Ray Martinez has a new book, From Darkness to Light. The fall of Saigon was the beginning of Mai Trans adventure as one of the thousands of boat people who escaped from Vietnam. This is Trans resilient journey from darkness to light, from hiding in a secluded jungle area, to floating on a small vessel, and eventually embarking onto the Skyluck ship, packed with thousands of refugees for six months and ultimately finding freedom in the USA.
The Mai Tran journey of passion was told to me in Mais own words: Growing up in a community of a tightly-woven family that had political ties with South Vietnam, I found myself in a quandary: I would have to leave my country and family, maybe forever. It was clear that if my family and our cultural heritage were to survive, I must escape and try to find a new life for my whole family–a new beginning. I never once dreamed of being one of the boat people.

The story is very touching, and it has brought tears to my eyes. It was well written, and original. Mai indeed has a great memory about our escape.
Thu-Hong Tran (Mai Trans sister who escaped with him as young teenagers)

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Web Video Production

Marketing on websites over the last few years has become more powerful and effective than on television. Use of  web videos makes the audience stay on the website for longer than they usually would. video communicates visually to browsers increasing attention. In 2008 the Internet went past television in terms of advertising. Marketers where seeing that more people were using the Internet for information, and they wanted to get their products on these popular websites. Websites are mostly using a web presenter to keep the audience interested so that they would not click straight off the website. The online presenter may only last about a minute but it is a minute longer than they usually would and ore time for browsers to notice products.

The Internet has grown rapidly over the years because you can get instant information about any topic. Sites like Wikipedia allow browsers to look up anything and pages come through about the topic. Advertisers target these kinds of websites because they n users will spend a greater amount of time on the website. Ads are being placed over videos now in text form. Also the adverts would relate to the topic the users are reading about, for example if I searched football adverts to do with football like tickets and equipment could be shown. web marketing is a way of marketing where businesses send E-mails to you regarding their product hoping it might interest you. 

Also trafficking is common on the Web where you click one website, and it takes you to another site. Things like this get annoying on the Internet but this is what it is becoming, just a massive way for revenues to get their products out there to the people.

Face Book has become one of the most popular social networking websites out there, and is making a lot of money from advertisers. The marketers know the majority of people that use Face Book are teenagers and young adults so they know the kind of stuff to advertise on there. Also on people’s home page they advertise products that relate to people interest and personality.

It is the same with the online video sharing website You Tube. When people are watching videos on You Tube adverts are on the side of the screen so advertisers now that people spend a bit of time on videos so there is more time for their products to get noticed. Also again the advert would relate to the video the person is watching.

The internet has become the main source for advertising and it is predicted to stay that way in the future.

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