After working solidly for the last 24 hours, we launched a new project at work this morning - video blogging site webcameron. We’ve just launched a beta of the site in time for the Conservative conference on the 1st October. The site has been featured on the front page of todays Guardian, BBC News and ITV News so far and has stirred up a fair bit of interest.
Webcameron combines some major aspects of blogs, video-sharing sites such as YouTube , photo-sharing sites such as Flickr , and other social networking sites to provide a collaborative space for political discussion and the presentation of ideas. Members of the public can register and post blog content immediately (although it will be held for moderation before it appears on the site). They can also contribute to and share content from a media library consisting of video, photos and audio. The media library allows users to display and comment on other peoples’ media contributions from within their own blog posts.
Besides featuring David Cameron’s personal blog, the site will also display contributions from a selected list of “special guest bloggers”, as well as members of the public.
I’ll be continuing to work on the site with the rest of the team over the coming months and releasing lots of new features. Although we haven’t yet built them, we will be working on a series of interactive widgets that will allow users to embed content from the Webcameron site in their own blogs. These will include a tag cloud that reflects the current state of tags on the Webcameron site.
Enjoy www.webcameron.org.uk
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