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How to remove related videos from the end of an embedded YouTube video

As I’m sure you’ve seen, YouTube displays related videos at the end of videos you have viewed. This can be useful, but this can also be problematic. For example, we were recently working on a very personal project for a client. This client had a great video to use for their cause, but because the project was so personal to them, they felt uncomfortable... Continue »
Miriam Schwab on May 20, 2012 • Category Video • Tags: , • Comments (25)

Google Drive finally launches and other useful info from illuminea’s April 2012 webinar

Recently, we launched a new monthly lecture series to present the most important web trends for marketing professionals. Please join us at our next free WEBINAR: ”Latest Web Trends in 1 Hour” on Wednesday, May 30, 2012 at 10am.  Signup and details here. At the April 2012 Web Trends Webinar, Miriam Schwab, the Friendly CEO of illuminea, spoke about: Love... Continue »
Rebecca Markowitz on May 3, 2012 • Category Web Trends • Tags: , , , , , , , , • Leave a comment

Watch illuminea’s Web Trends Roundup for March 2012

Recently, we launched a new monthly lecture series to present the most important web trends for marketing professionals. Please join us at our next free WEBINAR ”Latest Web Trends in 1 Hour” on Monday, April 30, 2012 at 10am.  Signup and details here. At the March 2012 Web Trends Webinar, Miriam Schwab, the Friendly CEO of illuminea, spoke... Continue »
Rebecca Markowitz on April 15, 2012 • Category Web Trends • Tags: , , , , • Leave a comment

illuminea launches event to share trends about facebook, Pinterest, Google, and more

Do you ever feel like you’re gonna burst with useful information?  I don’t. But I know someone who does. Every day, Miriam Schwab, the Friendly CEO of illuminea, reads tons and tons of news related to online marketing, and wanted a way to share it with all 5,000 of her closest online friends. So, we decided to launch a monthly event where Miriam... Continue »
Rebecca Markowitz on March 14, 2012 • Category Web Trends • Tags: , , , , , • Comments (2)

SMX Israel 2012 – you’ve come a long way, baby!

SMX Israel was one of the best and most fun conferences I’ve been at in a long time. And I’m not the only one who thinks that – I’ve only heard and read enthusiastic responses from the participants. It’s hard to explain why we all had such a good time; maybe it was the size of the crowd, the energy, the vibe, the speakers, the... Continue »
Illuminea Team on January 16, 2012 • Category Events • Tags: , , , • Comments (8)

Are you letting all of facebook look over your shoulder as you read?

One of the latest types of apps that have emerged on Facebook are social news readers. These apps automatically post to your Facebook friends everything you read on the related news site. So for example, if you have installed the Washington Post Social Reader Facebook app, EVERYTHING you read on the Washington Post can appear in your facebook friends’... Continue »
Deena on November 9, 2011 • Category Facebook • Tags: , , , , • Comments (2)

Why can’t I embed YouTube videos in WordPress?

About a year ago, WordPress added a feature that made it ridiculously easy to embed content from various sites (like YouTube, Slideshare, Vimeo) into WordPress sites. How to embed media in WordPress in a second If you want to embed, for example, a YouTube video in a post, all you do is paste the URL of the video into the editor, unlink it and save/publish.... Continue »
Deena on November 7, 2011 • Category Blogging,WordPress • Tags: , , • Comments (4)

How to Set Up a Branded Feedburner URL

RSS feeds allow people to subscribe to get updated about your site or blog’s newest posts, usually via tools called feed readers (Google Reader is a well-known, free option). This is a nice feature, but like all things web we want to be able to measure this metric too and know how many people are subscribing, and how they are using the feed. Feedburner... Continue »
Illuminea Team on October 16, 2011 • Category Blogging • Tags: , • Leave a comment

illuminea presents: Social Media Workshop and SEO Seminar starting July 20, 2011 in the Tel Aviv area

illuminea is excited to announce a 3-part Hands-On Social Media Workshop for Businesses on July 20, 27, and August 3, 2011. Each session will be four hours, and we will get hands-on at every stage with tools and techniques for optimizing your social media activity. UPDATE: After posting about the Social Media Workshop, we received requests to give an additional... Continue »
Illuminea Team on July 11, 2011 • Category Events,Israel,Marketing,Small Business,Social Media • • Leave a comment

Facebook Ads can’t estimate reach for Pages with Hebrew or Arabic in the title

Someone recently asked a question on the Digital Eve Israel mailing list about a problem they were having with a facebook ad they were trying to create. When creating a facebook ad, you can target very specific people according to various parameters including country, age, gender, and “Likes and Interests.” Likes and Interests refers to people who have... Continue »
Miriam Schwab on June 7, 2011 • Category Social Media • Tags: , , • Comments (1)