I’d like to introduce Andrea Zoellner, a WordPress.com VIP Communications intern who has been working diligently over the past two months to do some great things with WordPress.com VIP’s communication! Among other projects, she’s spearheaded transcribing and getting the Big Media & Enterprise Meetup videos and transcripts available to the public as soon as possible. We hope you’ll give her a big welcome, and we can’t wait to share what else she’s been working on! —Sara Rosso.
We’ve been posting videos of presentations from the Big Media & Enterprise meetups over the past few months, and we believe those presentations are one of the biggest resources for the WordPress community at large with regards to understanding how WordPress is being used for innovative and highly-scaled projects.
With the goal of helping the community in mind, we submitted the videos to WordPress.tv so the entire global community could discover and share them as needed. We also painstakingly added English subtitles and a full transcript to these videos to make it easier to follow along, increase accessibility, and make them translation-ready.
These videos are an opportunity to hear about interesting features and stories from some of the most sophisticated WordPress installs on the web. By recording the meetup presentations and making them available to the wider WordPress community, we hope more people will benefit from the content.
Check out some of our recent presentations which we transcribed and published on this site:
- How Parade.com Uses the WordPress Theme Customizer API | Watch The Video
by Taylor Buley from Parade.com
Big Media & Enterprise WordPress Meetup New York December 2013 - One Theme, One Multisite, 30+ Unique Websites | Watch The Video
by Simon Dickson from Code for the People
Big Media & Enterprise WordPress Meetup New York March 2014 - How WordPress Evolves Without Breaking Everything | Watch The Video
by Andrew Nacin from WordPress Core
Big Media & Enterprise WordPress Meetup New York August 2013 - Building qz.com, a web app powered by WordPress | Watch The Video
by Josh Kadis from Quartz
Big Media & Enterprise WordPress Meetup New York August 2013 - Elastic Search on WordPress.com in Action | Watch The Video
by Austin Smith from Alley Interactive
Big Media & Enterprise WordPress Meetup New York August 2013 - Metro UK’s Powerful Content Algorithm | Watch The Video
by Dave Jensen from Metro UK
Big Media & Enterprise WordPress Meetup London May 2014 - Harvard Business Review and WordPress | Watch The Video
by Kevin Newman from Harvard Business Publishing
Big Media & Enterprise WordPress Meetup Boston June 2014 - Non-Blocking WordPress at TechCrunch | Watch The Video
by Alex Khadiwala and Nico Vincent from TechCrunch
Big Media & Enterprise WordPress Meetup San Francisco June 2014
Want to make more WordPress.tv videos accessible? You can help the WordPress.tv community bring meetup talks to an even broader audience by contributing subtitles to other videos. Find out more.
I’ve been thrilled to watch several of the new videos from the Big Media and Enterprise meetups. Glad to see they’ve been published with transcripts. (I added the captions for the 3.8 and 3.9 announcement videos on WordPress.tv.)
Just curious, how are you creating the transcripts? Are you using a third-party transcription company?
Hi Deborah, glad to hear you’re enjoying the videos.
To create transcripts, we followed the captioning process detailed on WordPress.tv . Using that software, we could then export captions as a text file and turn them into full transcripts.
Thank you for your support and for contributing captions to WordPress.tv.
Hi Andrea,
Thank you for the quick reply. So the transcripts were created manually by a team of people at WordPress.com VIP communications who listened to the videos? Whoa, that’s a lot of work!
I followed that process for the short announcement videos, which can be done quickly. It’s a much longer process for long videos.
Deborah – not exactly a team – Andrea! 🙂 We think it was a good thing for the VIP team to dedicate some time to, so that other companies, agencies, and individuals can benefit from the talks!