Tip

Attention spans on the web are short. Sometimes you need to get to your point, then hope the viewer will stick around for more.

Here is an easy technique called “Jump to Time” in YouTube. Just add this kind of string to the end of the YouTube link.

#t=1m45s

If you say it the string sounds like this,  “pound t equals number m number s”.

Here is an example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf2F0c9R4Mc#t=2m21s

Be aware that some tools, like Power Twitter will ignore the jump string when displaying the link as an embedded video.

For more information see this TechCrunch article. You’ll see it’s also called “Deep Linking”.

This is a Video Tip. I hope you found it helpful. I’m going to try to post more soon.