO)</a></li>
<li><a title="Create your own QR Codes" href="http://jpluna.com/qrcode" target="_blank">Create your own QR Code</a></li>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Luna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you miss <a href="http://www.jpluna.com/html-class">HTML for Bloggers Lesson 1</a>? If so, go to Lesson 1 then come back for Lesson 2.  C'mon, don't cut corners.

In Lesson #1, we learned about the basics of Web pages and started learning about marking up documents, literally.  The purpose of Lesson #1 is to give you a visual understanding of how HTML works.  We'll continue driving that point here in Lesson #2 then we'll start learning about the key HTML tags.]]></description>
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<p>In Lesson #1, we learned about the basics of Web pages and started learning about marking up documents, literally.  The purpose of Lesson #1 is to give you a visual understanding of how HTML works.  We&#8217;ll continue driving that point here in Lesson #2 then we&#8217;ll start learning about the key HTML tags.</p>
<h4>HTML Tags</h4>
<p>In Lesson #1, we marked up a little Web page.  In that exercise you wrote on the page and described what was going on in the page.  You may have circled things or used arrows as I did in my marked up version below.</p>
<p>Each of those instructions could be described using HTML<strong> tags</strong>. <strong>Tags are little instructions</strong> used by the HTML scripting language to describe page contents. </p>
<p>For example, the heading on the document could have been described as being &#8220;large&#8221;.  That could have been described using the &#8220;<strong>font</strong>&#8221; tag.  </p>
<p>Then, there is a photo of the Ventura coast.  We could have described that in the HTML code by using the &#8220;img&#8221; tag which stands for &#8220;Image.&#8221;  The &#8220;img&#8221; tag allows us to set <strong>properties</strong> on that tag.  We would have set the &#8220;<strong>src</strong>&#8221; property to be the Web location of that Ventura coast image.</p>
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<h4>HTML Page Structure</h4>
<p>Once again, think of HTML tags as sets of instructions.  Each instruction starts with a <strong>beginning tag</strong>, such as < html > then ends with an<strong> end tag</strong> which begins with a &#8221; < /", such as < /html >. The end tag gives the page the instruction that it can stop doing whatever it was previously doing. </p>
<p>This is the main tag structure of an HTML document (the Web page).<br/><br />
<a href="http://www.jpluna.com/2011/01/30/html-for-bloggers-course-lesson-1/html-structure/" rel="attachment wp-att-486"><img src="http://www.jpluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/html-structure.jpg" alt="HTML Structure" title="html-structure" width="449" height="284" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-486" /></a> Another way to think about this start tag-end tag convention is the old Simon Says game. &#8220;<strong>Simon says, pat your belly.</strong>&#8221; In the game, you start patting your belly. In HTML, you start a new tag. &#8220;<strong>Simon says, rub your head.</strong>&#8221; In the game, you keep patting your belly then start rubbing your head. In HTML, you don&#8217;t end a tag just because you started a new one. That means that whatever HTML element you started is still in play and now you&#8217;re starting a new one. </p>
<p>Now that we learned about HTML tags and its basic structure, let&#8217;s create our own Web page from scratch.  Follow along on the video.<br/></p>
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If you watched the video and did the little &#8220;homework&#8221; then you should have created your own Web page.  Did you?  Prove it by uploading it to Flickr and adding a link in the comments.</p>
<p><strong>The only way to know if you like this mini-course is by your comments and questions. Don&#8217;t be shy!</strong><br/><br/></p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the pleasure of presenting at the Tecnifícate seminar at Mission College in Sylmar, California this past Saturday.  I presented on how small businesses can leverage social media for success.  There were over 100 attendees eager to learn and share the latest in technology information.  The event targeted Spanish-speaking small business owners, startups, and people looking to improve their job situations through technology learning.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tw_button" style=""><a href="http://twitter.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jpluna.com%2F2011%2F01%2F24%2Fsmall-business-success-at-the-tecnificate-seminar%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwt%26utm_campaign%3Dsmall-business-success-at-the-tecnificate-seminar&amp;via=jesseluna&amp;text=Small%20Business%20Success%20At%20The%20Tecnif%C3%ADcate%20Seminar&amp;related=niceblog:My+Dog+Ivory+tweets+about+blogging+resources%2C+especially+WordPress%2C+Posterous%2C+and+Tumblr%21&amp;lang=en&amp;count=vertical&amp;counturl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jpluna.com%2F2011%2F01%2F24%2Fsmall-business-success-at-the-tecnificate-seminar%2F" class="twitter-share-button" target="_blank"  style="width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('http://www.jpluna.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-tweet-button/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;">Tweet</a></div><p>I had the pleasure of presenting at the Tecnifícate seminar at Mission College in Sylmar, California this past Saturday.  I presented on how small businesses can leverage social media for success.  There were over 100 attendees eager to learn and share the latest in technology information.  The event targeted Spanish-speaking small business owners, startups, and people looking to improve their job situations through technology learning.</p>
<p>Recent studies have found that<a href="http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1937355/mobile-latino-catch"> Latinos are starting to accelerate their use of online and mobile technologies</a>.  Some are even calling this trend the end of the Digital Divide. I&#8217;m a bit more cautious about those type of proclamations but was pleasantly surprised to see such a strong turnout at the event.  This really was a community event and there were entire families in attendance.  I&#8217;ve never seen that at a tech conference.</p>
<p>The event was put on by The New Media and Entertainment Initiative, The Economic and Workforce Development through the California Colleges program, Ariel Coro (<a href="http://twitter.com/arielcoro">@arielcoro</a> on Twitter) and <a href="http://www.tutecnologia.com">Tutecnologia.com</a>.  Ariel Coro has a strong fan base from his TV appearances on Univision and on the show Despierta America (Wakeup America) as the technology guy.</p>
<p>The other speakers were Judith Valles (President of LA Mission College), Juan Carlos Perez (founder/President of mialtos.com), Steve Funes (a collaborator with TuTeconologia and proud tech student), reporting by Yeney Amaro, Eduardo Garcia (Consultant at Cisco Systems) Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes, and a representative from LA City council member Richard Alarcón&#8217;s office.</p>
