On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:47:21 -0500, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote: > RA Brown [mailto:[email protected]] replied: >> John Meyer wrote: >> > I had a thought. Would it be helpful to create an >> installation video for >> > OpenOffice and post up a link on the front page of OpenOffice.org? >> > >> > >> > >> John, >> >> Sound like a good idea to me. I am just not sure which "team" would >> handle it. > > > Whoever does it, DON'T make it a YouTube link. > > > There's nothing wrong with posting it on YouTube, of course. More > exposure is better for something like that. > > > But for the actual link from the .... ahem.... dignified and > professional OpenOffice.org main page, you want your video to be hosted > by a stable, unobtrusive, hosting service. > > The differences are (among others): > > 1) A dedicated hosting service lets you choose the single frame from > your video (or another still image) that becomes the clickable link-pic. > YouTube lifts a frame out of your video using its own estimation of > what will catch people's attention. > > 2) A dedicated hosting service allows you to decide what the user's > experience will be, entering and leaving the video. What options will > appear, whether there'll be an overlay or watermark (and in which corner > it will appear), and so on... YouTube can run banner ads over part of > your video window while it plays, and then afterward, YouTube's primary > purpose is to entice the viewer to keep looking at other YouTube > offerings. You would prefer them to return-to / remain-at your website. > > 3) A dedicated video-hosting service lets you control the quality and > the number of alternative formats of your video that the viewer can > select. You can offer a downloadable version along with streaming > versions of different aspect ratios, different resolutions, etc. > > > It's fairly cheap, too. Or the organization could toss up their own > video server. > > And as I said at the beginning, post the video to YouTube, too, for the > exposure, complete with links back to the OOo site. But don't make the > YouTube one be the one you get when you click from the OOo site. > > Cheers, > > - Kevin >Not to mention that in my workplace, a school, I can get to openoffice.org while you tube is blocked. Other's might be in the same boat.
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