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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t tell you anything about the actual Fast Company Influence Project because I never clicked on it. I never came close to clicking on it, which is where I feel we will discover some of the myriad lessons to be learned from this situation. First Impression The first time I heard of the project, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div name="googleone_share_1" style="position:relative;z-index:5;clear:right; float: right; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;"><g:plusone size="tall" count="1" href="http://billcammack.com/2010/07/07/thoughts-about-the-fast-company-influence-project/"></g:plusone></div><p>I can&#8217;t tell you anything about the actual Fast Company Influence Project because I never clicked on it.  I never came close to clicking on it, which is where I feel we will discover some of the myriad lessons to be learned from this situation.</p>
<h3>First Impression</h3>
<p>The first time I heard of the project, I didn&#8217;t hear of the project.</p>
<p>What I mean by that is that I didn&#8217;t realize that I had had a run-in with the project before I realized that a) there was a project and b) people didn&#8217;t like it. <span id="more-8570"></span></p>
<p>I&#8217;m sitting here minding my business, having a productive day, as usual.. When I get an IM from someone that I rarely have IM conversations with&#8230;</p>
<p>When you haven&#8217;t communicated with someone in quite a while, you want to lead off your message with that person&#8217;s NAME or at least a simple &#8220;Hi&#8221; or &#8220;How are you?&#8221; to see if you get a response BEFORE getting to your agenda.  This is not what happened.  I received:</p>
<blockquote><p>Hey.  Did you join the Fast Company thing?  Here&#8217;s a link to sign up [shortened link to who the **** knows what]</p></blockquote>
<p>So first of all, my name wasn&#8217;t on it.  Second, they threw their agenda at me directly.  Third, they didn&#8217;t describe the situation as anything other than a &#8220;thing&#8221; (which is why I had no idea that this had been a connected event until later).  Fourth, they sent me a SHORTENED LINK, which nobody in their right mind follows.</p>
<p>This entire thing reeked of SPAM and I wasn&#8217;t sure that this person&#8217;s account hadn&#8217;t been compromised.  I sent back &#8220;Thanks, I&#8217;ll check it out&#8230; How is _______?&#8221;, referencing a new initiative I knew that person had recently started.</p>
<p>No reply.</p>
<p>Nothing.</p>
<p>So now, this thing looks COMPLETELY like spam, so I completely disregarded it and went on with my day.</p>
<h3>Second Impression</h3>
<p>Hours later, this buzz is going around about some Fast Company contest.  It&#8217;s not a GOOD buzz, though.  It&#8217;s people shaking their heads like &#8220;Why did they do THIS?  Who thought THIS was a good idea? \o/&#8221;.</p>
<p>So I still wasn&#8217;t aware of this contest even though I receive the FC Newsletter every day.  I don&#8217;t actually read their newsletter.  It&#8217;s just something I haven&#8217;t bothered to unsubscribe from that I was AUTO-SUBSCRIBED TO back in 2007/2008 when I was a <a href="http://billcammack.com/2008/01/02/bill_cammack_fast_company_blogs_best_2007/">FC Expert Blogger</a>:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/billcammack/2159220853/" title="Bill_Cammack_Fast_Company_Blogs_Best_2007 by Bill Cammack, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2364/2159220853_059251e365.jpg" width="300" alt="Bill_Cammack_Fast_Company_Blogs_Best_2007"></a></p>
<p>The point being that in my particular case, a newsletter is being sent to me which has no <em>influence</em> over me, which probably contained references &#038; links to this so-called &#8220;Influence Project&#8221;, which I&#8217;ll never know because I don&#8217;t care enough to skim back through the emails and check.</p>
<h3>Public Impression</h3>
<p>The other way I get my news is through Facebook.  The reason why I have <a href="http://facebook.com/BillCammack" rel="me">2,237 Facebook Friends</a> and <a href="http://facebook.com/ReelSolid.TV" rel="me">122 Facebook Fans</a> is that I want to LISTEN to the people I&#8217;m connected to via social media, not TALK *AT* THEM.</p>
<p>I want to know what they think is cool &#038; interesting &#038; happening so that I can find out about it myself, but also so I can broadcast the info I find useful to the people that are following me.  On a fan page, the only info you get from people pertains to YOU, which is a waste for someone like me who isn&#8217;t an entertainer.  I already know about ME.  I want to know about YOU.</p>
<p><em>* <strong>Side Note:</strong> Facebook automatically reduces your home page&#8217;s &#8220;Most Recent&#8221; stream to something like 250 people.  Unless you want them selecting the 250 people that you&#8217;ll be listening to, go to the bottom of your &#8220;Most Recent&#8221; page, click &#8220;Edit Options&#8221; on the right side of the blue bar and increase the number in the box that says &#8220;Number of Friends&#8221; to a number that&#8217;s larger than your current number of friends.  Click &#8220;S	ave&#8221; and you&#8217;ll now see whatever your friends are posting, not some pot luck selection.</em></p>
