OnlineOrganisingPromotions
Online Organising Promotions & Communications Tools
WIKI, IRC, Blog, Multiply, Petitions, Forum Online Commercial Tools: TubeMogul, Twitter, Social Network, Blip.TV
Wiki wiki.transmission.cc local sites, organising space for TX-AP Wikipedia released this software so other people can use it. Media wiki is the most popular. Wiki syntax is basically little codes that are used to do cerrain things, by putting two equals sign before and after the text (==Why does the world turn== will make a header/title, or WhyDoesItAlwaysRain will make a link. * will make a pointer. All the posts are editable. You can see history, who edits the post, what he edit, all the changes, when etc.
pbwiki.com, openplans.org, wetpaint.org are where you can organise wiki space for discussions without having to install wiki in your own website (this has to go through system administrator).
Use Wiki only when you want to have open discussions with a lot of members, communities.
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) It was invented long time ago, around 20 years. It's easy to make chat rooms, contains many servers like Frino, indymedia. You can create chatrooms for closed group or even open groups. type /join to to join or make a new room. /help to get all the commands. There are xchat aqua, colloquy for mac. For windows there are xchat, pidgin
To get all the IRC free software go to base.ngoinabox.org
if you don't have your comp, you can chat through netcafe, mibbit, meebo
How to promote your video online 9 ways: 1. Email newsletter Remind people about your films, get the to come to your website, build network and community, emails is the lowest common denominator, offer subscribe form n your website. campaignmonitor.com, provides a very good trafficking tool, how many subscirbers, bounce detection, it doesn't cost nything to sign up, but you need to pay for every newsletter.
2. Blog Great way to promote your film, kep people updated about screenings, googlebot loves blogs - changing content. The more you update your blog, the more it's going to appear higher in google. It's good to have 'email this to a friend' under a post/video post. makeinternettv.org has all the things related how to promote your video.
Setting up a blog: Commercially hosted: wordpress.com (open source. you can set up a wordpress and import all the stuffs later to your own domain). The nice things is that they have all the plugins. Dozens of different themes. It supports almost 40 languages. It's a good way to start blogging. Blogger.com
3. RSS Feed (Really Simple Syndication) People can subscribe to our RSS and get updates to our blog. RSS feed can also include video files (podcast) Subscribe in Miro player, Subscribe in iTunes. Miro also has channel, so people who subscribe to Miro can get update to our updates too. Miro is an open source software for mac/windows. It's like a tivi that has limitless channel and no commercials. We can subscribe to certain keywords we like, and everytime there are updates, it's going to show in our miroplayer. Feedburner.com is a free service that tracks statistics for you. We can set up a permanent URL.
4. Video hosting Upload videos to commercial sharing sites: YouTube, Google Video, blip.tv, these services pay for the bandwidth. It's recommended to upload your videos here because they can handle big traffic, unlike our own website in our own server. These hostings also save money and time because they provide bandwidth and storage, also transcode videos to Flash FLV for you. With Blip TV people can download the videos directly to their computers, not only streaming. We can even have our own watermark (unlike YouTube).
5. Video Distribution More sites = more views. But it's time consuming to upload to all sites. There's a tubemogul.com to the rescue. Here you can upload your videos once, and distribute it to many sites. It also does tracking like how many views, where it's being viewed, how many comments, ratings, etc. When you upload your video, don't forget to put a link to your own website, so you'll get feedbacks. Video compression H264 does a good job for a small size.
6. Social Networks Popular Social Networking sites: Facebook (students), it started out just for students. And it opened up to anyone. It has surpassed myspace in terms of members. Myspace (artists, filmmakers, musicians), now it's used by teenage girls too! LinkedIn (Professional): computer networking and business world, get job, recommend people in carrier. Orkut (popular in Brazil)
How? Create a profile: add friends, post links to your videos, make links from your website to SNS (social networks Sites) profiles. Create a group: invite friends to join your group.
7. Mailing lists Provide a way for people to discuss your film Set up a FREE Google Group at googlegroups.com Set up a subscribe form on your website to make it easy to subscribe.
8. Traffic analysis One of the example: analytics.google.com
9. Microblogging (twitter.com) Blogs using mobile phone, short, and limited. Microblogging is like text messages to email. Instant messaging but broadcasting to your network in realtime, from/to your cellphone/website/IM. Post short updates about what you are doing Follow people and they follow you back Build network of followers
Locals site/SNS Multiply is popular in Philippine and Indonesia. It's easy to use, do not to resize photographs, can do mass email to people outside multiply. Community based. News of other multipy users' blog updates. Indonesian YouTube: Layartancap.com, beoscope.com Friendster is big in Indonesia, a younger version of Facebook.com. People do manual e-commerce through this site, referring to their websites.
