Those of you who know me know that I love computers, marketing,
internet, social media. I consider myself a student always.

I’ve started a simple how to site that soon will be a membership
site. All of the videos will be shorter than 5 minutes and some are even less than a minute.

I’d love it if you’d visit SimpleHowToVideos and let me know what you think.

I’m not sure if this will always stay a free site…but for now it is. So hop on over and let me know what types of how to videos you’d like to see.

Currently I’ve only got about 7 videos–but trust me I have 100’s more to add.

I have been meaning to share this cool website with you. For those of us in social media we know the importance of “owning your own name”. We know the value of our virtual real estate (VRE).

How many sites do you own your name on? Check out NameChk just enter your name–and you’ll see if your name is already taken. I did mine and phew do I have my work cut out for me!

I am still amazed at the people who are using copyrighted and trademarked material for their YouTube videos. Come on people are you nuts?

Why go through all the trouble of creating this incredible channel only to have it shut down? Here are some tips that I follow when creating my videos:

1. I don’t shout out to the world that my MLM is the bestest–I used to until I learned better–here is your lesson. Don’t do it.

2. Talk about you, your passions, your family, your ideals, you experiences; everything BUT your freakin’ MLM. It’s ok on your blog–NOT blasted all over YouTube.

3. Stop “stealing” music–I don’t care if the song fits just right or not! Your channel will eventually get shut down.

4. Have fun. Let people get to know you.

Remember that you are the director, producer, actor/actress of your own online TV channel. If you’re one big commercial people will change the channel.

So what is the alternative for music? Well, I am so excited–I found an incredible resource for music. Visit Kevin’s website Incompetech.com

O.K. now follow his guidelines and give this guy credit! And please, please, please send a donation! Even if it’s a small one–send something. This guy has put together some beautiful pieces.

Follow his “rules” and follow him on twitter @kmacleod

I hope you enjoy this resource–now happy youtubing! Visit Holly Powell’s YouTube Channel.

Do you take password precautions? You should be especially with your twitter–if your friends are complaining that you’re sending “weird” dm’s (direct messages) from twitter; you need to change your passwords right now.

MSNBC recently published a post which states “Some users of Twitter, the microblogging site, may be the victim of a new phishing and account hijacking attempt on Twitter that specifically affects private messages — called “Direct Messages” or DMs — sent between users.”

What sort of precautions can you take?

1. Never give out your password; while that may sound obvious–even to your friends–they may write it down and leave it on their desk for others to see.

2. Change your password frequently

3. Never use the same password for every social site you use

5. Keep a password protected file for your usernames and passwords; so you don’t have to use the same one over and over again

6. Never, ever click on a link in your email; unless you know and trust the source completely. But remember that too can be dangerous. I have received emails that look perfectly legit from paypal, my bank etc. saying your account has been compromised. I NEVER click on the link provided no matter how tempted I am. I always go directly to the website login the normal way and then check for any messages that I may have in the backoffice of my site.

That’s it for now. I’m off to change my twitter password; which means I have to change my twollo and my socialoomph and my ping. Hmm what a pain; but I’d rather be safe than sorry.