YouTube in recent weeks has turned its focus to helping nonprofits create more powerful, effective videos, with a new “playbook” guide and a chance to participate in a one-day video boot camp in San Francisco.
The free 24-page guide, “YouTube for Good,” helps nonprofits devise attention-grabbing names and code their videos’ descriptions to make them more visible to search engines,tell better stories, and use video as part of broad campaign.
This is excellent. It drives me nuts when organizations have amazing tools at their fingertips but don’t use them well; this is a wonderful effort that both makes YouTube a more accessible tool to nonprofits and also improves YouTube’s brand from being just the source of LOL videos.
Free things in your NYC neighborhood for Foursquare users! Definitely will use this, because it’d be silly not to.
Josh is a buddy from the Internet who writes great reviews of board games and has a chunk of games to give away. It’s super easy to enter his contest…. just start following him or linking to his blog. Personally, I think he puts out great content and is well worth following. Hope you win*!
*mostly, I hope I win, especially Fluxx or Munchkin. Girl can dream, right?
With tax day just around the corner, there’s no day but today to do your return. Feeling stuck? Volunteer Income Tax Assistance, more efficiently known as VITA, sites can help you out for free. They’re in each of the 50 states, and the program volunteers have been well trained in all matters of basic tax (and a decent number of volunteers know advanced stuff, too) and are equipped with good resources. If they still have appointments left, snatch them up! I suggest calling first and having your tax forms ready so that you can describe your types of income.
#keytocity I’m SO psyched to be the new proud owner of a key to the city. Of course, under Paul Ramírez Jonas’ new project, lots of people have access to one. Now through labor day, I can open more than 20 different gates, boxes, and doors throughout all five boroughs of New York. After waiting in line to get a key at the kiosk in times square with a buddy, you get a key and a passport showing all of the neat places you can go.
Today, I went with me key-bestower to the first of hopefully many special lockboxes - the one at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Past the ticket counter near the coat check, I opened a box and learned about the new expansion plan for the museum through a detailed model and explanation from the coat check clerk. Yes, it sounds a little cheesy to open a box that really isn’t THAT secret to learn something else that probably isn’t THAT secret, but I still got a kick out of it.
Anyway, I’m looking forward to doing way more of these over the course of summer. Let me know if you want to go on any adventures with me!
