Hey y'all…
So we're off to a pretty good start. Everything seems to be working, and the team here in the lab is getting the hang of programming a tiny TV network. (We've promised 15-20 minutes of programming per day, and on quite a few days we're coming in OVER 20 minutes. Whee!)
Several have asked for ways to forward the demo clips to others, so we've enabled "sharing" on all the videos on the grown-ups page. If you have a blog or a church website, you can now inbed those introductory videos into your site. To do so, click on the video you want to inbed from the grown-ups page, and when the play control bar comes up there will be a new button on the far right for "sharing." Click on that button and it will let you either email that video, or cut and paste inbed code into your web page.
Our next step will be to make some other sample shorts inbeddable, perhaps a few teaching shorts or a Michael's Movies short. When we're closinig to launching the final site we'll start posting a few videos on YouTube, GodTube, etc. to make them even easier to share. Feel free to tell us which videos you'd love to make "spreadable."
Hey… this weekend we've got a GREAT movie of the week… it's the first of the Last Chance Detectives films. If you haven't seen these films before, be sure to stop by on Sunday and check it out. They're really well done.
Also, next week we'll have daily Thanksgiving greetings from the cast, with a special poem from Buck Denver on Thanksgiving Day. (He's rehearsing it backstage right now. He gets so nervous!) So stop by every day for a Thanksgiving greeting! (We're gearing up for even more fun with Christmas right around the corner! It's FUN having a network! And a lot of work. But it's fun work!)
I'd love to hear more of your ideas about how we can spread the word about JellyTelly. We'll try to incorporate them as we get closer to launching the final site.
Jelly on!
Cool. I actually posted some ideas earlier this morning on promoting JT.
I think the next few weeks are key in spreading the news to families and friends. That’s when we’ll be in contact with more people than usual and it’s time to pass the word along.
My middle child surprised us this week when he put JellyTelly on his school Thanksgiving project as what he is most thankful for. He hasn’t talked about it as much as the other 4, but there it was… his heart in writing 🙂
Thought you should know!
The other day I was trying to find groups or fan clubs related to JT on Facebook and I couldn’t find a thing, all I could find were VeggieTales related stuff… if you want viral marketing Facebook certainly is a great place to start.
Perhaps a widgit people can access and install on their FB page or a dialy screening room sort of group page putting small snippets from the days programing. Avatars are cool too with some of the JT characters – I know my daughter would love them.
Anyways that’s my too sense from the Jelly Junkie family.
Neat-o! I will have to take a look at the grown-ups page again. I’ve been thinking about putting up another post about JellyTelly on my blog. I may just have to figure out this embedding thing.
Yay, more Buck!
A widget, definitely a widget… and a good widget. Like, really good.
Exciting times! re: ideas… we have a thread about this on the jelly site talking about widgets and such. We need to bump it! And you guys were going to come up with a little linky graphic we could put on our blogs, so don’t forget!
I posted a link to jelly telly on my facebook, but I guess since your title tag says, “welcome to the front page”, the link I posted on my facebook page is now promoting a website called “the front page” instead of jelly telly. So… it’d be great if you guys could modify your title tag on the website.
re: an earlier comment, there is a jelly telly group on facebook, but not a fan page yet. You may have to search for phil vischer to find it.
What I think would be nice would be a way to skip ahead – so when we lose the connection in the midst of the show we don’t have to start from the beginning. If there is one there, making it more obvious would be good, because apparently, I’m missing it.
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Hello,
my question is maybe posted too soon ahead of the evolution of JellyTelly, but would it be possible to start thinking of either making some subtitles in other languages or forward the issues of copyrights for making the subtitles to allow kids from other countries to watch this online TV. ??
I do not want to elaborate on this idea too much as I know it is really too soon. But since you asked for some ideas to take this project further, i would imagine this would be a great step since, from my perspective, the US area may be the only space where such a TV could be realizable due to many practical reason. And yet, kids from other countries would love to watch stories like this and at the same time learn English.
Thank you
Okay, first idea and you will CRINGE (I remember reading about how you are with the marketing of stuff). But can we get a cd of the Bentley Bros songs??? I absolutely adore them and the Judges song often sticks into my brain..the other day I decided to count the judge names I could remember from simply hearing that song and was pleased to report that I remembered SIX! What a great teaching tool those songs are. I would love for my kids to grow up singing them.
