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Accessible DoingMedia (and podcast, oh my!)


If you’re reading the blog right now you might notice a button below the post title that says “Listen Now”.  And in the sidebar, just below the “Subscribe” links, a “Listen” section with a button called “Odiogo.” Well, I’m killing two birds with one stone.
I’m making the content of DoingMedia more accessible for the vision [...]

Where Does Content Fit?


I have been reading A List Apart since it was an actual listserv. It is a great resource, nay, one of the best resources, for user experience, user centered design, information architecture and web standard coding information.
In mid-December 2008 they ran a couple of articles/posts on what they referred to as “content strategy.” I wrote [...]

Regifting: 50 YouTube and Online Video Tips


Chris Pirillo is a prolific blogger and vlogger and…  He just hit 50,000 subscribers on his YouTube account. That’s more than Oprah (he says) and about 49,999 more than DoingMedia ( I say.)
A colleague on the Alliance for Community Media forum list passed along this link to Chris’ post, 50 YouTube and Online Video Tips [...]

Public-Access TV Fights for Relevance in the YouTube Age


Many of today’s video producers got their start in public access television, whether they admit it or not. I was involved in access in the 1980s as a way to practice my craft on different subject matter than the corporate stuff I produced during the day. And it gave me a way to practice my [...]

“Presentation Zen” Author Webcast


Peachpit Press ( a personal fav) is offering a free webcast with Garr Reynolds, author of Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter). (Note to self - write presentation Zen blog post.)
If you create presentations, video, what have you for you, for you or your clients this is well [...]

Web Content Migration: Don’t Cry Over Sour Milk


I really like Gerry McGovern (why didn’t I look him up while I was in Ireland?); he always hits the nail on the head. And he drove it home again in his recent post Web content migration: disastrous strategy.
So many organizations think that a new technology solution will fix an old business problem. The only [...]

Your Information Architecture is in my Audio!


I have always liked the Boxes and Arrows site for the latest on information architecture and interaction design. This post, Information Architecture for Audio: Doing It Right, caught my eye. I had never consciously considered information architecture principals while creating audio.
Here’s the key points:

Write with your audience in mind
Structure your content by providing an overview [...]

Some Books We Like


I just created a new page call Books We Like that lists, well, books we like.
The books are categorized by topic and, depending how observant you are, the topics are listed in order of the doing media process.
These are all on our shelf in the office. A few need updated copies. And I recommend all [...]

DoingMedia on Tech in Twenty


My friends Jennifer Navarrete and Luis Sandoval asked me over to their BlogTalkRadio show to talk about How to use the Online Video Tools. It was a lot of fun.
What will you hear? Well, a lot of the same sort of thing you’ll find here at the DoingMedia blog.
Here’s a high level recap:

Use a tripod [...]

YouTube for Associations


I’ve followed the association blogger space for awhile mostly because of my work with MCA-I. Maddie Grant is one of those bloggers. Besides her day job she has a side gig with Linda Dreyer called SocialFish.
Here’s a the main points from their most recent newsletter article titled Experiment with YouTube It’s easier (and cheaper) than [...]