Every industry depends on innovation and new ideas to carry it forward. Blogging is one of the industries which is being renovated. The next big step is Video Blogging. As I speak, more and more bloggers are now using Videos on their blogs to explain their points better. Some even use it to make the blog more live and get more interaction. Probloggers even hosted a challenge to bloggers to make a video blog explaining Why do you blog.

I personally like the idea of Video Blogging, and I think it have its own benefits. Tons of people now use Youtube. As a college student, I see so many students here as well as many adults on youtube. If you look at Alexa Stats, Youtube is #2 beating Windows Live and the mighty Google. So you get the picture how big it is. Imagine if you post a video on your youtube channel and get tons of comments and views. Videos are a way to get your brand across. Your videos doesn’t even have to be related to your site. As long as the user come to your channel, and see the url they are most likely to check it out.

Video Blogging is very essential now if you are writing a tutorials. I know screenshot tutorial is a good way to explain, but sometimes video tutorials are the best. You will see me mostly using video tutorials to explain my steps because I just think that most of the people find it easy to follow the steps if I am recording the screen and speak.

In my personal experience, I have gained a few visitors from youtube from my wordpress tutorials for custom page, it got 340 views. I have 7 subscribers on my Youtube Channel. The number is growing slowly.

I mainly use Windows Movie Maker and the built-in camera on my Sony Viao, to record my videos. Windows Movie Maker is a decent software that comes in with your computer for free. It will let you allow slides before the video if you want to add advertisement and so on. I would agree, that Mac makes Video blogging a bit easier, but ah well. I love my Vaio.

There are multiple programs, free and paid to record your screen with audio. The one that I like is Camstudio. It is free. Just an advice for all those who going to be making a video. Use a fixed screen dimensions, not full screen because fullscreen will be blurry.

Good Luck Video Blogging and giving your blog a new life.