Comments on: YouTube for Business

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:30:24 +0000

Sean and Steve, I think you are both right.

The definition of media is ‘a form of comminication that reaches or influences people widely’ and of networking is ‘the developing of contacts or exchanging of information with others’. and lastly social can be defines as ‘tending to form cooperative and interdependent relationships with others’.

Based on that I believe a number of these fit into both catagories.

Any of you know where the video author can comment back to people who leave comments to their videos? If they can then YouTube can be classified as both. I know people are using YouTube to drive traffic, sales and get subscribers to their newsletters which would lead to interaction.

By: Steve Dafnis

Steve Dafnis — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:14:10 +0000

Social media is one of those terms with a constantly evolving definition that probably started with the cave men leaving messages on rocks. Youtube may not provide the two-way communication of other “social media” but it still creates a message for us to see and hear.

Steve Dafnis
http://www.vzual.com

By: Sean Nelson

Sean Nelson — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:13:44 +0000

I think the problem is with defining what Social Media is. The term Social Media is used to represent networking sites like LinkedIn and content sites such as You Tube.

Rather than call it Social Media, the broader term should be the Social Web (not as cool sounding). Then underneath this you have:

Social Networking (sharing conversations): LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, etc.

Social Media (sharing content): You Tube, Flickr, Blogs, etc.

Twitter falls into both.

So back to your question I believe YouTube is social media. The nature of You Tube is for people to watch videos and share the content with others, thus its social media.

Just my two cents.

Sean Nelson
http://www.socialmediasonar.com | the Blog