Posts Tagged ‘profile’

  • New Poptent Profile, Portfolio Design

    Posted by Mark Schoneveld on April 23rd, 2010. Categories: Features | 1 Comment »

    We just launched a newly updated design for your Poptent profile with an eye to making it a better portfolio for you to showcase your commercial-creating prowess. Here’s a little walk-through of what’s new.

    Let’s start at the top of the page. You’ll see several tweaks here, including one of the coolest new components, the Featured Media widget (pictured here, David Shamban’s profile). Basically you tell Poptent what you’d like to show the world when they first visit your profile. Is it your award winning demo reel? Or perhaps the commercial you had purchased by a Fortune 100 brand? Simple to do.

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    Next, check out the sweet new Brands widget in your sidebar. This will basically tell the world all the great brands you’ve done work for here on Poptent. Submit a video to an assignment, have that brand’s logo pop up on your page. Simple as that. Seen here, GreenSkyMedia’s profile.

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    We’ve added a more prominent Network widgets to show who you like working with, or who you like to follow. Also, the new activity wall is far more robust than our last version and should add some useful tools for you.

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    On your private view of your profile, you’ll see another super handy tool, Calendar Export. Simply click on the link of the corresponding calendar app you use and all the Poptent deadlines will be added dynamically to your personal calendar system. Easy!

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    And finally - one of the features we’re most excited about, Medals. There’s a tab on everyone’s profile for the Medals page where you’ll see a variety of awards you can earn - from being a Featured Creator to having been first to submit to an assignment. We’ll be rolling out more Medals soon, so keep an eye out!

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    Don’t see a feature you were hoping for? Why not Request it!

  • Your Poptent Portfolio is Good for Business

    Posted by ZackScott on November 24th, 2008. Categories: Community Highlights | 1 Comment »

    [Editors note: in lieu of an interview, our Creator Spotlight, Zack Scott went ahead and wrote his own guest column]

    Yesterday was my first opportunity to utilize my Poptent profile page as a portfolio and business card of sorts. A potential client contacted me through YouTube about an opportunity to create videos for his future website. As we discussed some details, he took note of the After Effects work in The Dogs video series. Samuel Seide and I both work on that series, but Samuel is primarily responsible for the graphics and animations. Since the client liked what Samuel did, I wanted to pitch the possibility of us doing ad-style videos to promote his upcoming site.

    I decided to link him to my Poptent profile page so he could see our latest ads. The good news is that he liked them. The great news is that Poptent really came in handy during that particular moment. Now that I think about it, neither my YouTube page nor ZackScott.net would have sufficed for that occasion.

    My YouTube page is primarily for entertainment. I try not to inundate my viewers with our ad creations unless I think they will truly enjoy them. Also, I don’t put professional information about me on that site because I don’t want to bore. That just isn’t how you grow a subscriber base. ZackScott.net is different because its primary purpose is a hub. If someone watches one of my videos, they will see “ZackScott.net” at the end. That way, there is always a centralized place for people to go if they want to see more. Once they get to there, they can contact me or go to my accounts on YouTube, Facebook, and even Poptent. It does contain some professional information, but it’s not the site’s focus.

    That’s why Poptent makes perfect sense. If you go to my profile page, I showcase only my most popular videos along and my ad work. All of this is customizable and is targeted towards people interested in having people like Samuel and me create ads or other video content. It is a perfect portfolio for any video creator. This became most evident to me just yesterday. If you’re a professional or amateur in the online video work, I can’t recommend Poptent more. I suggest making a profile, listing your accomplishments, and posting your work. That’s just a start, because there’s an excellent community there too. It’s a professional place, but it’s also a blast, so join the fun.

  • The Poptent Tour Part 4: Importing YouTube Videos

    Posted by Mark Schoneveld on November 10th, 2008. Categories: Features | 1 Comment »

    We’re launching new features all the time on Poptent because we’ve got big plans and dreams to be a super useful platform for your independent video business. One cool tool we just launched last week is a new favorite of mine: the ability to import media from other sites you already use.

    If you click the new Account Settings link at the top right of the page when you’re logged in, the following dialogue box will pop up and you’ll be able to make changes to your account. Easy!

    One of the first sites we wanted to give you ability to import from is your YouTube Channel. Got a great video you made that your clients and Poptent friends should see in your commercial portfolio? Don’t re-upload it, just let us import it from where it lives on YouTube.

    As you see above, you can also currently import items from your blog and your Twitter account to Poptent.

    To add a video from YouTube, all you have to do it tell Poptent where to look for your videos, then tag the videos you want imported with the word ‘poptent’.

    Voila! They will magically appear in your media library.

    The other things you can do in Account Settings are pretty straight forward, but important. We have granular control over what email notifications you’d like to receive under the “Notifications” tab.

    On Poptent, people will sometimes add you as a credit, ask you to join a discussion or invite you to a project/group/team. If they don’t already know you’re on Poptent, they might invite you via email. To be sure we don’t double up on you and that they find you, you can also associate more than one email address to your account.

    Don’t worry, we won’t expose your address, it’s only for our servers to know you’re a part of the system when someone invites you.

    Be sure to check out all of my Poptent Tour posts here!