Video-Based Guidance Experiment
We're piloting some video-based guidance. Here's what I want to accomplish for the videos:
- Factor "What Is" from "How To" type videos (i.e. reference vs. action)
- Do more, smaller videos vs. a few larger videos (modular vs. monolithic)
- Show me how vs. just tell me how
- Outcome-based videos (walk away with actionable insights)
- Share strategies and approaches that sometimes don't across in just text
For the user experience:
- Ability to quickly browse an index of the videos
- Ability to preview the videos inline
- Ability to download and watch the videos at your convenience
I'd like the videos to complement our text-based guidance modules (how tos, guidelines, checklists.) While doing video is nothing new, I think the tough part for my team is figuring out:
- How to balance prose-based guidance with video-based guidance
- How to figure out the most useful videos to avoid signal to noise ratios
- How to figure out the most effective channels and mediums
I think a lot of our guidance can be more consumable in video form. At the same time, I think some things aren't as useful in video. I see video as a supplement to augment baking knowledge into plaintext (where we can efficiently search it, share it, tag it … etc.).
Comments
Anonymous
March 25, 2007
As part of our Video-Based Guidance Experiment , we've released an initial set of VSTS Guidance VideosAnonymous
March 26, 2007
We added Video: What Is - New in Team Foundation Server Source Control to our Visual Studio Team SystemAnonymous
April 04, 2007
Will these videos be exposed through the Guidance Explorer? I don't see them presently