You might well already know how vital uploading your firm’s Internet video is. For a firm’s manager, Web video clips are a helpful instrument that can help to capture your customers’ attention & drastically increase the amount of users to your businesses site. Internet videos are extremely good in getting the target consumers’ rather short attention. What’s more, if codes are built-in & video sharing is endorsed, video commercials can be a marvellous way to get one-way external links. & in so doing positively affect your websites’ rankings on Google.

If truth behold, videos have turned out to be a valuable medium for business or self advertising. The following are numerous tips to distributing your own Internet videos.

Firstly, you can post your short format professional videos on your own company web site; but this would need you to find your own video hosting arrangements. Ask your Internet hosting solutions merchant if video downloading or video streaming options are supported.

Video downloading is where your business visitors have to download your short format promotional video to their computer hard disk. They need to download the professional video to their own computers before they can play it using their PC’s video player or a downloadable video player software. There are lots of video downloading service providers that are reasonably cheap. There is also a progressive downloading mechanism where your web viewers can play the promotional videos whilst downloading them. If you are looking for a company that specialises in corporate video production in London then look no further than Vidify.

Whereas video streaming on the other hand utterly does away with the demand to download the short format videos & permits instantaneous playback so it gives the most use to your viewers. Naturally, getting a video hosting supplier that supports video streaming can cost you a pretty penny.

Finally, the more fashionable way to circulate video commercials is posting your sites to video distribution sites that possess their very own video hosting platform. These web sites cost you nothing to become a member & will even sometimes pay you to post video content. They also have a considerably big market base & reach; for example, YouTube receives around 10 million Web visitors each month.

You’ve had punctuation and grammar shoved down your throat since grade school. This isn’t another “techie” post. It’s about smoothing out your writing like a pro. If you haven’t learned the following easy tips, learn them, and I promise you will be an exponentially better writer.

I feel like the following tips don’t need big explanations; that could actually confuse more than teach. Instead, I will give examples of clumsy writing compared to smooth writing, then I will give brief explanations.

Let’s examine a paragraph, shall we?

Harriet was sitting on the couch knitting all day. Her good friend called her on the phone and said that she needed someone to have a conversation with. So Harriet began to tell her to relax. Her friend was glad, and she started to calm down.

All the boldfaced words can be “smoothened”:

was sitting… sat

her on the phone… [delete] Cut unneeded words.

that… [delete] Cut unneeded words.

conversation with… with which to have a conversation Don’t end a sentence with a preposition.

So… [delete] Don’t begin a sentence with a conjunction.

began to tell… began telling Often you can combine “to” with the following verb.

Her friend was glad, and she started to calm down… Glad, her friend started calming Condense sentences, cutting unneeded words.

Now, let’s read the paragraph with the changes.

Harriet sat on the couch knitting all day. Her good friend called and said she needed someone with which to have a conversation. Harriet began telling her to relax. Glad, her friend calmed.

These sort of tips are good to keep in mind while writing. They are especially useful when you’re on your last edits of a manuscript.

Well now I have seen the ultimate in hypocrisy from the liberals of the world. This time the sub-sector of these socialists are professional writers. One professional public relations shrill-type writer (24-years experience) states that Online Article Submission Sites hold no purpose in a scathing and mean-spirited article. Sure it does it allows freedom of speech, the press and expression for amateur writers like me.

But this professional free-lance public relations health and fitness industry writer indicates that such sites prevent many writers from charging high fees. Indeed this is true, it is called supply and demand and when a website offers free content with nearly 300,000 articles, then yes that changes supply and lowers costs.

But isn’t that free-enterprise? Yet these Bush Bashing Liberal Writers who cannot make it in the real world of free-enterprise, complain about high-oil prices and supply games with Oil Companies are themselves trying to attack online article submission sites to shore up supplies; but why? So they can make more money and charge higher fees. Hypocrisy!

So, apparently we have protectionism by writers, who will not allow innovation of a new trend to come to market and attacks on freedom of speech, so they can make higher fees? Go to hell, I have the right to write and post my work anywhere I please. That is the American Way, it is my Constitutional Right? How soon the “Freedom of the Press” writers forget. Hypocrisy at its finest with liberal Prozac induced, linear thought writers.

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Spyware like Spector enables cyber criminals to easily gain access to sensitive information such as banking usernames and passwords, credit card information, social security numbers, and more. Just because a banking site labels itself as secure does not mean that a user is protected from a keylogger. Since keyloggers reside on the user’s computer, they record keystrokes in real time, and can steal and send password information before the user even submits that information across the internet to a banking site. Winclear is the only software which is capable of removing keylogger programs. Additionally browsers use cookies to store login information that you may not want to enter repeatedly. Winclear has been the industry leader in fighting keyloggers for the last 8 years.

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Writing engaging articles and energizing ad copy takes more than just typing out what you want to say. By correcting these major mistakes, your copy will soar to newfound heights. While there are many common mistakes made by copywriters, seven in particular are deadly.

