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With the growing number of social media outlets on the web, I thought it would be a great opportunity to build an online community out of the The Concord Conservatory of Music (CCM) website, www.concordconservatory.org.  I wanted to create an area for students as well as family and friends to experience all that the school has to offer.

In working with Bartlett Interactive, they were able to incorporate several features such as video streaming through a video sharing service, Vimeo, for watching music recitals, a Flickr photo gallery so anyone can upload photos of events and/or students playing instruments, as well as a link to the CCM Facebook page.

The ultimate goal is for everyone involved in The Concord Conservatory of Music to feel like part of a community. By sharing photos with one another, watching recitals, interacting on Facebook, and making the website more user friendly, we are able to make that happen.

If you would like to see how Bartlett Interactive built an online community for us, visit www.concordconservatory.org

Kate Yoder
Concord Conservatory of Music

As you probably know, keeping a blog updated, let alone Facebook and LinkedIn, is time consuming. Learn how easy it is to automatically publish your blog postings on Facebook and LinkedIn. This will help increase your visibility with search engines as well as your overall effectiveness online.

Recently, one of our clients, the Oration Group, asked that we find a way to post their YouTube videos to their website automatically. There’s lots of ways to do this including using several widgets YouTube supplies or by rolling your own feed parser.

Integrating the video listings with the visual styling of this site was essential, which ruled out the branded YouTube widgets. There was also a very small budget, which eliminated custom coding a feed parser to display the information exactly as we wanted.

Our middle of the road solution delivers a lot of functionality, with a minimal investment. You’ll have an automatically updating feed of video on your site in no time. Here’s how:

1. Download the files (Courtesy of Feed for All)
2. Edit the following code to use your website urls

   <?php
   $XMLFILE = "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/youryoutubeusernamehere/uploads?alt=rss&v=2&client=ytapi-youtube-profile";
   $TEMPLATE = "http://www.yourwebsitehere.com/sample-template.html";
   $MAXITEMS = "50";
   include("/rss2html.php");
   ?>

3. Paste the script above anywhere on your php enabled website
4. Upload the files to the base (root) folder of your website.

If you’d like to learn more about what this script can do, including many customization options, check out the full documentation.

Learn about 3 tools that can make your website more visually interesting, simply and inexpensively. Our screencast "How to Make Websites More Visual" discusses ThickBox, SlideShow Pro, and Flash video with numerous examples and pricing info.

Whether you're making your own website, or going to a design firm, you need to know a bit about web hosts. It may not be the most exciting topic, but I've explained it in a language everyone can understand. The language of pies.

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