Hi! This is Leah from Kaltura and I’m excited to announce the MindTouch + Kaltura Enterprise Collaborative Video launch here on the MindTouch blog.

This week marks the official launch of the Mindtouch-Kaltura integration, and the topic of the day is Enteprise Video. Much ink has been shed on the growing use of video in the enterprise.  As companies look to cut costs & emissions, we’re seeing increasing use of live web meetings, eg0-casting, and video-powered marketing & communications. But what happens to these videos after the live meetings? How does the knowledge generated become an asset for future training, collaboration, support, or revenue generation? And what is the connector, the lifeblood, tying together the document-focused file management systems and desktop hard drives with these new fountains of rich media?

Enter… The Kaltura Mindtouch Extension. Two open source companies, one big vision. (see screenshots here)

What’s exciting about this extension is that it brings together Kaltura: a video platform that connects video applications across the enterprise and enables managmeent, organization, and delivery, with Mindtouch - a destination for enterprise collaboration.  The result is that no longer are internal and external collaborators stuck  solely with text.  Now enterprise users can communicate and collaborate with rich media.  They can upload and post video or audio from a desktop, webcam, the social web, or a company directory, make that video available for editing, and then share the results with others. Sounds, a bit high-minded, doesn’t it?  But now consider a few concrete applications:

- Have a library of training videos from lectures, screencasts, and news reports but don’t want to deal with an LMS,  central training team, or let the videos get lost on hard drives? Don’t want to deal with videos in multiple formats? Load the video into Kaltura & organize for public display at Mindtouch.

- Major software company wants to streamline its tech support and create a destination where users can help one another and read documentation.  Stuck with text only? No, not now… embed software training videos or screencaptures of common errors and bugs right into Mindtouch. And allow community members to upload their video contributions as well.

- Managing a team at work? Allow team members to record brief intro videos of themselves and create simple profiles on Mindtouch.  Build community, communication, and connection by letting people see and hear one another

We’re still in the early days of enterprise video.  But the Kaltura-Mindtouch Extension is sure to generate a whole new set of workflows and uses.  We’ll update you with new use cases and ideas here….