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Comment on About Benson by Startup Ninja Kate

Startup Ninja Kate — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 01:14:14 +0000

You had me at Social Media Lackey. Benson, your posts always make me swoon. A total pleasure to read.

Comment on Everything I know about social media I learned in Powerlifting by stephenwinburn

stephenwinburn — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:15:47 +0000

Excellent post.

Comment on Everything I know about social media I learned in Powerlifting by Diana Driscoll

Diana Driscoll — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:42:48 +0000

I love this analogy, Benson (you jock, you!). I may add (at least in my case) “no pain, no gain”! This, coming from someone who has made every mistake possible on social media… And perhaps “eat a lot of protein” – in other words, learn as much as possible; not just the once over lightly minimum, but be willing to dig deep to improve your knowledge. And stay hydrated! (Enjoy the entertainment aspects of social media, as it can sometimes keep you going when, as can happen to the best of us, we just plain get tired). Great post!

Comment on Everything I know about social media I learned in Powerlifting by tra33icp1mp

tra33icp1mp — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:34:36 +0000

Hi there,

I like you analogy. I am so far from where I want to be with my developing skills. At the moment I am just keeping an eye in, just working slowly at the next step and so on. I like the link to Chris Brogan. There are plenty of great examples out there but ultimately, it takes time and effort to build an audience, whatever the content is.

Nice post.

Comment on iLife for PC Review: Sony Imagination Studio by Alexander

Alexander — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:50:32 +0000

That’s quite strange… All of the Sony products worked before and after I upgraded from vista Ultimate to 7 Ultimate…… The software works great… I ultimately trust Sony for My video needs… This coupled with my CS5 Master Suite I shall be unstoppable!!! hahahahaha!!!

Comment on SEO is a "Window," not a Destination by Kate Haley

Kate Haley — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:07:30 +0000

Benson,

As usual, you are right on; I had a few more thoughts.

I think that SEO does have its place in writing engaging copy. Sometimes I think that it helps to have a certain structure to work within, like writing a poem with a proven form, that allows you to refine your message around what people are really searching for and to tailor your storytelling around that. Granted, like any real art, it helps to be able to have a foot in each world (in this case the spider and verby world) but that’s what makes a truly great copy writer worth more than your standard SEO firm.

Comment on SEO is a "Window," not a Destination by Diana Driscoll

Diana Driscoll — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 23:27:52 +0000

Benson, how true! Many of us have seen SEO (which is important) overshadow true social engagement – and what a shame that is! I will admit that it is enticing – especially for us Type A, rank-driving over-achievers to try to climb to the top of the SEO stats. But without the ability to find the delicate equipoise between SEO and SM, it is easy to forget the outcome of your engagement.

Your timely comment hits the hospitality folks when a controversial disclose was made by the popular TripAdvisor site. Many hotels bought ads on TripAdvisor assuming it would help their SEO rankings, just to find out later that isn’t the case.

I completely agree with you, Benson, that you must try to find the middle ground – which is difficult when the ground keeps moving!

Great post, thank you!

Diana Driscoll

Comment on iLife for PC Review: Sony Imagination Studio by Benson

Benson — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:01:23 +0000

Hey Mark,

Are you on Facebook? Sony Software is located there and you might have a better chance of getting in touch with someone on there. They seem to be pretty active on the account and your message might get a better response from the Vegas team.

Benson

Comment on iLife for PC Review: Sony Imagination Studio by Benson

Benson — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:58:57 +0000

Hi Vishal!

Thanks for the props about the post! From what I’ve seen, I like Sony Vegas Studio better than Premiere Elements 8, I did a quick review on Premiere Elements 8, and the reason it was quick was because it wouldn’t run on a computer with an Nvidia video card, which I have. Adobe appeared to push out Premiere Elements 8 too quickly and didn’t get everything right.

I’d stick with Sony Vegas Studio for now, perhaps once Adobe releases Premiere Elements 9 it’ll be a competition again. Plus Sony just released a new version of software for video and audio editing, which I hope to review in the next few weeks.

Benson

Comment on iLife for PC Review: Sony Imagination Studio by vishal

vishal — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 07:23:40 +0000

Adobe premeire 8 or sony vegas, which is better? BTW this is the best review i have read on anything related to editing software.