The buzzword these days is "Databases". Whenever somebody uses this word a multitude of meaning flushes through my head and leave me wondering what Data Journalists have to say about pig farmers like me. The capital letters are intended to convey the idea that it's important and the low capital letters mean to indicate that bullshitting is part of ones profession.
For those who have been turned down by their trusted Social Media Expert or Communication Adviser I have a free tip. Watch this video and follow its instruction.
Showing posts with label website video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label website video. Show all posts
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
Webco Meeting 21.06
Just beeing back from the web coordinator meeting where all with the same lable as I come together and disucss "online thingiieess.." under the supervision of Manon.
The personal profile pages deadline is now February 2012. The initial proposal presented by Tim Smith on January 4, 2011 is still the valid one. In the meanwhile we will utilize the Department of Finance application and extend its use to all other faculties of the school. In a recent email from Matthew he states the reasons for a university solution as follows:
"I understand your recommendation regarding other service providers. However, I strongly believe that people (including myself) find sites hosted by the university institution more credible and their first port of call for academics‘ information on the web."
A centralized solution for future Google Analytics reports are also discussed. The marketing department will recieve a detailed report every month as do programm coordinators. What kind of information they want is up for debate here! Any suggestions please send an email to me (webc-sbe@maastrichtuniversity.nl)
The faculty of Law is proactive and has a slick web appearance. The trick is to use less text and more videos. T36 is responsible for the videos and add value to otherwise often confusing texts. The webvideo initiative with Brightcover at the centre is not used by SBE at all. So here is a call to everybody who has videos to bring them to me (B-1.10) on a disk or USB stick. The upload and distribution will be taken care of by a student web editor on central level. Please let me know if you have any videos.
Finalizing SBE's online evaluation report is my main job these days. I hope to finish it this week. It will be published as by the end of this month exclusively here. :)
Another call is out there to send in information about SBE faculty members who are in some European Union expert panel or otherwise related group. One strategic aim of SBE is to increase the presence of SBE faculty members in the press. And with the help of the EJC there is a good chance that we might succeed.
The personal profile pages deadline is now February 2012. The initial proposal presented by Tim Smith on January 4, 2011 is still the valid one. In the meanwhile we will utilize the Department of Finance application and extend its use to all other faculties of the school. In a recent email from Matthew he states the reasons for a university solution as follows:
"I understand your recommendation regarding other service providers. However, I strongly believe that people (including myself) find sites hosted by the university institution more credible and their first port of call for academics‘ information on the web."
A centralized solution for future Google Analytics reports are also discussed. The marketing department will recieve a detailed report every month as do programm coordinators. What kind of information they want is up for debate here! Any suggestions please send an email to me (webc-sbe@maastrichtuniversity.nl)
The faculty of Law is proactive and has a slick web appearance. The trick is to use less text and more videos. T36 is responsible for the videos and add value to otherwise often confusing texts. The webvideo initiative with Brightcover at the centre is not used by SBE at all. So here is a call to everybody who has videos to bring them to me (B-1.10) on a disk or USB stick. The upload and distribution will be taken care of by a student web editor on central level. Please let me know if you have any videos.
Finalizing SBE's online evaluation report is my main job these days. I hope to finish it this week. It will be published as by the end of this month exclusively here. :)
Another call is out there to send in information about SBE faculty members who are in some European Union expert panel or otherwise related group. One strategic aim of SBE is to increase the presence of SBE faculty members in the press. And with the help of the EJC there is a good chance that we might succeed.
Monday, 29 November 2010
Web 2.0 Update and Event Coverages
Last week I was unable to find the Maastricht Unversity Facebook Protokoll and today it found me again. So here it is: MU Facebook Protokoll
Comments appreciated. The recordings of the RENT conference are online since two weeks. Last week I got to know it and created this page. It links to the three recordings, two keynotes and one panel keynote session.
Comments appreciated. The recordings of the RENT conference are online since two weeks. Last week I got to know it and created this page. It links to the three recordings, two keynotes and one panel keynote session.
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Maastricht University's Web Video Universe
Video on the web is the big buzzword. It's not only a buzzword but a fact. ComScore estimated that in the US alone around 144 million people watched 14.6 billion videos this May and the number is increasing. Youtube alone is responsible for 1.8 billion streamed videos/day and leads the chart of online-video platforms. What holds for the consumption side is equally true for the production side. Every minute twelve hours of video is uploaded to youtube alone. Other stats speak that by 2014 around 80% of online content will be video while still others speak of 80% of users will consume it. From whatever perspective perspective one approaches this phenomenon Cisco sees no technical limit and is rather neutral in his recent report that gives an idea of why "data is the new pollution of the information age":
Video is the fastest growing media on the internet and no website (in the real world) comes without one. Video captivates more than text or images can do particularly in visual dominated cultures like ours. Moving images combined with music responds to our feelings and emotions in way only really good typography can do. (and Gutenberg was aware of this fact that is visible for us even today. Just look at the care and fines Gutenberg bibles exhibit) Video is easier to digest and much more convenient to experience than TV ever was. The reasons are technological and have little to do with how one use it to create a certain effect. But there is certainly more to it than just putting videos online.
