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General videos - Videos that don't belong to a series. Each one stands on its own as a story or serves a distinct function.

Book trailers - Short vignettes to provide a little insight into the story of a book.

Clarity - A film noir series with a long story arc about the adventures of Harrison Clarity. The series shows how to use Microsoft Visio.

Quick Tips - A collection of 30-second animations set in a typical office environment. The main character creates diagrams using Visio and his co-worker gives advice.

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This is a trailer for the young adult novel "The Triskaidek" by Basil Sprig. The actors are all friends of Basil and his daughter.

This is a trailer for the young adult novel "The Triskaidek" by Basil Sprig. The actors are all friends of Basil and his daughter.

This is a trailer for the young adult novel "The Triskaidek" by Basil Sprig. The actors are all friends of Basil and his daughter.

This series was an experiment in social media - they were created specifically for people who "like" the Visio page on Facebook. There's a video tab for that page where these are posted, so I put them there several months before Visio 2010 was available. That way people who are interested could get a look at the new features early.

Was it successful? Not really. There was no way to get video metrics from Facebook, and few people left comments. So I posted them on YouTube also, because it's more likely that people will search there for Visio 2010 demos.

This series was an experiment in social media - they were created specifically for people who "like" the Visio page on Facebook. There's a video tab for that page where these are posted, so I put them there several months before Visio 2010 was available. That way people who are interested could get a look at the new features early.

Was it successful? Not really. There was no way to get video metrics from Facebook, and few people left comments. So I posted them on YouTube also, because it's more likely that people will search there for Visio 2010 demos.

This series was an experiment in social media - they were created specifically for people who "like" the Visio page on Facebook. There's a video tab for that page where these are posted, so I put them there several months before Visio 2010 was available. That way people who are interested could get a look at the new features early.

Was it successful? Not really. There was no way to get video metrics from Facebook, and few people left comments. So I posted them on YouTube also, because it's more likely that people will search there for Visio 2010 demos.

This series was an experiment in social media - they were created specifically for people who "like" the Visio page on Facebook. There's a video tab for that page where these are posted, so I put them there several months before Visio 2010 was available. That way people who are interested could get a look at the new features early.

Was it successful? Not really. There was no way to get video metrics from Facebook, and few people left comments. So I posted them on YouTube also, because it's more likely that people will search there for Visio 2010 demos.

This series was an experiment in social media - they were created specifically for people who "like" the Visio page on Facebook. There's a video tab for that page where these are posted, so I put them there several months before Visio 2010 was available. That way people who are interested could get a look at the new features early.

Was it successful? Not really. There was no way to get video metrics from Facebook, and few people left comments. So I posted them on YouTube also, because it's more likely that people will search there for Visio 2010 demos.

This series was an experiment in social media - they were created specifically for people who "like" the Visio page on Facebook. There's a video tab for that page where these are posted, so I put them there several months before Visio 2010 was available. That way people who are interested could get a look at the new features early.

Was it successful? Not really. There was no way to get video metrics from Facebook, and few people left comments. So I posted them on YouTube also, because it's more likely that people will search there for Visio 2010 demos.

I created this video to show not only what's new in the latest version of Visio, but to show how the new features can be used. The secret agent plot was simply because I thought it would be more fun to make and to watch than a standard business-oriented scenario would be - the diagramming techniques are the same no matter what kind of diagrams and data you work with.

This is a series I create for work. The idea behind it is to help people get better at using Visio without having to put much effort into learning. I think the biggest hurdle to learning is just finding out what's possible - after you see an example of an interesting technique it's not too hard to figure out how to do it yourself.

I use After Effects for the sets and animation. There's no real budget for the series, and only two people are involved in every episode; I do the production work and Ron Owens (another writer in the group) is Harrison Clarity. Guest character voices are provided by people in our work group, except for the role of Cate - we hired an actress for a one-hour recording session and got all of her lines for the first six epsiodes.

This is a series I create for work. The idea behind it is to help people get better at using Visio without having to put much effort into learning. I think the biggest hurdle to learning is just finding out what's possible - after you see an example of an interesting technique it's not too hard to figure out how to do it yourself.

I use After Effects for the sets and animation. There's no real budget for the series, and only two people are involved in every episode; I do the production work and Ron Owens (another writer in the group) is Harrison Clarity. Guest character voices are provided by people in our work group, except for the role of Cate - we hired an actress for a one-hour recording session and got all of her lines for the first six epsiodes.

This is a series I create for work. The idea behind it is to help people get better at using Visio without having to put much effort into learning. I think the biggest hurdle to learning is just finding out what's possible - after you see an example of an interesting technique it's not too hard to figure out how to do it yourself.

I use After Effects for the sets and animation. There's no real budget for the series, and only two people are involved in every episode; I do the production work and Ron Owens (another writer in the group) is Harrison Clarity. Guest character voices are provided by people in our work group, except for the role of Cate - we hired an actress for a one-hour recording session and got all of her lines for the first six epsiodes.

This is a series I create for work. The idea behind it is to help people get better at using Visio without having to put much effort into learning. I think the biggest hurdle to learning is just finding out what's possible - after you see an example of an interesting technique it's not too hard to figure out how to do it yourself.

I use After Effects for the sets and animation. There's no real budget for the series, and only two people are involved in every episode; I do the production work and Ron Owens (another writer in the group) is Harrison Clarity. Guest character voices are provided by people in our work group, except for the role of Cate - we hired an actress for a one-hour recording session and got all of her lines for the first six epsiodes.

This is a series I create for work. The idea behind it is to help people get better at using Visio without having to put much effort into learning. I think the biggest hurdle to learning is just finding out what's possible - after you see an example of an interesting technique it's not too hard to figure out how to do it yourself.

I use After Effects for the sets and animation. There's no real budget for the series, and only two people are involved in every episode; I do the production work and Ron Owens (another writer in the group) is Harrison Clarity. Guest character voices are provided by people in our work group, except for the role of Cate - we hired an actress for a one-hour recording session and got all of her lines for the first six epsiodes.

This is a series I create for work. The idea behind it is to help people get better at using Visio without having to put much effort into learning. I think the biggest hurdle to learning is just finding out what's possible - after you see an example of an interesting technique it's not too hard to figure out how to do it yourself.

I use After Effects for the sets and animation. There's no real budget for the series, and only two people are involved in every episode; I do the production work and Ron Owens (another writer in the group) is Harrison Clarity. Guest character voices are provided by people in our work group, except for the role of Cate - we hired an actress for a one-hour recording session and got all of her lines for the first six epsiodes.