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So this morning a staffmate told me about the recent Miami Zoo Kiwi incident that’s come to light, and I’ve been fucking livid all day.

Just been reading through a bunch of articles (majority NZ news sources) and the Zoo’s official statement, and somehow it’s even worse than what my irate coworker was able to convey to me. Miami Zoo had the absolute fucking privilege of receiving a (North Isl. Brown (?)) kiwi egg to hatch and raise as a species you would never normally see outside our little island at the bottom of the world as part of a some global zoo wildlife initiative.

Brief brief summary: viral videos coming out of this kiwi (Paora) being put on a table and patted by paying customers under bright lights, having selfies taken, made to run around during the day, keeper pursuing him whenever he tried to hide in his box. All around blasé attitude from keeper talking about this bird while he’s being paraded about on display. There’s video footage but I could seriously only stomach watching it once. He’s been there for 4 years and in the wake of this outrage they’re claiming to be building him a ‘proper enclosure’ now. He’s been handled like this at least 4 times a week and his current enclosure has been 3x3m.

They had access to super fucking detailed information on how to take care of this very sensitive and specialized animal, and what the fuck do they do? Disregard ALL of it to sell cutesy, ~rare bird~, self-obsessed animal encounters.

Either you knowingly and intentionally went against SO. MUCH. vital animal husbandry or you are just such a fuckwit you legitimately think it was good animal handling, I don’t know which is worse honestly. If it’s the former, congratulations; American Capitalism continues to be the most nasty, disrespectful piece of shit I see regularly parading about in broad daylight. If it’s the latter, then are your staff for real just exotic pet-obsessed freaks who showed up one day in a uniform and you just went ‘yeah sure you can be a zookeeper good enough’. Shoutout to that ‘keeper’ who had Paora’s head pinned to the fucking table with his fist going ‘hohoh yeah he’s just like a dog he loves being pat on the head’ yeah sure thing idiot I bet your zookeeper degree taught you all animals and birds especially just love being slapped around and treated like dogs.

The thing that’s got me the most though, is how over the top and pitiful they are being in their apology; “we’ve offended a nation...”, “it should have never happened”, “we are so sorry this video has caused stress to people”, ok yeah but fuck what we think why is there exactly ZERO mention of the stress, harm and sheer exploitation you have put this animal through??? Like yes, Paora is a taonga species and that is certainly adding to the severity of this response, but in and of itself the fact that their official statement answers ONLY to humans’ responses and outrage and not the failure to care for this animal is telling as fuck to me.

I really liked reading iwi leader Paora Haitana’s response (who Paora the kiwi is named after), in much nicer words than me expressing deep concern over the harm to Paora, the disrespect it is to him as a taonga species and us as protectors of them, and also heavy, heavy emphasis on words holding no shape under the weight of everything that has happened; they need to follow through and follow through right now with adequate care.

Personally I’d like to see Paora moved to a zoo that actually cares about his needs and conservation education over selling clickbait. I feel the love and intention of bringing him home to Aotearoa, though I don’t know how realistic that is with the risk of introducing diseases from abroad into the NZ populations. I also would expect a thorough investigation of Zoo Miami’s husbandry for all their species and the credentials of their staff.

Thanks for coming along to rant o’ clock, I’ll be back to reblogging regular fandom shit now so please don’t follow me if you’re expecting more of my own content lol. Enjoy some great twitter banter from this mess

#zoo miami #miami zoo #zoo miami kiwi #Paora #paora the kiwi #animal husbandry #aotearoa #nz #kiwi #kiwi bird #taonga #taonga species #cw animal abuse #shoutout to that brilliant blog article #titled 'miami zoo to stop deranged treatement of kiwi'#or something to that note #like thank you THANK YOU please say it louder

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puvvythecat · 6 years

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Walter Stricklander - INFJ (The Advocate)

Someone I know asked that I start a MBTI blog. I thought I’d start by typing characters from one of my favorite shows, Trollhunter.

Spoilers for Trollhunters Season 1 and 2 are under the cut.

(Trollhunters is the computer-animated fantasy television series created by Guillermo del Toro for Netflix.)

Walter Stricklander(Strickler) is my favorite character in Trollhunters, so he seemed like a natural place to start.

