Design World Facebook Fan Page
Industrial design engineers: become a friend of Design World Magazine on Facebook. I know the general rule is that your brand is nobody’s friend, but we’ve kept select posts flowing into the page and continue to grow our fan base here. I started keeping the magazine covers here in fairly high res and quick summaries on the magazine content monthly – and of course all that industrial news can be found online. Looking at our Facebook fan base I can see how other publishers... Read More
Full Press Twitter
My first post on Twitter here was October 2008, so a year later its amazing to see whats happened in the twitterverse. In the meantime, from a Design World / WTWH Media standpoint, we’ve turned on everyone to engage and participate. There is every reason for us to engage and participate daily if not hourly: our audience uses it, our partners use it, our suppliers use it, and networking opportunities abound. We also use to broadcast website updates from Design World, The... Read More
SEO-IZING Engineering Video
Along with the new HD Engineering Watch™ Video site, we’re working with our video partner on pushing all videos to be indexed by Google, Yahoo, and others. This special XML site map and media feed based off our custom database provides the information to better position video in the search results. Just a few weeks into the beta, I’ve noticed an uptick in direct Google traffic (9% 2 week average). A good title and description is key with any user uploaded video,... Read More
HD Video Upgrade to Engineering Watch
We just rolled out engineering videos sporting some new interface options, but most notable the player size and aspect ration change to 16:9 and the high definition encoding. The player size has now grown to 640 x 430, HD encoding is done on upload, custom tagging is in place and as always, anyone can upload video to the site. The ‘Related Information’ capability is in place to associate URLs, white papers, and other stuff to the video being watched and a new on-page sharing... Read More
