These are some brief notes in advance of a meeting discussing the redesign of CCTV's website.

Some priorities (from my point of view)-

* Consider breaking out different functions: station, video, user community, "town square"
* Reduce the TMI effect, simplify, user-friendlyize
* Video, video, video. Show up front, emphasize it!
(push webchannel subscriptions, miro, itunes)
* Encourage more conversation around posted media
* Make user community more visible, vibrant
* Consistent tagging/categories schema to open up more user-friendly organization
* Develop how-to, "distance/online learning" component
* Think about future needs (mobile devices)

Some sites to consider-

video player layout organization

http://www.cnn.com/video/
http://blip.tv/
http://scantv.org/
http://www.nortontv.org/ (brightcove)
http://www.accessf.org/guide/watch/index.php
http://turnhere.com/ourwork.html (very visual)
http://www.getmiro.com/ (player, not site)

new ways to view/display vid

http://current.com/tv
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/specials/wp/onbeing/

Drupal-like CMS etc

http://www.nymapexchange.net/
http://mefeedia.com/channels/
http://www.denveropenmedia.org/

local content / user participation

http://current.com/
http://home.wickedlocal.com/
http://community.wickedlocal.com/
http://waldo.villagesoup.com/blogs/
http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver
http://www.vocalo.org/
http://h2otown.info/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/off-the-bus/
http://placeblogger.com/
http://www.radioopensource.org/

Cambridge / Chronicle / Wicked Local

http://www.9neighbors.com/
http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/
http://youtube.com/profile_videos?user=cambchron&p=r