[by Jeremy Vaught, Community Blogger - Seesmic] (upgraded as per Cathy's example)
Chris Brogan brings up a topic I have been thinking about, but have no answers to yet. So obviously, a perfect subject to bring to you, the Seesmic users. What Chris mentions in his blog post, '5 Starter Moves - Audio and Video' is using tools for business. He mentions Seesmic in that it has a strong community, no business specific tools yet, but has great tools.
So now it comes back to you. What business uses do you see Seesmic filling? As Chris mentioned, I too don't see any right now beyond perhaps very niche advertising by mentioning your business or product in a Seesmic post, but it would have to be very useful to the community, or very sneaky, otherwise nobody will watch your videos. :) So that being said, how do you see Seesmic being a business tool in the future. The API will have a lot to do with this by bringing the content out of the Seesmic box, and into the open. But the API is jut the means, I'm looking for the resulting tools that you will create, or want created.
Looking forward to the comments on this one...
I am trying to imagine what it could be in business and it is not an easy job actually! I had 3 ideas:
- Organised video chats: a guest answers to whoever want to ask a question. The guest can be a businessman, a politician, an artits... It already exists in text format and the video would be a great plus.
- Customer surveys: A professionnal wants client feedback on a product, a strategy, whatever. Here I think it can be organised and a limited number of users could participate and benefit from an incentive.
- Last idea, perhaps not that good: facility for a customer to send a video message to a call center or back office (bank/insurance for example), and response via video when authorised. that means identification on a website, interface with a CRM...etc... (not sure about this one)
Arno and Valvert exposed some other ideas here: http://www.loiclemeur.com/france/2008/01/quelques-idees.html
That's it for today!
Posted by: bertrand | January 15, 2008 at 12:20 AM
Use it to record candid in-office interviews with colleagues. Use it to show tours of the new office. Use it to give a sense of what work life is like at the new place.
Mollyberry is a great ad for JetBlue. Cathy Brooks shows off why it's fun to work at Seesmic.
It's there. : ) We're just not using it that way yet.
Posted by: Chris Brogan... | January 16, 2008 at 05:10 AM
Check this post as your starter for 10. This is how you get it into the hands of business people because it provides the potential for immediate benefit:
http://www.accmanpro.com/2008/01/20/seesmic-for-business/
Posted by: Dennis Howlett | January 19, 2008 at 05:06 PM
Beyond customer survey, I believe the possibility of testimonial(s) is certainly there--as long as easy to use embed codes are available for each video.
Keep on rock'n!
Posted by: Nathan Ketsdever | January 31, 2008 at 09:10 AM
Actually I had 2 other ideas:
Intially, as a video version of Linked In answers. (if that mash-up was done I think it would be sweet Seesmic/Linked In)
Even without the mashup, Seemic has a great opportunity for a questions/expertise platform:
a) if groups of affinity and expertise evolve
b) especially with a specific ability to easily see and find all of the career questions (via category or tag)
I think as the Seesmic studio interviews evolve--this will be even better hotbed of questions, thoughts, and ideas.
Posted by: Nathan Ketsdever | January 31, 2008 at 09:15 AM