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One of my favorite commercials

John — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:49:51 +0000

I came across this commercial that I directed in the early 90s and remembered how much I liked its simplicity. I hope that you agree.

Web Readers and web page printers read this (Readibility plugin)

John — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:50:56 +0000

I came across this plugin that is great for people like myself that:

a) are easily distracted

b) are “small type” challenged

c) like to print out and read

d) hate to waste paper and ink printing out badly formatted web pages

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

note: it works on both IE and Firefox

From the website:

“Readability is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading.”

Please let me know what you think by leaving a comment.

http://wp.me/pxXnW-4w

Twitter Reading List

John — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:00:51 +0000

Center for Learning & Performance Technologies Twitter Reading List

I came across a Twitter reading list that seems on be updated on a regular basis. It is worth a look.

http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/socialmedia/twitterrl.html

Guerrilla Marketing & Design newsletters released

John — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:24:24 +0000

For several years, I’ve been after my friend, Roger C. Parker, to offer a compilation of his popular Guerrilla Marketing & Design newsletters.

Each issue contains a surprising amount of marketing, copywriting, and design ideas and implementation details. Roger formatted his newsletters as an attractive, easy-to-read, one-page, (front-and-back) PDFs.

Roger’s finally combined 68 of his best newsletters into single file, and added a detailed table of contents. He’s also thrown in copies of all his Design to Sell newsletters.

If you’re looking for hundreds of detailed tips and strategies at less than a dollar each, you can’t find a better bargain anywhere.

To learn more, please visit: http://snipr.com/guerrilla

Aren’t you glad that digital came along?

John — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:02:48 +0000

This photo is priceless…it is from the Library of Congress collection on Flickr.

Speaking at PubCon Las Vegas on “SEO for Multimedia and Rich Media” Panel

John — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:01:28 +0000

I am pleased to report that I have just been added to the agenda for PubCon by WebmasterWorld in Las Vegas as a panelist by my friend Joe Loratro of Tandem Interactive

The panel’s topic is SEO for Multimedia and Rich Media and I am talking about web photo optimization.

Video: If you have never failed…

John — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:07:35 +0000

Just found this video on Jim Gilbert’s Direct Marketing Blog Thanks Jim.

New WebPhotoCoach.com logo

John — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:23:38 +0000

New WebPhotoCoach.com logo (caption)

This is a test. The results will be posted as applicable.

Creating Smart Thumbnails for the Web, Blogs and Social Media

John — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:37:01 +0000

I am working on a tutorial about the importance of creating smart thumbnail images for blog posts and social media sites.

Here is an interesting solution that I am testing for Wordpress blogs.

Do you use Viva Thumbs? If not and you decide to try it – please let me know what you think.

Learn more about Viva Thumbnails for Wordpress Here!

Photo tape that really sticks

John — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:04:36 +0000

A photo and video production staple is known as “gaffers tape.” It is an essential for every professional photographer. It is much stronger than “duct tape” (which looks like gaffers tape but can’t handle the heavy-sticking jobs that gaffers tape is known to stick to. When I moved to Boca Raton, Florida in 1994, I discovered that real gaffers tape is hard to find outside of the major photo markets like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami.

As I don’t travel down to Miami very often — I was pleased to to discover that Lowes (and probably Home Depot) is carrying a tape made by Gorilla Glue, my favorite heavy-duty glue manufacturer. Gorilla Tape is just as good as traditional gaffers tape — and I bought my first 12-yard roll for under $5.00…considerably less than traditional gaffers tape.