1.      Use QuickList to set a video aside for later viewing

Want to view several videos featured on the page, but need to put it off for later viewing? YouTube provides a handy feature to keep you from forgetting interesting videos you want to temporarily set aside. All video thumbnails have a plus (“+”) mark on the lower left side that can be clicked to straightaway send it to your current session’s QuickList.  Your QuickList can be found in a panel on the right side of any Video Viewing page.  Be warned, however, that this is only temporary, as all Quicklists are “flushed” away when the internet browser is closed.

2.      Mark videos as favorites

You can file YouTube videos to Favorites, much like how it’s done in Windows and many other browsers and applications. And unlike QuickLists, Favorites are saved and can be accessed every time you sign in to your YouTube account. In the Video Viewing page where your video is playing, click on Favorite to list it in that category. Every time you navigate to the Favorites page, the video will be listed. This is useful for the selected few that are indeed your favorites, because having too many in the list will make your Favorites page too cumbersome.

3.      Organize videos into playlists

Playlists are similar to favorites, where videos are saved for viewing whenever you want. But ordering videos into playlists goes farther as it can be used to organize all your interesting videos, no matter how many you have. Just click on +Playlists located among the options below a playing video, and you can specify under which playlist to file it. You can create any number of playlists but make sure to give it a descriptive name that is easily recognizable, such as “Rockin’ 80’s Music”, or “Joe’s Funniest Videos Collection.”

Your playlists will be displayed on the My Videos page, and clicking one will show all videos under that playlist.  All playlists can be set for 2 levels of privacy – “Public”, available for all YouTube users to view, or “Private”, where only you can view it.

I recommend for most things you keep them public so your fans and followers can also discover the cool videos you’re watching. This is useful to them because they may find videos they never would have otherwise. By doing this you build massive value in their minds and they view you as an authority for finding killer content. The more they trust you the better.

4.      Share YouTube videos

A useful and clever feature of YouTube that contributed to its widespread popularity is the ability to share videos. You could originally just “share” videos via e-mail, that is, sending the video’s YouTube link to e-mail addresses that you specify. However there are really cool ways to do it now, such as sharing it in social networking sites including Facebook and Myspace where the video is embedded as part of your post. After clicking Share, you will be given options where to share it, such as email, Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, and other supported sites. Just select your preferred option, enter your login details, then off it goes! You will be given the chance to put in some text or message that goes with the shared video and it is best to do so.

When you have a particular video that you want to share with other people, this may be used as an important tool. Whether it is private videos that you want to share with family and friends, company announcements, or marketing campaigns that you want to launch to the public, using this sharing feature is a valuable tool.

This is one of the most powerful new features of YouTube and gives you the easy ability to syndicate cool videos to your network on social networking sites. Quick and easy so use it.

Definitely put in a headline style text blurb. This should be interesting and tell your friends/followers exactly what the video is about so those interested in it will know it’s worth watching. And those uninterested with thank you for not wasting their time.

5.      Upload videos from your private collection

Last, but certainly not the least, where would YouTube be today without its ability to allow anybody to upload videos? The content in YouTube is so rich that any area of interest can be found in it, appealing to any kind of audience in any part of the world.

You can use YouTube to serve as a repository for sharing videos to family, friends, colleagues, customers, organizations, community groups, or to the general public. Whether for personal, entertainment, professional, business, or political purposes, it is turning out to be an indispensable tool for many. The possibilities for its use, along with opportunities, are practically endless.

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If you’ve been keeping up with my blog or the social media space for any amount of time you know that Facebook is getting lots of buzz and achieving exceptional growth.  Their buzz has outdistanced both MySpace and a LinkedIn.

Facebook Connect is also generating buzz right now.

The reason Facebook has achieved its status as the ‘go to social network’ is because of its perceived hipness and lack of spam.

I’d have to debate this less spam belief because from what I’ve seen, after using it for 19 months now, the spam has increased as time goes on. Guess it’s only natural the spammers go where the eyeballs are.

You may have seen my Alexander Alaric account and even may have been my friend because I had over 3000 friends in my account which were almost exclusively business contacts not personal friends I had met in the off-line world.

It was a networking tool for me to connect with people who are in the markets I’m in.

I even built up from scratch 4 groups with 500 plus members each.

2 of those groups, TaggZilla Internet Marketers and Google Social Marketing, had over 1200 members each. I’m told the groups are still there even though I can’t access them (I’ll get to that in a minute).

So I was bopping along enjoying my Facebook experience when…disaster struck.

Monday, January 12, 2009 will always be my own personal FB D-Day.

I was checking my emails and had received some critical communications from friends on some of my notes and my friends notes. FB notes are very useful and viral. So I went to FB to participate in the conversation.

