Save Time Publishing Video To Your Blog With Seesmic
April 24, 2008 by Sherman Hu
Filed under Video
The problem with publishing video to your blog in the past is the multiple steps required to achieve that end result.
It requires recording the video, capturing the footage to your computer, saving it, editing the footage, exporting and encoding it, uploading it to various video sharing sites, copying/pasting the embed code onto your blog, then publishing the video entry. Whew!
What’s possible today is simply amazing! Now you can shortcut the process to just 2 steps. Record and Publish. Enter Seesmic.com, a social media video community that encourages connections and communication via video. They’ve deployed a Wordpress plugin and extended their technology to give us Wordpress blog publishers the freedom to publish video entries to our blogs easily.
View this video as I share and deploy this Seesmic technolgy. I welcome your feedback (now also available to you in video!) – be it in text or video 
Register for your Seesmic.com account. More details on the Seesmic Wordpress Plugin here.
Interesting observation: I had to grab the embed code from my Seesmic.com account, then paste it into my blog. The Seesmic WIKI shares that "The video will be posted in the content area of your post. You can add text, tags, categories, etc before publishing." but that wasn’t my experience. Wondering if that’s just because I’m using Semiologic Pro.
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Hey Sherman. The picture is not as clear as your other videos. Is it from Seesmic or other reasons?
Jerry
Video quality discussion {seesmic_video:{“url_thumbnail”:{“value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/3o1hFDfqcs_th1.jpg”}”title”:{“value”:”Video quality discussion ”}”videoUri”:{“value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/x9VkmADy4m”}}}
This is interesting, it would be easy to upload videos.
Hi Sherman
I also noticed the quality was not to good. Also I see you need an invitation code to join?
Thanks Sherman {seesmic_video:{“url_thumbnail”:{“value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/ljpGt9cCCC_th1.jpg”}”title”:{“value”:”Thanks Sherman ”}”videoUri”:{“value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/iU2qj6fi03″}}}
Sherman,
I am exploring where to host our videos. We need to control access. I notice that Stompernet as well as Jeff, Frank, Eben and others all use S3 to host their videos.
In an older Stompernet forum post, you mention FreeIQ as a possible solution. Another staffer points out webvideozone as a possible solution. They seem to have some cool tools.
From what I can make out, there is some coding involved in getting S3 hosted stuff onto your site/blog.
From this post, I gather you are still testing the many options.
As always, thanks for your valuable advice and great content.
Regards,
Herb
You’re absolutely right. Seesmic is great for ad hoc video commenting, even a YouTube capture isn’t as convenient. Good point indeed…