Social media maven...

..or at least I'd like to be!

I've been told many times that I should make more use of FaceBook and YouTube. 

I've been on FaceBook for ages but it's not been a smooth ride. I think I've fallen into a bit of a trap of mixing business and pleasure in my personal FaceBook account. I did start a "ScreenCastsOnline Group" a while ago, but I've not really kept up with it.

FaceBook have introduced "Pages" to address some of the issues for companies and businesses to promote and communicate on FaceBook. This seems to be the logical way of both promoting and communicating about ScreenCastsOnline within FaceBook.

So this evening, I put together a "ScreenCastsOnline FaceBook Fan Page" and sent a call out via Twitter to see what could be done with it. At the time of writing, I've had 115 people sign up - all within the space of a couple of hours - amazing!

In that time I've linked the page to my ScreenCastsOnline Twitter account and added a "Fan Page" panel to the sidebar bar of this blog.

So I'll try and start to use the page for any ScreenCastsOnline related news and keep my personal Twitter account for… well just the daily stuff that I incessantly tweet about. We'll have to see how it goes but feel free to go over and sign up if you're a FaceBook user.

As far as the YouTube account is concerned, I was a bit perturbed that someone had already setup a ScreenCastsOnline channel. Oh dear.

The good news was that it was unused and hadn't been updated for months and had zero content. I quick email to YouTube would get me control back! Well, if I could find away to contact YouTube that is. No way could I find a contact address or a form to fill in.

Following some Twitter advice, I sent a message to the person who had setup the account. 

Within 30 minutes I received a tweet from the guy who was more than willing to hand over the account to me. 60 minutes later and I had the username and password (since changed as he was gracious enough to remind me) and I started to look at how the YouTube channels worked. There's nothing up there for now but I have some plans and I'll let you know when (if?) it's worth subscribing.

This Social Media lark is a full time job!