This video was posted a few months ago on YouTube in the Socialnomics channel. Although it is not based on an authoritative study, it does gather together a lot of facts that help to put social media in context, revealing the power and potential of investing time, money and energy in it as compared to other forms of traditional media and marketing.
I especially like the question: “What’s the cost of doing nothing?”
Headstand Media received a nice boost today on Ruth Ratney’s REEL CHICAGO website (Thank You!). The article entitled “Videos give “average Joes” basic web knowledge - Headstand Media boutique produces terminology Vblogs“ was written by Chris Shogren-Thompson based upon interviews with Benjamin Nelson, Headstand’s Creative Director, and background research. The article focuses on Headstand Media’s recent soft launch of WebSmart TV, a vlog site that delivers a series of videos that explain the basics of the web in about a minute, to average business people.
We did ask REEL how they found out about WebSmart TV, and the best we can tell, it had to do with some online searching using keywords such as: chicago and video. Seems like our SEO knowledge may have helped a bit here!
I would just like to clarify a point mentioned in the article regarding McDonald’s (This clarification has since been corrected on the ReelChicago.com website).
About McDonald's - New Corporate Website
Headstand Media does not design and maintain 200 of McDonald’s internal websites as the article reports. To date, Headstand Media has worked on, designed or re-designed about 20 of those 200+ internal sites and we arebeing asked to work on more of them every month that passes. However Headstand Media did design, produce and still helps to maintain McDonald’s public corporate website called About McDonald’s (http://www.aboutmcdonalds.com). If you’ve never visited it, you should check it out. There are lot’s of good stories about McDonald’s that we bet you never knew linked right on the home page, and the company historical timeline is a lot of fun to explore.
This site was designed and developed by Headstand Media in Day Software’s enterprise web content management system called Communique. The most recent version (v5.3) is referred to in the industry as CQ5. Headstand Media and STA Group are Day Software professional partners and intimately familiar with the underlying open source technologies, tools and frameworks it is built upon.
It should also be noted that if you “Google” the terms “CQ5 design” or “CQ5 development” you will find Headstand Media as a top result… worldwide (Please note that Day Software is an international firm headquartered in Basel, Switzerland)! That’s because Headstand Media also knows what they are doing when it comes to SEO (search engine optimization).
My nephew-in-law, Chris Horst works for Hope International, a Christian based micro-finance and micro-lending organization. He lives in Denver, and has a WordPress blog site called Smorgasblurb, and I just noticed this recent post as being particularly good. It’s called Monthly Musings: Cocaine Charity. I encourage you to check it out.
Again, the creative team over at the Chicago web design firm, Headstand Media has produced another great WebSmart TV video answering the burning question, “What is SEO?“ These videos are meant to educate the average business person who hears terms like SEO, tagging, CSS, vlogs and many others tossed around, but really have no idea what [...]
I have a friend named Lee Hoffner whose wife Anne has cancer. I met Lee back in the days of my involvement with The Association for Multimedia Communications (AMC). We are still both involved in the Internet/Web industry.
Lee and Anne live in Wheaton and attend College Church, where they met in the choir about 5-6 [...]
Have you ever heard someone refer to a “viral video” in a conversation, or in an email or text message, or on Facebook or Twitter? Does “viral video” sound like a video that might give you a disease?
Or, have you ever been in a business meeting where people were throwing around these new Internet web [...]
A friend just sent me this link to a video and blog site (Think Big Work Small) that I found very informative. This video explains in plain, simple English how the government (FDIC) gave a sweetheart deal to a bank called OneWest Bank, owned by Steven Munchen and investors George Soros and John Paulson. They [...]
Well there it was, aired within the first quarter of the Super Bowl, the much discussed, much criticized and maligned Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad. As I watched it, I kept waiting for the hatred, the insensitivity, the objectionable content that so many said was offensive, outrageous and unacceptable for public viewing… especially during the [...]
Well, earlier this week I went to my local Sprint store, and upgraded from my Palm Centro (over 2 years) to a new HTC Hero running on Google’s “Android” operating system.
This means that I no longer have a physical keyboard (the Centro’s was too small for my large hands anyway), and I no longer use [...]
I got up and went to my polling place this morning on Oak Park, Illinois, and cast my votes in the Republican Primary. I used one of the newer “computer” voting machines. I was voter #1 on my machine, in my precinct. It felt good.
I urge you to go to your polling place and cast [...]