The Marmot’s Hole

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I’m going to put in my obligatory repetition of how I wish they would record some of these conferences and lectures and some of the groups working directly with refugees and in China would put togther some video besides the big production specials that run once or twice on CNN or the BBC.

If by this time next year, they have not branched their websites out to use multi-meida it will be a tragedy.

I’ve emailed several of the big groups (with no replay, but I wasn’t expecting one) and gave them a link to what Brendan Brown and I were able to do on the fly as an adequate but low end example.

http://www.usinkorea.org/North.....onference/

I really wish they would get into it much sooner rather than later.

The internet is available 24/7 year after year.

A perfect avenue for the message - and short videos a perfect tool for the short attention span of the computer age….

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I’ve also emailed sevearl of the groups - in spats to the point of probably being annoying - begging them to get with broadban and offer short video clips of conferences, interviews with refugees, on location with refugees, or interviews with people who work with refugees if they are afraid to be interveiwed on camera, and any other things to take advantage of the multi-media revolution on the internet —–

—that will reach a hell of a lot more people who don’t know about the situation that the written text will.

I have gotten a few responses, but not much, and though it is still technically early since I started the periodic emailing (since a little before the Korea Dec. conference), I don’t think I have seen them move in that direction —- and big events have been coming and going.

I’ve also offered to edit video and make the pages for them to use (and even store it for them to link to on my Yahoo server) if they didn’t have anybody who could do it better or the time and money to find a pro.

If they haven’t gotten into the kind of stuff http://www.voiceofpeople.org uses to such great effect by this time next year, I will be more than disappointed.

And what is really a crime is if they haven’t —- how many millions around the world will not have stumbled across an understanding of what is going on?

(I get 3,000 hits on the http://www.usinkorea.org site, and much of it stemming from loosely related or totally unrelated search engine hits off the videos and images.)

On the religious orgs….

I am in pretty much 100% agreement with Kushibo, and in answer to someone’s question, I think it was obvious he did what I’ve had the habit of doing the last few weeks —— reading a note and having it snap into the context beyond what the author wrote but exactly one in which the conversation usually takes place in the expat community or just as often in Western educated circles or the society(ies) as a whole.

I don’t enough about the regular activities of the Korean Christians and how it works specifically with their effort on the North Korea Problem….

but I do know educated Americans come into it with a lot of baggage.

And that is too long an item to even start on…….

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Thanks…

I think the individual groups I’m sure some of them belong to or are familiar with could do somethings that would very valuable on their websites too.

Like little short interview/presentations of the director or spokesman just saying, “This is what we do and where your donations to us go.”

Or highlighting an missions or relief efforts in China for the refugees or refugees who make it to the South.

I believe there is so much a few 30 second or minute or 2 minute spots could do on a site like the one by Tim Peters or the other sites Ive seen in English by different groups based in South Korea.

And such spots are so easy to shoot, give a simple edit on computer, and store on a server like Yahoo or there own if they have one or some other one in Korea’s broadban society.

http://www.voiceofpeople.org is a good example of what can be done, and the NKHR NGOs don’t have to put that much money or effort into a small video section for their sites…..