OK, I’ve found some great Twitter stuff over the weekend…

Twitter can be a really powerful tool in your marketing… Check this video out first…

From John Taylor:-

And then forget about using Twitter in the IM niche (unless that’s your bag)… think about using it in your own niches… to find like minded people… people you can emphasise with… people you can target…

Just popped over to the Warriors… some great tips on using Twitter over there. Check them out!

Just trying out this Twitter thang…

You can follow my bumbling attempts here:-

https://twitter.com/davidrbrown

Or Thad’s here:-

https://twitter.com/thadroe

No idea what I’m doing, so random thoughts for now

Happy Thanksgiving from Thad and I at ANC!!

As you know, I’m from the UK and we don’t celebrate it over here (although we know we had something to do with it)…

I tried to find a suitable video to go with this but…errr… most weren’t suitable for a family celebration. This is the best I could find which kinda sums up my confusion over the whole thing.

Thought this was an interesting video of Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia founder), discussing the benefits of perhaps a more democratic search engine ranking system vs. the “black box” algorithm method used by Google.

In theory it sounds great to me. However, I question if there would be a broad enough representation of search users who actually take the time to vote and rank results? And if they do, will they end up ranking sites for good reason or will there be too much “static” in the voting process? That leads me to believe some sort of hybrid methodology might be more ideal.

LOL…Funny video on what Facebook interactions would be like in real life. Enjoy. (only funny if you’re already using Facebook)

Check this out…

From a post by a fellow WA and ANC member…

Hey,

Well if anyone attempting to make a video using webcam for the first time check out this video:-

Ottis has a couple of great tips for you, it’s a long video because he also show you how he edited the video using “Windows Movie Maker” but most of you will probably have this software installed too.

My wife found a great little blog post on 3 key reasons the recession is good for social media marketing.

I particularly like point #2 about “Shared Angst”, and how you can use that to keep your finger on the pulse of people’s evolving needs and wants as the economic climate changes.

Also, point #3 should give you some fantastic niche ideas to dig into as an affiliate.

Hey, this could be old news to some and I’ve been meaning to try this out for months now…

It’s a web browser called ‘Flock’…you may have noticed that the posts Thad puts up on the ANC blog are tagged ‘Blogged with the Flock Browser’

So, this is a little test for me…

I’m posting this from within Flock itself to two of my blogs… at the same time.

Thad and I use Camtasia to create our videos but at $299 it may be beyond the reach of many.

Until recently you could get Camtasia 3 for free. Well, that offer has now been withdrawn so here’s an alternative FREE program:-

Freez Screen Video Capture

I’ve only had a quick play with it a while back but it seems to do the job and saves your recordings as .avi files. Then just upload them to YouTube and add them to your blog or site.