So I just interrupted an interesting conversation on Twitter about whether this group is discriminating against the millions of YouTubers - are we informing them about videobloggingweek07?
Obviously, they can tag their videos, but do any of them even know about it? The thrust of the question was, do we have an attitude of If It's Not Here, It's Not Real? I said I didn't think most people had that attitude - but it seemed to me that rather than it being about us rejecting youtubers, that it's more a question of most youtubers not being interested in what we do because the idea of this forum is irrelevant to them. they have their tech needs taken care of, and they have brand identity & loyalty that gets in the way of them wanting to be part of a group of independent videobloggers. so my point was that the "discrimination" (for want of a better word) is on their part. but actually maybe it cuts both ways. we say we're open to them, but actually we know that the majority of what's discussed here is academic or alien to them and so they won't join in. we don't reach out to them, we just let it lie. a sin of omission, rather than commission. when we have an event like vbloggingweek, surely the onus is on those who know about it to market it to those who don't, rather than on them to break their habits and come beyond their walls. that way we will get more varied responses from the minority of YT users to whom it would appeal but who otherwise wouldn't hear about it. i'm all for that. there are 43 videos tagged for videobloggingweek06 on the whole of Youtube. Nothing for 07 under any variety of searches, and it's just a few days away. Josh Leo, you are a YouTube hero and VB week promoter... can you trail it to your zillion viewers?? :-) surely it's too big a pool of people to not reach out to? Rupert http://www.fatgirlinohio.org http://www.crowdabout.us/fatgirlinohio/myshow/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
