Whit Andrews

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Whit Andrews
VP Distinguished Analyst
10 years at Gartner
14 years IT industry

Whit Andrews is a vice president and distinguished analyst in Gartner Research. Mr. Andrews covers information access technologies, including enterprise search, and maintains the information access technology Magic Quadrant with Rita Knox. He is also a significant contributor to e-discovery… .Read Full Bio

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“Video concierge”? No. “Video dude”? No!

by Whit Andrews  |  May 26, 2009  |  Comments Off

I’ve got in draft now a document which we intend for people to download as part of the Gartner for IT Leaders program, a toolkit with a policy for how to manage an internal YouTube as well as a role description for the manager for that Thing. (You got a name for it better than mine? All righty then. Pony up.)

A client a few months ago told me that to make him happy this year, the one thing I needed to do was to generate a job description for the person who would be in charge of the video share. So I’m writing this now, because I bet he’s not the only person who needs a document like this. Video inquiry is booming. I’ll be featuring (I think) two video-oriented vendors in my part of the Cool Vendors session at Portals, Content and Collaboration in Orlando June 8-10.

Anyway, I got this toolkit brewing. I stole leveraged some content from other analysts — the social software toolkit, for example, and an information manager job description. Brutally have I built my own little fiefdom on others’ backs, but I found that — DURN IT! — it didn’t make sense just to life someone else’s work. I had to go in and get my fingers all smeared in the clay to get this golem up and walking, because video’s not like everything else.

Thank goodness, I suppose.

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