Official Named in Department of Homeland Security Reverse Sexism Suit Admits to Making Pasta

Dora Schriro. (NYC.gov)

New York City corrections commissioner Dora Schriro's name became a bit more familiar on Friday, when she was named in a reverse sexism lawsuit filed against Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Among the charges that Napolitano let her department operate as a "female-run frat house" was the allegation that, owing to her friendship with Napolitano and the Sisterhood Illuminati, Schriro was promoted to her current post over James Hayes, who filed the suit. Well, Schriro's in the paper again today, but the news is about gardening, not getting sued. By some strange coincidence, Schriro is the subject of this week's "Sunday Routine" piece in the New York Times, where she discusses the best pancakes on City Island, homemade pasta, and her love of The Good Wife (but not for Janet Napolitano, much to the Post's perverse dismay.)

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Advantages to Making Your Own YouTube Videos

Are you a fan of YouTube?

If you enjoy watching free videos online, from a number of different genres, you may be a huge fan of YouTube. Although many internet users only watch videos on YouTube, there are many who also post their own YouTube videos. If you have never done so before, you may be wondering whether or not you really should. To determine whether or not you should make and upload your own videos to the YouTube website, you will want to examine the advantages or the plus sides to doing so.

Perhaps, the biggest advantage to making your own YouTube videos is that your videos can be just about whatever you want them to be. Popular videos on YouTube right now include comedy skits, video blogs, how-to videos, and music videos from up and coming artists. Whether you want to make a video blog of yourself or if you and your friends want to just have fun with a video camera, you can do so.

Of course, when making a YouTube video you will want to use your best judgment. Although YouTube accepts videos on a wide variety of different subjects, you will want to proceed with caution. You should always be cautious of online predators; therefore, you will want to be cautious about divulging too much information about yourself. You might not necessarily think about it, but you also want to make sure that you don't record and post anything illegal on YouTube. It has been said that YouTube regularly works with law enforcement to help solve crimes. That just goes to show that you never really who is watching your videos or what the consequences for posting them might be.

Another one of the many advantages or pros to making your own YouTube videos is that it is relatively easy to do. Of course, you will need to have a video recording device. What is nice is that there are a number of different recording devices that you can use. For instance, many cell phones now come equipped with video recording capabilities. In addition to cell phones, you should also be able to use traditional camcorders or webcams. For the best quality YouTube video, you will want to have a movie editing software program. Movie editing software programs will not only give you the ability to preview your videos, before uploading them to YouTube, but you should also be able to edit them, if you would like to remove something and so on.

Once you made one of your videos and uploaded it onto your computer, you will find that getting your video uploaded to YouTube's website is just as easy. In fact, that is another one of the many advantages to making your own YouTube videos. Just like actually making the video itself, uploading a YouTube video is as easy at it can be. If you have never uploaded a video to YouTube before, you should be able to do, with ease. The YouTube uploading learning curve is so easy that you if you continue to make videos for the YouTube website you will be uploading them and sharing them with the internet community in no time at all.

Another benefit of making your own videos and uploading them to YouTube comes after the fact. After you have uploaded your videos to YouTube and they are available for viewing, anyone with an internet connection can visit the YouTube website to view your videos. This means that just one of you videos may be seen by thousands of people! In fact, if those viewers are registered members of YouTube they can rate your YouTube videos or even leave comments for you. This feature is nice because it gives you positive and sometimes even negative feedback; feedback that can be taken into consideration if and when you choose to make any more YouTube videos.

As you can see, there are a number of pros or advantages to making your own videos to share on YouTube. As you likely know, there are also a number of disadvantages to doing so as well, including safety. However, as long as you display caution when making a YouTube video or when talking with other YouTube members, your YouTube video making experience should be a positive one.

Using videos from YouTube can now earn you Adsense dollars at sites like TheVideoSense.com

If you'd like to learn more about this new method of sharing videos and making free money go directly to TheVideoSense and sign up.

