Epic-Fu.com was one of the first videoblogs (that I know of) using Ning to create a social network around their videos. it's really allowed them to interact with their audience in a way that comments dont allow....since people can create threads and post stuff as they want. The videos are like a starting point...but the conversations are the goal. Zadi and Steve do a really brilliant job of interacting with their peeps to get beyond "i'll just watch your video and go away".
Here's a recent thread on their community site: Mix. http://mix.epicfu.com/forum/topic/show?id=699622%3ATopic%3A86403&page=1 they asked, where are you from? Suddenly they have all these people posting from all over the planet earth. its pretty incredible. I bet lots of you have viewers/followers/subscribers (need a better name) in different parts of the world. I wish there was a better way to expose this fact. I know its the World Wide Web, but it still doenst feel like it to me. it's feels like people posting in that nowhere area called cyberspace. anyway...ive been thinking about this lately. How can we better show that we all live in different places in our videoblogs? jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Professional: http://ryanishungry.com Personal: http://momentshowing.net Photos: http://flickr.com/photos/jaydedman/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/jaydedman RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9
