As pointed out by Nick.
Video
Be Vocal
Be Vocal is
A site about social media for social good in Birmingham and using the internet to turn public data into something useful.
It’s part of the ‘Birmingham Open City’ project run by Digital Birmingham with a grant from the Timely Information for Citizens programme set up by the Department for Communities and Local Government.
Nick Booth is involved, so it must be good. Here he explains what it is all about:
Videopress
Video hosting is always a bit of a bother, as no one service does it all, as far as I am aware.
I did a fair bit of social reporting last week, and am already running into difficulties in finding a hosting solution that can cope with the size of the files I am wanting to upload; and which is accessible within the organisations that need to see them.
It turns out that my usual favourite choice, Vimeo, is blocked in a hell of a lot of places.
Well, VideoPress looks like it might be worth looking into. It’s been created by Automattic, the guys behind WordPress and various other cool things. It’s a video upload and hosting service that uses WordPress.com as its back end, as far as I can tell. But you can embed your videos wherever you like.
Here’s a video explaining more.
Watch the whole of Us Now – now
Us Now is “A film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet” and it’s also rather good.
Even better, you can now watch all 60 minutes of it.
Us Now from Banyak Films on Vimeo.
Once you have seen it yourself, do something helpful and organise a screening of it where you work. It might just make a difference.