Strickler is Jim’s history teacher. Although commonly typed as INTJ, Strickler utilizes his insight to tackle issues head-on. As an INFJ, Strickler fell naturally into the role of not just a high school teacher, but an adviser to Jim.

It wouldn’t be until later in Season 1 that Jim uncovered Strickler as a changeling troll, transforming him from beloved adviser to cunning villain.

Breaking down the functions

Introverted intuition

Strickler’s main function, Introverted intuition, took center stage once he was ousted as a changeling troll. Now with a clear direction for the character(aside from mentor), Strickler had a cause that he could focus on.

Helping Gunmar out from the Darklands. With introverted intuition, he often lives inside his head versus the world around him. And his idea is that the impure (Changeling trolls) will be glorified once Gunmar gets out of the darklands. Unfortunately for Strickler, that isn’t the reality he’s facing.

Strickler is prone to tunnel vision when using his introverted intuition. Not motivated by the self-centered logic he claims(’I’m out for myself’), he’s been focused on releasing Gunmar from the Darklands for so long that breaking away from that doesn’t seem possible.

Although he believes releasing Gunmar promises glory for the impure, when Jim ultimately sways him away from helping Gunmar it doesn’t have to do with logic. It has to do with Barbara, and the love he has for a human woman. It was Strickler’s mistakes that led to the endangerment of Barbara, but he already shifted to a new cause: keeping her alive. Unlike the INTJ, Jim didn’t need to use rock-solid logic to change his agenda.

Extroverted Feeling

Keeping in mind that Strickler is older and has more developed functions, he isn’t going to be having emotional outbursts that you might see in underdeveloped extroverted feelers. Instead, Strickler’s extroverted feeling is more subtle in the show.

However, it is glaringly apparent whenever Strickler is around Barbara. Say what you want about the character, Strickler has feelings for her. As he alters Barbara’s tea to bind them(a spell is given to him by Anger Rot), you can see the conflict on Strickler’s face.

At the end of the show, when Vendel is helping to unbind Strickler and Barbara, he spends a majority of his time trying to check on Barbara. And, when approached by Jim, he goes as far to begin admitting that he may even love her. Although that also has to do desperation, it isn’t a lie. Strickler knows that what he’s saying is already a risk, so he isn’t going to be stupid enough to try and lie about it.

Introverted Thinking

Think about Bular and Strickler’s interactions. Does Strickler ever stop to lay out his plan for Bular? Does Strickler ever explain anything, to anyone?

Introverted thinkers have the incredible gift to process things through on their own. They, most of the time, don’t need a sounding board. And I’m going to bet with how old Strickler is, he’s gotten used to internalizing everything, to the point of a flaw.

Extroverted Sensing

Strickler’s ability to react in the moment and disconnect isn’t as strong as Draal, an ISFP, but due to his age, he’s developed his aspirational function well.

He even shows calm when protecting Barbara, who is mad wigging out after figuring out about the existence of trolls(and how Strickler is a troll).

Furthermore, as an inferior function Se can primarily manifest as a distrust of the physical world. He could also believe that intellect should be trusted above all sensory information available, which we see when Jim goes to confront Stricklander in Season 2 after he claims he was a human Trollhunter in an alternate reality.

Quick shoutout to Thought Catalog’s brilliant article on the functions and how they manifest.

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thelarrative-blog · 7 years

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//buscandoelparaiso(.)tumblr(.)com/post/156696055863/veteranlarrie-shoutout-to-all-the-larries-who This is so funny, like this is the state of larrie right right now. That Louis tweeted Harry happy birthday and they are trying to make it like Larry came out or something. Like, Louis still has a son you ding dongs. All us non-larries are still very very right and always will be. It's sad that a bday tweet causes them to react that way, because it's literally all they have and they know that.

What's going to happen:

TMZ is now getting ready to unveil their "LesbiansLoveLouis is right about everything on all the blogs and sites she set up to bully a mother on, Louis thinks she's brilliant and is her biggest fan" post that they've been sitting on for over 5 weeks.

Aaron Butterfield gets called in to do his first actual journalism job for anyone ever for Vanity Fair where we learn Louis and Harry's favorite sexual positions (having their asses eaten while they think about Larries graphically describing it to their followers).There are 250 collectible editions of the couple photo together of Louis and Harry shot doing all the things that they were hostage forced to do with women in the last 7 years (skiing, eating yoghurt, drinking coffee) on the front so that Larries can collect all 250.

