289,754 ELCA YouTube Views

timfrakes — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:07:37 +0000

Recently I took a peak at the Youtube channel for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Back in the late 1990’s while I still worked for the ELCA Churchwide offices, our Department for Communication began uploading programs to what was then called, Google Video. After Google purchased Youtube in 2006 for $1.65 billion, Google Video went away, and with it, many of the videos we had uploaded. Fortunately, Brett Nelson, my successor at the ELCA began uploading some of the legacy content in 2007 to a new ELCA video account. Since that time, 16 programs I produced accumulated a whopping 289,754 views! Paltry by Youtube standards, but still nice. We produced many other programs, however the analytics for those earlier programs were lost when Google dumped Google Video.

It is inevitable that one day, Youtube itself will go away. It’s all chalk art in the end. Or, to get theological, we are dust, and to dust we shall return. Still, it’s nice to peak at the numbers once in a while.

Here is a link for programs I produced which are currently on the ELCA Youtube channel.
http://www.youtube.com/user/ELCAVideo/videos?view=0&sort=da&flow=grid
– Understanding Islam
– Understanding the Roman Catholic Church
– Introducing Jesus of Nazareth
– Opening the Door to Luther
– Lutheran Roots in America
– Holy Communion
– Introducing the New Testament
– Exorcism in Madagascar
– The Story of the ELCA
– The Holy Spirit
– Ready to Forgive: An African Story of Grace

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YouTubeing East Africa

timfrakes — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:52:00 +0000

Internet video is changing the world. As developing nations leapfrog old communication technology in favor of new, digital Internet based forms of telling the story, a window of opportunity opens. In the fall of 2006 I was in Kitgum, Northern Uganda shooting footage for a documentary about forgiveness in the aftermath of war. During our visit, we shot, edited and uploaded short video clips from a tiny, phone line connected Internet café on the dusty streets of Kitgum.

My Kenyan friend George Arende and I got to thinking… “If we can upload video clips from this rural outpost, why not share the technology and allow East African’s to upload their own stories?”

Later conversations with staff from ELCA Global Mission and the ELCA World Hunger Appeal led to a grant, which allowed me to purchase four high-powered laptop computers, video cameras and software.

In March 2008, George, a web developer friend Len Mason, myself and five East Africans from Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Madagascar will meet in Nairobi. We will spend four days at the Methodist Guest House, shooting, editing and uploading video clips to the Internet. When the workshop is over, the team will return home with their equipment, charged with the mission of teaching others how to use it.

Originally we planned the workshop for January 2008. However, the post election violence in Kenya forced a postponement. The chaos underscores the need for clear communication. By March, we trust things will have calmed down and our project will move forward.

The East Africans I have met are smart and technologically savvy – they just don’t have the right tools. Equipped with proper technology, perhaps African can begin to solve problems on its own.
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