Networking and Social Interaction

Social interaction is one of the most important things known to mankind.
This is no different via the internet, if you want to successfully 'get out there', you're going to have to network.
You have to branch yourself out, like a giant tree, with loads of different offtrails, spreading to unrecognised locations.

If you want to be successful at anything on the internet, a good tip is to involve yourself into communities.
I will once again, use my YouTube channel as an example.
I am signed up for basically every social network imagineable, im also a member of 2-3 forums.
I try and aim for well populated places, which are, of course, on topic for the niche i try to fufill.

Im signed up for a Call of Duty-based forum and the Official Minecraft Forums which are now owned by Curse.  These are brilliant places for me to branch off into, and everywhere i post on the internet, usually refers back to my hub, which is my YouTube channel.    Every website im signed up for has a link to them.

My twitter, tumblr, facebook, last.fm, bebo, myspace, foursquare, flickr, imgur, photobucket and all the forums im signed up for, are linked together and all refer back to my YouTube channel.

This is a clever idea, because it means you direct traffic to that main hub of origin, if all your profiles are linked to it.  Image signatures that have click-through links are amazingly powerful tools for forums.

Meaning you can post in approximately 50 popular forum threads, and if your signature is eyecatching, could catch the attention of all future traffic to that thread, now for example, on average, Minecraft Forum threads get amazingly popular, therefore, say i post in a recently released mod thread, and i get one of the first posts, and i have my signature there, below my post, it could be seen to around 10,000 people, which is amazing.

Social networks are powerful tools, so use them to your advantage.
The only real social network i use for its real purpose is Twitter, as its easy and effective, and its there to update people on the hub, that is, my YouTube channel.


I wish you all success and i hope you enjoyed the post.
Look forward to more.

Back to Basics

So Me and Arran are back to doing a Lets Play series together.
Might be a regulary updated one on my channel.

The videos i used to make with Arran were probably the ones i learnt how to make videos with.
The times we had on moarcast, and yeah, now ive learned new things, and are still learning, the videos have improved.

So hopefully, you guys enjoy it.
Thanks audience.  All feedback is appreciated.

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A Creative Outlet

Creative Outlets.

Most of us have some sort of outlet for our creativity, if that be art or sound or something along those lines.

I find that my creative outlet is YouTube, thats why, even though, i see it as my job, i enjoy doing it.

I of course, arent actually employed yet, but of course, thats an aspiration of mine, to eventually become employed by YouTube.

I have a lot of fun creating a lot of videos, i just love producing media and hearing feedback on how people enjoy it. It just fascinates me, its something i love to do. 

I also have the problem of explaining my hobby to people that dont understand as well, seeing it as a waste of time. I dont exactly think anyone has the right to call my creative outlet 'A waste of time', i mean, what would happen if that wasnt there for me to do? Id sit here, being uncreative, and rotting..  

Perhaps spending more time doing coursework, but what would be the point in the long run?

Id be doing coursework to improve my chance of obvious getting a good grade in my college work, where im studying for a Diploma in IT and Media, now, if i didnt have the good old 'creativity' firing up again and again, i wouldnt put that media diploma to much use, as im looking to become something along the lines of a Game Designer/Programmer, now that wouldnt be possible without creativity, creativity in that job is probably more important than the qualifications.

I have fun with what i do.  Which means im doing it right, and that i should keep on doing it.

You should all see eye-to-eye with what im saying, as our creative outlets should all be kept close to us.

And dont let anyone dishearten you.  Keep being creative.