Contents:
Anything longer and you risk losing viewer interest, and anything shorter is probably too short to be of interest. Video clips may be added to most major blogging platforms such as Blogger. If you need a video upload editor, Creative Commons offers a free shareware software to upload video clips to most blogging sites. For more tips on starting a video blog, please visit PC magazine where the Cranky Geeks demonstrate in a video blog clip, of course how to start a video blog. Social Media Examiner also provides a simple list of steps to starting a video blog.
One example of this phenomenon is the lonelygirl15 web-based video series that initially appeared as a video blog on YouTube.
Although lonelygirl15 was originally thought to be a real teenage girl sharing her thoughts and feelings with the world, she was later revealed to be American-New Zealand actress Jessica Rose. The series was the result of a collaborative effort between several individuals hoping to score a movie deal from the free publicity: Although no movie has been made yet, a spin-off show called KateModern premiered in July and Jessica Rose was offered a role starring on the ABC Family show Greek on the basis of her lonelygirl15 performance.
If you'd like to try video blogging, but want to avoid some of the potential drawbacks associated with this medium, one option to consider is combining videos with traditional blog posts.
Your blog does not have to be all text or all video; it's perfectly acceptable to experiment until you find a balance that works well for your topic and the needs of your visitors. Video blogging offers people who dislike writing to express themselves through a blog without crafting text. Many people prefer watching a video clip to reading blog text.
Video blogs offer another window into events, people and ideas, providing a platform for anyone to creatively express their opinions. This is a guest post by Debasis from DigitalGyaan. If you would like to write for ShoutMeLoud, read our guest posting guidelines. I definitely agree that video is the future and has major advantages over normal written content.
Creating that visual connection with your audience is much more engaging that just letting them read words on a screen. Is there any way to avoid such things happening? If you have a great camera, and good editing skills thats great. Or if you have enough money to pay someone to do it for you. But i know some great people that make videos with their phones.
If you have a decent phone camera and interesting things to say, sometimes is enogh. Camtasia is a great piece of software! It was surprising how good the consumer program was.
If you consider starting it then make sure that you share your videos on other video sharing websites too rather sticking to YouTube only. Many open source content management systems have enabled the inclusion of video content, allowing bloggers to host and administer their own video blogging sites. Archived from the original on January 8, Archived from the original on December 31, Though, there are some disadvantages of video blogging too, which you should keep in your mind before jumping into the list of video Bloggers.
Thanks for this useful video blogging post… I also have tried to make video tutorial with HyperCam 2 but I had the voice issues and I cannot afford Camtasia. I have a blog and i am planning for video tutorial, Which is best practices? Placing directly video on blog or placing video directly on youtube? Is it possible to create videos? Nikhil Many people are doing this and they getting good results.
Though I suggest to start speaking, as it may sound not so prefect in the beginning but later on it will improve. Or you can use some text to speed converter and sync the audio with video. Make sure to use subtitles to make most out of it. I started blogging and video Blogging at the same time. Not only I aced at Video Blogging but I get most of my website traffic from there.
I love interacting with my fans at YouTube. Thanx for this amazing post.
But this article is superb and covers everything regarding video blogging. I will try my best to write more on different useful topics. Nice post, you covered almost all the points about video blogging. I have one query here. I think the tutorial type video blogging can be a hit or can go viral. Thanks again for sharing. Thanks For the Comment. He always post lovely inspirational Videos in his Blog, if one will watch all of them then he will learn many good things.
You are right about making Video Blogging on tutorials, there are many other good Video blogs available where you will find lots of Good and useful Videos on different topics. Video are also best ways to increase blog traffic like we create and submit our video to popular video sites and add our blog link in description.
First of all Thanks to all my friends who are commented over this post. Your each inspirational comment Motivate me to write some useful post for you. You are absolutely right Ammar, I usually make Videos for my clients and then make it fully SEO optimized and then share it in lots of Video sharing sites. Please log in again. The login page will open in a new window. After logging in you can close it and return to this page.
Skip to primary navigation Skip to content Skip to primary sidebar Blogging Share: What is Video Blogging? Advantages of Video Blogging: Next Post Blog Comments: When it is Useful and Harmful? Nice article, i think video blogging for programming blog will increase traffic rate. Good to know about it, that you also do video Blogging.