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Many online video producers and marketers today have lots misconceptions about what whether or not they have legal permission to record video of someone and put it up online. If that describes you, then you might be interested in my interview today with Intellectual Property ...
We here at ReelSEO know that video is the best medium for teaching people how to do something, and the best means of retain that knowledge. Watch this 3-minute video I created with my own narration on how simple it is to create closed captions for ...
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) President Greg Lukianoff has protested Muskegon County's felony criminal charge of child pornography brought against 21-year old YouTube performer Evan Emory as "an overreaction and "at odds with Supreme Court precedent." Greg helped explain why local parents and ...
Legal assistance for online video marketing and other professionals is becoming increasingly important in our litigious society. So why are most attorneys and law firms still resistant to publicly sharing legal information with online video? Entertainment law and new media attorney Gordon P. Firemark addresses ...
You saw it coming to this over the past few weeks, didn't you? I have been writing a lot lately about "viral video" and "social video," and now it's time to give them the ultimate face-off. What's the difference between viral video and social video? ...
Controversial YouTube performer Evan Emory is back on YouTube. The singer gave his first public music performance yesterday on a local radio station, sharing new songs he composed while in Muskegon County Jail in Michigan. The video has now appeared on his own YouTube channel ...
The following is a list of all 2012 U.S. Presidential Candidates and their official YouTube channels. This list includes all individuals to date who have registered or formally declared their candidacy for President of the United States in 2012, have formed an exploratory committee, or ...
The age of forgetting is now over. Online video with social media has become the perfect vehicle for keeping the behavior of politicians on public record for everyone, forever. Because of the recent events in Congress, I am compelled to share some recent examples of ...
Should the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, which has been the basis for rulings around copyright infringement with online video and all other Internet content, have a 2011 makeover? I interviewed New York intellectual property attorney Robert W. Clarida about some of the problems ...
I interviewed Tom Dickson, CEO of Blendtec, responsible for one of the most popular YouTube video shows of all time and a pioneering example of how to be social with video in your own business. Tom shares his advice he has for others who want ...
Want to connect with the youth market, which uses the Internet very different from adults? Then who better to get inside of the heads of the lucrative teen market segment than entrepreneurial teenagers? I interviewed Daniel Brusilovsky, one such successful genY/millennial tech entrepreneur with accomplishments ...
In the final part of my interview with web video curation expert Steve Rosenbaum, we share some recommendations for you to gather and organize rich and relevant video content from multiple sources for your website – which can improve your search visibility and link popularity, ...
I continue my interview Steve Rosenbaum, founder of the video curation service Magnify.net and author of Curation Nation. Steve has been in the video curation business for decades professing for years that curation is the most effective way of marketing with video; and we share ...
What exactly is "curation" and how does it relate to web video marketing? To find out, I spoke to several curation experts. They explain why they consider it the best way to blend work relationships between machines and human beings to deliver rich and relevant ...
This week I had the opportunity to present at the Mediabistro Social Media Optimization Conference, with my presentation titled, "Social Video Optimization: Real Opportunities, Success Stories, and Winning Strategies." Check out my Slideshare presentation and some highlights from the presentation on what social video optimization ...
