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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 [...]

Corporate Video: It’s Back!

I get the Video Insider newsletter regularly (with all my other newsletters) and it usually has good stuff in it. But I never felt compelled to respond to anything in it. Until now. This article took me by surprise: Online Video: Redefining How Businesses Connect With Their Customers
I’ve been doing “corporate video” for toooo long. [...]

Flip Mino HD: No Excuse for Not Doing Media

It’s official. You now have no reason to NOT get out there and do a little media. Flip Video has introduced the Flip MinoHD, a 3.3 ounce, 720P HD video camera. Shoots for 60 minutes, battery lasts for 2 hours. Just plug into a USB port (WIN or MAC) and upload to MySpace, YouTube or [...]

Guide to Exporting for Online Video

Here’s a brief little overview from the Shoot Yourself blog on exporting for online video. But the title, YouTube Tip #2: A Quick and Dirty Guide to Exporting for YouTube is a little misleading becasue most of the information comes from blip.tv, which has, in my opinion, some of the best tutorial of any of [...]

Copyright and Multimedia Law for Webbuilders and Multimedia Authors

I was working on some research for a project and I came across this excellent listing from the University of Iowa: Copyright and Multimedia Law for Webbuilders and Multimedia Authors.
Copyright, Fair Use, contracts and pretty much anything related to the law is generally a knowledge blackhole for media producers in all channels. This seemed like [...]

Shooting for Streaming from Jan Ozer

Jan Ozer, long time streaming and compression expert, has a great two part article in DigitalContentProducer called Shooting for Streaming.
I’ve known Jan for a lot of years and he really knows his stuff. He wrote the original Video Compression Bible. He had the top rated session at last year’s MCA-I ProTrack and will be [...]

When Words Are Not Enough: Rich Media for Training and Documentation (Part 3)

(This three part post is the content of my presentation at DocTrain West on May 5, 2008 in Vancouver, BC. You can view the presentation here.)
Some Streaming Details
Steaming your rich media files has some hardware and software requirements. First you’ll need some way to create the file; your editing software will take care of this. [...]

When Words Are Not Enough: Rich Media for Training and Documentation (Part 2)

(This three part post is the content of my presentation at DocTrain West on May 5, 2008 in Vancouver, BC. You can view the presentation here.)
You: Media Expert
That sounds like a lot to know and remember. You should keep in mind that you know a great deal about how good media is made. And you [...]

When Words Are Not Enough: Rich Media for Training and Documentation (Part 1)

(This three part post is the content of my presentation at DocTrain West on May 5, 2008 in Vancouver, BC. You can view the presentation here.)
It’s not enough to create a manual or job aid in today’s “instant media” environment. Today’s employees have grown up with and expect a rich media experience wherever they are. [...]