Posts Tagged ‘video’
HPSU attendees speak: why is reporting awesome?
June 16th, 2010Video killed the boring, plain-text with a little CSS star
August 13th, 2009
Any seasoned Westbury-spotters amongst you will have noticed somewhat of a trend in the last 6 – 12 months: namely that we have bought into video in a big way. Obviously it helps that we have such a well-spoken, charismatic and – let’s face it – beautiful public face in one Thomas Danforth St. John Dowler, Esq, but there’s a little more to it than just my face.
For all that Twitter, Facebook or even Pandora and Lala could be considered the poster-children for web 2.0 (are we even still on v2.0 or have we moved to 3.0? Does any patching happen? Will we ever see web 2.31.4.567?) the real internet revelations of 2009 have been sites like hulu – which has brought a huge amount of TV content to the web in a way that is legal, good for the networks and satisfying for viewers – and sites like viddler, vimeo, et al which have begun to challenge youtube for control of the corporate video hosting sector.
Video is vital, and more and more companies are discovering the benefits of visual presentation. Since November of 2008 we have launched a raft of product demo videos for SMI Suite and Change Calendar, along with a 60-second “commercial” for SMI Suite. Coming soon will be more product demo videos, an explanation of the architecture of Service Manager and a piece on using Business Objects Live Office.
The rationale is simple enough. If we tell you that SMI Suite is awesome, we expect that you’ll take that assertion with a pinch of salt. If we show you it being awesome, well… maybe you’ll start to believe us.
Ultimately this is a case of us finally taking a dose of our own medicine. We’ve been prattling on for years about important reporting is because it allows you to show what’s really happening in your IT department, demonstrate IT’s value to the business, etc. We’ve decided to take a leaf out of our own book and so now we’re showing you how cool our product is.
There are going to be lots of cool new videos coming soon – we’ve built a brand-new, state of the art studio and we’re chomping at the bit to show it off, so stay tuned.
Oh, and if my choice of title for this entry has inspired a sudden urge to listen to The Buggles, here’s a really cool video…
Tom
The birth of WESTBLOG and a brand new product demo video
April 24th, 2009
www.westbury-it.com
Funny how technology companies often aren’t the first ones to embrace new technology… Well, better late than never, right? With corporate blogging seeming to be the one thing people are talking about these days (other than the economy), now seemed like the perfect time to launch WESTBLOG, Westbury’s first official blog.
We’re hoping to achieve a few things with WESTBLOG, although our aims will no doubt shift once we get going. Firstly we want to get nice and cosy with our customers. All too often we feel like we’re a faceless corporation that shows up once a year ask for support dues, and that’s not the way it should be, especially in an industry as small and connected as ITSM. We’re not simply a software vendor, we’re gurus of ITSM reporting – at least, that’s what we like to think.
Secondly we want to get people excited about the things that excite us – whether that’s things we’re doing here, or things going on at HP, or something happening in the big wide world of ITSM and ITIL, or whether that’s just the thrilling race for automatic promotion from England’s Coca-Cola League Two (COME ON YOU SHAKERS!).
Thirdly we want to impress chicks at parties by telling them we have a blog.
OK, so that third one was was a lie. We wouldn’t want to be associated with anyone who would be impressed by blog ownership. But the first two are very true, and in order to get cracking on the second objective:
We have a new product demo video out! Released this very day onto the Viddler airwaves is the video for Change Calendar, hosted by the best looking employee in the Westbury organization (I know, big fish in a very very small pond). Check it out:
Right now the plan is to have a bunch of different people contribute to WESTBLOG, so we heartily suggest you subscribe to the RSS feed (works really well in Outlook 2007) and keep up to date every time there’s a new post.
Until next time,
Tom
