Embedding Story Videos from SFC on other sites

When we first built the site, we liked the idea that viewers would have to come to StoriesForChange.net to see the stories that were housed here. However, as we started to use the site as a way to distribute stories at the end of a workshop, we discovered that folks wanted to place more than just a link to their stories on their blogs, organizational websites, and on maps.

So here's a backend way to embed your stories loaded on SFC in other websites:

1. Upload your story, and make sure to check the box to LIST the video file. Click Attach and Submit.
2. On the View page of your story, right-click on the story's filenname link and copy the link location [next to the Download icon].
3. Paste that url (the address of the video file housed on SFC) somewhere for safekeeping (like Notepad or Textpad).
4. Go to handy UCSF Embedded Media HTML Generator
   1. STEP 1 - pick the type of video file (Flash, Quicktime, Windows Media, Real Media)
      
   2. STEP 2 - pick "A Web Server"
      
   3. STEP 3 - Enter the web server as "http://storiesforchange.net" and the file path as "/sites/default/files/[video filename here]". Then you choose width, height, and the settings of how you want the video file to behave on your site.
      
   4. STEP 4 - Copy the HTML code to somewhere for safekeeping.
      
5. Now you can past the HTML code on whatever website you want to embed your story.*

*BEWARE: some blogging platforms don't allow embed code or you may have to play with the settings to allow for it. Also, embedding video assumes that the visitor to your site has the right plugins installed to play the file type you're embedding - that's why SFC uses Flash transcoding technology so that the only plugin our visitors have to have installed is Flash Player.