Previously I’ve discussed the benefits and uses of micro-blogging, badging and virtual worlds inside an organization. It’s time to tackle video sharing. There are a few ways in which you can bring a YouTube like experience to your employees. You could use YouTube of course, but your security people might get a little wobbly in the knees on that one. There are other stand-alone cloud-based services that you might want to investigate such as Fuse and MediaCore. If you have implemented or are thinking of implementing a human capital talent suite, options like SuccessFactors and Kenexa have some built-in video sharing options for you. Of course collaboration platforms like Jive or Confluence come with it as well. Come to think of it, you don’t really have an excuse not to have a video sharing option available
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Rest assured, I am not against The Khan Academy … at least not entirely. There are several reasons to celebrate what its founder, Sal Khan, and the team have done: A discussion about ‘flipping the classroom’ (as the Economist helped point out) has become mainstream, if not a healthy obsession Outlets such as TED, Charlie Rose and even Stephen Colbert have helped push the topic of education reform to the masses by interviewing or showcasing Sal Khan Videos and learning have become an essential component of the learning cycle; as opposed to some form of babysitting tool. See this short video for an example Even vendors like Cisco are producing white papers outlining the benefits of video in education Where I take umbrage with The
A few facts about YouTube: 24 hours of content is uploaded every minute YouTube has more than 490 million unique users worldwide per month There are over 92 billion page views each month Users spend roughly 2.9 billion hours on YouTube in a month The average user spends 15 minutes each day viewing videos Clearly, as a consumer society, we are beginning to evolve both our sharing and viewing habits. Sure, much of the content on YouTube may be coming from traditional media (clips of TV shows or movies, music videos, commercials, etc.) but it doesn’t negate the point that we are sharing the content in the first place and viewing it at our convenience through our favorite YouTube player on whatever device suits our