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Hi Everyone,
We've done a really good job up until now of naming most of our videos. Recently I've noticed we seem to be straying a bit from our original vision and naming criteria though. We're getting back to "My first video" and "A cool video" and these names don't tell us much about what's actually in the thread. In fact, we could conceivably end up with several threads with the same name! That makes searching the thread almost impossible.
I'd like to make some suggestions:
- Tell us your name. Instead of My First Video, try Caroleeena's First Hooping Video or Caroleeena hooping in her living room
- Quantify it by moves in the Video: Caroleeena Leg Hooping
- Or the location: Caroleeena Hooping at Shakori Hills
If you have other suggestions for how we can keep this resource searchable, I'd love to hear them. We were doing a great job at first. I imagine some of the things turning up now are just related to new people on the thread. Even so, we can do better. Got any ideas?
Happy Hoopiness to you all,
Caroleeena
We've done a really good job up until now of naming most of our videos. Recently I've noticed we seem to be straying a bit from our original vision and naming criteria though. We're getting back to "My first video" and "A cool video" and these names don't tell us much about what's actually in the thread. In fact, we could conceivably end up with several threads with the same name! That makes searching the thread almost impossible.
I'd like to make some suggestions:
- Tell us your name. Instead of My First Video, try Caroleeena's First Hooping Video or Caroleeena hooping in her living room
- Quantify it by moves in the Video: Caroleeena Leg Hooping
- Or the location: Caroleeena Hooping at Shakori Hills
If you have other suggestions for how we can keep this resource searchable, I'd love to hear them. We were doing a great job at first. I imagine some of the things turning up now are just related to new people on the thread. Even so, we can do better. Got any ideas?
Happy Hoopiness to you all,
Caroleeena
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Re: Naming our Video threads
Wed, November 29, 2006 - 7:02 AMHmm...I agree. I should have thought of that before posting my last video.
Please feel free to rename it for me. I think only the moderator can edit the posts. :-)
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Re: Naming our Video threads
Wed, November 29, 2006 - 12:03 PMUnfortunately the moderator can't edit titles or posts, just delete them. I don't like to delete things when it's avoidable and that particular post is not that big of a deal. It only becomes a big deal if people keep doing it. Hopefully reminding everyone that this is a searchable tool will help them remember how important naming is. I just wanted to stick a bug in everyone's ear. Can you feel him squiggling around in there. Ewwwww... -
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Re: Naming our Video threads
Wed, November 29, 2006 - 4:57 PMIf someone makes a comment in the thread about what certian tricks are in the video then that would probably come up when you do a search for a trick.
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Re: Naming our Video threads
Fri, January 26, 2007 - 11:27 AMI just wanted to bump this up to remind everyone of the importance of labeling our threads clearly. I have posted a reminder at the top of the Tribe also. If anyone has other ideas of how we can help people remember this important step, I'd love to hear them.
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Re: Naming our Video threads
Thu, April 26, 2007 - 11:43 AMAgain, I'm just bumping this up because I know we have a lot of new users and we're starting to get a lot of threads named "My first video" etc. again. Thanks for helping keep the Tribe organized and searchable everyone. You rock.
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Re: Naming our Video threads
Fri, April 27, 2007 - 6:44 PMThank you, Caroleeena. :,} -
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Re: Naming our Video threads
Fri, May 11, 2007 - 1:48 PMOops! I named my video: my first video!!! I'm sorry guys!
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Fri, May 11, 2007 - 8:23 PMcaroleeena, speaking of caroleeena's first hooping video, or caroleeena leg hooping, i'd like to see more of caroleena hooping. anyone with me? i've seen the shakori hills video, which was great (the first example of hoop choreography i saw), but do you have any more? are you holding out? i hope not!
hooplove~
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Re: Naming our Video threads
Sun, May 13, 2007 - 1:26 PMLOL! Thanks Jess. You'll be seeing some more soon I hope. Most of my videos are of poi spinning but I'm hoping to make some hooping videos soon. I finally caved in and bought a new camera. I'm in the process of learning to use it now so hopefully I'll be submitting a new video soon. Maybe a few! I still haven't forgotten Blueberry's themed video submission idea. I think that's such a good idea. The last topic was, "Lights. Camera Action." Hopefully I can come up with something along that theme. -
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Sun, May 13, 2007 - 1:33 PMwhats the link to your other video? -
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Sun, May 13, 2007 - 1:48 PMThis was my first fire spinning (poi) video. Neither the spinning nor the filming is that great and I bop myself once but, hey, it was my first time fire spinning for anyone other than my immediate family. I love the folks I was playing with and if the hootin' and hollerin' are any indication, they love me too. It can make it problematic to hear the sound though. The song was Le Jazz Hot by Julie Andrews from the film Victor/Victoria, which is one of my very favorite films.
vids.myspace.com/index.cfm
This is also a link to my MySpace page. For anyone on MySpace, feel free to drop me a note.
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Sun, May 13, 2007 - 1:34 PMSince you mentioned cameras......any suggestions on a good/easy/not too expensive one? what are you folks using....?
I just have my iSight cam at the moment, so I'm house bound with making vids. I get out to some beautiful locations here in San Francisco (last week...to Golden Gate Park....hooped for the buffalos there)....I would love to get a camera that I could capture some of the locals (and me). -
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Sun, May 13, 2007 - 1:49 PMThis is a great question. I am going to start a whole thread on it!
