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Re: Protected: 01 - Digg dilligence

johnkarnold — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:19:40 -0000

I have been in financial services for almost 30 years, so diligence is word and concept I am familiar with. It has to do with checking on and researching the company the people the market and everything you can find out about what you will be interacting with. In this case, DIGG. Social media and marketing is an investment. Like a financial investment, we would like it pay off. We invest our time and energy so knowing if this is the right place is important. Check out the dur diligence and see.

Re: 14 - Adding your FriendFeed

johnkarnold — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:35:17 -0000

Friendfeed is something I kept getting and had no idea what it was or why I should care. I have come to pay attention to what is up here. I know it must have value. It is my job to learn it and every time I do I begin to see the real world value. Friendfeed is another area that is beginning to make sense to me. I would probably never have done anything about with out this video. Now, I will.

Re: 13 - Setting up PayPal

johnkarnold — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:32:02 -0000

I never assume I know everything as I always find things I did not know. The best is finding something I did not even know I did not know. My wife handles our paypal accounts. Now I have some idea of the particulars of how this works. My job is to increase the income so what caught my attention was the "My Revenue" link.

Re: 9. Tools

johnkarnold — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:04:08 -0000

Really interesting and useful. I now know that Youtube has incredible tools to understand the audience. This understand the audience includes where they are coming from. What they are watching. If they are leaving when. We can actually see how people are interacting with our material. That is exciting. The coding information is amazing. Interactive video what a concept.

Re: 8. Strategy

johnkarnold — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:45:18 -0000

The main theme is adding value. What I want to ask myself is "How can I add value?" This means acting, commenting and creating good valuable content. Now that I want to add value, what do I need to do? Youtube has lots of tools and is a very complex system, but a system that can be learned. It would take me a long time to try and learn this on my own. Even if I tried, I would miss parts of it for sure. Collaboration has never been more important when using the internet than now and is the direction it is going. It is interesting that Youtube is following very old principles of giving. In some cultures form of giving is to give anonymously and not know who it helps. It seems that Youtube is rewarding giving by rewarding those that add value without asking for something in return. So we create valuable content and add value. This is how we do it.

Re: 7. Launching Videos

johnkarnold — Sun, 31 May 2009 14:49:08 -0000

This video reveals even more how complex, intricate and changing being found and in this being seen is. Everything is in motion. Nothing is static. The problem in SEO has been working with Google and pretty much exclusively with Google and Google's algorithm. Now,with socila media we have interacting algorithm/s from different places such as Youtube, Facebook and DIGG. Simon is testing how these algorithms relate and what happens when to your video, website or whatever you are searching as you interact with the social media. It is a whole new world on the internet. This is clearly shown on this video.

Re: Protected: 3. Channels

johnkarnold — Sun, 31 May 2009 12:48:51 -0000

It is good to have detailed instructions on what to do. Have you had the experience of buying something that needs assembly? It seems that the instructions are always not quite enough. I am sure they look great to a person that knows already how to assemble it, but seeing things through the eyes of the person that is doing it for the first time is different. Everything is easy when you know how to do it. It is the learning how to do it that is an effort.

Re: Protected: 1. Why YouTube

johnkarnold — Sun, 31 May 2009 12:43:53 -0000

Hi Bruce,

Great discussion. The way I see this is we give people the choice of how they want to find what they are looking for. I value text. I don't see video as replacing text but being another medium for people to get what what they are looking for. It is another way of communicating. When I am building a website, anything the person chooses to look or interact is the attraction. I guess what I am saying is if they are on the site there is nothing I would have there that I would consider a distraction or maybe a dis-attraction. I never know what people will be attracted to. I often think I know. I come up with stuff that I think is brilliant and will work great. I track it only to often find something that I put up that I didn't think was that great is attracting 80% of the views. That is what cues me as to where I should devote so more attention. In all of this, one thing I feel is key and that is doing something. What is guaranteed to ceate nothing is doing nothing. The excuse I often hear is "It is not good enough yet" or "We are still working on it" That is important when you are launching the space or writing a legal document, but accepting that I can make changes and that the internet is alive and changing means do something. I am modifying my work daily. When TV came out, it was predicted that was the end of movies. We see how that worked out. The beauty of the internet is that a person can choose on a moment by moment stream of consciousness interaction. It is alive and conscious.