<p>Many thanks to Ariel for inviting me to be a part of the seminar and for the warm reception by Mission College and by Ariel&#8217;s kind army of Tutecnologia users.</p>
<h4>Video and Event Pictures</h4>
<p>Univision channel 24 was in attendance and reported over the event on TV.</p>
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My photos from the seminar are below and you can find more at the <a href="http://www.tecnificate.com/fotos/eventos/primer-evento-tecnificate-en-el-la-mission-college.html">Tecnifícate site</a>.<br/><br/></p>
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		<title>POLL: Main Reason Your Small Business Uses Social Media?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 16:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Luna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poll: What is the main reason your small business uses Social Media?]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Social Links On Your Email Newsletters</title>
		<link>http://www.jpluna.com/2011/01/12/the-power-of-social-links-on-your-email-newsletters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Luna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Email is still the killer app of the Internet. I wrote about<a href="http://www.jpluna.com/2010/11/28/five-tips-let-your-message-run-wild/"> unleashing your message</a> a couple of months ago but forgot to include one important method - including social links. It's easy to take email to the next level by adding social media friendly links to your messages.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tw_button" style=""><a href="http://twitter.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jpluna.com%2F2011%2F01%2F12%2Fthe-power-of-social-links-on-your-email-newsletters%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwt%26utm_campaign%3Dthe-power-of-social-links-on-your-email-newsletters&amp;via=jesseluna&amp;text=The%20Power%20of%20Social%20Links%20On%20Your%20Email%20Newsletters&amp;related=niceblog:My+Dog+Ivory+tweets+about+blogging+resources%2C+especially+WordPress%2C+Posterous%2C+and+Tumblr%21&amp;lang=en&amp;count=vertical&amp;counturl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jpluna.com%2F2011%2F01%2F12%2Fthe-power-of-social-links-on-your-email-newsletters%2F" class="twitter-share-button" target="_blank"  style="width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('http://www.jpluna.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-tweet-button/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;">Tweet</a></div><p>Email is still the killer app of the Internet. I wrote about<a href="http://www.jpluna.com/2010/11/28/five-tips-let-your-message-run-wild/"> unleashing your message</a> a couple of months ago but forgot to include one important method &#8211; including social links. It&#8217;s easy to take email to the next level by adding social media friendly links to your messages.</p>
<p>In the example below, the <a href="http://www.edc-vc.com">EDC-VC</a> (Disclaimer, I&#8217;m a business advisor there) is sharing information about an upcoming <a href="http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=7ajdeocab&#038;v=001S22Ky2nkF8ZUEmPqyVrifWcOihqWkwDc9PEDmMVsDk5hAseE_ul76xSnkeObrRKZibxZ3s7xPC3qNcx_bj0jjfFwqnXT4uDOvzN8yptPpoo%3D">workshop for startups</a> in the Ventura County, CA area.  The EDC-VC uses <a href="http://www.constantcontact.com">Contact Contact</a> for its email services.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.jpluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/social-links-constant-contact1.jpg" alt="Constant Contact Email with Social Links" title="social-links-constant-contact" width="450" height="608" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-526" /></p>
<p>Let&#8217;s take a closer look at the social links at the top of the email:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jpluna.com/2011/01/12/the-power-of-social-links-on-your-email-newsletters/social-links/" rel="attachment wp-att-527"><img src="http://www.jpluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/social-links.jpg" alt="Social Links" title="social-links" width="445" height="195" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-527" /></a></p>
<p>By adding an offline version of the email newsletter, you unlease the email content to be shared across the Web.  That means allowing people to:</p>
<p>* <strong>Share it on<a href="http://www.facebook.com"> Facebook</a></strong>.  When someone shares an item on Facebook it will be added to their Profile page.  Or, they can take the web URL and share it on any of their Facebook Pages.</p>
<p>* <strong>Tweet out a link on <a href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a></strong>.  You don&#8217;t even have to be active on Twitter to allow people to share links to the offline version of your email newsletter!  I just tweeted out a link to the email below.  Wouldn&#8217;t you want someone with over 8400 followers to be sharing your content?</p>
<p>I customized the default message that Constant Contact provided after clicking the little Twitter button. Here&#8217;s the tweet:</p>
<p><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/jesseluna/status/25215124637753344"><img src="http://www.jpluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/tweet-from-email-link.jpg" alt="Tweet from email link" title="tweet-from-email-link" width="450" height="185" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-534" /></a></p>
<p>* <strong>Post to <a href="http://www.linkedin.com">LinkedIn</a></strong>.  More and more business users are posting information to LinkedIn.  For some, LinkedIn is the only social networking site that they are allowed to post to during the work day so they like to share great and relevant content.</p>
<p><strong>Viewing the email online</strong></p>
<p>The other powerful link on this email message is the &#8220;Having trouble viewing this email. Click Here&#8221; section.  By clicking the link, viewers are able to go to the online version of the site then use all their usual methods of sharing information.  This is subtle feature but extremely powerful.</p>
<p><strong>The power of content re-use</strong></p>
<p>By adding social links to your email newsletter, you extend the reach of your message and are reusing that content for different platforms.  How awesome is that?</p>
<p><strong>Review</strong></p>
<p>So if you&#8217;re building an email list for your business, I strongly suggest you look into any feature that allows you to share your content via social networks.  <strong>It will help your messages run wild!</strong></p>
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		<title>Is Facebook Becoming The Face of Small Business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 07:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Luna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At meet and greets, presentations, and during client meetings, small businesses are talking about Facebook.  Facebook is quickly becoming the face of small business.

