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Digital storytelling is a huge area in education and is emerging strongly in the home and community sectors and more slowly in affiliate marketing. It has even evolved into digital scrapbooking.

Many of the videos on YouTube are presented as digital stories. My Squidoo lens has a two-fold focus – (1) to help people to turn digital photos into digital stories or digi-stories and (2) to promote resources that enable people to make money from their digital photos.

The catalyst for creating the digital-storytelling lens was my work over 5 years helping vocational education institutes in Australia to develop their online learning capacity.

So the original target was teachers but as the lens evolved, I came to understand that there was a much broader market involved, including community educators and affiliate marketers.

My digital-storytelling lens provides modules that offer:

* examples of digital stories from YouTube

* links on digital storytelling in education

* examples of digital stories in education

* digital storytelling in primary education

* digital stories dedicated to themes, e.g. community

* links to free software to create digi-stories

* links to free tools to use in making a digital story

* digital story mapping

* digital scrapbooking  Read more...

Article marketing has become very powerful over the last several years and the popularity is increasing constantly. Due to the success that many have with submitting to article directories, new technologies have been created. These technologies and new tools have been designed to help make it easier for many to transition over into article marketing.

Article directories have started to upgrade their service to include many new tools and some even with brand new technologies that are created to help the authors and marketers take full advantage of article marketing. Many of these tools and new technologies have been created to make article marketing more automative.

Taking advantage of automation will make your article marketing efforts easier and your life easier. Submitting your recent articles that you have written to thousands of article directories is now easier than ever. Creating interesting content filled articles has now become possible because of new technologies. Short articles can even be submitted to your blogs on pure auto-pilot.

Advancements That Will Change The History Of Article Marketing  Read more...

GeneWize Life Sciences is a network marketing company that will go public in August of 2008. If you are thinking about joining a network marketing team then this might be the right decision for you. You should first know a little about the company before you make any commitments.

GeneLink, Inc. is a biotechnology company who has been around for 12 years. GeneWize Life Sciences is going to be the network marketing division for the company. They are the first nutritional company that offers a unique and individualized nutritional supplement designed according to your specific DNA or your genetic profile.

What makes this product special and something people will be interested in is that the supplement is designed for your specific DNA. Nutritional supplements are saturating the market but there is nothing out there like this. This is because all other supplements are designed for the average person. That is why some supplements work for some people but don’t work for others. Not every body is the same or needs the same nutritional supplement. The ‘one size fits all’ approach isn’t cutting it and GeneLink has recognized this.  Read more...

When you want to advertise online, you will not find it difficult. There are many options available. You can choose your options according to your own budget. But when it comes to free advertisement which is effective as well, you will find it hard to find a way. But if you know about article marketing, then you do not need to find any other way.

The article marketing is easy and gives excellent results. It costs nothing to publish them and you can write them yourself. So there will be no need for a huge dedicated budget for this task.

The publishing of articles means three things mainly. Writing the articles, giving them good title and a catchy summary and finally, submitting them to the article directory of your choice. All three things are equally important and you can not succeed without following all the three. When it comes to writing the articles, you will have to make sure that you are not making any mistakes at this point.  Read more...

The success rate of Google AdWords is so much impressive that it converts all its prospects into buyers which further prosper a lot so in short we can also say that Goggle AdWords are the best business partners anyone can have.

Knowing about the business is to good but knowing how to attract customers for your product and service is a miracle which everyone do not know. Making money in business is an awesome job but to grow your business to your expectations lie in the hand of Google AdWords. The word used in google Adwords ad is relevant and specific rather than descriptive.

To know AdWords is a different story one should know how this works does. You mite have heard about Google PPC which is known as Google Pay per Click. Google Pay per Click is nothing but a way to increase the number of clicks of an ad. It’s like making a ad keeping in mind the need of the buyer. You have to attract browsers in away that you reach your target through increase number of clicks at lowest rates.  Read more...

