My author friend David Athey is doing this film festival thing for his first novel, Danny Gospel. I wanted to give his event a little boost so I put my facebook page making skills into action and created this page.

I wanted to add a little flair (no not that dumb FB application) to the page, and I remembered that when I was creating my NACCAP presentations, Keynote gave me tons of saving options. It turns out that you can turn your Keynote slideshows into flash banners or quicktime movies. Here are a couple of pointers when trying this out:

• 3D transitions in keynote won’t convert over. You’ll have to use the 2D generic ones or just let keynote convert them for you
• You can’t use an FBML or HTML box in facebook for flash or video, but facebook has created a special application for flash on pages. Add it to your page, and then upload your flash presentation along with a preview picture.
• FB flash is limited, meaning that the presentation will not autoplay or loop. To counter this, make your preview image something that encourages clicking and duplicate your presentation in the slide window so that it will seem like it’s looping.
• If you’re not a mac user or don’t have Keynote, you can use PowerPoint to create a video of your slideshow, but no flash. The only way to add video to your facebook page is to upload the video to the facebook video app (Boooo!).

Check out the Danny Gospel Facebook Page to see what I mean. Click on the main picture to see the flash presentation, and click on the video titled banner to see the quicktime version. While you’re at it, go pick up a copy of Danny Gospel!

David Athey, a graduate of Moose Lake High School, has published his first novel: Danny Gospel

See you at Agate Days

This past week has been kind of exciting. I’ve received a ton of emails asking for the session materials as well as some questions to help get things started. The slideshows are available for viewing and download, as well as the audio/session notes. These sessions can help you begin to plan your strategy for next year, and I hope those who attended came home with some big ideas that can actually happen, and happen cheaply.

I have been approached by a couple of schools to develop some strategies with them, as well as create video content, a blog site, and training videos for their staff. I am available to do this for your College or University as well, and I would love to sit down and brainstorm with you about how digital communication can benefit your recruiting.

You can see a little of what I’ve done in the weblinks section of the site. The “for hire” page lists some services that are available if you’re willing to work with me. 

I’ve been using this browser for a while. I’ve heard about it on Attack of the Show! on G4 which is great to watch for a little research tv, plus my friend Flo made their logo.

Flock is a web browser based on Firefox that allows the user to access their facebook, youtube, twitter, flickr etc. while browsing. One of my biggest obstacles as Digital Communication Coordinator is keeping the staff consistently motivated to check their SNS accounts. Flock actually makes me want to upload all those photos that I have sitting around. It makes me want to update my status–letting everyone know that I’m jump starting my car. The more active you are on facebook, the more you show up on your friend pages. They’ll look at your new pictures, they’ll comment, and they’ll ask you questions.

You can also look at media streams and easily message your Facebook friends with web, YouTube, and other Facebook content. It’s really easy to transfer your media from account to account, and you’re able to plug in Wordpress and blogger accounts as well.

You’ll have to just try this out. Here’s the link

Con: no myspace integration… yet