Tech 2.0: Photo/Video Sharing

No comments | September 11, 2009 - 6:16pm

For Technology 2.0: Yes, We Can! event, co-sponsored by Boston Neighborhood Network, Northeastern’s John D. O’Bryant African-American Institute, and the Organizers Collaborative on Saturday, Sept 12, 2009.

Participatory Video & Photo Sharing:

Where users post their original media creations or mashups (reworking of existing content) then embed this content on other sites, while viewers can comment and vote

TOOLS:

Photography:

Video:

What to Consider:

Who’s your audience? Members? Local community? Funders?
Who’s your producers? Staff? Members? Youth? Volunteers?
What’s your goal: product vs. process? Compelling content vs. empowered storytellers?
Existing tools & skills? In-house? Local community media/tech center? University? Member-owned?
Existing content?
Copyright and Terms of Service?

Strategies to incorporate video/photos:

1. Embed as part of other existing successful off-line strategies and on-line tools

Yes We Will Lawrence (Lawrence CommunityWorks, Lawrence, MA)

http://ywwlawrence.org/videos/

Kentuckians for the Commonwealth

http://www.kftc.org/blog/archive/2008/08/22/what-happened-to-elmers-fishpond#comment

Beloved Community Center (Greensboro, NC)

http://www.belovedcommunitycenter.org/

Uncovering the mistreatment of farm laborers in Dudley, NC. from Beloved Community Center on Vimeo.

Framingham Photo Hunt (MIT Co-Lab / )

Find more photos like this on Framingham Game

Groundwork Lawrence on Flickr

2. Create Specialized/Internal Communities:

Union Crossing (Lawrence CommunityWorks, Lawrence, MA)

StoriesForChange.net (Center for Digital Storytelling / MassIMPACT)

MIT’s Tech TV

More definitions on participatory media tools from my MIT masters thesis, Participatory Media and Collaborative Facilitation:

Participatory Media Tools (Table 2.1)
Blog and Podcasting	Online text or photo journal or broadcast of audio or video, where the latest content appears first	Blogger, Wordpress, iTunes
>Social Media	Online space where “content that is created by site users rather than by a central person or group”; changes are tracked and the most active contributors often act as editors	Flickr, Creative Commons CCMixter, Wikipedia, Wikispaces, Google Docs
Online Music/Photo/Video Sharing	Users post their original media creations or mashups (reworking of existing content) then embed this content on other sites, while viewers can comment and vote	YouTube, OurMedia.org, Blip.tv, Vimeo
RSS	A feed that alerts users when new content is available. Users plug the feed into an aggregator or reader, to organize their chosen pools of content	Feedburner, GCast, Soup.io, Bloglines, Google Reader
Social Networking	Online communities that connect friends, colleagues, or shared interest groups, where they can message and form groups (many accessible now on cell phones)	Facebook, MySpace, BlackPlanet, Orkut, MiGente, Ning, Twitter
Gaming	Virtual worlds online or software tools where users create their own interaction spaces or games	Second Life, Scratch
(Delany 2006, Mayfield & Rheingold 2009, TechSoup.org 2009)

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