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9 March 2010

Your Tube

Last year Craig Thomler alerted us to the fact that Youtube offers free branded channels to government departments globally. I can confirm that this offer is open to local government as the organisation I work for has taken advantage of it.

What do you get?

Custom banners and profile images, longer videos, autoplay on your featured video, no ads on your uploaded videos and Google Analytics integration.

See Mike Kujawski’s blog post and YouTube’s Partner Help Centre for more detail.

I still can’t find public information on the offer (I searched with Google) but Craig Thomler’s post has a copy of the form email from Google. It has the contact address.

— b3rn   google, tools, video, youtube   Mar 9, 07:37 PM   #   Comment

24 February 2009

Meetings in a Minute

Great idea, well executed, from Hermosa Beach deputy mayor Michael DiVirgilio:

‘Meetings in a Minute’ is a video series where I’ll be posting a brief video overview after each Hermosa Beach City Council meeting.

Through the videos I hope to help communicate important City business as well as to make it easier for busy residents to stay informed and engaged in their local government process.

Michael gives further background here and makes the point that Meetings In A Minute is “not the goal, but more likely one of many steps devoted towards a dedicated and continuous effort to include people in the process.”

Check also his blog and YouTube channel.

Council business papers do a poor job communicating what Council is doing and why. There is too much text. This format, like Twitter, rewards the succinct.

Thanks to @bashley for the link.

— b3rn   councillors, engagement, politicians, time, tools, video   Feb 24, 08:25 PM   #   Comment

10 October 2008

Fancy running a film unit?

Online video — that’s where it’s at.

We’re talking about a technology popular not just with trouble making youth but more than 50% of Victorian government website users in 2007 – only email and text messaging ranked higher!

We know people are no longer reading significant quantities of text¹… but moving pictures and sound? No worries.

Except… we’re not doing it.

Continued...

— b3rn   video   Oct 10, 11:27 PM   #   Comment [1]