Traditional Media has no option but to Switch to Online Video Platforms to Sustain its Revenue!

Broadcasters, cable television networks and Traditional Media need nowadays to survive the emergence of online streaming should switch to Online Video Platforms as viewers are spending more time watching digital video than ever before as per all latest studies and statistics

And here in the below infographic we have collected some important data that should be considered due to the big shift in consumer behavior:

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So What’s Important:

Content delivery networks will carry over half of Internet traffic by 2019. Globally, Sixty-two percent of all Internet traffic will cross content delivery networks by 2019 globally, up from 39 percent in 2014.

So It is important for the online video industry to convert non–users of online video platforms into users

How to Build a more Valuable and Sustainable Business?

Well there are several popular business models for online video where content owners and video producers can make business out of their investments in video productions. For sure this opens the everlasting debate where to upload my videos, shall I upload them to social networks like YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion or shall I invest in online video platforms, like HelixWare or others.

And the ideal answer would be YouTube and other social networks are ideal if you are using video as a marketing vehicle, which is now crucial and huge. Video marketing is essential these days as we consume more and more video content. Making business out of video over social networks is basically advertising based, so you should take this into consideration.

While on the other side if you decide to invest in your own OVP (Online Video Platform) you can control over your video assets, advertising and also who can access the content and how, in other words you can back full control over your content, and that Is why you need to invest. Fair enough?

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But how can we do business here, over my own OVP? Well the models can be, but not limited to, one (or more) of the following:

The most popular is called SVOD, which stands for Subscription Video On Demand, where basically users pay a monthly fee to access premium video content. International players here include platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc and on the regional level the popular platforms are Shahid.net, OSN Play and Telly. This can be any type of video, from movies, series, drama, how-to videos and event cooking! We have to admit that we loved working on a project for the cooking academy of SiChef in Italy.

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Another interesting model is live events especially for sports. Our showcase here is SportTimeTV for example. Moreover, imagine watching live your favorite football match but as soon as you moved away from the TV, your team scored their goal! If you are watching that online, interesting features like time-shifting makes watching live matches a real joy, where you can seek back to watch the goal and then switch back to live streaming! Here the business model can be either advertising or subscription based.

Going digital is not only about watching your favorite videos, its about a whole digitally immersive experience. Another interesting model is the Second Screen apps, where you download an app that gives you the ability to interact, in real-time, with your favorite TV or Radio show. Interesting example here can be a radio station that everyday plays top tracks based on user votes, we developed a cool HTML5 App for 5FM in South Africa for their daily program Beats By Demand, where users can vote for their favorite tracks in real-time and also share these votes over social media as well to boost the buzz around it.

 

 

Online Video Business for Media Industry in Egypt!

News & media industry in the Middle East needs to evolve as there’s no Mass production specially in Egypt!

The media industry in Egypt is undergoing a heavy, quick and sometimes hectic transformations, especially moving online now. Several reasons are behind this due to cultural, political & economic factors and also due to a new young enthusiastic generation that consume news and content mostly online, especially on social media and from their smart phones!

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This meetup is fourth in a row, where we dig deeper in the importance of online content, especially video. This time we are very focused on the media industry in Egypt as we see huge potential if online video is better utilized through dedicated streaming platforms, and content distribution best practices.

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This meetup comes aligned in a series of meetups previously held by Insideout Today, to bring together all the community of online content creators in Egypt, especially video and this time more focusing on the Media industry in Egypt

Lots of interesting sessions took place during the event:

1. Welcome speech by our CEO Fady Ramzy who gave to the attendees a quick introduction about Online content creators meetup series and how InsideOut Today is striving to drive real change in the Online Video Business for Media Industry in Egypt , and he shed the light on the online media scene in the Middle East and how are new opportunities, especially for Video, are now more than ever before!

Fady went through the internet penetration in the Middle East for the year 2016 and the consumer’s behavior online stats and figures.

