Home | ASI Central Home | About | What is RSS?
Enter your email for updates:
comment Leave a Comment
Friday
November 20, 2009

New ASICentral Video Pages Launched

Filed under: General, Video, site updates

From the weekly Joe Show and Advantages Hot Deals Sales Tip of the Week, to Trade Shows and Events, ASI-TV covers a lot of ground and we’re really proud of our videos. So much so that we’ve decided to give them a sweet makeover and a new home on ASICentral. The following is a breakdown of all the features of our new Videos Pages:

  • Appearance. All our videos are still housed in YouTube, but you can play all of them on ASICentral in our beautifully customized video players. Each player has a main window that allows you to watch the most current video, with a list of archived videos to the right. See Example, below.

  • Branding. We’ve come up with 7 top-level categories for all our videos that shy away from the traditional name-branding of the videos for a more categorical branding. The following are the 7 new branding categories:
  1. Hot New Products (Videos from The Joe Show)
  2. Fun (Collection of humorous videos)
  3. Sales Tips (Videos from Advantages Hot Deals Tip)
  4. Industry News (Videos from Counselor PromoGram)
  5. Fashion & Apparel (Videos from Your Stitches & Wearables Fashion Sense)
  6. Media Clips (Videos from media outlets about the industry)
  7. Trade Shows & Events (Videos from the ASI Show and other Events)
  • Navigation. Once you’ve accessed our new Videos Pages, you are now within the “Videos” experience, which means you can now choose from a customized set of icons above the video players for more videos. There seven categories discussed under “Branding” are represented in the new navigation iconography and you can toggle between videos simply by clicking on the icons. See Example, below.

  • Location. By adding the Videos Page in our vertical navigation, you can always access the Videos page from anywhere on ASICentral. Just look about midway down the left navigation and you will see the following icon:

And that’s the gist of the new Videos Pages!

To access the new Videos Pages, click here.

And if you’ve got any feedback regarding the new pages, please send to feedback@asicentral.com.

– VideoVND

comment Leave a Comment
Friday
November 20, 2009

Tip of the Day - Understand Social Media Terminology

Filed under: Tip of the Day

To get along socially online, you’ve got to know your social media terms. Here are some commonly used words and acronyms.

DIGG – A social media site, www.digg.com is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. When you “digg” an online article, video or image, you’re basically giving it a virtual thumbs up. You can integrate a “Digg This” button onto your Web site or blog to encourage followers to digg your content. Go to http://digg.com/tools/integrate to learn how.

Fan Page – In the broadest sense, a fan page is a Web site created and maintained by fans of a particular celebrity, sport, music band, brand, hobby or cultural happening. More narrowly, the term is becoming associated specifically with Facebook, as many users now create and share fan pages on the popular social network.

Follower – People who opt in to receive your tweets, blog updates, etc. Much like being a “friend” on Facebook.

Retweet – Much like forwarding an e-mail, a retweet is simply a tweet written by one person then republished or shared with others by the recipients sending it on to their followers.

Social Bookmarking – Also known as tagging, social bookmarking occurs when a blogger or micro-blogger, for example, uses keyword descriptions to identify images or topics within a post so that Web pages and blogs with identical tags can then be linked together.

UGC – Stands for user-generated content and is also known as CGM or consumer-generated media. The content could be in the form of a video, photo, blog post, tweet, etc.

Web 2.0 – Webopedia defines Web 2.0 as a second generation of the World Wide Web that is focused on the ability for people to collaborate and share information online. Web 2.0 basically refers to the transition from static HTML Web pages to a more dynamic Web that is more organized and is based on serving Web applications to users.

Widget – As defined by www.netlingo.com, a widget is an application that sits on top of a Web site and offers users additional interactive features. Popular widgets (Google calls them “gadgets”) include photo slide shows, videos, music playlists, Post-it notes, etc. Widgets are normally added to social networking profiles, blogs or Web sites.

From Advantages University

 

Home | ASI Central Home | About | What is RSS?