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Participants : 1687 |
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Donations : $260,044 |
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Median Donation : $56 |
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YME endorsement letter
Thanks in advance for helping spread the word. You can use the sample letter at the bottom.
But we also have a system for crediting registered users and donors for spreading the word based on a serial number associated with their email address. That number functions as a unique ID, which, when used in the form www.mediaventure.org/?id=ID, allows us to credit you when someone donates or registers through that URL. (See our privacy policy.)
To have the Youth Media Exchange promotion letter mailed to you with your unique ID and URL embedded, enter your email address below.
If we don't recognize your email, it's because you need to register or donate first.
If you're registered with the Youth Media Exchange "living directory", you need to log in at least once at Rolodex using the same email address and password, the equivalent of registering.]
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Subject: A global youth media exchange
Hi to all who care about youth media worldwide,
We (the partner organizations listed at the bottom, and others) are actively engaged in growing the Youth Media Exchange, a free, open media publishing platform, described below, as a service to youth media organizations worldwide.
Please read about it, and participate if you like, at http://yme.mediaventure.org/, and give it your enthusiastic support. If you or your organization can use the free hosting available now, there are instructions under "How To Participate".
And please help us fund the small amount of common effort necessary to make the Internet Archive's generous provision of FREE hosting universally accessible and useful. We're funding it through a barn-raising of sorts. We've got $4500 in matching grants so far, so donations are doubled. Donate if you can afford to, but at least as important, pass this on to anyone you know who wants to empower young people to distribute their voices globally. (Cutting and pasting into a new email is best.)
Here's why it's important:
1. The collective financial and communications value to youth media organizations of such a free, open, and always-on resource is huge, because it relieves them of video hosting costs.
2. It can become a significant force fast, because there's already a large community of creators worldwide ready to use it, and there are no significant technical hurdles to overcome.
3. It can thus have a serious positive effect on the upcoming US election, because empowering young people to use their voices, and to be heard, will bring a lot of new voters into the process.
4. If it works, it is a powerful new model for global distribution independent of corporate media.
Thanks for helping however you can. Here's some more detail.
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The Youth Media Exchange is free and open publishing platform for young media-makers worldwide, where anyone can publish their video work online through partner organizations, and the best of it can get mainstream exposure. (Details at http://yme.mediaventure.org/, and the "wiki" link there.)
YME aims to provide serious distribution resources that would otherwise be out of reach. It has the potential to enable a rich eco-system through which international creators, audiences, and sponsors can find each other, independent of corporate-owned channels.
Components of the project:
* An online "commons" - FREE storage and bandwidth for any video we want to share online, provided by the Internet Archive. This alone has tremendous collective financial value.
* Interfaces and tools - To level the playing field for access to that commons, no matter where you are or what language you speak, and to highlight the work most worthy of attention.
* Mainstream exposure - YME will be working to finance development of television pilots for the best of the material, to be aired through Link TV, one of the partners that reaches 20M American homes, and other outlets.
* Long-term sustainability - There is significant financial value in such a community of creators and viewers, and YME will also be working with the various partners to realize that as a nutrient for the whole ecosystem.
We're financing it through a grass-roots call for small donations, through Media Venture Collective. That's where the barn-raising comes in. The partner organizations represent networks of literally hundreds of local organizations, so we should collectively be able to motivate a few thousand people to chip in $20 - $100.
So please, go to http://yme.mediaventure.org/, get to know the project, pass this on, and take responsibility for getting $100 in donations from friends and family who would like to see an open media distribution platform for young people everywhere. We currently have over $4500 in challenge grants ready to match donations.
Like the Ramones said, "We want the airwaves, baby!"
Brenda Laurel, Art Center College of Design
Neeru Paharia and Glenn Otis Brown, www.CreativeCommons.org
Aaron Cohen and Elsa E'der, www.FreeSpeechTV.org
Jason Mark and Kevin Danaher, www.GlobalExchange.org
Jonah Wittkamper and Benjamin Quinto, www.GlobalYouthActionNetwork.org
Brad deGraf, Internet Archive
Kim Spencer and Ben Fuller, www.LinkTV.org
Colin Mutchler, Rhea Mokund, Austin Haeberle, Tina Wieboldt, Sharese Bullock, www.ListenUp.org
Jeff Perlstein, www.Media-Alliance.org
Kibra Yohannes and David Jacobs, www.YMDi.org
Helen De Michiel, Jack Walsh, and Amanda Ault, www.NAMAC.org
Joaquin Alvarado, www.SFSU.edu
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"A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or perhaps both."
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- James Madison |
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