The Tiki Community is proud to announce the release of its first promotional video: How to get help.

In this video, recorded in March 2010, Gary Cunningham-Lee explains how new Tiki Community members can get help with their Tiki sites. Gary is a long-time Tiki contributor and a member of the Tiki Software Community Association.

Watch the complete video at: http://bit.ly/ddczzU .

A series of video clips, released under a Creative Commons license, will be made available for interested parties. Daniel Gauthier, a member of the Tiki Community and the filmmaker of these clips says, “I’ve created these video clips for a very specific purpose: To help developers, technology decision makers and companies like ISPs who normally know about Open Source Development projects understand the richness of the Tiki Community.”

Three to five video clips will be released in the near future, each lasting three to four minutes. These “info-clips” are interviews with members of the Tiki community. In each clip, the audience learns about more about Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware, the Tiki Community and its “Wiki Way” model of software development.

Mr. Gauthier adds, “What a great way to learn about Open Source Development. Tiki Wiki is a dynamic eco-system. It grows so fast and so strong that one day, I believe it will be adopted by many more Fortune 500 companies.”

The videos also showcase the Tiki integration with Kaltura (http://www.kaltura.org/), an open source, community supported online video and rich-media solution. See http://dev.tikiwiki.org/Video for details on the Tiki+Kaltura integration.

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What does an orange have to do with WordPress? Michael Fields uses the metaphor to explain how taxonomies work in WordPress and what that means for your site. Video via WordPress.TV.

Groundswell technology comes to consumers first. At home, we get social, mobile, video, and cloud services pitched to us 24×7. Facebook, Android, iPad, Foursquare, Google, YouTube, Office Web Apps, Twitter. The list is endless and growing every single day. Empowering technologies like these will always come to consumers first. Why? Because it's a wide-open market. A single developer can build an application that changes the world from their broadband-connected bedroom.

All this technology puts tremendous power directly into the hands of your customers. Your customers often have more information than your sales team — or medical staff — does. They can also whack your brand from their smartphone, with video even, while waiting impatiently in line. They can get a recommendation from someone in their business network while listening to your pitch. Customers are empowered by information and connections. You'd better make sure you give customers better information than they can get elsewhere.

The only way to do that is to empower your employees to directly engage the needs and expectations of empowered customers. Only empowered employees can solve the problems of empowered customers.

Fortunately, your employees are not standing still. People are problem solvers. Left alone, your innovative employees (we call them HEROes — highly empowered and resourceful operatives) are building new solutions using these same groundswell technologies — and many others besides — to solve customer problems.

In fact, 37% of US information workers — employees that use computers for work — use do-it-yourself technology to get work done. Personal mobile devices. Unsanctioned Web sites like Skype or Google Docs or LinkedIn or Smartsheet.com. Unsanctioned software downloaded to a work computer.

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Guidelight Business Solutions, a custom software and web strategy company based in Texas, has put together a little video highlighting their experience at last month’s DrupalCon in San Francisco. The video does a good job in capturing the fun, scale, and pace of a Drupal conference. At the start of the video, you’ll also see a snip of video of me taken during an interview while we were waiting for one of the keynote speakers to come on stage. I’m honored to be included in a video among so many of the other talented faces that were there for DrupalCon.

You can check out the video either below or at the website of Guidelight Business Solutions.

The following video shows some of the enhancements included in Socialtext 4.0.1.

Some of the enhancements in Socialtext 4.0.1 include:

• Sending longer microblogging messages in Socialtext Signals
• Installing the Desktop application for rich-client access to Socialtext
• Filtering a Group’s activity stream so you can focus on specific types of events
• Improving the look of certain wiki page elements

[Source: Socialtext Blog]

I usually stay clear of search engine optimization (SEO) discussions, but I think this video is worth your time. In the video, Corey Eulas teaches SEO tips, tricks, and best practices found to increase traffic from search engines. This talk includes examples with a look “under the hood” of a few actual sites owned by members of the audience. You will “discover how to enhance user experience and usability while making your site more search engine friendly”.

It doesn’t hurt to take Corey Eulas’ advice and likely his tips will improve your chances for being ranked higher in the index pages of the search engines. However, I’m a firm believer that the number one tip for good SEO of your website is writing good content. Sure, you can tweak the code here and there and write the buzz words search engines may be looking for in order to help improve your site’s listing in the search index. In the end though it’s the quality of your content that will eventually win people over to your site.

Some video from CNET on five reasons you should get the iPad and another five reasons why you should not get the iPad. If you can’t see the video, then perhaps reason number 6 for not getting an iPad is that it can’t do Flash. Thank Apple’s Steve Jobs for that decision.

Last week, CMS Report received an email regarding a new CMS that focuses on managing multimedia content. The application is written in Python so naturally we’re going to talk to let our readers know about this new platform.

I’m not sure if you guys have covered this yet, but as a regular reader of cmsreport.com I thought I would let you know.
Earlier this month my company launched a new Open Source python based CMS focused on video and podcasting.

http://getmediacore.com/

MediaCore is a free open source video cms and podcast platform.  MediaCore can pull video or audio from any source, track statistics, enable commenting, and provide a high degree of control over the presentation and administration.

Let me know if you guys need any further information on the project. Right now we are just trying to get the word out about it.

Cheers,
Stuart

Rob Larsen shows you how to create cross-browser, HTML5 enhanced WordPress themes using nothing more than a little extra JavaScript, basic WordPress knowledge and some knowledge of the new elements.

Andrea Rennick gives a brief 5-minute overview of the capabilities and extensibility of WordPress MU.