Once you have created an organizational profile on TakingITGlobal, organizations can create a YouTube or Flickr feed which allows them to showcase their multimedia. If you already have accounts scroll down to see the steps to add them to your organizational profile! If you want to learn a bit more about You Tube and Flickr, keep reading!

What is You Tube?

YouTube (www.youtube.com) is the world’s largest user-generated video-sharing web site on the Internet. The majority of the videos submitted are created by amateur video makers. The videos are then ranked by user votes and the editor’s favorites are showcased on the homepage.

Organizations can really make use of YouTube (or any other video sharing web site) as this platform can really be used to share your advocacy videos with a wide audience. YouTube attracts approximately 22 million registered users and receives over 100 million page views per day.

The flip side of this is that most YouTube videos produced by nonprofit organization receive a modest number of views. Your organization needs to upload videos that appeal to the YouTube viewer. By doing this your videos have the chance to receive hundreds of thousands or even million of views. When signing up to YouTube request a director’s account as this will allow you to upload your organization’s logo and include it on all your video pages. One of the things that is also useful to do is to include a link to your organization on your profile page and on each individual video page.

What is Flickr?

With over one million users, Flickr (www.flickr.com) is one of the most popular photo-sharing websites (if not the most popular). Flickr members upload their pictures to make them accessible and tag the photos with keywords so that they are easy to find.
Setting up an effective Flickr account will take an organization less than an hour and is an easy way to have an online presence as it does not need to be up-dated daily.

One of the most important things that the participants can learn is about tagging. Show the participants a photograph and ask them to think about the words they would use to describe the photograph. Flickr was one of the first web sites to use the concept of tagging.

How to integrate both of these into TakingITGlobal?

Step 1: Go to the Resources section of your organizational profile to set one up now! Can't find it? If you go to your organizational profile you will see " tabs" at the top right of the page. Click on the way that says "Resources". Once you have clicked on that you will be taken to a place that will allow you to add your You Tube or Flickr feeds.

Step 2: Scroll three-quarters of the way down the page and there you will see places to add both your YouTube and Flickr usernames. Click on "Would You Like to Set Them up?" (separate places for both You Tube and Flickr) and enter your username or URL.

EXAMPLE:

If I wanted to set-up TakingITGlobal's Flickr feed I would enter "http://www.flickr.com/photos/tigphotos" as that is the URL of our Flickr group. If i wanted to add the You Tube Channel, I would only enter our username which is "takeitglobal". I promise it is simpler than it sounds!

Step 3: Once you have saved your changes, your You Tube and Flickr streams will start appearing within 24-48 hours. Sometimes it take a while for technology to work!