Many of us have attended Lync Online meetings or watched webinars recorded by Lync. But have you used it to create and publish training, induction or demo videos?
The potential is for organizations who use Office 365 to create their own induction websites and training videos.
Help your colleagues "Learn the Ropes".
It's easier and quicker to watch a video than to read and depend on screenshots. I find the combination of both covers both bases.
Lync and SharePoint Online make it easier to create training videos and embed them within How To and Induction articles to help your organization. Some of the new features that improve video recording and publishing are:
To demonstrate how easy it is to publish the video content, I've created a Blog subsite off my Team site. It could just as easily be a Wiki site.
By enabling these features, the site now has an Images asset library which can be used to store my video. The libraries default name is Images, but it can contain video and audio and can be renamed.
Whey I finish my recording, Lync renders it to an MP4 file.
I'm still investigating where to change the thumbnail of the video. You could do this with SharePoint 2010. The setting will be somewhere…
SharePoint Online has great social features that your organization can use to spread the word about content that has been created, recognize it with ratings, collaborate around comments. I want to see organizations run with these features and capabilities to encourage more useful content that will help colleagues and clients alike.
Let me know if you've created something similar for your organization. Or if you plan to use my method, post your comments and get in touch if you want assistance.
