Presentation made at the Blogging the Future summit at the American University in Cairo, 15-17 May 2009. On how to make good videos to get global attention and good practices for making an impact with citizen media videos. Under Creative Commons Attribution license. Versión en español acá: http://www.slideshare.net/medeamaterial/cmo-acercar-el-video-ciudadano-local-a-un-pblico-global

1. Global Voices Online Presents... Bringing Together Local Citizen Videos and Global Audiences

2. Or.... How To Get People to See (and Care About) My Video

3. Exhibit A: The Video

9. So, ¿what happened?

10. Exhibit B: The Citizen Video Explorer

19. First step: Getting people to see your video.

21. ¿How does searching for Online Video Work?

22. ¿How does searching for Online Video Work? Better yet: ¿how doesn't it work?

25. ¿What can video producers do? (a few suggestions)

26. Video Producers:

33. Decisions If target audience speaks more than one language you can:

34. Decisions If target audience speaks more than one language you can: Make one video with transcriptions in both languages, spoken in one language and subtitled in another.

35. Decisions If target audience speaks more than one language you can: Make one video with transcriptions in both languages, spoken in one language and subtitled in another. Make two videos, one for each target audience.

36. Tagging

39. Captions, transcription and subtitling

49. Give context:

56. Publish your work under a license that allows people to share and distribute your work freely, or make it easy for people to contact you to ask for permission to use it.

57. Publish your work under a license that allows people to share and distribute your work freely, or make it easy for people to contact you to ask for permission to use it. For example: Creative Commons

58. Publish your work under a license that allows people to share and distribute your work freely, or make it easy for people to contact you to ask for permission to use it. For example: Creative Commons Add it to Creative Commons databases.

59. Finally...

62. Thank You!

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