We've added a bunch of new features in the past week to help new users begin to use the full power of their personal media catalogs as quickly as possible after registering or logging in at http://catalog.vidlisting.com. We understand that members may not understand exactly how a personal media catalog can help them or what they need to do to use it.
What Is A Personal Media Catalog
A personal media catalog is a simple to use virtual workspace for videos or real estate shows (RES) that is available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. In short, its a mix of social network and content network that is geared to business professionals and their customers.
The workspace gives members the ability to to do some of the following:
- make video widgets
- mash videos from different providers such as Youtube and RES into a single widget
- send videos to friends or groups of friends with 4 mouse clicks
- distribute videos to prospective buyers
There is no cost to join. We'll be adding some cross-cultural features that will make it easy for, say, CIPS professionals and other REALTORS to find international partners and buyers even if they dont speak the same language (thereby fulfilling the true global promise of the internet for business)
Video Help
Video Help is a small application within the personal media catalog that displays a tiny question mark icon next to the different types of things that you can do with personal media catalogs. They help guide users that may be unsure of what a feature is or specifically what needs to be done to use a given feature.
The icons link to short videos that explain how to use the given functionality. The icons are unobtrusive, dont block or change any functionality , and members can turn them off/on with a single click (as shown below) from within the media catalogs main workspace.
We are adding video content for the help videos as quickly as possible. We will also have a publically shared catalog where you'll be to subscribe to all of the help videos from within your own catalog. Look for "Vidlisting Support Videos" within the Browse Available Shared and Public Catalogs menu. Video help is live now and is "on" by default for new member registrations.
As of this post, we have a number of videos done (with many more to follow). Samples include the following:
Registration Help
Using The Language Features Of Catalogs
The Basics Of How To Upload Videos
How To Add and Share YouTube Videos And Real Estate Shows
How To Send Multiple Videos To Friends
We are also adding video help in Spanish and Portuguese.
Twitter Based Help
We debated having a user id on Twitter for support and information about Personal Media Catalogs as we have a socaial messaging component which will be added within the week or two and available to all members. We decided that we should do it and so now you can follow @VideoHelp on twitter to get news/updates as well as have any support or other questions answered via Twitter. Assistance in spanish is available on Twitter from @CasaComprar.
Tony
See Also:
-Creating An Auto-Updating Widget For Your Vidlisting Shared Media Catalog
- Why Trying To Manage Video Content Online Generally Sucks
- Why Aren't Video Channels More Like...Well...Channels?
- The Push And Pull Of Social Networking For Business Using Video
- New Ways For Prospective Buyers To Discover YOUR Property Video
- Why Are We So Attached To The YouTube Model To Distribute Real Estate Video?
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