Why? I think there are three reasons why Facebook is now the third most important tool in the small business's marketing arsenal:]]></description>
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At meet and greets, presentations, and during client meetings, small businesses are talking about Facebook.  Facebook is quickly becoming the face of small business.</p>
<p>Why? I think there are three reasons why Facebook is now the third most important tool in the small business&#8217;s marketing arsenal:</p>
<p><strong>1. That&#8217;s where the people are.</strong>  Bank robber Willie Sutton was asked &#8220;Why do you rob banks?.&#8221;  His famous reply was, &#8220;Because that&#8217;s where the money is.&#8221;  The same thing applies to Facebook.  With over 500 million users, Facebook is definitely the biggest watering hole on the planet.<br/><br />
<strong>2. Facebook fan pages are much easier to set up and update than Web sites.</strong>  If you want to build a serious Facebook page you might need to hire some help. But for a basic setup you can crank one out in no time.  Here&#8217;s a<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkK2aJv4xDA"> video tutorial on how to get started on your own Facebook page</a>.<br/><br />
<strong>3. Facebook allows small businesses to reach out and directly connect with customers, with limited resources.</strong>  I recently spoke to the owner of <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bobbis-Mexican-Food">Bobbi&#8217;s Mexican Restaurant and Grill </a>who manages to post menu updates every day at noon.  She doesn&#8217;t pay anyone to do the posts, she does them herself.  Small businesses have limited time, money, and personnel to do Web updates, so Facebook is a great way to push out information to a large group of hungry fans.</p>
<p>According to a Constant Contact poll <a href="http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1008105">reported by eMarketer</a>, Facebook is the third most important marketing tool for small businesses.</p>
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<p>The eMarketer article also points out that small business is actually adopting social media marketing slower than large companies.<br/></p>
<p><strong>Do you think it&#8217;s smart for small businesses to move to Facebook, or is that a recipe for disaster?</strong><br/><br/></p>
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		<title>SBDC Los Angeles Year-End Event</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 23:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Luna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Los Angeles held its year end event in Santa Monica this past Tuesday.  Center directors, business advisors, staff and SBA staffers were all there.

I'm a marketing and social media advisor at the SBDC center as part of the Economic and Development Center in Ventura County (EDC-VC) and this was the center's first trip to the year end event.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tw_button" style=""><a href="http://twitter.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jpluna.com%2F2010%2F12%2F09%2Fsbdc-los-angeles-year-end-event%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwt%26utm_campaign%3Dsbdc-los-angeles-year-end-event&amp;via=jesseluna&amp;text=SBDC%20Los%20Angeles%20Year-End%20Event&amp;related=niceblog:My+Dog+Ivory+tweets+about+blogging+resources%2C+especially+WordPress%2C+Posterous%2C+and+Tumblr%21&amp;lang=en&amp;count=vertical&amp;counturl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jpluna.com%2F2010%2F12%2F09%2Fsbdc-los-angeles-year-end-event%2F" class="twitter-share-button" target="_blank"  style="width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('http://www.jpluna.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-tweet-button/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;">Tweet</a></div><p>The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Los Angeles held its year-end event in Santa Monica this past Tuesday.  Center directors, business advisors, staff and SBA staffers were all there.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m a marketing and social media advisor at the SBDC center as part of the <a href="http://edcsbdc.org/">Economic and Development Center in Ventura County (EDC-VC)</a> and this was the center&#8217;s first trip to the year end event.</p>
<p>I was inspired after speaking with many of the talented and caring business advisors and staffers who are responsible for providing free and low-cost business services to the 17 million residents of the greater Los Angeles, Ventura, and Santa Barbara counties.</p>
<p>I was also impressed by the amazing client success stories.  One client went from having sales of $200K to 1.2 Million after 2 years.  Many of the SBDC clients worked with several advisors per site, getting help with capital infusion, business plans, marketing support, and foreign trade assistance.</p>
<p><strong>Have you had any experiences working with the SBDC?  Please share you stories in the Comments section below.</strong></p>
<p>Here are some photos from the event. Enjoy!</p>
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		<title>How To Control And Brand Your Video Content</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 04:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Luna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the greatest benefits of video is its ability to end up all over the Internet.  You post a video to YouTube, the message resonates with viewers, and they share the video with the world.  For example, after helping my nephew tie a tie before his first job interview, I decided to do a video of the process.  To my surprise, the video took off and now has <strong>over 5,500 views</strong>!]]></description>
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<p>One of the greatest benefits of video is its ability to end up all over the Internet.  You post a video to YouTube, the message resonates with viewers, and they share the video with the world.  For example, after helping my nephew tie a tie before his first job interview, I decided to do a video of the process.  To my surprise, the video took off and now has <strong>over 5,500 views</strong>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jpluna.com/2010/11/29/how-to-control-and-brand-your-video-content/tie-a-tie-youtube/" rel="attachment wp-att-202"><img src="http://www.jpluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/tie-a-tie-youtube-300x221.jpg" alt="Clip of How To Tie a Tie video" title="tie-a-tie-youtube" width="300" height="221" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-202" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Now imagine these 5,500 people were viewing and sharing your small business&#8217;s content.</strong></p>