The 90 sex tapes of Briana that Lapelosa once had an Anon tell her existed will be released by Louis's team as he is a rampant sexual exploiter and TMZ will run a story about how Briana is a slut because slut shaming women is the only PR narrative Louis knows exists because Louis literally hates women and therefore it proves she’s an unreliable determiner of who the real father of her children is.

Louis goes to court for more custody and the judge is all "omg I've seen the sex tapes, I order a DNA test at your dentist's on Nut Tree road pharmacy ASAP!"

The father is revealed to be Briana's step father. The DNA test also comes back showing the mother is Briana's real mother.

Briana is exposed as having been an exploited vulnerable drug addicted woman Louis used as a plot device in his PR coming out and whose family he forced into having a baby he could use to help promote his single and collectible Vanity Fair covers in order to make him as famous as his husband Harry Styles.

Everything the Larries ever said has come true and Louis is investigated by the FBI for birth certificate fraud and by DCFS and the police for forcing a family to have a baby he could exploit for birthday cakes in promo interviews, Briana is given sympathy by the press for essentially being a victim of Louis's machinations and tonnes of sweats by every sweat company, Larries rejoice because Louis and Harry get headline TMZ articles every week trying to keep up with all their revelations as fraudsters and baby exploiters, but at least the Antis will all be totally wrong and Louis and Harry will tweet each other openly on their birthdays.

#Anonymous

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suzanneshannon · 4 years

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What We’re Reading, 2019

There are so, so, so (so) many things to read out there on the internet. So many, in fact, that it's difficult to keep up with everything.

But, hey, we've got your back! It's our job to surface the best of the best and share it with you right here. That's why it's a good idea to subscribe to this site and newsletter. Why subscribe to hundreds of sites when you can follow one, right?

Where do we find the links that we share? It truly runs the gamut, but we've decided to list our favorite sources.

Chris Coyier

Labnotes - Assaf Arkin's newsletter is great mishmash of timely, interesting, and funny tidbits with a developer twist.

Code with Veni is new just this year and consistently has great links from underrepresented coders

Codrops Collective always leaves me with like five open tabs

I get quite a few weekly newsletters entirely about front-end development, like Friday Frontend

WordPress Tavern does solid WordPress journalism.

Shoutout to Dave who had a strong year of bloggin'.

I love longtime classic blogs, like Waxy Waxy, Kottke, and Daring Fireball

DEV is blowing up and I end up reading many articles there each week. Meanwhile, it feels like Medium is slowing down significantly when it comes to developer-focused writing.

I obviously look at CodePen every day, which helps me keep an eye on what front-end developers are playing with.

I'd say the main value I get from Twitter is getting great links and thoughts that are a smidge beyond my regular reading. I'm in some community Slacks too, but find it far more conversational and less link-heavy.

Sarah Drasner

Scotch.io consistently has great stuff for pretty much every tech stack you can think of. They also do a great job of finding new authors.

Cassidy William's newsletter is short and sweet, and has coding puzzles in every issue.

I really love PonyFoo's quality and style. They mix it up and keep it interesting. The design is nice and unique as well!

I'm a Vue core team member and love to keep on top of what's going on in the community with the Vue Newsletter. It's curated by a team of really passionate educators and it shows — every newsletter is well curated.

I love Data Sketches so very much. It's a brilliant collaboration between Shirley Wu and Nadieh Bremer, and shows exceptional mastery of technical and illustrative skillsets to convey data. Worth a read for sure.

Like Chris, I love Codrops Collective. You can learn so much about UX animation there.

Speaking of animation, Val Head has a wonderful UI Animation Newsletter. She's kept it up for years, and it's rich with resources from the fanciful to the practical.

Rachel Andrew has been the editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine for the past year or so, and the content has been wonderful. Smashing is constantly a source of great articles and information about front-end development and design.

I just saw Jared Palmer's Blog a week ago and I really enjoy the writing there. It's informative, interesting and humorous.

Our own Robin Rendle has a great newsletter all about typography. I don't know that much about type, so the poetic deep dives are lovely and informative. It's great for die-hard fans and newbies alike!

Geoff Graham

W3C Cascading Style Sheets Feed - Getting news straight from the horse's mouth!

