My name is Connor Lanman and I am not claiming I am the most interesting intern ever; and by no means am I working on routers for my 12 week summer internship at Microsoft. I am, however, working on a fairly unorthodox marketing project…sponsored by Microsoft. More on that in a minute. But you can imagine what I was thinking, “Why the heck would they trust some scrawny college kid to do marketing?” The cool thing is that I get to tell the tale to you in this blog until I finish later in September.

Let the saga begin…

First in order to understand where I’m starting from…

1) I just completed my Freshman year at Stanford University and no, I don’t know what I’m majoring in

2) I’m 19 years old, my birthday was this past June

3) I have no idea what I want to do in life

4) The only big online video experience I had was doing a promotional video for Haagen-Dazs back in ’09 when I finished high school. I wrote a book about bees, made a documentary, and then made a comedy music video with my brothers sponsored by Häagen-Dazs, inspiring dance moves from Silicon Valley to Holland. What? I like bees.

So here I am at Microsoft, now given the assignment to do an experimental video campaign for Windows Live Essentials (download the Windows Live Essentials beta refresh!). The cool thing is that Windows Live is launching Wave 4 soon and I get to be a part of it. Many of you may be familiar with Photo Gallery and Movie Maker and in these videos I get to talk about these tools in creative fun ways. Instead of watching a demo, why not be entertained? That’s basically what I aimed to do!

After doing the video for Häagen-Dazs I was amazed at the power of an online video to communicate a message to the masses, and I was even more intrigued by the power of education through multimedia. I used what I learned from that experience and applied it to this project. To start, you need short, high quality stories that are informative in terms of content and are entertaining to the average YouTuber. How do you do that?

Well, I began by involving my brother Max Lanman who is filmmaker. We sat down and started creating concepts. After narrowing down 15 concepts down to 8 or so, we were ready to script, audition, and pool together a crew. We posted an ad calling for actors a couple days before the scheduled audition and we fielded over 80 responses and auditioned over 60 people in 6 hours. We casted over 20 roles, about 40 extras, and worked with a 10 person crew! It was crazy, but it worked. We then shot the videos in four x 10 hour days. We’re in post-production and excited to show off some hilarious videos and some great easy to use products. I’m still not quite sure how to make the perfect online video. But, I abide by my motto to entertain first, and then inform. In the videos to come, you might be able to get a sense of what I’m talking about.

More to come…

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Dear friends, Unfortunately i deleted my blog in 25 may, 2007 . The deleted blog contains more than 200 posts and page rank 3. i take 4 months to write 200 posts in this blog .Just in a second i deleted that blog by seeing TV channel news.

How i delete this blog is, in the publishing tab i go to change my blog name(title),After write another title i go to click on save settings button. in this time i see news in TV and i click the Delete this blog button.it ask delete confirm also, but i put the settings in mouse properties as shown below imege.so the mouse point go to the delete conferm dialogbox.i click suddenly O K. My 4 months time is waste in a second.

suddenly i write mail to support@blogger.com . After five days i get the mail from blogger team as shown below. I get the blog with onother domain name with loss of my page rank.

one of the main reason to delete my blog is, before to delete my blog the delete button exist in just below the save settings button.so i Unfortunately lose my blog.

In my mail i suggest blogger peoples to move the delete button to some where.The good blogger people move that button to right side as shown below picture.

Know also the deleted blog exist in a search engine, but it shows only one page for all links. the blog is http://badayee.blogspot.com/. know i write that blog in http://infiya.blogspot.com/ domain name.

friends tell the google and blogger peoples to your suggestions and what you face problems in blogging and other source. the google and google persons are very nice peoples and accept your suggestions very cooly.

Know in blogger post editing table , if we write in the table the post is automaticly saved as a draft.i dont know who give this suggestion to blogger team.I loss most of my posts and time by sudden power cut, but know there is no chace. Thanks to google and all peoples..

Below is the mail from blogger team:

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from Blogger< support@blogger.com >
to “chidananda .M.R” < googlychidu@gmail.com
date Jun 1, 2007 4:16 AM
subject Re: [#151220935] Please Give me Unfortunately i deleted my blog
mailed-by trakken.google.com