Mistake One: Don’t take that tone with me!

Many writers fail to write to their intended audience by writing in a general or wrong tone. Either way is costly. It is important to identify and write to the intended audience. Review the following two statements to see how the same information differs based on the intended audience.

Audience One is comprised of computer neophytes.

Move your mouse pointer over to the START icon, which is located in the lower left area of your computer screen. Next, click your left mouse button one time. Your start menu should now be displayed.

Audience Two is comprised of knowledgeable computer users.

Open up your START menu.

Notice the stark contrast between the two examples. If we continued with the examples, “Audience Two” would be spoken to in more technical terms whereas “Audience One” would be spoken to in very simple terms with every action described in full detail.

Mistake Two: Welcome to the claims department.

Most non-fiction writing, especially ad copy, makes a claim of some sort. Hard to believe claims destroy credibility. The golden rule of claims: Always support your claims fully.

I can’t believe it!

When a claim sounds too good to be true, credibility is lost. Perhaps the ad copy is claiming that a person can lose up to 300 pounds in 30 days on a certain type of program. The more substantial the claim, the more support required. Still, if the claim is hard to believe, all the support in the world won’t help much.

4 out of 5 dentists agree.

A claim made must be supported. An article reporting that 4 out of 5 dentists agree about using a certain product must include the supporting evidence. Never expect people to take your word for it, because they won’t.

Mistake Three: So enough about you, what about me?

Have you ever visited a website or heard an ad that chimed in with “we here at [insert company name] believe…?” The majority of people will react by simply ignoring the copy all together. It is important to build up a rapport with the reader before talking about yourselfif possible. The reader must first be given a reason as to why he or she should care. This mistake is most common in ad copy. Focus on the reader first and foremost.

Mistake Four: Could you repeat that?

Repetitious wording occurs when a word is used that was previously written in close proximity. Try to keep sentences fresh and flowing with new words. This is a great reason to pick up a thesaurus and learn some word alternatives. In ad copy it is sometimes necessary to use a word more than once for effect. An example of this would be: Excellent service. Excellent selection. Excellent prices.

Don’t do this

I really like the quality of the shoes and the overall quality of the store. Store X is an all around high-quality establishment.

Notice the word “quality” was used three times quickly. These two sentences should be rewritten with the world quality being used only once.

Mistake Five: At this present time, the fact of the matter is, you are reading this article.

This mistake plagues us all because our normal speech is full of redundancies. Some redundancies are simply two words that say the same thing, while others are phrases that repeat something previously mentioned in the sentence. Fluffing up text does not make for good writing or reading. Let’s look at some examples.

“It is a true fact.”

Is there a false fact? Revised: “It is a fact.”

“I found a total of 927 websites with my name on them.”

Eliminate “total of”. Revised: “I found 927 websites with my name on them.”

“The future to come is full of surprises.”

The future is something to come, which is why it is called the future and not the present or past. Stating “future to come” is wordy and does nothing to enhance the reading experience. Revised: “The future is full of surprises.”

To find out more, visit your favorite search engine, and look for results under these terms:

• Pleonasm
• Redundant writing

Mistake Six: You’re its owner therefore it’s yours.

It is amazing how four simple words can become a virtual wrecking ball to the prose of so many. The four words are: its, it’s, your, and you’re

Its

This is possessive and has no apostrophe. Example: Put your hand on its mouth.

It’s

This version has the apostrophe and means “it is.” Example: It’s mine.

Your

Again, this is the possessive and has no apostrophe. Example: Your car is stalled.

You’re

With the apostrophe, it means “you are.” Example: You’re smiling at me.

Many writers make this mistake because it’s simple to do. Writing fast will increase the possibility of making this mistake, which is why rereading your copy many times is crucial.

Mistake Seven: I think I can. Well, maybe I can try.

It is important that the reader feels secure about the author, which is why writing in a passive voice will render the prose helpless. It is very easy to use passive writing without knowing it because everyday speech is filled with passivity. Recognizing passive writing and replacing it will make a tremendous difference in your copy.

Passive: The final exam was failed by over half of the students.

Active: Half of the students failed the exam.

Notice the difference between the two sentences. Overcoming this mistake takes practiceas does learning to write well.

Ad copy should be dripping in confidence. Word selection and order are extremely important. Using words like “try” should be omitted when possible.

Common Example: “We work to make our clients happy.”

Rewrite: “We have satisfied clients.” or “We will make you happy.”

In the “Common Example”, it implies that you might not be happy. The company will “work” to make you happy, but there is no guarantee they can. In the rewrite, the implication is removed by altering the text.

Crafting solid prose takes practice. By running this checklist against your copy and correcting mistakes, it will become more effective. Every printed word is priceless. A single word or sentence can cause decent copy to fail. Should you require a copywriter, visit my website.

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About the Author

Jason A. Martin, a copywriter and entrepreneur, has been conducting business on the Internet for 11 years. His Internet business website: Internet Business Entrepreneur.

