As Loren explains, "The simplest (way to create a video domain) is launching a Wordpress Blog and then embedding your YouTube, Google Video or other video sharing service commercials on the blog, one for each post, with a unique title tag and description for each post. These services let you launch a 'YouTube clone' and offer various templates and plugins, similar to the strategy behind Wordpress." Social Tagging How can online video help with SEO and online reputation management ? Which social bookmarking sites have the most clout? Can social media really increase revenue? MORE >>

Imagine a production line employee asking a question online and getting a direct response from an auto company executive on Twitter or YouTube—instantly and publicly, with no filtering through layers of management or labor spokespersons. Social Tagging Roxanne Darling at Bare Feet Studios recently wrote an outstanding piece on the use of social media at Ford. She recommends new initiatives (such as getting executives using Viddler to answer questions directly from consumers) as well as building on the social media efforts already being led by Scott Monty. MORE >>

That's why "how to create a viral YouTube video" has had about 17,000 views, while Harry Potter and the mysterious ticking noise has had 54 million. Respect: most people understand that if you've created a viral campaign for marketing purposes, especially in the b2b world, you're going to ask for contact information at some point. Embed code, "email this" and social bookmark site tagging buttons are examples of simple ways to increase pass along. Put another way, there is no magic formula for producing a viral campaign, you just have to try different concepts. Nuff said. MORE >>

sites fall into one of a few increasingly well-defined categories, such as social bookmarking (Digg, del.icio.us, Searchles), social networking (LinkedIn, Facebook) or file sharing (YouTube, Flickr, podOmatic ). Twitter, microblogging platform, Twitter lexicon, Jennifer Laycock, Johnny Makkar, Bill Hartzer, Twitterbation, Chris Brogan, Jeremiah Owyang, MindValley Labs, Ellie Mirman, HubSpot, Miguel Cancino, reputation management Contact Tom Pick: tomATwebmarketcentralDOTcom Most Web 2.0 Twitter, however, stands alone. Okay, there's also Pownce , but Twitter is better.) variety. MORE >>

In the latest installment of Outside the Inbox, Jared Reitzin of mobileStorm reviews some recent research studies and asks, when it comes to participation in social media (blogging, uploading videos to YouTube, etc.)—are tags: Outside the Inbox, Jared Reitzin, participation in social media, Sanjiya, American Idol 6 - Chris Sligh - Typical icerocket tags: Outside the Inbox, Jared Reitzin, participation in social media, Sanjiya, American Idol 6 - Chris Sligh - Typical Contact Tom Pick: tomATwebmarketcentralDOTcomCheck it out. What, like they could do worse? Sanjiya—creepy. MORE >>