here are lots of consultants who will gladly sell you expensive technology for your speaking
business. But you don’t have to spend a bundle to get some really productive tools. Here
are 10 top tech tools and services that can help you handle your speaking business. Even if
you purchase everything on this list, you will still spend less than $1,000 a year. Plus, many of them
have free versions that likely will work just fine for your purposes.
BY DAVID STROM
EMBED VIDEO
ON YOUR WEBSITE
As Web-based video becomes more
prominent and more useful for businesses, the biggest issue is managing
what gets posted and keeping track
of the viewership. I have been using a
service from Wistia.com that provides
a nice collection of features at a very
reasonable price.
Wistia is a combination tool: It has
its own Flash-embedded player that
allows you to easily adjust the size
of your video window to match the
dimensions of your Web pages. You
can easily choose the thumbnail that
you want displayed when the Web
page is first viewed.
Wistia isn’t alone in this particu-
lar space. Kaltura, for example, has
a popular WordPress plug-in. But
adding a Wistia embed tag to a custom
WordPress self-hosted site is easier,
and no plug-ins are required to play
your videos.