Fady also explained Streaming platforms & how to configure the platform according to business model

Here is a glimpse of fady’s presentation

And lastly he gave the attendees a brief introduction about Shoof Cairo “it’ s a city story telling application” crafted by InsideOut Today…. it will be our biggest gift to the community as Shoof Cairo definitely will change the way users watch real time videos” currently it’s still in closed Beta version for testing

and finally Fady showcased HelixWare successful customer projects demonstrating how Streaming platforms is a turn key solution for content providers.

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2. Interesting panel discussion took place and during the panel online video for the media industry situation in Egypt was discussed by successful TV anchor and Head of Mass Communication at Misr International University as follows:

a. Head of Mass communication department at Misr International University Dr. Amany Bassiouny talked about the science and management of the ecosystem provided to the MIU students and she stressed that the media industry in Egypt needs to provide a wider range of news such as news documentary” and how important is that for Egypt Cultural and historical heritage

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b. The Energetic and Successful TV Anchor Dina AbdelKarim – TV Anchor in Al Kahera wa Nas TV channel she talked about the Digital news Online distribution “the Smart Distribution” and the obstacles Media Industry is facing

c. And Proudly Baher Esmat – ICANN Vice president was attending the meetup and as usual he gave great insights about the Online Video Production for Media industry in Egypt and he highlighted that there’s no mass production in Egypt

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Fady Asked the attendees Why broadcasters now prefer prefer to go online through streaming platforms while they are FTA??

Everybody agreed on the same points that people prefers “online streaming” because of all the interactivity features that are not available on tradition TV like live interactive streaming, time shifting, Video archiving, Catchup TV & of course TV Ads are boring and non-interactive ”

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The Main points highlighted during the event was:

  • User Generated Content trend will be dominating news industry in the very near future
  • We have to work on switching from being content consumers to be content producers ” content is the heart of effective web presence”
  • Media & news industry in the Middle East needs to develop further towards online presence, as there’s no Mass production specially in Egypt recently
  • Traditional media has no option but to switch to online video platforms to sustain the money.

The meetup was also an excellent opportunity to network in a professional environment and interact with others who share the passion for great Video content creation, brainstorm and attendees to have their questions answered by the panelists and the event organizers.

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It was a very successful event and we received lots of great feedback about the meetup on the hashtag #OCCEgypt and we have collected a beautiful set of pictures from the event

Stay Tuned with our monthly #OCCEgypt meetup there’s always something new about technology to present to our community! Join our meetup community today

 

Egypt Online Content Creators series: Why Video is Crucial for your Business in 2016?

Online Video Content Creators are the new superstars of the online business!

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Online video is now a crucial ingredient of any business, this is a FACT not a forecast anymore. Last year also social networks have heavily adopted video technologies and the online video tech industry has witness many mega acquisitions

InsideOut Today is focusing on the entire funnel of Online Content Creation especially video content & video platforms, we are working hard to bring together all the community of online content creators in Egypt in one place aiming to raise awareness, share knowledge and network with like-minded pears about different topics related to online business. First meetup was last week focusing on the importance of Online Video content in Egypt, presenting the latest technologies in online video world and finally discussing the different opportunities for this business in Egypt

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Our First Meetup this year “Why Video is Crucial for your business in 2016?”

The meetup took place on February 18th in partnership with Injaz Egypt providing us the meetup space at their office at one of the best Nile view spot in Cairo!

The event was attended by almost 50 persons who are interested in online content from influential bloggers, graphic designers, photographers, online Journalists, videographers, community managers, social media specialists and entrepreneurs.

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Event Highlights:

Welcome speech by our CEO Fady Ramzy who talked about the art & science of Visual storytelling and the latest technology for Online video platforms focusing on how social networks like Facebook & Youtube are fighting for your own video today! Here is a glimpse of fady’s presentation

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Fady highlighted during the event 3 main points:

  1. The state of online video in 2015 and how it indicates the situation for online video business in 2016
  2. How Online video is driving the future of Digital Marketing and It’s impact on immediate SEO Results
  3. Fady stated that traditional media has no option but to switch to online video platforms to sustain its revenues.

