CSPS should have a channel on YouTube

The CSPS hosts armchair discussions, almost weekly, on topics of interest to the Canadian public service. Unfortunately these discussions reach a tiny group of local attendees and those who join by 90's-style webcasting having reserved the time on their 90's computer (complete with Windows 95).

If CSPS had a channel on YouTube, employees (like Research Analysts) could disseminate views, information, news, updates to the public service at large and its own employees, without costly systems, upgrades and inferior systems. Of particular value would be to develop learning modules and lessons.

Instead of having a 90's style website where the video is stored as a video file for download by users, if the video is uploaded to YouTube or Google Video, the video is centralized for fast streaming and commenting and rating (if permitted) by users, and the content can be found by others not familiar with CSPS or its material, and hence expand the relevance of CSPS by expanding its user base.

The issue of copyright and ownership has come up...to this I point out the many examples that YouTube has removed content due to copyright violation, and user controls enable users to remove content they have put up, as well as specify who can see what video (private or public). Furthermore, it's also easier to manage the videos all in one place, instead of having users download the videos.

There is precedence for this. Instead of storing videos on their website, CBC has a channel on YouTube for disseminating their best videos (and hence expanding and responding better) to their user base.:
http://www.youtube.com/user/CBCtv

• AND the Prime Minister of Canada has a YouTube channel!

Other channels of interest:

• UK Parliament has a YouTube channel!
• Nasa has a YouTube channel!
  
• Her Majesty the Queen has a YouTube channel! (notice you can't comment or embed the videos!)

There are music companies that have channels on YouTube, with full music videos and interviews:

• Universal Music Group

There are learning channels, where companies create content for dissemination on YouTube:

• CommonCraft
• podEnglish
• Graduate Degrees for Professional Public Service

There is an opportunity here for the CSPS:

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