Learning is everywhere at Mozilla.\u00a0 It seems like every time I do something, or don’t do something, I have something to learn.<\/p>\n
As a response to Sean Bolton’s post<\/a> on 5 things he learned from the Capture Mozilla Project, and Mardi Douglas’ post<\/a> on her learnings as she plans the Summit, I’m naming my learnings from putting myself on video.<\/p>\n A few weeks back, I did a knowledge capture around a special thing I’ve been delivering training on and continue to be tapped for:\u00a0 Communications.\u00a0 Person to person story telling.\u00a0 My personal and professional mission is to improve the communications experience one voice at a time.\u00a0 Problem is, there isn ‘t enough of me to go around.\u00a0 I needed to find a way to scale myself, even just a little bit.\u00a0 You can check out what I did here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here’s what I learned from putting myself on video and from the process of doing it:<\/p>\n 1) Doing it with help is better than doing it alone and never actually doing it<\/strong>– I tried to do it alone.\u00a0 Alone is not for me.\u00a0 I love the microphone (even though I get nervous) and I have a good time making the story, but when it comes to doing any kind of even simple editing, my heart races and I can think straight.\u00a0 Staring at user-friendly editing software is like staring into the sun. So, I got myself a pair of sunglasses in the form of a friend.\u00a0 In a mere 10 minutes he was able to do the minimum editing and teaching it required me to finish my video project.\u00a0 Asking for help, not always easy, but worth it.<\/p>\n 2) Done is good- even if it’s imperfect- <\/strong>That’s it.<\/p>\n 3) It gets easier- <\/strong>Now that I’ve done it once it feels less risky on all fronts.\u00a0 All the, “I don’t know where to start.\u00a0 The audio isn’t perfect.\u00a0 What if I sound stupid. It needs to look perfect.” stuff is replaced with “I wonder what I’ll do next?” and “The next one’s gonna be way better.” and “Ooo. This is kind of fun!”<\/p>\n 4) When it helps someone, it’s awesome- <\/strong>The day I completed the wiki that contains the curriculum build around the videos I made, I sent the link out to a few who expected it.\u00a0 Then I went on vacation.\u00a0 Happy to be away from all the potential embarrassment of my face and voice on video, I hid from the news of what people thought for nearly two week.\u00a0 What an amazing thing to learn that WebFWD<\/a> is using the curriculum and videos!\u00a0 It was a wonderful relief and joy that through video, I could continue to have an impact without my presence.\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 What a feeling.\u00a0 And, when I attended a pitch practice session as a coach, I was full of glee to hear the WebFWD<\/a> crew referring to the lessons in the videos.\u00a0 Awesome.<\/p>\n 5) Brevity is important (a little off-script rehearsal helps)-\u00a0 <\/strong>I’m a talker.\u00a0 Not everyone loves the sound of my voice as much as I do.\u00a0 And in video, this\u00a0 matters big time.\u00a0 My videos are still too long and I’ll do a V2 pretty soon.\u00a0 But what I learned is that the shorter the better.\u00a0 And if you want it short, a little run through helps.\u00a0 You don’t have to script it.\u00a0 But run through what you’re going to say, out loud, just a few times and you’ll cut down on delivery time by A LOT.\u00a0 And, brevity feels powerful.<\/p>\n If I can do it, so can you.\u00a0 What do you have to teach what will help someone who doesn’t have direct access to you?\u00a0 Give them the gift of you on video.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Learning is everywhere at Mozilla.\u00a0 It seems like every time I do something, or don’t do something, I have something to learn. 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