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1 -Why adopt a new media strategy?

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1 - 7 useful tips for those getting started on Twitter

Whether you got on Twitter to promote your new company, meet peers or just find out what everyone's talking about, you quickly learned that those with lots of followers, who tweet a lot, talk to people and get retweeted, seem to have influence. You might have even figured out how this type of influence might benefit you and so you've decided to try to get some for yourself.

The medium is the message. I first heard these words in a college communications class. They sounded like nonsense to me then. Back then we were focused on radio, TV, film and print as media and as a young journalism student, all of them paled in comparison to my all-important message.

You may have seen it on a broadcast of your favorite awards show, or at a conference or concert.  Widescreen video blending, a relative newcomer to event production, offers the ability to create a widescreen backdrop upon which multiple images and video can be projected.

Some uses of widescreen video blending technology include:

* As a backdrop   to achieve a dramatic environmental effect in place of costly, elaborate sets