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File Format Selection and Uploading - part 2Continued from File Format Selection and Uploading (part 1).. Make it easier on yourself, and your users, by either choosing the FLV/SWF format or the WMV format. Note that Windows Media Videos (WMV) can be played on computers that are not running Windows software, such as Macintosh. Once you've uploaded the video - either to your server or to a file storage service - you have to do one of two things to make it available to others. You either have to link to it, or embed it. The best course of action for a video blog is to embed it. Of course, you need code that is specific to the file format for embedding to work. Code can be extremely hard to understand. Your best option is to have video file converter software that will convert your files to the format that you've chosen, and then generate the code for your page for you. Some video editing software will also do this for you. You can also use one of the various free, online generators as well. A fantastic web based code generator can be found through the Center for Instructional Technology at http://cit.ucsf.edu/embedmedia/step1.php.It supports Flash, Real Media, Quick Time, and Windows Media. It is free to use. Once the video is appearing on our site, you will of course want to watch it completely, and consider watching it on different computers with different Internet Connection speeds. Be absolutely sure that it is working correctly, as sometimes things get scrambled during the uploading process. If this happens, delete the file from the server, and try uploading again. You may also consider adding a simple link to the video file so that users can opt to download it in order to watch it locally on their machine, in the event that they have a slow connection. This will also cut down on some of your bandwidth usage. As mentioned earlier, you must include a paragraph that describes your video blog post. If you don't, it won't get indexed in the search engines, because as far as the search engines are concerned, there won't be anything to index. A paragraph is sufficient, but you shouldn't go anymore than two paragraphs with the text, and be sure to include your keywords. You may also want to consider adding any website links that are mentioned in the blog post to the textual part of the post. After the description, you could just make another paragraph with 'referenced links.' Podcasting 101 | Listen to Podcasts | Record a Podcast | Publish a Podcast | Promoting a Podcast | Video Podcast | Podcast Tools | Podcast Resources 
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