One of my favorite online video platforms to emerge in the last few years is the open-source service Miro.
Formerly known as the Democracy Player, Miro is an Internet tv application developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation.
I’m a big proponent of open-source. It drives innovation by allowing developers to build on each others’ work, and makes creating and sharing content easy for everyone (and to support the service, you can adopt a line of code. How clever is that?!).
You can imagine how stoked I was to find out about Miro Community, an ancillary service created for publishing videos.
Dubbed “The easiest way to make a video website”, Miro Community provides groups like local media organizations and schools with the templates they need to create their own video-based experience.
The service makes it easy to run presentations from your own domain, automatically import and publish RSS feeds, and it works with most free video services and a wide-variety of hosts. In short, Miro Community does most of the heavy lifting for you, so your organization doesn’t have to.
Seems simple, right?
That’s the point. It makes publishing content easy for everyone, encouraging video from a wide variety of sources and enabling sharing of local media.
Basic Community sites are free for everyone. Premium accounts are available on an application basis.
Related:
A Look At Miro
How Public Access TV Evolved into Community Media Centers (PBS Mediashift)