C.U.R.E's Project: Lunar Landings

[T3CHN0B4BBL3]

C.U.R.E's Project: Lunar Landings

Hey everyone, welcome to our project thread! Here we will be keeping everyone in the loop of what we will be doing and hopefully getting feedback from everyone on SPotM.

As part of the C.U.R.E we have noticed that there are TONS of new members that have signed up, posted one or two posts (or none at all), and haven't signed on since then. We believe that this is because jumping right into discussions on the moon can be a little intimidating at first. Also we think the idea of a triad/process of finding out what a triad is can be a little overwhelming.

Our Project:

In order to keep members interested and have a great experience on the moon, we have decided to put together an interactive navigational guide for our new members to watch. We will be putting together slides and videos to be compiled into Adobe Captivate.

In this guide we will be showing/teaching our new members:

• The rules of the forums
  
• How to edit their profile/signature
  
• How to create threads/polls and how to reply (assuming they haven't been on a forum before)
  
• Show them around easier forum sections to jump into (i.e. help, projects, anything and everything, debate club, youtube and internet)
  
• Introduce them to the concept of tribes/triads/triad projects (making sure to distiquish the difference between triad projects and moon projects)
  

Our Goal:

Our main goal is to have this video up and running by the due date, May 9th.

We also hope to have our video distributed to new members via the confirmation email. This means that the link you have to click to confirm your membership also takes you to the video. If this isn't possible then we will find other means to distribute it. This will NOT be our main goal and will NOT be counted as a failed project if not met by the deadline.

Where you come in:

We need all the possible ideas we can get! Post them in this thread. We will be taking ideas up until Friday night or possible Saturday morning. You can make them serious or funny, after all, we want this to be entertaining as well as informative.

We are aware that we are cutting our deadlines close but we have confidence that with your help we can have it finished. Thank you for taking your time to read through this and we look forward to your suggestions!

-Brandon, Joe, and Sean [C.U.R.E.]

UPDATE:

The video is up and running! Check it out =]

Lunar Landings

[LunarLandings]

I made a screen name for our project so it will have some posts for when I show the profile view. This is it obviously xP

[Joeknowsjello]

Thank you oh so very much for the people who did private message and give us ideas in the chat room! Also, keep them coming because this will always need to be updated as new areas of the PogoTribe community arise! Video will be posted very shortly The compression did not meet file size requirements, so it will be uploaded through a Youtube video

[Joeknowsjello]

Check it out! The C.U.R.E triad project: Lunar Landings

Sorry for quality. I have tried uploading through five different mediums, here it is.

[Rob]

Quality seemed okay. What were the issues? Why was YouTube unable to take your video? If there are some technical aspects that gave you trouble, let me know the specifics. I may be able to help you out for future things.

In any case, that was pretty awesome. As far as content goes, amazing job!

[Joeknowsjello]

Ha, I had QUITE a few of hurdles getting the vid compiled and uploaded. For YouTube it was just a tad more than 10 minutes. Um one program we tried to use, (Adobe Captivate), turned out to be much more difficult, at least for me to compile, so I ended up using Windows Movie Maker. The audio seems very slightly at times to lag, but not really bad at all, so that made me happy too, especially since I abandoned the Captivate experiment.

And the video quality is ok, I guess I just wanted it crystal perfect lol Really bad computers may get a worse picture though ya know? I tried google upload and that didnt upload the video, another site charged, so I bit the bullet and hosted it through tiny pic

Glad you like it though, we worked hard on it!

[Rob]

If it was like 10:05 or 10:10, YouTube usually lets it through. I've even seen some almost at 11 minutes (non-partnered, of course).

Might I suggest several smaller videos, perhaps about only a few specific features or subforums, for a future video (even if not run by you guys)? That may work out better, especially with older computers.

[Joeknowsjello]

Well as evident, this is of course a project which would need constant changes depending on the direction of the site and any new changes, so we can always make changes. And YouTube was not actually our first choice of upload, it was a second attempt at upload, but it is up and done, which is great considering at how exhausted I am after all that lol But yes, changes will always need to be made. And ideas will always be open. But for tonight, I have to catch some zz's xD

[T3CHN0B4BBL3]

May 10, 2010 1:27:38 GMT -5 Rob said:

If it was like 10:05 or 10:10, YouTube usually lets it through. I've even seen some almost at 11 minutes (non-partnered, of course).

Might I suggest several smaller videos, perhaps about only a few specific features or subforums, for a future video (even if not run by you guys)? That may work out better, especially with older computers.

I was actually thinking of doing multiple videos and upload them through youtube. After that, make one video acting kind of like a menu (kind of like what Lifeburry/Wheezywaiter does). That way people can skip to what they want to watch.

[ItsCarterYo]

great video! but could have been better quality.. and i just would have done it differently.. but its great!!!

[T3CHN0B4BBL3]

We plan on updating it after there is a update with the forums, if not every month. We'll probably get help with the rest of the members too, instead of just our triad.

[Joeknowsjello]

May 15, 2010 19:38:01 GMT -5 ItsCarterYo said:

great video! but could have been better quality.. and i just would have done it differently.. but its great!!!

Thank you so much! We had trouble uploading it, which is why the quality did not turn out as great as it could have been. Next one will be, when we update it. We will try to do so every month or so.