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2012 New Year – New Venue

Tom Townsend — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 06:37:36 +0000

Its a New Year and a lot has transpired in the Video Realm during 2011. Additionally, we have been very active in SMB media and as any one can tell from visiting the site this last year, we have not been too active in publishing content to our own Virtual Interactive Systems site! Well I [...]

Google Plus – the bandwidth HOG

Tom Townsend — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:57:17 +0000

SO why does it take G+ so long to load (20 minutes and counting) ??? Once again we are down to (1) Fiber line or so says MIT (Magic Island Technologies) . Life sucks working in the Middle East especially with regards to internet access. Most users in the US and other places abroad take [...]

Time to Change the Channel on Netflix

Tom Townsend — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:32:37 +0000

Time to change the channel on Netflix ? Customers irate because of new pricing model. Some media pundits support Netflix based on their signing new deals with NBC . Netflix in my opinion is not providing the services that warrant a price hike of this magnitude. Their streaming services serve up OLD & outdated movies…..August [...]

Year End in Review

Tom Townsend — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 04:30:39 +0000

How time has gone by this year. As I am creating this post, I realize I have been very negligent to my once very high reader base. One of our main goals for 2010, will be to create more content to better help those wanting to include video and or social media into their business [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 Real Estate [...]

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 [...]