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Many of us born before the digital age, often have amassed a large collection of analog media. We may also have older digital technologies that we wish to upgrade to current media standards.

Some advantages of Digitizing your media, include:

*Reduction of Clutter

*Centralization your various media

*Ability to share with friends and family.

*The ability to easily make copies.

Ready to take the digital plunge?

First thing is first, organize your media. Decide what you’d like to digitize. Take inventory and see what you are able to do on your own and what makes sense to send out to a service.

Documents- I am terrible at paper management. In order to stay organized, I scan all my bills, documents, receipts and then discard them. For light scanning, a flat bed scanner will do. For higher quantity scans, I would recommend a Scanner with a sheet feeder. Very Large scan jobs can be farmed out to a professional.

Photos- Been tempted to place your high school photos on Facebook for the 30th reunion? How about digitizing your photos? Small collections can be scanned with a flatbed or sheet feeding scanner. If you have thousands of photos, you may want to utilize the services of scanmyphotos.com for $50 they will scan 1000 of your photos and provide you with a DVD of all your photos.

Negatives and Slides- remember those? For the occasional negative scan, many flatbeds come with a slide adapter. To scan an entire collection, a slide scanner or scanning service may make more sense.

Video- we will discuss a few common video formats. Please be aware if your media is recorded in the PAL or NTSC format to insure you have the correct gear. For more information on the formats, see my article “Top Tech Tips for Olim”



VHS, VHS-C, Hi8 – These formats can easily be converted to DVD with the use of a DVD Recorder. Simply connect RCA, S-VIDEO, or other supported cable from the output of your VCR or CAMCORDER, to the input on your DVD recorder.

If you’d like to manipulate and edit your footage, there are video capture devices and software that allow you to download the footage to your computer where you can make edits and then render the file as a movie to play on your PC or on a DVD.

Digital 8, Mini-DV – These cameras are equipped with FireWire connections which allow you to download your footage to your PC or MAC, once it captured on your computer, the video can be edited and converted to a digital file for your hard drive or “Burned” to a DVD.

Records – Have an old record collection? Are/Were you a DJ with lots of vinyl?

There are specialized USB turntables that allow you to convert your records to MP3 format.

With additional hardware and software, you can mix and manipulate your music. Audacity is a free audio editing program and is a good start.

Cassettes and REEL to Reel recordings With an RCA output from the cassette player connected to the input on your sound card, you can record the cassette to a digital file. With specialized software, you can enhance the sound quality of your recordings. If you don’t have inputs on your sound card, you can pick up a USB adapter.

CD’S- With programs like Itunes or widows media player, it’s easy to copy your audio collection to hard disk, and access them with the computers on your network. You can also make compilation CD’s for the road.

DVDS- With low cost disk space available, it is possible to backup your personal DVD collection to hard disk, where you can view them all in a central location. To backup a DVD to Hard Disk, you will need DVD Ripping software to convert the DVD to a usable format.

Note: In all the above scenarios, we are assuming you are digitizing your own material. Before making copies of any copyright media, familiarize yourself with the laws. In some cases you may be  able to make a backup copy for your own use if you are the rightful owner of the media.

For those looking to digitize your family history, I recommend taking a look at

the book “Digitizing your family history.”

We’ve gone through various media digitization options. Once you have your collection digitized, be aware that digital files do not last forever. It is important to setup a backup and security strategy for your precious data. Please see my article on “securing your data and systems.” I hope this article has been helpful. Share your media conversion tips or experiences on the blog.

Finally, if you need assistance in digitizing or backing up your media feel free to contact us regarding our services.

Schofield Media Group – Online Publishing

Schofield Media group took a great advantage of internet, what has made the world of online publishing a trade mark in online publishing in B2B. This medium not only helps people, consumers and C- level executives to get instant help about their business but also get a big advantage to advertising their business and can get high revenue in return. Publishing all the journals, articles and magazines online is a great help for every other eyeball. Schofield Media and its related division are working in different states, cities of UK posting their journals on web related to business to business companies.

Schofield Media and sim online shop is the example of publishing books online. Both the companies are collectively working over many years offering people to get online and download more than one hundred books online.

In July 5, 2009 Norwich publishers Schofield Media publishing improves and develop its online media offerings, Relaunches its design techniques and corporate websites  including 11 portals and highlighting business individuals and their titles.  It is one of the quality of Schofield Media that it looks keenly at the future possibilities and requirements of the business and their products. It allows many Businesses to come to Schofield Media and invests in online and website publications, it tends to create vast opportunities for web-related journals and magazines.  Re-launching of online media means greater and better approaches are being added to online web portals. Schofield Media railway strategies and Schofield Media    food chain ventures are the big examples of modernized and improved corporate sites.  It not only designed the website but before it become online for the users it supports lots of conference supported by  MAS and Pm professionals in July 5, 2009 in Norwich supported by though provoking 160 delegates attended from all over UK. Visitors from multinational companies and SME community were present, who attended the event sharing their best secrets about railway industry. It was the first ever railway strategy supply chain conference that was held and covered by online publications of Schofield Media. The online web content explains clearly the background history of development bond between two, in a users friendly environment. This gives a clear idea to UK and Us based individuals of how each unit of business works and titles it publishes.

Schofield Media greatly emphasizes on global operation by publishing international business magazines.  The company hires experts of their own kind who have work many years in the respected field. Dynamic team aims to increase the circulation and profitability of, Food Chain and Venture, of Schofield Media’s group in UK. The web journal is accompanied with future strategies and policies of earning revenue through food chain supplies business.

These are few glimpses of online web content by Schofield Media, setting benchmark for others

For more information about Schofield Media Group visit: http://www.schofieldmedia-group.net/

Social media marketing (SMM) is the latest buzz in internet marketing.  The increasing popularity of social media websites and the growing number of users on social networking sites has prompted global companies to use the realm of social media for marketing their businesses.  While there is a lot of enthusiasm and optimism regarding social media marketing, the process involved in marketing using this platform remains unclear. SMM is a journey and unlike SEO, it involves smart play rather than hard work.  Here are some tips that can be used to make your social media marketing plan a success.

Always keep the client in the center.  The client’s business niche is most crucial in designing a social media marketing plan.  The network built on a website like FaceBook or twitter should be related to the business of the client. Though this platform may not give you the typical link benefit, the space itself may become a virtual business networking hub that helps you find potential business partners and clients.

Social media websites have great potential for online branding. Many global companies including Coke have used social networking sites to increase their brand awareness. Your profiles on these websites become a connecting point between you and your consumers.  Another important consideration that goes into using this mode of marketing is your definition of success in this platform. Before you plunge into social media marketing, it is most important to set your goals and be clear about what you are trying to achieve through SMM. Once you have decided this, you can take your social media marketing in a direction that takes you towards achieving the goal.

SMM has great marketing potential and there are three simple rules in achieving success through this medium- form the right network, interact genuinely and be focused about your business goal.