Re: Protected: 6. Distribution

johnkarnold — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:49:15 -0000

This is incredibly practically useful information. I can see how people that do not know what is here will be caught off guard at some time. What I learned here on this distribution video is what I am jumping on to do right now. I can now see the future and it looks great. It is also a lot of fun and the internet like fun(ny).

Re: Protected: 5. Loading Videos

johnkarnold — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:27:53 -0000

Interesting seeing how the tag and key word strategies on Youtube on somewhat different than what I have used for years on for internet search engines. They are close but success is in the details. Understanding what people are doing by researching on Youtube is essential. Learning how to research and what to look for is very important and what is discussed on this video. It is an art. What is useful here is how this is not hypothetical, it is field tested.

Re: Protected: 4. Search

johnkarnold — Sat, 30 May 2009 19:59:33 -0000

Searching on the internet successfully takes skill, experience and is an art. There is so much on the internet and in this case on youtube that sorting it out to what is relevant to you is important. It is important to the person doing the search and to the the person with the videos wanting them to be found. Understanding search, meaing really getting in a working/playing with the search engine on Youtube is critical to understanding not only how to find what you are looking but knowing how to make what you are creating found. This goes into searching beyond the immediately obvious.

Re: Protected: 3. Channels

johnkarnold — Sat, 30 May 2009 19:40:17 -0000

If being found on the internet is important to you as it is for me, then this is a great way to enhance that. I did not realize how powerful youtube has become. This video helps me see how I can participate in the enormous growth of internet videos by making effective use of my channel. The information is a prcatical learning tool so I can be up, running and producing.

Re: 2. Getting Started

johnkarnold — Sat, 30 May 2009 18:17:14 -0000

It is very helpful to be taken through everything to get started. Mostly when I am using something, I quickly get some prices of an application. I then learn some more, but always there are parts I never get or learn. Sometimes, after years of using an application, I realize it has tools I could be using. This video exposes me to all the pieces and so hopefully I will learn all the tools of youtube not just a few. Very helpful.

Re: Protected: 1. Why YouTube

johnkarnold — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:41:54 -0000

I see a lot of discussion on sales copy, letters and video. Here is why I see the internet and good website as more effective than all of these. Watch your thoughts for a moment. Do you think linearly or do you thoughts go from thing to thing to thing and then maybe back to what you were intending to focus on. We don't think linearly. We wander and we attracted from one to another. A great writer, comedian, entertainer, speech writer and giver has a sense of the rhythm of thought. I see a website as a multidimensional fabric. A well done website allows and even encourages the visitor to interact with it as they choose. Maybe they want to skim and then maybe something attracts them and they want to know more. I greate website uses all of these and has space for the person to move how they choose. My websites are not pretty and yet they produce real business. It is not by accident but by many years of watching and listening as people move around and making room for them there.

Re: Protected: 1. Why YouTube

johnkarnold — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:11:23 -0000

I like this video. I like all the videos but this is why Iike this video. It frames what is to come. It allows me to make space in mind to learn more in detail about the pieces. It is like a picture of the earth. You can see there is land, water and depending on how far up you are, some detail. It gives me perspective. I listen and become even more interested in seeing the rest of videos.

Re: 03 - Digg

johnkarnold — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:59:42 -0000

The main concepts here seem to be to always add value, add content and be interesting, If possible be first. This leads to be identified as quality source, someone to follow and listen to. This comes from adding quality high value content. The internet has evolved where the world is the audience and the world gives recognition or not. So the issue is how to gain postive recognition (there is also negative recognition). The way to gain that positive recognition is to add valuable content. The strategy is here on this video in a practical field tested way.

Re: 03 - Digg

johnkarnold — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:30:17 -0000

I am seeing the evolution of self serving. I am seeing the model of the evolution of human consciousness evolving here. Self serving evolves from only looking out for oneself to looking out for the well being of the group. The individual rises only when the group rises and those wanting to rise without benefiting the group will just run up against the disapproval ot the group and so will not rise. It benefits me to find out how I can help you benefit and to do this without looking for a direct benefit back from you. This is an evolutionary social change being played on the internet and social bookmarking is like our neurons firing showing the way. It is pretty cool stuff too.

