As an example I used Tim Brownsons – How to Be Miserable video to show how you can showcase your favorite You Tube videos.

To make your videos go viral there are great options from You Tube. The more activity a You Tube video gets the more popularity it gains within the network:

Share – Hit the You Tube share option and you can add videos to Mixx, Myspace, Facebook, Digg, send it to all your contacts on You Tube, email to friends and even blog it!

Favorites – When you favorite a video it will automatically show up on your channel. I usually copy and paste the URL and make it my main video on my channel as it’s the top vid for people to see. The more it is a favorite the more buzz it will create in the You Tube network.

Rate it! – See those little red stars under the main video on the left? Make sure you rate videos for maximum exposure.

Commentary – Oh yes the comments area. The more comments you give and get the more activity the video generates within the network. You may see vids on You Tube home page that are popular today today known as ‘Rising Videos’, most talked about, etc. Comments really help your video get a boost.

Thumbs Up - Use the thumbs up (or down) options for comments you find to be beneficial to the conversation.

You Tube is all about the buzz so the more activity a video has the better chance it has to get more views.

You Tube Tips:

• Views: There is speculation that YT alters their ‘hit counter’ for videos. Your hits are not going to show up right away and may even take a few hours for the information to populate. Be paitent and keep promoting your video.
• Update your channel frequently by adding videos, commenting on channels and sharing great content.
• Make your own videos. If you don’t own a video camera you can make what is called a montage, which is a collection of images. Go to Flickr and ask members if it is okay to use their photos. I have always gotten the ‘green light’ when I ask. Just add their name or Flickr profile to the credits.Other forms of images can be screen shots, your own photos and manipulated images from the web. MS Paint is your friend and is good for text images. Make sure you read up on Fair Use laws as You Tube does not tolerate copyright infringement. Edit your images in Microsoft Movie Maker that came with your PC or iMovie for Mac or other free and simple editing software.

Have fun with You Tube as it is a great way to be social and make your content go viral!

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Sites that scrape your content.

You know I am flattered that someone copied parts of my blog word for word without giving me credit. They also copied Yaro Starak and Zac Johnson so they have at least been doing their research in a blogging sense.

Here is how I have been handling the situation. You get the bits and pieces here first then I’ll do a full post when the whole process is done.

Copyscape – Gerald from Search Engine Marketing Group sent me his post Combating Online Plaigerism and I thought well I’ll check Copyscape for fun. Now I’m glad I did!

I found a money blog site and it copied two of my posts (as far as I know right now) Blog Marketing Tools and Blog Traffic: How to Get It! word for word with no links back to my site. Not only that, all the links that I had mentioned to my Twitter and Technorati profiles they switched to theirs!

Copyscape gives you five free searches per month and what I suggest if you have a blog is to do each page individually. After that it is five cents per page to sign up for Copyscape which is totally worth it.

So there you go. Copyscape to the rescue.

Making Contact – Unfortunately this blogger did not have any contact info and I did not want to leave a comment because I would have to reveal my Blogger identity and I was not interested in doing that. Read on to see the next part of the story since I was unable to contact him.

Google and Copyright Infringement – If you read the post Combating Online Plaigerism you will see a link to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Basically you send hard copies of proof that someone is using your intellectual property well beyond fair use to Google and they will investigate. I’m still in that process and wanted to do something immediately…so I contacted…

Technorati - They were using Technorati and Performancing Ads so I decided to contact these two companies and see what their policy was for members who swipe content. Performancing Ads was unable to do anything as it was not in their policy to police certain blogs in their network, which I’m totally okay with. It was worth a shot.

Technorati on the other hand sent me a nice reply email that they do not tolerate copyright infringement by their users and to please send them more info. I did and what I was told a few days later was the blog in question had been removed for “lack of original content”.

Yippee! Sucess.

So this is just the beginning. I now have Technorati to back me up a little to offer up to Google that they also found the blog in question…questionable.

So don’t let people scrape and steal your intellectual property! Do something about it today!

If you really missed Friday Social which I hope you did. Here are the last few to take a look at:

Friday Social – Crystal Hapiness
Friday – Keep in Touch

Have an awesome weekend and if you haven’t signed up for Twitter yet do it today too!

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It’s 2009 here folks. Highly qualified people are scrounging for employment, and although I love Twitter and don’t know ‘Crystal’ or the Twitter admin personally but FTW? Let’s hope this did not hurt any chances they have for funding.

Yes I openly admit that is my comment on the article. Obviously!!!

Wake up lame password holders!

Mr. Tweet
What a gent he is and a hard worker too.

If you haven’t hired Mr. Tweet yet give him a shot.

He makes suggestions who in your followers list you might want to follow back. This was highly useful for me as I also liked the suggestions of who I should follow ‘outside my network’.

Although there are a few people who are big names on Twitter I refuse to follow because they suffer OTS = Over Tweet Syndrome, I have found some great new Twitter’ers to follow from Mr. Tweets advice.

Thank you Mr. Tweet!

