- Calling Volunteers to Translate How-To Videos for Activists We have been watching events unfold in Egypt through hundreds of videos and photos of people standing-up for freedom and caring for the injured to violent battles and a police van rushing through crowds of citizens, hitting and sending some of them feet in the air. If there ever was a doubt about the power of video to document and shine a spotlight on abuses, I think we can agree that doubt has been shattered.
- Mexico Training on Forced Evictions A quick update from the WITNESS training in Mexico City in association with the Habitat International Coalition (HIC)- Latin America. We've been holed-up for nine days solid in a convent (cheap, good food, peaceful atmosphere, nightly curfew) training a range of human rights defenders either from or working with communities whose rights are being compromised or violated by dam mega-projects.
- Breakthrough’s Video Contest About Diversity in the U.S. To kick off 2011, I thought it would be useful to highlight a video for change project in process and to hear from its producers about the planning for, organization, and outreach of the project, in this case a contest, and what they hope to accomplish with it.
- Pump Up Your End-of-Year Fundraising Using Online Video We've teamed up with See3 Communications, the interactive media and marketing experts for nonprofit and causes, for a series in how to use video creatively and effectively for fundraising online. We're pleased to host the first post in this series, authored by See3 CEO Michael Hoffman.
- Protecting yourself, your subjects and your human rights videos on YouTube Last week we started a blog series with YouTube, highlighting the role that online video is playing in human rights advocacy. And though activists around the world have shown how powerful YouTube can be as a tool to raise awareness of human rights violations, this kind of work opens up new risks, online and offline.
- Citizen Media Toolbox Ran across this from unmediated. JD Lasica from ourmedia.org is trying to put together a set of easy to use tools to get people up and running with citizen journalism. His wish includes: * Out-of-the-box community publishing solution based on an extension of either the base code for Drupal or ArmchairGM (which supports the Openserving.com […]
- Tutorials on Lighting for Interviews etc… The folks at unmediated highlight efplighting.com, a site with some good tutorials on how to light subjects for interviews among other things. It could be useful for some of the educational modules for the Hub, although we are still on the lookout for a good tutorial on best practices for shooting cellphone video.
- Best practices when aggregating videos Re-Remediated (again) from unmediated, who got it from JD at Social Media. Our friend from blip.tv, Mike Hudack, wrote an article with some handy guidelines at Video Vertigo: • Aggregators should always identify the individual show, videoblog or video podcast in their index, and include a link to the appropriate site for that show. When […]
