How to Allow Other People to Add Captions to Your YouTube Videos

Two team members seated at table with laptops, working together.

Updated September 28, 2020: Sadly, YouTube removed the feature for people to contribute community captions.

In July 2018, I wrote about how my one tweet led to Troy Hunt’s YouTube HTTPS series getting translated into 16+ languages.

I kicked off getting the series captioned by asking Hunt to enable YouTube community contributions. Once he turned contributions on, I added English captions to the first two videos.

In less than a week, Hunt’s community stepped up and added translations for 16 languages for the four videos. Continue reading How to Allow Other People to Add Captions to Your YouTube Videos

Can You Livestream the Event?

seated attendees at World Usability Day Detroit 2017 with videographer in back of room.

As you may know, I’m an event planner and leader for several local meetup groups.

I organize events for Refresh Detroit, West Metro Detroit WordPress, and Metro Detroit WordPress meetup groups.

Since the mid 2000’s, I estimate I’ve organized 350+ monthly meetup events, workshops, in-person conferences, and group viewing events for online conferences.

And there’s one question I get asked every month from a member who’s not able to attend an event in person. Continue reading Can You Livestream the Event?