Archive for the ‘Producing/Managing’ Category
YouTube to Add Two New Closed Captioning Services
A great endcap to our great presentation yesterday by Stephani Roberts from MIT’s ATIC and CJ Johnson from 3Play Media, the New York times published this article yesterday about new features coming to YouTube. Google will begin rolling out service the end of this week that will automatically generate text captions to many videos on its site! YouTube has supported closed captioning on the site already, but this new service will allow users to upload a video, the closed captioning will be automatically generated, and allow the owner to review accuracy of the closed captioning before the content... [read more]
Constant Contact Rolling Out Event Registration and Marketing Features
Many communicators are looking toward email marketing campaigns versus traditional print campaigns to save both money and the environment–a double win. One of the big commercial players in the email marketing arena, Constant Contact, is rolling out a new service today that will allow customers to to promote and manage registrations and RSVPs for their meetings, seminars, parties and other events. This additional service, starting at $15/month for up to 5 concurrent events, will enable customers to promote and manage registrations and RSVPs for their meetings, seminars, parties and other... [read more]
Latest WebPub Video Now Online
The latest WebPub Presentation is now available from MIT TechTV and you can download a copy of the presentation slides (pdf). Thanks again to Chris Klaehn and Ryan Evans from Corey McPherson Nash for a great presentation on Social Media! Video hosted on MIT TechTV [read more]
Moving Publications from Print to the Web
An effort to ‘go green’ coupled with tightening budgets, many departments, labs, centers and groups are looking at ways to move their traditionally print-based publications to web-based communications. Karine Joly’s article from June 2009 issue of University Business entitled “2010: Print to Web Odyssey? A five-step plan for assessing and negotiating the transition from print to web publications” gives some great insight into the thoughts and issues surrounding the leap from paper to screen. Joly provides a nice, light-weight introductory questions to consider about... [read more]
The Browser Wars Continue
Computerworld shared a story today about Web metrics company Net Applications browser statistics for the month of August. The article describes how Internet Explorer is losing ground to Firefox and how Google’s Chrome is rapidly gaining on Apple’s Safari browser. It’s important to see what browsers people are viewing your sites on! Read more of the article here: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137358/IE_tumbles_Firefox_regains_market_share_mojo [read more]