<p>So anyway.. I hadn&#8217;t heard anything about this contest on Facebook, I wasn&#8217;t monitoring <a href="http://twitter.com/BillCammack" rel="me">Twitter</a>, because I only have so much <a href="http://billcammack.com/category/other/time/">time</a> in my day and something&#8217;s got to give.  I don&#8217;t read the [daily] newsletter and the only indication I received about this was half-assed and didn&#8217;t even have the term &#8220;Influence Project&#8221; in it&#8230; So, to me, the project didn&#8217;t even exist.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not saying this because I feel like FC gives a damn about influencing <a href="http://billcammack.com/">Bill Cammack</a>.  I&#8217;m saying this because the people that I&#8217;m listening to ARE the influencers.  I don&#8217;t need to be directly influenced because if 3 or 4 people whose judgement I respect as far as social media indicate that something good&#8217;s going on, I&#8217;m hopping on the bandwagon, sight unseen.  I&#8217;m not going to PUB IT to anyone I know until I get inside and play around with the site or app and determine to my own standards of quality that it&#8217;s worth telling other people about, but as far as being an early adopter, I know some of the EARLIEST ADOPTERS around, so I&#8217;m perfectly willing to follow their lead in situations that they&#8217;ve already researched.</p>
<p>Unfortunately for Fast Company, this works in the opposite direction as well&#8230;</p>
<h3>Negative Impression</h3>
<p>When the same people whose opinions I respect begin posting, reposting &#038; RT&#8217;ing why something was a BAD IDEA or at least misses the mark, I&#8217;m inclined to read <em>their</em> posts about the situation and STILL never visit the actual site/location/app they&#8217;re talking about.</p>
<p>In fact, the only reason I&#8217;m writing this right now is that friends of mine are STILL buzzing about what a bad idea this was, so I decided to throw my two cents in. >:D</p>
<p>This is the reason you don&#8217;t want &#8220;just anybody&#8221; making up your social media strategy.  Vision, Perception &#038; Ability are all relative.  If your concept of influence is flawed or skewed, you&#8217;ll never know that because it&#8217;s your idea and it&#8217;s what your version of reality&#8217;s based upon.  If you think that the number of random people that you can trick into signing up for something indicates INFLUENCE, you&#8217;re barking up the wrong tree and you&#8217;re tarnishing the reputation of any company that takes your advice.</p>
<p>Pyramid Schemes work by each person telling the person below them that they can get rich if they can convince people to follow them.  The more people you have under you, the more money you can make.  What they don&#8217;t tell you is that the money is made by duping more suckers into joining the scheme. :D  The product isn&#8217;t whatever you&#8217;re selling&#8230; The product is <strong>*YOU*</strong>.  You&#8217;re like the cow that got told to come to the farm to give milk and then you&#8217;re like &#8220;Huh?.. What the hell is HAMBURGER??? O_o&#8221;.</p>
<h3>Wrong Impression</h3>
<p>Similarly, INFLUENCE has nothing to do with NUMBERS.  I know of people that have tens of thousands of Twitter followers and everyone that I respect recognizes them as clowns.  Their &#8220;Calls To Action&#8221; produce nothing at all (for example, 30 viewers to a live stream when you Twitter it to your 20,000 followers once every 20 minutes for two hours).  They have ZERO unique opinions, regurgitating what they read in Mashable or TechCrunch or TechMeme.  The majority of the people they&#8217;re following are robots, defunct accounts and real accounts of people that have nothing relevant to contribute at all.  This is why between their own brains and the people they&#8217;re listening to, nothing unique or groundbreaking is ever produced.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been complaining about this literally for years, as talentless people are consistently selected for projects because the companies are banking on the fact that this person has 100,000 followers across several social media outlets, so every single one of their GARBAGE videos will appear to be well-received and popular because of the fanbois clicking on any tinyurl these so-called influencers feed them.</p>
<p>What happens next is that companies consistently get what they deserve.  NOTHING! :D  They hire scrubs that make GARBAGE content and then they get lots of page views from people that aren&#8217;t the target audience of the advertisers, which results in ZERO click-throughs, ZERO video views, ZERO subscriptions and generally ZERO ROI for the company that thought that <a href="http://billcammack.com/2009/04/08/why-your-number-of-twitter-followers-doesnt-mean-ish/">the number of people following someone on Twitter indicates that their content or ideas are worth something</a>.</p>
