Friday, December 12, 2008
We Are Hampton Roads
The citizens of Hampton Roads are proclaiming "We Are Hampton Roads" in their own ingenious and creative ways.
Send us your 1-minute (or less) submissions via our YouTube Channel, email and/or other social media.
If you'd be willing to film yourself, your office or have a suggested vignette and are willing to lend the face(s) and the voice(s), let us know. The best will be published online and shared with the world. We hope to enlist the help of traditional television media to share "We Are Hampton Roads" in and around news breaks to spread the positive things about our region, especially to visitors!
This is the promo and the inaugural videos of "We Are Hampton Roads," which premiered at the Partnership's December 12th Board meeting.
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Thanks to everyone who participated and plans to participate in the future! Keep those submissions coming...
Okay, while I get the idea, this is too long to expect someone to sit through with no build or change to keep them engaged. Also, starting with Sarah Palin? I mean, you lose 50%+ of anyone watching right there if that is the header. If, via requested submissions, you ADD anyone to this it is just going to get longer. Pace should be picked up, it should be shortened, make shots more varied, it should build to a peak, and how about some more humor. This is not meant as a screed but as constructive criticism.
Thanks for your comment, Petrushka. Your points are well taken.
Any new submissions will be added to our YouTube Channel as individual clips (or perhaps a new 3-minute segment), and the tone is totally dependent on the creativity of the submittal. They can be as funny or serious as you want them to be.
As for starting with the Palin clip, we wanted to show the influence and importance that "Hampton Roads, America's First Region" had on Election 2008 and will have going forward. No political statement whatsoever. And, we encourage anyone who has captured other national figures using "Hampton Roads" and/or "America's First Region" in a videotaped speech, please send it to us. Contact@HRP.org
Thanks again!
Wow!!! Give me about 3min. and 26 secs to recover from what I would describe as tsunami washing me ashore. It just came right @ me. Sarah Palin's endorsement or influence in Hampton Roads rattles me. There are many folk in Alaska who are still recovering from the embarassment she brought them representing as an Alaskan. We are Hampton Roads. Could your research department have found someone we all could stomach? Checking the consensus on popularity of national figures visiting Hampton Roads should be relative easy. I hope this doesn't change the the minds of those that may have been considering moving to Hampton Roads. Again, Wow!!!
Bettye
As stated before:
"As for starting with the Palin clip, we wanted to show the influence and importance that "Hampton Roads, America's First Region" had on Election 2008 and will have going forward. No political statement whatsoever."
We are a very small staff and do not have a "research staff," unfortunately. As this video is meant to be viral, we encourage anyone who has captured other national figures using "Hampton Roads" and/or "America's First Region" in a videotaped speech, please send it to us.
Contact@HRP.org
Thanks again!
Please be certain to read our Blog Comment Policy: http://hrpartnership.blogspot.com/2008/01/blog-comment-policy.html
As we have just launched this blog, we've bent the rules a bit by allowing several comments with a screen name attached and nothing else.
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Thank you for understanding.
In response to an email received re: "the reference of partisan politics on the existing version":
There are no partisan politics involved whatsoever. See the blog post and comments following that reference this. We have also created a short promo version. Some of the videos we've taken and others submitted by individuals will be posted separately on our YouTube Channel. We are also working with local TV to encourage them to take up the challenge themselves and share their own videos they capture around the region.
The Hampton Roads Partnership has members from the governments of 16 cities and counties and 1 town, i.e. Mayors and Chairs as well as CEOs of the larger businesses in the region, representatives from 8 military commands, Presidents of the major universities and colleges as well as the representative superintendent from the K-12 public school system. (well over 100 members) We are a non-partisan organization. Every party and every position imaginable is represented on our Board, all with one common agenda: facilitating regional collaboration and action, pursuing global economic competitiveness, benefiting all citizens of Hampton Roads.
Hope this helps! Happy Holidays!
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