Amy's Blog on web video

If you're not among the high tech crowd, you may need to use some tough love on your computer.  Stop letting it kick you around.  You know when you pop in that thumb drive and it starts copying all of the pictures, when all you wanted was a contract?  You know when the program asks you, shall I ...

    I just finished production of a video series on do-it-yourself home repairs, which was innovated by a local contractor who found that jobs for non-essential home repairs were falling off in recent months. His past experience with do-it-yourselfers is that he was often called in to remedy the...

Sorry if you don't like spiders...but this is about the web.  In a previous post, I mentioned that a new dynamic was coming in internet searches.....that those spiderbots that sniff through all of the sites in the wee hours of the morning were going to be smarter in 2009.  They'd recognize conten...

   This testimonial-driven piece I did for the Gardner Team addresses how your positive actions drive more business and customer satisfaction....even in a tough market.  We all know it's a tough market, so we chose not to focus on that.  It gives viewers some real facts, but is heavily balanced t...

It’s no secret that the internet has enabled a sea of changes in human interaction. From on-line dating  to goldfish chat, there are a million niche interests, with forums, waiting to be Googled.  Outside of the bandwidth shipping channels of on-line gaming and porn, a babel of voices streaks th...

Just for the beauty of it, and here's hoping the power doesn't go out! HAPPY HOLIDAYS.

While I do not want to offend the agents who have done the "meet me and here's what I'm all about" video in front of the blue backdrop, I don't believe this is an effective use of video....at all.  The only emotion these videos evoke in me is at worst, discomfort, (because the speaker is not very...

New Page 1Since my previous post generated some questions about Flash Video, I'll address them here. Flash has become the predominant delivery mode for video, because it's compatible with almost all browsers, (most come with it and it's a free plug-in anyway) and because of the lack of delay betw...

The explosion of media on the web means you can have your own private channel playing on your website....but will anyone watch?  We have to remember that our viewers' sensibilities are informed by expensive, expert production values in movies and television.  If you can't afford a crane and a cre...