<p>The funny thing about this is that MOST of the actual influence occurs on the back-channel, where people say what they really feel about what&#8217;s going on.  It&#8217;s not found out here in the open where people can read our ideas today and Google our ideas 3 years from now.  The people that you think AREN&#8217;T influencers are having their discussions IRL, f2f and you never hear about it while your company goes down the tubes because you&#8217;re taking advice from the wrong people.</p>
<h3>Lack of Impression</h3>
<p><a title="Bill Cammack" href="http://billcammack.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Bill-Cammack-GSX-R-NYC-Night-Jay-Pic.jpg"><img width="300" style="float:left" src="http://billcammack.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Bill-Cammack-GSX-R-NYC-Night-Jay-Pic.jpg" alt="Bill Cammack" /></a>Ultimately, everything we&#8217;re doing is attempting to catalyze <a href="http://billcammack.com/2010/02/17/social-media-smoke-mirrors/">Conversion</a>.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s all well &#038; good that you can attract attention to yourself.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s lovely that you were able to amass 30,000 Twitter followers by clicking &#8220;follow&#8221; on every single post you saw in the live feed and hoping that they followed you back.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s great that you take pictures at conferences with other people.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s sweet that you know a lot of people whose names you can drop in Twitter posts.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s pathetic when you pull out the gun and squeeze the trigger and everyone realizes you have no bullets.</p>
<p>If you can&#8217;t convert, you&#8217;re useless.  Period.  If what you&#8217;re offering isn&#8217;t going to result in a company being better off than when they hired you, they should have saved their money or hired someone with a proven track record in that field.</p>
<p>Conversion isn&#8217;t achieved by getting people that don&#8217;t own lawns to visit a page where they&#8217;re selling lawn mowers. O_o  The number of &#8220;nobodies&#8221; that you can get to sign up for something indicates your <a href="http://billcammack.com/2008/05/29/fame-part-2/">POPULARITY</a> on the net as opposed to any potentially useful business value.</p>
<p>In order to be an &#8220;influencer&#8221;, you have to be able to run with the Big Dogs and potentially influence OTHER INFLUENCERS.  Your ideas have to ultimately land in the laps of people who represent conversion to your clients.  Getting a bunch of people to sign up for something proves nothing at all&#8230;. well.. other than proving that you don&#8217;t know what influence actually is.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of shows and sites have been receiving the Fail Whale recently. There&#8217;s nothing wrong with failing. Happens all the time. &#8220;Happens to the best of us&#8221;. Sometimes, it&#8217;s not actually a failure so much as an inability to meet requirements for continuation. You could have a perfectly successful show as far as getting [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div name="googleone_share_1" style="position:relative;z-index:5;clear:right; float: right; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;"><g:plusone size="tall" count="1" href="http://billcammack.com/2008/06/29/welcome-to-the-dead-pool/"></g:plusone></div><p>A lot of shows and sites have been receiving the Fail Whale recently.</p>
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<p>There&#8217;s nothing wrong with failing.  Happens all the time.  &#8220;Happens to the best of us&#8221;.  Sometimes, it&#8217;s not actually a <i>failure</i> so much as an inability to meet requirements for continuation.  You could have a perfectly successful show as far as getting the job done and delivering on time, but you&#8217;re just not getting the numbers of views or members or whatever your sponsors asked you for and your authorization to continue the show (or your funding) gets pulled, and that&#8217;s that.</p>
<p>More important than failing is what happens AFTER you fail&#8230; What happens to your media?  What happens to your site?  Did you think about this before you started your show?</p>
<p>I&#8217;m thinking about this today because I read Liz Burr&#8217;s post <a href="http://www.lizburr.com/2008/06/do-social-media-strategies-go.php" rel="friend met colleague">&#8220;Do Social Media Strategies Go To Heaven?&#8221;</a>, where she talks about her <a href="http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=5408903862">WIRED SCIENCE Facebook app</a> and the fact that the show itself was canceled and will not be coming back to PBS.  She writes:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The show&#8217;s cancellation has me asking myself, where do social media strategies go when they&#8217;re no longer needed? So far, the results of our most significant strategies are:
