Comments on: People like video

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:05:38 +0000

…Personally though, as a consumer of web content I still lean heavily towards text.

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:04:00 +0000

Thanks Dave. I’m really pleased with how the BERR channel is shaping up, though most of the credit goes to my team member who leads on our YouTube. But I did make the Yoosk introduction, leading to that Paphitis encounter. Theo was very down to earth, and despite protesting otherwise was a great presenter-interviewer.

By: Tony Hirst

Tony Hirst — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:48:35 +0000

Just by the by, I’ve built a Yahoo pipe to scrape Neil’s list and used it to build a metasearch engine that will search all the gov dept youtube sites in one go:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=MlA3914V3hGytuNx3nBDOQ

By: paul canning

paul canning — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:18:06 +0000

“people couldn’t be bothered to sit and watch video” because broadband wasn’t as widespread. Now it is, they are.

All my post points to is the methods everyone else uses to publicise videos. Unfortunately. because egov lives in a walled garden, we insist on inventing our own methods rather than learn from elsewhere.

I also pointed out how hard it is to go really viral – i.e. major audience. But this doesn’t excuse using what amounts to basic marketing tactics to help your video content.

The other point with this is what I found last year – a lively youtube debate on UK political issues – in the case i uncovered a debate amongst young people about what citizenship means. Where is the engagement with this?