Arnie Kuenn speaks with Lee Odden of TopRank Online Marketing about content marketing at conferences.

Lee Odden is the CEO of TopRank Online Marketing.

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Arnie: Hi everyone I’m Arnie Kuenn with Vertical Measures, and today we have our guest, a friend of mine, Lee Odden, with TopRank. Say hello, Lee.

Lee: Hey, Arnie, how are you? Good to be here.

Arnie: I’m doing great, thanks for joining us. So, the short version of how this came about is — hey I used a Minnesota term, or a Canadian term, “coming about.”

Lee: I don’t know.

Arnie: Anyway, I digress. So Lee and I have done a few panels together, and he always brings a few gadgets and I’ve always been intrigued about the kind of content he produces when he’s actually at various conferences and speaking and attending, so on and so forth. We thought it might make a good blog post. In fact I think he wrote a post similar to this just a few days ago, we’ll link to it in this. But I asked Lee if the thought this would turn out better as a video and actually show the devices we’re talking about. So I’m going to turn it over to Lee and he’s going to talk to you about how he does content marketing at conferences. Take it away.

Lee: Thanks Arnie, you know two of the key things we do to get the word out about TopRank, about our consulting services for the purpose of attracting clients, recruiting, is speaking at conferences and creating content through our blog and media outreach: online articles and industry publications. Conferences can cost a lot of money, but yet at the same time it can be amazing opportunities for lots of business value, and that’s really what I wrote about in my article on Monday this week.

In one of those pieces of value you get from events is creating content, and these days lots of folks are live blogging. You go into exhibit hall and lots of people are setup with cameras and doing video interviews and all of that stuff. Those are really great things and they’re actually becoming more common, but it’s also more competitive now. So you’ve got to do things to be more creative. So I found that by going to conferences and being a speaker or just as an attendee there’s lots of different things you can do to create content. While you’re creating content, you can also network with people, you can create connections, you can create value.

One of my most powerful tools of course is this iPhone. Especially the iPhone 4 — it has a fantastic camera. The apps for social networking to share the video you capture with that camera are really amazing. So I guess one of the first things I would talk about would be some of the apps you can use. Obviously using the camera itself, but also camera enhancements. I love to use Instagram, and I also like to share through Instagram to Facebook, to Twitter, and to other places. And I also like to manipulate the images using Instagram, and maybe I don’t even share them with Instagram.

This is my laptop bag which I have a 13-inch Macbook Air, here it is, what I carry it in is 13-inch 13 inch Mackbook Air, and it’s super light. Inside that bag, I have another bag. These are a lot of the gadgets that I bring to events. One of the things I like to do is, right before I give a presentation, I want to do something different. I want to make myself stand out, and I want to do something that creates content and also social opportunity. So I’ve got a little bag here, this an Olloclip, and inside this little bag of course is a lens. And I can take it and I can add it on to my iPhone, so now I actually have the ability to shoot a fisheye video version or a wide angle of the entire audience. One of the problems was when first started to take pictures of the audience, what I’m looking for of course is the best looking audience in the world. That line works in Hong Kong, in works in Barcelona, in London, in Antwerp, and certainly in Minneapolis, Chicago, San Francisco, and New York. Everyone wants to be good looking so I ask them to please quick get good looking so I can take a picture of you. When I take it with the iPhone of course the spectrum of width is only so much. So adding on this little Olloclip lens allows me to capture the entire audience and it adds a neat effect.

I have to say, all over the world when I’ve been taking pictures with this thing at conferences people come up to me and say what’s that thing on your phone? And it initiates a conversation. I have an interesting story: I was in Time Square doing a video — imagine how much you can capture with a wide angel lens there. And I hear, “Sir, sir.” I don’t know who that is. And I turn around and there’s this six foot six giant NYC cop. He’s like, “What is that, is that a webcam?” and in a few seconds he’s writing down the name Olloclip on his hand, because he wants to use it too.

