Re: Promoting Irises through YouTube.com

["K. Loberg" <iris.loberg@comcast.net>]

I'd be glad to join your committee.  Regrettfully my cam recorder is 
partially reliable after heavy use years ago when the kids were young, and I 
tend to not use it much now, tending to use just digital.  And I don't have 
a camera attachment sitting on my desktop or laptop.   Perhaps if plans can 
be developed, funds from electronic services to acquire a reliable equipment 
could be used, and the unit could be shared among those who would make the 
effort.  And of course there are likely members out there with reliable cam 
recorders who might become the photographers, whereas others might be good 
producers (help writing a 'script', and others good directors...  all 
bending towards being amatures.   And I confess I've not loaded a video on 
to YouTube or other sites.  And I'm aware of the AIS youth protection 
guidelines, but I would think garden demonstrations can be planned to avoid 
name use, or young adults can be used.   Gee, wouldn't it be neat if every 
region, national and section had a fun clip about their garden tours!
Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robt R Pries" <rpries@sbcglobal.net>
To: <aisdiscuss@aisboard.org>
Cc: "Eric Hansen" <ylhansen@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] Promoting Irises through YouTube.com


As chairman of the Public Relations committee I
believe this would fall into my purvue. I would be
delighted to work on a plan and if there are
volunteers I would love to have a subcommittee who
could concentrate on helping me with this.
Unfortunately I am not a parent so has less exposure
to these things than many, but I would be willing to
work on a plan of action that could be presented to
the board for approval.

--- "K. Loberg" <iris.loberg@comcast.net> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
>    I wanted to share some information, an idea.
>
>    Our Region 14 fall regional was this past
> weekend, where I talked with
> Eric Hansen of Sierra Foothills Iris Society.  This
> is his idea that I
> wanted to pass along.
>
>    Eric got the information from some sort of
> seminar/program put on by a
> marketing consultant.  This consultant was informing
> businesses how to take
> advantage of YouTube on the internet for
> advertising, marketing and
> promotional purposes.   His point was that "if you
> want to reach the younger
> generations, you go to where the younger
> generation(s) frequent."    The
> idea is to put short videos on YouTube that are not
> obviously commercial
> advertising.   You don't want them to be a typical
> TV splashy advertising
> segment.   Instead, you want something people liking
> the video, and
> encourage the viewer to want to partiicpate.
>
>     I will say that I find many of our iris friends
> and members are not at
> all familiar with YouTube.com.  I often talk with
> people  about YouTube, as
> those of us who use email frequently have groups of
> friends who share good
> jokes and videos and such, and many reference to
> phenomenal video clips
> point to YouTube.   ANYBODY can put a video on
> YouTube.   I will admit that
> there are many short videos on YouTube by the
> younger generation that are
> nothing short of being stupid and silly and
> immature, however, I agree with
> the concept that Eric passed to me about "to reach
> the younger crowd, you
> have to be like the younger crowd and go 'advertise'
> where they frequent."
>
>      Eric suggest that "we" (local, regional, and
> national clubs), find
> people who can create short video segments (plan
> them ahead) of activities
> in the iris gardens or shows, youth doing things in
> the iris gardens or
> shows.   It could be youth or any member (hopefully
> younger) planting
> irises.  It could be anybody enjoying a garden tour.
>  It could be about
> hybridizing.  It could be flower arranging with
> irises.  But again, to reach
> the younger crowd, it needs to include the younger
> crowd.  Think, "lots of
> opportunity"!
>
>      I will say, though, we're not the first to put
> iris videos on YouTube.
> If you go to YouTube, and do a search on "irises",
> you should find four.  A
> couple I found are kind of like a screen saver of
> iris photos, with a music
> background.. a soothing pictorial tour.  When you're
> viewing YouTube, you
> can click on the expand button and it will make the
> video full screen.
>
>      I do thank Eric for bring out this idea. and
> hope it will encourage
> many of us to consider this avenue. I think a
> "planned" effort would be even
> more successful.   I can't be at the fall board
> meeting, but maybe one or
> more committees can consider the idea.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Kitty Loberg
>
> Reg. 14
>
>
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