Michael D. Pollock is the original founder of Solostream. He's a geek-at-heart and a small business veteran with over 14 years of experience in sales, marketing and small business (he mistakenly thinks he may soon have it all figured out). You can contact Michael via email here or online here.
By Michael Pollock in Tutorials, Video, WordPress
I’m doing a little experimentation with streaming video on a WordPress site. As part of that experimentation, I created a brief video introduction to WordPress. I think it’s like 15 minutes long. I’d like to know if you have any problems viewing the video, so please share via the comments link. Thanks!
Introduction: This entire post was compiled from posts made by Iskwew, one of our repeat customers and a frequent contributor to our forum. She raises so many good points that we wanted to share this with the Solostream community through our website.
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I’m doing a little experimentation with streaming video on a WordPress site. As part of that experimentation, I created a brief video introduction to WordPress. I think it’s like 15 minutes long. I’d like to know if you have any problems viewing the video, so please share via the comments link. Thanks!
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My tutorial on adding Flash video to your Worpdress site was pretty popular … this tutorial is designed to make it easy for you to add Quicktime video to your WordPress site.
So you want to create the next Rocketboom (video blog). Or perhaps you have some video you want to add to your WordPress blog or website. This tutorial shows you how to do it with WordPress.
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On Nov 26, 2006, Dave Forde said:
Works great on a Mac and streams nicely.
PS - nice clean design on the blog :)
On Dec 27, 2006, David Lee said:
This is a great overview of WordPress.
On Dec 28, 2006, Phil Bridgres said:
Stunning video tutorial on WordPress, well done! I’m very new to WordPress and looked at several non-audio tutorials but audio makes so much difference. thankyou!
On Jan 14, 2007, Sybil said:
Am I biting off more than I can chew. Want to use WordPress with a class of 10-12 Year Olds to create websites. Your video tutorial is excellent : are there any more I can use as teaching tools? Also, is it easy to insert Images? Thanks. Literally just discovered WordPress/Solostream so undertaking huge learning curve here.
On Jan 22, 2007, Lani said:
Hi Michael, just wanna ask on how to create a blog that when an author post ed a blog, his/her picture will automatically appear on the screen. Hope you could help. Thanx
On May 22, 2007, Stephen Luc said:
Nice video! I know most people don’t realize that WordPress can be more than just a blogging platform, so I like how you emphasize that it is more than a blogging platform. You mentioned that you made Bosco. Good stuff, I’ve seen a ton of people use the Bosco theme. That’s neat!
On Jan 17, 2008, Ron Hunsberger said:
Great resource Michael.
Works fine in the latest versions of IE, Firefox and Opera on both XP and Vista.
Thanks.
On Mar 28, 2008, Work At Home Ideas said:
It works well on my latest IE and Firefox versions. I liked your video and the audio was good too.
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On Jun 5, 2008, Tony Kenobi said:
looks fine
one thing - its hard to read the words on the screen
most screencapture software has a zoom facility that really helps highlight what you are working with
cheers
Tony
On Jul 14, 2008, Jackson Chapel said:
I am running Vista OS and could not play your video. I received the notice that: This AVI file was not prepared for sequential reading, the alternative AVI splitter will now let the default one handle it.” I waited for the default one to handle it but never got the video.
On Jul 19, 2008, Noclegi Ustka said:
Works fine in the latest versions of IE, Firefox and Opera on both XP and Vista.
Thanks.
On Aug 16, 2008, jeremy said:
Great vid! This is a great first step for all those new to WP! Thx.
On Oct 12, 2008, paylasim said:
great! thank you
On Jan 28, 2009, Ken Acton said:
Good video. I viewed it in Flock. It was excellent quality. Wordpress has moved on a bit but still useful.
Thanks
On Mar 27, 2009, raj 3gpindia said:
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
On Apr 27, 2009, BrianDickerson said:
Cool post! I’ll bookmark this page and wish to share it to all my friends and clients.