Where Will Video Take You, Where Will You Take Your Video?

The primary goal of Social Media Club’s Reality Check is to get down to the brass tacks of how people are really using different technologies and to uncover unmet needs. In this, our premiere series of Reality Check, we are focused on how people are using video in both their personal and professional lives.

More specifically, we are trying to discover where you take your video beyond your desktop and your living room and thinking about what you would really like to do with video while on the go. We want to discuss your ideas, insights, case studies and deeper needs so that we can all learn from each other, fulfilling one of the most important promises of Social Media Club.

With RealPlayer SP, it is now possible to download any non-copyright protected video from the web and view it on almost any portable device. Personally for me, this means that all those videos, in all those open tabs that get lost everytime my browser crashes, are now easily accessible for me to watch in the spare moments waiting for a meeting, sitting on a plane or taking the Muni down to Citizen Space. We also know that many people use it to take their cooking videos into the kitchen, sales teams are using it to show product demonstrations, and emergency planners are using portable videos to educate field teams.

If you want to get some deeper insights into the conversation that we have had so far, click over to hear some of the conversation from New York City’s Reality Check or check out this video below from the Reality Check at Social Media Club Chicago’s meeting on September 23, 2009. (Hot topic: who should not be on video?!)

There are still several more events to come over the next 4-5 weeks. Join us for a Reality Check in San Francisco on Monday October 19, 2009 (my home chapter) for an incredible event talking about the technology and the creative process around mobile video. In addition to Justin from Justin.tv and Lacy Kemp from RealPlayer SP, we will be joined by Christopher Coppola. For more details and to RSVP, click over to the Eventbrite page or visit the event page on Facebook. Additional upcoming events will be held in Los Angeles on October 20 and Salt Lake City on October 29. In November, we will wrap up the series with Reality Checks in Boston, Philadelphia, and Sydney, Austalia.

So where will you take your video? Where will video take you? What would you just love to be able to do with video while youre on the go? Share your thoughts with us here in the comments and let’s explore stories of what else might be possible together.

To see what is now possible with portable video using RealPlayer SP, take a look at this demo from @realtweeter Lacy Kemp that was filmed in DC as part of the Reality Check series.