Hi Debbie, you should definitely continue with the videos. You’ll only get better at it the more you do it.
Two pieces of (hopefully useful) feedback:
- where are you looking while you record? It’s SO far away from the camera that it seems like you’re skyping with someone else, not talking to the audience
- the issue with videos is that it’s very hard to index right now. If you hadn’t used Balsamiq in the post title I wouldn’t have found you at all. I think there are services that try to write the transcript of videos automatically…even if it’s not a good transcript, I think it’ll be better than nothing. Check out what Andrew does at mixergy.com, I think he has a 2-step process where it’s first automatically transcribed, then people (volunteers? mechanical turk?) go in and fix it all up. Even without step 2, I think it might be useful.
- as you get better, I think these videos will get shorter (more digestable). Unless of course you’re Scoble, who still posts hour-long videos after all this time…
I hope these help. Keep sharing, I’m learning about video-blogging from you!
Thank you for the feedback and the wonderful suggestions! Fantastic. I’ll look into the transcription you mentioned, and it’s great to know that my focus seems off (somehow I’ve missed this).
I didn’t know that Scoble does similar videos (I’ve seen his interviews), so I’m really curious to check them out. Finding someone who video blogs in a related manner would be priceless.
Mucho-mucho thanks!
(oh, and, by the way, congrats on your phenomenal success with Balsamiq!)
Hi Debbie, you should definitely continue with the videos. You’ll only get better at it the more you do it.
Two pieces of (hopefully useful) feedback:
- where are you looking while you record? It’s SO far away from the camera that it seems like you’re skyping with someone else, not talking to the audience
- the issue with videos is that it’s very hard to index right now. If you hadn’t used Balsamiq in the post title I wouldn’t have found you at all. I think there are services that try to write the transcript of videos automatically…even if it’s not a good transcript, I think it’ll be better than nothing. Check out what Andrew does at mixergy.com, I think he has a 2-step process where it’s first automatically transcribed, then people (volunteers? mechanical turk?) go in and fix it all up. Even without step 2, I think it might be useful.
- as you get better, I think these videos will get shorter (more digestable). Unless of course you’re Scoble, who still posts hour-long videos after all this time…
I hope these help. Keep sharing, I’m learning about video-blogging from you!
Peldi
Thank you for the feedback and the wonderful suggestions! Fantastic. I’ll look into the transcription you mentioned, and it’s great to know that my focus seems off (somehow I’ve missed this).
I didn’t know that Scoble does similar videos (I’ve seen his interviews), so I’m really curious to check them out. Finding someone who video blogs in a related manner would be priceless.
Mucho-mucho thanks!
(oh, and, by the way, congrats on your phenomenal success with Balsamiq!)