Online video is a great way to humanize your brand and present yourself in a way that is easy for your customers to connect with. ReelSEO’s Tim Schmoyer and “viral video genius” Kevin Nalty aka Nalts offer up some great tips on how to use video to humanize your brand.
Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews. 
In her latest episode of the New Media Minute, Daisy Whitney introduces ‘Five Best Practices to Building a Loyal Video Audience.’ We’ve paired these five best practices with five tips of our own to bring you a list of ten helpful tips for building your online video audience.
Last summer YouTube released their Creator Playbook—an awesome manual for video creators about everything you need to know to maximize your YouTube success. The original YouTube Creator Playbook was chock full of great tips on everything from programming and producing to publishing and optimization, community, social media and more. Today they’ve released version two.
I had the chance to talk to two video creators—Jeremiah Warren and Kyle Roberts—who are using YouTube as a means of gaining exposure and attracting new clients. They shared their personal stories and offered up some tips for freelancers looking to grow their client base on YouTube.
I remember when I first heard the buzz about this “LinkedIn” social network. I imagined some upstart entertainment social network that would help me keep ‘up to date with all the in stuff going on in my community’. As the buzz continued to grow and the term started getting thrown around more and more, I checked it out, and was surprised to find a neatly organized and clearly focused social network dedicated to connecting professionals. It almost immediately made sense to me — here’s a place where I can develop my professional online persona.
Online course platform Udemy has put together a great infographic with social media marketing tips to teach startups how to leverage social media to get the word out. Check it out after the jump.
We’ve put together a list of five Tumblr tips to help you plan, set up and run your Tumblr blog for maximum success.
I have found a way to access my Google Calendar information on the Kindle Fire other than by using the web browser. Unfortunately, the solution does require you to spend $9.99 to buy a key to use Exchange By Touchdown beyond 30 days, but you can try out the app for a month free first to see whether you like it.
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Over the weekend concerns about Facebook oversharing was the topic of posts on Google+ and on blogs. The concern is over Facebook’s new “frictionless sharing” with apps that automatically share information to the service. An example is Spotify, which will post the names of the songs that you are listening to on your Facebook newsfeed so your friends know what music you are listening to.
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The tactic of scheduling tweets is often discussed by social media strategists across the spectrum. Even though each side of the debate may have valid points, I will argue that scheduling tweets can always have a positive outcome for your brand, if done correctly.
