Youtubing and Google ++++ 20/20

Youtube has a ton of information about what is or is not appropriate for youtube. They also have a lot of material to teach you how to build your channel, get followers, and make an impact within a community. You can make whatever kind of videos you want...they can be educational, tutorials, funny, a little web series, promotional, and vlogging. It's a broad spectrum of possibilities.

Things I loved:
In there education section they explain about tools to help your channel connect to people and create a 'sustainable community'. They explain five major things to help accomplish this:
Creation Story, this makes you relatable and draws people in
Creed, what you're about and how people can rally behind your cause
Leadership, have a host, a group with consistent voice, or just an consistent idea
Rituals, have a repeated element, or time of posting
Language, be conversational and develop your own language or slang over time. This will make your community member feel special and included.

Youtube is a GLOBAL stage for you to preform!
Have conversations with fans/audiences. People connect to you because they've seen you, they've heard you.

People love to watch videos, we live in a world were it's a lot harder to keep someones attention if you make them read. I'm guilty of this.

I'm not sure that Youtube will be a big factor in our business at first. But we might put some knitting tutorials up at some point.

Google +++

This is a social network that works to connect the content you put onto the web to you! It helps to keep you connected as author on your other social networks.

Love it:

Google + is a lot like facebook because it's a social profile. I think that the cool thing is the 'circles' and the community aspect of it.
This translates to business better because you want to build a community. I think it seems nicer than just "likes" It's seems to combine the idea of a blog more too.
They have this feature called 'hangouts' too. You can basically select people from your circles and have a group chat/invitation. It seems useful for business discussions with other members of you team as well as connecting with customers for special events or sales.

I'd want to look more into and how it connects other social media for you because that seems like one of the more interesting and helpful aspects before deciding to dedicate time to a new social media network besides facebook.