Jeff teaching in a workshop

Informational Video Explanations. WordPress Websites.

Digital Splash Media is a small multimedia development business owned and operated by Jeff Bennett in Hawaii. I specialize in online video explanations, WordPress websites, and Internet consulting.

I started out as an engineer at Boeing in Seattle. After a few years in engineering I migrated into software development there and spent several years developing engineering software applications and managed to get an MBA after hours. In 2000 I quit Boeing to work as a software engineering consultant for a small software company that developed and sold knowledge-based engineering software and applications. In 2002 I became a freelance web and multimedia developer, developing web-based database applications and websites. Now my focus is online video production and marketing and WordPress website development.

Some Additional Personal Projects of Mine

Video Infographics
www.VideoInfographics.com

I’ve been intrigued with online explanatory videos since attending a workshop at VizThink ’08 presented by Lee and Sachi Lefever of Common Craft. Soon thereafter, I stumbled upon an explanatory infographic video created by Xplane, a prominent leader in visual thinking. Their video, “Did You Know 4.0” hooked me on the educational potential of using simple animated graphics and pictograms to explain concepts and trends. Since then, I’ve collected examples of infographic videos in various ways, until finally deciding to create a dedicated website to curate them, VideoInfographics.com.

Maui Windsurfing
www.MauiWindsurfing.net

As an avid windsurfer, I thought it would be fun to showcase the epic windsurfing conditions that Maui offers. I’ve been blogging and publishing online windsurfing videos and photos since 2004 on MauiWindsurfing.net. The site has grown over the years to thousands of visitors per day and has been a great learning resource for me about online video, SEO, blogging, social media, and more. I was recently thrilled when IndoorDirect invited me to share the videos I produce on their Restaurant Entertainment Network . I was also very pleased to find that this site scored in the high 90th percentile by Hubspot’s Website Grader.

Maui WordPress
www.MauiWP.com

Since I’ve become a WordPress evangelist, and have given several workshops about WordPress on Maui, I wanted a website dedicated to providing WordPress news, information, tips and tutorials for the Maui WordPress community.

Visual Think Media
visualthinkmedia.wordpress.com

In 2008, my wife and I attended the VizThink conference in San Francisco – a great conference where I had the pleasure to sit in on sessions with legends such as Dan Roam and Lee and Sachi Lefever of Common Craft.  I came away from the conference excited about visual thinking but a lot of the concepts, ideas and terms were new to me. As I explored the world of visual thinking I wanted a place to capture and store what I discovered, and being a web developer, I naturally chose to implement that in a website.

Save The Ocean
savetheocean.wordpress.com/

Motivated by Sylvia Earle’s recent TED presentation, I realized that with thousands of windsurfers visiting my Maui Windurfing site each day, I’m in a good position to help spread awareness of the need to protect our oceans, not only because we depend on them for our fun and recreation, but ultimately because they are vital to the health of our planet. I also realized I wanted a separate venue dedicated to raising awareness to the plight of our oceans.