Twitter’er of the Week
Drum roll please…! Baddabaddabaddabba….

Alexandra aka Earthshod is Twitter’er of the week!

Ordained clergy, tea leaf reader, Twitter user! Check out her site as she is based in Washington State:

Earthshod.com – Book a Crystal Ball reading!

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If you have written about Twitter and would like to be added to my Welcome! post let me know. I’m looking to have around 10 blog posts about Twitter and I’ll add a link to your Twitter profile.

Right now I’m updating Blog Marketing Tools which seems to have resurfaced in the search engines and barely made it to my top 10 posts. I’m adding which of these sites are dofollow. It can be really helpful in deciding which sites you should pursue to get maximum payoff for your marketing efforts.

Speaking of Blog Marketing Tools…

This week on Twitter it was brought to my attention to be on the lookout for people scraping or ripping your blog content. You can read the post by @the_gman here:

Combating Online Plagiarism – SEMGroup.net

I used Copyscape out of curiosity and sure enough there was a money type blog that blatantly ripped Blog Marketing Tools word for word, even the little notes, not providing credit or a backlink to my site and they also ripped Blog Traffic: How to Get It! Again no mention or back tracks, or backlinks as to where the content came from or who wrote it.

What I have done is taken comparison screen shots of their blog and my blog. Since the blog does not have a way for me to contact them I have no other choice but to go straight to Google in the matter.

So I suggest you read the plagiarism article and investigate to see if other bloggers are biting your material and calling it their own.

Also make sure you have a way for people to contact you for obvious reasons. Even if it is just a little mailto: script do it. Not that you are stealing content but you never know when someone needs to make contact in regards to your blog.

Any how…Have a great weekend, Friday Social will be out again next week. If you are on Twitter and want to be the Twitter’er the week, be the first one to Tweet me and you will be it!

If you have social media posts that you have written those can possibly be added as well.

Have a great blogging day!
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Social Networking Sites for Business Use, Employment Opportunities
Here is a report from The Examiner which social media site to connect with if your looking work opportunities.

Out of touch…

Huffington Post Doesn’t Pay it’s Bloggers

“Ken Lerer, who worked as an executive at Time-Warner before helping to launch the Huffington Post, explained to USA Today that the company has no plans to begin paying the bloggers at the Post. In his words, paying contributors is “not our financial model. We offer them visibility, promotion and distribution with a great company.”

Wow now that sounds like a great company.

5 Social Media Trends to Watch Out For
Get ready to geek out when it comes to social media.
Five social media trends from five social media experts.

Twitter’er of the Week
Ta Da! It’s @GlobalPatriot follow him ASAP!
Global Patriots Site: http://globalpatriot.com
Recent Post: Andrew Revkin – The Story on Climate Change

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I needed a happy picture to offset some of the sadness in the following links.

Some interesting ways that Twitter is replacing the news:

Mumbai Terror: First Reports on Microblogs (Web 2.0 Bombay Blast on Flickr)
Why settle for filtered second-hand information when you can hear and see it from the real source.

CNN Ruins Olympics for Twitter Users
Twitter – an unfair advantage here I dare say.

The Obama Campaign – Wired

Twitter: The World’s Biggest 24 Newsroom
More on Mumbi and yes Twitter gets more places than a news team probably could.

Thailand: Airport Takeover and Twitter
What Thailand Twitter’ers had to say about a coup.

Friend or Follow
Who are you following that is not following you back? For shame!

Twitter’er of the Week!
Ta-DA! It’s HenchmanMike!
Mikes Blog: A Lust for Life
Latest Posts: Eat Dim Sum & Do a Zine (two of my favorite pastimes)

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Any how…

Part of the issue I see online are all these fancy tools and sites and you don’t know how to use them. A bigger secret than that is you have to automate.

If your new or not so new to blogging behold the mysteries of social bookmarking.

What is Social Bookmarking. Tell Me the Secrets!
Social bookmarking is the easiest ways to get one way backlinks to your site.

After every post I hit up my Shareaholic button and then go to Social Marker. Make this automatic!

Social Marker is really nice since there is the option to choose only dofollow sites. I suggest posting to more than the dofollow sites but the magic lies in two areas: one way back links and front page.

The most popular front page to be on is Digg of course but don’t pass up other sites like Del.icio.us and as I mentioned Mister Wong which has an amazing PR 8. You can pick up some quick traffic but more important is the more people who publically bookmark your site the better. You get backlinks from all those users including your own bookmarks.

What is the other secret?
Social bookmarking. Social equals friends. Make friends two ways by either doing a search on bookmarking sites for those who have similar interest or add your user profile to your posts, links on your blog or in your signiture when you are commenting on other blogs.

It’s pretty simple to automate these things and if you do it at least once or twice a week for a grand total of about 10 or 20 minutes you will get more traffic and links to your site.

So there you go. At least one hour this week go bookmark some posts! If you need help leave me a comment and I’ll walk you through it.

Twitterer of the Week!
It’s Brewmeister-master Deege!
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