Someone tagged me in a post that contained a video showing how to caption with an app. As a caption pusher, it excited me. It takes a village to educate folks about why and how to caption videos. That and to spread the word to follow and use #Captioned when posting captioned videos. #Captioned is … Read more
Using black for the font color in content is boring for a good reason. But first, a kayaking story. After kayaking for two hours, you can bet my friends and I were famished. We were a short drive away from Keller’s Drive-In. It’s a Dallas institution. The old-school place looks like a scene from “American … Read more
📹 A lot of people are excited about the possibilities of using live video since the advent of #LinkedInLive and Facebook live. 📹 Recently, a friend invited me to join a group to win cool prizes from a company whose products I liked. Freebies! Prizes! Behavioral marketing sucked me in and I signed up straight … Read more
My older son unknowingly loves to play hide-and-seek. OK, so it’s 100 percent hide and zero seek. He typically spends most of his free time in his room either sleeping or playing video games. The only time he leaves his room is when his stomach commands it. He’d probably like for us to move the … Read more
My daughter left for Laos where she lived for two years, we sold her car. Then, she moved back to the U.S. and needed a car. My spouse and I researched used cars to find one that fit our budget. How One Car Sales Manager Stood Out I emailed one dealership. He asked my requirements … Read more
Born profoundly deaf, I’ve depended on captioned videos since getting my first big clunky decoder in 1983. It was a box about the size of the older VHS and DVD players. Back then, captioned shows and movies were hard to find. Few things excited me more than seeing the caption symbol on the cover of … Read more
I like to do the occasional house project. One of my favorites was building the entertainment center for the TV, VCR, and other things. But this time I had gone too far. I went to the home store to buy a wallpaper removal scoring tool. Yes, I can do this. I’m going to remove the … Read more
Image credit: Karla Mora After being in the workforce for a few years, I decided to pursue a master of business administration degree. I had the grades, the experience, and the essay covered. Four letters stood in the way of my getting accepted at Southern Methodist University: G … M … A … T. The … Read more
I spend too much time trying to curate content to share in social media. I see an interesting link, click it and run into crap content. Excuse my rare cussing, but that’s what it is. In New Data Indicates Twitter Users Don’t Always Click the Links They Retweet, Dan Zarella explains part of the problem. He … Read more
Hank Stroll, one of my first clients and a dear friend, would occasionally reply to my email with a chuckle telling me I’m doing what his wife does. He explained that his wife and I sometimes had a tendency to talk about something and he’d have no clue what we’re talking about. Like he entered … Read more