Video blogging with Seesmic

I wanted to share my first Seesmic vid with you.

Internet video sites like YouTube have been around for ages and to me they have taken over the role of public access TV stations, or clip-sharing sites for commercial TV programmes (like Flight of the Conchords, my current fave). The personal videos have always been present but are being drowned out.

This gap invites some new personal video sites to emerge. Seesmic, the one I used, is designed to be conversational, with ‘video replies’ woven into the heart of the site. Then there’s 12Seconds which flips Twitter’s 140 character limit and turns that into a 12 seconds of video max. Both of these sites are pushing people to produce ever more content through their short, punchy formats and responsive communities.

When launching the new look for Plusnet, a video seemed like a perfect fit to accompany our text-based Community site. The rest is history.

Wait, don’t click play yet! Best place to view is embedded in Plusnet’s Community site post about the new look- it was always designed to accompany the launch post over there, so makes more sense.

If you’re just too eager then here it is embedded.

My next post will be advice on the pitfalls and problems to avoid when posting to internet video sites, as well as the tips I found along the way to make a good video post. I didn’t follow 100% in mine, but it’s a learning experience.