This weekend I presented a quick “Who, What, When, Where, Why” of blogging and online branding for the Travel Media Association of Canada. The conference took place at the brand new Pinnacle Pier in North Vancouver and had a spectacular view of Vancouver from across the inlet. Unfortunately I couldn’t setup my shiny new Epson projector (due to the shining sun through the un-treated floor to ceiling windows) so I did the talk unassisted. I did however promise participants that I would post my slides on Slideshare regardless.

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This is my presentation pack from Slideshare in case you would like to view any of my recent slide decks from speaking engagements. The one for TMAC does not have accompanying sound but I’ll try to make it a slidecast in the near future. Enjoy!

With all the social networks that are out there these days, it’s so common to get into conversations and have someone ask you, “Hey, are you on (insert the name of specific network here)?”

More often than none, you want to say that you are, following that up with an easy way for that person you just met at some great networking event to remember how to find you on that specific website. Be it Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, or LinkedIn, there are multiple sites that all have different ways for you to be found on their service. It could be a search based on a name or email address, but how could you simplify this process that makes it easy for this person to find you?

These following is going to get quite technical, so if you’re uncomfortable with the following directions or just don’t like dealing with the settings on your web server or getting into code in general, don’t let this overwhelm you. Look over the idea and consider using this with your web presence. After that, consider finding someone with the skills to get this implemented.
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John sent me a bookmark of his over delicious this afternoon with regards to a company called CommonCraft.

First things first, if you’re unfamiliar with delicious, here’s a tutorial called “Social Bookmarking in Plain English” that just happens to be from those very fine folks at CommonCraft.

Now, the bookmark in question linked back to this blog post about screencasting:

Screen cast videos are one of the most powerful ways to show off anything on the web. They are also quite difficult to do well. [ReadWriteWeb]

It’s true, about a year ago I produced my first screencast for the company I was working for at the time. It wasn’t until early 2008 however, that I started putting up some of my own, casual tutorials about things I had learned to do with WordPress.

Using the best technology around and honing our skills for the professional market, sixty4media can be commissioned to produce and publish custom screencasts so you can show off your business or product on the web as well.

We can help with everything from writing your screencast script, working out a storyboard or timeline, show you sample video footage, edit, and publish to the platform of your choice.

If you would like to explain, educate, or promote using your very own product in an easy-to-share and view video, please feel free to contact us.

The success of CommonCraft and their years of mass ’2.0′ education videos goes to show that they have had the right idea all along. Products and services can be explained “In Plain English” and that’s what people truly want to see from an online video tutorial.

Going back to the beginning here, I decided it might be a good idea to do a screencast about how to make a screencast – this episode focusing on Mac OSX users.

You can view more of my tutorials on Miss604.com although they will soon have a permanent home on the sixty4media blog.