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The Story of Building the New Common Craft
Posted by: leelefever on December 12, 2011- 10:24am
Categories: design, development, history, New Common Craft, story, website
A few months ago, we released a completely new and different Common Craft. This is the story of the big ideas that drove the change and getting the website designed and built.
App or Not?
In 2010, we wanted a Common Craft app that would put our video library in your pocket, any time you need it. We had a version built, but something didn’t feel right. We dropped it. Soon after, I talked to a few people I respect in the mobile world, like Brian Fling at Pinch/Zoom and Brian Leroux at Nitobi... Continue Reading
Making Common Craft a Global Resource
Posted by: leelefever on September 15, 2011- 1:43pm
Categories: international, languages, New Common Craft, translations
A while back we realized something interesting about Common Craft videos: they travel well. We can replace my voice with the voice of a Spanish or Japanese speaker and the videos work. This set us on a path to take over the world.
Let me explain.
Educators and trainers in over 40 countries have licensed our videos since 2007 and we receive email regularly asking to translate the videos for their non-English speaking audience. If we could give these good folks a dependable resource for... Continue Reading
It's true! We just launched our new website and business. Here’s a quick review:
Common Craft is now a video subscription service. You or your organization can become a Common Craft member and have your own online library of all current and future Common Craft videos for use in classrooms and on the web.
Membership features include:
Instant access - your own growing library of Common Craft videos
Sharing tools - easily embed, display or download any video
Worry-free membership - no extra fees... Continue Reading