<p>Some users will share your videos on other social networks like Twitter and Facebook.  Others will actually embed the videos in their blogs &#8211; very common on video and music blogs.  Then there are blogs that <em>automatically</em> display your videos on their site for the sole purpose of driving traffic to their site.  There may be little or no attribution on these different posts.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong>  In this post, I refer to YouTube content but most of the tips also apply to other video platforms like <a href="http://www.vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>, <a href="http://www.viddler.com">Viddler</a>, and <a href="http://www.animoto.com">Animoto</a>.</p>
<p>Here are five tips for taking control and branding your video content.</p>
<h3>1. Mention your name and company Web site at the beginning and end of the video.</h3>
<p>I learned this tip from video blogger <a href="http://www.stevegarfield.com">Steve Garfield</a>.  You&#8217;ll always hear Steve&#8217;s video start with &#8220;Hi this is Steve Garfield from SteveGarfield.com.&#8221;  If your video ends up at the far reaches of the Internet, away from the main YouTube site, this tip can help connect viewers to your brand.</p>
<h3>2. Actually display your name and company URL in the video.</h3>
<p>Feel free to be creative here.  Write your name and URL out longhand as part of the video, spell it out in the sand on a beach walk, do some animation, whatever.  Just make sure your company information is visible and a part of the video.  Once again, as your video runs wild, viewers will be able to refer back to your site.</p>
<h3>3. In YouTube, start your video Description with your Web site URL.  </h3>
<p>This little trick is amazing at connecting your video content with your company site.  If you start the description with the URL it also creates a clickable link.  </p>
<p><a href="http://www.jpluna.com/2010/11/29/how-to-control-and-brand-your-video-content/site-link-in-description-youtube/" rel="attachment wp-att-211"><img src="http://www.jpluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/site-link-in-description-youtube.jpg" alt="site-link-in-description-youtube" title="site-link-in-description-youtube" width="419" height="100" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-211" /></a></p>
<h3>4. Once you start adding your site URL to your Description field, you can start to track mentions of your video.</h3>
<p>I use <a href="http://www.google.com/alerts">Google Alerts</a> to check for mentions of my different blog sites.  When I receive an alert over &#8220;jesseluna.com&#8221; and see the name of a video next to it, I know someone embedded the video or linked to it.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jpluna.com/2010/11/29/how-to-control-and-brand-your-video-content/google-alerts-tie-a-tie/" rel="attachment wp-att-232"><img src="http://www.jpluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/google-alerts-tie-a-tie.jpg" alt="Google Alert for jesseluna.com- How To Tie A Tie" title="google-alerts-tie-a-tie" width="387" height="142" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-232" /></a></p>
<p>If your company strategy is to let your videos run wild, then tracking where they end up isn&#8217;t as important.  However, I personally still get flustered when I see my videos being sucked into a site that is obviously using the content for the sole purpose of driving users to click on ads.  Basically, they&#8217;re using my content to make tiny sums of money.  </p>
<p>But that&#8217;s the balance video producers must make.  Do we share and let the content spread or do we try to <em>over-control</em> it and keep it from getting out?  The answer will depend on your own strategy.</p>
<h3>5. Maximize the way videos are presented on your own site.</h3>
<p>In the mad rush to prepare quality videos, sometimes they only end up on YouTube.   Using video on your site or blog is a huge opportunity to extend the reach of your video and brand. It will also provide compelling content for your blog.</p>
<p>I just relaunched this blog to help highlight my video tutorials.  I&#8217;m displaying &#8220;featured videos&#8221; on the right widget bar and I created a page that displays a <a href="http://www.jpluna.com/video-tutorials/">20-video playlist of tutorials</a>.  The <a href="http://tubepress.org/">Tubepress</a> WordPress plugin is an excellent tool for displaying YouTube and Vimeo videos.</p>
<p>Ironically, the Tubepress plugin can be used to suck in other people&#8217;s content as well.  But you don&#8217;t have to use it that way.</p>
<h3>Do you have any extra tips?</h3>
<p>We&#8217;ve just stepped through five ways to brand and take control of your videos. This is not an exhaustive list but should get your brain juices going.  Take control of your content and maximize its use.</p>
<p><strong>Did I miss any obvious items?  Please share your experiences and tips in the Comments section.</strong><br />
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Photo Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pookieevans/">Cookieevans on Flickr</a> -<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/"> License</a></p>
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		<title>Five Tips To Let Your Message Run Wild</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Luna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love sharing information, including technology trends, social media How To's, breaking and local business news, and information on advocacy groups.  On Twitter, I'll share 5-10 items per day, sometimes in a rapid fire method.  On Facebook I'll "Like" or "Share" several posts a day.  Multiply these activities by the number of Twitter and Facebook users and you have an unprecedented amount of sharing and re-sharing.

