Using Apture to bring life-streams to life:

This tutorial covers how to use Apture brings your lifestreams to life. Apture is an amazing blogging tool which enables bloggers to quickly layer in rich media into their blog sites so readers can see, hear, and truly immerse themselves in the ideas on the page.

The Apture WordPress plugin allows you to hyperlink to content, so that you can express the story you want to tell with the most emotional impact and supercharge your SuperBlog like a pro.

Apture is a plugin available for WordPress, and it’s installed by default for every SuperBlog subscriber.

With the Apture plugin you can easily add multimedia to your SuperBlog with just one click.

Key Benefits:

• Integrate text, images, video, maps, music and more from 50+ sources.
• Embed media with a single click — no more urls or codes.
• Keep visitors on your site, instead of sending them away.

You get to choose the content you love:

Automated tools or machines don’t know how to tell stories, people do. That’s why we give you the power to select the content you want from the most rich and diverse web media destinations.

With the Apture plugin for WordPress you get to express the story you want to tell with the most emotional impact and supercharge your SuperBlog like a pro.

Adding Multimedia With One Click:

Universal Media Search:

Use the Apture Media Hub to access media from a range of sources all in one place.

Link the Content You Want, Faster:

Apture suggests the most relevant content based on what other users are linking, so you can find the best content even faster.

Upload or Link to Specific Files:

Have specific media in mind? Upload your own images, presentations, text, and PDF documents directly from your computer or link a specific URL or embed code.

Interactive Media Links:

You’ll recognize Apture media links when you see these tiny icons next to links. Clicking on a link opens the related content in interactive Apture windows that can be repositioned or enlarged to fullscreen, while your readers stay on the page.

AutoEnhance:

The Apture plugin for WordPress automatically converts existing links to Wikipedia articles, photos, videos, and documents so readers don’t have to leave your site to view them.

Link More than One Thing:

Until now, links have only allowed you to reference one thing at a time. But Apture let’s you link several different types of media together, so your readers can simultaneously see, hear, and read about a topic you care about.

Take a few moments to watch this easy to follow, no-nonsense step by step tutorial that demonstrates how to upgrade your WordPress SuperBlog to the latest version to keep your blog safe and secure.

Just recently, WordPress has released an upgrade to their blogging platform which has a multitude of new features and even tougher security.

We have received many support calls and tickets from our SuperBlog subscribers asking us to help them with their upgrade so we thought it a good idea to post a video to walk you through the whole process.

The upgrade process is very simple and consists of the following four steps:

1. Backup your database
2. Disable your plugins
3. Run the upgrade
4. Re-enable your plugins

You may have to tidy a few things up afterwards, but this video will take you through the process step-by-step and will show you how this is done.

So  if you need to upgrade your WordPress Super Blog to the latest version, get yourself a coffee, sit back, relax, and watch this short video tutorial to see how the WordPress upgrade is done, then you can try it out for yourself.

If you get stuck, please feel free to open a ticket (SuperBlog Subscribers only I’m afraid!) at our SuperBlog Subscribers support page HERE>>>

This video uses a metaphor of “Twitterville” to illustrate the opportunities to use the Twitter Search feature to find people and information, read news and discover emerging information.
It teaches how Twitter Search:

Helps businesses listen to customer feedback

• Creates a real-time news source
• Makes trending topics visible
• Connects related information with hashtags

Video produced by Common Craft

“Twitter in Plain English” introduces the popular micro-blogging service Twitter. The video focuses on Twitter’s ability to connect people in new ways, using short messages.
The video includes:

• Why answers to the question “what are you doing” are interesting.
• The mechanics of Twitter – signing up, sharing and reading messages
• How a skeptical person fell in love with Twitter

Video produced by Common Craft

How to use Google Reader to read all your favorite news sites and blogs in one place and share news with friends.

Video produced by Common Craft

“Social Bookmarking in Plain English” introduces the basics of bookmarking services like Delicious.com. The video uses an example of teachers using Social Bookmarking to share links to useful websites.
The video includes:

• The difference between online and offline bookmarks
• How to use a bookmarking website
• An introduction to organizing bookmarks with tags
• The value of sharing bookmarks with others

Video produced by Common Craft

If you have set your WordPress site to display post excerpts on the front or home page, you will want visitors to click on the title or a link to encourage them to continue reading your post or article, right? WordPress makes this technique easy, and customizable.

This short film explains how to create a summary of your post, or entice your readers to go beyond the first paragraph and click through to a post entry – After watching this you should find the excerpt and “more tag” features become your best friends!