Recently I celebrated my blog's first birthday which I am extremely proud of and I'm very happy to now be able to say that I've been part of this blogosphere for a full year. I didn't know much about blogging and social media when I first started out, however I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to learn from my blogging team at Windsor Media, Yvonne DiVita and her partner Tom Collins. Now Yvonne is the blogger, her most popular blog is Lipsticking.com, and Tom is the technical adviser.
So I learned, and I keep learning, a great deal from both Yvonne and Tom and have since also gained much knowledge from just blogging myself, reading and visiting other people's blog and by staying current on all that's written about emerging media these days...which is a full time job in itself! I've learned how to add things to my blog in my sidebars; gotten better at resizing photos; picked-up on some simple HTML coding that let's me make a few minor adjustments here and there. Also I've embedded many videos into my posts from YouTube, but I hate to admit that I never have uploaded one of my own...until now.
We borrowed a video camera and took it on our vacation to St. Maarten this year which I told you a little about in this post. My daughters and their friend were vacationing with us and they took the camera down the beach on one of the last days we were there to tape the planes landing. Now I had mentioned in my previous post that where we were staying was practically at the beginning of the runway and at a certain part of the beach the planes literally would come in right over your head. The girls had seen the landing schedule of the planes and were waiting for the big one, Air France, to come in so they could capture it.
I promised I would share this footage with you, so I went to YouTube and finally uploaded my first video which I'm embedding here. Take a look.
Now I can tell my family and friends, and my girls can tell their friends, to check out the video they shot which is on my blog. That's one way to drive traffic to my blog I guess!
Now I can't believe how easy it was. I keep telling people that the best way to learn about this social media thing is to just do it. So, here's another example. Now I think we're going to buy this camera from it's current owner since he went out and got a new one and really dosen't need this one anymore. It'll be just fine for our purposes. So maybe next time I'll even shoot the video myself.
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