The 2008 Project for Awesome!!!
2008-12-12 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Global development · advocacy activism
Hank announces the 2008 Project for Awesome on December 17, a day when the YouTube community promotes charities, explains how to take part by making videos or joining the supporters' mailing list, and says he and John will each give $1,000 to a P4A charity.
What is said
00:00:00 — Greeting; introduces the Project for Awesome: a day the YouTube community takes over YouTube to promote charity
- ★★ Hank introduces the Project for Awesome, which he believes is the largest YouTube community-inspired event ever. (hedged) — 00:00:00 · Project for Awesome, YouTube
- ★★★ Hank defines the Project for Awesome as a day when the YouTube community takes over YouTube to promote people who do things because they are right, not for money: charity. — 00:00:00 · Project for Awesome, YouTube > «a day in which the YouTube community takes over YouTube»
- ★ Hank says they promote charity one day a year in the holiday season, then go back to silly songs, cat videos and being profane. (playful) — 00:00:00
00:00:41 — Date (December 17, 2008) and website; two ways to take part; five steps for making a P4A video; becoming a supporter
- ★★★ Hank officially announces that this year's Project for Awesome will take place on December 17, 2008, organised from projectforawesome.com. — 00:00:41 · Project for Awesome
- ★★★ Hank's first way to take part: make a Project for Awesome video about your favourite charity (e.g. Toys for Tots, the Nature Conservancy, Save Darfur) and why you give to it. — 00:00:41 · Project for Awesome
- ★★ Hank's further steps: use the P4A image as thumbnail, put 'Project for Awesome' and the charity in tags and title, link the charity in the sidebar, and submit the video on projectforawesome.com. — 00:01:10 · Project for Awesome
- ★★★ Hank's second way to take part: become a Project for Awesome supporter by signing up for the mailing list on projectforawesome.com. — 00:01:10 · Project for Awesome
00:01:39 — Supporters' mailing list and its privacy promise; featured videos pushed onto YouTube's big lists; editable thumbnail files
- ★★ Hank promises the mailing list will be used only for the Project for Awesome, send no email after December 20, and never be given to anyone else. — 00:01:39 · Project for Awesome > «You will never get an email after December 20th, I promise.»
- ★★★ Hank explains the plan: the mailing list will feature videos that supporters rate, comment on and favourite so they reach YouTube's big lists, until P4A videos are everywhere and everyone knows YouTube is awesome. — 00:01:39 · Project for Awesome, YouTube
- ★ Hank says editable Photoshop and Fireworks thumbnail files are at projectforawesome.com and can be customised as long as the video stays recognisably P4A. — 00:02:08 · Project for Awesome
00:02:38 — Hank and John each put up $1,000 for a P4A charity, judged on charity and video quality
- ★★★ Hank announces that he and John have both decided to put up a thousand dollars to donate to a P4A charity, chosen on the quality of the charity and its video. — 00:02:38 · Project for Awesome, John Green, Vlogbrothers
- ★★ Hank says the Project for Awesome is not just about talking about charities but about giving to them. — 00:02:38 · Project for Awesome
00:03:07 — Others encouraged to award money; how to get the P4A thumbnail (middle 10 seconds of the video); sign-off
- ★★ Hank encourages anyone else who wants to award money to P4A charities in the same way to do so. — 00:03:07 · Project for Awesome
- ★★ Hank says YouTube changed how it picks thumbnails; after talking with YouTube and testing, non-partners should make the middle 10 seconds of the video the P4A image, e.g. 125 to 135 in a 3-minute video. — 00:03:07 · YouTube, Project for Awesome
Threads in this video
- launch · P4A 2008 edition — Hank officially announces the 2008 Project for Awesome for December 17, 2008, run from projectforawesome.com, with rules for P4A videos (charity topic, P4A thumbnail, tags and title, sidebar link, submission) and a supporters' mailing list. (00:00:41)
- open · Hank asks viewers to make and submit P4A videos about their favourite charities (2008) — Hank asks viewers to make a Project for Awesome video about their favourite charity and submit it on projectforawesome.com. (00:00:41)
- open · Hank asks viewers to join the P4A supporters' mailing list (2008) — Hank asks viewers to become Project for Awesome supporters by joining the mailing list, which will point them to videos to rate, comment on and favourite. (00:01:10)
- make · Hank: no P4A mailing-list emails after December 20 and no sharing of addresses (2008) — Hank promises the P4A mailing list will send no email after December 20 and that addresses will never be given to anyone else. (00:01:39)
- make · Hank (with John): donate $1,000 to a P4A 2008 charity chosen by video quality (2008) — Hank says he and his brother have both decided to put up a thousand dollars that they will donate to a P4A charity, chosen on charity and video quality ('a thousand ... from John or me'). (00:02:38)
- new · What is the community's charity drive for: attention for causes, money, or the community itself? — Hank says the Project for Awesome is not just about talking about charities but about giving to them. (00:02:38)
- open · Hank encourages others to award money to P4A charities (2008) — Hank encourages anyone else to award money to P4A charities as he and John are doing. (00:03:07)
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