You may know I have been collecting intranet and digitalworkplace promotion videos from 2011 onwards. My aim is to collect and share videos to inform, inspire and amuse the community. They are often a good way to “look inside another organization’s kitchen”, both for the visual design and for the purpose of the intranet.
Below you see my first item, which made me think: “Oh, this is cool, I wonder if there are any more videos of this kind?”
Well, there were, and I guess I now have about 600 of those on my list.
I say “about”, because videos come and go. They are not mine, and it depends on the owner whether they stay or get deleted after some time. Additionally, I have had some issues with the hosting platform. About two years ago, it no longer embedded videos from Vimeo properly, so I decided to share some nice items on my blog and I have kept doing that, but I have only shared part of all videos and I really have no clue how many I have.
Now, the Vimeo troubles have been solved and they have changed their business model and I need to pay to continue adding videos. So I am currently wondering what to do.
Should I stay or should I do something else?
I would like to spend more time on updating my collection, such as adding the last two years of finds, removing references to no longer existing videos, finetuning the tagging, etc. My main concern is not so much the money, but whether it is still worthwhile to continue. Are intranet launch and promotion videos still relevant? Does a collection of this kind still have its uses for people or organizations, or is it just my thing now? Would a Collection on Vimeo and a Playlist on YouTube work as well? Do you like the current mix of Office365 posts and video posts or do you prefer to have a place for each? Do you have any other ideas or suggestions for me?
Please help!
If you are involved in intranets, digital workplaces, internal social platforms, SharePoint etc. and you have an opinion, would you please help me out? I have created a Form to collect your thoughts (anonymously). It takes a minute or two and it would help me a great deal. It will be active until June 30, 2022.
Thank you very much in advance!
Image by Terje Sollie via Pexels