collaboration Articles

Collaboration is working together to achieve a goal. It is a recursive process where two or more people or organizations work together to realize shared goals, (this is more than the intersection of common goals seen in co-operative ventures, but a deep, collective, determination to reach an identical objective) — for example, an intriguing endeavor that is creative in nature—by sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus. Most collaboration requires leadership, although the form o...

How The HTML 5 War Has Been Won, By Adobe and Kaltura

Many people out there think that a war was brewing. That it was us versus them, that one thing is better than the other and that, in Highlander style: There can be only one. Adobe proved them all wrong this week by incorporating Kaltura's HTML5 ...

YouTube Marketing Tips for Partners: Engage The YouTube Community for Audience Growth

YouTube is wrapping up their wonderful "Tips for Partners" blog series, and I'm sad to see it winding down, because it's been fantastic.  Their last installment said the series would "run several weeks," but now it's ending after a total of four.  After covering a ...

Silverlight Gets Streaming Surround Sound With SRS 5.1 Support and Toolkit

SRS Labs, Inc. has teamed up with Microsoft to offer full SRS 5.1 Surround Sound via a new toolkit for the platform. That means Silverlight will soon feature encoding and decoding of surround sound for streaming content.

Viral Video Lessons Round Up - Rockets, Collaborations, and Camera Glitches

Every Friday I like to share some of the week's biggest viral video hits with you.  I also like deconstructing them, trying to put our finger on what it was about each video that hit the viewing public just right enough to make them share ...

Crowdsourced Fan Film, Star Wars Uncut, Is Finished... and It's Awesome

I've been interested in the Star Wars: Uncut project ever since I heard about it last October.  The premise:  let fans pick their favorite 15-second scenes from the original Star Wars: A New Hope movie and re-film it—fan film style—and then stitch together everyone's scenes ...

Online Video Marketing Basics Part 3 - Self-Produce or Hire A Professional?

Once you've made the decision to get involved in online video, and picked the video style that you think fits both your personality and your goals, it's time to start thinking about production.  And in online video production, there are really only two choices:  self-produce, ...

Hollywood Directors Team With YouTube To Launch Historic YouTube Film Experiment

Everyone wants to leverage YouTube, and the professional film community is no different.  We've seen unknown directors land big Hollywood gigs because of a video they uploaded.  We've seen major film studios reap the benefits and word of mouth for new releases by adding the ...

A Professional Approach To Web Video – What Does A Video Producer Do?

Video is becoming ubiquitous in corporate marketing – being used for communication with both external and internal audiences. However, in an age of flip cams, low-cost editing software and tight budgets, many companies think they can easily produce video themselves and as a result, are ...

Encoding Video for The Web - Encoding Webinar Replay Video

A few weeks back on May 5th, we held our very first ReelSEO webinar event titled, "Encoding Video for the Web."  The webinar was a great success and we had more than 250 attendees join us for the first hour with more than 150 remaining ...

Free Webinar - Got Questions About Encoding Video for The Web?

UPDATE - You can watch the entire webinar replay here - Encoding Video for the Web. Please join us tomorrow, May 5th at 11am Pacific, for our free webinar all about encoding video for the web.  If you are producing video for the web and ...

Steve Jobs' Flash Dance - Contradicts Self On Reasons for No Flash for Apple Mobile Platforms

Two big A's continue their row. The latest round was fired by Apple CEO, Steve Jobs in a lengthy blog post entitled 'Thoughts on Flash.' No it's not some new memory technique or a way to save your childhood before old age strips you of ...

Commoncraft and Wistia Team Up On Video Licensing and Delivery

Common Craft, whose series of In Plain English videos are some of the most cited and sourced video content online, has announced a new partnership with Wistia today.  You can read the blog post about it from Wistia.

Science Discovers Online Video and Social Media

Everyone is finding some benefit to using online video, even the scientific community. They're not really using it as advertising and marketing but more as a way to connect with the public in general and help them understand where all that research money goes. For ...

Legal Online Video and Fair Use - Sharing Versus Ownership

ReelSEO's Grant Crowell interviews interview Dr. Shay David, VP of Business and Community Development and co-founder of the open source video platform and network Kaltura, and founding member of the Open Video Alliance, about what he considers to be the most important legal issues with open standards and technologies with online video today.

Video Project Planning and Management - Market7 Review

Market7 wants to be your online collaboration service and video project planning solution and of course make money off of you while doing it. They have free trial accounts to check it out and offer a range of product packages to help you get all ...