T-SQL Tuesday 185: Video Star Edition #tsql2sday

This month’s T-SQL Tuesday invitation:

You can talk about whatever you want, but it has to be a video
Non-video entries will not be televised
You don’t have to be on camera
You can host the video anywhere you want
You must link back to this post so I get a pingback to find your post
You must include the T-SQL Tuesday Logo

Free ways to record your content:

Happy recording!

Video Summary

In this video, I’m Erik Darling from Darling Data, and I’m excited to announce that April’s T-SQL Tuesday is happening on my channel. With Steve Jones handing over the keys, I invite you to share your thoughts on any topic related to SQL Server or database management in a video format. Video content has become increasingly important as search engines struggle with AI-generated content, making it harder for creators like us to be found. Recording videos allows for a more engaging and interactive experience that can help build a personal brand and reach a wider audience. Whether you’re new to recording or have years of experience, I provide tips on how to get started using free tools like Windows 11’s snipping tool, PowerPoint screen recording, and Streamlabs OBS. Remember, while videos are the focus, you still need to publish a blog post linking back to your video for me to include in my roundup. So, grab your camera or microphone and let’s create some amazing content together!

Full Transcript

Erik Darling here with Darling Data. And this video is not, well, it is one of my videos, but this video is an invitation for other videos. You see, this, see, I’m hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month. Steve Jones put the keys in my hand. And what I want you to do is talk about whatever you want. There’s no topic, but whatever you talk about, you have to record a video for it. You know, not just writing something, you are recording. and this one. There are some good reasons for that, right? So like writing blog posts is great. I wrote blog posts for years. I might even still write an occasional blog post. But like I’m, I’m just in love with the video thing lately. Uh, blog posts are great because you have, you know, you’re carefully organized thoughts and words. You have your pictures and you have all your, any scripts you want to hand off to reference and like code you can copy and paste and like, it’s, it’s fine. But the thing is that, um, if you’re trying to copy and paste and like, it’s fine. to like build a brand or you’re trying to like build content that people find and find you and like you know know you for that’s getting harder and harder and harder uh search engines now are completely bypassing content all of their llm agents are stealing your content and using it to just answer questions without linking or referencing your stuff or like hiding like like a million lines down wherever they might have fetched some content from and like you don’t even show up so like unless someone is like specifically looking on your site for something there is a very very like like like search engines just making it impossible for people to find you right they’re just finding this answer from their llm which sucks like like if you want to be known for the stuff that you do you need to produce content in a different way that llms can’t just steal from you now like like sure they could probably still index video with words and transcripts and like you know use that at some point but right now like if you want to build like you know personalized good content that people are able to find and recognize you for video is really the like the only way to keep doing that so like you can put still put all the stuff that you would put into a blog post into a blog post written like along with the video but recording uh at least i find reaches a way different and often wider audience like when i was writing written posts like you know they go out there into the world and often like oftentimes the only comments that you would get would be someone telling you if there was like a typo or a broken link or the picture was wrong or something or like something else is off about the post and like you would just have to be like oh fix now so like but once i started recording videos and you know youtube tracks like views and likes and your channel subscribers and like like you just get like comments on stuff like it’s just way more of a like way more interactive experience so at least for me anyway um it also lets you show off your sparkling amazing personality your winning smile your confidence all that good stuff that just may not come across and just you know typed out written word which can just get kind of dull repetitive letters it’s a lot going on when you write stuff and plus you can get creative in different ways with video i don’t do a lot of editing of my stuff aside from the fact that i have like my my green screen set up but if you might be out there in the world with like a real knack for doing like cool video stuff you might have like transitions or explosions or lasers or robots or i don’t know like all sorts of stuff that you can do with videos like transitions from one scene to another i don’t get into that because i’m i’m i’m i’m this guy but if you are the type of person who gets into that stuff you are like their video world is wide open to you so uh if you’ve never recorded anything before if you’re unfamiliar with the world of recording here are a few ways that you can do it for free uh windows 11 has a snipping tool built in which i seems to support uh audio input recording now uh with powerpoint you can do an insert screen recording uh like i just like right now can just break out of uh i can break out of powerpoint a little bit if you go to the insert menu up here and then you scroll over you can do a screen recording and just plop whatever in there so if you’re a company like you know you have powerpoint you can do this right it’s not it’s not it’s not completely out of your reach uh zoomit which is a free tool in the sys internals pack uh also has screen recording built in now at least as at least as i can tell v9 has it i don’t know if like v8 had it or something but at least for the latest version built screen recording is built into that if you want to get a little bit fancier you can use something like i like i use streamlabs obs because i like to like set up my camera and whatever else so i like i show up where i want to show up and i don’t block the words on the slide you know all sorts of like good thoughtful things in there um you don’t need to include video of yourself for this like i’m not saying that you have to be on camera but we might need to hear that voice of yours so you can explain what’s going on on the screen so there are definitely free ways to do this that uh that like shouldn’t impact you too much and i would assume that like since we are five years into a lot of people working remotely you should have some kind of microphone for all those zoom meetings you may or may not go to or teams meetings that you hopefully don’t have to go to because well we don’t have to talk about that here anyway just a couple rules and regulations uh your post even though it is going to be video based uh has to have this logo in it you have to publish a blog post still that has your video in it so i can go watch it and the only way that i’m going to know to go watch it is if you link back to my blog post with this video in it so i get a little handy ping back in the comments if you like don’t ping back my post i’m not going to know to go find your post so the ping back is necessary like linking back to this post is absolutely a requirement here otherwise i’m not going to know it exists uh you might post it on social media and you like if like but you’re not tagging me in it uh or you’re not like you know tagging this post in it i don’t know where to go find you so you have to link back to this post so i get a ping back so i can do my roundup uh you do have to publish this on or around tuesday april 8th i’m not going to be too much of a stickler for this because i’m probably not going to get to the roundup until like thursday or friday or maybe even monday uh depending on how things trickle in and how i have how much time i have to like watch stuff and like you know come up with my little commentary on everyone’s thing so like just you know near tuesday april 8th would be useful so anyway uh that’s this month’s t-SQL tuesday happy recording and i can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with all right cool now go go go go do it

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T-SQL Tuesday 185: Video Star Edition #tsql2sday