A Note to WordPress Users about Embedding SharingHope.tv Videos
August 18, 2008
If you’ve tried embedding your SharingHope.tv videos into a free WordPress blog, you’ve probably gotten a SharingHope.tv frame, but no video. There is a fix. Vodpod is a free service that makes it easy for you share and embed videos across a variety of video-sharing sites. The site allows you to install a button to your browser window, so that whenever you come across a video you’d like to share on your blog, you click the button and it will automatically post the video to your blog with text and a title of your choosing. If you need more help, Vodpod has a great FAQ page.
submitted by sharinghope.tv member, Mississippi
Tips: Once you use vodpod to post, you can go back and edit your WordPress post with links and tags. It works well to link to your actual SharingHope.tv video page in the body of your post, as your video will not have the colorful SharingHope.tv box surrounding it. Someday, we’ll find a way to put the box back, but in the meantime, it’s important to us that you are able to share your SharingHope.tv videos with the rest of the online cancer community.
If you aren’t a WordPress user, but share and use video across a number of video sites (sharinghope.tv, youtube, etc.) , you might also find Vodpod a useful way to keep track.
According to Vodpod, there are over 5000 video sharing sites on the Internet! They’ve published their top 100 most popular sharing sites. Let’s put SharingHope.tv on their next list of the top 100 video sharing websites!
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1. David J. Neff | August 18, 2008 at 1:44 pm
So how do we vote to add SH.TV?
Dave
2. kara | August 18, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Hello Dave. From what I can tell, Vodpod is a community where users can “collect” videos the same way you might bookmark posts on a reader like Del.icio.us. The way to elevate SharingHope.tv to the Vodpod’s top 100 would be for Vodpod users to collect and share SharingHope.tv videos. So, by using the vodpod solution, WordPress users may actually be increasing the visibility of SharingHope.tv.
Vodpod does have a “thumbs up, thumbs down” way to vote, but I think it would be hard for a niche site to compete with the most popular videos on a biggie like You Tube. Still, it would restore my faith in humanity to see a sharinghope.tv video kick butt against the latest Paris Hilton You Tube flick. Someday… : )