[Imc-oceania] EngageMedia Online!

[EngageMedia]

Hi all,
most of you have heard inklings of this for the past 1.5 years, in  
fact the idea of having a regional video space first sprouted in a  
serious way at the Oceania conference in Melb in '04. A good chunk of  
the inspiration for this project came out of feeling that this  
network needed a video space fto host and distribute it's content.

We are now in fully operational beta stage so get uploading. It's  
there for you to use! (and tell your friends)
The EngageMedia team
http://engagemedia.org

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EngageMedia recently launched it's beta site and we are open for your  
contributions. Get sharing! It's a place to upload your work or  
download video to watch, share, re-distribute and screen in your  
community.

EngageMedia.org is a website distributing video about social and  
environmental justice issues in Southeast Asia, Australia and the  
Pacific. It's a space for critical documentary, fiction, artistic and  
experimental works that challenge the one-way communication of the  
mainstream media.

EngageMedia aims to demystify and provide access to new video  
distribution technologies, create an online archive of independent  
video productions using Open Content licenses and form a peer network  
of video makers, educators and screening organisations.

In general we welcome contributions that give context to the actions  
and issues of our times, in a variety of styles and genres, whether  
it's documentary, fiction, experimental or as yet un-categorisable.  
The site is moderated but very much participant driven.

Our key focus is to present video that promotes social change. We  
want to promote work that challenges corporate dominance and  
government arrogance, that exposes the people and mechanisms behind  
environmental destruction or human rights abuses. We want to build  
media that questions how the world works.

http://engagemedia.org
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Here's a list of things you can do on the EngageMedia website:

     * UPLOAD VIDEO
       Upload videos via web publishing form. Just fill out a form  
and hit the publish button!

     * DOWNLOAD VIDEO
       Search our growing archive of videos, or browse by Genre,  
Topic or Country.

     * VODCASTING
       By copying the orange 'vodcast' link into a program such as  
iTunes or Democracy Player you can automatically download and view  
new videos as they are uploaded. You could subscribe to the latest  
videos feed or to a specific member's video channel, or pick your  
feed by topic, genre or country.

     * CREATE YOUR OWN VIDEO CHANNEL
       No need to install or set up anything. When you upload a video  
it is automatically added to your personal video podcasting feed and  
allows you to add your own custom logo for your channel.

     * PROFILE PAGE
       Create a profile on your Author page about you and your video  
work. This page includes a list of recent videos you have published  
to EngageMedia and a link to your personal video channel.

     * WORKSPACE
       An area to host your videos, files, pages, images and other  
information. A collaborative space where you share your files and  
work on projects or documents with other members of EngageMedia.

     * CREATIVE COMMONS
       Assign a Creative Commons license to your video. Choose the  
license you want to enable the easy sharing of your content,  
reserving the rights you want to keep.

     * EVENTS
       Post an Event about a video screening, workshop or festival.

     * NEWS
       Post a News item about developments in the world of video  
activism or tactical media.

     * NETWORK
       Contact other members of EngageMedia through the site or send  
an email about videos you like to your friends.

     * COMING SOON
	Play in the browser video preview and automatically BitTorrent  
creation for your videos.

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EngageMedia is a non-profit organisation dedicated to providing media  
tools for activists, campaigners, communities and grassroots  
journalists.

Make your own media!

http://engagemedia.org