And lastly he presented HelixWare online video platform our latest product to support streaming media business inviting the attendees to Try HelixWare for free to listen to their comments and feedback

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Interesting panel discussion took place and during the panel online content creation situation in Egypt was discussed by successful entrepreneurs and online content creators as follows:

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The Digital Media Geek Tarek Nasr Managing Director of the Planet talking about the business of Online video creation in Egypt and the top social media platforms used in Egypt to watch videos and he talked briefly about the successful story of enterplanet360 Online web series giving quick advices to startups about how to grow their business through digital media

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The Energetic Ranya Shalaby Business development Manager of Injaz Egypt talking about the new generation of Egyptian entrepreneurs and content startups she saw and how Injaz Egypt is supporting them

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Reham Salem a very dynamic Egyptian TV presenter showcased the best practices for Media entities using Online video in Egypt such as Almasry Alyoum multimedia experience

 

 

The meetup was also an excellent opportunity to network in a professional environment and interact with others who share the passion for great content creation, brainstorm and attendees to have their questions answered by the panelists and the event organizers.

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It was a very successful event and we received lots of great feedback about the meetup on the hashtag #OCCEgypt and we have collected a beautiful set of pictures from the event.

Stay Tuned with our monthly #OCCEgypt meetup there’s always something new about technology to present to our community! Join our meetup community today

 

RiseUp15 The World Came to Cairo…A Vibrant Entrepreneurial Ecosystem is Emerging

Rise Up Summit:

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Riseup summit is Egypt’s largest entrepreneurship summit to be held for the 3rd year This year RiseUp15 took place on the 12th & 13th of December 2015 and it’s slogan was the summit’s slogan is “The world is coming to Cairo”it was a great success and it took place this year on at the heart of Cairo “American University Greek Campus, Les Freres Bab El Louk School and Falaki Building located in Tahrir Square” combining business owners and young ideas in one place, to provide opportunities for startups and linking entrepreneurs with investors.

How RiseUp is Flourishing the Middle East startups

#RiseUp15 – The facts and figures

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Event highlights: 

Speakers from Google, Facebook, Uber, Microsoft, Aramex, Techcrunch and many more discussed Egypt and the MENA region’s ecosystem and the prospect of investments in startups.

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Startups showcased their projects, aiming to catch the attention of investors and professionals to attain the funding needed to bring their ideas to life. They had the opportunity to network, discuss and listen to Keynote speakers sharing their success stories also participants had the opportunity to join professional workshops.

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How Startups Drive Local Economy Growth:

Startups are refuelling hundreds of cities worldwide

Small business owners are locals. They live locally, shop locally, and use local resources. They employ local manpower, local freelancers…they come up with more revolutionary technology and innovative ideas

When these startups grew, they will directly impact growth of their cities

Small businesses plays a very important role to develop and boost Local economy in the future

How InsideOut Today was of assistance for RiseUp15

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Live Streaming the event to the world:

InsideOut Today proudly provided for the 3rd consecutive year the live streaming service for the RiseUp Summit broadcasting the event to the world over the internet to multiple devices, using our video streaming platform, the HelixWare.

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This year was more challenging to us as the event grew bigger with many tracks and many interesting sessions, workshops, keynote speeches and fireside chats to be live streamed! Thanks to the Riseup team who assisted us in spotting the most important spots to stream. As usual, we have provided one live-streaming portable station that included the capturing devices, encoders, professional services and finally the HelixWare streaming servers over the cloud.

