Our primary effort for the last several weeks has been empowering customers to directly establish and manage their video.Market7 accounts. These enhancements, which we announced earlier this week, include a capability to manage a project for free before determining whether to upgrade to a paid account with more capacity and priviledges. Enhancements to the Market7 Web site include a new pricing page from which all of our offerings can be assessed and selected. In addition to new account management functionality, demonstrated below, other recent enhancements include listing file sizes and allowing deletion from each project’s file-management module, which can be useful for managing account storage relative to capacity levels that are set. And per some recent reader requests, we have added phone numbers of team members to the front page of the team-management module to make communicating more convenient. Like always, blog posts like this that describe what we’ve been adding to video.Market7 are identified by the New Release tag.
While we have a few cool new features, this week we’ve put out more of an eat-your-vegetables release than one whorthy of knock-your-socks-off screen-capture videos. Come back in a couple of weeks for more of those. We have primarilly been concerning ourselves with our Annotative Player and Event Management modules, improving their performance, robustness and functionality. Improvements include:
Annotative Player
We’ve taken several steps to enhance transcoding of uploaded files and Flash play robustness, and as a result video quality experiences should be improved
Expanded and more efficient comment viewing area so more comments on a video can be simultaneously seen
Highlight of comment during play lingers a little longer to be more notable
The on-screen highlighting has thicker teal border and offsetting yellow fill to be more notable over the video
The buttons that provide frame-back / forward when in pause mode, now also provide skip-back / forward by three seconds when in play mode
Comment sort choices expanded to include by-commenter (in addition to by-video-timeline and by-when-comment-posted)
Organization of comment export page is cleaned to be more legible and useful
Several design and usability improvements to previously existent functionality
Event Management
Conflict notification when a member of an event has simultaneous events scheduled in any video.Market7 project
Single button to import event to own calendar or send to others, regardless of what kinds of email and personal schedule software people use
Address of a location can be modified once and proliferate throughout all events scheduled to occur at the location
And again, several design and usability improvements to what we’ve had available for Events for a while
Other video.Market7 enhancements
Enhanced filtering by role in Team Management module — the selected role highlighted in yellow
When starting a new project, have access to teammates from prior projects according to their names (not just their email addresses)
As always, please keep your eyes open for these blog posts tagged “New Release” every few weeks to track the ongoing progress of our service.
I read recently about a study in the famous New England Journal of Medicineindicating that the success of medical procedures is dramatically enhanced by implementing regular organizational practices. These include assuring that all members of a team collaborating be familiar with each other and their respective roles, and that checklists be followed in completing procedures. Eight hospitals that participated in the study by adhering to such practices had mortality rates fall by nearly half.
The practices advocated in the NEJM piece are very much the same as what video.Market7 facilitates with our project management modules. We often tout our video-specific modules for undertakings like iterating on scripts and reviewing footage. But it’s increasingly clear from our customers’ experiences that we should not be sheepish about touting the attributes of modules like Task Management that allows utilization of templates with regular requirements for projects that can be prioritized, assigned to particular designates and scheduled with due dates, and Team Management that provides access to all team members with key information about them including specification of who plays what roles in the project.
The push we did last week put a layer of data richness on each project’s home, enhanced our team management section, and added a major new feature with access control of script versions. All demoed below! (the screen captures are much clearer viewing them full-screen)
