All of the free training videos that we create are posted to YouTube on the Oracle Learning
channel.
This is a dedicated YouTube channel for free Oracle training content, populated with videos
by many different groups in Oracle.
We in the Linux OS and Virtualization Engineering group have posted hundreds of free videos
on Oracle Linux and Virtualization Products.
Our videos have links which you can use to take you to Free hands on labs for practicing
what you see in the videos.
And to make it easier to find product specific content we have grouped videos into various
product specific playlists.
So let’s go to YouTube and look for our content, in this case let’s look for some
of our Linux videos.
On the YouTube home page, we can do a simple search for the type of content we create or
even just one of our posted videos.
So for example we will do a simple search for Oracle Linux videos.
The results already show one of our videos in third place in the list, and more of our
videos also appear further down in the list.
To go to the Oracle Learning channel we can click on the image beside the channel name
shown beside each of our videos in the list.
It’s worth noting that many groups in Oracle are posting their content to the Oracle Learning
channel.
So to find our content among all these other postings, we can scroll down and hope to find
a playlist or video which has been displayed based on the channel activity.
But we have hundreds of videos already posted, so playlists specific to our content were
created so that people can easily get to view complete sets of related content.
You can click on the Subscribe button to ensure you are notified of any new videos posted
to the channel.
But beware this could also result in many unwanted notifications.
To look for one of our playlists we can click on the Playlists header to view all playlists
in the channel.
To find our specific playlists among all the others shown we can search in the channel
for example for the word Linux.
As we post many videos on this subject the results show many of our videos at the top
of the results.
And here the third result has our Introduction to Oracle Linux playlist, showing there are
17 videos in that list to watch.
We can see more playlists in the list also.
So here we could go straight to the playlist and start watching the videos.
But instead let’s go back to the home page first.
We can find content by sorting the content listed, with the Sort By filter, sorting by
date or we will take by last video added.
As more of our videos were added recently, we now see the Oracle Linux playlist in first
place.
Clicking on it will open the first video in the playlist.
On the right we can see the playlist title and list of videos in it.
If we have logged in with a YouTube profile, we can save the playlist as a favorite also.
For the video being played we can also save it as a favorite, and there is a share option
where we can copy a direct link to the video.
But let’s click on the playlist title.
Now we are specifically looking at the playlist and it videos.
Again we have a save playlist option, and if we wanted to share a link to the playlist,
we click on Share and copy the direct link.
To go back to the Oracle Learning channel we just click on the channel icon.
So here let’s do another search to try and find our content, again we will use Oracle
Linux to search.
This time we click on the Filter and use it to only show Playlists.
And here we can see the top three playlist results are our content playlists.
I open up the Oracle Linux playlist in a new tab.
And we can see the extensive list of free Oracle Linux related videos ready to be viewed
in this playlist.
Closing the tab we select the filter again and can remove the Playlist selection, and
we have back our original search list.
Subscribing to the channel we post to and the different playlists that our videos are
associated with ensures you get notifications when new content is posted.
But again, beware that channel subscriptions will mean you are notified when other teams
post content to this channel also.
The more you view and access our specific videos, the greater the chance that YouTube
will push these to the top of the search results, and offer similar content over others on the
feeds in your home page.
We have been adding links to playlists in the video descriptions, and also embedding
links to our playlists and other links such as to Luna labs, in as what are called cards.
These show up overlaid on top of the playing videos at specific points in the playback.
So we are constantly trying to improve how easy it is to find our videos using the tools
that YouTube allows.
We can only try to encourage YouTube to offer our videos at the top of feeds and search
results using different SEO methods.
But also by having direct links to videos and playlists available in many different
places, we are trying to ensure as much exposure and views in YouTube to help keep the videos
prominent and popular.
That’s the end of the video, thanks for watching.