August 16, 2010 - Videos for success & succession planning
I uploaded two new (<3min.) customer videos on YouTube; one customer is dealing with success, and the other video as part of a succession plan. Both videos are the first of a series for each customer.

Videos celebrating success. Becoming popular in any field is a long journey. If successful, you find yourself inundated with requests; your popularity mushrooms for the sheer reason people have heard of you, or your product or service.  Over the course of many years Dave & Joanne Weatherill have been growing their business.  BRITELAND serves many types of customers in many ways. Their roots are in agricultural supply, gardening supplies etc. but they’ve become so much more. Some years back they created a series of ‘problem solver’ documents which you could pick up at the store or print off the website. Problem Solvers allow the staff at BRITELAND to consistently provide the same information about reoccurring gardening, and other, problems. I am pleased to be working with the BRITELAND team to bring those Problem Solvers to video. This is the first of many to come. As with everything BRITELAND does, these videos will explain solutions in the most earth friendly terms. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqZ2PlVMLYY

Succession planning videos: Imagine this is your company. You have a piece of machinery, or way of doing things, that very few people know inside and out. Maybe it’s just one person and that person is retiring! Capturing their story, their way of doing things, their use of the machinery on video will help preserve the knowledge. In the case of the Greater Vernon Museum & Archives (GVMA) their fully operational linotype has been operated by one man, a retired pressman, for many years. Who will operate it next? The tour of the GVMA Print Shop, includes models of the first presses ever made as well as a Platen Press, a Linotype machine and Proof Press. One of the draw backs until now has been, if you wanted to see all the machines in action, you had to visit while a school group in the building. When the remaining videos are produced, everyone will have a chance to look in on the presses and watch the video explanation of how it works. The videos will loop all day, all week, all month long until the next school group or pressman comes along. The videos preserve a way of doing things that is no longer easy present. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwlilcFhQpE