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Video: Cloud Computing in Plain English

leelefever — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:36:31 +0000

Today we published a new video called Cloud Computing in Plain English:

This title has been one of our most requested and for good reason. Cloud Computing is a subject that has an explanation problem - people have a hard time understanding it because it's difficult to explain quickly. Like Social Media, it's a subject that is very broad and lacks broad consensus in terms of clear explanations. Our hope with this video is to lay bit of groundwork so people can see the big ideas.

We asked a number of people for input on the video and I want to thank: Tony Wright, Chris Savage, Uri Budnick, Jeff Dickey and lots of others who I bugged over the last year.

Lastly, this video is available for embedding with a monthly subscription fee. If you're interested, learn more or contact us.

Video: Cloud Computing in Plain English

leelefever — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:36:31 +0000

Today we published a new video called Cloud Computing in Plain English:

We asked a number of people for input on the video and I want to thank: Tony Wright, Chris Savage, Uri Budnick, Jeff Dickey and lots of others who I bugged over the last year.

Lastly, this video is available for embedding with a monthly subscription fee. If you're interested, learn more or contact us.

Video: Cloud Computing in Plain English

leelefever — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:36:31 +0000

Today we published a new video called Cloud Computing in Plain English:

We asked a number of people for input on the video and I want to thank: Tony Wright, Chris Savage, Uri Budnick, Jeff Dickey and lots of others who I bugged over the last year.

Lastly, this video is available for embedding with a monthly subscription fee. If you're interested, learn more or contact us.

Video: Cloud Computing in Plain English

leelefever — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:36:31 +0000

Today we published a new video called Cloud Computing in Plain English:

We asked a number of people for input on the video and I want to thank: Tony Wright, Chris Savage, Uri Budnick, Jeff Dickey and lots of others who I bugged over the last year.

Lastly, this video is available for embedding with a monthly subscription fee. If you're interested, learn more or contact us.

Video: Cloud Computing in Plain English

leelefever — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:36:31 +0000

Today we published a new video called Cloud Computing in Plain English:

We asked a number of people for input on the video and I want to thank: Tony Wright, Chris Savage, Uri Budnick, Jeff Dickey and lots of others who I bugged over the last year.

Lastly, this video is available for embedding with a monthly subscription fee. If you're interested, learn more or contact us.

Video: Cloud Computing in Plain English

leelefever — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:36:31 +0000

Today we published a new video called Cloud Computing in Plain English:

We asked a number of people for input on the video and I want to thank: Tony Wright, Chris Savage, Uri Budnick, Jeff Dickey and lots of others who I bugged over the last year.

Lastly, this video is available for embedding with a monthly subscription fee. If you're interested, learn more or contact us.

Video: Saving for Retirement (401ks) in Plain English

leelefever — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:31:41 +0000

Today we've published a new video "Saving for Retirement in Plain English".

Since we first considered making the series of videos on Money, we've had our eyes on retirement savings. Not just our retirement, but yours. Too many people start saving too late and/or don't know the basics of why retirement accounts like 401ks and IRAs make sense. This video is aimed at helping people see the long term benefits of retirement accounts.

Who is it for? Along with use in schools, we see this video being a tool for companies who offer retirement programs. This video can be licensed for use by HR (or financial organizations) that have the goal of increasing awareness and adoption of the programs.

This video will join the other Money videos in a forthcoming "Financial Basics Pack" of 6 videos:

The release of this video also marks a break for our recent focus on money and a return to technology. More coming soon!

Twitter.com Now With Less Common Craft

leelefever — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:41:25 +0000

Well, it was a good run. Twitter recently redesigned their home page and the link to the Common Craft video "Twitter in Plain English" has been removed. Here's the story of how it got there:

Back in February of 2008, I shared the video with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. After making a handshake deal, the video appeared via a "watch a video" link from Twitter.com.

Twitter decided to use the dotSUB player for the displaying the video, which enabled the video to be watched with subtitles in many languages. The video has since been translated into 69 languages. As of today, about 1.5 years later, that video has been viewed over 8.7 million times via the dotSUB linked from Twitter.com.

The Twitter folks put a link along with the video to CommonCraft.com, which sent a lot of people in our direction.

Now that the page has been redesigned, the link to the video and to Common Craft are no more. But we're not sad. We're so honored to have been a part of helping educate people about Twitter - a simple idea that's very hard to explain. In the end, Twitter helped raise the visibility of our work and the work of explainers in general. We heard many, many times "We want a video like you did for Twitter." Thanks to Biz, Ev and the Twitter team for giving Common Craft the opportunity to a part of an amazing trajectory. We'll never forget it.

While the video isn't linked via on Twitter.com, it's obviously alive and well on CommonCraft.com. We recently published Twitter Search in Plain English as a follow on.

Twitter.com Now With Less Common Craft

leelefever — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:41:25 +0000

Well, it was a good run. Twitter recently redesigned their home page and the link to the Common Craft video "Twitter in Plain English" has been removed. Here's the story of how it got there:

Back in February of 2008, I shared the video with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. After making a handshake deal, the video appeared via a "watch a video" link from Twitter.com.

The Twitter folks put a link along with the video to CommonCraft.com, which sent a lot of people in our direction.

While the video isn't linked via on Twitter.com, it's obviously alive and well on CommonCraft.com. We recently published Twitter Search in Plain English as a follow on.

Twitter.com Now With Less Common Craft

leelefever — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:41:25 +0000

Well, it was a good run. Twitter recently redesigned their home page and the link to the Common Craft video "Twitter in Plain English" has been removed. Here's the story of how it got there:

Back in February of 2008, I shared the video with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. After making a handshake deal, the video appeared via a "watch a video" link from Twitter.com.

The Twitter folks put a link along with the video to CommonCraft.com, which sent a lot of people in our direction.

While the video isn't linked via on Twitter.com, it's obviously alive and well on CommonCraft.com. We recently published Twitter Search in Plain English as a follow on.