Here’s a video by Michael Locke comparing video blogging with basketball – in a good way. Included are some good tips about personal branding.
You Tube is stepping things up – again. Do you have the YouTube safety mode turned on? Now they are starting to add captions to English speaking videos. It’s not real accurate yet, but it’s a start!
Lastly, a great article by Perry Lawrence, aka askMrVideo, about Using Video as a Marketing Tool. You might argue that you aren’t marketing anything. Hmm… aren’t you marketing your blog when you try to get more readers?
I really appreciate the new safety mode available for YouTube. I learned about it from an article on ReelSEO. Whenever my children hear noise from the computer they run to see what it is and it’s just comforting to know that YouTube will try to block some of the objectionable things.
At Blissdom I recorded Kris and Kim asking a question for Say it Face to Face. I love their welcome video on The DIY Dish!
Scott Stratten talked to Real Life Sarah about making videos and unmarketing tips for moms. Great fun to watch!
Did you see any great videos this week?
An interesting post from ReelSEO titled Videos Sell Products – Even if Users Don’t Actually Watch Them.
Top 5 Tips To Start Vlogging From LizzieBTV. A great gal I saw first at SayitFacetoFace and then got to meet in real life at the Blissdom Conference in Feb 2010.
Another awesome video from Carrie Wilkerson – Three Core Principles That Make You Unique. Although she gears her message to business people, vloggers, bloggers, and social media moms can apply it to themselves with no problems. It is a bit long but very inspiring. Even though she doesn’t really know me I feel like she does.
I’m finalizing a digital product to sell! I’m excited about it and hope to have it finished in 2 days. What is it? It’s a collection of eight interviews – one written and seven audio – titled How Videos Help Women in Online Business.
For this week’s link love I’m going to send you to the sites of the talented women that I interviewed:
These ladies do a wide variety of things online, but they have all used videos to further their business. Some of them are technical wizards and some of them are just learning how to edit, but they have all used videos to further their business. They answered my questions and gave some great tips. Stay subscribed to find out how you can hear their interviews.
I’ll start this week’s links with another great video from Perry Lawrence/Mr Video about adding authority to your videos.
Next is an excellent article by Karri of Snap Virtual Assitants, INC. with A Quickstart Guide To Get Vlogging in 2010.
This post on Fuel Your Blogging has Jen Hinton’s thoughts about micro-vlogging and a list of micro-vlogging sites. If you can record and upload video from a mobile device you will want to check out the list.
Here’s Amy interviewing Maria Bailey about balance and Mom Select. If you’re not a part of Mom Select I highly recommend it!
Kia made her first vlog and it is great! She came to my live show to get some vlogging tips then went and did this her first time. [I think her photography skills helped a lot.]
Cali’s 10 ten favorite electronic gadgets of 2009.
Turn here reported that Monthly online video views topped 30 billion mark for the first time ever! Video is still growing fast. Do have some on your site?
There is an excellent article on Get In Front Blogging titled 99 Tips to Creating Powerful Video Blogs.
After all that reading some comedy sounds good. Here are two clips that I think are funny – even after watching them a couple times. Tim Hawkins and Brian Regan.
Somebody who gets a million views a month should know what they’re talking about – right? Here’s 5 Tips about video blogging from Robert Scoble on BloggingTips.com.
I think Cali Lewis is awesome, but I’m not into all that techy stuff. In a recent video she shows how to make marshmallows and that is right up my alley – especially since I didn’t know how to answer my kids when they asked me.
This video from Danielle at Extraordinary Mommy gets an A+ for cuteness. Not much beats a Christmas puppy.
Here are 2 videos about FoodBuzz in San Francisco – Nature’s Pride and Bertolli Sauce. I first heard about FoodBuzz when I went to NYC and hung out with some food bloggers. I just think it’s great the way the companies related to the bloggers.
I love this quote from Christopher Ming Ryan - “Words make or break your story. Images burn in a memory.” It’s an argument against boring interview videos with talking heads.
Speaking of images…This “video” is made from lots of still pictures and it captivated me. One of these days I’ve got to try that. The Babywearing is Magical video shows joy and love in the simple things of home and I think it’s great! Now I’m off to watch the rest of the video entries at Stephanie’s Sakura Bloom Triathlon [yes, I know I'm a bit behind].
Maria Bailey on TV talking about Having a Stress Free Holiday.
The director of new media for Cisco Systems, a Silicon Valley powerhouse talks about how they bought a few $1000 and more Flip cameras to give to their employees.
A music video made from the positions of birds on wires. Loved it!
Here’s a video of a cat doing magic. Just for fun! My kids love to watch the Purina Animal All-Stars Channel.
Here’s my Monday Mingle for this week.
1. Do your kids have chores? Do you pay them to do chores?
2. Were you in Girl Scouts/Brownies or Boy Scouts? Are your kids? Favorite Girl Scout Cookie?
3. Does your family go camping? If so, do you have a funny/interesting experience?
If you have a bunch of videos [...]
Below is the link-up for your 1 minute videos. Here’s something I learned this morning- It takes a long time for a video to be available on Vimeo if you are using their free service. Much longer than any other site has ever taken me. I’ll embed mine as soon as it’s available.
Next week’s challenge: [...]
Here is my Simple Vlogging Podcast #22 with 3 more tips on how to get more attention for your video as I promised when I talked about How To Tag Your Videos.
It has to do with comments, tags, and descriptions.
Feel free to leave a comment with any questions!
This week’s Monday Mingle is about gardening, drink preferences, nationality, and Olympics – quite a mix!
If you want to join in visit eightymphmom.com.
Do you have any videos that fit a Vlogging Challenge? Feel free to link them! Tomorrow’s link- up is for a one minute video with no editing or even moving.
Below is the link-up for your videos with food in them. Anything food related. I embedded one of the first vlogs I ever made from October 2008. It’s “How To Make Cookies In Less Than 10 Minutes” and the video itself is 6 minutes long! A definite no-no now.
Next week’s challenge: Make a [...]
Here is my Simple Vlogging Podcast episode 21. I’ve been a slacker these past couple weeks, but now I’m getting back in the groove.
This episode is about tagging your videos/vlogs so that they are found easier and watched more. Always a good thing, right?
Tell me, do you tag your videos? Any tips you would add? [...]