<ul>
<li>a <a href="http://www.pbs.org/kcet/wiredscience/blogs/">blog</a> with over 200 entries and 600 comments</li>
<li>a <a href="http://twitter.com/wiredscience">twitter account</a> with 1200+ followers</li>
<li>a <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/WIRED-SCIENCE/19589153232">facebook fan page</a> with almost 600+ fans</li>
<li>a <a href="http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=5408903862">facebook application</a> with 12,000 installs</li>
</ul>
<p>The Facebook application is especially interesting to me because it&#8217;s the gift that keeps on giving. Since launch, the application has been averaging 100 new installs per day. This is with no paid promotional activity whatsoever. I don&#8217;t expect this to stop anytime soon, because I don&#8217;t think we will reach a ceiling going at this (slow but) steady rate of installation (considering the number of users on Facebook). I designed the application to be viral enough for it to self promote. I suppose I could turn those activities off if I wanted to. </p>
<p>For the blog, we have decided to stop all posting, write our goodbyes and leave commenting open for a few weeks. <strong>We will then shut down all comments, and leave the blog up for the sake of Google and reference.</strong>&nbsp; I am not sure what to do with the Twitter account. It essentially was a machine for the blog and site updates, but with no more site updates, what else is there? I suppose the Facebook fan page can stay in place, however we&#8217;ll probably put up a notice about the show and site saying farewell.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>So that project is ending, because the show it was supporting wasn&#8217;t picked up for a new season.  However&#8230; The work that was done will remain and fans of the show will have access to it.  Basically, it becomes &#8220;what it is&#8221;.  A project that used to be active and is now inactive.  C&#8217;est la vie. :D</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a <a href="http://blog.nextnewnetworks.com">Next New Networks</a> show called <a href="http://www.brideorama.com/">Bride-O-Rama</a> that went &#8220;on hiatus&#8221;. :)</p>
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<p>I can&#8217;t find on the page when the episode I embedded was uploaded, but a) I happen to know this particular show was cancelled a long-ass time ago, and b) the first comment is from October 29 so let&#8217;s assume it was canceled in late October, 2007 which was 8 months ago.  Similar to the pending status of the Wired Science blog, this show remains in suspended animation.  The shows are there to watch.  The comments are there to read.  As a matter of fact, NNN&#8217;s still serving recent ads on those pages, so anybody who happens by to check out some of the Wedisodes is helping out NNN&#8217;s bottom line.</p>
<p>OTOH&#8230; We have FastCompany.TV&#8217;s former offering &#8220;Global Neighbourhoods&#8221;, which as far as I know was canceled this very month, and immediately disappeared off the face of the earth as if it never happened.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what the &#8220;Global Neighbourhoods&#8221; creator, producer and host, <a href="http://redcouch.typepad.com/weblog/">Shel Israel</a> had to say about it in his post <a href="http://redcouch.typepad.com/weblog/2008/06/several-changes.html">Several Changes</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;That brings us to GlobalNeighbourhoods.TV (GNTV), my other online video program. Unlike WorkFast, GNTV is my baby, is an extension of not just the Global Survey, but Naked Conversations as well. As many of you know, GNTV was launched in March at FastCompany.TV, and&#8211;shall we say&#8211;had an inauspicious start.</p>
<p>When GNTV launched, I was not quite ready for prime time. If I was an actor, I would say I was prepared for a summer stock script reading. When the curtain went up, I found myself instead at center stage of an opening night on Broadway with some determined hecklers in the audience who managed for a while to distract me.</p>
<p>Most people seem to agree that I got better. After 14 episodes, I think GNTV has proved its value and professionals hungry for insights into how they can use social media in their businesses have found GNTV to have more than a little value.</p>
<p>A few weeks back, however, FastCompany granted my request to take back GNTV, to remove it from their site and to eventually relaunched it o a smaller scale on this site. Primarily, with FastCompany as a partner, the cost of sponsorship was too high for a new program. Here, I can charge a sponsor significantly less dollars and have great flexibility in the sort of deal I can offer. Here, I am the sole decision maker.</p>
