YouTube Confessions

Those of you that know me know that I purport to be one of those "social media experts." That's a funny thing. I've made my career in video - analog briefly and then online. I have a confession to make...

Just the other day I posted my very first video to YouTube. You know YouTube, right? Of course you do. What kind of new media superstar am I if I just uploaded my first video to YouTube?

Like most consumers, I'm lazy. I don't own a video camera. I'm not a big picture taker. I don't have children whose memory I'm striving to preserve. So why would I go to extraordinary means to get a video online?

I haven't seen my mother in a long while. I recently moved and I wanted to show her the deck at my new apartment. My mother isn't the most savvy when it comes to these things, so I knew I needed a super easy way to share my deck with her. I shot a quick video on my new iPhone and, right from the phone, trimmed heads and tails and uploaded the video to YouTube.

I was flat out amazed at how easy this was. Forget my experience, which was seamless, as they say in the biz, but, my mother's experience? Well, she didn't call me to ask why some crazy link I sent her wasn't working!

I love it; Posting things from the stupid to the (relatively) interesting.

A video of the NYC Water Taxi pulling into the Frying Pan near my house in Chelsea.

How about this? I was in a taxi, heading down Park Ave and saw the tell-tale flashing lights in front of me. I readied my iPhone and captured what seemed to be a pretty horrible car accident. FDNY, NYPD, stretchers and all. I was able to immediately upload the video to YouTube and then Twitter about it. I'm a breaking news bad ass. Safe to say, it's my top viewed video to date. Hope the stars of this short video are doing better tonight than they were earlier today.

The point is, this stuff is becoming, well... seamless. I'm pretty excited about that. Maybe a little late to the YouTube party, but excided none the less.