I was in Wellingon, New Zealand, this week, where my old friend David Earle had arranged for me to give presentations/seminars hosted by the Ministry of Education. These were open to all, and the attendees were a cross-section of government, NGOs, and local community representatives.
- Monday: Extending Conversations Through Social Media (pdf) – about 40 attendees
- Tuesday: Using Video to Enrich Conversations (pdf) – about 20 attendees
- Wednesday: a two-hour open-ended conversation with ~10 people about everything from video formats and compression to building traffic to the difficulties of hosting for a department of defense
The attendees seemed to find the info useful, and I was at least as interested in hearing their stories: the usual problems with nervous managers, unwieldy systems and software, and Terms of Use that make it illegal for government departments to use some popular online tools (e.g., Google Analytics – but that’s being worked out).
I took the opportunity to mention slx.com, Sun’s soon-to-release SaaS video platform, which could be a useful solution for some departments which need to be able to publish video easily and without restrictions on length, and possibly limit access to insiders and/or a predefined set of users.