Re: 02 - Best Practices

johnkarnold — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:11:43 -0000

We always see different time periods having labels, such as the Rennaisance period or the Dark Ages. I wonder if people in those times has an awareness of what their time was about. We are in an amazing time right now. One of the amazing of things about it is how quickly we mover throught these times. In the past many lifetimes might go by in one period. Now it happens in years. What could we call this time? Maybe the End of The Age of Decption. Maybe the birth of transparency or visibility. In this video, I had a sense of the evolution of consciousness. There is a search to create artificial intelligence. This is usually with a single computer. What this video brings out is the birth of worldwide interconnected new consciousness. What appears to be happening is the web is modeling how our consciousness evolved. In this stage, we are evolving into a social consciousness. This is the web consiousness. In our minds we are always weighing things, making billions of choices at fractions of a second. In the new web as described, the web mind is doing the same. It is interacting and moving things around that surface as decisions. Most will not look into the mind to see how those decisions are being formed. They will go about their life unconscious to the world as it happening seeing only the end choice. Then there are those that want to be part of this consciousness and not just at effect. If you one those, then this video is a must.

Re: Protected: 01 - Strategy

johnkarnold — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:14:17 -0000

With every video, I realize how much there is out there to learn and how important it is. I really like the feeling of realizing what I don't know. Realizing that I know virtually nothing about social bookmarking is a whole lot better than finding my website dropping off the top of Google and being clueless why. The first step is the awareness. This is out there and its coming your way. It, in this case social bookmarking, can be a great asset. This is the people's internet which is very uplifting, if your a person. If you are a large corporation used to throwing your weight and money around to get what you want, then maybe not so good. So, I find my niche, which I have and go to work with social bookmarking that I am learning here.

Re: 05 - Messaging

johnkarnold — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:52:38 -0000

I have used automated/personal systems for years. Intelligent use of these can mean the difference between great success and simply giving up. This platform gives you the tools. Like any tool, it takes learning to use it effectively. This is spohisticated powerful tools which in skiiled hands can do wonders.

Re: 04 - Whos Who In The Zoo

johnkarnold — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:42:41 -0000

What I like here is that we are working with real, tangible events. There are people that have events, maybe a concert, maybe a party, maybe a seminar, maybe any type of event whether one that people go to or do online. It is real. There are millions of events happening worldwide, but how does the promoter let people and how do people looking find events. Some applied imagination is good here. What would I like to find that would interest me? What could I do that would interest others? Here is a way to do it.

Re: 03 - Adding Fans

johnkarnold — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:13:05 -0000

Fans takes on a new meaning here. I might be a Beatles fan, but to my knowledge, Paul McCartney has not joined my fan club. Fans in the "old way" was usually one way. Here we may be fans in many ways, some closer in contact than others. Our position is dynamic and varied. This is community in action.

Re: 09 - Disputes And Forums

johnkarnold — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:57:47 -0000

The important about this is, the way to handle situations is setup. There will be disagreements and disputes. It is a relief to know right up front what to do when that happens. It is also a relief to be able to check out to see if someone has a track record of disputes or not. Forums are important as people want to and need to talk amongst each other. Well thought out.

Re: 02 - Getting Started

johnkarnold — Sun, 10 May 2009 12:47:27 -0000

I really like having my preconceived ideas made visible to me. This way I can let them go and make room for the new. Eventslisted is not what I expected. It is so much more and better.

Re: 01 - Why Events Listed

johnkarnold — Sun, 10 May 2009 12:27:42 -0000

My generation was the first to grow up with television. I am now seeing more and more people moving into my market, health insurance, which have grown up with computers and internet. It is essential that I understand my market, not just intellectually, but really get it. For me, I want and choose to move easily in this market. Since I did not grow up with this, I look to find out how to learn this and how to integrate this in much the same way as learning to be fluent in a language. I want to be fluent in soical media and so I want to find the best course for that and this is it.