Essential Tips for HAI Fellows: Organizing YouTube Playlists
Professor Bear's quick onboarding reminder to HAI Fellows: every new video needs to land in the right YouTube playlist so volunteers can find it later.
A good video is only useful if the people who need it can actually find it. That is the entire premise behind this short onboarding note from Professor Bear to Humanitarians AI Fellows, prompted by a genuinely nice video the media team put together on Adobe Rush that nobody could locate afterward, because it had not been added to a single playlist.
The problem with an unplaced video
Someone on the media team produced a solid walkthrough of Adobe Rush, a video editing tool, but published it without placing it into any playlist. That single missing step meant the video effectively disappeared for anyone who wasn't already watching the channel closely. Professor Bear frames this as a recurring issue worth calling out directly: the content itself can be excellent, but if it isn't organized, it fails at its actual job.
Two obvious audiences, two obvious playlists
The Adobe Rush video has two natural audiences at Humanitarians AI. First, the volunteers who are nearly all making videos themselves and need to learn editing basics, which points to the HAI Fellows playlist. Second, anyone curious about the tool itself regardless of role, which points to a more general "nerd stuff" playlist. Professor Bear's guidance is simple: when a video clearly serves an identifiable audience, put it where that audience will look.
Why the HAI Fellows playlist matters most
The HAI Fellows playlist gets singled out as the one that matters most, because it is the shared reference point new and existing fellows are expected to check before asking a question that has already been answered on video. Without consistent playlist placement, the same basic explanations end up getting repeated over and over, which wastes time for everyone involved. A well-maintained playlist turns one good explanation into a resource the whole team can reuse indefinitely.
Adobe Rush as a practical starting point
Beyond the organizational lesson, the video also flags Adobe Rush itself as a genuinely useful recommendation: it is free for Northeastern students and offers a free version for anyone else. For fellows who are new to making videos, this is presented as a low-barrier way to start editing without needing a paid subscription or specialized equipment.
Key takeaways
- A video's usefulness depends on where it gets placed, not just on how good the video itself is.
- New videos should go into every playlist that matches their actual audience, not just one.
- The HAI Fellows playlist is the shared reference point meant to prevent repeating the same basic explanations.
- Adobe Rush is a free (or free-tier) editing tool worth trying for fellows just getting started with video.
Who this is for
This video is aimed squarely at Humanitarians AI Fellows, particularly anyone new to the media team or about to publish their first video to the channel. It functions as a quick standards check: before you consider a video finished, make sure it's actually been added to the playlists your teammates will look in.
Full transcript(auto-generated, with timestamps)
[0:00]Hey, Professor Bear here. Another basics video. So, the MIDI team, I don't know who did it, put up a nice video in Adobe Rush. This has a couple audience. One is for our volunteers. They're nearly all making videos. However, this video was not added to any playlists. Obviously, for humanitarians fellow is an obvious playlist for this. I'd also say sort of nerd stuff, which is like anybody who wants to use Adobe Rush. That's an obvious one. So, media team, when you put a video up, put it in the right playlist. So, what's nice about this video is it looks like a nice video. It's an important video for us
[0:47]Because uh we need to get people making videos and uh Premier Rush is free for Northeastern students and it's free for everyone, I I think you get a free version for any everyone. Uh so that's you know good good uh job there. But when you put it up add it to playlist particularly the HI fellows playlist. This is a playlist which everybody should go to to learn how to do stuff so we're not repeating over and over and over and over and over and over and over again how to do basic things. So that's it. So, I'm going to make these little basic videos until
[1:26]People do it right. But, you know, watch these videos going forward. A lot of my my um answers to question, go to the YouTube, look at the YouTube, the videos there on the YouTube. Okay. Uh talk to you later. Uh see you later.
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