Maiden Voyage

We just want to help. We want to help take the frustrations out of producing digital content. We have been working hard to help creative professionals spend their time doing what they like and want to do: make cool media so that they can share it with their friends and find an audience for their product, an audience that likes it enough to pay for it.

We have spent the last several years working with creative professionals to help improve their ability to make great content and now we want to help you. We have pulled together a great team of videobloggers and technology to help you learn how to or improve how you create digital media. We want to help you be the best producer of digital media. We now have the tools and ability to publish our creative works in our own voice, when we want, where we want, to those people that care the most. There is a significant need emerging to improve the quality of user generated videos and we want to make it as easy as possible for you to go up the learning curve and produce videos as compelling as commercial television and beyond. We love to create.

In a business environment we use several processes that help us take the waste out of what we do, so we can do those things that we like to do. We are starting our “Maiden Voyage,” to bring together those that have a passion for creating new media production techniques. I hope we do justice to the community.

When I want to get something done I first look for the team that can come together and make something great happen. Look at the credits for any movie, song, magazine and for that matter when we try to get something done in business we want to find the great teams to make the most important things happen. In sports, yes we use the same lingo.

Why can’t we just do it? Finding the team starts with what we are trying to get done. If we can bring clarity to what we are trying to get done, what it will look like when we are finished, what experience does the audience have, is there a way to measure it? Who can I pull together? What different outcome would happen with a different set of people or people and places that they come from.

One of our first examples of this was using our file sharing technology to create mashups for SXSW. We got rights cleared to allow a group of people to take a song and make their own music video. Several people did this from around the country and it was shared at SXSW. A more recent global example was with Alive in Bagdhad, where film was shot on the ground in Bagdhad, produced in Boston, edited in San Antonio and distributed around the world. We believe their will be more and more video produced in a distributed fashion, with people connecting from around the world to tell their stories.

We have brought together a great team of people. A starting place to learn how to videoblog through Freevlog, a community at Ourmedia and a set of tools based on our patent pending peer to peer technology called SpinXpress. We hope you come along for the ride.