Tutorial Eight: Posting You Tube Videos and Flickr Badges to Blogs: Explaining the process

Uploading videos to youtube

Before you can upload videos you first have to become a member of youtube. Once you have this you can upload as many videos as you would like. They will stay there until you decide to take them down. Videos must be shorter than ten minutes.

To up load a video:

1. Login.

2. Click on the "Upload Videos" icon in the upper right corner of the YouTube home page.

3. You will now be in the “uploading area”. Start typing in the videos details. When doing this be sure to describe it well and pick words that are suitable for the tag, as these are the words that will be your “keywords”. This will make it a great deal easier when others are looking for your video and will be able to find it with ease.

4. Once you have filled out all the details on that page, there will be an “upload video” button in the middle bottom of your screen.

5. This will navigate you to a different page. Click the “browse” button and locate your video file which would have been previously saved in your computer. Click select.

6. The video file that you have picked will then show up in the “browse” button. Click “upload video” which will be just below it.

7. Once you video has finished uploading you will see a new page that reads “thank you, your video upload is complete”. You will then be able to find the newly uploaded video in “my videos”.

8. People can also begin the start searching your video online and watching it there.

9. Finished !




Uploading a flickr badge to your blog.

First you'll have to configure an external blog, You'll be guided through the set-up process, and at the end you can try a test post to make sure everything works.

When that's done, you can blog any public photo you see on Flickr. When you're looking at a single photo, for example, http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=23754, you'll see a "Blog This" button above it.

Note: If you don't see the "Blog This" button, you probably need to make the photo public (click "edit" next to the privacy indicator under "Additional Information" on the photo's page).

Click the "Blog This" button for the photo you want to post. If you've set up your blog, you can post immediately by adding a title and body for the post. There's a link to your blog as well so you can check that the entry looks OK.

You can set up as many blogs as you like.

You can also send to Flickr and blog from your mobile device. When you upload a photo to Flickr via email, and you have at least one blog set up in Flickr, we can post your photo to your blog automatically.

Done!