If you are in the UK, Canada, Italy and a Facebook user you can’t have helped but have noticed the phenomena of Spotted. This collection of (occasionally) moderated Facebook pages has created a huge following over the last few weeks with their mix of bitchy comments and local information. The pages are the equivalent of the type of conversations you see in pubs across the land and are mostly harmless. However, just occasionally arguments flare that go well beyond the flame wars of previous … [Read more...]
Making a Web Video: The First Timer Experience ~ Round the Island Race
Video is fueling the growth of the internet; however, it is a lot more labour intensive to produce than writing text. A minute or two of web-grade video footage can take an hour or more of shooting to produce. TV quality productions can take even longer. My own baptism of fire in to online video production came a few weeks ago. As a company we have a “video guy”; however, he was on holiday during our filming opportunity, so I was dispatched in his place. I hadn’t picked up a camera in … [Read more...]
Skype for Business: Using Skype Video Conferencing
I asked Rich Jarrott of The Watch Hut to share tips on Skype Video Conferencing in this guest post. This short (just over 2 minutes) entertaining video covers features even those using it daily may have missed: Skype is now seen on a daily basis around the world. Its quality is even sufficient to be used by TV networks when the nature of the report makes immediacy more important than picture fidelity. Skype for Business Skype is certainly of high enough definition to use for largely static … [Read more...]