I recorded an interview and a presentation exactly one week ago with a camera I borrowed from the university. A nice Sony HD consumer camera with an extra microphone and a tripod. A students editor was supposed to edit the material for me in the coming days. Of course I informed myself about other possibilities. I contacted Media Service Maastricht and Science Vision Maastricht. They offered me a professional set for a professional price. Since the budget is always the locus of disagreement I decided to move on with the in house equipment and services available. And here is the result:
The student editor has no time to edit anything before next week. (This means that for two weeks no such service exists practically) A very nice girl who's hobby is video editing cannot be blamed for having no time. But the equipment she gets in order to do the job can. The workstation she uses to edit HDvideos is not different from the workstation I use for web browsing in the cave. The free video editing software "Movie Maker" is her editing suit. She said something about another video editing software but this is even more confusing. So, already a week ago I thought that there is something wrong with all of this. But I remembered a prayer I put on the entrence of the cave:
Now coming back to video on the web. Whatever ends it serves it will not do so here. The lack of basic facilities (software and hardware) for their production is a major barrier and not easy to overcome. Skilled professional personal is the next barrier that needs serious meditation when one wants to embrace on-line video. As long as those obstacles are not eliminated nobody should talk about embracing the "fastest growing media on the web". It needs more to successfully utilize video to accompany the educational program of the University than thought experiments and guesswork. What it needs is investment. Once this is in place a fruitful discussion about what content is available and how the University can make use of it in a way that promotes the values it stand for can begin. But as long as the university has amateur videographers equipped with stone age tools nothing will happen.
Today Cisco announced the results of the annual Cisco® Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast, 2009-2014, which projects that global Internet traffic will increase more than fourfold to 767 exabytes, or more than 3/4 of a Zettabyte, by 2014. This amount is 100 exabytes higher than the projected level in 2013, or an increase the equivalent of 10 times all the traffic traversing Internet Protocol networks in 2008.Source here
The growth in traffic will continue to be dominated by video, exceeding 91 percent of global consumer IP traffic by 2014. Improvements in network bandwidth capacity and Internet speeds, along with the increasing popularity of HDTV and 3DTV are key factors expecting to quadruple IP traffic from 2009 to 2014.
Video is the fastest growing media on the internet and no website (in the real world) comes without one. Video captivates more than text or images can do particularly in visual dominated cultures like ours. Moving images combined with music responds to our feelings and emotions in way only really good typography can do. (and Gutenberg was aware of this fact that is visible for us even today. Just look at the care and fines Gutenberg bibles exhibit) Video is easier to digest and much more convenient to experience than TV ever was. The reasons are technological and have little to do with how one use it to create a certain effect. But there is certainly more to it than just putting videos online.
I recorded an interview and a presentation exactly one week ago with a camera I borrowed from the university. A nice Sony HD consumer camera with an extra microphone and a tripod. A students editor was supposed to edit the material for me in the coming days. Of course I informed myself about other possibilities. I contacted Media Service Maastricht and Science Vision Maastricht. They offered me a professional set for a professional price. Since the budget is always the locus of disagreement I decided to move on with the in house equipment and services available. And here is the result:
The student editor has no time to edit anything before next week. (This means that for two weeks no such service exists practically) A very nice girl who's hobby is video editing cannot be blamed for having no time. But the equipment she gets in order to do the job can. The workstation she uses to edit HDvideos is not different from the workstation I use for web browsing in the cave. The free video editing software "Movie Maker" is her editing suit. She said something about another video editing software but this is even more confusing. So, already a week ago I thought that there is something wrong with all of this. But I remembered a prayer I put on the entrence of the cave:
So I booked her workstation for two hours to encode the .MTS files into a editable format. I expected the other software to be installed but without the right login nothing shows up. After calling the Helpdesk and listening for 5 minutes to a female voice who repeated the same phrase over and over again I decided to ask somebody what is going on. And somebody came and explained to me that no such software was purchased by the university nor is anybody able to help me. He was very kind and really sorry for the inconvenience this situation caused. So what is the lesson?God, give me the serenity to accept the things I cannot changecourage to change the things I canand wisdom to always tell the difference.
Now coming back to video on the web. Whatever ends it serves it will not do so here. The lack of basic facilities (software and hardware) for their production is a major barrier and not easy to overcome. Skilled professional personal is the next barrier that needs serious meditation when one wants to embrace on-line video. As long as those obstacles are not eliminated nobody should talk about embracing the "fastest growing media on the web". It needs more to successfully utilize video to accompany the educational program of the University than thought experiments and guesswork. What it needs is investment. Once this is in place a fruitful discussion about what content is available and how the University can make use of it in a way that promotes the values it stand for can begin. But as long as the university has amateur videographers equipped with stone age tools nothing will happen.
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