Social Media Monitoring:

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We are also glad that we supported RiseUp team in understanding the traction happening about the event over social media. We provided a full detailed report about the Online Social interaction across multiple networks, before during and after the event. the report included the total number of mentions, location of users and source of traffic, the top influencers, top contributors and top mentioned users, languages used and top hashtags associated with RiseUp15

 Personal Branding Workshop:

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InsideOut Today CEO Fady Ramzy conducted a very interesting workshop about Personal Branding and it was the most booming workshop in Riseup15 which was overbooked with double the number of attendees in other workshops during the two days.The room was packed with very energetic youth eager to learn about Personal Branding.Following the workshop Fady had Side Chats with some of the workshop attendees for sharing Knowledge, opinions and experience and it was a really interesting discussions! Here is the Simple steps how to build your personal brand online 

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Also Gladly this year we had our own booth at #RiseUp15 to showcase our very own product HelixWare Online Video Platform which was a great opportunity to introduce HelixWare to the Mena Region

Here is HelixWare Journey at RiseUp15

 

The Interaction on the hashtag #riseup15 generated a great engagement as people were posting pictures and feedback during and after the event and we collected some of the best advices by those who made it big here and also we collected some lovely pictures from #riseup15 on our flicker account

Was such a great journey to be operating Social and covering the event; we enjoy being part of the community and supporting entrepreneurship in all fields. Looking forward for RiseUp16

 

Blending The Digital Video Business with Web 3.0 – Helping Business Grow with Visual Story Telling!

What’s Web 3.0

Web 3.0 is the next step in the evolution of the Internet and Web applications, The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries “Wikipedia”

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Web 3.0 is changing the way we use the Internet, Computers understand the meaning of what we publish on the Web
Learn about the concept of Web 3.0 and Web 3.0 development here is a full introduction to web 3.0

Why Digital Video Business is important in the Web 3.0 ERA

Now we’re entering Web 3.0 Era, which is mobile, In this Era we should be prepared for the challenges and adapt to the big shift and the tremendous change to save time and improve work quality . The Mobile Web 3.0 has elements that build upon prior eras, but it also has several distinct and different elements from what’s come before.  Some of these distinct elements of the Mobile Web 3.0 era include real-time, ubiquitous (always connected, always with you), location aware, sensors, tailored, smaller screen, and high quality camera and audio.

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How we are Blending the digital Video Business with Web 3.0

Proudly the year 2014 & 2015 was a tech evolutionary years of Our InsideOut Group introducing a new wave of semantic technologies aiming to integrate real-time data through different platforms:

Our semantic Innovative Products:

Wordlift:

Wordlift is a WordPress Plug-in to organize post and pages adding facts, text and media to build beautifully structured web sites.WordLift publishes your content as Linked Open Data following Tim Berners-Lee‘s Linked Data PrinciplesWordLift is a semantic editor for WordPress.

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WordLift adds semantic annotations and combines information publicly available as linked open data to support the editorial workflow by suggesting relevant information, images and links.

Download Wordlift now and reach your maximum potential audience

HelixWare Online Video Platform:

HelixWare is a robust streaming platform that makes online video publishing easy, turns WordPress into a Video Hosting platform, supports live and makes videos discoverable, searchable, and beautifully organized.

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Helixware is the streaming platform built for live & on-demand streaming. Its customers are online publishers, hosting providers, telco providers, broadcasters & TV stations as well as media startups

Try out HelixWare for Free!

Helping Business Grow with Video:

InsideOut Today has always the commitment to Support the community As part of Our Corporate entrepreneurship Responsibility to support entrepreneurship in all fields with continuously sharing knowledge and experience about the Latest digital media Technologies and the best practices for Digital media and social marketing

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We are super excited to be an active partner for Riseup Summit for the third in year in a row! This year, the summit’s slogan is “The world is coming to Cairo” and on the opposite side we shall be broadcasting the summit to the whole world! Our main support to riseup is that we are providing HD live streaming for the main sessions and workshops. We shall also be doing an interesting workshop about personal branding on the 13th so we wish to see you all there. Stay tuned on this page for more updates to come!

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Following RiseUp we are holding a meetup about Online Video Business in the Web 3.0 Era!

