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Site Name: Ourmedia

Type of Resource:
An open source social media website to advocate for the causes that improve people's lives (Ourmedia, 2011)

Description:
"Ourmedia is a media archive,... which freely hosts any images, text, and video or audio clips which do not violate copyright laws." (Wikipedia, 2011)
Ourmedia is trying to use video and text to advocate for social change. "This is a community that is meant to build a better planet" (Ourmedia, 2011)

Uses
  • Research
  • Debates
  • Upload your own video based on your point of view or research

Quality:
The video quality and production quality vary from video to video. The website itself is very high quality.

Authorship:
Community Based

Point of View or Bias:
Varied but high bias depending on the video. Advocating for change usually means going against something. The website itself does not have direct ties to any P.O.V. or bias.

Referral to Other Sources:
none.

Currency:
Community Updated Daily

Alexa
Traffic Rank is 158,806
2,607 Sites Linking In
In the past three months there has been a 3% decrease in page views
The load time is slow (3.267 seconds) 75% of sites are faster
The audience is Males without children or college education

Website Grader
Grade is 99
Rank of 28,781
3,130 Indexed Pages
Moz Rank of 5.5
5,555 LInking Domains
Traffic Rank is Top 0.51%

Google Page Rank
6/10

Etre Accessibility Check
3 Must Fix Problems
7 Should Fix Problems
3 May Fix Problems
  • Alt texts are omitted
  • A dropdown menu option must be selected by default
  • The edit name form element doesn't feature a label

WAVE
WAVE has detected 17 accessibility errors
  • Form Labels Missing
  • Image button missing alt text
  • Empty Link
  • Spacer Image missing alt text

TwitterGrader
Rank is 5,529,589
19 Followers
Using this for dev tweets for now
Worldwide

Citations:
Home | ourmedia.org. (n.d.). Home | ourmedia.org. Retrieved July 15, 2011, from http://www.ourmedia.org/

Educational Technology and Life » Blog Archive » Ourmedia.org. (2005, March 21). Educational Technology and Life . Retrieved July 16, 2011, from                                     http://edtechlife.com/?p=22

Ourmedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (n.d.). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved July 16, 2011, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ourmedia

Accessibility Check - Etre. (2004). Etre - Get Results.. Retrieved July 8, 2011, from http://www.etre.com/tools/accessibilitycheck/

Alexa Internet - Website Information. (1996). Alexa the Web Information Company. Retrieved July 8, 2011, from http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo

Google PageRank Checker - Check Google page rank instantly. (2005). Google PageRank Checker - Check Google page rank of any web pages. Retrieved July 8,             2011, from http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php

Twitter Grader | Get Your Twitter Ranking. (2010). Twitter Grader | Get Your Twitter Ranking. Retrieved July 8, 2011, from http://tweet.grader.com/

WAVE - Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool. (2001). WAVE - Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool. Retrieved July 8, 2011, from http://wave.webaim.org/

Website SEO Tool | Website Grader. (2006). Website SEO Tool | Website Grader. Retrieved July 8, 2011, from http://websitegrader.com/




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