<strong>So why limit the scope of your message?</strong>]]></description>
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I love sharing information, including technology trends, social media How To&#8217;s, breaking and local business news, and information on advocacy groups.  On Twitter, I&#8217;ll share 5-10 items per day, sometimes in a rapid fire method.  On Facebook I&#8217;ll &#8220;Like&#8221; or &#8220;Share&#8221; several posts a day.  Multiply these activities by the number of Twitter and Facebook users and you have an unprecedented amount of sharing and re-sharing.</p>
<p><strong>So why limit the scope of your message? Let it run wild!</strong></p>
<p>Here are five tips to help you set your message free.</p>
<h6>Give Your Email Legs</h6>
<p>Ok, so you spent two weeks working with a team to create the perfect email message.  Maybe you&#8217;re about to launch a new product, announce a new conference, drive donors to your non-profit site, or share your latest video creation.</p>
<p>There are three important items to add to your email deployment checklist:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Do you have an online version of your email with a link to that page on the email?</strong>  I can&#8217;t tell you how many times I&#8217;ve received a juicy email that I want to share with the world and struggled or have been unable to find the online version.  If I don&#8217;t have a link, I can can&#8217;t share it with my online network.  What a missed opportunity.<br/><br />
If you do have an online version, please think clearly before deciding to host that content on the email management tool&#8217;s site.  Do you want to drive content to Constant Contact&#8217;s site or to your site, for example?
</li>
<li><strong>Do you have a Twitter or Facebook share feature on your email?</strong> This makes sharing one step easier.  With the click of a button, your message can flow to two of the most supercharged sharing sites in the world.</li>
<li><strong>Is it easy to forward the email to a friend?</strong>  Some email messages have nifty &#8220;Forward to a Friend&#8221; features that make it easy to share content.  I rarely use this feature but there are some people who like it, especially if it is from an authority site like a news agency or major publication.  If the email is breaking news or highly relevant to your personal or business contacts then this could help your message take off.</li>
</ol>
<p>This Kodak email has an online version and ways for users to subscribe to Facebook and Twitter.  The email could be enhanced with actual tweet buttons that automatically format the Twitter and Facebook messages, so posting is only one click away.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jpluna.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/kodak-email-online-share1.jpg"><img src="http://www.jpluna.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/kodak-email-online-share1.jpg" alt="Share content from your email messages with share buttons" title="kodak-email-online-share" width="588" height="437" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6204" /></a></p>
<p>Let&#8217;s look at this from a numbers perspective.  If you send out your email message to your permission-based list of 10,000 contacts and you don&#8217;t add any sharing features, then your message is limited to the number of recipients plus the number of times your email is forwarded to other contacts.  Let&#8217;s be generous and say that 100 of the emails were forwarded to contacts.  That&#8217;s a reach of 10,100.</p>
<p>If you add a link to your online content and have a Facebook and Twitter share then the numbers shift.  Your initial contacts receive the message and can then re-post the message to their followers via Twitter or Friends on Facebook.  If I tweet about an item, the message is instantly available to over 8,400 followers!  That&#8217;s almost double the reach from ONE contact.  Factor in retweets and other people sharing and the reach can get to 100,000 very quickly.</p>
<h6>From your Website to the World</h6>
<ol>
<li><strong>Add a Tweet button and Facebook Share and/or Like feature to your Web pages and blog posts.</strong>  Yes, this is the same tip as for your email messaging but it&#8217;s important to give your site/blog readers a way to share content with their networks  <strong>Clear a path.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Do you have a compelling image on your web page or blog post?</strong>  A good photo or graphic will catch a persons attention and make it more share worthy.  On Facebook, the image will show up as a thumbnail picture.  Your Facebook friends will be much more likely to Like the post and to re-share it.<br/><br />
<strong>Note:</strong> if you don&#8217;t select a photo to go with your page/post and someone &#8220;Facebooks it&#8221; then they will either get a selection of random image options (icons from your sidebar or unrelated content) or they won&#8217;t have any option.</li>
</ol>
<p><a href="http://www.jpluna.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/food-blog-Facebook-share.jpg"><img src="http://www.jpluna.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/food-blog-Facebook-share.jpg" alt="Sharing a food blog on Facebook. Nice picture!" title="food-blog-Facebook-share" width="550" height="269" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6201" /></a><br />
<a href="http://www.thespicespoon.com">(Link to The Spice Spoon blog.)</a></p>
<h6>Review</h6>
<p>We just reviewed how to clear a path for your important messages.  If your message is clear, relevant, and timely then these tips can help your message spread like wildfire.</p>
<p><strong>Do you have any other design tips to help your messages spread?</strong></p>
<p><br/><br />
Photo Credit: <strong><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/61417318@N00/3210770788/sizes/m/">Vestman on Flickr</a></strong> &#8211; <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">License</a><br/></p>
<p>(Originally posted on <a href="http://www.jpluna.com/wordpress/2010/11/13/five-design-tips-to-let-your-message-run-wild/">jesseluna.com</a>)</p>