 

With Increased Content Choices Online Video Platforms is A Fundamental Paradigm Shift!

An online video platform (OVP) is a productized-service that enables users to upload, convert, store and play back video content on the Internet, often via a structured, scalable solution that can be monetized. (definition by wikipedia)

With the increase power of Online video marketing in the digital age. Online Video Platforms represent fundamental paradigm shift for brand marketing. Content is now controlled by the people that consume it and brands should listen to their audience

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The power of video has significant impact on revenue generation for enterprises & corporates

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When it comes to producing and consuming video, today’s marketers are much more focused and strategic
Why use Online Video Platform:

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So Now Why Use Our HelixWare Online Video Platform?

For Web News and Media Publishers:

  • Generate revenues with video advertising
  • Increase traffic and visibility to your media assets
  • Increase subscription value and time spent
  • Manage publishing workflows including video

For Telcos and ISPs

  • Monetise your network infrastructure
  • Deliver video to highly fragmented video-enabled devices
  • Increase VAS offering with IPTV and Digital Video services
  • Reduce total cost of ownership & cost of maintenance of your video infrastructure

For Enterprises

  • Drive cost savings using videos for events, training andcorporate communication
  • Increase efficiency in managing distributed workforce
  • Market your product and services using video
  • Privately share sensitive videos in your organisation

For Developers

  • Create your own user-generated content application
  • Build your engaging video application
  • Use the  HelixWare Android library for video recording
  • Programmatically upload videos to your HelixWare account.

Online Video is a extremely powerful, Whether you’re A Media Publisher, Teleco Operator, entreprise, a developer, a business owner, or just an average user of the Internet, Online video is Vital for your business.

Get a free account to stream your videos using media delivery platform for 12 months!

 

نصائح الخبراء عن الترويج والتسويق الذاتي على الانترنت و الشبكات الاجتماعية

Personal branding is about standing out and differentiating yourself, discovering the best of you (your core identity)

We are glad to feature in this blog post a brief about what is Personal Branding and how to master it (الترويج الذاتي)

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تشرفنا هذا الشهر باستضافه خالد الأحمد – مستشار و مدرب وسائل الاعلام الاجتماعية فى حوارنا الشهرى على تويتر و قدم خالد الأحمد مجموعه من النصائح القيمه عن الترويج الذاتى على الانترنت حول ما هو الترويج الذاتى، اهميته و اهم الادوات اللازمة للترويج الذاتى باحترافيه على الانترنت و قد تفاعل معنا العديد ممكن شاركونا الحوار و خلال اقل من ساعه اصبحت  #الترويج_الذاتي

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و قد قمنا بتجميع اهم النقاط  و النصائح التى طرحت فى هذا الحوار المثمر

اولا: عن الترويج الذاتى تعريفه و اهميته

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Personal Branding

  هوالترويج الذاتي : الترويج الذاتي للوصول لمرتبة الخبير في مجال معين و هو بالطبع يتطلب جهد كبير لأنتاج محتوى قيم باستمرار و مساعده الغير فى مجال عملك

ثانيا: عن الخطوات الاساسيه لتكوين استراتيجيه ناجحه للترويج الذاتي

 تواجد بشكل جيد ومتفاعل على المنصات الاجتماعية لتتصدر نتائج البحث عنك

ارصد كلمات لها صلة ب ( اسمك ) لتعرف من يتحدث او يبحث عنك أو عن خدماتك

ارصد كلمات لها صلة ب ( مجال العمل ) لتكون على علم بكل ما هو جديد في مجال عملك

ارصد كلمات لها صلة ب ( المنافسون ) لتتعلم من قصص نجاحهم أو تتفادى أخطائهم

ثالثا: عن اهم النصائح للترويج الذاتي باحترافيه على شبكات التواصل الاجتماعيه

تكوين مجتمعات رقمية عن طريق بناء علاقات جيدة مع أفراد المجتمع على منصات الإعلام الاجتماعي هي الطريقة الحديثة للترويج الذاتي