And that’s when the unthinkable happened…

It gave me the message and I paraphrase “Your account has been disabled by an administrator”.

“No way, FB’s version of Apple’s ‘black screen of death’. This is insane. How could this be?”  I asked myself

The last time I’d logged into my account was early Thursday. It was now Monday so there was no activity (suspicious or otherwise) to warrant this unprovoked attack and shutdown of my account.

To give you some background, I first signed up and started using FB in July of 2007. Being an FB newbie I ran afoul of a couple of their stringent friend add and site acceptable use filters.

My account was warned and turned off once. So I had to contact the admins and ask what I did wrong and request they turn my account back on.

I didn’t know any better and they turned it back on.

Basically, I had been adding friends in groups I was part of too rapidly with the same canned message using Roboform.

They gave me the stern message not to add too many friends too fast or the account would be permanently disabled.

So I’ve been very good since then and had no further problems.  I haven’t had even 1 single day where I’ve requested over 10 friends.

I operated within Facebook’s guidelines, built groups using invites, and instead of e-mailing everybody individually I would set up an event and invite them to the event just like Facebook wants you to do.

So I was terribly vexed as to why my account got shut down.

And I started talking to my expert FB friends to see if I could get to the bottom of it and get ideas for a potential remedy to turn my account back on.

What I discovered after talking to my friends shocked me…

It seems Facebook is now cracking down on promotional emails to groups. This is quite odd because building a group within FB is basically the same as building an email list on Aweber which I use or any other service.

I’d been doing this without a problem sending out about 1 email per week to my 4 groups.

I guess now with Microsoft’s heavy investment FB is forcing any type of sales or promotional messages to go out through their pay per click advertising system or their social ads.

In talking with one of my contacts he said he’d seen about 8 groups deleted because the group admin was consistently sending promotional e-mail communications to those groups.

No word on whether their accounts were wrongfully terminated. Maybe I was singled out and selectively prosecuted with extreme prejudice.

The worst part is FB won’t tell me. They’ve given me zero info.

I had sent out a subtle e-mail communication with a link to an opt in page to all four of my groups on Thursday.

A friend of mine was launching a very useful and proven instructional course on Google’s potential game changing software Google Friend Connect and I wanted to help him out.

And Google Social Marketing Group was built to talk about and educate the members on getting maximum results from this cool and free software.

Unfortunately, I was unaware of FB’s apparent new policy disallowing promotions to groups and so I must have gotten snared by their filters and my account shutdown.

Last week I sent Facebook admins 2 emails and have gotten only radio silence in return. I guess my emails fell into a black hole or weren’t important enough to respond to.

That’s the most upsetting part. All the thousands of hours I put into the site and they can’t even have the common courtesy to tell me why my account was abruptly and wrongfully shutdown. And get it rightfully reinstated.

This is extremely unfair to me as well as the thousands of connections I’ve made and the people who count on me for the information I provide them.

If it was a published policy and blatant misuse of the site at least I could understand that. I did nothing of the sort because I wasn’t even on the site during the time my account was shutdown.

It’s like falling into a black hole where there’s no person you can contact to get your account back.

So my advice to you is to only add 20 to 30 friends per day, never send out e-mails to more than one person because you should be using groups and events, and don’t send out any promotional e-mails to your groups because apparently Facebook is now disallowing that.

Facebook is still a great and high growth platform with over 140 million users now. You’re able to reach out to influencers and the big boys in your market where if you contacted them by any other means you’d be pissing in the dark.

Just be very careful when you’re using it so you can avoid the fate I suffered and the thousands of man-hours now down the tubes because of an unpublicized policy shift.

Use it for making business connections and don’t spend time playing with your profile or “throwing sheep at others” or “sending vampire bites”.

Happy Facebooking and beware.

Oh, and you can really help me out by being part of the “Reinstate Alexander Alaric” FB campaign. Send an email to the admins at disabled @ facebook.com (obviously without spaces) asking them to please reinstate my account.

It’s the only thing I know to do at this point. It will only take a few seconds of your time and only a grassroots effort is likely to get any movement from them. Thanks for your help.

Originally posted 2009-01-20 21:10:13.

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During the weeks of January 19-23 and February 2-6 I had the opportunity to design a process and fill 2 positions for a small company client I do work for.

I’m not a hiring manager by trade nor did I have any previous experience in human resources.  All I had was my experiences as a marketer knowing psychology, how to get people’s attention in the Craigslist ad I posted, and how to begin with the end in mind.

Basically, the first thing I had to do was ask my client what kind of employee he was looking for, what the ideal qualities were, and then based on my own feel pick the person with the personality type which would fit in best at his company.

