Here are some suggestions:

• Great for registering at events, for example: a charity ride
• Again, at say an event using it for on-the-fly Powerpoints.

With regard to the latter, recently we recorded at the InfoSec2010 event in London. The crew saw lots of people with i-pads, albeit that it is not available in the UK until late May 2010. Many used it for the purpose of quick demonstrations with powerpoint slides.

• In meetings, communicate specific ideas on a light multi-media device
• For example, it could be great for communicating diagrams, concepts or enlarging specific images – helping the creative process.
• Marketing survey’s – Obviously, better looking than a clip pad. You will probably have to put the i-pad on a chain to stop an unsuspecting quick running robber from dashing off with it!
• Related to the latter, design really engaging questionnaires for market research or product feedback.
• In addition, to questionnaires, signing-up people to subscription services through a simple touch-sensitive form could be appealing, especially if access to a portable application or on-line magazine could be demonstrated on the spot.
• As the world becomes more social (on-line), companies with Facebook, Youtube, Linkedin, Ning, Myspace and shared bookmarking tools could be updated on the move with selective locally acquired content.
• Product demonstrations – showing multi-media views or insights of a product.
  You could develop a specific video tutorial or Motion Graphics film based promotion of a product.
• On-line magazine (interactive, flip-book type with rich media instead of or blended with flat images and text).

With regard to the latter, KHL Interactive offer online magazine conversions for existing PDFs. A proof-of-concept / trial can be set-up foc for upto 60 views.

So what is it that stimulates the flow of incoming blog traffic, keeps these visitors returning and encourages their comments and interacting?

Here are the 5 major ‘components’ of a blog that helps breathe life into and keeps it popular.

Consistent Blog Posting

Make no mistake if you do not consistently post to your blog it will be as deserted as any beach in the middle of winter. Maintaining a regular pattern of blog posting will allow your readers to know what to expect or even if they can depend on you for any future updates. The more you post the greater the chance that you will be abler to develop a popular blog amongst the readers of your particular niche.

Quality Content

Now the first step is consistent blog posting but just as important is whether your updates will be of any interest to the readers. The quality of the content you add to your blog needs to be something visitors new and old appreciate enough to keep returning. Posting just anything will not ‘cut the mustard’ if you want people to keep coming back.

Keep your content relevant, thought provoking, informative, humorous or whatever it takes to keep the interest of your readers. Over the long term this is what makes for a popular blog.

Allow and Respond to Comments

Always remember your blog is a social community or you at least want your readers to feel that way. With that said it is absolutely mandatory that you allow comments on your site. If visitors do not have that option you have taken away the ‘spirit’ behind what a blog is all about. All you will have left is a ‘website’ that happens to be updated more frequently.

Along these lines when readers post comments take the time to look at them. They will tell you what is on the readers’ mind and can give you more direction as far as to what type content is most appealing to them. There will also be comments that may require your response therefore respond accordingly and help to foster an atmosphere where commenting is encouraged and people feel involved.

Appropriate Template

The template you choose should fit the mood you are trying to establish and the objectives you are trying to achieve.

If you are blogging for business your template should be more professional or at least reflect the business itself. On the other hand if your intentions are for fun your template needs to project that attitude or mood as well.

About You

Do not leave this page blank since it is your chance to introduce yourself to the visitors. Readers’ new and old readers are always interested in knowing something about the person whose work they are viewing. This also helps to breed a little more familiarity with visitors thereby giving the blog a more ‘comfortable’ feel.

Your bio should be brief of course and should contain things such as why you blog and any other information that may be relevant to the blog theme.

Adding a picture is also helpful unless you are currently a member of the witness protection program and if that is the case a suitable avatar will work just fine.

When creating a blog you will obviously want it to be successful since you will likely be investing your time and effort into it. As we mentioned previously most popular blogs have plenty of blog traffic along with visitors who post comments regularly. If you use traffic and commenting as a measure of a blogs success the 5 components we discussed above will help you get plenty of both. Now there may be other more subtle goals that you can target with your blog but having a broad popularity is always a good start.

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It would therefore come in handy if you could be on demand, after office hours. In such a competitive business environment being on call for customers whenever they have an enquiry would improve your business status, customer loyalty and your company’s reputation of quality customer service.

To access and respond to customers demands off office hours would require an increase in the necessity of a mobile workforce. To meet the needs of both businesses wanting to meet customer needs and customers seeking round the clock service, SAP and Research In Motion (RIM) have developed a mobile customer relationship management (CRM) application for the Blackberry.

The SAP CRM application uses Blackberry applications, such as e-mail, address book and calendar, to deliver mobile CRM data for sales people, customer services, field services and marketing.

Applications such as this benefits both the business and the customers, where the employees can meet the needs of customers on the go , whether outside the office or otherwise, boasting customer relations.

However though there are many positive impacts of having CRM application on your phone, which can help your business/ organisation to sky-rocket, there are also the negative drawbacks to having such an application. A very common disadvantage in having a CRM application on your phone may be, though you are available for customers out of the office, this may also cut into personal time which may cause a slight annoyance.

