UPDATE: This post has a video of Gitner talking about this effort.
Seth Gitner e-mailed a link to the latest multimedia effort out of Roanoke - a help-wanted ad. But this isn’t any help-wanted ad. It’s an ad for the editor of the paper/online site. On the web. In video.
Danny Sanchez calls it the coolest want ad ever.
It’s definitely something that spells out the direction Roanoke wants to go. I don’t anticipate they’ll get a lot of applications from 20th-century editor wannabes.
But to bring all this back home, I think it’s an idea that could be applied to college media. Can you produce a self-promo that spells out your innovative spirit like this? Not just for the top editor, but for videographers, web editors, community editors, bloggers, etc.
Such an effort could go a long way to attracting the type of innovative thinkers to your publications who might be spending their time on other online pursuits. And if you do it, we’ll share it here as well.
UPDATE: The Red and Black is doing some recruitment with Soundslides. Here’s info.
on Feb 22nd, 2007 at 9:04 am
Great idea, too bad they couldn’t execute (at least on our HS connection). Video/audio was so choppy it was unbearable.
on Feb 22nd, 2007 at 3:08 pm
I agree. I have cable high-speed internet and I couldn’t get through the first 15 seconds. Worse than a scratched DVD.
on Feb 22nd, 2007 at 3:34 pm
funny — some folks can get it and some folks can’t — I am looking into this as maybe a server issue on our end or maybe it’s just the user connection.
Sometimes I try not to let my multimedia projects get hampered down by technological limitations that may or may not be.
Part of innovation is experimentation, sometimes you succeed, sometimes you fail and sometimes the message of the project is the only thing that gets across to the audience — or needs to get across to the audience
-seth
on Feb 23rd, 2007 at 8:15 am
I NEED YOUR HELP! READ THIS!
I am trying to enlist the multimedia journalism community to help me out.
please watch editor ad video — that starts up the project — it is running off of a different server.
http://editorjob.roanoke.com
i was hearing from a lot of people who were saying they could not watch the video that starts the ad
so i wanted to test to see if it was the way i encoded the video or if it was the server.
all feedback is welcome — just post here or email me at sethgitner@sethgitner.com — (i have spamarrest so no worries)
-seth
on Feb 23rd, 2007 at 11:30 am
I tried watching again, and at first it seemed like it would be better. But as I got further into the intro video, it got worse and worse.
When I watch the videos on “about us” they seem to play pretty smoothly.
on Feb 24th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
Agreed… nifty idea despite delivery problems. (For now, Ms. Dewey it ain’t, despite the glass-tapping gimmick.) On insecure home WiFi your guy stuttered and sputtered; not a word was understandable. I’ll try to remember to try again from the office WiFi and wired.