This week I trained four of my Sun colleagues in videoblogging. It was very hands-on training, with the intent that they actually produce a finished video by the end of the two-day course.
We started with setting up the cameras and mics right away, and I had them practice following an active speaker (me, imitating Jeff Bonwick’s pacing). I wasn’t really thinking about the fact that they were filming me, so I was completely unself-conscious. Which was good in some ways, not so good in others. But some of the material may be useful for videobloggers in general, so I’m editing and posting it in spite of what seems to be inordinate emphasis on my chest.
Recently realized that a dumb spreadsheet error (mine) was causing a serious undercount in the total views of my videos. My video stats for 2009 now read:
100 hours of video shot to date (and more to come before the year ends)
35 hours of video edited (mostly by me) and available (some of it only internally)
~16 events/locations shot
Total cumulative views on all "my" videos through the end of October is 88,672.
25 months: how long I’ve been shooting video for Sun
well over 200 hours: video in the can (mostly shot by me personally) – and more constantly on the way (the photo above doesn’t show quite all the tapes I’ve got – some were out for editing)
150 hours: video edited, compressed, and published online (not quite all by me)
100s of “productions” ranging from 2-minute community introductions to a 3 hour last word on ZFS.
these videos were shot at about 25 different conferences (some Sun internal), plus on a few other occasions and visits to Sun offices worldwide
~55,000 total views: of these videos as of Sept 18, 2009
speeches/presentations/workshops on how to do videoblogging and social media production
13 months: how long I’ve been shooting video for Sun
150 hours: video in the can (mostly shot by me personally) – and more constantly on the way
50 hours: video edited, compressed, and published online (not quite all by me)
~70 video productions: ranging from 2-minute community introductions to a 2:15 hour deep dive on MPxIO
140 files: of video, including multiple formats (FLV Flash for embedding in a web page, M4V to download for iPod viewing)
16,103 total views: of these videos (as hosted on Mediacast – some are also available in other places such as YouTube) as of Sept 10, 2008
~20,000 page views: to video posts on Storage Stop since the first video was posted (Oct 24, 2007). If these posts were a blog of their own, it would be #165 in Sun blog rankings for that period. (Storage Stop overall comes in at #87 for this period.)
1 email: all it takes to find out how you can put these videos to work for you: e.g., embed them in your blog, distribute on DVD… We want to open source our knowledge. Let’s talk about it.
