ShowMeDo is a relatively new website that is about videos by the people, for the people as they put it. Not the normal type of videos that you find on sites like youtube but videos that teach the viewer. The site currently has seven categories where movies are located, those are Python, Java, Ruby, Linux, Blender, Screencasting and Other. The biggest category is the Other category which will most likely be the most interesting category for everyone who is not into programming, linux and 3d.
I know that you would like some examples of videos that you can find at ShowMeDo, here we go. I pick three random ones: Getting Started with Wordpress, Basic Car Maintenance and The Perfect Cup of Coffee, As you can see they offer tech related video tutorials and “real-life” tutorials as well. Playing a video works the same way as in youtube, just click the link, the video loads and you press play in the video to start it. If youtube works for you ShowMeDo will as well.
As I said earlier it is a relatively new website which means that they do not have millions of videos. It also takes a longer time for the users to create tutorial videos as you can imagine. The ShowMeDo wiki has a (written) tutorial that explains in detail how to create videos that can be uploaded to ShowMeDo, why not share your knowledge if you are good at something ?
You may request tutorials about a certain subject. Users can vote which request is of interest to them. This is a nice feature, really nice. You still need someone to pick up your request so don’t start with something like theory of relativity. I suppose basic stuff works best here.
If ShowMeDo manages to gain some momentum and exposure on the internet they surely will make they way as a great niche movie website that is able to survive amongst the big players.
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Hi Martin, thanks for the kind words about our ShowMeDo. Kyran and I started the site a year back, we’ve been growing the site for a year in evenings and weekends.
We’re so happy with the site’s progress that, as of January, we’ll be self-funding ourselves to support our time (2 weeks a month at first). The aim will be to spend more time attracting more authors, to share more knowledge amongst those who want to learn.
Thanks for the great write-up :-)
Ian.
Ian I like your site very much, great concept. Hope your site prospers ;)
Great website, I love the Blender part most. But I would appreciate more videos coming up on Blender and maybe just a little advanced.. Thx.
Ian, love the website, easy to use. Vids stay on topic well. Great information. Not too pricey for the non-pay Vids either. Keep up the good work
Hi Jack – thanks for the compliment. Over Christmas we decided to focus 100% on ShowMeDo and to move the selling-tutorials approach to a Subscriber approach.
Under the Subscriber plan we’ll be rolling out new Python tutorial videos each week – making many series on all sorts of important topics, backed by exercises and worked-solutions.
I’ve mentioned it in a few of our monthly Update emails – everyone who is registered before Feb 9th will get a discount Subscription offer.
You just need to register as a member in the site and you’ll get a preview of what’s going on.
Cheers,
Ian.