<p>GNTV will go on a brief hiatus, until perhaps mid-August. I need to deal with the complexities of AV, production, storing, hosting, compressing, measuring, etc. Because some of these costs can be quite significant, I also need to have sponsorship before I restart.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>To be fair, Shel has posted <a href="http://redcouch.typepad.com/weblog/2008/06/gntv-links.html">a set of links to his 14 GNTV episodes he produced for FastCompany.TV</a> on his blog.  This means that assuming you knew he had a blog at all and assuming you saw that one post, you know how you can view his videos.  I would guess that he Twittered the information and used whatever other publicity outlets he has at his disposal.  However&#8230; Someone returning to <a href="http://fastcompany.tv">FastCompany.TV</a> will find that his show&#8217;s tab has been replaced with a photography show, and short of putting &#8220;Shel Israel&#8221; or &#8220;Global Neighbourhoods&#8221; in the search box, there&#8217;s no evidence that his show ever existed.</p>
<p>As far as his plan to relaunch his show on his own site&#8230; there goes his google juice.  His videos will be available in the future at a completely different address on redcouch.typepad.com instead of fastcompany.tv.  What&#8217;s the point?  The point is that people are still hitting my <a href="http://billcammack.com/2006/10/14/cory-lidle-plane-crash/">Cory Lidle plane crash video</a> from October, 2006, because they know where to find it from people&#8217;s bookmarks, forum posts and blog links.</p>
<p><center><embed src="http://blip.tv/play/AYW6DwA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="275" width="430"></center></p>
<p>If I had been moving that video all over creation, from domain name to domain name, people would hit dead links from the google searches and IME, *NOT* do more creative searches to try to find the same content&#8230; They just move on to other content that comes up easily under the google search for the same topic.</p>
<p>Similarly, maybe you have the same site&#8230; except your video host fell into the Dead Pool.  Recently, VideoEgg discontinued its consumer video service and sent out a notice to people that had videos hosted by them that they were going to cease to host them shortly.  Also, DivX&#8217;s Stage 6 streaming video site folded.  The problem with this is that A LOT OF PEOPLE had videos on their sites which were actually embedded FROM VideoEgg or Stage 6.  This means that they had to scramble to a) pull all their videos from those hosts, b) find a new host for all of their now-homeless videos, c) upload all their videos to the new host and d) go to every single post and change the embed code from the Videoegg or Stage 6 location to the new host location.  If you happen to have <a href="http://billcammack.com/videoplayer/">over 300 episodes online</a>, that could be a MAAAAAAAJOR DRAG! :(</p>
<p>So, that&#8217;s another thing to consider when you&#8217;re ready to make a show on the internet.  While you worry about content and worry about being interesting and worry about being entertaining, and worry about getting sponsored and worry about your show being sustainable and worry about growing your audience and worry about creating surrounding social sites&#8230; you ALSO have to worry about what happens when your show lands in the Dead Pool.  Do you have ownership of your own content after the fact?  Do you have ownership of the site that it&#8217;s on?  Are you going to have to uproot everything and start all over?  If you get a new sponsor, can you easily swap the old one out and continue seamlessly creating content?</p>
<p>Believe me, you want to figure out / negotiate all these things UP. FRONT. and NOT when you realize your show that you thought was going to run forever is going down the tubes.</p>
<p>Welcome to the Dead Pool.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reader Adam H. had a couple of questions about what I thought about the Fast Company / Robert Scoble / Shel Israel thing that&#8217;s been going on now for about a month. The first GlobalNeighbourhoods.TV video was dropped on March 19th&#8230; Actually, the first FOUR episodes were released on that date and since then, post-production [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div name="googleone_share_1" style="position:relative;z-index:5;clear:right; float: right; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;"><g:plusone size="tall" count="1" href="http://billcammack.com/2008/04/10/budgeting-for-internet-video/"></g:plusone></div><p>Reader <a href="http://tymesaid.com/the-peter-principle-and-fast-company#comment-4266">Adam H.</a> had a couple of questions about what I thought about the Fast Company / Robert Scoble / Shel Israel thing that&#8217;s been going on now for about a month.  The first GlobalNeighbourhoods.TV video was dropped on March 19th&#8230; Actually, the first FOUR episodes were released on that date and since then, post-production of that show has essentially been non-existent during a virtual metalstorm of criticism of nearly every single aspect of that show.</p>
