Tuesday, December 23, 2008
You Tube
I poked around on YouTube today, but I didn't have too much time to find anything really intriguing or particularly useful for our purposes. I think we've posted a couple of videos there already (the GEM/EF video?)--do we have any feedback or tracking of hits? Also, out of curiosity, I looked at Facing History, and they seem to have a number of videos, including a commercial with Matt Damon, a clip by Bill Moyer, and a video with Don Cheadle. This seems out of our reach (unless some of you know some famous people and just aren't telling us!), but I think we can also use it to demonstrate student impact somehow. How about a video interview with students about how PS has touched their lives, or shaped their perspectives? Unfortuantley, this production would be coslty and time consuming, so I don't think it is high priority now. However, if we do decide to produce a video about PS (either for the Gala and/or the major gifts campaign), YouTube or these other sites could be another (free) way of promoting our work.
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The nice thing about Facing History is that they have a YouTube Channel - this means that all their videos can be accessed in one place and they can brand their Channel to match their own website. I believe we are working to develop our own Channel soon!
The nice part of YouTube is that what seems out of reach might not be. By using YouTube organizations and individuals get free hosting space, something that could make a video project costly. And from the web developer perspective, YouTube provides code for embedding videos into websites, making it easy to share videos on our website, either our own or someone else's video.
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