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Confessions Blog is Closed

This is the last Confessions Blog post I’ll be making. The blog has been running for nearly two and a...

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Roadmap for social media

Roadmap for social media

How to get people to interact through an organisation’s social media sites is one of the most common questions I...

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Am I a videographer

I just called a client to catch up about an upcoming project, and I gave my name to her colleague...

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Keep videos short

I suggested to a client that his video footage would be most effective if he parcelled up into smaller 3min...

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Video editing is people watching

Editing video, cutting audio or writing people’s stories – if you do any of those you’ll know how much of...

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Freelance or employee

Last night an old friend made a comment that she had never had a proper job for years and probably...

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Give them video (and audio)

It appears people would rather watch a video than listen to a podcast (even a 4 minute one). This is...

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Aberdeen Premiere: Attack of the Herbals

Aberdeen Premiere: Attack of the Herbals

I went to the movies this evening to see Attack of the Herbals – a Sean of the Dead-style horror...

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Life before digital consumers existed

Life before digital consumers existed

All my ‘redundant’ possessions are stored in a friend’s loft. I mean redundant as in I never use them anymore:...

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Calypso is nasty (not in a good way)

Calypso is nasty (not in a good way)

Never, ever, ever, EVER use calypso music for video projects. Calypso is the worst music you could ever use as...

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About Confessions of a Social Media Producer

My name is Sam Thom, I live in Aberdeen, Scotland, and I am the owner of this site: Confessions of a Social Media Producer. It’s my business blog – the place where I write about my work in social networking, online video, podcasting, blogging and all the stuff I do...

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