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Jeremy Ames from the EPA just wrapped up giving a really interesting presentation recapping how his agency used social media to crowdsource the production of a video Public Service Announcement encouraging people to test their homes for radon gas.

The EPA launched a contest and asked film makers to submit their concepts, with the winning entry receiving $2,500. Getting this off the ground was not easy, according to Ames who was faced with the prefect storm of social media barriers: legal, technical, and budgetary. Let’s watch the winning entry and then we’ll look at how they did it..

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Flickr’s premium members have enjoyed video uploads for some time and now all users will be able to upload video content.

Flickr’s General Manager, Kakul Srivastava, announced the move on Yahoo!’s Yodel Anecdotal, calling the new medium “long photos” (one of NY Times 2008 Buzzwords).

Right off the bat, there seem to be two potentially deal breaking caveats:

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