Paul Gascoigne, Simon Webbe and Angus Deayton are amongst a host of celebrities to support a campaign to collect 1 million messages of support for the UK’s troops abroad. The messages, which are recorded on video, will be hosted on a unique on-line “wall” where they can be viewed by soliders anywhere in the world.
(PRWeb UK) November 23, 2009 -- The campaign “Faces to the Forces” is the brain child of video communication experts Winkball.com and has the backing of the Royal British Legion. It’s the first time that people in the UK have been given an opportunity to send video messages to troops abroad that are on active duty.
WinkBall’s team of fifty street reporters has already recorded thousands of messages from the public from towns across the UK including Guildford, Aldershot, Cambridge and Colchester.
Winkball Co-Founder Dr. James Ohene-Djan commented: “We want to encourage as many people as possible to get online, come to the site and record their goodwill messages to show our continued support and respect for the important job our brave and selfless young men and women do, no matter how far away they are. WinkBall.com is giving the UK a video voice which is changing the way we view news and share our opinions and feelings,” he continued. “Our campaign to take a message to the forces ties in with our wider aim to expand the idea of Citizen Video, so that everyone in the UK has the opportunity to express themselves and share their feelings online.”
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Co-founder of WinkBall.com, Dr. James Ohene-Djan and Harry Bucknall, former army Major who served in Bosnian War.
Notes to editors:
To add your message to the forces, visit WinkBall
WinkBall.com is a free, web-based, personal video communication service, which allows anyone to record, send and share videos with fri and family - privately. Users can also create and post content to video blogs and walls for private and public viewing. Video messages delivered by WinkBall.com can be accessed anywhere, anytime through a web browser.
WinkBall.com is also used by brands and organisations to share video content, which users can actively choose to watch and share. All messages sent through WinkBall.com are supported by targeted five-second advertisements, which are played at the end of video messages.
WinkBall.com is safe, simple and fun and makes video the best way to communicate well online.
Established in London in 2005 by Dr. James Ohene-Djan and Duncan Barclay, the WinkBall Project team has evolved to become a leading player in driving the future development of online communication.
Winkball.com is a London based company established in 2005. Founder Dr James Ohene-Djan is also a lecturer at Goldsmiths University and the technology is the latest social networking phenomenon to come out of a university campus.
It's the brainchild of creative computer scientist Dr James Ohene-Djan, of Goldsmiths College in London and Correspondent.com and is the first integrated video communications service based on video messaging.
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