Especially in this currect financial climate, businesses need to hold on to the current customers that they have so that through them and the service provided they can attract new customers and build on a reliable business reputaion. Though small applications such as this can make a big different in the direction of a company and the reputation that it carries.

Sony’s New reader is quite impressive as it is able to store roughly 1000 full novels, borrow books from local libraries and download at an immensely fast speed.

The Kindle, known for being  the leading wireless electronic book, is packed with the ability for users to read over 46 different newspapers, magazines and other documents. However there have been criticism to where this e-book is concerned, starting with the price, as it is deemed too expensive costing roughly £300. Now with the introduction of the Sony’s e-book reader there have been comparisons to the size, unlike the Kindle the Sony boast a slim 7-inch sleek fit.  Other comparisons made include the availability of a touch screen facility which Sony has introduced with the electronic device, unlike the Kindle, giving the Sony reader a significant advantage.

Though not yet avaliable to the public, the Sony wireless e-reader should be avaliable in the US for distribution and purchase in December.

We’ve been busy putting the final touches to the site, it has been put off on a few occasions, just to ensure it is more consumer friendly and has a much greater accessibility.

The website has been redesigned to make it easier to use and understand the services that we offer, how you can use these services to advance your business or organization and how we can help you in doing this.

The new site our team have been working on now includes our four main areas of expertise which our business engages in, Audio, Video, e-Learning and Web Development and Training. Under each main heading we further branch off into sub-sections, giving a detailed outline of the different types of features that each main topic will contain (ie Audio – Audio Podcast), and how we can help you in developing each area for your organization according to your specification.

We’d love to hear what you think about the new site – so any and all comments are welcome.
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Often used in automated voice messaging in telephone banking, the technique “Voice over” has become very popular. As technology evolves new methods of using media are discovered to appeal to the public’s attention, one of which is using the technology of voice over. This is usually done where actors with professional sounding voices are hired by companies to ‘lend their voices’ to various projects.

But is voice over the right technology to use when advertising?

From radio and television commercials, through to corporate and multimedia applications. It has proven to be an effective marketing tool that attracts customers to many different business, by improving the quality of advertisements on a website page, transmission messages through radio and or television frequencies. Even some of the most popular such as movie trailers, where ‘The Voice’ is used to add dramatic effect to picture.

However there are several reasons to really consider using voice-over instead of the traditional marketing techniques, banners and videos. One of which is the most obvious and the most important, is that voice-over is an audio transmission, it has the disadvantage that the only interaction is through a single voice connection. There is often no visual appeal, putting more emphasis on the scripting and the quality of the voice.

Through there are some limiting factors there are however positive sides to doing ‘voice-over’ advertising techniques. By using Voice-over it can be done not only by radio transmission but can also be paired along with text located on a webpage, which caters also for those who are visually challenged. Just like video adverts special effects can be added accordingly but sparingly.

Though not as popular as visual media using voice over can be quite an effective tool, and may prove to be just as effective or even more than other advertising methods.

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Download your missed conference using Video  Share.

Attending meetings within an organization is very crucial, no matter the magnitude of the meeting or the organization. Video share is an easy quick and hassle free method of attending meetings on your own time. Video share makes it easy to relay a message through various media mediums, with the members of an organization at a convenient time, all of whom share the same or common technology.

How this works?

The meeting or presentation is pre-recorded, including video audio and presentation slides/graphs, where it is then packaged and uploaded on the company’s website in a format that makes it downloadable to devices such as an I-pod or phone. It is also customised so that the audio, video and the power point presentation can be downloaded together as well as individually. So the package its much more than just a “talking head” on the screen.

With access like this there is no chance of missing another meeting. This is useful for people constantly on the go, for employees that are on vacation and would like to keep abreast with the changes or updates within an organization, or even the employees who work regularly from home.

This system can save the company and it’s employees a lot of money, where meetings no longer need to be rescheduled, adding unnecessary expenses to the company and you start saving substantial money due to reduced travel.

There are so many different this that can be accomplished with this combination of technology, where it can be used for other means and not just in the co-corporate world.

Knowledge hemispheres offers this as a service, where we record, package and upload the conference for you and we make available the option of downloadable audio as mp3 file format, video and power point presentations if needed.

To get more details of how Conference share can work for you visit our site at www.kh-2.com

and

http://www.elearninglearning.com

The latter is a great place for consolidated e-Learning blogs.

Interestingly, I noted recently from: Marc J. Rosenberg’s, ‘Building Successful Online Learning in your Organisation’:
that according to him there are 2 types of e-Learning portals: Ones that you can buy and ones that you build.

Marc further suggests that an organisation needs to determine if it is interested in a portal’s functionalty, but not the content that may come with each. If this is the case he suggests that the organisation works with the e-Learning portal supplier to separate the two.
Focus must also be kept on both easy maintenance and upgradable

This month (February ’09) – In part one we consider the potential of jobnexus - a social job recruitment network.

In part two we discuss the potential of niche video sharing sites.

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