SitePal Review: Speaking Avatar for Your Website

SitePal is a website that offers creation of speaking avatars for your website. This is an additional feature that makes your website stands out over other websites especially  with business competitors.  How do you like to have a speaking information desk to your website?  SitePal is a powerful and fast  tool with no programming skills needed.
Here are some of the benefits of using speaking avatars:

• Saves cost by using speaking avatars as a virtual information desk for common questions received.  In addition to this, speaking avatars  can easily deliver and connects your message to your target market.
• Increase customer service support to clients.  Optimize and personalize your online communication with your website visitors by giving them satisfaction through interactive experience. A web content used to be read by visitors can easily be told by a speaking avatar giving your visitor convenience.  Boost your conversion rate by turning your visitors  into prospective clients.  
•  Effective sales and marketing tool to increase sales.
•  Adds to the over-all look of the website and the web content comes alive with a speaking avatar.

SitePal can be used not only for business lead generation but also primarily in different fields.  Trainings and seminars done remotely are using speaking avatars to create a more visual presentation.  E-learning materials also integrates interactive avatar for an easier learning process. 

Features of SitePal:

• Choose among the 250 customizable stock avatars
• Use your own voice or use built-in Text-To-Speech feature in multiple languages
• Compatible with all server technologies
• Customize the look of your avatar  by uploading your photo, an image, and video background
• For advance users, add more functionalities to your website with API and Artificial  intelligence bots.
• Publish to HTML page, Flash, emails
• Built-in lead collection, FAQ, AI chat
• Unlimited audio & avatar updates

Basic Guide in Creating Speaking Avatar

1.  Define what you want or the main purpose of the avatar for your website.  Do you want it to inform, to persuade a visitor to make an action such as clicking a purchase button or filling a form, answer a poll question),  to invite visitors for an event and or other message that you want to convey for them.  Make an outline, decide on how the avatar will look like.  Is it more effective if a male or female avatar will be  used for the message?

2.  Create your avatar that embody the website goal and target audience.  Integrating your logo or brand design would be most appropriate.

3.  Prepare an effective and clear audio copy for the avatar.  This will only come alive with the use of the voice which has an appropriate pitch and a voice that will catch the visitors attention.

4.  Provide audio options to visitors of your speaking avatar and configure how it plays by putting  play, pause, and stop buttons.

 SitePal offers competitive prices which starts a 15-trial period.

Visit websites with speaking avatars from different various fields:

http://www.racingmodels.com/questions-3-w.asp

http://www.animalimplants.com/

http://www.norfolknavyhomes.com/

New York City "The Big Apple"

New York City or the "Big Apple" is packed with tourist landmarks.  After the 9/11 attack, the resiliency of the city is still alive, it is still considered as  "the city that never sleeps".  See notable landmarks such as the Empire State Building, Brooklyn Bridge, Statue of Liberty, The Manhattan skyline, American Museum of History, Madison Square, Times Square, Rockefeller Center, The Broadway Musicals and more.  See some of interesting images from the Big Apple.

 Empire State Building Observatory.  See New York from the top, enjoy the breathtaking view  of the city.

Magnificient view of the city.

New York, New York !  Famous Broadway Musicals.

Rockefeller Center

The iconic Statue of Liberty

Times Square area

More New York Tour Photos

Auguste Rodin : Europe's Famous Sculptor Artist

Auguste Rodin is one the best Europe modern sculptor next to Michaelangelo. He was the artist behind the scultpure "The Thinker".


Rodin  was a prolific French  artist which was considered as one of the best modern sculptor next to Italian sculptor and painter, Michaelangelo (1475 – 1564).  He was inspired by the works of  Michaelangelo  and visited Italy in 1875 to study the latter's work.

Rodin  works are displayed for many years on different world museums who gained popularity, acclaim, but also created debates   for his controversial pieces.  His collection of  works were unusual, ambitious, dramatic, realistic, and unconventional  in nature. 

Inspite of the controversies, Rodin popularity grew and made commissioned works for  government  and various art entities.  Among his prominent  followers and defender were  fellow artist Claude Monet (impressionist painter), Claude Debussy (classical innovator composer), and  George Clemenceau (journalist and French Prime Ministerduring the period of 1906-1909 and 1917-1920).

Rodin's Famous Work

The Age of Bronze (1877).  After visiting Italy, he was immediately commissioned to do this sculpture, a nude male figure who received praises and on the other hand condemned by critics.

The Gates of Hell (1878). A huge bronze door  Inspired by Dante's "Divine Comedy".  He was commissioned to do this to serve as a monumental  entrance to a new  museum of decorative arts.

The Thinker (1882).  This piece is originally named as ThePoet  and regarded as a man in deep meditation, also  represents intellect and poetry.

The Kiss (1886). Rodin was commissioned to do this sculpture for Universal Exhibition 1889.

The Burghers of Calais(1889). A monumental sculpture of heroes located at Victoria Tower Gardens Central London, England.  This sculpture is just next to Westminster Abbey and west of Houses of Parliament. Other works includes Monument to Victor Hugo, Monument to Balzac, Monument to George Bernard Shaw, Monument to Pope Benedict XV, and other famous men during his period.

Rodin works are also exhibited on other parts of the world in France, Belgium, Germany, California, New York City, Tokyo, and Singapore.

Original works can be seen on his museum at  Musée Rodin at Hotel Biron in Paris, France.  The museum opened in August 4, 1919  two years after his death.  Rodin donated his large collection of works including his painting collections to the French State with a request that Hotel Biron would become a museum in honor of his works.

In 1882, Rodin first exhibited one of his works, Bust of St John the Baptist at  the Royal Academy of Arts, and   his other famous works were exhibited on September 2006  to January 2007.

Europe continues to discover modern sculptor artists where his influences still exist and considered him as the grandfather of younger generation of sculptors.

Working Moms: Healthy Cooking Tips

For a busy mom who is challenged with domestic responsibilities, cooking a quick and healthy meal is a must.  Delivery, take-outs, and restaurant  food are not that advisable especially if you have growing kids who requires full nutrition.  These are more expensive than cooking your own meal at home.  Here are some useful cooking tips that would help  mom complete the task easier and prepare a healthy meal:

• Vegetable salad is easy to prepare with a pre-cut vegetables and some other vegetable greens.  Mix and toss in a big bowl, serve with a salad dressing.  Have some variations with salad dressing and experiment to suit your family taste.  Alternative for vegetable salads are steaming your vegetables which is easy to prepare.  Wash them thoroughly and steam for a couple of minutes.  
• Do not miss a fresh fruit (glucose came from fruits)  for a breakfast meal, it provides energy for the body during the  day.   
• Nutritionists recommends a five portions of fruits and vegetables a day and the more colourful the better.  They provide essential nutrients to our bodies with variety of vitamins, folic acid, fibre, and phytonutrients.
• Meat are high in protein but too much fats are not healthy.   Turn your  meat into a healthy one by trimming the skin to remove the fat, it will also absorb the flavors better when marinating.  Instead of deep fat frying, grill or stir-fry meat.
• Choose low-fat, sugar free, and rich in fiber  food for a healthier  eating habits.  Food rich in  fiber such as wheat bread and whole grain cereals reduces fatigue, a good breakfast with these type of food will sustain energy during the day.  
• Water theraphy is one of the healthiest thing to do during the day. Common research shows that lack of water in the body is the number one cause of daytime fatigue.   If the body is filled with enough water, it can perform more physical and mental activities.  In addition to these, it lowers the risk of  kidney problems, help remove body toxins, and having eight to ten glasses of water a day can ease back and joint pains.