ThinkStream

David All describes the value of video in the donation process well in this post, however he’s misleading readers on a key point:

* You can not use a third-party flash video provider (like YouTube or Blip.TV) on secure websites which is why we are hosting this video, and only this video, on our servers. (from “DonationTubes: How and Why TechRepublican.com“)

Fortunately, with Brightcove you can in fact easily embed your Brightcove video into secure pages. Simply update the relevant links in the embed object to “https://…” and you are off to the races. Here’s a good example of this in action: Senator Mitch McConnell’s campaign website.