Writing for Cell Phone Users; Is It Worth It?
at 11:00 am on Sunday, 10 May 2009
There are many new companies, which will spring up in the near future, which will send out instant messages to cell phone users, as Microsoft merges computers and cell phones. Great idea and much like the SmartMob technologies, which bring singles together for instant parties or patronage at restaurants.
Call it Smart Mobs go social if you will. It is the next evolutionary step in technology to the social networks on the Internet, like MySpace.com and such. One gentleman told me recently that there is a company who will pay you to put your 120 character messages online, as you can be an instant messaging writer? How about that, have a current event topic, news topic or such?
The content must be 120 characters max. You get paid 2 cents per character and it appears they have a 100 message per month limit on submissions. They own the content and reserve the rights to approve, deny, edit or modify the text. Maximum monthly income would be $240 per month.
Sounds interesting indeed and if you are a writer well maybe, just maybe you might make a little extra money writing articles that will alert your readers thru instant messaging and you get paid for the message that is sent out too? Who knows if this will take off or not, maybe so, maybe not, but you have to admit it is kind of intriguing is it not? Consider all this in 2006.
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The Printed Word
at 7:06 am on Friday, 8 May 2009
In medieval times books were treasured objects, the result of hundreds of hours of paper production and months of hand copying. Few scholars were capable of such a task, further increasing the value and rarity of a book filled with hard earned knowledge. Gutenberg’s press enabled such books to be mass produced, if a few dozen copies could be called such. The invention of the typewriter released millions of writers from the drudgery of hand writing their manuscripts, though even today it is still a preferred method used by writers for a first draft.
I came upon the scene in tenth grade when I decided to learn how to type. Being the only boy in a class of twenty students only spurred me to surpass my feminine teasers. I would sit in my room for hours at the rare large-type typewriter inherited from my uncle and, fetching a Western from my book shelf, would type out the whole book as fast as I could. Then I would rate myself for speed and accuracy. With this method I garnered top honors in typing class.
In the late fifties, the IBM Selectronic had taken over the offices of the business world. This new , but heavy marvel used electricity to enhance the ease of typing, but still relied on mechanical means for the actual printing and good copies could only be produced by carbon paper. Mistakes were corrected by overprinting on white tape, but the copies remained uncorrected. In the sixties, word processors added, almost as an after thought, the ability to see a line (dimly) on an LCD screen before the actual printing. This feature quickly was recognized as an important way to prevent typing mistakes along with a new electronic spell checker. The word processor also boasted the capability of producing unlimited copies of the original, albeit slowly, and was able to store a number of documents on disk.
The life of the word processor was short lived, however, with the introduction of the computer and its companion printer. No writer worth his or her salt would be without the myriad benefits of computer writing. Now full page previews are available for corrections, both in spelling and in grammar, right and left hand justification appear like magic and treasured fonts transform your work at the touch of a key. Unlimited hard drive space easily accommodates your valuable documents and dozens of perfect copies spew forth from the printer like rice at a wedding. I have no idea how this paradise of writing tools will someday be surpassed, but I do know that, like in medieval times, the ideas must originate in the human brain and be written from the heart.
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Web Video Clips Can Be Excellent for a Company’s Revenue
You probably know how critical uploading your company’s short format professional video is. For a firm’s online marketing director, video is a valuable means that can easily capture your potential clients’ attention & raise the overall amount of visits to your company’s site. Short format promotional videos are enormously good in attaining the target customers’ fairly short attention span. Moreover, if codes are adopted and online video sharing is endorsed, online video clips can be a superb way to get one-way inbound links and thus positively affect your firms position on Google.
In fact, Internet video clips have turned out to be a valuable media for business or self endorsement. The following are some tips to distributing your own professional videos.
Firstly, you can post your online video clips on your own website; although this would involve you to find your own video hosting arrangements. Instead, ask your web hosting solutions contractor if video downloading or video streaming services are supported.
Video downloading is where your viewers need to download your Internet video to their hard drive. They need to save the promotional video to their own personal computer before they can play it using their workstations video player or a downloadable video player device. There are a lot of video downloading service suppliers that cost not much. There is also a progressive downloading mechanism where your Internet viewers can play the Web videos whilst downloading them.
While video streaming on the other hand utterly does away with the need to download the short format promotional videos and permits instant playback so it gives the most use to your Web users. Naturally, getting a video hosting business that supports video streaming can cost you a pretty penny. Vidify can work effectively to deliver white-label online video production and publishing solutions.
Finally, the more fashionable way to circulate Web videos is by posting your sites to video distribution web sites that have their own video hosting platform. These web sites cost you nothing to log on and will from time to time give you money upload video material. What’s more, also have a substantial market base & grasp; for instance, YouTube receives in the region of eighteen million Internet visits each and every month.
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