الآن يمكنك إعادة كتابة قصة حياتك في العالم الافتراضي مهما كانت التحديات التي مررت بها

مراحل الترويج الذاتي

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تعرف على شغفك وركز عليه

ساعد الناس بدون مقابل

تحدث وتعامل بشكل شخصي وودي وشارك بمحتوى إيجابي بناء

تواجد بشكل فعال على الشبكات الاجتماعية

شارك بأسلوب قصصي مشوق

كن اجتماعيا في العالم الحقيقي والافتراضي

حاول نشرمقالات جديدة ومفيدة في مجالك للجمهور وساعد وجاوب أي أسئلة عن الموضوع

تأكيدا على ما سبق و تلخيصا له يجب التركيز على محتوى عالى الجودة، و الأخذ فى الاعتبار انك تتحكم بفكره الناس عنك من خلال ما تشاركه ، مساعدة الغير فى مجال تخصصك حتى تكون مرجع لهم و لغيرهم و ايضا التفاعل معاهم و الرد على محتواهم لخلق مشاركات فعالة و التركيز دائما على الاستمراريه و ضرورة تخصيص وقت فى اليوم للقراءه و الاطلاع على الجديد فى مجال تخصصك

رابعا: اهم المنصات التي تساعد على الترويج الذاتي

يجب توحيد الصورة الشخصية و تعريف شخصك فى البايو فى كافه المواقع الاجتماعيه التأثير هنا يكون اقوى و افضل

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لينكدان من أهم أدوات الترويج الشخصي في سوق العمل تستطيع من خلاله أن تعرض خبراتك وكل شيء عنك في شكل إحترافي مُتاح لكل الناس و كل ما زادت قدرتك علي إستخدامة بإحترافية وعرض خبراتك ومهاراتك ستزيد فرصتك في التميز وسط سوق العمل وفي مجالك

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من خلال التواجد على التويتر يمكنك التواصل مع

المشاهير | السياسيين | أصحاب فكر | صناع قرار

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ان المدونه هى موقعك الشخصي و عالمك الخاص الذي من خلاله تعرض  تجاربك و خبراتك و أرائك الفكرية و العمليه بحرية فأحرص على أن تقدم محتوى جيد و مميز وذلك بتحديث مدونتك بالمقالات بصورة منتظمه ومميزة فذلك يساعدك على  وضع بصمتك في عالم الانترنت و أن تكون مرجعا و من خلال مدونتك تستطيع بناء علاقات اعمق مع الزوار من خلال الرد عليهم ومتابعتهم و التواصل معهم

كما ان تحديثها باستمرار وانتظام وان كان يأخذ وقتا وجهدا إلا أنه يعود بتأثير ايجابي باظهارك كخبير فى مجاله و مصدر موثوق للمعلومات

و قد عرضنا من قبل كيفيه انشاء المدونات و اهميتها واستراتيجيه التسويق للمدونه يمكنك قرائتها هنا

و باقى المنصات تكون حسب طبيعه عملك او شغفك فمثلا

Pinterest and Instagram اذا كان طبيعه عملك او شغفك مرئيه تعتمد على الصور

خامسا: أهم الأدوات التي تساعدنا ب الترويج الذاتي

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بعض أدوات الرصد

Google Alerts

Google Alerts is a content change detection and notification service, offered by the search engine company Google. The service sends emails to the user when it finds new results—such as web pages, newspaper articles, or blogs—that match the user’s search term

Topsy

Topsy Social Media Analytics allow you to search by time & place, set alerts, and analyze sentiment for every tweet ever made

Social Mention

Social Mention is a social media search engine that searches user-generated content such as blogs, comments, bookmarks, events, news, videos, etc

بعض أدوات البحث عن محتوى جديد

BuzzSumo

BuzzSumo gives you insight into what content is working, and the influencers amplifying it