Really great technical tools can be great social tools as well. Here’s another one I have in my bag. It’s just an extension cord. It’s a plug-in. So I plug this into a wall, right, you’re at a conference, there’s people live blogging. Everyone needs power, and this thing is really small. You can literally carry this in your jacket pocket if you wanted to. But you can plug three devices into this and then plug it into the wall. So someone might be there taking up electricity, and you say hey, do you mind if I plug in? You can plug into me and someone else can plug in too. By the fact that you’re close to one another you might have to talk, and so that’s a nice little social networking tool and gadget to have.

Obviously I have the other adapters for Mac products so I can connect to wi-fi, or I can connect to an external monitor. Another cool thing in terms of power is this gadget. I have two types of power, I’ve got the New Trent battery pack. This thing will power an iPad several times. It will power my iPhone for an entire week, just this one thing. Now this is big, you wouldn’t want to probably carry this with you but I carry it in my bag, especially internationally. I’ve always got power for my iPhone because of this thing. But when I want to have something smaller, I’ve got this tiny little GMYLE it’s called. And this attaches to the bottom of your iPhone. But this thing is quite handy because it’s so small you can carry it in your pocket if you don’t like to have one of those big adapters, this can be quite useful for one or one-and-a-half charges of your iPhone. So that’s really not content creation, but you know what, if your phone isn’t charged you can’t take videos, so it’s important.

One of the other gadgets for the iPhone that I like to use is a little wireless lavalier. And it’s made by – Scosche? I’m not sure, I’ll put it up to the camera. The way you would use this with your iPhone is that you download an app on your iPhone and then you can put your iPhone, let’s say somewhere stationary, and then you can walk away, and you can clip this to yourself and use it as a wireless mic. The other way I like to use it is if I’m shooting video like this and it’s really crowded, noisy, the camera on the iPhone is awesome but the audio sucks, the microphone sucks. So you can literally be shooting a video with someone and do a here you go, I’m talking, here you go kind of thing and you can make sure that the audio that’s captured with this thing is really, really clear.

This is pretty handy, and I don’t use this often enough, but it’s great for doing interviews. One of the other things I’d like to share is you want to make sure you’ve got a way to capture higher resolution video. So I like this Sony NEX-5N camera. I bought a shotgun mic for it to make sure I improve the image quality, but this thing in terms of a small, digital SLR, is absolutely awesome. It takes amazing pictures. It’s got an incredibly easy to use interface, and I’ve shot some really, really good videos with people using it. And that allows of course to publish much higher resolution to pop up onto YouTube, so people can have many different options in terms of viewing it.

Planning is the big part and I just went into showing you a bunch of gadgets, but one of the things about going to events and creating content is to make a plan. If you’re going to use interviews, and a lot of things I share are very interview-centric, you want to plan on who it is you’re going to interview with, and have some idea of where they’re going to be. You’ll want to treat it like you’re a journalist and especially if they’re a speaker they’re going to want to give interviews, but they may be busy. So plan a head and try to create a schedule of who you’re going to interview and when. Also, be adaptive and take advantage of opportunities as they present themselves.

I can’t tell you how many times that I’ve been able to get interviews with interesting people that I just bumped into. And I happen to go “Hey, you want to do a quick interview?” They’re in the business of being known, they’re more than happy, their ego will drive them to shoot a video with you, and you go hey, here’s my iPhone, here’s my cool little lens, and they’ll go what is that? Then you shoot that video and then you’ve got your little lavalier microphone, and it’s cool. People appreciate gadgets and the finished product is a lot better than if you just go up to someone and shaky with your hand and do a video with an iPhone.

Those are a couple of tips. I guess the other thing is take advantage of distribution. You shoot videos with people, make sure you let them know you shot the video and that they share it with their networks. Pop it up on your network, do screenshots of videos so you can up load those to Picasa, Flickr and Pinterest, with a link back to the full video that’s embedded on your blog. Deconstruct the media that you create and think about all ways you can repurpose it, and you’ll get a lot more distribution and a lot more exposure, than just throwing up a video on YouTube, and crossing your fingers hopping that someones going to pay attention to it.

