If you are going to embed youtube videos...

Make sure to select the customize button to the right of the embedded code and uncheck the "include related videos" options. The last thing your members want to see are stupid, crazy or even perverse videos that happen to share a tag with you. (I just checked out a conference video and after it stopped I had a slew of crazy videos - including a shot of a bikini - scrolling across the bottom.)


Here's a snapshot to avoid any confusion:

It's catching on...

For a while SWANA's been dabbling in youtube and overall the response has been pretty good (at some point I'll update the Social Media Wiki), but last week I knew it was starting to catch on. Our president, who shot one of our first youtube videos a year or so ago, sent a video for me to edit (it had a bit of formatting issues.) And wouldn't you know it, it was a message to a chapter event, similar to the messages we've been putting together.

While I give her all the credit in the world for a great video (it's better than our inhouse ones), something tells me our youtube experience last year may have put the seed in her mind. And the best part, after it premieres at the chapter event, with a little editing on the front and back, we have a video we can use that is exactly what we've been trying to get the whole time. Not forced, but empowered.

Just like our wiki's, my goal is to be in the middle as little as I possibly can - the more member2member interactions the better.

Thanks for reading,
bob

P.S. - I'm slowly getting myself together - crazy summer - and the fun's just beginning.

I'm Back - Youtube Video "do you know 2.0"

Well it's been another crazy two weeks or so. I caught a stomach virus the week before a conference, my conference hotel room had no internet connection (I had to sit outside my room and try to get in on the neighboring hotel's wi-fi.

But alas, I think life has settled a bit. So to get me back on track, a great little vid (well 8 minutes worth) for all you futurists:



It'll be amazing to see what the world looks like when my unborn children run amuck.

Thanks for reading,
Bob

P.S. The video is 10 months old so the myspace stats may be a bit different.