Monday, August 23, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Monday, August 16, 2010
What we're up to with our YouTube Channel
In this post I would like to tell you how OCHA Kenya’s YouTube channel acts as a distribution platform for building awareness on burning humanitarian issues in Kenya.
We always believed that video messages will have a greater impact on our audience in advocating for humanitarian issues in Kenya. Budget, to buy equipment & professional software to edit, was a big constraint in producing videos. However, that did not hold us back from producing videos. In last few months we produced several short videos ranging from office retreat to Aflatoxin awareness. Although, the quality of these videos were not anywhere near to commercial videos what we managed with our limited resources (microphone and windows movie maker) helped us communicate our messages to our humanitarian partners more effectively and at no cost.
Initially, we used OCHA Kenya website to broadcast our videos to our audience. They were well received by our partners. However, we quickly realized that OCHA Kenya website was limiting in the sense that it did not gave us necessary tools to market our videos and thus not reaching wider audience. Therefore we decided to host our videos on our own You Tube channel.
www.youtube.com/user/UNOCHAKenya
The advantages of having our videos on YouTube channel are many.
First, our viewer could choose to be notified of new videos uploaded to channel simply by subscribing to your channel. Our subscribers are informed of new video published instantly on our Channel.
Second, our channel subscribers influence our videos by commenting, rating and viewing our videos.
And finally, our subscribers can find all our videos on one page.
Posted by:
Sanjay Rane,
IMO OCHA Kenya
We always believed that video messages will have a greater impact on our audience in advocating for humanitarian issues in Kenya. Budget, to buy equipment & professional software to edit, was a big constraint in producing videos. However, that did not hold us back from producing videos. In last few months we produced several short videos ranging from office retreat to Aflatoxin awareness. Although, the quality of these videos were not anywhere near to commercial videos what we managed with our limited resources (microphone and windows movie maker) helped us communicate our messages to our humanitarian partners more effectively and at no cost.
Initially, we used OCHA Kenya website to broadcast our videos to our audience. They were well received by our partners. However, we quickly realized that OCHA Kenya website was limiting in the sense that it did not gave us necessary tools to market our videos and thus not reaching wider audience. Therefore we decided to host our videos on our own You Tube channel.
www.youtube.com/user/UNOCHAKenya
The advantages of having our videos on YouTube channel are many.
First, our viewer could choose to be notified of new videos uploaded to channel simply by subscribing to your channel. Our subscribers are informed of new video published instantly on our Channel.
Second, our channel subscribers influence our videos by commenting, rating and viewing our videos.
And finally, our subscribers can find all our videos on one page.
Posted by:
Sanjay Rane,
IMO OCHA Kenya
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
The power of Humanity
The power of Humanity lies in addressing HUMANITARIANissues....the desire to bring assistance without discrimination to the affected people following disaster or calamity......it endeavours, in its international and national capacity, to prevent and alleviate human suffering wherever it may be found. Its purpose is to protect life and health and to ensure respect for the human being. It promotes mutual understanding, friendship, cooperation and lasting peace and tranquility amongst all peoples.
Post by: Thomas Nyambane
Post by: Thomas Nyambane
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