Archive for July, 2011
71 Percent Of Online Adults Use Video-Sharing Sites
Us Americans may not enjoy the same blazing-fast broadband speeds as our South Korean friends, but that doesn’t stop us from getting our YouTube on. The majority of us may not even need bigger pipes, if a new report by Pew Research Center is true: according to the group, a whopping 71 percent of online American adults make use of video-sharing sites like YouTube and Vimeo. That’s a lot of “Cookie Monster Sings Chocolate Rain.”
The numbers stay largely the same regardless of sex, income or geographic location: a female in NYC is just as likely as a male in Kansas to check out the latest Lady Gaga vid online. In fact, the biggest differentiator in video-sharing usage seems to be age; the older you get, the less likely you are to be on YouTube. Ninety-two percent of people under the age of 30 frequent the sites, as do 80 percent of people between 30 and 50. That number drops to 54 percent, or just over half, of people aged 50 to 64. And if you’re over 64? Fuggedaboutit. Only one in three senior citizens get their video kicks online.
One key difference between urban and rural watchers is their frequency of video-sharing use. A third of urban and suburban correspondents told Pew that they’d visited a video-sharing site “yesterday.” That number dropped to only 14 percent for rural netizens.
The 71 percent usage rate is a major jump in five years. In 2006, only 33 percent of Americans utilized the services of YouTube and their ilk. You can check out the full report online, but be warned; there’s a ton of numbers and graphs.
Image credit: interactiveinsightsgroup.com
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Getting Stuff Done by Video
Posted by PhilNottingham
The Conundrum
- Emails
- Blog feeds
- Google Reader – News & Articles.
How Can We Communicate Detailed Concepts and Suggestions to our Clients More Effectively?
Why Go To The Effort?
1. It’s different and fun
2. It’s a great teaching environment
3. Clients can’t skim read a video
4. It’s easy and quick to make
5. You can demonstrate complicated technical issues as if explaining them in person
6. It can be edited
7. It lives on after it’s been created
8. It can be rapport building
9. It’s not Rocket Science
Common Pitfalls When Making Videos
2. Lack of Clarity
3. Inability to hone in on specific points
4. Low Quality
5. Difficult to work out actionable tips
How to Convert a Written Report into a Video Report
- Decide the form appropriate form the different parts of your report should take – which bits are best shown through a screencast and which bits would work best with a whiteboard Friday style talking head presentation?
- Convert your report into a script, removing any descriptive passages which can be displayed visually – If it makes sense within the context of your report; write a script for multiple videos covering a single subject on each one. Six 5-minute long videos are easier to digest than one 30-minute video.
- Practice speaking through your script in time with your screencast a couple of times before recording, ensuring you cut out any “umms” or “likes” opting for pauses any time you are unsure what to say.
- When recording, always talk slightly slower than you would in everyday conversation, as the nuances of corporeal expression are inevitably lost through the cables of a microphone — Speak at the speed where it just starts to feel uncomfortably slow. In most cases, when you listen back to your recording, you’ll be surprised how slow it doesn’t feel.
- For any talking head passages of your recording, always look straight into the lens of the camera.
- After recording, trim out any sections which lag or feel unnecessary to make the overall points.
- Add zooms, markers and annotations where necessary.
- Export your content to video and upload to a cloud hosting service if necessary.
- Creative an executive summary of the key points in text and create a contents checklist for your client to use to navigate to relevant points in the video(s).
Examples:
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Internet Explorer 9’s New Malware Blocking Features Leave Competition in the Dust
If like most Maximum PC readers you’re the first person friends and family call when looking for tech advice, you might want to think twice before suggesting they move away from Internet Explorer. According to a recent report from NSS Labs, Internet Explorer 9’s dual-pronged approach to blocking malicious URLs wasn’t just slightly better than the rest; it’s pretty much night and day.
According to the study Internet Explorer 9 blocked 92 percent of all malware using its URL-based filters, and 100 percent with its application filtering. Internet Explorer 8 took second place by blocking 90 percent, while Chrome, Safari 5, and Firefox 4 all tied for third with a dismal 13 percent success rate. Google, Apple, and Mozilla’s three way tie can be explained by their joint use of Google’s Safe Browsing system, while Opera was the only major browser to score lower on the test.
Opera currently uses a URL blocking service maintained by anti-virus maker AVG, and using this list they only managed to block 5 percent of the study’s tested sites. Internet Explorer 9’s application reputation feature is a great way to help less savvy users spot potentially malicious files, however even it isn’t without a few quirks. False positives, even among Microsoft’s own add-in’s have been known to occur, but better safe than sorry.
It’s worth noting that the study doesn’t take every malware prevention factor into consideration such as Chrome’s sandboxing feature, but it does highlight Microsoft’s continued commitment to improving the security of Internet Explorer. With Chrome and Firefox duking it out in the rapid release war for consumers, Microsoft’s improved security image among businesses could well cement IE’s foothold in the corporate world for decades to come.
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