Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Youtube by Noor Sharaf

Introduction :


YouTube is an internet service that allows people upload their videos for many purposes, so that they became available online. These videos can be of any type: personal, commercial, political, social… etc. It represents community - with numerous user groups and contests to encourage users to create their own videos. Since its establishment, it has been an issue of much controversy, due to some political and illegal videos that were uploaded.

Establishment:

YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal. In February 14.2005 .

It is now serving two billion videos a week accompanied by advertising.

Using youtube as a business website :

• You can use YouTube for business by directing clients to video clips that show your expertise or things on how to use your products or services.

• transforming your podcast into a YouTube video, thereby reaching even more customers.

• Share the expirement of people or customers who tried the product with those who did not, in order to encourage them to do so.

• recording and uploading a job that your business has been working on.

• Show a meeting held in a company you are working in.

• Invite people to social events your company is holding.

As a Customer Service

• Create videos that help customers to use the product

• Put some links and videos related to the service or product



Why is it significant?

Internet is now free, easy to use and accessible to most people, in addition to easy watching and uploading videos, the fact that makes you tube a really useful and good service that uses online videos for many purposes

It also offers opportunities for expression through video publishing, making content available for anyone interested in consuming it .

Being a social meeting, you tube attracts people to meet each other and recognize different cultures and share opinions with each others.

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Conclusion

Any internet website can be exploited and used in a bad way. Same is applied to You Tube. But, We can avoid that and use this social website in a positive way by allowing YouTube draws users into viewing videos and to be involved with the content by commenting and creating activities that makes people’s skills much better. Even if most of the content on YouTube lacks an educational goal, the application encourages experimentation with new media.

Many people believe that creating content—in any form—is a useful learning exercise, helping develop a better and deeper understanding of the subject matter and the tools used to create that content.

To the extent that YouTube makes such creation easier, it has the ability to expose students to new skills and capabilities, as well as link them to various
online communities.


*Hopkins, Jim (October 11, 2006). "Surprise! There's a third YouTube co-founder". USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-10-11-youtube-karim_x.htm. Retrieved November 29, 2008.

http://askbobrankin.com/what_is_youtube.html









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