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10 Things You May Not Know About YouTube

10 Things You May Not Know About YouTube | SOCIAL MEDIA, what we think about! | Scoop.it
Social media verse is full of some best kept secrets. YouTube is one of them. Yet when I think about cultural shifts enabled by social media, YouTube is the place that comes most vibrantly to mind. It's big, wide and deep.


In my last post I mentioned that the social media ‘verse is full of some best kept secrets. YouTube is one of them.


This Time cover from a couple of years ago (with the shiny mirrored screen) was prescient, but not quite enough… I’d cross that ‘You’ out and say ‘Us’. Hasn’t it felt that way these last couple of years? How we’ve grown a global collective consciousness?


Despite this cover, YouTube is not usually the first site that comes to mind when thinking about social media. I guess we take it a bit for granted while we wax rhapsodic about Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr and Quora. Yet when I think about cultural shifts enabled by social media, YouTube is the place that comes most vibrantly to mind. It’s big, wide and deep.

Mature. Eccentric. Probably not what you think it is.


YouTube has its Own Language


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Tico Juliani's comment, June 30, 2012 5:57 PM
This writing on this article had lots of words..but i did not get one real message out of it ..or what it was really about!!!
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How to Create and Grow Your Influence on a Global Social Web | Jeffbullas's Blog

How to Create and Grow Your Influence on a Global Social Web | Jeffbullas's Blog | SOCIAL MEDIA, what we think about! | Scoop.it
We are living in a world where influence is migrating from offline to online.


The ability to influence is also moving from local to global. Its reach is also transitioning to mobile devices.


Reputation and influence can now be gained faster and reach further than in any other time in history.


One definition of Influence is “the capacity to have an effect on the character, development or behavior of someone or something”


To be truly successful you must have the ability and power to influence.


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John van den Brink's comment, April 27, 2012 4:38 PM
Martin, thank you for this one!
Martin Gysler's comment, April 27, 2012 4:52 PM
You're welcome John. Indeed, Jeff Bullas blog is full with very interesting stuff.
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Screw Overnight Success: How to Really Build Long-Term Growth Online

Screw Overnight Success: How to Really Build Long-Term Growth Online | SOCIAL MEDIA, what we think about! | Scoop.it

“Actually, I’m an overnight success. But it took twenty years.” – Monty Hall

 

There’s no shortage of overnight success stories on the web. Google “make money online” and you’ll be flooded with sleazy ads promising thousands of dollars of income per day if you just buy their product. For those of you who may be new to the internet business game, it can be intimidating and even off-putting.

 

Despite what the ads will tell you, very few business people earn a comfortable living after a few days or weeks in business. A more reliable – and more profitable – way to approach your business is with a long-term plan. When you’re patient, you’ll be more likely to build a thriving audience that’s ready to support your work...

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The Right-brain Thinker’s Guide to Beating Blogger’s Block

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In his 2009 book A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink explained that the new world of business is a great place to be a right-brain thinker. Right-brain thinkers are the creators and the empathizers. If you’re a blogger, you are probably a right-brained thinker … and you probably deal with blogger’s block on occasion.


What is blogger’s block? It’s what happens to all bloggers as they try to crank out new, original posts day after day: they eventually run out of ideas. Ever struggle with that?

 

However, have you ever thought about using your very own creative quirks to generate blog post ideas? Following is a list of qualities that right-brain thinkers have and tips on how you can use these qualities to break those moments of blogger’s block and kick out some great blog posts...

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