Creative Media Alliance

So what is the Chromebook concept?

Assumption 1: These days, you can get online almost anywhere.
Assumption 2: Google’s free online software can do almost everything regular software can do — email (Gmail), Web browsing (Chrome), chat (Google Talk), photos (Picasa), word processing, spreadsheets, slide shows (Google Docs).

Conclusion: A laptop doesn’t need a hard drive. Doesn’t need programs on it. Doesn’t need Windows or Mac OS X. Doesn’t need a desktop, files or folders. Everything you need is online, so all the laptop needs is a Web browser. To read more, check out this article from the New York Times.

Video is SEO friendly, Google-Panda friendly and on Google's results pages to stay. Google is placing more value on long stays and visitors watching videos stay longer than others. So it's time to start taking video seriously and Gareth Davies details five ways video can seriously help your SEO in the article below. He covers: videos making your pages more sticky, videos helping product rank, videos getting links, videos as content creation, and videos bringing traffic.

In the future, believing that the TV is talking to you might not be a sign of insanity. You may be getting a Skype video call.

Comcast has partnered with Skype, a video-calling service that was recently purchased by Microsoft, to offer the service for TVs sometime next year. Subscribers who rent a video kit from Comcast will be able to use their TVs to make and receive calls from other Skype users. Skype and Comcast subscribers will also be able to make use of the same features on a compatible smartphone or tablet, but the recipient of these calls and messages only need the basic Skype set-up to communicate. Best of all, when using Skype on a Comcast-enabled HDTV, users can still watch programming while making and answering calls. Here’s an article from pcmag.com on the new partnership between Comcast and Skype.

Rapportive has created an add-on for Gmail that instantly adds social context to the people you email, as you email them. Rapportive’s overhauled Twitter widget lets you follow your email contacts, send them replies, and retweet or quote them from inside email messages. You can also take a quick glance at whether your email contacts are following you on Twitter. This tool is definitely worth learning about. Here's a short video on how it works.

Creative Media Alliance was pleased to partner with the Pacific Northwest Ballet to create a new 30 second TV commercial for the staging of PNB's Giselle.

This romantic tragedy masterpiece first premiered in 1841 and has grown to become one of the most popular ballets of all time. Catch a sneak peek at the work behind this major premiere by viewing our video.

URL shortening service bit.ly announced that users can now automatically generate QR codes that, when scanned with a mobile QR code reader, automatically direct users to shortened links! CMA used QR codes as a part of the Pioneer Square Madame Damnables Cocktail Crawl! It was part of our social, print & web neighborhood promotional campaign. The QR codes were distributed on the posters and postcards. To read more, click here!

CMA is excited to launch our new custom Facebook Tab for Swedish Medical. This technology allows us to direct new visitors to this default tab content rather than the Wall, and further allows us to present different content to fan and non-fan audiences.

If you aren’t craving Korean food yet, wait until you watch this video the CMA video production team created for Oma Bap. Korean food is based upon 5 tastes: salty, sweet, sour, bitter and spicy. With the right combination of these fundamental tastes, a healthy balance is achieved. Oma Bap's goal is to share this balance and harmony of the complex taste and textures of Korean food with the community.

"3 Dreams of Black" by Rome is a music video that runs in your browser window, starring the talents of Danger Mouse, Daniele Luppi and Norah Jones, but instead of watching Norah serenade you from a stage or set, you're thrust into dreamlike, interactive 3D worlds. To read more, click here!

Creative Media Alliance has been sharing amazing videos of the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington. We were given the opportunity to talk to some of the volunteers at RMHC. Here's what they had to say.