A decision that all video bloggers need to wrestle with is how to host their videos. Conventional branding wisdom would dictate that you host them yourself. On the other hand, viral marketing doctrine suggests that you upload your content to as many channels as possible.
With about a dozen decent alternatives to YouTube, however, deciding how to host you video content can be tough. At the end of the day, video bloggers should strike a healthy balance between bandwidth, distribution/reach, branding, and community. They can do this by choosing to upload their content…
Back in March, an SEO blogger named Michael Gray urged bloggers to step away from the keyboard. His point was that too many of them didn’t have anything interesting or original to say, so they were better off not saying anything at all. Where Michael went wrong was that, instead of hammering this out on his keyboard, he said it in a vlog post. Now, Michael is a great writer who really knows SEO, but he has a presence that’s probably better suited for radio.
Now I’m not talking about looks, here. No,…
Adding video to your blog is a great way to engage your readers. Or, should I say viewers? As Fred R. Barnard once said, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” How many words is a moving, talking picture worth?. Priceless!!
There are many ways that you can incorporate videos into your articles. Here are two ways I particularly like:
Video Tutorials:
Video tutorials are great tools for educating your readers on how to do something. By creating a video, you walk and talk them through the tasks that you are trying to…
So one of the greatest things about blogging is that it has given everyone an opportunity to have a voice. Whether or not anyone hears that voice, mind you, is something else, but at least individuals can now publish their view points without the mainstream media as an intermediary. Well, the written word isn’t the only medium that new media has freed from the grips of mainstream media control. Sites such as YouTube have eliminated the bandwith barriers to online video hosting, and now it is perfectly feasible to be a video-blogger…
Nate Whitehill and Josh Mullineaux have released their second video podcast. I like the way Nate & Josh are doing these videos. They are completely honest about who they are and what they do, they haven’t got much experience with video blogging but they are improving with every video and are listening to the feedback from visitors. I’m sure the videos will continue to improve over the next few months. Enjoy! 
