Announcing the official I List Widget!

The I List, a list of Iowa Bloggers, was originally started by my friends Drew McLellan and Mike Sansone and has really taken off! I have seen it on maybe a dozen sites.

However, I decided there were so many lists out there, some with errors and some with different links, that there should be one “official” list. That way if there are changes to the list, they’re automatically updated everywhere! Sound cool? I thought so too.

So, I made an I List page where you can request edits/additions/deletions to the list and, most importantly, I made a widget for you to include in your own site. That way you can be sure it will always be up-to-date with the full selection of Iowa Bloggers.

Try it out: (and feel free to embed it on your own blog!)

P.S. I moved the widget out of this post just to keep things tidy on my site. You can still find the widget over there on the right side of the page in my side bar —–>

P.S.S. I had a request to decrease the vertical height a bit (which I agreed was a good idea). So you may notice in the next few days that the height gets shrunk a bit. No need to do anything different on your end, change will auto-update.

• Introducing Video Sitemaps
  Google Video team joined the Sitemaps folks to introduce Video Sitemaps
  (tags: google Video search sitemap sitemaps)
• Social Marketing: How Companies Are Generating Value from Customer Input
  Consumers want to feel they are being heard, and they love having an impact on the future development of products.
  (tags: marketing socialmedia viral)
• Top 5 Viral Video Ads of 2007
  (tags: viral video ads)
• 5 Tips to Make the Most of Your Online Video Advertising Campaigns Online Marketing Strategies and Tactics : eMarketing and Commerce
  The following are a set of best practices to ensure that advertisers, advertising agencies and marketers get the most from their online video ad campaigns.
  (tags: online video advertising)
• Price Survey: What Do Web-Video Ads Cost?
  What does it cost to advertise in the Web-video medium? The answers vary as wildly as the range of Web video content itself.
  (tags: video advertising pricing)

• ERBERT & GERBERT’S Human Flipbook
  Wisconsin based sub sandwich shop chain creates the first human flipbook video to promote it’s restaurants.
  (tags: advertising Video youtube flipbook design stopmotion art)
• Viral video marketing: Learn as you go
  Nathan Wright talks about “viral” video creation, expectations and a few lessons learned.
  (tags: viral video marketing youtube break)
• YouTube opens up revenue sharing to amateurs
  Kevin Nalts discusses YouTube’s recent announcement regarding opening up its video revenue sharing model to more contributors.
  (tags: youtube video nalts revenue)
• 9 Tools for Uploading Videos to Multiple Video Sites
  9 separate sources that you can utilize in order to automate the process of uploading your video to the various video sharing sites
  (tags: marketing Video tools sharing videos upload)
• RexNET.tv - real estate video portal
  RexNet.tv is a new video portal for video property tours… currently only in Virginia.
  (tags: video real estate property tours)

I thought it fitting to give thanks to those of you whose blogs I read… I can’t fit in everyone, so if you’re not here, you’re not forgotten! (Try looking here.)

Thanks to Mike for the inspiration to just get started blogging — and for the nudge to move my office to Des Moines. Looking forward to more from the original blog coach!

Thanks to Adam for his networking inspiration. Through you I have met many fine folks! Let’s all take a note from Adam and look around to see who needs to meet whom. (Is that proper grammar? My grammar is horrible.)

Thanks to Drew for his daily dedication to help us all improve our marketing habits and be better customer caretakers.

Thanks to Joanna for finding some great digital marketing examples that inspire!

Thanks to Tom for showing us what corporate video can do for a brand. Tom is a master videographer and it shows!

Thanks to the folks at NewTeeVee for their daily dose of web video news and what-have-you.

Thanks to Nalts for being nuts. Your grasp on the juvenile helps keep me from growing up completely.

Thanks to Dreamhost for being transparent when things go wrong. Wish all ISPs were so brave.

Thanks to Andy for your efforts to create technical unity to the Central Iowa Blogger folks. Without you, I’d have to subscribe to many more RSS feeds.

Thanks to Michael for your marketing insight. All too often I find myself either nodding my head in agreement or banging my head in realization that I have much work ahead of me.

Thanks to Matt for a never-ending supply of techno marketing information.

I’m not sure why you’re so lonely, Patrick, but I do enjoy reading your marketing insight!

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

I just found out a client (who registered their own domain name) neglected to renew it at the end of the term…

My hope was that it was in time to retrieve it out of what I call domain purgatory — otherwise known as Redemption Period — for a few hundred bucks. Unfortunately they were too late for that one too.

Now it seems that some Chinese company hailing from the Bahamas has squatted it. It will be interesting to see how much they want to charge them to get it back. First selling us all lead-laden toys — and now this? Geez.

The moral of the story. Do not let that domain expire! If you want to keep it, put it on auto-renew or something. And it wouldn’t hurt to buy American made products — but that’s another post for another blog.

I’m off to check my registrations ASAP!