Tag Archive for: YouTube

I’m Presenting at Macstock!

Mike, a man with glasses and a beard wearing a black shirt, smiles at the camera against a blurred green outdoor background. To his left is the Macstock 9 logo featuring peace, heart, and computer icons, with text announcing "I'm presenting at Macstock!" on a blue background.

I am excited to be giving my first conference presentation since 2017 at the Macstock Conference and Expo next month!

The workshop will help attendees create automated systems for their creative projects: both purposeful folder structures and project management workflows that actually get the work done.

I was interviewed on the MacVoices podcast, which you can check out here to get some more details.

If you are coming to the conference, let me know! If flying to Chicago is not in the cards, you can also sign up for a digital ticket and get recordings of all of the workshops. Consider using my code MIKEBURKE50 when you register, I’d appreciate it!

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Automating My YouTube Videos

I trick my son (and myself) into putting away laundry by asking him to just put away his socks. Then we will come back in a minute and do his shirts. We repeat this cycle until all of his laundry is put away.

I find the same trick works on me. I want to make a new YouTube video, but that amorphous daunting task is challenging to start. I made this automation to help break up making a video into smaller tasks. This reduces the friction and makes producing videos much easier!

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Creating YouTube Timestamps

A great script makes your video easy to understand and produce. It’s also a great start to making your video easy to consume.

However, if you are publishing to YouTube, adding timestamps to your video description will add an extra level of structure to your video that makes it’s content extremely accessible.

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You Need to Script Your Videos

When you are good at speaking to people in person, scripting your videos seems like a waste of time.

I promise nothing is further from the truth!

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How To Make Videos for Teaching

There are certainly plenty of concerns I am hearing from teachers in my building, and on twitter, about starting a semester of purposeful remote teaching. However, the most significant time sink I am noticing complaints about is video production.

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