Collaborate like never before
July 27th, 2010 Filed Under Customers, Faculte, New Features
Last night our Studio saw yet another release, and yet again we have new, exciting features for you!
The main change this time around is a new and improved version of our Collaboration feature. Up until now, Collaboration could be ON or OFF for an account. If Collaboration was ON, you could choose whether the default setting for a Broadcast was Everybody can edit, Everybody can copy or Nobody can do anything.
Then one Producer asked us: What if I want to create a Broadcast with one of the other Producers? I don’t want everybody to have access to my assets, but I want to have this person collaborate with me on the project. Can I do this without giving her my password?
Another asked: My Broadcast is in English; I want someone to translate it for me so I can reach a broader audience. But I only want to give my Translator access, not everybody in my account – and I don’t wish to provide her with my password either. Can I do this?
We started thinking about this. How about expanding our Collaboration feature so that:
- A Translator can join an account, be given collaboration access to the specific Broadcast that needs translation, and once translated, the access is removed again.
- A Marketing Manager can make an outline of the new Marketing content. He then invites their professional VoiceOver expert to join the account, turns Collaboration ON – and when the VoiceOver is created, turns Collaboration off
- The in-house design team is part of the account, but they are not interested in seeing all the Communication content being created. Every now and then, when a Broadcast is ready to be shared, they will be given access to it, can refine and decorate it, and once that is done, access is taken away and they do not have to worry about it anymore
… and of course, all of the above can be done without everybody in the account seeing, accessing, and having their Home tabs cluttered by a load of non-relevant Broadcasts.
Online Authoring Collaboration has had a big advantage over Desktop Authoring for quite a while now. Even Microsoft Office is taking their Authoring Tools online!
With our new and improved Collaboration Feature, we take yet another step forward and away from Desktop Editing. Gathering, Editing and Collaborating on your Multimedia Content online has never been easier with Faculte.
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We’re pioneers, my friends.
February 15th, 2010 Filed Under Customers, Education, Faculte, Faculte Story
“Vernon, please help me. Can you figure out a way I can teach from home? Pleeeease?”, Donna Kato claims she whined to her husband, after being delayed for hours at a desolate airport, trying to make her way back home after teaching a class. “I love to teach, it’s just what it took to get to my students and home again that was really getting my goat.”, she writes in a recent blog post.
Vernon obviously could not say no to a tired, whining wife, and he started to look for solutions. They tried producing videos; it turned out to be way too expensive. They thought about creating downloadable pdf’s; they were so uninspiring. They kept searching and Donna kept traveling.
Then they stumbled across Faculte’s BETA site. To this day, none of us really know how they found us, but find us they did, and this has turned out to be a very exciting partnership for Faculte and what would eventually become CraftEdu.
Imagine the following scenario; you are at home, taking the afternoon off. You are feeling terribly creative, but have neither inspiration nor knowledge to actually create something. You step into the living room, coming to a sudden halt in the doorway: Right there, on your desk, sits metal clay artist Angela Crispin, polymer clay wizard Bettina Welker, fiber art ace Beth Wheeler, scrap-booking champion Brigitte Doss-Johnson, wirework genius Debbie Tlach, fabric printing authority Heidi Rand – in fact, there are about 50 amazing craft artists sitting right there on your desk. (needless to say; your desk is pretty full!) The artist are all eager to show you their artwork, and teach you how you can create it yourself.
This is the vision of CraftEdu - except the instructors will be available inside, not on top of, your computer, so it will not be as crowded as described above.
CraftEdu is founded by Vernon Ezell and Donna Kato, and as a modest beginning they have included 50 Arts and Crafts experts in their team. These experts have picked out their favorite pieces, and with the use of Faculte’s Broadcast Studio they are now in the process of creating online, on-demand classes available to anyone with a computer. The instructions contain step-by-step images, verbal explanations, videos – and lots of inspiration. You can follow them in your own pace, navigate the instructions to see parts of it several times, and revisit the class multiple times.
Being part of this project, the Faculte team has had the opportunity to have quite a few sneak peaks – and believe us, both the art work and the classes look awesome. Everyone is looking forward to the CraftEdu BETA launch in just a few weeks.
A few weeks ago, Donna truly realized what she got herself into, that long evening of whining in a desolate airport. To use her own words; “…there is nothing like it in the craft or art community. We’re pioneers, my friends. This may well change the way all internet instruction is presented.”
The Faculte Team is proud to be powering this amazing project!
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