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It's Friday and with the weekend coming up it seems like a great time to give you some quick links to lots of new things going on with the SCU site. Check them out over the weekend and stay tuned, there's some great new content coming from SCU's partners.

• SCU's new Home page: There's so much content every week on SCU. We wanted to make it easier for you to find the newest content and at the same time link to places that give you the most help. Checked it out yet?

• Profoto Friday: There are some amazing artists and projects featured on the Profoto Blog, but we want to make it more relevant to where we're hearing you need help. Each Friday SCU will be featuring a post from Profoto's archives that represents creativity with some good solid "how to" content.  Check out today's post with Aaron Conway Dancing with the D1. 

• SproutingPhotographer: There are some outstanding podcasts at Sprouting Photographer and working together with Bryan Caporicci and Rob Nowell, we want to make it even easier for you to connect. Now you've got both the SCU podcasts and Sprouting Photographer's with easy access in one location.

• GoingPro: Working together with 15 of the industry's leading educators, this new Facebook forum is dedicated to helping you find the answers you need to build a stronger business, including working on your technical skills. In just three weeks it's already loaded with great content and some terrific discussions about the challenges you face every day. Here's a forum to add to your current list with support from Tony Corbell, Lori Nordstrom, Roberto Valenzuela, Lori Nordstrom, Bryan Caporicci, Michael Corsentino, The Becker, Chris Fawkes, Kevin Kubota, Sandy Puc-Quiroz, Bob Coates, Michele Celentano, Jared Platt, Jen Rozenbaum and Erin Clark Zahradka.

• The Search for the Ultimate Story Video Contest: The second contest is well underway with some great submissions already. Video represents a huge potential market for photographers today. So, working together with good friends from Photodex, we've got three contests scheduled for 2014. In this second contest the theme is travel, adventure and landscape. Here's an opportunity for you to demonstrate your storytelling skills and at the same time have a shot at winning some outstanding prizes.

• Mind Your Own Business: Our fifth webcast is up and features Kevin Kubota. The topic is near and dear to all of our hearts - getting your business workflow organized and efficient. Working together with Photofocus.com we're working to bring some terrific content to help you build a build a stronger business.