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Why Fortune Companies are embracing Social Media

Tom Townsend — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:14:50 +0000

The 2nd week of June the Direct Marketing Association’s (DMA) Social Media Council (SMC) released their first-ever Social Media Survey. The goal of the Social Networking Software Survey was to obtain industry awareness of how Social Software is being utilized today, as well as to get an understanding of future internal and external social media [...]

The buoy in this economic storm is Search Marketing

Tom Townsend — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:28:40 +0000

In a new research report from E Marketer Inc, Web retailers and other online marketers will be spending much more time and effort beefing up their search engine optimization efforts over the next several years. In yet another report, this one from the Internet Retailers new search engine marketing survey, some rather interesting survey results revealed that [...]

YouTube redesign outs User Generated Content

Tom Townsend — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:40:36 +0000

Is UGC (user generated content) headed for the digital dustbins on YouTube ? If you’re a small or medium business and have been running the do it yourself approach on Video promotions, your ROI (return on Investment) which at present may be equal to the time you have invested in producing your clips and uploading them [...]

Real Estate Mobility

Tom Townsend — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:41:17 +0000

We recently wrote an article for the folks over at Home Gain, where I am a guest Blogger on the Technology front for the Real Estate industry. My article entitled, Is an iPhone Under Your Tree This Christmas? discusses the merits that the iPhone has ushered in for consumers and the reason why [...]

Online printing services extraordinaire

Tom Townsend — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:18:50 +0000

With Christmas fast approaching, I often get customers that have rather large projects that need to be done in a hurry. This is in itself not a problem but if my resources are tied up and the project results in needing more than (1) or (2) DVD’s, well it can be quite hectic getting the [...]

Preserve old movies, photos, music with Digital Technology

Tom Townsend — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:40:36 +0000

This last Saturday my local News Paper printed a pretty good article in the Homes section regarding preservation of old films and photos stored away in peoples attics closets etc. Of course this article is very near and dear to my heart and actually is a good cause to write about. Recently my father passed away [...]

DIVX Exit’s Stage 6 and Disney Enters Stage 9

Tom Townsend — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:46:29 +0000

Another month and another change in the video landscape. Last week I received an email from the folks over at the video sharing site Stage 6 (that was run by DIVX) informing me that they were shutting down operations the end of February. With the flood of new video sharing sites on the [...]

Video Sharing Landscape changes as LiveUniverse buys Revver

Tom Townsend — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:00:57 +0000

Back in January I wrote about the perennial favorite (REVVER) of many web Video enthusiast, and mentioned that they were going through some tough times that indicated a change was in the wind. Well the wind has now settled and as of Thursday the 14th of February REVVER is now part of Brad Greenspan’s LIVE [...]

Video Sharing sites and your business

Tom Townsend — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:52:08 +0000

So you know about You Tube and Google Video and maybe three or four other sites that will let you post your videos for free?. Now let’s ad to the mix with the Social Networking sites like MySpace and Facebook to name a few and soon the numbers start to swell to over a hundred. [...]

Video for a New Media Generation

Tom Townsend — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:26:10 +0000

With all the opportunity in online video, it is interesting that many traditional Videographers or Production Studios do not really get it. Oh they know how to create video but in todays on-line world you have to improve upon your craft and become very Web 2.0 savvy. You also have to ensure that [...]