Janet Fouts

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Video Curation, It’s All About the N3TWORK

Janet Fouts

Sure, you can search popular video sites like Vimeo and YouTube , but it can take a while to filter through all the videos available to find the good stuff. Some quick stats on YouTube usage: Youtube claims more than a billion users visit per month. Mobile use on YouTube is up almost 40% of the global watch time.

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Would you give up your passwords for a job?

Janet Fouts

When she opened the site and saw that his profile was private, she asked him for his password. Maybe it’s a mention of a great weekend away on a blog, photos on Facebook, Twitter or Flickr, a video on youtube of you being silly. You can even sign up for regular monitoring from sites like Reputation.com. So what to do?

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Do you syndicate your blog?

Janet Fouts

You see, lots of bloggers have their blog posts syndicated on other sites that aggregate content, and sometimes we write posts specific to a site just to get our names in front of more readers who frequent that particular web site. It’s like guest blogging, but more focused. Really it boils down to three things.

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Using social media across cultures

Janet Fouts

The major networks such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are typically used by people of many countries, so it makes sense to have a presence there, segmenting your channels by country. These social media sites have as many as 380 million and 120 million customers respectively. Choosing your networks. Qzone, Renren, Mixi and Orkut.

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5 Top Social Media Professionals on Google+

Janet Fouts

The user interface is getting better but it’s still painful to get in and out unlike sites like Twitter and Facebook which are very manageable through 3rd party apps. They will use Google+ content and serve it up in search results, and give it preferential ranking like they do now with YouTube results. AlmostSavvy.com.

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Social Media Drinking Games

Janet Fouts

Of course we’d seen it on YouTube. And then we talked about the things you don’t talk about on social media sites. I told her how I found an ATM in the sprawling Miami airport with Gate Guru , an iPhone app she’d told me about. We talked about Shirley Sherrod and the video. We lasted 15 minutes. And we did.

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Are you Blabbing up a storm yet?

Janet Fouts

Streaming right into Youtube is nice, to be sure, but I’ll give it up for downloading the stream from Blab or embedding it into my website. I’ve seen a substantial increase in followers on Twitter and Linkedin this month and I’ve only been using the site for a couple of weeks. Bottom line.