A "How To Use YouTube" Video How To

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Once you’ve finished editing your video, make sure it’s less than 10 minutes, smaller than 2GB in size, and in an acceptable format, you’re ready to upload it.

* Click the button in the upper-right-hand corner of any YouTube page.
* Click the “Browse” button to browse for the video file you’d like to upload to our site. Select the file you want to upload.
* Click the ‘Upload Video’ button to start the uploading process.
* As the video file is uploading, enter as much information about your video as possible in the relevant fields (including Title, Description, Tags, and Category). You’re not required to provide specific information, but the more information you include, the easier it is for users to find your video!
* Click the ‘Save changes’ button to save the updates you’ve made to the video file.

It can take from a couple minutes to an hour for your video to upload to YouTube. If you’re receiving an error with your Upload, you might want to make sure you’re attempting to upload a file that’s recognized by YouTube. YouTube accepts video files from most digital cameras and camcorders, and cell phones in the .AVI, .MOV, .WMV, and .MPG file formats.

The next step will be to make your own channel! We will discuss that on the next posts. Enjoy uploading!

How To be Mark Zuckerberg Successful

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You can't afford to Not use Social Media

It’s all about having a captive audience - Published: Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010 

Consider this: Half of Facebook’s 400 million users log on daily, and the average user spends more than 55 minutes surfing the site each day. Twitter has around 75 million registered users. Millions more log onto YouTube daily. Then there’s MySpace, LinkedIn, Flickr and more.

Essentially, supporters say, social media lets you take your message to people instead of waiting for them to come to you. Many large companies maintain Facebook profiles or Twitter accounts with thousands of fans and followers.

But the number of small businesses using social media is, well, small. Some estimates say just 1 percent maintain a presence. A Citibank Small Business survey last year found that 75 percent of small businesses haven’t found social media to be effective during the past year. Some suggested that was because small companies have been too preoccupied with day-to-day operations during a recession and haven’t made social media a priority.

But many observers still see tremendous potential.

“Social media presents the opportunity to communicate with an audience on a regular basis in the places that they are in,” Broadwater said. “The Web, and social media especially, has this uncanny capability to pull people together around an idea or a topic so they can have a two-way, interactive conversation.”