Tuesday, February 16, 2010

A thank you note for Friendly and . . . videos? facebook?

Hey! Got a nice note here from Natalie Moonblade:
Hello Friendly,

It's Natalie. Natalie Moonblade. You probably know em from over at Central. Well...I've decided to start a blog, and I want to say thank you. You were the one who inspired me to make my blog, to even write about Wizard101. Now, my days of pretending to have a blog on Microsoft word are over, and I've started a real blog. The first time I ever heard of Wizard101 blogs, yours was the first one I viewed. My blog is here: http://adventuresofnataliemoonblade.blogspot.com/
My blog is not much right now, but after I get used to using my blog, hopefully it will be a great one.

Go ahead and feature this e-mail on your blog. Maybe you'll inspire more people, I think you will.

So anyways, thank you, very much, for inspiring me.

Thanks Natalie for the kind note and you're welcome! I'm glad I could help you and I'm even more glad to hear that you've switched from journaling your adventures offline to journaling online with a blog.

I've linked to your site and added you to the bloggers club.

Well as long as I have you in the spotlight, on your site right now you have a post asking about how to advertise more about your website, and you ask this question:
Should I start a Youtube account? I think that would help a lot, but the only thing is...I don't have any Hypercam. Is it worth downloading? How about a Facebook?

Youtube videos are a great start to getting some exposure, but more importantly, you may discover a hidden talent for putting together a good video. It's one thing to record a video clip of something, but it's another to make it an awesome experience for the viewer.

I've never used Hypercam, but I have used Fraps and the X-fire video tool. I'm sold on X-fire. It's free. It's easy to use. There's no annoying label on the videos. There's no capture length limit. So, since it works so great for me, X-FIRE FTW!

You also mentioned using Facebook . . . you know, I should probably make a group page for The Friendly Necromancer over on Facebook, similar to how Wizard101 has a group page. I don't know though . . . I feel spread thin as it is. But if you have the time and commitment to do that, then more power to ya!

I actually do have a facebook entry for my character. Thomas Lionblood has no friends LOL. I made that page so I could help with the Dangerhound fan count. ;-)

I hardly ever log in though. /shrug

Anyway, thanks again for the note, and I wish you the best of luck with your blogging endeavors!

Happy Dueling!

8 comments:

  1. Me neither regarding facebook. Wow my first poll( about which blogger inspired me to start blogging) you inspired me there big time buddy.

    I had tons of balance treasure cards for everybody w/ the right answer. *shrug* too baad no one came to actually accept the gifts...

    Yea, I've checked out her blog she's gonna big a huge success Friendly...

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  2. Friendly,
    X-fire doesn't give you an "X-fire toolbar" when you install the program, right?
    That's what happened when I tried Hypercam an hour ago...

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  3. x-fire has an optional toolbar that only appears when you press scroll lock+x. To record it's scroll lock+v and to take a screenshot it's scroll lock+s. I'm pretty sure there's others too, but those are the ones I use. You can also change the recording resolution and fps in the x-fire menu.

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  4. in addition, x-fire allows you to broadcast live over the internet (a feature that i have not yet tried)

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  5. Anonymous17/2/10 16:09

    I want to know how you take videos on your computer????

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  6. and does it save to my videos or my documents? I am the one who also posted how do you take videos on your cmputer.

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  7. when using x-fire it saves to the "My Videos" folder. I'm pretty sure that this can be changed, but that's the default

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  8. Anonymous30/7/11 15:43

    Do you need permission from KI to post wizard 101 videos on you tube

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