Scoopit

Soopit for content curation, Branding and Authority Building

AllTop

Alltop All the top headlines from popular topics around the web

أدوات فعالة

Bitly

Bitly is a URL shortening service it’s a link management platform helps the world’s leading brands deliver and measure their efforts across all marketing channels. Through the power of the link

 تقصير الرابط

 تقرير تحليلي عن الأشخاص الذين ضغطوا على الرابط

 امكانية منح الرابط القصير اسم مميز

أدوات التحليل و القياس

Klout

Klout is a website and mobile app that uses social media analytics to rank its users according to online social influence via the “Klout Score”, which is a numerical value between 1 and 100

و قد قمنا بتجميع أهم النقاط التى طرحت فى الحوار هنا
  كل شهر نناقش مواضيع مهمه و نرحب بجميع الاقتراحات لمناقشه ما يهمكم معرفته تابعونا على هاشتاج
#IOTTT

 

 

Advises from the “Connected Startup” Creating an Open Climate for Communication!

Coming Together to Nurture the Digital Media Landscape in the MENA Region!

At InsideOut Today, we have the best team and we look for the best. We are a group of geeks, enthusiasts, visionaries, consultants all with one goal which is to deliver high quality innovative software solutions to the local, regional and global market.

Our Team has diverse backgrounds, knowledge types, opinions and thoughts and we always debating us and criticizing ourselves to take our solution and services to the next level.

As A team, we have lots of massively positive energy that enables us also to be globally virtual and remote team working from different areas worldwide including team located in Cairo, Rome, Sydney, Salzburg and Islamabad.

 logo-mesh-3InsideOut Today is part of InsideOut10 Group, consisting of:
  • Insideout Today: regional hub for mobile web development and digital media services for the MENA region, based in Cairo, Egypt,
  • Insideout10 Headquarters in Rome, Italy is major shareholder of InsideOut Today and Redlink GmbH – focused on open innovation and digital strategies for large clients in Italy, Europe and US,

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Our mission is to create value and unique digital experiences for our clients and partners leverages on our successful multi-cultural team and the commitment of all of us to continuous technology research providing the best digital media services for the MENA region

The year 2014 was a very remarkable year for us with our rebranding we launched a totally new identity  & a new payoff and the delivering of successful projects and many other achievements and the beginning of 2015 was very successful as well with the launch of our own new product HelixWare Online video Platform and we are working hard to put great efforts for the rest of 2015 delivering more and more successful projects!

Meet our team…The power behind the wheel! 

We are Inviting you to meet Our InsideOut Today Cairo Team and get to know the people who makes the delivery and the support of our projects..

ramadan iftar

InsideOut Today Team Families – Ramadan Iftar

At InsideOut Today we are always keen on creating and maintaining a high performance culture that encourages innovation, creativity and high team work spirit…We had our Team Families Iftar last Ramadan and last week we had our Monthly Team Day Out where we reviewed our achievements..performance and above all celebrating success

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InsideOut Today Monthly Team Breakfast

Gathering and outings with the team are done regularly we are always keen on providing to our team a positive, energetic and motivational working environment

We are glad to share with you some tips and advice’s from our team for working together across time and space:

What We do to stay always connected with Cairo Team and the team abroad for effective project management:

As we are a multinational team it’s very important that we stay always connected and to work together throughout the day for better communication and performance

  1. Using Trello and Slack…Trello and Slack has everything you need to organize projects of any size
  2. Regular Skype Conference Calls
  3. Regular meetings between Cairo, Italy and Salzburg
  4. Having all our documents shared on Google drive for all the team to be able to access it
What we do to stay always connected with the Tech Community:

We enjoy being part of the community and supporting entrepreneurship in all fields..we focus on sharing experience with the tech community through:

