It’s highly likely that you’ve heard of Digg. In fact, we have a Digg button on most articles, and have been “dugg” numerous times in our illustrious first 42 days of being online.
The code monkeys here at PVC (namely me), have been working feverishly to bring a Digg-like clone to the professional video market. Let’s face it, as valuable as Digg is, it’s really for the general consumer market and short of doing searches, there are no categories for the Professional Video person. So we created PVC-it. Yeah, yeah the marketing people weren’t exactly up all night with that one (again me), but hey it works pretty well, and it’s cool.
So here’s the idea:
Click here every day to see what others have voted for. Heck, check several times a day to check out the top video stories across the web. That’s right, when you see a story on any pro video site, PVC-it and it will alert others to click on over. As with Digg, users will need to vote on current stories, or upcoming stories. Once a story gets at least 5 votes, it moves from “upcoming” to “published”.
As a community member, it’s up to you, in addition to the great writers here, to scout the web and highlight the best stories, whether on the PVC itself, StudioDaily, DMN, Creative Cow...anywhere.
If you’d like to get the code to place the PVC-it button on your site click here in the PVC FAQ in the forums to get it.
*Update* When you first register you have the luxury of right-clicking a special link which will place the PVC-it bookmark in your bookmarks folder. From then on when you are on a site with and there’s an article you want to PVC-it, you simply click that bookmark link and it will open a browser window (under) your current window so you can add the article to PVC-it. If you’ve already registered, you can go into “profile” and do the same with the bookmarklet.
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SO where do you put that code for you PVC-it button on a Wordpress blog?
Posted by on 03/20 at 10:40 AM
I am not too familiar with Wordpress, but it’s a standard code that should fit in like we used it here just after the article. You can send me an email and I might be able to walk you through it.
Have you voted for any articles or submitted any yet? This could be a great tool for the community.
Posted by on 03/22 at 09:39 PM
Hey Scott.
I use PHPBB to run my blog and podcast at http://www.bayareafilmmakers.com
and would love to be able to add the button.
I got the button added, but the script doesn’t seem to parse through
the phpbb, as it tries to open it up at my site.
http://www.bayareafilmmakers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=282
Posted by Thomas Koch on 03/24 at 01:09 PM
OK turns out that for some reason when I past he real code into the forum, it removes “[removed]” an places [removed] into it’s place. So, the correct code is to replace [removed] with the following:
[removed]
I updated the forums to reflect that. Sorry for the problem. Hope this works for you.
Scott
Posted by on 03/24 at 02:52 PM
Hmm.
I’d like to add this to my new attempt at a production articles blog, but I’m kind of baffled. Is there a website that explains what Digg is? I see the buttons, I’ve even voted, but I’ve never understood, what happened to the votes after that.
The same here? If I PVCit an article, then what?
I don’t understand where I put the code. Or do I have to remember to place it in every blog entry?
To give you some perspective, and a laugh here’s my first attempt at blogging, to give you an idea of my blog construction cluelessness! http://www.lenses-and-lights.com/blog/
Posted by Steve Bradford on 03/31 at 09:32 PM
Hi Steve,
The idea behind Digg and PVC-it is that the community finds great articles and votes for them. By frequently checking in, you will likely find articles others have found that may of interst to you.
The more votes, the greater likelyhood, you’ll like it as well. However, the key is that people really need to start voting otherwise it’s really the Founders here making suggestions. While that’s likely a good thing, the community as a whole can really add tremendous value if they regularly vote.
To place the code, the best place is like we’ve placed it after your article. Therefore folks who read your post can decide if they want others to check it out as well.
Your blog link above looks like you need some formatting help. Is the blogspot yours as well? Feel free to write me directlt at sgentry (at) provideocoalition.com
Posted by on 03/31 at 09:49 PM