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This is YouTube channel for LinkedIn. You may find some of these videos interesting. In addition to the new "linkedIn grad guide," if you click on "most viewed" videos you will see a video from CommonCraft on LinkedIn. (Yayyyy!!)

"This is the official LinkedIn Channel, featuring videos of users, product demos, feature releases and interviews with key team members from LinkedIn's product, design and engineering teams."

"On this week's show, Nora sits down with Bill Wasik and Hal Niedzviecki to talk about why the heck we post regrettable videos on the internet. It's one thing to do the embarrassing or foolish or inappropriate thing, but it's a whole other problem when we record a video and upload it on YouTube for the world to see."

This site is hilarious- great videos about technology.

Cartoon video depicting Facebook, Friendster and Myspace applications

"In this video he gives a demonstration of how information (often from the web) can be over layed on top of physical locations." ... as if people didn't spend enough time completely immersed in their cellphones.

Web Site Story CollegeHumor's first Broadway musical since (LOL)Cats.

CommonCraft video on Meetup.com ... same simple "Plain English" formula describes meetup.com

YouTube help channel  - help videos produced by other YouTube users.

YouTube history, milestones, video statistics, top 10 channels (most subscribed).

"There are some things that YouTube can't do, or doesn't do so well. There are plenty of other high-quality video platforms with competitive features or specialized markets. We picked out seven of those options with a brief breakdown of what it is, and why you should use it."

Ok, this video is even funnier. It pretty much encapsulates all the ridiculous things about Twitter.

"Sam Bee says Twitter has become such a big deal because it's awesome and our rotting corpses are grabbing for its glimmer."

The material in this talk is the basis for his later writing in the book Here Comes Everybody.  | "In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning."

What types of news stories do consumers share and discuss the most? What issues do they have less interest in? What is the interplay of the various new media platforms? And how do their agendas compare with that of the mainstream press? To answer these questions, the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism has gathered a year of data on the top news stories discussed and linked to on blogs and social media pages and seven months' worth on Twitter. We also have analyzed a year of the most viewed news-related videos on YouTube. Several clear trends emerge.

"People often think about new technologies in task-oriented ways: how to access information, how to create projects, how to make presentations. But there is a more personal dimension to the role of new technologies in the lives of young people. In this session, Sherry Turkle and Henry Jenkins explore how young people, as they engage with new technologies, begin to change the ways they think about themselves, relate to others, and participate in communities."

Overview of Twitter by @ev - good for an introduction to the service, circa 2009.

Infographic with some nice nistory and demographics for social media students.

"More than four out of every five professors use social media. And more than half of professors use tools like video, blogs, podcasts, and wikis in their classes."

In the evolving ethical landscape of social media, what's the "line" for deciding when to share something related to a story? References photos and video of photographers killed in Libya, April 2011.

Clips of Jonathan Abrams on talk shows during the height of Friendster's popularity.

Recent Ted Talk from Clay Shirky presented at the Ted@State conference. Description from the site:\n\nWhile news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.