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Monday, August 3, 2009

Some Helpful Advice on Text and Video Content Creation

By P.J. Hinton Director of Engineering

While scanning my RSS feeds today, I stumbled across a couple of great links for content creators. 

Perfectionism is the Enemy of "Done"


Over at Copyblogger, Michelle Russel provides five good reasons why you shouldn't let perfectionism overwhelm you into not finishing a post that you're not fully happy with.  Because steady content creation is fundamental to the success of blog marketing, this should be required reading of all of Compendium's clients.  In fact, Russel's post motivated me to write a post for my own somewhat neglected blog!

Vlogging Software Selection for Beginners

Including some video on a blog post can make for a compelling experience, but creating and editing video might prove to be a bit daunting to someone who doesn't work with the software on a day-to-day basis.  Serdar Yegulalp has an article over at Information Week that takes a look at several video editing applications based on the availability of three features -- video capture, editing, and upload to hosting services.  Weighing in at six pages, it's a substantial read, but a worthwhile one if you are considering an investment in this area.

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