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We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby! Imagine for a moment that you are a home office transcriptionist. You need to check your next job assignment, so you fire up your computer, which is connected to your landline (home phone). You click on the button that dials the local number that connects you to the Internet. That’s right, you literally must call the Internet. After yelling at any family members in the house, “Do NOT pick Read more…

FREE Transcription Player Available

Although For The Record has products geared towards the legal industry, included in the many great software programs available on its site is FTR The Record Player, which is completely free to download.  This player is a handy player that offers many great features.  It is also sometimes referred to as The Record Player or FTR Player.

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Transcription Media Players – A Comprehensive List

Getting started in my journey as a work-from-home transcriptionist back in 1999 was a bit tricky for me because I had no formal training (or really any informal training either) and so it was very much a “learn as you go” type of thing. It was suggested to me–by the transcription firm I was doing subcontractor work for–to purchase the Start-Stop kit that included the basic items I would need such as a headset, foot pedal, and software. The cash investment was more than I was willing to pay in order to start in a field that I wasn’t even sure I’d succeed at. (more…)

Boost SEO and provide a greater customer experience – Add Closed Captions to YouTube Videos with Transcripts!!

There are many reasons to add closed captions to your YouTube videos.  You may be looking to capture those all important keywords, especially those that are uncommon words or words with unique spellings.  This is important for SEO (search engine optimization) purposes, as audio or speech is not used for web search purposes.  Maybe a large portion of your audience is hard of hearing or deaf.  Providing the words to your videos is crucial to inform and engage that segment of your audience.  Another reason to add closed captions is that perhaps the language you are speaking is not the first language for your audience.  Being able to read the words being said allows them the opportunity to better comprehend what has been said, especially if the speaker has a heavy accent or speaks at a fast pace.

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Edit and Create Amazing, Professional Looking Videos With Windows Movie Maker!

With live video streaming, vlogging, YouTube, webinars, etc. all on the rise, having some type of video editing software is an important tool to have in your toolbox. I personally use Windows Movie Maker and find it very intuitive and packed with many great features. The program came free with my Windows computer, which is a no-cost alternative to some of the more feature-rich, costly video editing software programs available on the market today.

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3 Ways to Improve Your Workspace Without a Large Budget

An ideal workspace is not only well organized, but also functional and has a splash of personality.   Of course a great workspace is conducive to high performance work output, but having a touch of personality is also important, as it promotes a positive attitude and creative thinking.   Creating a workspace from scratch with all new items can be very costly, and not always feasible. Here are three ways to achieving a great workspace without a big budget: repurpose, borrow, and purchase.

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Troll: A being that is living in isolation and rarely described as helpful or friendly.

With the advent of live video streaming, you may be creating Periscopes or actively engaged in Periscope videos as an audience member through the Periscope app. In either role, you may have become aware of so-called Periscope Web “trolls”: People viewing the videos through the Web via a desktop, seemingly unengaged. Unfortunately, this negative connotation may be leading “scopers” to neglect an important segment of their audience.

Let’s get those Periscope Web trolls engaged to create a treasured audience!

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For some time now, I have been publishing how-to videos on YouTube. More recently has been the creation of this blog on the website.   Merging the two together has been a huge milestone goal in order to delivery great video content paired up with some additional written information.

Scheduling YouTube videos, as well as scheduling blog posts, is a very useful tool in ensuring that they are published at a consistent date and time. In order to insert the scheduled YouTube video into the scheduled blog post, the embed code was needed. Because I didn’t know how to create my own embed code, I trolled several YouTube videos in search of a how-to video. While there were many videos on how to find the embed code for a published video, nowhere could I find a video tutorial on where to locate the embed link code for a scheduled video.

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