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Poetry is made up of so many specific patters and language. There are as many forms of poetry as there are writers who pen it. Here I have gather some resources to specific patterns of poetry and I have attempted to describe for you the figurative language found in poetry.

Specific Patterns of Poetry

• What is Traditional Poetry?

“Traditional” poetry is the kind of poetry we hear most often. Traditional poetry has a certain form

ex: Humpty-Dumpty sat on a wall,

Humpty-Dumpty had a great fall;

• What is Free Verse Poetry?

Free verse is poetry that is written without proper rules about form, rhyme, rhythm, meter, etc.

The greatest American writer of free verse is probably Walt Whitman

With free verse the poem can tell a story, describe a person, animal, feeling or object. They can serious, sad, funny or educational. There are no limits

• What is a tongue twister?

An expression that is difficult to articulate clearly; “`Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.’ is a tongue twister”

•What is ode poetry?

An Ode is a poem praising and glorifying a person, place or thing.

• What is Monorhyme Poetry?

A poem in which all the lines have the same end rhyme.

Ex:

Late for school

I’m looking like a big fool

My brother thinks he rules

While I’m loosing my cool

• What is monody Poetry?

A monody is a poem in which one person laments another’s death, as in Tennyson’s Break, Break, Break, or Wordsworth’s She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways.

• What is Concrete Poetry?

Poetry in which the poet’s intent is conveyed by the shape formed by the letters, words, or symbols that make up the poem rather than by the conventional arrangement of words

Here is a good example of a concrete poem:

http://webbschool.com/rhood/creativewriting/concrete_poem.htm

• What is Quatrain Poetry?

A Quatrain is a poem consisting of four lines of verse with a specific rhyming scheme.

A few examples of a quatrain rhyming scheme’s are as follows:

#1) abab

#2) abba — envelope rhyme

#3) aabb

#4) aaba, bbcb, ccdc, dddd — chain rhyme

http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/quatrain.htm

• How to write Pantoum poetry

http://anitraweb.org/kalliope/pantoum.html

•What is Palindrome Poetry?

http://www.fun-with-words.com/palin_explain.html

• Forms of Poetry for Children

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/poeform.htm

• Diamonte Poetry

http://www.chasesc.com/CHASEDiamontePoetry.htm

• What is an acrostic poem?

http://www.teachnet-lab.org/miami/2003/sampedro/what_is_an_acrostic_poem.htm

• Acrostic Poetry

http://www.teachnet-lab.org/miami/2003/sampedro/what_is_an_acrostic_poem.htm

• How to Write a Clerihew Poem

http://www.gigglepoetry.com/poetryclass/clerihew.htm

• The Art of Haiku Poetry

http://www.lsi.usp.br/usp/rod/poet/haiku.html

• How to Write Limerick Poetry

http://www.gigglepoetry.com/poetryclass/limerickcontesthelp.html

• How to write Cinquain Poetry

http://www.edu.pe.ca/stjean/playing%20with%20poetry/Hickey/coleres.htm

What is a metaphor?

A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity

Understanding metaphors

http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/gallery/rhetoric/terms/metaphor.html

What is a simile?

A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like’ or `as’)

• The Simile Satellite Activities

This site explores the function, form and effect of simile in poetry.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/listenandwrite/teachers/simact.htm

What is alliteration?

the repetition of consonant sounds – usually at the beginning of words

What is onomatopoeia?

a word that sounds like the thing it describes

Example:

splash, wow, gush, kerplunk

What is a trope?

The intentional use of a word or expression figuratively, i.e., used in a different sense from its original significance in order to give vividness or emphasis to an idea. Some important types of trope are: antonomasia, irony, metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche. Sidelight: Strictly speaking, a trope is the figurative use of a word or expression, while figure of speech refers to a phrase or sentence used in a figurative sense. The two terms, however, are often confused and used interchangeably

Examples: Metaphor, simile, oxymoron, and hyperbole are all kinds of figurative language.

What is personification?

A person who represents an abstract quality; “she is the personification of optimism”

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/personification.html

What is Synonyms?

Words or phrases which have similar meaning.

http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/synonyms.htm

What is a stanza?

A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem

What is imagery?

Image is language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching.

What is a muse?

Muse: the source of an artist’s inspiration; “Euterpe was his muse”

To get a list of other Poetic Glossary terms Please see Todays-Woman list

http://www.todays-woman.net/dll.php?name=Dictionary or Robert Shubinski has assembled an excellent on-line resource

http://www.poeticbyway.com/glossary.html

This link also gives the term, definition and example of literary terms.

http://www.kidskonnect.com/FigurativeLanguage/FigurativeLanguageHome.html

About the Author

Rose is a published author from Canada Ontario and is also the founder of http://www.todays-woman.net a community for men and women over 18, where writers/poets/columnists meet and exchange ideas, contest, rate and review and help each other succeed in the writing industry.