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		<title>20 Ways To Add Video To Your Blog Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Luna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>This post looks at 20 different ways to add video to your blog post today.  It starts by looking at the Equipment you can use, then shows you how to Embed the video into your blog, and finally looks at other cool video options.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tw_button" style=""><a href="http://twitter.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jpluna.com%2F2010%2F07%2F05%2F20-ways-to-add-video-to-your-blog-today%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwt%26utm_campaign%3D20-ways-to-add-video-to-your-blog-today&amp;via=jesseluna&amp;text=20%20Ways%20To%20Add%20Video%20To%20Your%20Blog%20Today&amp;related=niceblog:My+Dog+Ivory+tweets+about+blogging+resources%2C+especially+WordPress%2C+Posterous%2C+and+Tumblr%21&amp;lang=en&amp;count=vertical&amp;counturl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jpluna.com%2F2010%2F07%2F05%2F20-ways-to-add-video-to-your-blog-today%2F" class="twitter-share-button" target="_blank"  style="width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('http://www.jpluna.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-tweet-button/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;">Tweet</a></div><p>The secret is out.  Video blogging is a powerful way to engage blog readers.  Video adds another multimedia dimension to a blog, it helps create a closer bond to readers, it reinforces your blog&#8217;s message, and it is great for expanding your message to other social networks, especially YouTube.</p>
<p>I started messing around with Web video <a href="http://vidstering.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">back in 2005</a> while testing out the kids toy, the Vidster.  At the time, I had no idea how to embed the video into a site or blog (I wasn&#8217;t on YouTube until 2006).  Now, things are much easier and there are a variety of ways to get started.</p>
<h5>Getting Started</h5>
<p>If you don&#8217;t already have a <a href="http://www.youtube.com" target="_blank">YouTube account</a>, do yourself a favor and go create one now.  I&#8217;ll add you as a friend and subscriber if you drop me a message (I&#8217;m <a href="http://www.youtube.com/cinemaluna">@cinemaluna on YouTube</a>).  YouTube is a top 5 global site and has its own rich ecosystem.  And, you don&#8217;t have to &#8220;live there&#8221; to get many of the benefits.</p>
<h5>Equipment</h5>
<p><em><strong>Dude, I dont&#8217; even have a camera.</strong></em></p>
<p>If you have a computer and an Internet connection, you can start recording video right now. You don&#8217;t even need a camera.  You can go to <strong><a href="http://www.screenr.com" target="_blank">Screenr.com</a></strong>, and do a screen recording of your computer.  I do this all the time to create <a href="http://screenr.com/user/jesseluna" target="_blank">video tutorials</a> and it&#8217;s a great way to add video to your site.  Screenr allows you to record, embed, tweet out the video link, download the video to your computer, and upload the video to YouTube.  Screenr has a 5 minute maximum on screencasts.</p>
<p>The process of recording your screen is called &#8220;screencasting.&#8221;</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a screencast I did for a WordPress.com tutorial.  This video content was actually featured on the WordPress.tv site.</p>
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<p>Or, you can go to <a href="http://www.animoto.com">Animoto.com</a> and create a video based on photos.  Animoto uses an ingenious system that can combine photos, video, and text then &#8220;automagically&#8221; generate the video by matching the multimedia elements to the selected soundtrack. Here&#8217;s a simple video I created using pictures (plus a micro video) from my &#8220;staycation&#8221; a few months back.  The free version of Animoto limits the video to around 30 seconds.</p>
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<p><strong><em><br />
Wait a minute, I have a little video feature in my digital camera. Can I use that?</em></strong></p>
<p>Many newer digital cameras have a video feature.  You might only be able to record a few seconds but that&#8217;s all we need to get started today.  I have an &#8220;old&#8221; HP Photosmart 320 digital camera that I bought years ago and even that has a 30 second .AVI video feature.  You can use a site like <a href="http://media-convert.com/" target="_blank">http://media-convert.com/</a> to convert from older and non-YouTube supported file formats to a more current format.  <strong>Note:</strong> I haven&#8217;t actually used Media-convert.com so use at your own risk.</p>
<div id="attachment_4118" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 483px"><a href="http://www.jpluna.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/old-camera-with-video.jpg"><img src="http://www.jpluna.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/old-camera-with-video.jpg" alt="Photosmart 320 - Has Video Feature" title="old-camera-with-video" width="473" height="199" class="size-full wp-image-4118" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">
<p>Even the Photosmart 320 digital camera has a video feature</p>
<p></p></div><br/></p>
<p>In case you&#8217;re counting, this is our <strong>third way</strong> to get video up to our blog today.</p>
<p><br/></p>
<p><strong><em>I also have an old-school digital video camera. But I&#8217;ve only used it to edit things in my computer.  Will that work?</em></strong><br/></p>
<p>If you have the right cable connection for your older digital video camera, you&#8217;re in business.  I have a JVC digital video camera (model GRDVL517U) that I bought around 2000, that&#8217;s 5 years BYT (Before YouTube).  I can plug in the digital video cable and connect it to my PC and have access to all the video files.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re going to use an older camera like the JVC then you may run across issues like missing cables, lost mini-dv cassettes, and missing user manuals.  If that is the case then you can still find many of those items, but the older the digital video camera, the higher the price you&#8217;ll have to pay.  My JVC user manual is over $10, and that&#8217;s from the JVC site.</p>
