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Activating Your YouTube Audience: Recording and links

NTEN

Watching videos online is no longer a passive experience! In fact, you can now use YouTube features to drive actions and donations , create "Choose Your Own Adventure" style experiences , and make your video the talk of the web (quite literally). YouTube Video Volunteers. Come Clean for Congo. YouTube Direct .

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Activating Your YouTube Audience: Recording and links

NTEN

Watching videos online is no longer a passive experience! In fact, you can now use YouTube features to drive actions and donations , create "Choose Your Own Adventure" style experiences , and make your video the talk of the web (quite literally). YouTube Video Volunteers. Come Clean for Congo. YouTube Direct .

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Win a Trip to Report for the NYT with Nicholas Kristof

Have Fun - Do Good

Past winners traveled to Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Rwanda, and Congo. For more information, and to watch Kristof's video invitation to apply, go to his post, Win a Trip! You must be 18 or older to apply, and can submit an essay or video. The student reporter will blog and vlog for nytimes.com.

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Webinar: Winning the Story Wars

Care2

His work on legendary viral videos like The Meatrix and The Story of Stuff series has brought key social issues to the attention of more than 60 million viewers and his interactive work has been honored with 'Best Of' awards three times at the standard-setting South By Southwest interactive festival.

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How to Find Your Way to Have Fun and Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

Keep a gratitude journal, or make monthly gratitude collages Participate in a fundraising walk for a cause I care about, like Women for Women International's Run for Congo Women. Create a funny TV show, movie, or YouTube video list/gift package for someone who is feeling blue. Adopt another pet.

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Things We Like (November 2008)

NTEN

After you look at the sobering visualization of incidents in the Congo (DRC), you may need another dose of puppies. Economy got you down? You need the live puppy cam ! Ushahidi gathers crisis reports from mobile sources, then maps the data. Wired stakeholders. IBM's going to bring broadband to rural areas over power lines. NTEN Member Beth J.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world. Thousands of reports were placed via SMS.

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