Welcome to the gang Kristin! I am going to give constructive criticism;
1. Site layout gets 4 stars. Why? Though the interface is clean and direct, the nav buttons below the video are not consistent/on par with the rest of site's buttons. 2. Presentation's content is interesting but lacks energy and spontaneity (acting skills?). 3. Audio is terrible. Consider getting rid of the echo your first priority. It makes you sound very unprofessional. Suggestion; clip-on lavaier directional mike. 4. Video graphics and story inbetweeners need more innovation and pizzaz. Consider hiring an innovative artistic video FX artist to create the shell of your show. You can learn to do it yourself but it will take time. 5. Why use Vimeo for video hosting? Youtube has smartened up in video quality and even offering HD, plus the visitor-base with youtube is way higher than with vimeo. 6. "More episodes" link leads to a page that has no TV box around the latest video and the eye is confused where the latest episodes are, wanting to find the below that video but then noticing the iPhone. To tell you the truth I thought it was an ad, like in Pandora. You should use the TV box as your user interface and perhaps use the right side, where the TV dials are - right below them, for inclusion of "More episodes" thumbnails. Over the years of videoblogging this is what I learnt; The show to be success must have a host that is charming with great acting skills, smart and spontaneous, happy-go-round type with his own original style. All that without great zesty content is nothing to make this work, and it must be consistent in every episode. Audio must be pristine, I am not even taking about the video... And of course the show must have a very good video editor/FX artist that is not afraid to innovate. The site of the show must be designed in a user-friendly and themed approach to make it memorable to the end-user. It must contain only the things that are functional and useful, hiring a talented graphic designer/wp theme guru is a must. I hope this helps Renat Zarbailov I N N O M I N D. O R G --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Kirstin" <kirstinbut...@...> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I wanted to introduce myself because I'm just joining the list. Many of your > names are familiar, though, and I'm so excited to be here. > > I bought Secrets of Videoblogging right when it came out but it took me until > this year to get up enough courage to actually start my vlog. (Yup, that > means I sat on my hands for three years--pretty crazy.) In any case, I've > been posting videos regularly for the last four months or so and it's great > to be joining a community of other vloggers. > > Any feedback on my vlog and site are much appreciated. It's at: > http://youdigest.com. I definitely have technical issues to work out, and I'm > hoping to migrate it to digest.tv soon to strengthen the branding. I really > would be grateful for thoughts, ideas, and criticism. > > Thanks and it's a pleasure to meet you all! > > Kirstin >
