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It’s been how long?

Wow. I’ve lost all momentum. Kids are the perfect excuse but they’re not the only things that can stop a good party.

Every now and then a manic idea sweeps through the corridors of power on Planet Acer and I’m left to come up with concepts, ideas, and best of all speeches in the blink of an eye. I’m very excited about what’s going down as there’s nothing like a major event to give a dreary copywriter a big, fat, creative kick up the arse!

Good job I’m good - and fast

There’s a breath of fresh air heading in my direction. It dawned on me yesterday as I was reading a really interesting interview about Gary Vaynerchuk and his take on the video blog platform.

What Gary has done is take the technology out of the medium and has replaced it with good, old-fashioned personality. Duh!

This is the kind of vibe I’ve been wanting to model my own initiatives on and may well borrow from it for the online language course I’m in the middle of developing.

Speaking of projects, the new, improved Runaway Parents site is nearly up and running and I really can’t wait to get my teeth into it. This project started out as a way of getting my wife involved in what I do (writing, blogging) and we’re now opening a company that’s going to transform it into a cute little niche site.

So while I’m here I might as well plug what it is we’re going to do: If any of you know of a romantic getaway or restaurant in your neighborhood no matter where you are in the world and/or would like to get involved as a parent who loves getting away from it all, drop me a line. I’ve modeled ad revenue sharing into the site design and have an affiliate system for advertisers so you’ve got nothing to lose!

Does anyone know anything about community video publishing on YouTube? I’m going to start the ball rolling by publishing the first few lessons on the free online language course I’ve got on the boil but what I really want is an open environment where other teachers are free to join in and publish their own lessons (viral teaching???). Again, ad revenue sharing will be built into the site structure so we all benefit but I’m wondering if YouTube is the best medium. I know Blip.tv and Viddler are pretty sharp but they seem to be more suitable for single-user sites.

On Wine Library.TV, only Gary’s doing the videos. How would he organize it if he let visitors upload their own videos?

Plus I know it’s old(ish) but look at YouTube’s popularity.

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I’m a happy bunny (there’s a change, eh?).

The guys (gals?) from Blogging Expertise came back with a magnificent answer to all of our questions and requests. At this point, the new Runaway Parents site design is done. Now we move on to the technical aspects which I’m really looking forward to. I’ve also booked an appointment with my accountant and with an online bank for the e-commerce section so things are really moving along nicely.

Today was far slower than normal as I was bogged down by a projectors catalogue that never got finished. That and the fact that Word doesn’t seem to want me to draw the complex procedure I’ve come up with to make sure students do all the units in a dynamic online language course no matter which direction they turn and which lessons they decide to do has slowed that part of the language project down too.

It’s got a great name though: “Two Clicks of Separation”.

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