1) American Girl – The Video | Animoto
Animoto is a web application that automatically generates professionally-produced videos. The one above uses pictures from my recent Atlanta trip. My firm helped design the American Girl store there.
You can upload up to 15 images for every 30 second story you want to create and add your music or pick from Animoto’s music lounge. It’s dead simple to use and serves up easily on other sites like Facebook, but it has some limitations. Maybe Scrapblog will buy it and fold it into their site?
2) Pecha Kucha: Get to the PowerPoint in 20 Slides | Wired News
"A Whole New Mind" author Daniel Pink gives an example of Pecha Kucha. It’s a great way to hone your message and avoid death by PowerPoint.
3) PRSA Launches a Conference Blog | Communication Overtones
Whether or not you can attend the PRSA national conference this year, subscribe to the event blog. PR Evolution will provide insights from Paul Gillin, Josh Hallett, Peter Himler, Kami Huyse, KD Paine and Eric Schwartzman. PRSA has been taken to task in the past for not diving into social media. So it's great to see this progress. PRSA even invited me to this year's conference through Facebook.
4) Facebook MegaSuperBonus Links | Various Sources
Retailers like Threadless and J. Crew are following Wal-Mart and Target into Facebook. Some are wondering if Facebook and business mix. I think it depends on the business.
Bonus Links:
How Social Networks are Disrupting Everything you know about Business | MP Daily Fix
Digest of the Social Networking Space | Web Strategy by Jeremiah
MySpace Fashion | Pronet Advertising
tags | public relations | PR | PRSA | Facebook
Great finds! I'm writing a PP today about taking a business to social networking sites like Facebook. You read my mind ... starting to scare me ... very helpful but borderline weird.
Kudos, my man!
Posted by: Jason Falls | 09/25/2007 at 06:50 AM
That aluminum foil hat is starting to look pretty good, eh? Just try and get that PP deck down to 20 slides in 20 seconds. It's a good goal!
Posted by: Kevin Dugan | 09/25/2007 at 10:28 AM
Great post! I am in a cybermedia design class right now and the Animoto and Scrapblog pages are great. I also watched the YouTube video--it is very interesting to see how he presented the information. It is also interesting to note that little changes ( like in the wording of a sign ) can actually make that much of a change in people's perceptions. It is certainly something PR practitioners should pay close attention to.
Posted by: Abby | 09/27/2007 at 03:43 PM
Abby - Thanks for the feedback. You're right about PR folks needing to pay more attention to these things. It sounds like you are taking a great class that will help you do just that. We took very few design classes when I went to uni.
In the past, I always treated sites like YouTube and Flickr like a repository where I stored pics and vids and served them up elsewhere. More and more I am seeing people use it as a two-way connection. It's smart to tke this appraoch. If the picture inspires me and you have linked it to a post that has in turn created a conversation...you should definitely link to the post from Flickr, YouTube etc.
This is to say, we're always learning but the more we play with this stuff the smarter we get about it all. Thanks again for stopping by.
Posted by: Kevin Dugan | 09/28/2007 at 12:23 AM