Educators are giving YouTube — long dismissed as a storehouse of whimsical, time-wasting and occasionally distasteful videos — another look. As Google, YouTube’s parent company, fine-tunes a portal that lets schools limit students’ access to selected content, the video-sharing Web site is gaining popularity as a trove of free educational materials.

Today, our first foray into education content, the 3 million+ viral hit “Fear the Boom and Bust” is headlining the front page of YouTube.com/edu! Emergent Order is in the process of developing a new wave of entertaining, original content aimed at transforming economics education as part of our EconStories initiative. Keynes vs. Hayek is just the beginning.

Since placement like this is typically fleeting, here’s a screen grab for posterity.

CLIENT: The Human Rights Foundation

Sunday, March 11 from 11am-12pm at the Austin Convention Center in the Austin Suite.

You can get all the details over at the contact page.

How do you top a groundbreaking viral hit like “Fear the Boom and Bust”? You kick everything up a notch, from the writing to the music to the production scope and quality. That’s what we’ve done with “Fight of the Century”, the latest original production of Emergent Order™. John Papola and Russ Roberts co-created this new installment for EconStories.tv. Based on the amazing media coverage and initial viewing out of the gate, “Fight of the Century” has the makings of another hit.

Emergent Order and our good friends at Spike TV recently complete a unique and interesting brand exercise. We traveled the country to create a short documentary series on the trials and tribulations of modern American man.

This short documentary series explores the real world challenges facing a diverse group of men.

CLIENT: Spike TV

Listen for the ring.

All this week, the team will be in Oslo, Norway, filming behind-the-scenes at the Oslo Freedom Forum. Here’s a description of this exceptional event focused on drawing the world’s attention to human rights:

This is a three-day experience like no other. The Oslo Freedom Forum provides a unique venue for pioneers and entrepreneurs in the realms of advocacy, business, academia, politics, media, and technology to gather and collaborate on how best to make an impact on the world around them.

Forty men and women—advocates for human rights, innovators, public intellectuals, and survivors of tyranny and oppression—present engaging talks to an audience capable of and interested in affecting change.

The Economist magazine, a favorite here at Emergent Order, called the Oslo Freedom Forum “A spectacular human-rights festival… on its way to becoming a human rights equivalent of the Davos economic forum”.

We’re honored to have been invited by Thor Halvorssen, president and founder of The Human Rights Foundation which created and produces the Oslo Freedom Forum, to participate and help raise awareness for such a moving and powerful global event. For more information, visit their website and be sure to note the incredible list of supporters and sponsors.

There’s more to come, so bookmark us and come back soon.