Animoto & SmugMug Partner on Video Creation Experience

New service lets consumers and professionals automatically create and share Animoto videos made from their hosted SmugMug assets

Sourced From USA Today
Online video creation tool Animoto and premium photo sharing site Smugmug have joined forces. Animoto® (http://animoto.com), the video creation platform that lets anyone quickly and easily create professional-quality videos from their own photos, video clips, music and text,  announced a partnership with SmugMug, a trusted source for storing photos and video footage, establishing a two-way integration of the services. SmugMug users can now easily create Animoto videos from photos and video clips in their SmugMug accounts, while Animoto users can export their personalized video creations straight to SmugMug for storage, sharing, and reselling
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WebProNews Provides Steps for Being Found in Real-Time Searches

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Giving Google The Crack It Needs to Promote You

By Chris Crum

A while back WebProNews compiled a list of five tips for getting found in real-time searches, which basically boils down to staying in the conversation for relevant topics that people are searching for. The tips are:

    1. Use keywords
    2. Talk about timely events
    3. Have a lot of followers
    4. Promote conversation
    5. Include calls to engagement

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Google Q&A

A short video that answers questions about Analytics and other Google tools. In this episode Avinash and Nick discuss:

    * How is bounce rate calculated
    * Effect of search bots on data collection
    * Finding a benchmarking category for sites that don’t fit into any particular benchmark category
    * What is the best way to identify landing pages with high bounce rate
    * How to find new keywords to improve content performance
    * Effects of private browsing and incognito mode on data collection

Google Analytics Now More Powerful, Flexible And Intelligent

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Google Analytics Now More Powerful

Google announced a new set of Analytics features which builds on last year’s enterprise-class feature launch. Some add more power to existing capabilities. Others provide new flexibility to further customize and adapt Google Analytics according to the needs of your enterprise. Finally, we’ll introduce Analytics Intelligence.

Powerful.

Power-users have asked us to add even more data manipulation and analysis features to Google Analytics. We’ve been listening, and are adding the latest power features to expand Google Analytics enterprise-class capabilities.

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Is Email Dying? Nope, Data Shows Strong Usage

Provided by Marketing Sherpa.com

Email is Going Strong

Email is Going Strong

SUMMARY: When consumers want to share something from the Internet with their friends or family, such as a video, link or article, what methods do they use? While social media is gaining ground on email, the latter still dominates as a sharing tool. When we look at media use over the last 15 years, we see a pattern of aggregation and adoption rather than replacement. Some media suffer in the exchange, but none are eliminated entirely. More commonly, their uses become more refined.

A Book on Twitter

Twitterville, Book Review

Twitterville, Book Review

Shel Israel has written a great book, Twitterville, that really shows how businesses large and small can use Twitter as a communications tool.

This interview was done via Twitter @ 140 characters at a time.

This interview was performed by Groundswell, which is a bestselling book based on analysis by Forrester Research filled with practical, data-based strategies for companies that want to harness the power of social technologies like blogs, social networks, and YouTube. It features full case studies, a complete road map for social strategy, and data from around the world.

The Interview

( This is basically a transcript, but I’ve made edits to assemble sentences together, fixed spelling, and removed irrelevant comments.)
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Scheduling Twitter with SocialOomph

Scheduling Twitter

Scheduling Twitter

SocialOomph bills itself as an industry leader in Twitter management and based on the past couple of weeks I would say that they don’t lie. They have a very nice interface for scheduling Twitter posts.

SocialOomph is linked to more than 151,700 Twitter accounts with roughly 5,468,050 tweets published every 7 days… Impressive!

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Win $30K Bobber for Intrepid Wounded Warrior Fund

JUST DAYS LEFT – Win the $30,000 Military Bobber Raffle $10 – http://bit.ly/nBQ4Z Given away Friday Oct 16th Biketoberfest. For Intrepid Wounded Warrior Fund with proceeds helping returning vets with Traumatic Brain Injuries.

Completed XPress Lid Website for SmartCup

Completed SmartCup Website

Completed SmartCup Website

Just completed the XPress lid website for SmartCup. Expedited the development of the site and reduced construction time by 50%… SmartCup introduces XPress, the first single-use, single-serve French Press, XPress is a recyclable lid that has a built-in press and fits standard 16 oz. hot cups.

The XPress lid is an easy way to deliver a superior tasting and personalized coffee or tea beverage to your customers. See video roll out at Coffee Fest Seattle – http://ping.fm/Qw8Vq

Continuing evaluation of ping.fm. Currently I have 10 social sites listed. I’m evaluating the ability to determine micro cs blogging sites.