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Have you ever watched one of your favorite YouTubers and wanted to
do what the do? Well the first part of being a successful YouTuber is to
upload a video to your channel. In just 5 simple steps, you can be on
your way to Internet stardom!
Steps
1 Click Upload.
The first step would be to get to the page where you upload your
video. Once youre on the YouTube homepage and you have signed into
your Google+ or YouTube account, there will be a button on the top
right corner of the page. Click that button.
After clicking the grey box with the up arrow inside, your file box will
open on your computer. Select your video out of the file box by double
clicking the video.
After double clicking the video you want to upload, it will take you to
this page. On this page you will be able to add a title, description and
tags to your video by filling out the respective boxes that the arrows
are pointing to.
Click Done.
Once you fill out your information to your liking, you can click done,
which will finish the uploading process and your video will be on your
channel once the quality processes.
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Demand Media in May 2006 and now the sites are no longer affiliated
(Pack).
How-to articles have been dominating Internet culture. According
to an article on Keans library database, eHow offers how tos on over
5,000 topics (Cleland). Sager insists that because how-to websites
reach consumers earlier on in the purchase decision, [how-to
websites] are usually an attractive partner for marketers (Cleland).
WikiHow, which brings in approximately 10 million visitors per month,
uses a community of 75,000 volunteer editors dedicated to improving
how-to content (Herrick). WikiHow uses several different categories
with a total of 16,700 articles, where you can find tips on almost any
project (Pack). Jack Herrick, founder of wikiHow, insists wiki content is
inherently better because volunteer writers are passionate about their
topics and we allow anyone to continuously edit articles (MacManus).
According to the Social Media textbook we used this semester in
class, a case study discusses the importance of titles to grab a readers
attention in order to read your article. People who write any article to
be published on a website, including how-to authors, you must pay
attention to the power of title writing (Barker, p. 127). This case study
proves you need a powerful title to get people to click on your how-to
article. As an author of a how-to article, you must ask questions like
What titles grab your attention and make you want to read the
article (Barker, p. 127). WikiHow also now included a Mediawiki
Works Cited
Barker, Melissa S., Donald Barker, Nicholas F. Bormann, and Krista
Neher. "Publishing Articles, White Papers, and E-Books." Social
Media Marketing: A Strategic Approach. Mason, OH: SouthWestern Cengage Learning, 2013. 127-28. Print.
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2015.
Herrick, Jack. "Explore Google Services for Mobile." Google Developers.
Google, 23 May 2015. Web. 09 Dec. 2015.
MacManus, Richard. "WikiHow vs. EHow: Is the Wiki Way Better Than
Content Farms." ReadWrite. Wearable World Inc., 9 Dec. 2009.
Web. 9 Dec. 2015.
Pack, Thomas. "Can A Wiki Help You Master Almost Anything?"
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"WikiHow: About WikiHow." Wikihow.com. Mediawiki, n.d. Web. 10 Dec.
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