<p>I commented five days ago on Shel&#8217;s site <a href="http://redcouch.typepad.com/weblog/2008/04/blog-herald-cal.html#comment-109641452">here</a> and <a href="http://redcouch.typepad.com/weblog/2008/04/blog-herald-cal.html#comment-109670616">here</a>.  I thought I&#8217;d say something today about budgeting for internet video, with the focus being essentially that you get what you pay for, and if you don&#8217;t pay for anything it&#8217;s not only the content creator that&#8217;s going to be ridiculed, it&#8217;s YOUR brand.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the problem with internet video.  I&#8217;ve been saying this for probably over a year now, and nothing&#8217;s different today.  The way television works (which I know, because <a href="http://billcammack.com/about">I&#8217;m a broadcast editor</a>) is that the money comes from advertisers.  The reason the money comes from advertisers is because they want to take advantage of *you*&#8230; the viewer.  They know that 2 million people are going to sit in front of the television and watch this show, so they&#8217;re willing to pay the network to get their product in front of that many potential customers.  Television is ALLLLLLL about sales.  That&#8217;s why they call them &#8220;soap operas&#8221;.  The point was to sell soap.  ACTUAL soap.</p>
<p>This model doesn&#8217;t exist with internet video.  Not only do you generally have a smaller audience, but you can&#8217;t prove demographics.  This means you can&#8217;t convince an advertiser to give you big money to do an internet show.  Since there&#8217;s no <i>real</i> revenue stream, it&#8217;s spawned a mentality of individuals and companies trying to do or get something for nothing.  The less they can spend and still have a video to put on youtube or wherever and try to get hits, page views and revenue shares, the more they like it.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the internet video formula.  Spend little, get a garbage product, have people click on it anyway, split the revenue with the host.  As we&#8217;ve seen with people that have gotten millions of hits on a video and pulled in maybe a couple of thousand dollars worth of revenue, it&#8217;s just not worth it.  The odds are low that you&#8217;re going to get that many hits, and the fact of the matter is that time is money.  Unless you have a sponsor, making video on the internet is a money-LOSING situation.</p>
<p>For example&#8230; If you work in NYC, and you&#8217;re the slowest, least-knowledgeable nonlinear video editor with his/her own system, you can still get $30/hour.  Using that insanely-low number as a base, let&#8217;s look at the time that it would take to do the Shel Israel show.  Actually&#8230;  Let&#8217;s kick it down to McDonald&#8217;s wages&#8230; What do they get? $10/hour?  Is that minimum wage at this point?  Let&#8217;s say you could get someone to work for $10/hour to make Global Neighbourhoods Television.</p>
<p>The first thing you have to do is shoot the show.  Assuming the company you&#8217;re going to talk to is local to you, you have to get paid for the time you spend at that company plus the time it took you to travel there.  Let&#8217;s say you spent 5 hours at a company, traveled another two hours to get there and back and shot 2 hours of footage while you were there (I have no idea how long they actually take or how much they shoot to do their show).</p>
<p>Off the bat, your show has now cost you $70 in time and $15 in tape if you didn&#8217;t buy bulk.  That&#8217;s assuming you already own a camera.  That&#8217;s assuming you already own a microphone.  That&#8217;s assuming you already own lights.  That&#8217;s assuming you&#8217;re going to run the camera yourself WHILE you do the interview.  If you want to have a cameraman follow you around, let&#8217;s say you were able to find someone else that was willing to work for my version of minimum wage, $10/hour.  That means that your show is infinitely better, but that it now costs you $140 to shoot.  It also means that most likely, the person that you hired&#8230; SUCKS, so there&#8217;s a good chance that you won&#8217;t get anything good for your no-budget production.</p>
<p>Now you have a show &#8220;in the can&#8221;, meaning you have the elements, but you don&#8217;t have a finished show.  This means that you have to find someone that&#8217;s willing to edit your show for $10/hour.  Off the bat, there&#8217;s going to be a two-hour loading fee because if you used tape, it has to be ingested into the system in real-time = $20.  If you didn&#8217;t hire a producer for $10/hour to make sense out of the footage that you shot, that means that the editor has to play through ALL of your footage to extract the best parts = another two hours = $20.  Now, the editor is either charged with making your show him/herself, or it&#8217;s a supervised edit, meaning someone is telling the editor what they&#8217;d like to see happen.  Let&#8217;s assume it&#8217;s going to take four hours to edit the show.  That&#8217;s another either $40 or $80 depending on the number of people involved.  That also doesn&#8217;t take into account Suite Fees and Equipment Fees.</p>
