YouTube Opens Up Live Streaming to Non-Profits First

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YouTube has given all members of its non-profit program the ability to live-stream from their channels.

YouTube wrote in a blog post Monday that this will give its non-profit program members the chance to spread their causes, by sharing charity events and conferences in real-time.

“In the past we have rolled out self-service live-streaming for a small group of select partners,” Ramya Raghavan, YouTube news and politics manager, told Mashable. “Today it is open up to all 16,000 nonprofit organizations in the YouTube Nonprofit Program.”

Two non-profits have already made use of live-streaming on the platform. Last Saturday, March 3, the American Foundation on Equal Rights live-streamed YouTube’s first play, 8, about the trial for Proposition 8 in California. The ONE campaign and RED live-streamed a day-long symposium on World AIDS Day in December.

YouTube has been making a big push extending its non-profit program. In April, it will host a day-long summit in San Francisco to better help non-profits tell their stories on the social video platform.

What types of events do you think non-profits should live-stream? What other organizations do you think YouTube should open up live-streaming to next?

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Girl Catches Thief With Webcam: Hallie Pritchard, 12, Nabs Alleged Burglar On Camera

Douglas John Calandrella was apparently caught on tape

 

When a California tween set up a camera to surveil her bedroom, she thought her sisters would be the only small time crooks passing through. Then she nabbed a burglar with a record.

Footage taken by 12-year-old Hallie Pritchard's webcam during a real estate open house shows a visitor who apparently stepped away from the tour to steal jewelry from the family, NBC Bay Area reports.

"I had it under a bunch of pillows," the girl told MSNBC. "You could see my whole room."

When Pritchard watched the video and saw the intruder, she immediately told her parents. Not long after, authorities identified the suspect as Douglas John Calandrella, a 46-year-old former real estate agent who police arrested approximately two years ago for a similar scheme.

Police say that during his first offense, Calandrella used keys stolen from lock boxes to pilfer more than 50 items, which he promptly listed on eBay, KSDK reports.

This time around, he's accused of swiping a diamond necklace and bracelet from Pritchard's drawer.

Calandrella, already on probation for the previous burglary, is being held without bail.

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