Miro and the Enabling of Community Media
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.