I also designed a survey using survey monkey which was a total of 20 questions.  You can see the first in questions at this link:

Job applicant survey

For me it was a very eye-opening experience and I want to give some of those insights to you.  Because I’ve seen what’s going on with the economy and all the fear mongering going on in the news.

But I also know there’s definitely suffering going on out there and you may be one of the ones affected and possibly even had your job axed or been laid off.

For one of the positions there were over 400 applicants to send in resumes.  For the other position there were 253+ resumes which came in.

After talking with a couple people I’ve heard most hiring managers or human resource people will look for the top five resumes and then go no further.

However, for me I want to make sure the applicants really wanted to work for my client and allow them to weed themselves out.  I feel this is much fairer to the applicant and to my client.

So I only look at those who completed the survey and for the first position there were 66 completed surveys and the second position there were 29 completed surveys.

I only took a quick glance at some of the resumes before the surveys came in and once I had responses to the surveys I only looked at the resumes of those candidates who look like a good fit look for the position.

I know the economy has caused great competition for the few jobs available so here are the things which stood out to me:

1. Include in your signature file your phone number and e-mail address and if you have it the link to your personal website.  This can be www.yourname.com and have your resume and other relevant details a recruiter would want to see.

I got very annoyed when I had a good candidate and I had to search through e-mails attempting to find a phone number.  Make it easy by including your phone number in your e-mail signature.  In every e-mail client I’ve seen today all you have to do is set this up once and it will be included in every e-mail you send.

If you worry about having it going out in regular personal e-mails set up a dedicated e-mail address just for your job search.

Make it a personal e-mail address with your name in it.  I saw some e-mails like JT@yahoo.com and others like SunGoddess@Hotmail.com.  Needless to say I was none too impressed with these.

The best thing you can do is have an e-mail like firstname@yourname.com.  This way you look like a serious business person.

2.  Extra credit — include a photo in your e-mail signature.  This is so important because out of all the e-mails, I received over 650 for both positions, only two candidates included a photo in the e-mail signature.  I definitely called those back and one of them hadn’t even filled out the survey.  That’s how important standing out is. And how powerful this photo tactic is.

This humanizes you in the eyes of the recruiter and bonds you to them giving you a far greater chance to get called back.

Remember the only two candidates who did this I called back, meaning 100% of those who included a photo got on the phone with me.  I can’t guarantee it’ll be 100% effective for you but I can guarantee it’ll give you a much better shot and you’ll definitely stand out from all the other applicants.

3.  In your dedicated jobseeking e-mail account turn off all spam filters so you can be 100% certain you’re going to get any return communication from potential employers you’re sending resumes to.  I had a couple of candidates I called who said they had never received my e-mail so didn’t know about the survey.

4.  When answering a survey or when you’re on the phone talking with a recruiter be revelatory in your answers and truthful.

5.  Have a YOU attitude.  It’s all about the employer and what you can do for them.  It’s about the value you can bring to bear for the company and the increase in profitability hiring you instead of anyone else will bring to the company.

6.  Be BOLD.  You want the position and make bold statements as to the value and skills you have to bring to the table which will help the company.

7.  Be super confident.  Answer any questions with confidence and go in with the mindset that you are the best candidate for the position and hiring anybody else just wouldn’t make sense.  You don’t have to be overbearing about it but definitely confidently answer questions.

Another neat trick is at the end of the interview ask, “What time Monday should I come in to get started?”

One of the candidates asked me this and it immediately jumped her into the top three spots for the position.

8.  Extra bonus credit — record a short 30 to 60 second video for the position explaining to the recruiter what you can do for their company.

Posting this on www.yourname.com is the best solution.  If you don’t have a website posted to YouTube and link to it in the e-mail you sent.  Include a link in your resume Word document as well as on your cover letter as well as in the e-mail body text itself.  Make sure they know recorded video to apply for this position.

None of the over 850 candidates had a video and I know this would allow you to stand out because I was looking for one thinking with that many candidates I’d have to see at least one industrious person who did this.  But I did not.

I can hear you possibly whining now “But they cost money and I don’t have a camcorder.”

That kind of scarcity mindset is not what companies are looking for.  Digital camcorders are so cheap these days and do a good quality job. With the lower priced cameras there’s no excuse left not to.

I saw a Flip Mino HD for sale the other day for $220.  I know anyone in America if they have the desire can get their hands on $220.  And the quality of video the Flip Mino HD produces is quite high especially for this lower price.

Bottom line, to get a job in this economy you have to really stand out because there’s more competition than ever for fewer spots than ever.

These tips are things I saw which stood out to me and which will definitely help you stand out to the recruiters and human resource managers you have to impress.

Happy job hunting and I look forward to any comments you have about tactics you’ve used to successfully get jobs or things you’ve done which recruiters have told you really stood out in their mind.

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Originally posted 2009-02-23 13:08:21.

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