CSS {In Real Life} - Michelle Barker is has a pragmatic approach to CSS and does an excellent job explaining complex concepts in a way that's pretty easy to grok.

The History of the Web - This is probably the opposite of "late-breaking" news, but Jay Hoffman's newsletter tells yesteryear's stories of the web, which is great context for things we see evolving today.

CodePen Post Picks - CodePen is full of great minds sharing ideas and the team over there does an excellent job curating noteworthy posts.

RWD Weekly Newsletter - Justin Avery covers responsive design news (obviously) but also provides oodles of other front-end-related goodies.

The Work Behind the Work - This isn't front-end stuff but I like how this site documents the creative process behind famous works that we know and love.

Adactio - Jeremy Keith posts regularly and thoughtfully.

Bruce Lawson - He usually has a weekly link dump that I find useful for uncovering things that would otherwise slip under my radar.

Mozilla Hacks - I could just as easily link up to other browser news, but Mozilla seems to be innovating fast and I like seeing where they're headed.

Piccalilly Newsletter - Andy Bell collects awesome demos.

Robin Rendle

Ire Aredinokun’s blog Bits of Code is an endless treasure trove of information about front-end development best practices and each post makes me ooo and Alice with delight.

For type and design news I always keep an eye out for Typographica’s year in review, and this year’s edition is just as interesting as the others. They collect a ton of typeface reviews from the releases of the past 12 months and explore what makes each design tick.

Likewise, David Jonathan Ross’s Font of the Month Club is essential reading for designers. David gives provides a typeface that's a work in progress in each issue and then writes diligently about the process behind it. It’s always a wonder.

Tim Kadlec’s blog is a great source of info about accessibility, web performance and general front-end development news.

I’ve been reading a bunch of great newsletters lately and Chip Scanlan’s writing advice is one that certainly stands out from the crowd.

Adrian Roselli’s blog never fails to impress with a ton of deep-dives into some obscure front-end problem or issue I’ve never heard about before.

Where do you look to stay updated? Share your list of favorites with us!

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sempiternalsandpitturtle · 5 years

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Does your business need a content strategist?

I’m going to go out on a limb here and bet my bottom dollar that your business’ current five-year plan doesn’t simply read “we’ll see how it goes”.

No, It’s much more likely that you’ve taken a considerable amount of time to establish where you want to go, and how you plan to get there. In other words, you’ve developed a strategy.

Well, guess what? You need one for your content too. You can throw out blog posts, social media updates and infographics until the sun goes down, but if these aren’t all serving a common goal you may as well not bother.

And whom, I hear you ask, can you entrust with this responsibility? Ladies and gentleman, I give you… the content strategist!

In this article we’ll define web content strategy, along with the roles of a content strategist (CS). We’ll then look in depth at how a CS can benefit your business, and the skills they need to possess.

What is web content strategy?

Fortunately, I happen to sit opposite a CS who, for the princely sum of three Tim Tams, gave me the following definition:

“Content strategy is making sure your content is ticking the boxes that Google has defined whilst also giving relevant information to human users. It also ensures that your content marketing efforts align with, and succeed in achieving, the business’ overarching goals.”

In practice, this means careful direction, management and analysis of all the content your creative teams put out – from graphics to Tweets, and everything in between.

#InboundMarketing has digital folk all in a tizzy because it’s apparently so cost-effective for generating #leads. But how do you do inbound marketing, anyway? https://t.co/LV2Zo0j8EA pic.twitter.com/JGevzRUUv2

— Castleford Media (@castlefordmedia) 5 March 2019

What does a content strategist do, and how can it benefit your business?

Okay, so how does a CS make all of this happen?

In this section we’ve boiled down the key aspects of the job description into two main sections:

1. Creating a content inventory and audit:

As you’re probably realising, content strategists often have many balls in the air at a time.

Therefore, they need to know what content you currently have available for public consumption, and be able to evaluate how this content is performing.

The former is achieved through the creation of a content inventory, and the latter by auditing it to see if it meets your marketing objectives.

Content audits are qualitative assessments of all of your published content.

From here, your CS can then identify any gaps in your content offering that, by filling, you can use to help you capture more interest from your audience in the future.

How do you audit content?