<p><div id="attachment_4134" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 235px"><a href="http://www.jpluna.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/jvc-digital-camera1.jpg"><img src="http://www.jpluna.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/jvc-digital-camera1-225x300.jpg" alt="JVC Digital Camera" title="jvc-digital-camera" width="225" height="300" class="size-medium wp-image-4134" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">JVC Digital Camera - notice the DV-in/out plug to the right of the JVC logo (click to enlarge)</p></div>
<p>That would be the <strong>fourth</strong> way to add video to your blog.<br/></p>
<p><br/></p>
<p><strong><em>Wait a minute, we gave my kid a little camera a while back. Would that work?</em></strong></p>
<p>There are actually several toy cameras out there that record digital video.  Cameras like the Vidster by Mattel and RipRoar&#8217;s Creation Station sold for around $80 and they both record digital video. I purchased the Vidster, uh, for myself, back in 2005.  Both of these toy video cameras come with cable connectors and you&#8217;ll need them to access the digital video files.  You may also need to download the software for each.</p>
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<div id="attachment_4146" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 235px"><a href="http://www.jpluna.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/toy-cameras.jpg"><img src="http://www.jpluna.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/toy-cameras-225x300.jpg" alt="Toy cameras might work" title="toy-cameras" width="225" height="300" class="size-medium wp-image-4146" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The Creation Station and Vidster toy cameras record digital video. (click to enlarge)</p></div></div>
<p>Even though there are two cameras here, I&#8217;ll only count this as one way.  We&#8217;re up to five ways to get video onto your blog.</p>
<p><br/></p>
<p><strong><em>I do have a web cam, but I&#8217;ve never used it.</em></strong></p>
<p>Now&#8217;s the time.  Fire up the Web cam, go to your YouTube account, click on &#8220;Upload&#8221; at the top of the page, then select &#8220;Record from webcam&#8221; and you should be able to connect and record your video.  Your cam will also come with some kind of software.  You can use that if you&#8217;re not ready to dive into the YouTube pool.</p>
<p>A web cam is the sixth way to add video to your blog.</p>
<p><br/></p>
<p><strong><em>My cell phone records video.  I assume that&#8217;ll work?</em></strong></p>
<p>You betcha.  You can record on your video-enabled cell phone and send it to your email or you can post it to one of many video posting services.  I&#8217;ll list those sites towards the end of this post.  I use my iPhone video as a <a href="http://www.jpluna.com/wordpress/2010/02/14/iphone-as-a-promotion-machine/" target="_blank">promotion machine</a>.</p>
<p>That was the seventh way to add video to your blog.</p>
<p><br/></p>
<p><strong><em>I&#8217;m hip, I use Flip. Don&#8217;t hate, I also use the Kodak Zi8</em></strong></p>
<p>Flip video cameras are small, easy to use, and very powerful.  I&#8217;ve been using a Flip Mino HD for the past year and it&#8217;s served me very well.  Even though the Flips have been out for a few years, they are still very cool and discreet.  There&#8217;s a big difference between recording using a Flip vs. one of those huge paparazzi cameras.  You&#8217;re less likely to get the stink eye from people if you&#8217;re out recording in public.</p>
<p>I <a href="http://www.jpluna.com/wordpress/2010/06/17/big-thanks-to-sugar-jones-and-kodak/" target="_blank">just got the Kodak Zi8 </a>(thanks again @sugarjones) and so far it&#8217;s the bees knees.  I&#8217;m still testing it out and have only posted one video to the site so far.</p>
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<div id="attachment_4165" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 235px"><a href="http://www.jpluna.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/flip-Zi8.jpg"><img src="http://www.jpluna.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/flip-Zi8-225x300.jpg" alt="Flip Mino HD (bottom) and Kodak Zi8 (top)" title="flip-Zi8" width="225" height="300" class="size-medium wp-image-4165" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Flip Mino HD (bottom) and Kodak Zi8 (top)</p></div></div>
<p>Once again, we covered two cameras but we&#8217;ll count that as one more way.  That was number <em>ocho</em>.<br/><br/></p>
<h5>How To Embed Video Into Your Blog</h5>
<p>Thanks to YouTube, embedding videos into blog posts is super easy.  Once you get your video uploaded to YouTube, all you have to do is get the Embed code and add it to your blog.</p>
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<div id="attachment_4175" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.jpluna.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Embed-code-youtube.jpg"><img src="http://www.jpluna.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Embed-code-youtube-300x206.jpg" alt="Embed code in YouTube" title="Embed-code-youtube" width="300" height="206" class="size-medium wp-image-4175" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Accessing Embed code in YouTube</p></div></div>
<p><br/></p>
<p><strong>Here are some blog by blog specifics.</strong></p>
<p><br/></p>
<p><em>WordPress.org (custom install) blog</em><br/></p>
<p>Just paste the embed code into your blog post area and Save. That&#8217;s all you need.</p>
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<p><em>WordPress.com</em><br/></p>
<p>Paste the embed code or paste the video page&#8217;s URL into a shortcode field.  Actually, if you paste in the Embed code then save the post, WordPress.com will turn it into a shortcode for you.  This is an example of the YouTube shortcode:&#8221; [ youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1zJJGLJ714&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0 ] &#8221; .</p>