Arnie: That’s exactly what I was hoping for, and as you mentioned throughout how it starts conversations. That’s exactly how this piece of content we’re creating came about. You and I were setting up on one of those stages and I saw the lavalier, and the fisheye, and I thought, we need to do something to tell people how you’re producing content. So great job. And I noticed one thing, I don’t know how the video’s going to shake out once we download this, but it did seem when you were moving around sometimes the voice didn’t sync up, so I apologize to our viewers, hopefully you get the gist of everything Lee was talking about. And before we wrap up I noticed over your left shoulder, what happens to be a copy of a really cool new book by a famous author. Why don’t you tell us about it.

Lee: Infamous, infamous author, of the book Optimized. Optimized is a book that was published almost a month ago by Wiley and talks about the intersection of search, social and content, and at that level it’s not too different than Accelerate!, bringing together those three disciplines. Optimized spends a lot of time on customer segmentation. It spends a lot of time on many different types of audits and there’s a bit more social slant and content slant to it than search. I think those two books are pretty dangerous for any smart person to get a hold of actually. Because both of them have a lot of framework information, but they also have a lot of specific tactical advice. And I think I remember you saying that you had even modified how you were doing some of the things you were doing in your agency.

I’ve been blogging for eight years and I’ve always said, “Well I blog, why the hell would I want to write a book?” and I wanted to go through the journey. I wanted to know what it was like to actually do the research and put something together that’s 60-70,000 words and hope that it’s going to make sense to people. And the feedback that I’ve had has been amazing. Some of the people that have endorsed it and some of the reviews we’ve had already, really floored me. I’m pretty happy with it. It’s just getting started, we haven’t even done any outreach with it yet, which is silly. I know that you’re supposed to that months before the book launches. But I wanted to see how it would go. Do we have a network, do we have a good network or not? We paid forward, or not, and it turns out that we did. And a lot of people have really gone out of their way from marketing props to Joe at Content Marketing Institute. Coffee Blogger and Jay Baer and lots of other places to say hey, what can we do to help you promote the book? And I appreciate you bringing it up during this hangout.

Arnie: Absolutely. I have to say, your publisher sent me a copy and I just started to read it. We hired a new marketing manager and I gave it to her and she’s almost finished with it and she said she’s really, really enjoying it so I’ll encourage her to give you a good review. I know those are valuable.

Lee: Yes, and folks can find out about the book at OptimizeBook.com. There we have blog posts about events and we do this fun thing called “Optimize in the Wild” when people take photos of themselves and the book and we go ahead and put that up in blog posts and put it up on Flickr and Pinterest and things like that. There’s also some downloadable spreadsheets for a keyword glossary and a content plan. And there are previews to several of the chapters, and that sort of stuff. I’m trying to add more to it but it’s a good place to find out about the book and actually order the book too.

Arnie: Great, well it’s time to wrap it up. Once again, Lee I want to thank you for your time, I appreciate it. Thanks for all the wonderful advice and best of luck with Optimized.

Lee: Thanks a lot Arnie.

 

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Kaila Strong answers: “Is Pinterest Right for My Business?”

If you’ve got a question about link building, content, social media, SEO or other Internet marketing topics, just post it on the Vertical Measures Facebook page, or tweet it to us with the hashtag #VMQA.

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So today’s question is, “Is Pinterest right for my business?”

Pinterest is one of the hot, hot topics right now in the social media game. It is a site that receives millions and millions of visitors on a monthly basis. And it has the ability to drive some pretty targeted traffic to websites if utilized efficiently.

Pinterest is really great for a business that has a large demographic of female users. Pinterest is mostly women, at about 75-80% women, although men are starting to flock to the platform as well. So it is something that can help if you have that female demographic. Females in the U.S. represent the largest majority of stake holders of who makes the decisions on purchasing products in the home, that are purchased online. So that demographic is very important for any e-commerce client or any industry that definitely focuses on that female demographic.

Check out Pinterest, test it out, see if it is right for your brand. See if there are other users online who are using it in your industry and see how you can utilize it for your brand.

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Do you ever feel like your Facebook posts are just going unnoticed? You post something that you think is really interesting, yet practically no one comments or likes it at all. The reason is probably because you have a low Edge Rank score, which means very few people in your network actually even saw your post.

EdgeRank is the algorithm Facebook uses to determine what items will populate people’s newsfeeds. It places a value on posts, and it is what determines potentially how many people will see the post and engage with it. As your edge rank increases, your page’s visibility will increase and your fan base will naturally grow.  Understanding the algorithm is the first step to taking full advantage of your potential reach.