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Sun, May 13, 2007 - 2:23 PMI am the proud mama of a Nikon CoolPix P2; I bought it in March of 2006 for approximately $200 on sale at Circuit City. When I make vids, I slap it onto my Tripod (it's a regular tripod; heavy duty, b/c it's for my film SLR and my future digital SLR). My 512mb memory card holds somewhere in the neighborhood of 475 photos and 26 minutes of video.
Hope this is helpful!
kaiya
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Re: Naming our Video threads
Wed, June 6, 2007 - 6:59 AMI need to bump this up again because we are ending up with so many threads named, "My First Video" that I can't keep up with them all!
Does anyone know how to bump up a thread without having to add a note everytime? I seem to remember someone saying it could be done. -
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Re: Naming our Video threads
Sun, June 24, 2007 - 8:53 PMGood Gracious! There has been a burst of, "My First Videos" lately. I can't keep up with them all. I have changed the headliner at the top to try to catch people before they post more. I'm not sure what else to do though. I guess it's okay to have a bunch of threads labelled My First Video but it's not very searchable. (Tribe has search issues even when threads don't have the same name!) What are your thoughts? Should I even bother trying to get people to name their threads more descriptively or perhaps there is a better way to educate our posters?
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Re: Naming our Video threads
Mon, February 4, 2008 - 7:44 PMIt's been seven months since this thread was updated so I thought I'd bump it up because some "My First Videos" got through while I was in bed sick. Usually I catch them but not always and because I don't like to remove vids with comments, I thought I would just bump this up to remind everyone of how important it is to name our threads with unique names in order to keep the tribe searchable. Happy Hooping All! -
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Tue, February 5, 2008 - 7:59 AMSorry, I am guilty of having a generic title! In my defense, it was all I could come up with since it was just some various basic moves and I figured no one would be searching for it in the future! Feel free to delete!
By the way, Caroleeena, you mentioned your poi video and I LOVED watching you! -
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Re: Naming our Video threads
Tue, February 5, 2008 - 9:39 AMNo worries. It happens. Usually I'm on top of it but I've been under the weather. Another reason for unique naming, though, is that, down the road, you might want to find your OWN video again just to read all the nice comments. That's another reason to name them in such a way so that we can find them. I wish there was a way we could bookmark threads. Sometimes I find a conversation compelling and I want to keep it for the info in it, only later I can't find it again when I'm looking for it. It would be nice if we could save them somehow.
Thanks for your kind words on my poi spinning. I have some better vids of that now on YouTube. Here's a link to my YouTube page: www.youtube.com/user/Caroleeena -
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Tue, February 5, 2008 - 2:49 PMThanks, I see the light! :-) Thanks for making this tribe possible and facilitating a marvelous 'hoop-share place'!
And your poi spinning is truly entrancing...and you have a very warm smile too! -
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Re: Naming our Video threads
Wed, April 2, 2008 - 9:59 AMAnother gentle reminder. Even folks who have been in the tribe for a long time still forget and name threads, "My First Video" when they do their first post. I've posted Guidelines in the header and I post this thread frequently but it still happens. I don't know what else to do. I hate to take them down but from here on out I am going to remove the posts that don't have comments and then email the user to please re-post. I know we have a lot of threads with this name now, despite my efforts to catch them all. Which means if you're ever looking for your video and you named it "My First Video", you're going to have to wade through pages and pages of results to find it again. So, again, a gentle reminder.
If anyone has any advice for how to better educate our users, I'd love to hear it. I hate removing posts. But I know our users also dislike having to check every "My First Video" posting to see if they've actually seen it. As a name, it doesn't really work for anyone. I wish I could edit them myself. That would be the easiest. Perhaps I should just re-post for them with a new name. What do ya'll think? -
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Re: Naming our Video threads
Wed, April 2, 2008 - 10:22 AMSorry Caroleena when I was posting this it was late and I just wasn't thnking. Feel free to repost it or whatever you feel is best. I will certainly be more conscious the next time..and will be willing to bend over at Convergence for you to kick my lameo -@ss. :D.. Sorry I didnt catch your pm's until it was too late.
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Re: Naming our Video threads
Wed, April 2, 2008 - 10:24 AMOMG.. I just saw at the top of the tribe.. that it also stated... please do not.. blah blah..Im a dork.. appoligies again! -
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Wed, April 2, 2008 - 1:39 PMLOL! I know! That cracks me up. People don't read the header. And I get it. I don't read the header a lot of times too. Tribe's layout is pretty busy and it makes it hard to have it stand out. Perhaps if we could put it in color or something. I wish we could do that. Maybe one day ... as Tribe develops. It's no big deal though. Just hard to find later, which is a bummer because people get so many nice comments here. I wish there was a way to bookmark specific threads also. So many wishes... -
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Re: Naming our Video threads
Thu, April 3, 2008 - 6:54 PMIf wishes was nickels, and all that...:-D
Maybe if the folks can't come up with a good name, they should, at least put their name in the title? I'll admit that if you don't have a real creative streak, it's kind of hard to come up with a title that doesn't sound funny...but if a name was added, at least that would distinguish it all a bit more...till we ended up with people of the same name, that is...then it opens a whole new can of worms.
I say...be silly, be serious...just go for it...slap a name on that vid and wiggle away!!!
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Re: Naming our Video threads
Sun, June 15, 2008 - 3:44 AMJust bumping up this reminder again. Summer is here and I expect we'll have a lot of new hoopers posting videos.
See you in the Circle!