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http://go.butler.edu/lifeatbutler/?pg=4731
I had the chance to get my pic with the little dude this weekend at the BU game. What a stud.
YouTube has given the big thumbs-up to lifecasting, with plans to offer the ability to stream a live feed, according to WebWare reports. It’ll be interesting to see how they approach this, and I’m definitely excited.
Between uStream, Stickam, Yahoo! Live, and many others, we will definitely have some choices for implementing our lifecasting. That’s right, after getting denied on student lifecasting nearly 9 months ago now, I am in the process of setting up lifecasting on our admission site. No, not students… Butler Blue II.
Yep, a live feed of our slobbery mascot dog and his daily adventures. We figure it’s a little safer since he doesn’t drink or party too hard. I have been lifecasting my dog for 8 months now (but still figuring out logistics in the new house, we should be live again next week), so I’m well experience in canine camerawork. It’s all part of a new multimedia area I am working on putting together to try and breathe some life into our site, which is approaching 1.5 years of stagnancy. More to come.
Isn’t he handsome?
Oh, and Happy Leap Day!
Just in: I’ll be giving two presentations on day 1 of the upcoming conference:
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Last year, about 2 weeks on the job, I pitched a lofty proposal to have Lifecasters in addition to bloggers. These lifecasters would have a setup similar to Justin.TV, and would essentially stream live video of their college experience for future students to see what it’s really like (outside of marketing, microsites, and rehearsed pitches).
Last year the response was basically “no way”, or “you really think it’s a good idea to let students with cameras walk around campus and show what it’s like?!?” My general answer… Yes. They decided that we should get the bloggers going and see how that would go first. (Side note: everyone was worried about letting bloggers say what they want, letting people comment without moderation, etc. etc. etc. Guess how much content we have had to moderate or delete? ZERO.)
At what point will we stop trying to show students what we think they will like to hear, and just start showing them what it’s really like to go somewhere? Even our overnight visit programs are strategically designed and planned, and I agree there needs to be some sort of organization, but is there truly a way to give a student a “real” experience without putting them in danger? 
I’d love to hear what you all think about this. I’ll admit I have generally been hush-hush about my Lifecaster initiative because I would have liked for my University to be on the forefront of this technology, but now it seems that it might be beneficial for others to be doing it before I can try to get some buy-in. At least I can say I tried, and I had all the resources ready. Even Justin.TV was going to stream our video for FREE. (Click this link and listen to our conversation from about 7 months ago, scroll to 1:05. Most of the clip got cut from its original version for some reason.)
And if anyone knows of a school that’s doing this, leave a comment so I can check it out. And as always, I’d love to hear what you think.