[Cc-webedit] [mediateam] Letter to the met - as a highlight on front page?

[gringo ben]

I agree. the letter works fine as a letter and video doesn't really
add much to it. but more importantly the camp is about action on
climate change not cops. lets try to avoid the cop fixation by not
giving it pride of place on the website.

ben

2009/8/25 Natalie Szarek <nszarek at googlemail.com>:
> I think we want a far more exciting "omg! come to camp!!!" video to have as
> the first video up there. I think that the letter to the met video serves a
> certain purpose, but it doesn't galvanise, and i think that it's important
> that the first video that people see up there gets them excited, and gets
> them to come back to the site for more and more updates.
>
> maybe putting a little announcement on the site saying "watch us swoop
> here!" or something.
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> 2009/8/25 Jonathan Leighton <j at jonathanleighton.com>
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>> Let's speak plainly: We are talking about the letter video and that
>> alone - unless there will be more videos going up before the swoop
>> video?
>>
>> On this I am "neutral". I don't think the letter to the met is the best
>> "come to the camp" material, but I don't think it's the worst either. I
>> do fully support putting the swoop video up there as soon as it's ready.
>>
>> I'd like hear opinions from others who are not involved in producing the
>> content (no offence Hamish).
>>
>> Totally willing to be persuaded either way.
>>
>> Jon
>>
>> On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 11:48 +0100, hamish wrote:
>> > I would like to like to put forward a proposal that the climatecamptv
>> > "show embed" goes up to replace the cardboard today. Putting up single
>> > embed a day after the video is posted is silly (:
>> >
>> > The show embed will be full of the best content produced at the climate
>> > camp, is the an issue here? As for the police angle, we all agree that
>> > isn't our focus. we will soon have videos about all the issues behind
>> > CCA, and hopefully we won't have to mention the police at all.
>> >
>> > PROPOSAL
>> > Put the show player (which will have the "letter to the met" on it) up
>> > to replace the cardboard
>> >
>> > DEADLINE
>> > Today at 14.00
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Hamish
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Jonathan Leighton wrote:
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > There's been discussion in the media group about having the letter to
>> > > the met on the home page. This seems to have broad support. We have
>> > > already agreed that the "swoop video" will replace the cardboard image
>> > > in the main promo when it's ready.
>> > >
>> > > PROPOSAL: Make the letter to the met video a "highlight" under the
>> > > main
>> > > promo.
>> > >
>> > > DEADLINE: We don't have much time and people seem to vaguely agree
>> > > with
>> > > this anyway - so 12:30 PM.
>> > >
>> > > Cheers,
>> > > Jon
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
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