The equation for EdgeRank is illustrated above. As you can see, there are three factors including affinity, weight and time.  Affinity is the relationship between the viewing user and the edge creator. Weight is dependent on what type of post it is (text, photos, video, etc), and how much engagement it’s getting. Facebook seems to value rich media content like photos and videos. Comments and likes increase its weight, with comments weighing it a little heavier. Also, tagging the photo with people and location may help to increase its weight. The third factor is time. With this factor, newer is better.

Now that you understand what EdgeRank is, here are a few tips to increase your score:

Post on Optimal Days

The best days of the week to post is going to vary based on what type of business you are. If you are an internet marketing company, then your best days are going to be on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. However, if you manage a social media page for a bar, your best days might be on Friday and Saturdays. Use Facebook insights to determine when your fans are most responsive to your posts.

Post at Optimal Times

Data shows that the best times to post on average for all brands is between 1:00PM and 3:00PM EST. This is based on the fact that this is when people are most active on Facebook. However, it’s still strongly suggested that you analyze your own insights to determine your most optimal times. Your brands demographic may be more active on Facebook in the morning, and you could miss out on this if most of your posts are later in the afternoon.

Post Consistently

Posting at least once a day is a good rule of thumb, especially when your brand is new to Facebook. When you grow your fan base, you’ll be able to increase that number. However, you don’t want to post too often and annoy your fans. On the other hand, don’t post 4 times one week, then not post anything for 2 weeks straight. You need to be consistent so your fans know what to look forward to, and so you can ultimately spark that interaction.

Post Relevant Content

Make sure the content you are posting is relevant to your brand. Blog posts and industry related news articles are a great place to start. Make sure to limit the number of posts with links to your own site or products, especially if you are an e-commerce site. If fans think that you are just on Facebook to push products, they will become less interested in your page. Also remember that Facebook seems to favor rich media, so including photos and videos in your posts regularly can help as well.

Build a Community

To get your fans to interact with your posts regularly, you have to make them feel like they are a part of something. Asking them to share, giving shout-outs on their accomplishments or having contests that incentivize them to interact are all great strategies. One brand that is doing a great job with this is Scuba Diver Life. They consistently post fan questions such as “What is the best diving resort in Puerto Rico?” and ask other fans to answer. So the fan asking gets multiple opinions, and the community gets to share their thoughts, discuss, and compare. This has increased their edge rank dramatically, allowing more and more fans to interact and give advice.

Encourage a Response

It’s as simple as that. You need to craft posts that encourage a response. Ask questions, and don’t be afraid to directly ask fans to “like” your post once in awhile.

Overall, EdgeRank isn’t all that complicated. Focus on your insights, follow these steps, and you’ll be on your way to a higher score and increased reach.

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BlogWorld is a must-attend social media event, hosting thousands of attendees from 50+ countries, with more than 200 speakers. There will be  3 days of cutting-edge conference sessions and eye-opening keynotes,  a thriving tradeshow and great networking events, bringing the global community of content creators and publishers together all under one roof.

Arnie Kuenn speaks with Deborah Ng about the top three reasons to attend BlogWorld & New Media Expo being held in New York City June 5-7, 2012.

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Deborah Ng is the Director of Community for BlogWorld. She is also the author of Online Community Management For Dummies and Social Media Marketing All-in-One For Dummies.

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Arnie: Welcome, everybody. Today our guest is Deborah Ng. She’s the Director of Community for BlogWorld. We’re going to talk a little about the upcoming event which in New York City in June… you really need to know. I don’t really need to know, but you should know.

Deborah: Yeah, it’s important I show up on the right day.

Arnie: She’s also the author of “Social Media Marketing All-in-One for Dummies.” We’ll talk about that in a little bit. I wanted to invite Deb to do this video to talk about the top three reasons to attend BlogWorld. Deb, I’ll let you take it from here and talk to the audience.