  1. Organizing Regular meetups for experience sharing and networking in a professional environment
  2. Attending Tech and startups events and providing support through our services such as live streaming Riseup summit to the world
  3. Organizing a monthly Twitter Chat #IOTTT to answer people questions about the latest technology and to share experiences and latest digital media trends.
  4. Involving young startups to witness the creation of projects and test it and give us their feedback and answer all their questions
A Group of young startups were invited to our office to test our latest project

A Group of young startups were invited to our office to test our latest project

If you have any questions, inquiries about our services , our Dynamic Team can help you find the support or services you need we provide a wide range of Digital Media and Online Marketing services check all about our services here

Contact us today sales@insideout.today

 

Egypt Startup Ramadan Iftar at the Greek Campus

In a vibrant and energetic atmosphere, Egypt Startups and the community’s stakeholders came together, but for some different this time, an Iftar Dish party last Wednesday 15 July at the Greek Campus! It Was a community-organized gathering where stakeholders and startups interested in the sharing culture would meet up to network, socialize, and share delicious food and experience. Everybody got his favorite dish with him/her where also foreign nationalities expressed their food culture and offered delicious dishes and presented great cooking skills as well.pic This gathering was a great opportunity to get hold of the latest happenings in the tech & startup scene and also host community-driven discussions and feature new ideas and projects in a vibrant atmosphere. For some great pictures of the Egypt Startup iftar check it out here

 

Why Blogging is important for your business Part 3 “infographic”

While websites are still the cornerstone of the Internet, websites have never really enjoyed the kind of popularity that blogs have recently gotten. As opposed to websites, blog entries have personal dimension that adds credibility, interaction, relationship-building a sense of community and familiarity it’s the friendly face of any organization.

Blogging makes it extremely easy for anyone to become an online publisher with its easy to use publishing platforms.

And here below a very useful infograph about why Every business should blog!

whyeverybusinessshouldblogInfographic source Quicksprout

Summarizing the biggest benefits of blogging and why it matters to your business:

1. Blogging Boosts Search engine optimization

Blogs allow you to have updated information and new keywords added regularly, which are going to increase your SEO and further help your traffic

Search engines love fresh content. By blogging consistently, you give Google and other search engines new content to index

2. Blogging Drives Traffic

Blogging regularly will increase visibility and thus increase the traffic to your website, thereby increasing page views and hits as your business get more exposure.

3. Blogging Adds Value

Blogs enables you to add further value to your business; by applying storytelling techniques and compelling posts; you give your readers materials they are interested in, while showing your expertise in your field you add value to your product or message.

4. Blogging builds networks and trust

Valuable and interesting blog posts attract readers who will then regularly visit your blog by regularly posting valuable, honest articles on your blog the more trust you will gain and thus Blogging  will expand your network of friends, business associates and clients

5. Connect people to your brand

Blogging builds brand awareness for the different services you offer, thereby creating engagement among your readers.

It lets you closer to your target audience which likes to hear what you say and follow you and give you their direct feedback instantly

6. Strengthen your social media presence

by creating valuable content it will have a huge impact on your presence on various social media platforms, content that adds value to readers which will make them likely share it with their circles thus will attract new audience to your blog.

Blogs thrive on social sharing and interaction. They are designed for this…Furthermore, blogs offer multiple subscription possibilities to enter in a more frequent, personal and better targeted dialogue with visitors.

 Consistent-blogging-boosts-inbound-ROI-The-State-Of-Inbound-Marketing-2013-by-HubSpot-click-to-open-PDFSource: Consistent blogging boosts inbound ROI – The State Of Inbound Marketing 2013 by HubSpot  Source

After going through How to start a blog, and the effective marketing strategy for blogging and finally why blogging is important for your business Summarizing all this in few words:

Choose your message, audience, online identity and social networks and start a blog today and don’t forget to blog regularly, focus on data visualization which allows you to foster familiarity & consistency with your viewers feeds, use the right keywords, and finally promote your post.

And here is a very interesting analysis published by hubspot on how often should companies blog

If you have more to add kindly comment below or share with us other useful links or resources.