blogging for globalink

YouVox un concept interessant

Médias, loisirs

YouVox : les magazines collaboratifs s'installent sur la Toile

From the ACS blog

November 21, 2006 (this is from the blog FISPace I already mentioned to you)
Volunteers, out in front...again

A dual strategy for antismoking videos

As I surf on the various YouTube services of the world I think Globalink should have a dual strategy about them: encourage all tobacco control advocates to post videos on as many YouTube services they can (and we should help them do it) AND post them on our library clearinghouse for referral, archiving, study, comparisons, etc. YouTubes AND Globalink

And I am often unable to capture videos posted on YouTube so the next best thing to having them within our library is to have them included in the glkvideo blog...

GLk and second life?

Here is another interesting reflexion

I have no doubt second life is  an internet tool Globalink should investigate and experience so that we can eventually help our members in that other universe as it looks other non-profits are already doing (liek the ACS for relay for life, mentioned in a previous email)

Take care
Ph

PS: I also think this is also important strategically for Globalink to "show" our services are on the cutting edge...

Example of traffic on YouTube and elsewhere

I posted this video on YouTube on October 16
On November 18 it had been seen by 87 people (and that includes a few times I went to check)

The INPES video posted on dailymotion on November 16

seen by 147 people on November 18

Higher traffic:

Star Wars classic (posted in April 06) 19.168 on November 19 06

Copyright Infringement notification from YouTube

This is from YouTube, posted at the bottom of the homepage

Reflexions about the traffic numbers

of course it is "better" to have a high traffic but we should not confuse the overall traffic on
YouTube with the real number of hits for the antismoking videos that are hapharzardly posted there (or on yahoovideo or else).

About the number of items posted into our multimediacenter

The number of items posted into our multimedia center does not correspond to all the work done because a significant number of videos cannot be posted into our galleries.
Why?
Mostly because they cannot be captured or the files are too big: what should we do? Should we forget about them? I don't think so I think we provide a very sueful service to our members by mentioning them within our blog (www.glkvideo.com) and giving the urls where they can be watched.
Of course in terms of traffic I would prefer to send them to our albums but I don't have this option now so I am also sending people to other sites where they can see other antismoking videos they probably would not have seen without us telling them about it :)
It is very important for the credibility of a site to send people elsewhere as well as on our own sites. It is that way that one can truly become a reference site (i think).

I also would like to mention that the situation can evolve. For instance, today I visited the site for the Partnership for a healthy Mississipi where I found a bundle of TV ads but in a format I could not copy. I was disappointed but I refered to them anyway in a post to be published later this week.
A few minutes later, while digging a little more I found a parallel site where the TV ads were in a format I can copy so that's about 10 new ads for  the GLK library (when I find the time to upload them). But it is still important to refer to the original sites that contain additional info about those campaigns...:)

Sorry to bug you with more explanation but there is significantly more than the number of new items in the multimedia center...

Take care

Ph

Antismoking videos daily upgrade

Antismoking videos within the Video Gallery

11/7   21 albums (+6) 135 items (+17)
10/31 15 albums (+4)   118 items (+30)    5.813 views
Before PB's input sept 06: 11 albums   88 items

When Yahoo captures a video from a blogalink's post

This is interesting for several reasons