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Amongst many educational stories growing up, many years ago my grandfather and father explained to me the concept of clearing houses. As transport professionals the told me of trucks driving to their destination dropping off their load and then neede...

I recently documented an over year long project at work as we globalized the online presence of over 400 companies into one. Not knowing what approach to take to make this usable and useful for anyone to read I began to pick friends brains on the sub...

I recently documented an over year long project at work as we globalized the online presence of over 400 companies into one. Not knowing what approach to take to make this usable and useful for anyone to read I began to pick friends brains on the sub...

The best way I found to get a handle on Adobe Encore was to send a project to it from Premiere Pro using Adobe Dynamic link. This sets up the majority of project setting from premiere and allows you to see the Encore interface populated rather than a...

I’m always watching 4OD on my laptop as I never seem to be in at the tme shows I like to watch are on. For a while now the PS3 has had the BBC iPlayer in the video section of its main menu but after the latest OS update Sony had introduced the...

I was recently asked to write a piece on Analytics at an intermediate level but this also ties into a stage we have arrived at with some Google AdWords training I’m doing so I’ll explain how analytics can pick up where AdWords left off and al...

Many people still search one or two keywords and trawl through endless list of results in a search engine. Beyond the provided filter tools there are many tips and tricks to finding what you want quicker. Ever see the keyword you searched in the summ...

I have had a lot of requests for the best way and a simple solution for outputting a Powerpoint presentation to video and what are the limitations in doing so. A few suggestions I had heard in the past was using Picasa, Accoolsoft PPT or Slideshare,...

Is it really that scary? no! the biggest hurdle is convincing others its just a communication tool and a very big one at that! in which case we can just apply conventional marketing practices that are right for that particular industries and push mar...

I was talking to someone at the weekend who does a lot of online shopping but hadn’t heard of Quidco. Nearly every online retailer offers cash back or incentives of different amounts all you need to do is sign up for an account. Quidco takes th...

The other day a colleague, Ryan Garner! you may have heard him on Simon Mayos drive talking about iPad sales (tech expert) no big deal! said he was thinking about digitizing his DVD collection. It got me thinking, it’s about that time that hard...

The other day a colleague, Ryan Garner! you may have heard him on Simon Mayos drive talking about iPad sales (tech expert) no big deal! said he was thinking about digitizing his DVD collection. It got me thinking, it’s about that time that hard...

Despite ripping me for writing a blog my brother who has been given a yacht to use in the Caribbean for 5 months along with James Martin (kite tester for kiteworld magazine, sponsored rider and male model, no big deal!!) has decided to document their...

I didn’t realise that this was an unknown to many but often there is a need to pull things out of PowerPoint for alternative uses rather than put them in. This is often the case for me when produce video reports where the findings have been vis...

The time has come to make the decision. HD or not to HD? And for those still getting mixed up, HD is High Definition and HDD is Hard Disc Drive, be sure you know the difference when you are purchasing you video camera! For a few reasons I have still...

I am running a pilot to monitor the success of new media approaches to recruitment while recruiting for my assistant. During the research process I came across a few findings that were worth a note. The flip side to recruiting on the Internet, despit...

I have now a couple of times been asked how tweeting using a hashtag can be applied to the event / conference / debate situation. I was at a debate the other month where I experienced this for the first time. A hashtag to the event is given out befor...

You will quickly learn if you are outputting video for a client who is bound to feed back and expect changes to adapt an editing technique that allows you to go back, find footage you might have deleted from the timeline, jump to another camera angle...

There are many little tips and tricks to speed up your repetitive editing processes but one of the main things I find is to get used to working in numbers for resizing, scaling positioning etc One of the major pluses to editing using premiere pro is...

I might be preaching to the converted on this one but if you are one of those people who if you wanted an album or tune you would just search it on iTunes and buy it, there’s plenty of sites now with mp3 downloads way beyond the standard price.

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