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<p><em>Tumblr</em><br/></p>
<p>Log into your Tumblr account, click on the &#8220;Video&#8221; button then paste in the Embed code and create the post.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jpluna.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/tumblr-video-button.jpg"><img src="http://www.jpluna.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/tumblr-video-button.jpg" alt="tumblr-video-button" title="tumblr-video-button" width="73" height="100" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4184" /></a><br/></p>
<p><em>Posterous</em><br/></p>
<p>Log into your account, click the Settings button in the upper right part of the page, then click on the &#8220;Posts&#8221; tab. You&#8217;ll see a big &#8220;Post by Web&#8221; button, click on it. Paste in the Embed code and add a Title then click on the huge &#8220;Post&#8221; button.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jpluna.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/posterous-web-post-button.jpg"><img src="http://www.jpluna.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/posterous-web-post-button.jpg" alt="Posterous Web Post Button" title="posterous-web-post-button" width="158" height="53" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4189" /></a></p>
<p>We&#8217;ll count each blog type as one way. We&#8217;re up to <strong>twelve ways</strong>.</p>
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<p><em>Blogger</em><br/></p>
<p>Log into your account.  Create a new post, switch to HTML Edit mode, paste in the Embed code and you&#8217;re all set.</p>
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<p><em>TypePad</em><br/></p>
<p>Log into your account, create a new post, click on the Edit HTML tab, paste in the Embed code and that&#8217;s it.  I haven&#8217;t used TypePad for a while so please correct me if this process has changed and I&#8217;ll update things.</p>
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<p>And, we&#8217;re at <strong>fourteen ways</strong> to add video to your blog.  But wait, there&#8217;s more!</p>
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<p><strong><br />
<em>How do I resize the YouTube player.  No offense, but it looks horrible in my blog at the default sizes.</em></strong></p>
<p>You&#8217;re in luck.  I wrote a blog post entitled, &#8220;<a href="http://www.jpluna.com/wordpress/2010/02/12/how-to-create-and-resize-a-custom-youtube-player/" target="_blank">How To Create and Resize A Custom YouTube Player</a>.&#8221;  The YouTube interface changed since the blog post so there may be some differences in the way things work though.</p>
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<h5>Other Very Cool Video Sites</h5>
<p><strong><em><br />
Do I really have to use YouTube for everything?  What are some other options?</em></strong></p>
<p>You don&#8217;t have to use YouTube.  There are many other video sites out there. I&#8217;ll list a few (so I can get to 20 ways <img src='http://www.jpluna.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' />  )</p>
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<p><em><a href="http://www.12seconds.tv" target="_blank">12Seconds.tv</a></em></p>
<p>This is a great site and one that I have used many times.  12Seconds.tv allows users to record, upload, or post mobile uploads of 12 seconds of video.  If you&#8217;re intimidated by the camera, this is a great way to do a super quick post.  You&#8217;ll have to be brief!</p>
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<p><em><a href="http://www.vimeo.com" target="_blank">Vimeo</a></em></p>
<p>Vimeo is similar to YouTube only it&#8217;s a smaller community.  The Vimeo video player is less clunky looking than the YouTube one.</p>
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<p><em><a href="http://www.viddler.com" target="_blank">Viddler</a></em></p>
<p>Viddler, a favorite site of mega video star Gary Vaynerchuk, is also a smaller video community.  A smaller site means you can build a stronger following and have a chance at communicating with the company.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re at 17 ways!</p>
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<p><strong><em>I do everything via my iPhone.  What do you have for me there? Any mobile app suggestions?</em></strong></p>
<p>Once again, you&#8217;re in luck and these iPhone apps will take us to the end of this post&#8217;s journey.</p>
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<p><em>Animoto</em></p>
<p>Yup, Animoto has an app that allows you to create videos from your iPhone.  It works almost exactly like the Web version that we discussed above.</p>
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<p><em>Qik</em></p>
<p>We didn&#8217;t really get into streaming video but the Qik iPhone app allows your 3gs phone to stream live video. You can then log into the Qik site and access the video and add it to your blog.  Or, you can get crazy and embed a Qik player on one of your blog pages and have it stream live from your blog!</p>
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<p><em>UStream Broadcaster</em></p>
<p>UStream is another streaming video site and it has an iPhone app.</p>
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<p><em>Reel Director</em></p>
<p>Reel Director is a paid iPhone app.  It allows you to edit video and combine photos, video, and text.  It&#8217;s similar to Animoto but bumps things up a notch.  This is a bonus &#8220;way&#8221; to add video to your blog today.  </p>
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<p><strong>I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing your video creations, whether they are life vloggings, sales promos, tutorials, documentaries, or interviews.</p>
<p> I appreciate your feedback and look forward to continuing the conversation in the Comments.</strong></p>
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