Deborah: Absolutely. There are actually a lot of reasons why one would attend BlogWorld. I don’t know if Hangout gives us that amount of time that it would take for me to tell you all about it but I’ll run it down by what for me were the three most important reasons. Before I was BlogWorld’s Director of Community, and before I was BlogWorld’s Conference Director, I was a BlogWorld attendee. I came on my own as someone who owned a blog network. I just had something to learn. I have all of these different reasons beyond my working for BlogWorld to want to come.

For me, the number one reason to attend BlogWorld is the education. We take that very seriously to set us apart from some of the other conferences out there. We look for the best speakers possible. When I say the best speakers possible, I don’t talk about names because you can go anywhere and see the names. We don’t want you to come for the names. We want people to come because they’re going to learn and our speakers are the best at what they do.

We don’t often look for names. We look for people who maybe aren’t as well-known but are super smart. We’d rather give an opportunity to an up-and-comer than somebody who speaks at every conference. Education is the number one reason to attend BlogWorld.

Next in line … even out on the front steps, because even smokers network, Arnie. We offer the best networking. There are just so many people to meet. Not everybody comes for the educational sessions, which is fine, but they do come to make important connections. You’re going to find them at BlogWorld.

And finally, for me the most important reason to come is the opportunities. You can land book deals there, you can meet potential clients, you can meet collaborators. People have landed jobs at BlogWorld. People have made the evening news. We’ve had the Today Show there. We’ve had CNN there. Some people became well-known after appearing at BlogWorld. You build up your personal connections, your professional connections, and we’re co-located with Book Expo which means you’ll be hobnobbing with authors and publishers.

Arnie: Give us an idea of the size and scope of BlogWorld. You do it twice a year but I think it’s become bigger and bigger every year.

Deborah: We do it twice a year, although this year we only have one conference in New York. We don’t have an L.A. event this year. We’re going to be in Las Vegas in January. We’re going to be happening around the same time as CES, so people who have to choose between CES or us can come at the same time and charge one flight.

We only have one conference this year. We actually narrowed down the amount of educational sessions we’re offering. In Los Angeles last year, we had around 22 concurrent sessions and we decided that’s too much. There’s too much to do. And then … WebTV, content creation, community. We have the Social Media Business Summit, which is a separate mini-conference inside our conference for businesses learning to use social media. I think we’re hoping for over 3000 attendees in New York City this year.

Arnie: That’s huge. Good job building it up.

Deborah: Thank you.

Arnie: Before we wrap it up, I wanted to ask you about your book. How it’s doing, and I’ll give you a chance to plug it.

Deborah: Thank you. Actually, I’m still co-authoring. I’m in the middle of writing the second edition of “Social Media Marketing All-In-One for Dummies” with Jan Zimmerman. My book, “Online Community Management for Dummies” is the one that just came out and it’s doing pretty good. If the last numbers I saw were correct, then I’m pretty pleased. It’s been a lot of fun.

Arnie: … fun to write.

Deborah: Before I did all this, Arnie, I was a writer. I freelanced as a writer and my background is in publishing so it’s bringing me back to my passion.

Arnie: I would not consider myself a writer and I would never say writing the book I wrote was fun. It was a labor of love, as they say.

Deborah: And that’s what counts, the love part.

Arnie: Exactly. That’s all the time we’re going to have at this session. I want to thank Deb for joining us, and for all of you who can make it to BlogWorld New York, June 5th through 7th, I highly recommend it. Again, thank you, Deborah, for your time.It was good talking to you.

Deborah: Thank you so much, Arnie. I appreciate it.

Arnie: You bet.

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Instagram is growing by leaps and bounds, and we can’t wait to see what plans Facebook has for it. But, everyone, including businesses, should use Instagram sparingly. It’s cool and trendy for some photos but for the majority of your images you want high quality that shows off your products or services, staff or clients.

We’ve all seen photos on Facebook and Twitter that are out of focus, too dark or too light, heads cut off; you name it. Do you share those photos? Probably not.  The smartphones used these days can take terrific photos, but only if the light is just right and you hold the phone still enough.

With the advent of Pinterest, which is image driven, companies need to improve their photography skills if they want their photos shared across social media channels. Below are some photography tips to help with the quality of your photos that you post on your social media profiles. Don’t be scared to try some of the techniques, you can always hit the delete button!

