A Look inside Network Media

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A Look inside Network Media
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Our History

• Started in Dec. 1999 with one employee, Brian
  Parker and 40k start up funding
• A department of Instructional Technology
• 1 camera and production case, a couple of
  computers, 1 QuickTime Streaming Server
• Dan McCarriar was added for media support
• Added Dave Joubert in Fall 2001, David Dyke
  joined on Fall of 2004 and we also employ
  temporary and student help
• Our department is cost recovery

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Our Purpose

• To expand digital media resources available for
  classroom/instructional support university wide
  by offering the campus community the latest
  innovations in instructional technology and
  taking that technology to the classroom via
  mobile production cases.

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What Services we provide

• 3 phases of all of our video productions
• Pre-production
• Production
• Post Production

Hours of operation 9am to 9pm
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Our Services Class Production

• Pre-Production
• Planning
• Set-up of equipment
• Environment assessment
• Production
• Recording and mixing of multi-input video streams
• Post-Production
• Compression or duplication for viewing

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Our Products
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Current Clients

• Heinz School - 60
• Robotics Institute- 10
• PR Special Events 10
• ECE 5
• Tepper Business School 3
• Design 3
• CFA 2
• SCS 2
• INI 2
• Other 3

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Service Categories
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Our Roles

• Service research development
• Financial Analysis
• Service outreach, education marketing
• Customer contact negotiation
• Service delivery and follow-up

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Service Characteristics

• Fast moving cutting edge
• Requires laboratory for quality production
  (capital investment)
• Continuous investment in RD
• Need to lead users by educating on its
  capabilities

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Network Media Staffing
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The Financial Picture
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Budget Breakdown
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Alternate Campus Service Providers

• Several other groups on campus offer services
  that are similar to ours.
• CMU TV student Group
• SCS Research group
• JILT lecture CD creation
• The service that we provide which sets us apart
  from our competition is streaming media hosting

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Division of Collaborators

• OTE Blackboard II, digital slide conversion,
  streaming media support
• OTE Alice Brumley
• Instructional Technology front office support,
  order taking, extra labor support
• Streaming server support Joe Jackson, Yerin Kay
  John Orefice
• Telecom Bruce Taylor

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Issue Diversification

• We need to expand our list of clients that we
  serve to prevent us from becoming too dependent
  on any single piece of business.

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Issues Current Working Conditions

• 2 MAC G5 workstations
• 2 Mac G4
• 2 Windows Compression machines
• VHS duplication tower
• CD/DVD Robotic Duplicator
• 6 DV cameras/tripods
• Tape and battery storage
• Production lighting/stands
• Production Case
• 3 Employees

Two 9x12 offices for staff lab work
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Issue Infrastructure limitations

• Our space currently limits the possibility of any
  further expansion. We literally cannot fit one
  more piece of equipment in our offices unless we
  assign someone to another shift.
• A lab space that allows us to bring lecturers
  (professors) to us to produce their media
  strictly for media in addition to our classroom
  model would allow us to increase our service to
  the campus community

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Issues Unpredictable Funding

• A predictable capital budget to free us from
  deficit spending.
• Alternate stable funding sources for support of
  high quality, high profile events.
• Qatar, West coast campus, Chile, Mexico, Greece

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Request from Clients

• Kyle Fisher-Morabito - Assoc VP University
  Advancement marketing
• Brett Browning RI seminar series to share with
  groups off campus
• John Sengenberger Tepper life long learning for
  alumni
• Peter Lee offer lectures series to branch
  campuses

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Issues Facilities Staffing

• Recording facilities for controlled taping
• We are not well equipped to schedule multiple
  small events due to no dedicated office staff

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Our next steps

• Conduct Netmedia Discovery.
• Address facility issue
• To find more time to talk with faculty and staff
  about utilitizing Network Medias services.

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Questions or Comments