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How to Make a Good First Impression on Video

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

VideoJug has put up this
informative video tutorial
on how to make a good
first impression. Basically, it
boils down to five basic
things to remember: watch
your entrance, give a firm
handshake, note your
posture, tone down
nervous arm gestures, and
watch what other people
are doing (”mirroring”).
Great advice for anyone
who’s heading into
a situation where
impressions count; an
interview, for
example.Video: How to
make those first
impressions count -
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Video Editing and Uploading via Mobile Phones Will Loom Large in 2008

Friday, June 27th, 2008

As the video functionality of mobile phones increase, so will the numbers of uploaders to various sites including YouTube, VideoEgg and Blip.TV which take video uploads directly via mobile devices. Other video sharing sites, just for mobile video sharing sites like Veeker and Kyte, will certainly grow.

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Why Unified Messaging Is Replacing Traditional Voice Mail Systems

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Traditional voice mail systems are being thrown off the roof. The implementation of unified messaging is now. With the ability to check faxes, e-mails, text messages, video messages, and your voice mail, these all-inclusive systems are taking over the industry.

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Pew Internet: Increased Use of Video-Sharing Sites

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Forty-eight of Internet users have been to video-sharing sites such as YouTube, and the daily traffic to such sites on a typical day has doubled in the past year. The basic findings in a national phone survey show:

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Find Videos Here: FeedWard

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Looking for online videos? Search no more. This video search site currently supports five of the most popular online video sites on the web: Youtube, Veoh, MetaCafe, LiveVideo, and Google Video. The day’s featured videos, along with their details, e.g. page views, duration and author, are displayed on the homepage. You’ll find […]

Video’s Impact on Internet Just Scratching the Surface

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Video is playing a central role in a new wave of Internet innovation that threatens to upend business models while providing consumers a new variety of entertainment choices, according to executives at Cisco Systems.

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Ex-Harvard President Meets a Former Student, and Intellectual Sparks Fly

Monday, January 28th, 2008

In June 2006, Peter Hopkins, a civic-minded and idealistic 2004 Harvard graduate, trekked up to his alma mater from New York for a meeting with Lawrence H. Summers, the economist and former Treasury secretary. Mr. Hopkins, who finagled the appointment through his friendship with Mr. Summers’s assistant, had a business idea: a Web site […]

Business Goes Straight to Online Video

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Blendtec Chief Executive Tom Dickson had an unorthodox method for testing his company’s blenders: He used them to pulverize two-by-fours.
His marketing director, George Wright, decided to videotape the exploits, adding other objects, from marbles to rake handles. Then they posted the clips to the Web.The rest, as they say, is marketing history.

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How to Do Simple Videos for a Business

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

How to do simple videos for
your business Video can be
a terrific small business
communication tool. It is
best for sending visual
information, building a
relationship with the
viewers, and yet most
entrepreneurs don’t
take advantage of it.
You’ve asked me
how I do simple …

Learn How to Create, Publish, and Promote Your Online Video: Make Internet TV

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

Online video is a huge
growth sector, and is
transforming the web from
a static landscape of words
and still-images into a
whole new world of
Internet TV. But while now
is a great time to make
your mark in this new and
exciting field, it’s
sometimes hard to know
where to begin. A new
totally free resource
changes makes things a
whole lot easier though,
offering you step-by-step
guidance on creating,
publishing and even
promoting your Internet
television content. Make
Internet TV is the latest
project of the non-profit
Participatory Culture
Foundation, creators of the
excellent, free Democracy
media player. In a series of
great-looking, easy-to-
digest tutorials they

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