Getting involved in other communities ...

One community I have found myself getting involved in more now that I have started this module is within www.youtube.com I have always been into developing videos (some of which you can find on my web site – www.tallguypete.co.uk) . Though I never thought I would share some within this community. I am glad I joined it as I have contributed to it, and that to me feels like an achievement within the community.

To receive replies on my videos is a sense of recognition within the community and allows me to find out what other people of different backgrounds think of the work that I have produced.

I have had both positive and negative experiences within this community. An example of a positive experience would be the responses that I have received from fellow members about my work that I have produced. You can find the comments here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSK-T8VM1mI

My negative experiences involve that I have had negative comments on one of my videos. When uploading videos I always make sure that I am able to approve or disallow a comment from being published in public view. One time I had a comment which involved a fellow member trying to post a comment which was leaving some unrelated material of an adult nature on my video page. Lucky enough I was able to delete the post and disallow this comment to be in a public viewed domain and am glad that I choose to control my contributes. My main reason for doing this is the content of my videos is viewed by all ages (including children aged as low as 8).

One contribution I may consider adding to this community in the future is of my musical talents. Throughout the massive database of YouTube you can find videos where by people have recorded themselves playing a certain song or tune to which they believe they are good at; (whether this be their own compositions or songs that exist already). I would love to provide my own compositions to the public and see what comments would be made. If I was to do this I would still moderate the comments being posted but would allow negative comments to be posted as long as they were relevant to the context of my video (playing my own compositions on my keyboard). You can find an example of Classical Gas (original artist is Mason Williams) being performed by a guitarist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP0lUAJ7-7c