Media Manager API: The Things You Can Do
Jess Snyder
WETA
Jess is the Senior Manager, Web Systems for WETA, the flagship public broadcasting station in the nation’s capital, and has over 15 years of experience in building and producing websites on a variety of informational and educational topics for both local and national audiences. A veteran of multiple website relaunches, her recent projects include successfully migrating weta.org from Drupal 5 to Drupal 7 and assisting Washington Week with Gwen Ifill in transitioning their site from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. She has presented multiple sessions at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, as well as at NYC Camp, Drupal GovCon, PBS TechCon, and BADCamp's Nonprofit Summit about the redesign and relaunch experience. Jess is a co-organizer for the NTEN Drupal Community of Practice, and serves on the PBS Digital Media Advisory Council.Jess currently sits on the Board of Governors of the National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, where she serves as a NATAS Trustee.Jess graduated from Wellesley College with a B.A. in History, and holds a Master of Information Management from the University of Maryland.
William Tam
WNET/Thirteen
Will is a Web Engineer at WNET/Thirteen, New York City's PBS station. He started building websites in 1994 at a nuclear research facility partnered with CERN. Since then he’s worked for non-profit and educational organizations, including PBS’s national offices where he launched PBSKids.org. He’s done systems administration for Linux & Windows, developed applications in PHP, Perl, Java, ASP, and Javascript, built and managed online fundraising and advocacy systems, and done usability testing with 18-month-olds for a game he created for the Teletubbies website. Currently he focuses on systems architecture and external service integration, mobile applications, and the occasional jQuery-based infographic about frogs.
Augustus Mayo
Twin Cities Public Television
Augustus is a Web Developer at Twin Cities PBS. Initially starting out in the field of theoretical computer science, he became a web developer for Bosch Security Systems in an effort to move towards building products for users. He joined TPT in 2015 and worked on the relaunch tpt.org and nextavenue.org. Since then he has developed multiple internal and external applications, implemented tools to help developers be efficient, and worked to keep everything online for end users. Recently he has worked on designing the implementing the systems that TPT uses for integrating with the PBS Media Manger API. His current work focuses on system architecture and pushing forward towards the next generation of digital products for TPT.
Abstract
The Media Manager API is a powerful tool that gives stations and producers the ability to incorporate a wealth of video into their websites and applications. Whether its embedding an occasional clip into a blog post, fleshing... [ view full abstract ]
Authors
- Jess Snyder (Organisation: WETA, Job Title: -, Speaker Consent and Release: -)
- William Tam (Organisation: WNET/Thirteen, Job Title: -, Speaker Consent and Release: -)
- Augustus Mayo (Organisation: Twin Cities Public Television, Job Title: -, Speaker Consent and Release: Yes)
Topic Areas
Possible Topics: Media Management , Possible Topics: Products & Technology , Possible Topics: Station Tools , Possible Topics: Trends & Future Tech
Session
T1700-GBC » Media Manager API: The Things You Can Do (17:00 - Thursday, 5th April, Grand Ballroom C)
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