Your boss finally relented and gave in to a company Facebook page. He okayed your request to join “the Twitter.” But when it comes to the other social media sites of the world

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How to Teach Your Boss About the Social World Outside of Facebook & Twitter

Every week we try to bring you a cross section of some of the week’s best viral videos from brands and individuals. In most cases, there’s something we can learn and apply to our own video marketing efforts for every one of the examples–though if you’re only watching for fun, and not for any higher learning purpose, it’s fine by me. This week’s collection includes some crazy car crashes, incredible artwork, an adorable hummingbird, and much more.

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The Week’s Best Viral Videos & Video Marketing Lessons – Car Crash Edition

Whether you are new to social media or have been creating campaigns for years, listen up.

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Your Road Map to Social Media Success

There’s a lot of statistics to cover this week since several reports coming out about online viewership last month in January, so we take a quick glance at some of those. We also give you guys a quick overview of the changes that are taking place at YouTube regarding their continued move toward focusing on channelization. We also discuss if the ability to publish an update to your channel feed is actually a useful feature or not, along with many other things.

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An Overview Of The Recent YouTube Changes – The Reel Web Episode 27

Social Media Report Q3 2011 – Nielson Social Media Users are ACTIVE! (really active!) excerpt from Social Media Report Q3 2011 from Nielson.

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Social Media Users are ACTIVE! (really active!)

It’s virtually impossible to be in the automotive space and not have to rely on online video for promotion. While Twitter and Facebook are important to the automotive industry to get the word out on new products, shows, trends and news, online video brings out the enthusiasts.

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Automotive Social Media Marketing Relies On Online Video

Twitter announced changes in its privacy policies, which immediately raised concerns for freedom activists in addition to writers and reporters in other lands, who feel their ability to share stories, some that may be seen as ‘controversial’ by respective governments and authority figures, will be limited.  The reaction comes at a sensitive time for most Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal

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Twitter Actions Receive Seesaw Reactions

Christmas 2011 brought the welcomed return of the Old Spice Man, in his new re-incarnation as MANta Claus. MANta Claus, played once again by Isaiah Mustafa – the former NFL player turned actor – was on a holiday campaign to give a gift to every single person on the planet. All 7 billion of us.

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Look At Your Viral Video, Now Look Back At Mine – What Helps Old Spice Succeed?

While I’ve been doing some prognosticating of late, I’m not the only one, nor am I probably the most informed, so it’s always interesting to see what others are predicting for the year to come. The Videomind blog over at Ooyala had some interesting things to say and some of them, even lined up with what I said.

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VideoMind Predicts Top Online Video Trends Of 2012

Along with talking to people about online video advertising in 2011, I also asked around about how many thought the year went for online video in general.

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2011 Online Video In Review – Industry Leaders Reflect On The Year’s Trends