Collaborative Media Editing is "What's Next?" for the Internet

Collaborative media editing is making its mark on the Internet. Citizen journalists, self-publishers, and bloggers are discovering its advantages. Everyday more innovative collaborative media editing tools arise. This makes teamwork, from far and near, an easy task.

Writing collaboration is not a new concept. Before movable type, books were printed by hand. These books were passed over generations and annotated many times. As changes occurred, new books were written and bound. Each different, all the books were collaborations. (A Meta-History of Collaborative Literature and Control)

Collaborative Media Editing in Blogs

With blog monetization, authority blogs will encounter ferocious competition in niches, branding, and originality. Blog collaboration will institute a check system. Blog content will become more reliable. More and more, blog authorship will be shared.

"Two heads are better than one." We are individuals with our own perspectives. If you put two like-minded individuals together on a project and introduce collaborative media editing, the result will be phenomenal. Without being in the same room, each will bring fresh ideas, be allowed to build on those ideas, and cooperatively produce brilliance.

Collaborative Media Editing in Content

As collaborative media editing blooms, sites like Associated Content will find more content producers looking to collaborate. This will benefit site and author credibility. Content will improve and monetization will reach new heights.

Presently, Wikipedia is the ultimate collaborative content Website. It is a source for millions of Internet searchers. Take the wiki model; incorporate collaborative media editing and see where it goes. The limitations are boundless. Editors of all genres will have the ability to work and collaborate wherever and whenever they like.

Collaborative Media Editing Writing Tools

There are a variety of web-based collaborative writing tools available today.

Writeboard: A collaborative writing site allowing invited authors to make revisions, check spelling, and email updates back and forth.

ZOHO: A site incorporating all Writeboard tools but includes file exportation.

Google Docs & Spreadsheets: This is Google's collaborative writing answer. It has live chat, real-time editing, edit history, plus import and exportation.

Writewith is the latest and greatest in collaborative writing. It offers authors revision, spell check, live chat, import and exportation, real-time editing, editing history, plus email notification. (See Writewith in action)

Collaborative Media Editing Picture and Video

Imagine the ability to collaborate on a project with your neighbor across the world. Take a video, picture, or audio piece one person created, add snippets of your own work, and jointly edit to perfection. No need to imagine it's in the works! Aviary, box, and Kaltura are making it a reality. (See Aviary in action)

Collaborative media editing is the future. As the trend gains popularity more media producers will collaborate. The media produced will surpass expectations. People from across the world will have easy access to one another and their work. They will jointly produce the next great piece of media, be it art, film, music, or written word.

Sources:

http://mako.cc/projects/collablit/writing/BenjMakoHill-CollabLit_and_Control/hist.html
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/aviary.php
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/boxnet_adds_collaboration_take.php

Collaborative media editing sites:

http://box.net/
http://a.viary.com/
http://www.kaltura.com/
http://writewith.com/