Secondly, I really want to buy subscriptions for other people…like paying for a full year’s subscription for someone else…a gift package.
I’ve mentioned this before, but I’d still be really excited about iTunes downloadable shows. iPhone, iPods, and Apple TV (I’m an owner of all three) would be the audience.
It’s not as small an audience as you might think: I’ve talked to quite a few parents that buy Dora off iTunes for use on iPods or direct to TV.
Again, what I don’t like about the Jelly “format” is that it’s largely individualistic: one kid on one computer. In the old VT days, we could all crowd around the TV and watch a VHS tape.
I just got my Apple TV last week and I love it. It’s basically a set-top box that allows my family to purchase shows directly from the couch, rent movies, watch video podcasts, etc…
Yeah, I want the Bently Bros cd, too! Use this to your advantage…
make an offer that we can’t resist!
One idea, might be calling in to local christian talk radio. I will be doing that myself this week. Jelly on! I love the Bently brothers! I would buy a cd!
The way I spread word about my companies I learned from “unleashing the ideavirus”, it’s a free eBook from Seth Godin.
The guy writes about how to spread ideas (products) through populations. He made a bold move to prove his method works: he put his book online for free and in it he wrote it would spread like crazy. To this day it’s the most downloaded eBook ever.
i love the shows i have seen everyone except the last two movies sadly Sundays are soooo busy …i will most deff post a video on my myspace blog and bullitin it would be great if people started watching it..oh yes the Bentley brothers cd would be great after you get some more songs on there haha…thanks again phil
I couldn’t get the site to work at all. I registered, waited for the activation link, and the link took me to another registry page. I tried to register again using that page and it told me that my username was already registered. So, I tried to log in and it told me that my username has not been validated. All fail messages were ugly and unfriendly.
*sigh*
I’m also concerned that the site practically requires IE 7. There are MANY Mozilla Firefox users out there and a few Mac Safari users, so you’re limiting your audience.
Finally, based on what little I’ve seen so far, this doesn’t look like anything I would pay $3 a month for. It’s not near the quality that I expected.
Keep trying.
Hello,
my post was deleted. could i kindly ask why? thank you
Hi Chris,
I use Mozilla Firefox and the site works fine for me. You might want to check your java settings and if you have updated plugins.
-Paul
Whoa! Today I saw a “Bible Detective” segment with a traditional old school puppet talking to a cool little computer generated lizzard guy. It was absolutly seamless — my kids totally didn’t notice. I didn’t notice at first look, but then I was like “Whoa!” Plus, the lizzard guy was so cute, and soooooo “Casablanca”, and the segment had such a nice message. That was AWESOME!!!
LOVE the show. A few thoughts:
I would love to get a JellyTelly t-shirt.
I would quickly buy a Bentley Brothers CD!!
Would love to be able to download the shows. (Maybe with a one week expiration if necessary)
Would be nice to have an index of what is in each of the shows, like Monday is Kidmo, Tuesday is Drive-Thru History, etc.
Chris, I also use Firefox on Linux and have enjoyed JellyTelly since day one. You might want to try e-mail your problem to phil directly instead of posting on here, I’m sure his team will be happy to help. Also you have to remember that the current site is still beta, and is bound to have problem, including one that I just started to get yesterday, phil said that the final site should be ready hopefully by Christmas.
Dear Buck:
From Quacky’s Questions, could you really put bubble gum in your pizza?
thanks! – Tressa
Help!! I can’t log on to Jelly telly to sign up for the $5.00 a month club.
Can’t get on to the Jelly Telly website at all. What’s happening?
Is Jelly telly gone defunct? I am very concerned.
I really want to get on to the website for m granddaughter
who lives with us. Help!!!
I was dissapointed to learn that your show teaches children the lies of evolution! I thought that this could be an escape from the lies of Darwinism. Too bad. I am speaking about an episode on Buck Denver’s Mail Bag – evolution. I wonder now what other false teaching is embedded in the entire jellytelly/minnow featured shows. 🙁