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Recently, we launched Videoblast.it. An easy way to share a favorite moment within a video! With Videoblast.it you can create a unique customized page with your video and comment. You can even control the specific time your video will start! After you create your videoblast go ahead and share it with the ones you want. Post it to your Skype chat, email it, or share it with your facebook friends and twitter followers.

Now you just have to follow 3 simple steps to make your Videoblast and share your favorite moment within a video.

1. Enter your Youtube url in the white box right on top. Not sure about the url? Click the blue link to transfer to Youtube and pick your video.

2. Decide when you want your video to start. Although this step is not necessary, the core excitement from a Videoblast is when you capture that exact moment within a video. You can test if you picked the right time by clicking the “Test Time” button and previewing your videoblast in the small screen on the right!

3. All done with the video? Add a comment that you want to attach. The comment will be shown at the top of the video when the video is played. Finally you have the opportunity to put the right title to the video you are sharing!

If you have any comments or suggestions contact us and let us know what you would like to see!

Last week, I was interviewed by Kit Seeborg for a post in Slideshare‘s Blog about Sustainable Life Media’s channel.  Here’s what I had to say:

We recently caught up with Nikos Sarilakis, Online Marketing Manager for Sustainable Life Media, the leading producer of sustainable business conferences and educational events. We asked Nikos how Sustainable Life Media’s events benefit from having a SlideShare channel.

One way Sustainable Life Media helps companies grow is through conferences and seminars. How do you use your SlideShare channel to support these events?
At SLM, slideshows and videos are among the most valuable content we create. We want to store them, publish them, share them and then embed them in our website as broadly as possible. SlideShare is a great platform to ensure widespread viewing of this content. We post videos from conferences, slide decks from our speakers’ presentations, press releases, brochures and many other digital media. SlideShare is one of the best tools to promote our conference, increase our brand awareness and have digital content that gets a viral push in social media.

With 76 slidedecks and over 100 videos, you’ve assembled a lot of content. What is your process for managing content additions to the channel?
We try to upload everything we designate as free in order to get more views and target a broader market. Of course we upload only the content that we think is interesting and valuable for our community. We have common thumbnail designs for every conference. It is a dark grey background for the SB’10 Conference, and yellow for the SB’09 Conference. By this we try to create groups (visually) and maintain consistency. The other good thing about SlideShare is that we can make some of the videos or slideshows private and embed them in restricted access pages in our website. By this we can protect our valuable content but also sell it through our website.

Does having a SlideShare channel affect your attendee registrations or your ability to get top-notch speakers?
SlideShare affected our visibility and our brand awareness a lot in the last year! It also helps our speakers and contributors to get better visibility and build their own personal brand identity. This year we are going to use the SlideShare PRO plan in order to get more targeted leads for our conference.

How do you use your channel to help market the events?
This is one major use of SlideShare for us. When you want to attract customers to your restaurant you let them try some of the appetizers for free or you give samples. This is what we are trying to do in SildeShare. We let our audience try out the conference experience by viewing some of our presentations. This was always a successful method of selling and SlideShare helps us do our sampling.

Our number one presentation is our Sustainable Brands 2010 Conference brochure with more than 4000 views and 150 downloads. I’m not surprised by this. It is a very informative and nicely designed brochure that we uploaded only 1 month before the event. I’m sure we would have many more views if we would have done this 4 months earlier. Then we have some presentations from well-known brand names (such as Pepsi and Nestle Waters), featuring stories such as the Sun Chips packaging debacle. Usually best practices and success stories of popular brand names get the most views.

What best practices would you recommend to other companies using their SlideShare channel with their events?
Every day we learn how to use SlideShare more effectively. What we do and we think works best is to upload as much valuable content as we can, tag them correctly, keep a consistent design, branding and messaging, and share them in the right channels with the best tools. If content is interesting it will have results!

View it on Slideshare’s Blog

If you live in San Francisco, you must have noticed the new Yahoo! interactive ads in few bus stops around the city.  (Currently at 20 high-traffic bus stops) At each one of these bus stops there is one 72-inch touch LCD screen that allows the commuters to play games and compete other neighborhoods.

Players earn points for a local neighborhood that they choose from a pull-down menu, and at the end of the competition the winning “team” gets a block party with a performance by the band OK Go. The Derby runs through January 28, 2011.

Goodby Silverstein & Partners, Yahoo’s Ad agency. created the Bus Stop Derby campaign, which is built around four games that correspond to the features of the mobile apps for Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Sportacular and Flickr:

1. “Incoming!” is a race to sort color-coded mail as it slides down chutes
2. “Chatter Scatter” players text against time
3. “Sport-a-pult” is trivia-meets-target practice
4. “Snap Happy” is a 3-D puzzle

“Local’s going to be increasingly a big part of the content we push out, so it’s important for us to have both a digital and a physical presence in the local community,” explains Penny Baldwin, Yahoo!’s SVP Consumer Marketing and Brand Management. (Source)

What a great idea. This is the definition of an integrated marketing campaign. It is local and viral, people try the new mobile apps and it’s a way to fight for your neighborhood. Today Mission is number one! Let’s see who is going to win!

The games are not that much exciting but what else can you do when the bus is late.. Every bus stop is also a free Wi-Fi Spot. I’m really surprised by this innovative campaign by Yahoo! and Goodby Silverstein & Partners.

Read more about the “Bus Stop Derby“