videoblogging

Why Film Engineers?

August 7, 2010

^ The Perf Trio: Jim Mauro, Brendan Gregg, and Roch Bourbonnais In the last three and a half years, working for Sun Microsystems and now Oracle, I have produced over 300 video assets, ranging in length from 10 minutes to 3 hours. Most of this material is software engineers talking about deeply technical topics. By [...]

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The Videoblogging Manual

March 9, 2010

Many of the posts on my Sun blog (now moved here) are tips and how-to’s, originally published in no particular order, that add up to the beginnings of a videoblogging manual. So here’s a table of contents, along with some notes which will eventually be developed into posts of their own. I’ll update this one [...]

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Videoblogging Tips: Getting Optimum Sound from a Consumer Camcorder

February 3, 2010

Me, demonstrating the audio equipment I used in videoblogging, and how to set it up. Filmed by Yolande Poirier.

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Notes: Videoblogging Session at CLS West

January 22, 2010

Problems video is slow (text can be skimmed/absorbed more quickly) Flash is not portable hosting curation and findability video quality language transcription/search indexing legal releases (someone was going to send us an example to use?) Want More Info About What makes good video? screencasting/capturing softare demos streaming filming presentations video on the web post-production covering [...]

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Brendan Gregg at FROSUG, Oct 2009

November 11, 2009

^ social media in action: you can see the video stream going out on the right On October 29th, Brendan Gregg spoke at the Front Range OpenSolaris User Group meeting on “Little Shop of Performance Horrors” (a Halloween theme). Yes, we taped it.

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Teresa Applies Her Training

October 30, 2009

The main reason I did videoblogging training at Sun’s Menlo Park offices a couple of weeks ago (rather than at some other time) was to get my colleague Teresa Giacomini ready to film the OpenSolaris User Group meeting she ran in Dresden this week. Looks as if she handled it just fine! photo by stiefkind

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Videoblogging Tips: Dressing for the Camera

October 23, 2009

Another snippet from the videoblogging training I did at Sun HQ.

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Videoblogging Tips: Filming Engineers

October 19, 2009

Yet another in the videoblogging tips series: how to get good footage of engineers who may not be accustomed to being filmed.

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-10-18: San Francisco

October 18, 2009

alarm was set for 5, so of course I woke up at 4:30. And of course I got to the airport too early, and of course the flight is delayed. # Colleague on the same plane going to #oow09 to demo something that I know @reiger wants to see. I’ll get video for you ; [...]

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Videoblogging Tips: Camera Motion

October 18, 2009

I trained four of my Sun colleagues in videoblogging, and, for practice, they filmed me talking. Some of the resulting video seemed useful, so here it is (in bite-sized pieces).

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Videoblogging Tips: Getting Good Sound at a Conference

October 17, 2009

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 [...]

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Videoblogging for Sun: Numbers Update

October 11, 2009

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 [...]

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Videoblogging for Sun: Numbers Update

September 18, 2009

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  [...]

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Videoblogging for Sun: By the Numbers

September 11, 2009

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 [...]

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President Lula of Brazil Meets OpenSolaris

July 5, 2009

Some of our OpenSolaris user group leaders in Brazil got to meet their president. I was privileged to get up close to film.

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-06-21: Chicago, CO

June 21, 2009

@AmberCadabra I’m guessing you’re getting a lot of ROI questions. What’s your answer? in reply to AmberCadabra # @travelocity bait and switch? Twice started looking at flights MIL-AUS at $1217, twice arrived at “We’re sorry, price changed” – by $300! in reply to travelocity # @EnricCirne wd be interesting to know: had you heard of [...]

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Producing Social Media

June 14, 2009

^ me and Alan, hard at work (photo by Lynn) Last week was a big one for Sun conferences, with CommunityOne on June 1st and 2nd, JavaOne starting on the 2nd. Like many other Sun folks, I was very busy with preparations in the weeks leading up to these, and played several different roles throughout [...]

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Videoblogging for Sun: Numbers Update

May 30, 2009

Last September I wrote Videoblogging for Sun: By the Numbers. It’s time for an update. So here’s the situation as of today: 21 months: how long I’ve been shooting video for Sun >200 hours (I stopped counting): video in the can (mostly shot by me personally) ~104 hours of video edited (mostly by me) and [...]

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The Things I Do at Sun: Video

May 30, 2009

My official job title at Sun is, I believe, the vague and essentially meaningless “Program Manager.” My Sun business cards say I’m a “Community Specialist and (Video)blogger”. I made that up in a hurry, and wish I could find something more descriptive. But it has long been the story of my professional life that what [...]

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Speaking in Chicago in June

May 19, 2009

Here’s the marketing blurb, I’ll write something more personalized… umm, when things calm down a little? June 16-17, Chicago: Join us in Chicago when INNOVATING EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT meets EXECUTING SOCIAL MEDIA FOR INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. Communitelligence presents two full jam-packed conference days on the most essential aspects of employee engagement, HR and social media for internal [...]

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