Aperture f/4

Use a Tripod

You may think you can hold a camera steady, but you really can’t. Using a tripod increases the quality of your photos by a huge percentage. If you don’t have a tripod handy, then at least rest against something like a wall.

Try Auto without Flash

Go ahead and take shots with your camera on the Auto setting; but at least put it on the Auto setting without flash. The on-camera flash is unflattering is most situations, but we’ll get to lighting later.

Aperture f/16

Set Your Camera on Aperture Priority

Ready, set your camera (this goes for DSLRs, point-and-shoots and some smartphones) on Aperture Priority. Now you have some control. Cameras tend to see things and over-accentuate them, so in many situations it’s helpful to tell the camera exactly how to take the picture. Aperture Priority is great for beginners as it allows for different settings that will improve the quality of your pictures, but the camera adjusts your shutter speed for you.

On Aperture Priority you set your desired aperture (or f-stop) which allows a certain amount of light into the camera. The smaller the number in the f-stop, the more light that is let in. This setting also determines your photo’s depth of field, or how much of the background is in focus. You’ll see many food photographers using this to their advantage by setting their aperture to a low number so that just the food is in focus, which sets it off nicely. Below you can see the difference between an aperture setting of f/4 (background out of focus) and f/16 (background in focus):

Incorrect White Balance

Set the White Balance

You can also set your white balance when in Aperture Priority. This setting tells the camera how to interpret different types of colors, most specifically blues and yellows. As a general rule of thumb, when taking pictures inside set the white balance on “incandescent” (or tungsten), and when outside set it on “cloudy”. Below shows a photo taken outside where I forgot to change the white balance from incandescent to cloudy, so it gives it a blue-ish cast:

Be Mindful of the ISO

This stands for “International Organization for Standardization”, yes it doesn’t make sense, but there you have it. This setting tells the film (or memory card) in your camera how sensitive to be to light. We have another general rule here; for the most part you can leave your ISO set at 200. If you are taking a photo in darker situations then the ISO should be bumped to a higher number, but this you will learn with trial and error. This is where having a digital camera is great because you can keep changing the settings and looking at your result and change it again until you have what you like. Something to keep in mind is that along with changing the ISO to a higher number you also get more graininess in the photo. Here is a really helpful post from the Chookooloonks blog that explains all the components of proper exposure.

Check the Light Source

If at all possible take photos outside or near a window that provides lots of natural light. Everything looks better when it’s lit by sunlight. Using the on-camera flash creates harsh reflections and unflattering shadows where you don’t want them.

Rule of Thirds Grid

Set up your Composition

Everyone has a tendency to always perfectly center their subject. By using the rule of thirds you can make your photos much more interesting. Here’s how it works. When you look through the viewfinder or at your screen, create an imaginary grid by dividing the scene into nine equal pieces by 2 vertical lines and 2 horizontal lines. You will want to then position your subject where the lines intersect. Some cameras will even superimpose this grid on your screen for you. An example of the grid is below; you would center your subject on either of the vertical lines:

Fix Them Up in Post Production

You should always try to get the best photos you can by setting your camera correctly when you take the photo. But you can also do a little fixing in post production. Whichever program you choose, here are some basic adjustments for the beginner that will greatly improve the overall look of your photos:

• Crop – Too much sky or grass? Crop the photo for a nice balance.
• Exposure – Adjust to make the photo a little lighter or darker.
• Contrast – Play with this setting to get the best look of darker shades vs. lighter shades.
• Saturation – With this setting you can punch up the color or tone it down.
• Definition or Sharpness – Here you can fix your focus.
• Highlights – Portion of the sky too light or a light source distracts from the overall look of your photo? You can turn it down with this setting.
• Shadows – For areas that are too dark in your photo you can turn them up so you can see detail.

Don’t be afraid to ruin your photos. Make a copy of a photo and then use the copy to adjust to get the hang of it. Most photo processing programs allow you to return the photo to its original state if you don’t like the changes you’ve made.

As with anything, practice practice practice and you will soon see improvement. Social media marketing can be very successful when you share your works of art.

Do you have any basic photography tips that you’ve found helpful? Please share them with us.

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