Video Sharing

New Web 2.0 media sharing destinations enable people to organize and share their photo and video collections online. These social websites spotlight amateur and professional creations which can be rated, reviewed, and favorited by the community.

• US viewers watched 11 billion online videos in April 2008

YouTube

• A Video sharing and storage application
• Discovery Tool
• Purchased by Google for $1.65 Billion in stock on 10/9/2006
• 5 billion videos viewed in July 2008
• User-created content as well as professional clips

Features

• Can upload, tag, and share videos online
• Can create channels, groups, playlists, and subscriptions
• Can subscribe to tags or users
• Browse by Categories, Groups, or Channels
• View most popular by browsing the "Top" and "Most" lists

Great Tools for:

• Training
• Marketing & Promotion
• Teaching
• Tours

How Are Libraries Using It?

• To make research recommendations
• To provide website tutorials
• To provide multi-lingual library services
• To promote new services
• To offer library instruction videos
• To provide library tours
• To promote cutting-edge library services
• To engage library patrons

How Are Librarians Using It?

• Following library conferences and events

Other video sharing applications

• YouTube
• Metacafe
• Motionbox

Hands-on

Exercise:

• Go to YouTube
• Create an Account
• Add a video to your Favorites