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How to Start Making an Income Using YouTube Videos

Do not think you will upload a video and have it become one of the most viewed YouTube videos. It can happen that way but it is not common. Most videos that have large viewership also are part of a group on a channel and that channel has lots of videos uploaded consistently thereby creating a following. More about this later when I discuss promoting your video. First, let me point out the business of YouTube.

Users upload 35 hours of video every minute. YouTube has created the largest online video community in the world.

YouTube's revenue has grown from somewhere between $100 million and $250 million in 2008 to just under $1 billion in 2010 and its monthly global audience has grown from 344 million unique users to 500 million.

With numbers like that YouTube is an advertising haven to major brands. "The numbers almost did not make sense," said Adam Butler, a brand manager at Kraft Foods for Philadelphia Cream Cheese, after revenue had been raised by 5% as a result of 10 million views to their promotional video with 100,000 clicking through to the site. "It's bigger than TV" he said.

After you have uploaded videos that are hopefully funny, informative, entertaining or so intriguing the viewer can't look away there are a few things you can do to promote them. A channel is created for everyone with the account so you can customize it by changing the background, adding a theme with a color scheme, a photo of yourself and you can paste a link on your channel leading to your personal website or a blog. After you have this channel customized to your liking invite people to subscribe to it.

Sharing your video with friends and family through email with the share button is a good way to let them know you have a video and ask them to subscribe to your channel.

Video responses can increase traffic to your videos by leaving video responses to other videos in the same niche as yours. You can create a logo so that each time you leave a response you stand out more. It is like your avatar, it brands you.

Video sharing sites can boost your presence online. This works by uploading a video as you would except instead of going to just YouTube your video will be distributed to numerous other video sites as well. Two places you can do this are Tubemogul.com and Trafficgeyser.com.

Now that you have hopefully increased your amount of views you can get started on your revenue stream by becoming a YouTube Partner. The criteria are: original content, own the content, post regularly, adhere to the community guidelines and have thousands of views.

YouTube started its partner program in 2007 to encourage audience-attracting producers to create more and better content. It sells against their videos and gives them more than half the revenue. It began with just a handful of partners with the intention to grow to a massive global scale.

There are now more than 10,000 partners in the program and it is estimated that the top 350 to 400 have been able to quit their day jobs and earn a living off the platform. Some of the monetization tools that help boost revenue for partners are using annotations, tagging, related videos, response videos and playlists.

These tools promote an increase in revenue, viewership and interaction. The creators of these videos can interact with fans in a way TV cannot. Some of the successful top partners are:

Smosh, a sketch group;

Dane Boedigheimer, who has the number 1 web show, The Annoying Orange; and

Fred Figglehorn, the squeaky-voiced creation of teenage comedian Lucas Cruikshank, who made the successful leap to TV last summer with a hit movie on Nickelodeon.

These successful creators of original content often get Hollywood agents and managers. HBO has even picked up one of the skits from "Funny or Die", a channel that makes funny videos that feature your favorite comedians and celebrities. Founded by Will Ferrell, "Funny or Die" makes 25 videos a month with the majority getting hits from millions of viewers.

How-to-videos can make you a fortune and propel you to becoming a YouTube Star. For instance Michelle Phan has a multitude of makeup tutorial videos on YouTube demonstrating her beauty know how using her favorite makeup, Lancome. Her how to on Lady GaGa's poker face look has garnered 24 million views. Lancome took notice and offered her a video deal.

Similarly, consistent posting of YouTube videos on their skateboard tricks has propelled California 12 year old twins Nic and Tristan Pueshe into YouTube Stars. They started skateboarding when they were five. After years of hard work and mastering impressive jumps, kickflips and switch-stances they have been offered a movie deal starring themselves called Nic & Tristan go Mega Dega.

While there is no magic formula to having the most viewed YouTube Video the overall theme to becoming a YouTube Star, and leading you on your path to income, seems to start with doing something you love to do. If you start there your genuine passion and commitment comes across and that is what people will resonate with. Your passion coupled with great content helps people find value in your postings and that will keep them coming back and sharing your video with others.

More YouTube Video tips at TatumTalk by Annette Tatum. Here you will find tips on finding keywords, creating a promoted video, creating a video overlay, building an opt-in list and more.

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