Content audits are qualitative assessments of all of your published content. During this process, there are five useful questions to keep in mind:

What content is performing best? Success here is defined according to your marketing goals. Taking the example of a blog post, key metrics could include the numbers of people clicking through to landing pages, or taking actions such as signing up to a newsletter. Google Analytics is a free tool that allows you to gather information on user behaviour in relation to your content.

Is my content optimised for search? This is part of evaluating performance, but deserves its own shoutout. Doing this involves analysing keywords, word counts, and HTML elements such as titles and meta tags.

What is your audience connecting with? Google Analytics also shows you how long people are spending on different posts and pages. Even if they’re not taking the actions you desire, the fact that they’re finding your content is good for meeting top of funnel, thought leadership goals.

What isn’t working? You may see an old post that continually outperforms newer content. Knowing what isn’t working is as useful as finding success stories when it comes to informing future strategy.

Where are the gaps? Keyword research is a big part of your auditing process. Tools like Moz Keyword Explorer are brilliant for identifying what searches people are conducting around your industry, allowing you to create relevant content to match.

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2. Improving user insights

A content strategist also allows you to learn more about your target audience.

Integral to this is creating user personas– research-based profiles that provide vital information on the people you’re aiming to engage with your content.

Core elements of a user persona include:

Age.

Gender.

Location.

Income/education.

Values, ethics and pain points.

Why are user personas helpful?

Let’s take this article as an example.

My primary audience here is digital marketers, and this informs every stage of my article’s production. Our strategist has stress-tested keywords, found a gap in the query market that we could fill and created an article brief that should allow us to do that.

From there, I’ve adopted a tone and style that (I hope) you find engaging, researched reputable industry sources (Hubspot, for example) and formatted the article to hit as many of the brief notes as possible.

Our marketing team will then share this piece on social channels that our research shows you’re likely to frequent – Twitter and LinkedIn, to name a couple.

If we were a fashion brand, the decisions we’d make would be very different, but this all comes down to knowing who you’re trying to reach – a core responsibility of your content strategist.

User personas may sound like an unnecessary process, but they are the key to good quality content. Don’t believe me? Check out our reasons why. https://t.co/HLd89bVlvj pic.twitter.com/G2NEuyczlo

— Castleford Media (@castlefordmedia) 18 January 2019

What skills do content strategists have?

So, what makes a great CS? The following attributes are needed to fill this multifaceted position:

Organisation and presentation: Keeping track of so much content requires strong prioritising and administration skills. They’ll be creating more spreadsheets than you can possibly imagine, so being able to present their findings in an engaging and clear format is also crucial.

Creativity: Despite the strong emphasis on data collection and analysis, this is still a creative role, and your CS should thrive on finding new and exciting ways to engage your audience.

Delivery decision-making: Based on their research, your CS should be making calls on what mediums to use (eg. is a topic best suited to an infographic, or a video?) and where it should be promoted.

Calculating ROI: Part of the auditing process is calculating the extent to which your content is serving your business goals.

Campaign experience: While technically not a ‘skill’, a CS should ideally have several years’ experience in campaign execution. Project management (PM) roles serve as a great springboard to becoming as a CS due to the hands-on involvement in delivering content.

#SocialMedia is a valuable #marketing tool, but only if it is directed by a good #contentmarketing strategy. Here’s why. https://t.co/iAAl2iMHGq pic.twitter.com/8ANtCxwSEK

— Castleford Media (@castlefordmedia) 18 February 2019

The benefits of an agency content strategist

Content marketing agencies live and breathe strategy creation, and can be a useful guiding hand if you’re new to this sometimes confusing world.

Here are four things that an agency CS brings to the table that might be lacking in your current department:

Experience – Many agency CSs have a huge portfolio of clients. Not only does this mean that they’re veterans of multiple campaigns, there’s a good chance they’ve already created winning strategies for businesses like yours!

Technical know-how – Tools like Google Analytics and Google Search Console are brilliant, but take some time to master. A good agency CS can use these in their sleep, providing you with the insights, minus the time and effort on your part.

An outsider perspective – When you’ve lovingly created a strategy and it hasn’t worked it can be hard to murder your darlings. An agency CS will wield the editorial pen without mercy, cutting the fat off your strategy to ensure every element is serving your overall strategy.

