Web video can be an extremely effective way to raise consciousness about a sustainable business or cause. Video is a great interlude to all the text online and is relatively inexpensive to make, share and watch. The moving images and music can captivate an audience and convey thousands of words in just a few minutes. Especially today, now that we have numerous ways to share video on social networks and blogs, video has great potential to become viral and carry your business, non-profit organization or cause to thousands or even millions of viewers.
In honor of Change.org’s Blog Action Day, I combed social networks and blogs for the Top 10 Climate Change Videos. The response was astounding and I’ve highlighted here the Top 10. Please let me know which videos you liked and share them with your friends! Thanks to everyone who made and helped me find these great videos.
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Way back when (some of you may know my former blogging self at SababiBlog.com), I started blogging because I wanted to share all the cool stuff I found online. While writing is still one of the most effective way of communicating with your community, I’ve found that sharing videos can also be extremely effective.
Since I’ve decided to take my blogging skills to a new level and join the league of video bloggers in January 2010, I’ve been combing the web for socially responsible videos and caring online communities.

Today I came across the Alliance of Youth Movements, an organiztion that seeks to “positively empower leaders to affect nonviolent change in the world by creating and promoting use of technological tools to advance freedom, human rights, democracy, and development around the world.” In addition to hosting AOYM summits, they have over 100 how to videos for virtual community organizers.
Here is a sample and my favorite of the day:

I’m gearing up for Change.org’s Blog Action Day on October 15th 2009. These kind of group blogging events are a great way to increase traffic to your site, connect with new people and of course, support a worthy cause (more than worthy, necessary–life threatening). Of course, you do need a blog to participate, but beyond that it’s simple to end global warming.
Check out change.org’s promotional video here and join in:
This beautiful piece was created by Alice Mason.
It is based on the writer Carol Drinkwater, who wrote all the Olive books and in her book the Olive Route, she writes about olive trees and the issues in Israel and Palestine.
A few days ago a new friend of mine, Firsa Arafat, a Palestinian peacemaker that I met at MEPEACE.org, shared Ma’an News Agency with me. Even though I’d passed over the site before, after Firsa recommended the site as the best independent Palestinian news source, I started browsing MNA more frequently and have been greatly impressed.
Ma’an, which means “together” in Arabic, is a Bethlehem based news agency that works with independent journalists throughout Palestine to provide a professional, informative independent news source in Arabic and English.
Launched in 2005, Ma’an News Agency (MNA) … is among the most browsed websites in the Palestinian territories, with over 3 million visits per month. Considered the main source of independent news from Palestine, MNA has become the first choice for online information for many Palestinians, and is also attracting a growing international readership and interest from prominent international news organizations and agencies.
Ma’an News Agency is an integral part of Ma’an Network, a non-profit media organization founded in 2002 to strengthen professional independent media in Palestine, build links between local, regional and international media, and consolidate freedom of expression and media pluralism as keys to promoting democracy and human rights.
Unfortunately MNA doesn’t have an RSS feed and I have to make a little added effort to go to their site. However, they do regularly update their facebook page and tweet on twitter. The content is written well and covers unique stories that I haven’t found any where else on the web.
Today I was especially surprised to find that only MNA was covering the opening of the Gaza Strip’s commercial crossings. The story is especially important since the crossings haven’t been opened all at once since June 2007 and signals a change in the relationship between Israel and Hamas.


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