{"id":602,"date":"2008-04-30T11:38:22","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T10:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=602"},"modified":"2008-04-30T11:38:22","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T10:38:22","slug":"role-of-web-video-in-tech-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/602-role-of-web-video-in-tech-communications.html","title":{"rendered":"Role of web video in tech communications"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week’s Live Mesh<\/a> announcement was a significant one for Microsoft watchers. It was interesting to note that all the in-depth information came in the form of web video.<\/p>\n

Personally I dislike this trend. Video cannot easily be scanned to see what it contains; it also requires audio which is a nuisance. It is more work to quote from a video that to copy some text. I also resort to playing them at double speed where possible, to come closer to the speed of reading, and noting down the time of sections that I want to return to.<\/p>\n

Some of these problems could be mitigated by better presentation. For example, you could have summary text on the page next to an embedded video, with links to indexed points.<\/p>\n

However I also recognize that I may be in a minority. Video has obvious advantages; it is more informal, and can includes real demos as opposed to diagrams and screen grabs.<\/p>\n

I am even contemplating trying some video publishing of my own; it is time I reviewed Adobe Visual Communicator<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Even so, I’d suggest that companies take the time to offer transcripts of important video content. Text has advantages too.<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: video<\/a>, web<\/a>, pr<\/a>, communications<\/a>, adobe visual communicator<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week’s Live Mesh announcement was a significant one for Microsoft watchers. It was interesting to note that all the in-depth information came in the form of web video. Personally I dislike this trend. Video cannot easily be scanned to see what it contains; it also requires audio which is a nuisance. It is more … Continue reading Role of web video in tech communications<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,58,80,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-multimedia","category-software-development","category-web-authoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}