<p>So&#8230; Adding up this bunch of $10s, we end up with a base price of something like $165/episode for a show that&#8217;s shot in one day, by one person and edited during a four hour time span.  No revisions.  No changes.  No more work done on that show past one day.  Now&#8230; How does that money come back?  Revenue-sharing?  Let&#8217;s say you can get a $7 CPM (cost per mille) for your videos.  That means that for every ONE THOUSAND TIMES that someone clicks on your video, you receive a whopping $7.  And that&#8217;s AFTER you accumulate enough of those thousands to make it over the low limit which the host has agreed in their ToS that they&#8217;ll write you a check.  That might be $25 and it might be $100, so you don&#8217;t get paid JACK unless you get 25/7&#215;1000 views.  Let&#8217;s call it 4,000 views gets you $28 and THEN you get paid.</p>
<p>$165/$28 = 5.892.  Multiply that by 4,000 views, and you&#8217;d have to get over 23,000 views to break even if you&#8217;re working for $10/hour.  Sure, you can do other stuff like have banner ads on your page and google ads, but basically, you can see that without sponsorship, Shel&#8217;s not only doing a show for free, he&#8217;s actually LOSING MONEY doing the show.  SOMEONE&#8217;S got to come up with that $165/episode.  If it&#8217;s a weekly show, that&#8217;s $660/month.</p>
<p>PLUS&#8230; Unless you&#8217;ve got it like that, and you have a business that makes money without you being involved, you have to factor in the opportunity cost of not being able to make money during those hours that you&#8217;re shooting and editing your show.  You also have to factor in downtime on your computer while videos are being rendered, compressed or uploaded to the internet.</p>
<p>So, even with this hypothetical minimum wage example, we&#8217;re looking at $800/month to produce Global Neighbourhoods Television&#8230;. in its CURRENT state.</p>
<p>So now, you&#8217;d have to wonder WHO you could get to pay you $800/month as a sponsor of a no-budget show.  You&#8217;re not going to be able to sell &#8220;numbers&#8221; unless you&#8217;re popular for some reason.  You&#8217;re not going to be able to sell page views either.</p>
<p>Apparently, what happened in this particular case is that Shel Israel&#8217;s show has been submitted for editing.  Today is April 10th.  The show, which was originally announced as a daily&#8230; was kicked back to being a weekly&#8230; and now hasn&#8217;t been updated since March 28th, which will be <strong>two weeks ago</strong>, tomorrow.  If it actually becomes a weekly show, tack on that four hours of minimum wage editing for another $40/week = $160/month and now, the budget is approaching $1,000/month, including shipping tapes to the editor.</p>
<p>So now, I can get to Adam H&#8217;s questions:</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://tymesaid.com/the-peter-principle-and-fast-company#comment-4266">Adam H:</a> What is Billâ€™s opinion on this? What are his thoughts on why the videos are lag coming out, why they are long and boring, about FastCompanyTV in general?</p></blockquote>
<p>My guess is that the videos aren&#8217;t coming out on schedule because Fast Company&#8217;s in between a rock and a hard place.  They only have two choices&#8230; Release videos of the same &#8216;quality&#8217; or get the videos worked on. It seems like they&#8217;ve chosen to get them worked on.  Neither solution &#8220;works&#8221; for them.</p>
<p>If they release videos similar to what they&#8217;ve already produced, they&#8217;re going to be the subject of even more ridicule than they already have been.  &#8220;They&#8221;, being the entire crew involved in this: FastCompany, Robert Scoble, Shel Israel&#8230; in that order.</p>
<p>If they get Shel&#8217;s videos worked on, the minimum wage editing money is going to have to appear out of thin air.  As far as I know, there&#8217;s still no sponsor, even though that Seagate advertisement is STILL on <a href="http://www.fastcompany.tv/global-neighbourhoods-tv">fastcompany.tv/global-neighbourhoods-tv</a>.  Actually, they could virtually &#8220;pay&#8221; for Shel&#8217;s show to get edited if they have a staff editor and just tack it onto his/her list of duties for fastcompany.tv.  That still incurs the opportunity cost of that editor taking time away from doing edits that were originally in their job description.</p>
<p>The other problem with getting the shows edited is that they&#8217;re already shot incorrectly.  This means that the 4 hours (plus 2 hours for loading, plus an hour for encoding, uploading, tagging, etc) that I estimated for the edit will probably be more like 8 hours and probably spread out over several days, including running the show by an EP (more minimum wage $$/episode) and making several revisions until it&#8217;s deemed worthy to be released.</p>
