{"id":256,"date":"2007-05-27T22:42:29","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T14:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/27\/connected-ventures-flagpole-sitta-viral-clip-on-vimeo\/"},"modified":"2007-05-27T22:42:29","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T14:42:29","slug":"connected-ventures-flagpole-sitta-viral-clip-on-vimeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/27\/connected-ventures-flagpole-sitta-viral-clip-on-vimeo\/","title":{"rendered":"Connected Ventures &#8220;Flagpole Sitta&#8221; viral clip on Vimeo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perthnorg.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bronwen<\/a> mentioned this video on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\">twitter<\/a> maybe a month ago.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/clip:173714\">Lip Dub &#8211; Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/user:amandalynferri\">amandalynferri<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/\">Vimeo<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We did this video one night after work. We are a company called Connected Ventures, a group of friends who work for: Vimeo, CollegeHumor, Busted Tees, and Defunker.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is posted on the Vimeo video sharing site, which I hadn&#8217;t heard of until &#8211; you guessed it &#8211; I was pointed to this cool and entertaining video.<\/p>\n<p>What do I think of it?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I feel much older, less creative and fatter.<\/li>\n<li>It perked me up.<\/li>\n<li>Millenial geeks are cute.<\/li>\n<li>If they can produce something like this with equipment I have lying around my house, how can movie makers and mainstream media hope to impress this generation?<\/li>\n<li>I hope that it is, as I suspect, just a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.searchanyway.com\/2007\/05\/viral_video_case_study.html\" target=\"_blank\">viral video<\/a> produced by Connected Ventures to promote Vimeo, or else that the kids were paid heavy bonuses for the traffic it brings to the site.<\/li>\n<li>I hope that they were also paid bonuses by Busted Tees,  another company they work for and whose product many of them are wearing.<\/li>\n<li>Oohhh look&#8230;what does <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defunker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Defunker<\/a> do&#8230;?<\/li>\n<li>Hmmmmm&#8230;. game set and match to clever marketers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>What if we hired some millennial geeks to weave through our library services, lips syncing and looking cute. Could we go viral?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bronwen mentioned this video on twitter maybe a month ago. Lip Dub &#8211; Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from amandalynferri on Vimeo We did this video one night after work. We are a company called Connected Ventures, a group of friends who work for: Vimeo, CollegeHumor, Busted Tees, and Defunker. This is posted on the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[237,249],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-marketing","tag-millenials"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BXdd-48","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}