Design, Ideas & Opinions
We are not just writing stuff – we have videos, too
By Charlie on 05 May 2008
Due to May Day festivities, there has been a wee slowdown here at Nokia Conversations. Finland (where one half of our team is located) was basically closed last Thursday and Friday and the UK (where the other half of the team lives) is enjoying itself today. But, that hasn’t slowed down the visitors.
We’ve been getting some great comments and traffic with our Nokia 3600 slide, the Nokia 6600 slide and fold videos, and with the video with the designers talking about the story behind the Nokia 6600, all posted last Monday.
The ease with which we can now make these videos (many with an N95, of course) is really just part of why it seems like more videos are pouring out, revealing the insides of Nokia. The main reason, I see, is that there has been an attitude change.
It’s taken time, but the folks here at Nokia are relaxing their guard and realizing that over-polished over-produced videos are not what you want. You want good-quality, insightful, and to-the-point videos to give you the info (and fix) you need.
Isn’t that so? Well, we hear you and will try to get our hands on, or produce, more such videos.
We also not only want to put out more videos giving you an early peek at devices and an inside look into what we’re thinking, but to also provide more in-depth supporting material, like links and photos. For example, last week we posted a well-received video interview of the designers of the N96 and N78, whom we caught up with at the Nokia Design Event, with series of supporting articles from the event.
So, do you like this mix of video and supporting story and links? Or do you just want videos? Let me know what you think and what other topics you’d like to see videos of.
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Tags | 3600 Slide, 6600 Fold, 6600 Slide, interview, n95, Video, videos, writing
May 5th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
The videos are completely awesome. It just adds a more personal touch, and fosters a better relationship, in my opinion.
It’s one thing to read a transcription of a handset designer talking about things, but it’s quite another to get to see their facial expressions, and where they get visually excited, or where you can tell they were distressed about a specific feature. Keep the videos, and the accompanying story is nice, as well.
However, I’d like to add a request for a mobile-friendly video feed. The best way to do this would be to upload the video to Share on Ovi in a specific channel, as those videos are automatically converted for mobile consumption. Another possibility would be to use Tubemogul to upload to Blip and YouTube at the same time (this is how I do Driving with the Guru). You can give the blip feed as the rss for use in the Nokia Podcasting app, and then the YouTube channel gets populated at the same time, with the same video.
Feel free to shoot me an email if you’d like more information on how I use this setup.
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May 5th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
videos + text = win. it’s about hitting us with as much content as possible and creating lasting memories.
some videos don’t need text, others need a lot of text to add some meaning.
i’m sure you and your team know what they’re doing.
if i could vote 100 times for video i would. it really is all about the multimedia.
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