Revelation Sofware have just announced that Internal Beta Testing of OpenInsight 9.3.1 has just begun and February 15th is the planned release date. This version will be a welcome release by many of you looking forward to support for the LadyBridge QM data connector.
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Hi Everyone,
Hopefully I provide alot of useful information through my blog and YouTube channels. However, on this occasion I’m looking for some insight from you and I will be very grateful if you could take a couple of moments to click on the link below and give me your thoughts on my use of annimated video for the RevSoft News Bulletin and also for wider marketing messages within the Revelation community, the MultiValue comminuty and the wider world.
Thank you for your time in helping me with my decision to continue my use of this media and to widen it’s use.
Martyn.
What do you think about the use of my annimated videos for news and wider promotional messages?
I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very happy festival holiday and a prosperous New Year. The Revelation office is now on a skeleton staff until January 3rd, so please remember to use mp@revsoft.co.uk for any commercial enquiries that you have and also support@revsoft.co.uk for any support requirements that you have during this period.
I would also like to that all of you that have comment on my blog and YouTube channels throughout this year. I had begun to think that the effort was misplaced, but I learned otherwise at this years Revelation Conference in Las Vegas. Looking back at the stats, the blog readership is well up on last year and there have now been over 14,500 video views on my main RevSoft channel (over 1,000 more views than 2010). The new RevSoft News Bulletin has already had over 400 views in its first month.
It would seem that you either love or loathe the idea of using video to deliver the newsletter content. A couple of you have also pointed out that it appears to be work for works sake, as the content simply mirrors that delivered in the newsletter. Furthermore, those newsletters are available online in the newsletter archive library anyway. So why duplicate the message.
Well you would be correct, but the short answer is that I am yet again experimenting with social media and it really can’t be a bad thing having business messages in multiple places online these days. Leaving your message on you website or in an email newsletter is just not sufficient any longer.
One of the main catalysts for me trying this new media source was a couple of recent reviews that I picked up online about the way that people are sourcing their information online. It has traditionally been the big search engines (DuckDuckgo, Google, Ask Jeeves, Bing, Yahoo, etc.) that people have turned to for information on the internet, but more recently searching for information on YouTube has become much more popular, especially with the younger more rich media savvy audience. Well it is definitely easier to watch and learn, than to read and learn and arguably more interesting as well. Even Google, now includes links to video based content on the first page of their search results!!
It was this realisation that has pushed me to use video more and more and I intend to keep the RevSoft New Channel running throughout 2012 and review the feedback and results. I hope that the quality will improve as I learn more about the tools that I am using and I build up a library of animated content. However, it is already proving interesting as my age demographic has dropped into the 35 to 44 age range and I’m looking forward to working on getting that even lower as I build the channel with more buzz words, trending content and the like.
And now a hot tip. I learned one very useful tip recently which really does make a difference when publishing your videos online. No it’s not to render in HD, although that is important, no it’s not to keep the videos short and to the point, although that is also very important. The number one hot tip from 2011 is to publish your videos and paste the script into the description box. I personally include a synopsis or some introductory text in the first few lines of the description and then maintain as much of the script below that.
Why?
Well, the main search engines use this script to catalogue your video and maintaining the script in the description gives the search engines something to get their teeth into. It certainly seems to be working for me, with my age demographic dropping by around a decade and hopefully I’ll be reaching more of our younger audience with the MultiValue message and getting them asking more questions about the MultiValue technology and OpenInsight in particular.
Thanks for your support and comments during 2011 and please keep them coming during 2012. Oh and please don’t forget to share blog postings and videos with your friends and colleagues as appropriate and I really appreciate those of you that take the time to click the like button.
All the best for 2012,
Martyn.
Revelation Software are ready for 2012, are you?
ProspectusIT are once again in talks with one of our VARs about an application developer position that has come up (see position posting below). Whilst most OpenInsight developers are settled in positions, I know that there are good MultiValue developers with skills is other flavours of the technology who would welcome this opportunity.
If you are a MultiValue developer or a software developer/contractor looking for your next position, please contact me and I’ll be pleased to discuss how you can get into the Revelation world and involved with OpenInsight – the learning curve is not that hard for experienced MultiValue developers.
ProspectusIT can be contacted via http://www.prospectus.co.uk/contact.
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Job-Type: Permanent
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Salary: £35000 – £40000
If you have good OpenInsight (OI) skills then this could be your chance to join a large and well established software house. This software house has a variety of specialists markets and this role is within their medical divisions. This role will be 70% development and 30% support. You will need good OI skills and any experience of iOS or Android, J2E or HTML would be advantageous. All data is held within OpenInsight.
Hi Guys,
- RevSoft News YouTube Channel
Just a little heads up about a new YouTube channel that I have created called RevSoftNews.
This channel will be used to host short videos with news from around the Revelation community. That includes news about Revelation events, product updates, VAR and OpenInsight users news and more.
This new media channel for distributing RevSoft news compliments and adds to my personal blog, the RevUS newsletters on revelation.com and the other various news distribution methods. I hope that this approach will provide you with a relaxed way of getting your news (much like watching news on the tv) in addition to the traditional (now electronic) paper style newsletter.
Please use the comments below to let me know what you think.
Last week we hosted two events in London. The first was the RUG during which Mike ran through the state of the company and the many new features contained in 9.3. Given the spread of versions in use by attendees (7.x, 8.x and 9.x), we also reviewed many of the other key benefits
that have been delivered throughout the 9.x series. The second day was given over to a deeper look at O4W, with the wizards and the API both reviewed.
Prospectus have created a short three minute video that touches on the highlights of the RUG. Please click here to review the video.
Finally, I would like to thank everyone who helped me to put the two days together and to also thank everyone who joined us in London and who helped to make both days such a success. I have received a large amount of very positive feedback and a good number of items for the OpenInsight wish list.
It was 11 years ago today WinWin Solutions took controlling interest in Revelation Software. Happy Anniversary, and here’s hoping for 11 more years of growth and innovation!
If you are using RUN_REPORT in any of your OpenInsight applications, then you just have to head over to sprezz.com’s blog and check out their latest posting. Linked here, the posting highlights a performance issue that results in a report crashing out after running for sometime. Needless to say, following several days of sleuthing, the guys at Sprezzatura found the root cause and handed the research to Revelation. Also needless to say, Revelation has already fixed the issue and OpenInsight developers will be able to test their reports in the new OI beta 3 release.
As many of us now maintain our professional profiles on LinkedIn, I have created a LinkedIn Event for the forthcoming RUG. I will apprecite it if you could still register for the RUG and/or O4W training session with me by email, but this event publication on LinkedIn will enable anyone who plans to come along to register that they are attending or that they are interested in attending. This will also enable attendees to schedule one on one discussions with friends and fellow developers/users ahead of time.
The event can be found at http://events.linkedin.com/Revelation-User-Group/pub/829527.
