Official uVu Blog

ATTENTION all community based videographers!

uVu is looking for community based videographers. If you have an interest in volunteering to cover events in your community let us know. If you have your own camera and some time or interest we want to hear from you. Email neal@uvuvideo.org

  

Behind the Scenes: Haiti, A Community Conversation

uVu blog goes moblie

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Join FRONTLINE's digital_nation!

uVu is proud to be part of FRONTLINE's new project: Digital Nation. 

Digital Nation is a new, open source PBS project that explores what it means to be human in an entirely new world -- a digital world. It consists of this Web site as well as a major FRONTLINE documentary to be broadcast in winter 2010. FRONTLINE's production team is posting rough cuts and raw footage on the web, and gathering input, feedback and stories from users as we go. 

Visit uVu's Digital Nation page and upload Your Digital Nation.

 

Create a story about the role technology plays in your life using video, photos, audio, animation or text. Embed it into your own blog. Be sure to tag your item "dig_nat" and email YourDigitalNation@gmail.com with a link to your post so that FRONTLINE can include it in a special Web feature called Your Digital Nation.

Watch the Digital Nation Trailer.

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Knight Commission Invites Public Input on Community Information Needs

PBS Engage Joins Call for Comments on Upcoming Study

 

Google’s Marissa Mayer, Commission Co-Chair, to Answer Public’s Questions

 

Washington, D.C. – How do citizens get their news and information today, and how would they improve the quality of information available to them?  These are some of the questions The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy would like Americans to answer as part of the first major study in the digital age assessing how information needs are being met in communities nationwide.

 

PBS Engage is partnering with the Knight Commission to seek public input and offer an interactive experience at www.pbs.org/publicinput from Tuesday April 21 – Friday May 8, 2009.  The site will feature a preliminary analysis of the Commission’s work, videos of the Commission’s public forums and meetings, blogs about the Commission’s work and a forum for citizens to express their thoughts and opinions.  "As public media, we feel it's important to be part of the conversation around the information needs of communities and we are thrilled to be able to open this dialogue up to the PBS audience,” said Angela Morgenstern, Senior Director of PBS Interactive.

PBS Engage: Information Needs in the Community

Listen to more thoughts about the information needs of communities.
To learn more about the commission's work around the information needs of communities and to have your voice heard about your information needs, visit http://www.pbs.org/publicinput.

Watch more video on uVu.

Sex-ting. Against the Law?

Hear what FAU students think.  Share your opinion.

uVu UPDATE: User registration and login with 3rd party credentials

Users are now able to join and log into uVu using their credentials from Facebook, MySpace, OpenID, Yahoo!, Google and AOL. Users who join via this method will automatically "import" their username from Facebook, AOL, Google, etc. and will need to log via this same method on all subsequent visits.

TRY IT: http://uVuVIDEO.org

Rolling out the Welcome Mat

The new uVu is up and functioning, please take a look around, upload a video, share a thought and help us build a more dynamic community in south Florida.  Online video has taken hold, more and more people are watching online, but the great untapped potential with online video is to help online communities work to improve physical communities and that is our real motivation behind uVu.

It only works if the community comes on board, so if you like what you see, start a conversation, show us what is good about your neighborhood, what you appreciate about life in south Florida or ask a question about how you can begin to make things even better.

Sign up as a member of uVu, it is free, and see what your neighbors are thinking.

Taking a break to watch the stars

How about a change of pace, as we migrate content to the new site.  rather than link you to the old one, enjoy a little Stargazing from your friends at uVu.