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Training is the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and competencies as a result of the teaching of vocational or practical skills and knowledge that relate to specific useful competencies. Training has specific goals of improving one’s capability, capacity, and performance. It forms the core of apprenticeships and provides the backbone of content at institutes of technology (also known as technical colleges or polytechnics). In addition to the basic training required for a trade, occupat...

The Week In Video: Star Trek, Cat Videos And YouTube Housekeeping

It is the Easter weekend but we still wanted to bring you some of the news stories that you may have missed this past week. It has been a great few days for winners of the #ifihadglass contest, not so great for those that got kicked out of it and oh, cat videos!

An Inside Job: How Web Video Can Improve Internal Communications

Video is a great way to communicate your company's message, and the best part is, it can always be accessed later when someone has questions. Here's an overview of how businesses use video internally to best communicate with employees, customers, and colleagues.

YouTube Annotations Course

YouTube Training Course - Learn to Master Annotations: YouTube annotations are one of the most important, yet underutilized tools available to creators and marketers.  Video annotations allow you to add powerful interactivity to your videos and can be used to entertain the viewer, encourage engagement, provide ...

Online Video Marketing Essentials One-Day Workshop Next Week | London UK

I probably receive an invite from the UK and across Europe every week to discuss how I can work together with Digital Marketers in one form or another in their country. While I really value these contacts and discussions, the demands of running such an ...

YouTube Marketing Course: Live Training Starts Wednesday

The odds are pretty good that if you're reading an article on this website, you dabble from time to time in either the creation or marketing of online video. And while we have readers of all experience levels, from beginners to experts, all of us ...

Highlights Of The YouTube Creator Playbook Version 2 - The Reel Web Episode 28

This week our look at last week's news from the online video world includes several YouTube video training opportunities, both from ReelSEO and from YouTube itself. Also, YouTube released the second version of their YouTube Creator Playbook and we cover some of the highlights and changes ...

SES New York 2012: Three Key Reasons For Video Marketers & Producers To Attend

Mark Robertson, the Founder of ReelSEO, and I will be speaking in the "Next Gen YouTube Marketing" session at SES New York, which will be held at the Hilton New York during March 19-23, 2012.  Since you can read what we have to say on ...

Evolve or Die! How Businesses Can Transform Using Social Video

I interviewed social media expert Brian Solis, the author of Engage and the End of Business as Usual: Rewire The Way You Work To Succeed In The Customer Revolution. We talk about the crucial role online video must play in the transformation of businesses into ...

The Sucky Video Awards: Help Us Find The Worst Web Videos of 2011 & WIN

We spend so much time praising those great examples of quality branded video that it's easy to forget how much bad video is out there. Seriously... some of it really sucks. It's probably part of why author Steve Stockman decided to write "How To Shoot ...

Camtasia Studio 7 Video Editing & Screencasting Software Review

Video is becoming such an important part of web content that we're seeing individuals and groups of all skill levels jumping into video creation and video marketing. So while Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere Pro may be dominant video editing software choices for professionals, ...

5 Video SEO Tips to Help Elizabeth Warren Beat Scott Brown

I liked Grant Crowell's article, "5 Reasons the Latest Michele Bachmann Political YouTube Video Sucks!”  And I want to get on the bandwagon by providing five video SEO tips to help consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren beat US Senator Scott Brown in Massachusetts next year.

The Past, Present, and Future of Enterprise Video

What's the next major shift for video in the enterprise? Below is an observation of the evolution of enterprise video from the past to the present, and a suggestion for what's to come. For consistency, let's evaluate the four parts of video for each period ...

YouTube Insight HotSpots: Reviewing Viewer Attention for Entertainment & Informative Video

A holy grail story I know…What defines the perfect video? Video tastes are subjective, but what if I could show you statistical and empirical evidence that could help you in your discovery of the Holy Grail…er I mean the perfect video? There is a place I love ...

Social Video Marketing Exercises & Tips From A Personal Trainer

I interviewed Mandy Swift, a self-dubbed "online marketing personal trainer" about the benefits of developing a fitness plan for one's online marketing and social video activities that helps build business success, professional growth, and overall personal health and well-being.

Internet Marketing Company's YouTube Account Suspended Without Warning

Hubze is an Internet marketing company with a suite of Facebook tools that help individuals and businesses customize their fan pages. The company has posted over 250 videos to their YouTube channel--instructional, educational, training, etc. And now all 250 have effectively disappeared from public view, ...