So you've made some brilliant training videos. Everyone in your company is waiting to watch and learn. Here are 5 ways to make sure nobody sees the videos you've created.

1. Make sure they have to download the huge video files over a really slow network.

That way your employees will start to pull the videos and see that the file will take a day or two to transfer. They'll either give up or forget that they downloaded the file.

2. Post the videos on YouTube only.

By making your training videos only available on a hosted site, you'll have almost no control over who else sees them unless you send out direct links - make sure you don't mess up the URL or you'll have a goose chase on your hands. Your employees will also have to be on a network somewhere - but they'll want to be on WiFi because why would they want to chew up their personal data plan? And it will need to be a fast network, or you risk losing viewers due to constant interruptions from video buffering.

3. Make sure that no one can provide you feedback about the video, or at least make it very difficult to do so.

A lot of your best ideas for future content and revisions to your current content come from the people watching the videos. If they can't notate the video, you'll never know what to fix or which video to produce next.

4. Never update the content!

Employees at new locations that have different hardware or procedures will be watching video that doesn't pertain to them, and the people who have already seen the video won't have anything new to keep them engaged.

5. Put your video content on CD or DVD. 

Nobody really uses their optical drives anymore and mobile devices like smartphones and tablets *can't* use them. Storing your content on optical media ensures that they'll just get filed away in a drawer or binder somewhere and will never be seen again.

Of course, the converse of these 5 rules is to have a mobile training solution that: downloads compressed content automatically, even when the device is sleeping; makes the videos available offline; provides a mechanism for annotating onscreen; allows for easy updates; and isn't locked into old training technology.
When we here at PlayerLync hear of a solution that does all of those things, we'll let you know. ;)

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