Today I’m excited to launch a new project: the Crafting an MBA video challenge!
I’m on a mission to produce more videos to promote my business, and I want you to do the same.
Why is video such a great tool for promoting your business?
Watch the video below to find out why video matters, what the video challenge is, and how you can win a really great prize:
If you want to participate in the challenge, all you have to do is make videos that help promote your business and upload them to YouTube with the tag craftMBA.
*Please note that only videos that promote your business will count towards the challenge. I’m sure your cats are adorable and your kids are funny, but the goal here is to focus on promoting your business.
Stuck on what kinds of videos to produce? I’ll be sharing a video a little later in May with a lot of video ideas, but in the mean time, why not start by creating a video that introduces yourself to your customers?
And don’t forget to upload it to YouTube with the…
The moving pictures tell the story. This animation, made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and narrated by one of its scientists, shows not only the powerful destruction in coastal Japan but also how far the waves traveled. About 16 hours after creation, the waves filled the entire Pacific Ocean with remarkably complex patterns, and began to spill into neighboring waters like the Indian Ocean.
A new partnership between publisher Thomson Reuters and video service Blue Sky Broadcast could make it easier to attend academic conferences remotely, by combining conference abstracts with video of presentations.
The partnership would allow conference organizers to link video content to abstracts and other conference materials submitted through Thomson Reuter’s ScholarOne Abstracts management software. Conference participants could access video and written materials on one Web site, rather than going to separate Web sites for each.
Thomson Reuters says the partnership would allow conferences to offer remote video access to participants who can’t afford to travel and provide a valuable service for attendees who do make it in person but want to be able to watch sessions they missed or review and share sessions they attended.
“With the spoken word that happens at the meeting, if no one was there to capture it, then it’s lost,” says Keith Collier, vice president at Thomson Reuters.
Alexandra Wallace, the UCLA junior whose brief video rant against Asian students drew a firestorm of criticism, including a video response from UCLA’s chancellor, has decided to withdraw from the university, the Los Angeles Times reports. Ms. Wallace, who has apologized repeatedly for the video, said she was leaving because she had received death threats. In a statement posted by The Daily Bruin, the student newspaper, she reiterated her remorse for having made the video but said her mistake had led to “the harassment of my family, the publishing of my personal information, death threats, and being ostracized from an entire community.” Her decision followed UCLA’s announcement on Friday that she would not be disciplined for the video, which, while offensive, did not violate a code of student conduct.
Last Friday, a student at the University of California at Los Angeles posted an angry, finals-week rant on YouTube that quickly incited outrage from viewers who took her comments about Asian students in the library to be racist. By Monday, the university issued a response—which it made sure was posted to YouTube as well.
“If it’s a response to something that was seen by people in a new-media format, it’s important that the response be made in a new-media format,” says Phil Hampton, a campus spokesman.
In the video, Gene D. Block, the university’s chancellor, called it a “sad day at UCLA.” In a written message e-mailed to the campus community and released on the school’s Web site and Facebook pages, he said that he was “appalled by the thoughtless and hurtful comments” in the original video, created by Alexandra Wallace, a third-year student. In the video, she criticized the behavior of Asian students in the library and at one point mimicked a student talking in a foreign…
In the new video game School Shooter: North American Tour 2012, players are encouraged to kill unarmed students and teachers using the same weapons used in several actual school shootings, including the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech. The lead developer of School Shooter, which is based on another game called Half-Life 2, tells The Escapist that “we hope there will be a ‘preventive quality’ in the game, which will satisfy those with the idea to commit spree killings in their head enough to keep them from doing so.”
Is this last thought true, that opportunities in video games are growing? Last I heard, we already have an over-supply of video game programmers. Each programmer is actually pretty productive, so a relatively small number of programmers is all that the relatively small number of major game studios really need. Is that not the case?
An increasing number of schools and teachers now recognize that games can be used to improve mathematics, physics and computer science outcomes in the classroom itself.
Moreover, awareness of opportunities in these industries and the requisite skills will add a modern and exciting flavor to the study of these subjects, normally considered dry and boring, and thus attract more students towards them. These disciplines would then be viewed as leading to creative careers rather than technical ones alone.
Thus, the report suggests ”We need to set in motion a virtuous circle where video games and visual effects help draw young people into maths, physics…