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Open Broadcaster Software is free and open source software for recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.
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As the digital marketing & SEO industry changes and evolves, so must the tools & techniques in our arsenal. How we form SEO strategies in particular, are radically different from how they took shape in 2010 and will likely be radically different in 2020! Growing disciplines like PR and influencer marketing have become absolutely critical to SEO success in 2015 and beyond. If we want to continue to drive marketing results, digital marketers need to fully embrace these fields and approach link building and outreach with a different mindset, skillset and toolset.
Seer compiled a list of over 40 influencer marketing tools, all of which can be yours for FREE....
The best things in life are freemium.
Whether you’re a start-up or small business looking to keep costs down, free online tools and services are always useful.
Here’s the 10 best new free tools for start-ups and small business I’ve recently come across....
Clipping Magic: Online image mask generator lets you instantly create masks, cutouts, and clipping paths online.
If you are a WordPress blogger or have a WordPress powered website, Pressgram is the newest tool you need to add to your toolbox. Why? In a few words, content ownership, more content creation, and more page views! For some of you, that’s enough and you’ll probably just want to jump over and download Pressgram right now.
Keep reading though.Pressgram is a photo publishing iOS app with a focus on content ownership and WordPress. It allows you to take and/or add stylized filters to your photos and then publish them directly to your WordPress powered blog (.com or self-hosted). So essentially, it’s Instagram without the whole “we own your content and can do whatever we want with it” thing. You own the content and it’s published on your web property. You keep the rights, and you get the page views....
Blubbr is a neat quiz creation service that you can use to create video-based quizzes. Using Blubbr you can create interactive quizzes that are based on YouTube clips. Your quizzes can be about anything of your choosing. The structure of the quizzes has a viewer watch a short clip then answer a multiple choice question about the clip. Viewers know right away if they chose the correct answer or not.
To create a quiz on Blubbr start by entering a topic for your quiz. After entering your topic enter a search for a video about that topic. Blubbr will generate a list of videos that you can select from to use in your quiz. When you find a video that works for you, trim the clip to a length that you like then write out your question and answer choices. Repeat the process for as many video clips as you like. Click here to try a short Blubbr quiz about the human heart....
Bookmarking services are a dime a dozen. So, I wasn't too keen on checking out yet another iteration by the name of Keeeb. But, and I honestly mean it, I'm glad I did.... textKeeeb takes the fun aspect from Pinterest, being able to clip photos, videos and – what Pinterest is not able to do – text snippets and presenting the content in the grid-based Pinterest-style layout. Other than Pinterest, Keeeb allows for remixing the content from different sources. You can integrate text, photo and video from different sources into one keeebie. This resembles the So.cl approach, should anybody ever have come across this social network from Redmond… ...The difference to Keeeb is, that in Keeeb you do not save whole pages (articles whatever), but you concentrate on only the relevant snippets. Keeeb founder Konrad Gulla says, that the approach of Pocket or Instapaper and other read-it-later services does not solve the problems, information overload imposes on us. Instead, the pile of unread items stacks up and gets higher by the hour, a wrong track. With Keeeb you only save the relevant passages from articles, which – if you really do – surely adds value to your research....
Sometimes the simplest product demos can be effective. Take a new web editor called Barley. To show off the product, co-founder Colin Devroe opened me a regular old web page, then changed the wording of the page with just a few keystrokes. A small editing menu opened as he typed, but didn’t have to access an admin dashboard, open a separate editor, edit any HTML, or anything like that. To be clear, there was more to the demo — but that was the heart of it. The point is to offer a web page editor with absolutely no learning curve....
A new news app for the iPad is offering an in-depth look at some overlooked topics in a visually rich formula.... Curating content to feed the hearty appetites of the news-obsessed is a tall order. Readers demand high quality stories that both inform and entertain. Now, a new news app for the iPad is offering an in-depth look at some overlooked topics in a visually rich formula. It's called Track180, it debuts on the iTunes store today, and it may just be a hit with both consumers and third party publishers. Instead of repurposing the news like Circa or Flipboard, Track180 sends users directly to the site that sources the content, which doesn't rob sites of one of the most valuable commodity of the era: Pageviews. The interface of the app is an in-depth topic exploration with curated content from a team of journalists experienced and trained to contextualize crucial stories. So users get rich multimedia content, multiple sources and perspectives, and a "ripple effect" tool that lets readers explore a given story's impact across topics and social channels....
Google has hundreds of apps, but there are some that can have a serious impact on your online marketing initiatives that seem to be flying under the radar.... ... Sure, Google has hundreds of apps, but there are some that can have a serious impact on your online marketing initiatives that seem to be flying under the radar. Additionally, Google’s products typically have “freemium” models, which offer the invaluable opportunity to experiment with a variety of different techniques and hone in on what serves your brand most. We’re all for testing out the latest and greatest from the world’s most powerful Internet giant. If you haven’t already, I encourage you to give a few of these seemingly under-appreciated products a spin....
