Science Discovers Online Video and Social Media

Everyone is finding some benefit to using online video, even the scientific community. They’re not really using it as advertising and marketing but more as a way to connect with the public in general and help them understand where all that research money goes.

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Science Discovers Online Video and Social Media

Remixing Copyrighted Video – Fair Use or Infringement?

ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell asks Harvard Law Professor and political activist Lawrence Lessig, what’s in it for businesses to be more lax in their enforcement of copyrighted video based on fair use culture?

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Remixing Copyrighted Video – Fair Use or Infringement?

Local Marketing with Hyperlocal Blog and News Aggregators

Last year I did a short post on building links via local blogs . Looking back at that post I think it is quite limited.

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Local Marketing with Hyperlocal Blog and News Aggregators

Will John McCain’s Surge into Online Video Result in Victory?

ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell reviews Senator John McCain’s new user-generated video strategy on his website – the “video supporter wall” – being touted by his campaign as a key feature to winning re-election in the contested and heated Arizona Senate race. What lessons have been learned since their 2008 online video trouncing from team Obama?

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Will John McCain’s Surge into Online Video Result in Victory?

Legal Online Video & Fair Use – Sharing Versus Ownership

ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell interviews interview Dr. Shay David, VP of Business and Community Development and co-founder of the open source video platform and network Kaltura, and founding member of the Open Video Alliance, about what he considers to be the most important legal issues with open standards and technologies with online video today

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Obama Administration’s YouTube Contest Stumbles Out The Gate

Saying that you’re hip doesn’t necessarily make it true. The federal government’s web directory, USA.gov, is hoping kids and teens are the key to growth and success.  So they’re doing what any brand hoping to leverage that demographic would do:  they’re holding a YouTube contest.

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How Sorenson Media Supports McCain’s New Video Campaign

ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell interview the company behind Senator John McCain’s new online video program – Sorenson Media’s CEO and CTO Peter Csathy and Mike Flanders.

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How Sorenson Media Supports McCain’s New Video Campaign

John McCain’s New Website Video Campaign Strategy for 2010

ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell interviews Corey Vale, Internet Marketing Director for the John McCain 2010 senate campaign, about their new user-generated video content feature – the “Video Supporter Wall.” Could 2010 be the year that political campaigns on the federal and state level finally kick it into high gear with online video?

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YouTube Announces “Safety Mode” As a New Layer of Content Control

YouTube has announced a new feature they’re calling Safety Mode.  Safety Mode is essentially a new content-filter to help with the potentially mature content that doesn’t quite meet the established “offensiveness” standards.  That’s a fancy way of saying that Safety Mode will help you block out content that is objectionable to you but not so This is a post from ReelSEO Video Marketing . Permalink: YouTube Announces “Safety Mode” As a New Layer of Content Control

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The Impact of Tonight’s Live Streaming State Of The Union Address

As if you were not already aware, tonight’s State of the Union is bound to make history—perhaps more for its presentation and interactivity than for the contents of its message. A few weeks back, I breathlessly raved about how YouTube was going to live stream the landmark court case on California’s Proposition 8—and I was specifically excited about what that kind of thing might mean for the future (and legitimacy) of online video. Of course, the Supreme Court decided to steal my joy—and invalidate my article—by striking down that decision, ruling that the proceedings could not be streamed on YouTube.  I was a little bummed.

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The Impact of Tonight’s Live Streaming State Of The Union Address