Re: Selling Out on Youtube (Video)

By Jose Uzcategui August 5th, 2009 Internet Marketing, Personal, Social Media 2 Comments

I came across an article titled “Selling Out on YouTube: vloggers weigh in on brand integration online” by Xiaochang Li, where she mentions a great ongoing conversation on Youtube.

Here’s my take on it:

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Challenge: Generational Communication Gap (video)

By Jose Uzcategui May 23rd, 2009 Internet Marketing, Social Media No Comments

If you’re here, reading a blog, using the “Internets”, and have tried to explain this stuff to people from other generations, you know it’s a challenge.

Even worse, if you’ve tried to make the generational leap with things things like Internet marketing and social media… the horror.

I came across this video addressing generational communication gaps on a blog post by Bruce Sharp (@brucesharp).

The video addresses the uniqueness of each generation and how to engage with them. Millenials, Generation X and Baby Boomers have different values and priorities.

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May 09 Personal Headlines (Video)

By Jose Uzcategui May 17th, 2009 Personal No Comments

The first week of May has been a rather eventful one – and I actually say that in this video. So I made a summary of all the things you’ll be hearing about when meeting me these days -  social media, business networking, career advancements, and family celebration news have come together.

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Captions on Your Videos Help Your SEO/SEM

By Jose Uzcategui May 9th, 2009 Internet Marketing, Social Media No Comments

I’ve already talked about videos on your site and how important it is for you to have one or two laying around. The problem is that, even though video enhances user experience, search engines and some visitors are not able to understand video content. That’s where captions come in.

Adding captions to your video will give search engines, hearing impaired and people who don’t speak your language the ability to read and understand the video.

When spiders crawl your site and they bump into a video, they only see your video’s file name (which should also be optimized) and move along. But if it’s a captioned video, (more…)

Why You Should Have Video On Your Site

By Jose Uzcategui March 30th, 2009 Social Media No Comments Please enable Javascript and Flash to view this Viddler video.

The rule of thumb is YES, you should have video on your site.

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