Was My Day Productive?

What did I do and learn today?

Wasted a little more time watching a Google Adwords video and subscribing for a free report that I am sure I will never read, lol.

I have to stop the impulse time wasting thing that so many people seem to do. It usually goes like this…

1/ Browse the Internet for nothing in particular
2/ Find something that interests you… Ie - How to get more traffic using google adwords.
3/ Visit site, sign up for a free tips newsletter
4/ 2 days later… Open email from adwords guru
5/ Click link in email to a 'Free Video'
6/ Waste 25 minutes watching 'Free Video'
7/ Sign up for 'Free Ebook' that the 'free video' was promoting
8/ Get another email with the 'real product link'
9/ Buy the main product that you know you wont have enough time to read
10/ File the product and say you will 'read it tomorrow'
11/ Never read the product and find it 6 months later.
12/ Repeat this cycle of wasting your time and money for months to come, until you finally see the light!

Anyway, getting back to what I did today…

I set up a Blip.tv account and integrated it with twitter, myspace, itunes, delicious, flickr, facebook and a few other places.

The reason I wanted to integrate it with all the other accounts is so that everytime I post a new video to blip.tv, it syndicates and posts my video to all the integrated sites.

I know this sounds very complicated, but honestly it's not. If you need any help setting up your accounts please let me know and I will record you a video showing you how to do it.

I then posted this video http://gavinmountford.blip.tv/#873448 to blip.tv which gets automatically posted to all the other services.

I did some work on my other sites, and customized this blog a little more by adding a feedburner widget, mybloglog and a few other tools.

I also looked at using www.seesmic.com which is a video comments plugin for wordpress. I opened a free account but haven't yet worked out what to do with the plugin. I will take a look again in the next few days and hopefully implement it into my blog.

Things to do tomorrow:

Record a video
Change myspace account and blip.tv to work with my main account
Write a blog post on http://ryanshamus.com
Upload a couple of video blog comments on youtube.com
Do a little work on my other websites
Outsource the design of my header image for this blog