How To Embed a YouTube Video on Your Site

Content is King. Ahh, the age-old adage about what matters on the web. But does content just have to be words? Of course not! Spice up your web pages with video to make a lasting impression on your site's visitors.

This tutorial will guide you through the steps you'll need to embed a YouTube video on your website using the Evergreen Content Management System.

1. Find the Video

You'll need to locate the video you'd like to feature on your website, whether it's one you've uploaded yourself to YouTube or one from a stranger. Don't worry about stepping on anyone's toes here, if users don't want their video to be featured on other's websites, they will have disabled this feature when they uploaded it to YouTube. To disallow others from embedding videos that you've uploaded, follow these simple steps from Google.

2. Find the Embed Code

Now you'll need to find the embed code that will allow you to host this video on your site. Unless the uploader has disabled this feature, you'll find it below the video description off to the top-right.



Highlight all the code in this field. If you miss some, your video will not work on your site. You can also customize your player using the options below it. Just make sure to copy the final version of the embed code once you're finished choosing your options.

3. Embed the Video

Now that you've copied the embed code to your clipboard, you'll want to paste it onto your webpage through the Evergreen Content Management System. For now, create a brand new page. This way you won't have to worry about where within the HTML you'll need to paste your embed code.

After you've assigned this page all of its required properties, return to the WYSIWYG and click the HTML button (). Drop your cursor somewhere in this box and click Ctrl+V to paste your embed code. It should look something like this:



Finally, click Apply > Ok and Save your new page. Open the page in your browser and voila! Your video should be right there waiting to be enjoyed by the masses!

Embedding your video on a page with preexisting content can be a little more tricky only because you'll need to establish a general sense of where the code will need to be pasted in relation to the rest of the HTML. Play around, and make good use of the Undo button. Before long you should be fairly comfortable with at least navigating through the HTML of your page.

Good luck and have fun putting the social web to work for you!

The Virtual Organization

Guest Blogger: John Stone

Flexible, dynamic, and mobile, organizations are no longer constrained by traditional barriers of place and time. Business leaders are looking at virtual organizational structures to address critical resource, personnel and logistical issues.  This session will examine the ways that technology is helping business leaders implement optimal models to gain competitive advantage.

Considering the Opportunity:

There are real opportunities to both retain great employees who need a more flexible working model that delivers work-life balance, lower costs and better remote working models. With changing demographics and an increasingly global workforce, virtualization is no longer an option, it is a critical need.  However, we have all seen it – organizations adopt virtual working models and hoteling models and see productivity fall. Often, management is unable to organize virtual teams effectively and workers can’t collaborate and coordinate with colleagues. The result can be a drop in productivity and a lack of product and customer innovation.

At the same time, changing demographics and an increasingly global workforce suggest that succeeding in deploying a virtual organization model is no longer an option. For key segments of the workforce, global virtual working is the norm and must be delivered with the right technology and business systems.  Companies can successfully adopt flexible working models to reduce the real-estate footprint, retain great employees, increase employee satisfaction and productivity while contributing to a more green economy.

The value of a virtual organization is particularly strong for knowledge workers and those workforce segments that are working with global distributed teams and are on the road with clients and customers.  R&D teams and developers can benefit from follow-the-sun strategies for continuous development and delivery. Obviously, it is far more challenging for production workers or call center staff to work in a virtual organization.  Today’s broadband networks, telephony and computing capabilities to offer a secure collaborative environment for virtual workers.  The results can be lower costs of occupancy, a happier workforce, and a green environment.

A wish list of the technology enablers for a virtual organization (please add to this list!):

Core Office

• I am not ready to give up traditional desktop office applications like MS Office PowerPoint and Word applications but I will also use emerging cloud models like Google Documents
• Advanced Calendaring and synchronization (MS Exchange for the enterprise,  Google Calendar is getting better, but it can still be difficult interacting outside our firewall)

Communications

• VOIP – I use Skype to communicate with a team in Portugal and Kiev… great!
• The perfect PDA – I use an iPhone, but enjoyed my blackberry before. Why can’t iPhone work well with Exchange calendaring? It is a fun media toy, but not yet a powerful tool for virtual working
• eMail – ‘nough said
• Electronic scheduling across networks – including people and resources of all types
• Synchronization of my calendar (e.g. Google Calendar Sync) and someday my contacts with LinkedIN? Plaxo?  (not really there yet)
• Presence and interoperable collaborative secure chat (Which chat service is everyone on? How do I connect?)

Collaboration

• Knowldege Management and Expertise Location – we have had this for a while, but collaborative systems and communities are improving and we can now begin to get access to valuable information – if tagged and stored in the right shared spaces!
•  Videoconferencing ( I use a free service, but everyone needs to dial a toll number – not too bad)
• Virtual Whiteboards and collaborative workspaces (Everything from Google Docs to the Groove Application MS Live)
•  Adobe Connect vs Webex  (these are getting better all the time, but can still be a bit awkward to use)

Broadband and Infrastructure

• I am always in search of speed and the coffee shops are still behind the times
• Secured Shared File Storage – We need trusted identity solutions that will help ensure authentication and protect our critical assets. What about those really big files?
• Auditing technology – how can we ensure remote workers are using their collaboration tools appropriately without being a big brother?
• Organizations need continuous operations and better service management using ITIL standards – this is particularly important for un-tethered workers engaging in critical business activities.

This article was written by John Stone from  www.revenuearchitects.com. Feel free to contact John or Cascade Web Development for more details.