Harry Potter on a new muggle device

When I first got my Kindle Fire the first books I tried to buy were the Harry Potter series. Before facebook, twitter, and youtube - Harry Potter dominated my life. However they were never released on Kindle. But now they are. J.K. Rowling is doing it a little differently though. Instead of buying them off of the amazon website you have to buy the books off of her new site, Pottermore. This...

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Sony's new FS700

It seems just a while ago the new Sony FS-100 was being announced. This was a great new camera for DSLR shooters because it had the benefits of shooting on a DSLR without the problems they have. Now Sony is announcing the Sony NEX-FS700. What makes me so excited is that it is going to be able to shoot 4K in the future, shoots ultra slow motion (120 and 240 fps) at 1080p and even...

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Wedding Videos

Jeremy and Kaite Webb - Same Day Edit from Egbert Media on Vimeo. Well this past week has been busy. It involved me flying to L.A. and filming my friends wedding. I started at 7 am and didn't finish until 1:00 am that next morning. Overall it was really really fun and I am so happy for them. I learned something very interesting about everything though. This video I shot and...

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Niche TV

This last weekend I flew to Los Angeles to film my friend's wedding video. I got to the airport pretty early so I waited in the terminal for my plane to arrive. While waiting I started to watch CNN on one of the many TVs in the area. After a few news stories an advertisement for CNN came up promoting what I thought was a new station. It turned out it was the one I was currently...

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Pintrest Irregularities

So I have a pretty cool sister-in-law who has this pretty cool (that is if you are a crafty mother) blog called Freshly Completed. She has been blogging pretty avidly since last August and has created a decent following since then just on her blog. In recent months she has branched out to a facebook page and using pintrest. She started using pintrest because she noticed how many...

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Youtube and Google Adsense

For my youtube series Awkward Moments In Life I am fortunate enough to have google adsense enabled on my videos. What does that mean? It means that for the ads that appear on my youtube videos I am able to earn a portion of the money that these companies pay google to be on these videos. A lot of times people ask me how I did it and how they are able to get signed up for google...

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Facebook/Twitter Competitions

This past month I was running contests on both my facebook and twitter accounts for my youtube series Awkward Moments In Life. After researching how to properly do them I learned a lot about not only social media contests but social media. Facebook Contest The first thing I learned about facebook contests is that I couldn't just post on my wall "Share this link to my contest...

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Seattle Part 7 - Banyan Branch

Out last visit of our second day was to Banyan Branch. Overall this was the coolest place that we visited. Banyan Branch is an integrated Social Media Agency. They have been around for only a few years but have already established themselves as leaders in Social Media Marketing. In the back of their offices they have a wall that holds about 20 large TV's that are displaying trends,...

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Seattle Part 6 - Weggner Edstrom

For the sixth part of our visit in Seattle we visited Weggner Edstrom - a PR firm in Bellevue who does a lot of the PR for Microsoft. The most interesting thing about this company to me was their special task force they had to deal with online customer complaints. There was a division of people who tracked the internet and social media to find out what people where saying. When...

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