Putting the Power of YouTube to good use…
The power and popularity of YouTube has come up in the media once again. Listening to NPR’s Day to Day I learned that there was a Democratic debate last night that was powered by YouTube and CNN. In a similar fashion to audience members asking questions to the candidates by writing their question on a note card, YouTube and CNN has allowed it’s users to record a video question to the candidates. The videos were then voted on by other YouTube members and the best and brightest questions were shown to the candidates and they then gave their response.
I think it’s just fascinating the way this election is using todays popular tools and resources to get their message out there…as far as this debate format goes, the man giving the introductory video stated that this is a great way for these candidates to reach out to a majority of today’s voters.
According to the Podcast I listened to earlier, There was a lot of videos that were uploaded to YouTube that were just nonsense, which is unfortunate to think that the youth of American would use such a powerful and amazing platform to ask stupid questions…I can’t think of an example off hand, but as you can imagine it probably was along the lines of “Do you like Tacos.” These are the same type of people who don’t vote using their head…well the people who did use this tool for it’s intended use will learn the most out of it.
Anyway, don’t take my word on any of this…there are 38 very intelligent questions, each worth checking out…
http://www.youtube.com/debates
The power of YouTube makes anybody a filmmaker, and anybody can get their message out to the entire world with the click of a mouse. Putting the power of YouTube to good use for once is remarkable…We’ve seen enough videos of dramatic squirrels or people falling in holes…it’s about time this tool is put to good use…
From what I understand the YouTube/CNN Republican debate will be in September…