<p>Why are they long and boring?  Their focus is on &#8220;content&#8221; and not entertainment.  Basically, what they do is bring you along as a fly on the wall while they hang out with business people and ask questions.  Their goal is to archive these Q&#038;A sessions.  Basically, as an editor, I can tell you that watching their shows is like watching raw footage.  It&#8217;s what you would see if you opened up the viewfinder on the camera they used to shoot it and pressed play.  The credit that I can give them is that the only show of theirs that I&#8217;ve listened to end-to-end was the Jason Calacanis interview, which was broken up into a <a href="http://www.fastcompany.tv/video/part-i-inside-mahalo-human-produced-search-engine">20 MINUTE SEGMENT</a> and a <a href="http://www.fastcompany.tv/video/the-dogs-mahalo-part-ii-iii">*24* MINUTE SEGMENT</a> with a third segement still to be released.  I probably watched the first 5 minutes&#8217; worth, then let it play in a background window like a radio program while I did other things.  So I can guess that if the niche that they report on consistently has topics/guests that someone&#8217;s actually interested in, then their long, boring videos are consistently useful to someone.  I&#8217;d love to see stats on how many people are return viewers and what percentage (time-wise) of these 44-minute and counting videos are actually being watched.</p>
<p>What about FastCompany.TV in general?  hahahaha Interestingly enough, I said what I had to say about FastCompany.TV when I heard about it through the grapevine.  I left my comment on Robert Scoble&#8217;s announcement post, three months ago, <a href="http://scobleizer.com/2008/01/16/why-were-going-to-fastcompanytv/#comment-1954829">on January 16th, 2008</a>.  Video quality isn&#8217;t based on a website&#8230; It&#8217;s based on a team.  Bring the same team and you get the same videos.</p>
<p>Meet the new boss&#8230;.</p>
<p>Same as the old boss&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</p>
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<p>Fast Company made a collection entitled<br />
&#8220;<a href="http://fastcompany.com/multimedia/slideshows/content/best-blogs-2007.html">Best of the Fast Company Blogs: Business Trends of 2007</a>&#8220;.</p>
<p>My slide, (pictured above) for my FCE Blog &#8220;DeMux&#8221; is <a href="http://fastcompany.com/multimedia/slideshows/content/best-blogs-2007_pagen_5.html#">here</a>.</p>
<p>Bill Cammack:<a href="http://blog.fastcompany.com/experts/bcammack/">DeMux</a></p>
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		<title>Happy New Year, Everybody! :D</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[2008 has arrived. 2007 was a complete TRIP, for real. The playing field changed right out from under us as we were playing the game. Every other week, there was some new technology that people flocked to and either disturbed or enhanced our interactions with each other and our friends, fans and clients. As I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div name="googleone_share_1" style="position:relative;z-index:5;clear:right; float: right; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;"><g:plusone size="tall" count="1" href="http://billcammack.com/2007/12/31/happy-new-year-2008/"></g:plusone></div><p>2008 has arrived.  2007 was a complete TRIP, for real.  The playing field changed right out from under us as we were playing the game.  Every other week, there was some new technology that people flocked to and either disturbed or enhanced our interactions with each other and our friends, fans and clients.</p>
<p>As I mentioned in my <a href="http://blog.fastcompany.com/experts/bcammack/2007/12/are_you_a_tech_elitist.html">Fast Company Expert blog</a>, I realized that as quickly as I&#8217;ve been running to keep up with technology, just as quickly, I&#8217;ve been running ahead of, or, more importantly, AWAY FROM friends of mine that aren&#8217;t anywhere near the leading edge of technology and really couldn&#8217;t give a damn about it.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not good enough for 2008.  Nope. :/  This year, I&#8217;m taking my technological advancement in reverse and seeing how many of my friends I can recoup from the past.  There&#8217;s no reason I should have 352 followers on <a href="http://twitter.com/BillCammack">http://twitter.com/BillCammack</a>, and not one of them is a friend of mine from 5 years ago.</p>
<p>&#8220;Social&#8221; media is supposed to be just that&#8230; SOCIAL.  If that&#8217;s true, I&#8217;ll be able to reconnect with friends and acquaintances from past phases of this long-ass life! :D  Hopefully, I can find out who&#8217;s doing what and who&#8217;s working where and who has several kids and who moved to another country&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8217;07 was all about business.  &#8217;08 is about WE&#8230; The PEOPLE! :D</p>
<p>Bill C.<br />
Cammack Media Group, LLC<br />
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