Links

Other Video Training Sites

• FreeVlog. Lots of help and tutorials by and for vloggers.
• Current TV Training. Extensive training for citizen journalists.
• Make Internet TV. A Web site devoted to making Internet TV by the folks who make the Democracy Player.
• Creative Cow. Top video professional training and networking site.
• Digital Juice Videos. Scores of high qualty instructional videos on digital video production.
• BBC training center for New Media. Both online and in-person resources.
• Lynda.com Digital Video Training. Established online trainer and worth the money. Covers most software with excellent teachers.
• Learn About Video Blogging. A concise video primer on the basic video blogging production loop (shoot to upload). With Steve Garfield (the Paul Revere of video blogging), John Barth, Jason Crow and Four Eyed Monsters. By the New Media Literacies Project.

Concept

• Learning Center Veterans Speak Section. See how others started out.
• Definitions from Wikipedia: Television Program, Video Clip, Video Blog, Virtual Community.
• "This American Life" storyteller Ira Glass on the use of anecdotes and moments of reflection in storytelling.
• Storytelling Training. From Current TV.
• BBC Interviews with media makers. Video interviews with new media producers, writers, filmmakers, journalists, hosts, directors, editors, etc.

Tools

Produce

Export

• Video of basic exporting for the Web in Movie Maker. From Freevlog
• Video of basic exporting for the Web in iMovie . From Freevlog
• Apple's Current Podcaster Tech Specs. Find out what they are recommending for all aspects of video compression and tagging.
• Apple's h.264 CODEC tech sheet.
• Windows Movie Maker. Exporting Windows Media Player versions for the Web.

Distribute

• Blogger.com free blog hosting.
• WordPress.com. Excellent blog hosting, and open source blog software.
• Ning Free social networking software used by many Blip shows.
• FeedIcons.com. Great subscription, feed, RSS, etc. icons for your site.
• CreativeCommons.org. "Provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry."
• Wikipedia RSS entry.

Community

• Yahoo Video Blogging Group. The Big Kahuna! Start here.
• Vloggercon. In-person conference.
• Pixelodeon. The first one was held in 2007 and was very successful.
• Local Meet-Ups in: Television production, DV video, and Blogging.
• "DVXuser.com . "The online community for filmmaking."
• SURVEY: NEW MEDIA. Among the Audience. From the Economist print edition. Apr 20th 2006.
• Participatory Media - Who Owns The Work You Share?. Article on an often overlooked aspect of Participatory Media.
• Unmediated.org. "Tracking the tools that decentralize the media."
• ITV Today. Interactive TV industry newsletter.

Advertise

• Ad Age.
• Ad Week.

Veteran's Speak

• See Video # 3 "Production Basics" From "Learn About Video Blogging". A consise primer on basic video blogging production (shoot to upload). With Steve Garfield (the Paul Revere of video blogging), John Barth, Jason Crow and Four Eyed Monsters.
• Current TV's interviews. Media makers such as Robert Redford and Ira Glass speak about the art of storytelling.
• BBC's Media Interviews. Video interviews with new media producers, writers, filmmakers, journalists, hosts, directors, editors, etc.