{"id":873,"date":"2009-12-02T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keenertech.com\/?p=873"},"modified":"2009-12-02T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T13:10:00","slug":"exchangesconnect-online-video-contest-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/?p=873","title":{"rendered":"ExchangesConnect Online Video Contest Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The ExchangesConnect Online Video Contest site launched on November 17, 2009. Here&#8217;s a screenshot of the&nbsp;website, which looks pretty cool now that the community has uploaded a bunch of videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"317\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/online_video_contest.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/online_video_contest.png 500w, https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/online_video_contest-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The purpose of the contest is to help drive up the membership for the Department of State&#8217;s&nbsp;ExchangesConnect&nbsp;social network, which is focused on promoting cross-cultural understanding around the world. The social network and the contest have been done for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a project I&#8217;ve worked on with fellow Rubyists David McVicar and Kelly Gifford, so we&#8217;re all pretty pleased. Four contest winners will receive an all-expense-paid, two-week-long foreign exchange program compliments of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out the contest now! There&#8217;s plenty of room for more participants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ExchangesConnect Online Video Contest site launched on November 17, 2009. Here&#8217;s a screenshot of the&nbsp;website, which looks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-contest-platform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}