In a world where half of Facebook posts are now images, Web editors swoon over responsive design and brands place photos in tweets, it’s clear the Internet has become a more visual place. Now, one company is looking to exploit the love of pictures with a product that both editors and advertisers can use to make digital images more interactive, engaging and, perhaps most importantly, super shareable. "If you communicate through an image, people engage with it—we know that because of Facebook," said Neil Vineberg, CMO of the two-year-old startup ThingLink. "And if you put content inside an image, the engagements go crazy." Vineberg observed that images embedded with videos, annotations or links see clickthrough rates of as much as 50 percent. Forbes recently started using ThingLink to enhance its storytelling on the Web, turning a pictorial of the Forbes 400 into an interactive infographic complete with videos, story links and data. Want to know more about Oprah or Warren Buffet? Just hover over a button embedded in the picture, then click. Some 100,000 other publishers have signed on....
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The openness of social networks like Twitter or the ability to find an expert on LinkedIn, might make you think that this is territory already covered. But how much do we really openly share our own ideas? Unless you are hanging around New York and run into a photographer called Brandon (Humans Of New York), you are unlikely to be asked the questions that get you talking about your own ideas and knowledge in depth. Can Qanda be the app to get people asking those questions? The use of mobile video in responses aligns with the rising trend in young people watching and sharing content from mobile devices.It’s also well established in journalism circles as one of the best approaches in interviews to get real, meaningful responses....
In today's world, market research is essential to you and your brand’s long-term success. From product planning to customer service needs, assessing what's happening outside of your four walls is essential for your roadmap.
Because the market is in a constant state of change, knowing what makes your customers tick is key to keeping you ahead of your competitors. Market research is the best way to do this.Entrepreneurs from YEC were asked what tools they liked most for conducting market research. Here's what they said....
As social media has become an essential part of journalism, tools for searching, monitoring and curating content from around the web are increasingly part of a journalist’s day-to-day toolbox – both for newsgathering and engaging users.
At the next news:rewired conference on 23 July Sarah Marshall, social media editor EMEA at The Wall Street Journal, and Richard Moynihan, social media editor at The Telegraph, will lead a session on tools, tips and techniques for journalists using social media.
In the meantime, here are 12 social media tools that journalists can try...
There are literally thousands of social media tools that are worth investigating these days; however, these five are all essentials that you must have in your locker ready to use when you need them.
Social media is becoming more and more of a data game in 2014. Those in the know can optimize and dominate those who aren't running their campaigns in a data-led way. Combine this with the ever increasing usage of social, the fragmentation of audience by platform, and the trend towards paid reach on some platforms and many social media managers will be at a loss as to how to manage their social presence in a sensible way. Fear not though, we've put together a handy guide on 5 of the tools that everyone in social media should be using to help you survive and thrive in an ever-expanding marketplace!...
Curiyo lets online readers learn more about a word or phrase in a story without ever leaving the Web page. It's a valuable and easy-to-use addition to Web browsing, Walt Mossberg says.
With a wave of a hand or lift of a finger, you’re about to change the way you use your computer. The Leap Motion Controller senses how you move your hands, the way you move them naturally. So you can point, wave, reach, and grab. Even pick something up and put it down. Just like in real life. It’s an amazing device for the things you do every day and for things you never thought you could do. Just $79.99.
This is a collection of mobile resources from Mike Reilley and the Poynter Institute's Regina McCombs, Dave Stanton and Damon Kiesow, as well as many others. A list of mobile reporting tools appears at the end of this page. Most apps are tailored to the iPhone but have versions available for many other smart phones, too....
Digital tools help produce quality content online, but it can be tough figuring out where to start. Here are 10 online tools that can help improve journalists’ reporting and storytelling, and engage readers in multimedia... Will work for PR, marketing and content marketing too..
Wavii - News Feed Creator - Cool Tool... Wavii is a news feed receiving tool. The application uses a feed similar to a Facebook’s friends feed to help you track relevant news stories related to the topics you choose to follow. After connecting to Wavii through your Facebook account, you choose the topics you want to follow. Topics are generated randomly and through the interests you have identified on your Facebook profile. Once you have identified the topics you want to follow, feeds are generated, with a separate page for each topic. You can then browse the feed and choose whether to like or dislike the items you see, click on individual items to read more and start conversations about items....
A selection of Social Media Tools that are currently in beta that will be coming your way soon. Have a read and sign up for their beta programme! Do you want to know about the latest social media tools that are in beta but haven’t hit the streets yet? Every week we are contacted by passionate entrepreneurs all around world that have social media tools that they want to get the word out about. So each quarter we do a report on tools that look promising that are in beta. So here’s some interesting ones worth taking a look at. Note: They are still at beta stage so too early to do a full review but at least you’ll get a taste for what’s coming!...
Instead of breaking the bank for new Bluetooth speakers, "The Vamp" device adds portable power and Bluetooth connectivity to any old speaker you might have. If you have an old speaker collecting dust in the garage or shoved in the back of the closet, there's now a clever way to make it useful again. The London-based Paul Cocksedge Studio is raising funds on Kickstarter to further develop "The Vamp," a cube-like device that attaches to any speaker and adds Bluetooth capability. Instead of buying new Bluetooth speakers, The Vamp sort of makes the retro relevant again, as demonstrated in the video above....
You've been working really hard at that goal of becoming a YouTube sensation. But every time you show your hilarious video to friends, they ask, "wait, what'd you say? Here to save your punch line from the crackling background noise of iPhone videos, The iPhone Boom Mic!
It's a small microphone that gives your iPhone videos big, professional style sound. Think, your subject amplified and background noise dulled....
[Gadget lovers take note - JD]
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Scoop.it!
A great free way to capture and broadcast your screen.
Very useful, free and marketers may like Open Broadcaster too.