Jing Project
Video is the newest must have for website owners. While its easy to capture live action on a camera or webcam, taking video of your computer activities hasn’t been so easy or affordable. I had tried CamStudio, but couldn’t get it to work right. And Camtasia just isn’t in the budget right now. Fortunately there’s a new screen capture software in town called Jing.
Jing is free and incredibily easy to use. Once its install, you have a little yellow ball that sits at the top of your screen waiting for you to request a picture or video. When opened, its easy to pick the area you want to capture and then you simply poke the picture or video. You can hook up your mic to add audio. Jing will even tell you when the video is starting if if the mic is on.
The free version saves file in flash and you can easily send to Screencast or Flikr. For a $14.95 per year subscription, you can get a more advanced version that lets you save in MPEG-4 and can automatically upload to Youtube. You can even use your favorit movie editor to edit it.
Both versions have a limit of 5 minutes of video, but experts say that for basic website needs, 3 minutes is all you need anyway.
Visit Jing Project to learn more or download Jing.
Self-employment particularly among women, many of whom are mothers, is growing at a fast rate, faster even than men owned business. While many begin their work-at-home search hoping to find a job, starting a business is probably the fastest and easies way to start making money at home. But once the product or service is created, the real work is getting the word out. A new website helps self-employed parents by offering a directory that consumers can use to find products and services.
Our Milk Money was started by two work-at-home moms Ally Loprete and Kelli Shand who wanted to help parents find ways to achieve the financial means to stay home or provide more for their children, and to educate consumers about the products and services found through self-employed parents. They provide a searchable directory of businesses through Canada and the United States from which consumers can find local or Internet based businesses from which to shop or find work-at-home opportunities.
To learn more or find a self-employed parent near you, visit Our Milk Money.
While there are a variety of resources to help you download video content, KeepTube offers a wider array of video sites including YouTube, Google Video, DailyMotion, Mega Video and more. Plus it will grab the highest quality of video including HD.
KeepTube is a free web-based tool, that also offers a Firefox extension. Visit KeepTube.com to learn more.
In the past, to set up a free website you had to allow the host to place ads on your site. In some cases the sites were loaded with pop-ups and flashing banners that made it difficult to find and enjoy the content. But Weebly offers web hosting services full of bells and whistles but without the ads.
Easy drag and drop editors (no tech knowledge required)
Over 70 different designs
Blogging options
And more.
The non-professional URL’s of the sites have Weebly in them, however, you can use your own domain. If you already own a domain, you can set it up to work with your Weebly page free of charge or you can buy a domain through Weebly.
Further Weebly provides help in integrating Google Adsense on your account, so you can run your own ads if you like. Or use Paypal to build in shopping cart and payment processing to sell you’re own products or services.
The free service does have limitations in that it has a low storage amount (5MB) which limits other options such as video. But you can upgrade to a pro-account for about $4.99 per month (paid yearly) that includes:
Password protected pages,
Audio and video players,
Embedded document features,
Ability to host 10 sites,
An increase to 100 MB storage
Customized footer (you don’t have to have the Weebly ad at the bottom)
Premium support.
For the new person just starting out, Weebly provides a full-featured web hosting option for free that can create professional a site without being cluttered with ads. There are some limits and Weebly may not provide you with all the hosting features you need over the long run. But if technical or financial aspects are preventing you from setting up a site to make money online, Weebly may be the answer to get you up and running ASAP. To learn more, or set up your free account, visitWeebly.
If you’re using video to promote your business, don’t limit yourself by posting it to just one site. At TubeMogul you can upload your video and have it sent to a host of video and social networking sites for free. Plus it offers tons of great features such as analytics on who and how your video is being viewed.