There’s no shortage of bad celebrity themed pinball machines. This time we wont rank them, instead well look at several different genres of bad celebrity tie in games:

THE BOX OFFICE BOMB THEMED MACHINE:

In 1991 Williams Pinball released a machine based on Terminator 2 complete with a gun trigger to launch the ball and a ton of Arnold’s catch phrases like Ill be back keyed to various game objectives. The film was a huge hit, and everything worked well together. Because of the success of this machine the production companies thought that releasing a pinball machine simultaneous with the film would be a great cross promotional tactic.

Unfortunately, this thinking led to a number of pinball machines based on films that were absolute bombs. Some examples of this genre are machines based on The Last Action Hero and Hook. There wasnt a cooler cartoon than The Flintstones. So how do you screw up a Flintstones pinball machine? Just base the theme not on the classic Hanna Barbara cartoon, but on the horrible film starring John Goodman and Rosie ODonnell.  Read more...

The video game is now a ubiquitous part of American pop culture but pinball still holds a cachet of cool. Pinball went through a few lean years during the early years of the video boom, when designers tried to cram as much stuff onto the playfield as possible, perhaps feeling the clutter was needed to replicate the video game experience. In recent years, however, designers appear to have concluded–and rightly so–that pinball cannot be a video game, nor should it want to be.

A great game of recent vintage is the 1997 Bally release “Cirqus Voltaire”. The theme is sort of a ‘Cirque du Soleil” on acid, and the iconography of the circus that they cram into the design and play of the game is amazing. The ultimate object of the game is to “join the cirqus”, which, of course, is a classical American archetype of freedom and escape. Yet this “Cirqus” is not a Norman Rockwell vision of juvenile fun–there are a lot of sinister undertones as well, including evil ringmasters and an almost palpable feeling of sleaze. The clowns here have more in common with the Simpsons’ ‘Krusty the Clown’ than with Emmett Kelly.  Read more...

Building links to your website should be done responsibly. If it isn’t, you could easily harm your presence in top search engines such as Yahoo!, Google, and Bing. The “white hat” movement is one that dictates every link you build should be done in an approved, safe, and friendly manner.

A business that networks itself has a greater chance of surviving- both locally and on the Internet. Odds are that you already know several businesses or friends in business who can give you a link to your website. Offer to do a link exchange and watch as search engines will give you a small boost in rankings. If you do this on a large enough scale, no search term is too hard to rank for with enough time given.

If you see a directory pertaining to your industry niche, don’t hesitate in getting a listing. A small directory or big one alike, both will serve traffic and also be a valuable link back to your website. Directories often charge a fee to get listed before other listings. You might try this on one directory and see what impact it has. If the return on investment isn’t great- just stick to normal listings.  Read more...

There are diverse aspects that go into this but a single with the major contributors to your success on this front is acquiring numerous incoming links to your web site for the keyword phrases that that you are targeting. If that you are just starting out with a new web site, you’ll need to do some analysis before you begin so that you simply can realize how you should construct your website. The first thing that you’ll need to investigation are the search phrases themselves.

You’ll be able to do this for free of charge at the Google Adwords Keyword Research tool. Simply sort within the key concept of one’s company and web site and see what comes up. This free of charge tool will show you the exact words that folks are typing in when searching whatever product or service you’re offering.

You want to pick one of these search phrases to use within the name of your internet site. And more research must be done on the validity of that search term. You possibly can use other totally free tools like WordTracker plus the MSN commercial intent tool to obtain additional data about just how much targeted traffic is being generated for the keyword phrases that that you are analyzing and if the keyword provides commercial potential or not.  Read more...

Many people out there think that web design is really hard. After all, there are thousands of programs out there to create web pages and millions of people going to expensive colleges every year just to learn all about web sites! However, things are not nearly as hard as you would think.

The first step to creating a good web page is to decide what you want on it. People will be visiting your site for what is written there, not how pretty it looks you know. Go ahead and make a list of the main sections you want people to visit. “Home”, “About me” and “links” are usually good starts.

Once you know what you want on your web site, it is time to start organizing! People like it when it’s easy to tell what is where but do not like a flood of links to click. If several similar things go together, it usually is OK to put them on the same page. For example, “About me” could also tell your hobbies and favorite music instead of having separate pages for your music, your hobbies and you.  Read more...