Social Media Video Library Launched

Social Media Video Library Launched

NEW YORK / May 9, 2008 / buzz²[ne.ws]® / The Wall Tweet Journal (WTJ) today announced the launch of the Social Media Video Library (SMVL), a user-generated video search and on-demand viewing/video sharing channel.  SMVL features video content on every topic of interest related to social media including, new media public relations, marketing through social media, micro blogging, corporate blogging, podcasting and Web 2.0 applications and services. 

"Our objective is to be the educational video destination of choice, where people can visit to learn about what's going on in the rapidly-changing world of social media and hone their skills by viewing instructional videos and interviews with leading Web 2.0 experts and social media evangelists," said Martin Diano, Managing Group Publisher. "The site is community-based -- anyone can upload a video -- and a peer review protocol and rating system to weed out poor content."

The Library has six featured Playlists:

Social Media

Web 2.0 

Public Relations & New Media

Podcasting

Blogging

Twitter

Video creators may upload their collection and add a specific category to the Playlist. And anyone can create a customized video widget for posting to their blog.

To keep its video library fresh, SMVL searches for videos across multiple user-generated video sites, then - approximately every 5 days -adds the most educationally significant videos available. The channel playlist categorizes and tags the collection by topic. From that point the peer review protocol and rating system from actual viewers takes over. Currently, the collection has over 100 videos.

"We see the impact of engaged video viewers wanting and searching for content-specific information as a significant educational opportunity. The goal of SMVL is to become the leading curator to sort out and categorize the huge volume of videos on the web focused on social media," said Diano. "The role of video curator is becoming just as important as that of creator. There's lots of great material out there; but there are also videos with low-value educational content. Now people can search, view and share some of the most popular social media videos on the Internet."

 SMVL is a knowledge base educational initiative of the The Wall Tweet Journal, a media property of Martin Diano Agency LLC.