Cache Up NB & Media: Need your input!

This article was originally published on Cache Up NB. It has been mirrored here for archive purposes only.

Pardon me if this gets a bit long winded, but I REALLY need some help from you guys.

Since Cache Up NB’s launch, once of the biggest things that we have been lacking here is a good way to share photos and video. In recent weeks, we’ve seen several posts for new video, and there’s been a few requests on how best to share photos for Cache Up NB. This has resulted in my desire to look further into a means of incorporating media into this site.

With that having been said, I’m putting it out to the readers here about how THEY would like to be able to share stuff on here. I REALLY would like to get some serious feedback about how you would like to be able to interact with media on this site.

So for starters, let me just put out a few simple questions and see what you think:

• Would you like to see a photo gallery embedded directly into this website that you can navigate through to see various photos?
• Would you like to see the same kind of gallery for videos?
• Would you like to see a few photos and videos shown along the right-hand side sidebar (where the scribbles and dashboard are located)?
• Would you be more willing to contribute photos and video if you could upload them directly to CUNB vs Youtube/Flickr?
  • Do you have a preference in whether or not media is uploaded here or somewhere else?
    • Youtube/Flickr do allow you to be able to share your media outside of CUNB
• Would you prefer to see a sidebar “widget” that simply just displays the most recent new media, regardless of whether it is photo or video?
• Do you even care about sharing/viewing photos and videos about geocaching in NB through CUNB?
• Would you rather use the CUNB Facebook page to upload photos and video and simply embed those into this site?

I think those cover most of the basics.

Here’s the big thing that comes to mind… When I think about Facebook, it’s relatively easy for people to upload photos and video to FB, and then they get shared to everyone. It would be REALLY nice if something similar existed for WordPress (the software that powers this site) but unfortunately it’s a mishmash of other options.

The only thing I have done recently is add a new video gallery which shows thumbnails of all Youtube videos tagged with the “cacheupnb” tag. Anyone who uploads content to Youtube and adds that tag automatically has their video added here. Something similar could be done for photos via Flickr. Is something like that good enough for you or are you looking for more?

I really would like your feedback as I am trying to make this as painless as possible but with something like this, I only really want to move forward with anything else until I have a better idea of what people want. PLEASE post your comments/suggestions below. I’m going to leave this as a “sticky” post at the top for a little while.