social networking: How New Or Non-technical Users Can Easily Manage and Distribute Video Content Or Real Estate Shows Using New Video Help Features
- 05/04/08 05:35 AM
We've added a bunch of new features in the past week to help new users begin to use the full power of their personal media catalogs as quickly as possible after registering or logging in at http://catalog.vidlisting.com. We understand that members may not understand exactly how a personal media catalog can help them or what they need to do to use it. What Is A Personal Media Catalog A personal media catalog is a simple to use virtual workspace for videos or real estate shows (RES) that is available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. In short, its a mix of … (4 comments)
social networking: Shared Media Catalogs Allow You To Instantly Share Your Video Content And Real Estate Shows
- 04/26/08 10:08 PM
Shared Media Catalogs For Video Content Vidlisting has just launched our shared media catalog functionality designed for content producers and sellers of good and services. Now, Youtube videos, Real Estate Shows, and videos uploaded to our system can be instantly be passed to family, friends, business contacts, prospective buyers, and others that want to view and use your video content. It is far more efficient method than using email or cutting and pasting video files. By sharing a catalog, you'll give others direct access to selective video content that you've shared. Note that content is shared only when you make it public - you can select which items in your catalog … (4 comments)
social networking: Why Trying To Manage Video Content Online Generally Sucks
- 04/18/08 10:50 PM
Huh? A real estate video guy saying this? Managing video content online is generally available using only four methods (listed below). All of them are limiting in their own way for business users and here's shocker - none of the methods are actually geared to help you sell products and services. Read on... Method #1 - Channels: Almost every video site uses the YouTube-like implementation of channels. We've become so accustomed to using channels that no one ever questions their value. Here are some things to think about with respect to channels. - Channels Include Only Videos Uploaded To That Infrastructure: When I think of channels I think of … (7 comments)
social networking: The Push And Pull Of Social Networking For Business Using Video
- 04/03/08 12:13 AM
Social networking for business can be a valuable addition to any business' marketing plan. A well thought out social networking plan involves elements of both push and pull. Push: This element of social networking involves actively sending (or "pushing") multimedia information to a specific someone that you know to be interested. In twitter, you can Most flash video players have some sort of push based sharing functionality based on email which generally involves inputting an email address. The downside of most video based social functionality is how to collect and store video content that is of interest. Generally, the only means for … (18 comments)
social networking: Loyalty Building Within A Content Network: Finding The Right Range Of Loyal Visitors
- 11/03/07 05:16 AM
The Cornerstones of Loyalty Building If we had only known how important the question that we asked in January 2007 would be, "what type of repeat visitors to our site should we be focusing on?". We decided that a rather fuzzily defined group known as "prospective buyers" should be the focus of our loyalty building work because they really are the catalyst for driving more sales of services. "Build it and they will come" might be right approach when you don't care exactly who arrives. Than again, buiding a successful general network might be the most difficult type of project … (0 comments)
social networking: Is It Just Me Or Are REALTORS Using Facebook Less Often?
- 10/21/07 10:53 PM
Are real estate professionals becoming fatigued with social networking? Maybe it's just me but I seem to be to seeing a drop in activity on the real estate groups in Facebook. There is a bit of activity around groups that have to do with the NAR convention and such. But, seeemingly not much else... So, either I'm in the wrong real estate groups and not getting invites to the right groups or real estate professionals simply aren't using it so much anymore. Is this another tangible sign of "social networking fatigue" or a case of the "Scoble effect" on A list real estate … (11 comments)
social networking: Extending Pat Kitano's Concept Of “Hubs And Spokes” To Include Value Measurements
- 10/20/07 09:12 AM
Thinking About A Hub and Spoke Model Pat Kitano captured the idea of distribution of content with Web 2.0 re.net sites (or perhaps even web 3.0) far more eloquently than we have been able to with a model of "hubs and spokes". He outlines his thinking in an excellent recent article about redefining a social networking community via hubs and spokes . Pat states for instance: "Social networking connects the real estate pro to far more diverse communities (hubs) via relationships that extend beyond their physical sphere (spokes). " and goes on to add, "A Realtor can be exposed to a big subset of the community through … (0 comments)
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We've added a bunch of new features in the past week to help new users begin to use the full power of their personal media catalogs as quickly as possible after registering or logging in at http://catalog.vidlisting.com. We understand that members may not understand exactly how a personal media catalog can help them or what they need to do to use it. ;)
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