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When an image is not enough, the output is audial or you want to show interaction then you'll need to provide the reader with multimedia. You can follow a few simple tips there to avoid confusion.

*'''Provide a fallback link''' - a lot of RSS readers will filter out multimedia content. If you talk about a video in your post that is not visible this will confuse people. Therefore it makes sense to add a sentence before embedding the video to link to the resource on the web. Like "Check out this example in action." with "this example" being liked to the YouTube video you embed following the sentence. That way it makes sense for those who can see the video (and open/bookmark the video for later using the link) and those who haven't got video. The same applies to using an HTML5 video element. As the last fallback inside the element provide a link to the video, telling the user the format and size - like "Video recording of Chris talking on HTML5 at MDN hack day in NYC - 23MB - MP4".

*'''Keep them snappy''' - if you just want to show a quick demo, have just that demo without any voice-over. This is to show what things look like, not to replace the post.

*'''Cross-link from the video site''' - if you use YouTube to host your video, give the video a good title and description there and make sure to link to your post. A lot of traffic can come from there as people are very likely to share the video on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ and they might forget to link the original post.