Tag Archives: YouTube

No to criminals in Indian politics

March 30, 2009 – 1:41 pm

An Indian civil society campaign, ‘No Criminals’, has been  launched  to enable citizens to appeal to political parties not to give tickets to people with criminal antecedents in the upcoming elections.  The campaign is using a number of social media and SMS tools to reach and engage their audience.. including having launched a few YouTube [...]

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Earth Hour Approaching

March 25, 2009 – 11:04 am

WWF’s 2009 Earth Hour (Vote Earth) will take place again on Saturday 28 March, at 8.30PM (local time, wherever you live).  The campaign that started off in Sydney in 2007, has grown in to a 84 country effort, aiming to reach 1 billion people in 1,000 cities.  The campaign uses social media in all ways [...]

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M4ID to present at first IFC webinar

March 25, 2009 – 9:15 am

Resource Alliance is taking their successful International Fundraising Conference (IFC) online: IFC Online will be the world’s first global, virtual fundraising conference. Taking place completely over the internet, the event will deliver three days of live, interactive, workshops and plenaries to a world-wide audience of fundraisers.  The webinar taking place May 12-14, features prominent speakers [...]

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Increasing video views

March 24, 2009 – 7:10 pm

We’re glad to see NGOs and UN agencies using videos to spearhead or support their campaigns and causes.   A quick review of recently launched videos reveals that most of the videos are seen by very few people though.  Why?
There are three main reasons for this: Firstly, they’r so long, video sharing site clips should be [...]

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Comic Relief goes digital

March 13, 2009 – 2:54 pm

Today’s  Comic Relief efforts are looking to social media to help raise awareness and funds fror their cause: pages  have been launched on social networks, including Bebo, YouTube, Flickr and Twitter. Social network site users can also buy virtual red noses online… high profile Twitterers such as Stephen Fry and Jonathan Ross have been ‘wearing’ [...]

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Adding commentary to YouTube videos

March 5, 2009 – 8:12 am

The annotations tool on YouTube is a really effective and easy way of adding interactive commentary to videos, it can also be used to add background information about the video, create stories with multiple possibilities (viewers click to choose the next scene), as well as linking to related YouTube videos, channels, or search results from [...]

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