One of the more frustrating things for podcasters is that they don’t have the ability to easily share their audio recordings on media sites and in social media. Strangely enough, they all support video but don’t have a simple audio player. With skyrocketing popularity, you’d think that Facebook and Twitter would have native tools for either publishing your Podcast Feed or dropping in individual MP3 files. To date, that’s not happened so some great third-party tools have hit the market. One of these tools is Headliner, previously Sparemin, a tool that allows the user to
Adobe XD: Design, Prototype, and Share with Adobe’s UX/UI Solution
Today, I installed Adobe XD, Adobe’s UX/UI solution for prototyping websites, web applications, and mobile applications. Adobe XD enables users to switch from static wireframes to interactive prototypes in a single click. You can make changes to your design and see your prototype update automatically — no syncing required. And you can preview your prototypes, complete with transitions on iOS and Android devices, then share them with your team for fast feedback. Features of Adobe XD Include: Interactive prototypes – Switch from design to prototype mode with a single click, and connect artboards to communicate
How to Write a Powerful and Effective Explainer Video Script
I’m finishing up with the production of a video explainer for a client of ours this week. It’s been a simple process, but it was essential that I narrowed down the script to ensure it was as brief, impactful, and thorough as possible to ensure the explainer video has maximum impact. Some statistics on Explainer Videos: The investment in an explainer video is a must if your company continues to struggle to describe and illustrate its processes to prospective buyers. I wish all of our clients would invest in at least one explainer video. There
Social Media Advertising Growth and Its Impact on Digital Marketing
Marketers have had to change nearly every aspect of their ad approaches to keep up with consumer behavior and technological trends. This infographic, How Social Media Has Changed The Ad Game from MDG Advertising, provides some of the key factors driving and influencing the shift toward social media advertising. When social media advertising first arrived on the scene, marketers used it to simply connect with their audiences. However, today’s marketers have had to change many traditional ad approaches to keep up with consumer behavior and technological trends. Social media is here to stay, and advertisers
BrightTALK Benchmark Report: Best Practices for Promoting Your Webinar
BrightTALK, which has been publishing webinar benchmark data since 2010, analyzed more than 14,000 webinars, 300 million emails, feed and social promotions, and a total of 1.2 million hours of engagement from the past year. This annual report helps B2B marketers compare their performance to those of their industries and see which practices lead to the greatest success. How to Best Promote Your Webinar Perhaps the most valuable information that I found in the report was on strategies to promote your webinar to maximize attendance. For our clients, webinars continue to be an incredible resource
WordPress: How to List Child Pages (My Newest Plugin)
We’ve rebuilt the hierarchy of sites for several of our WordPress clients, and one of the things we attempt to do is organize the information efficiently. To do this, we often want to create a master page and include a menu that automatically lists all of the pages below it. A list of child pages, or subpages. Unfortunately, there’s no inherent function or feature to do this within WordPress, so we developed a WordPress List Subpages shortcode to add to the clients’ theme’s functions.php file. Usage is pretty simple: [listchildpages aclass=”” ifempty=”No child pages”]Here are