With the ability to add advertising from other online services you also have the potential to make some revenue from your can soon attract large viewership if your contents is interesting. And that is that most important point – your content has to be relevant and interesting for you to attract viewers. You must not have a narrow view of things that only affect you. To become a successful ‘Citizen Journalist’ you have too have a keen eye for news and a device, such as those from Nseries to take good pictures and video. There is no way of guaranteeing a large readership or viewership if the content is dull but if the quality of images and video is poor, nobody would come in the first place. And a final word of caution, while you should report about corruption, disease, shoddy practices and other things which afflict society, N-able would like to tell you not too put yourself or anybody else in danger while doing so. Please use your discretion.
You tube has millions of people from across the world visiting the site everyday and if your video becomes a ‘hit’, tens of thousands of people can view it from across the world. Often this happens because other people ‘embed’ your video onto their site. Blogs can be opinionated or be on niche topics, but the secret to becoming a successful blog writer is to keep your posts short and simple. The same with videos you post online as a Citizen Journalist – short, sweet and most of all interesting. We cannot tell you what will be interesting, but whenever you write a blog post or upload a video, ask yourself if you would want to watch the video, ask yourself if you would want to watch the video or read the blog post yourself? While your blog or your video at You Tube can become a hit with your friends, the best way for it to go ‘viral’ (that is, become very popular) is to get noticed by a large media organization. This may not happen overnight, unless you happen to live in a hotspot, but might happen once you cultivate your blog and your readership or viewership.
There are popular Indian blogs on fashion, media, Bollywood, technology and often people’s own lives. But as the saying goes, a picture says a thousand words. And we would guess a video says much more. There are also several free services available on the internet where you can post your images and videos, some that you might have captured from your mobile phone. For photos you can use Yahoo’s Flick or Google’s Picasa but are welcome to try others and for videos we would suggest you use You Tube. ‘Tags’ which are short terms used to classify your video, judiciously. Most Web2.0 websites allow users to make comments, so indiscriminate use of tags our incorrect description can get a lot of negative feedback. Many Web2.0 websites allow you to ‘embed’ content from their site onto another site by copying some code which is usually on the page itself. However, you can also directly upload images or videos onto most blogging services such as Blogger without the need to use another service.