Tips

I have multiple online accounts and sometimes when I work with different organisations I have different one-drive and google drive accounts I need to use. Most of the official clients do not support multiple accounts on the same machine. Are there any good alternatives?

Organising files and videos is less important when working on your own, provided you just want to keep creating new content. If you want to work in a team, or revisit videos and edit them or transcribe them, then you need to organise.

I have tried numerous approaches to video transcription and I think I’ve narrowed down my strategy and options. I primarily use online tools now.

I recorded a video, and thought it would be easier to upload as an animated gif. I decided to look at ffmpeg and see if it can create animated gifs, and it can.

In this post I explain how.

I have not used Pinterest much, and rather than give up on it, I decided to automate it using IFTTT.

I now use a paid Vimeo plan as part of my marketing efforts. Here’s why and how I use it.

If I was giving companies advice on where to host marketing videos I wouldn’t suggest YouTube as the main host.

Rookie mistake - I recorded a video while my external hard drive was on and it added a lot of noise and vibration into my recording.

But… it can be fixed.

In this post I provide an overview of the Favourite HashTags and Searches functionaity of the ChatterScan free Twitter Client. This allows you to easily curate content for your niche and find new people to follow.

I have tried and failed to have SnagIt save an animated gif. Fortunately, on Windows I can download the free tool ScreenToGif.

In this post I provide an overview of the ChatterScan free Twitter Client which can filter your feed and lists to make reading Twitter faster to find valuable content to curate from people that you follow.

Storify are closing, and now it is time to migrate your Stories to Twitter Moments. That seems like a lot of work, so here is how you can partially automate the process with a tiny JavaScript snippet.

Today I noticed a minor thing that would improve the URL that a peer was using in their online copy.

I suggested using Camel Case for their URL. And then I realised that I wasn’t taking my own advice. So I can show you what I did to fix it.

I have in the past spent a long time with Paint .net removing the background from photos. A combination of selecting areas and eraser. I thought it was time to find a better approach.

The Web is becoming ever more security conscious.

If you are serving your pages over an http connection then it will impact against you.

Here are some tips.

Do you upload slide decks to the web to expand on your blogging efforts?

You probably should.

One thing that has been on my Todo list for a while was figuring out if YouTube’s automatic transcription service is good enough to replace the transcription services I use.

And I finally found time to tick that off my todo list.

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I’ve noticed that with more posts, and better tagging, that my content is getting in front of more people. That translates into more likes and comments. Comments have a higher value.

A common problem with web sites is the 404 page, the page that is shown when the page the visitor asked for does not exist.

Have you ever clicked through a profile link because you had no idea what the person was about?

Instagram Followers and Engagers are for learning from. Here are the tips and tactics I use to learn from them when they are not trying to teach me.

Lessons from other people’s posts on instagram.

One thing I wish I had learned earlier with Instagram is how to control the thumbnail of the videos I upload to Instagram.

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Vary your hashtags periodically.

If you keep using the same hashtags you might find that your reach growth stalls.

Have you looked through your “Following” or “Followers” list recently?

If you do then you’ll see how some people are taking advantage of features in the profile description:

• URLs are clickable
• Hashtags are clickable links
• ‘@username’ are clickable links