Multiple insights – There’s a good chance that an agency CS is surrounded by writers, graphic designers and social media gurus. With a simple tap on the shoulder, they can access a wealth of content knowledge to help construct an innovative and effective strategy.

Your content strategist should be a campaign-hardened veteran.

In summary

A content strategist is the person who provides focus for your content marketing efforts. They ensure that your output is addressing the right people, using the right platforms on subjects that they care about.

Through their quality testing and ROI calculations they’re also an important champion for content marketing in your business – proving to any lingering doubters that quality content can provide tangible value and improve your bottom line.

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#content marketing

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challengeartistsimple · 7 years

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5 Things That Every New YouTube Vlogger Should Know

As you know, the growing world of vlogging is open to absolutely anyone, and we’ve put together an article based on 5 things that new vloggers on YouTube should know. Keep these things in mind as you begin your vlog journey!

There is no ‘competition’

Unlike retailers and companies that depend on people to spend money, there is no real competition when it comes to the world of vlogging. That is because anyone who watches your video can also watch another vlogger’s video – viewers can be fans of more than just one YouTube channel!

You can take advantage of this community feeling by collaborating and engaging with other vloggers, which is a brilliant way for you to grow your YouTube channels, and reach an entirely new audience. Your focus should not be on competing with other vloggers on YouTube, it should be on how you can work together to help each other grow.

You Need Short Term and Long Term Goals

Without your very own short term and long term goals, you won’t really have a direction that you want to take your YouTube channel towards. You will need a vision, and an idea of where you want to be in the next few months, next few years!

Having a plan will guide you to think more closely about what you want to do, and exactly how to get there. Without short term and long term goals, you’re limiting your effectiveness. Don’t worry, this does not mean that you need to create really complicated short term and long term goals. For example, one of your short term goals could be to get 100 subscribers on YouTube this month. A long-term goal could be to expand your vlog audience on social media sites like Twitter and Google Plus.

Engage and Interact with Your Audience

Your audience wants to talk to you! Believe it or not, when people watch your vlogs and enjoy them, they will want to interact with you, want to know your opinion about things, and more! Your audience plays a big role in the growth of your vlogging channel, so be sure to show your appreciation! Social media makes this really easy, which means you should definitely be creating social media profiles for your YouTube channel.

More ways to engage with your viewers include filming Q&A videos, giving shoutouts/mentions to your fans, replying to your comments, hosting social media chats and much more! As you use social media and continue to engage with your viewers, you will create a community that will help grow your YouTube channel.

Consistency is Essential for Vloggers

Your audience will really love it if you are consistent about the way that you create and upload your vlogs. Your uploading schedule should be very similar every week, and you should publicise this schedule on your social media pages and in your video descriptions so that viewers know exactly when they can look forward to watching another one of your vlogs.

You should also be consistent in the way that you interact with your audience. That also means that if you are going to be away from your internet presence for a while, for a holiday for example, then you should let your audience know – as they could easily become disappointed that they are not hearing from you!

You Need to Promote Your Vlogs

Yes, there will be people that will naturally stumble upon your YouTube channel and absolutely love it, but at the end of the day, if you are not putting your vlog out there, not everyone will actually be able to find you! That means that you will need to promote your vlogs, and that means coming up with a marketing plan.

That can sound rather frightening, but all it means is that you need a list of ways to encourage people to check out your YouTube channel.

Here are a few things you can add to your list:

Social Media Fan Pages

Starting a Blog

Video SEO

Collaborations

We’ve got you covered: check out our guide on promoting your YouTube channel.

So there you go! These five things that every new YouTube vlogger should know are absolutely essential to follow, and you should be able to do them as soon as you start vlogging!

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#TMIishTuesday #49 - Am I gay because of...

Hey, Announcement before we start: I've posted dozens of #TMIishTuesday's already - as you can tell by the number above. And I realised, pretty much all of them fall into two categories: - LGBTQ+ and - society/language. And I also think that these two topics are actually targeted at quite a different audience. So I thought, I'd try to organise this blog a little better so you know when to get here for your favorite topic. Here's how: This week, and every second Tuesday of the month from now on, I'll post on LGBTQ+ related topics. So, if you don't want to miss them, mark 14 March, 11 April, and 9 May in your agenda already. However, if you're here for language and society topics: Mark each last Tuesday of the month: 28 February, 28 March, and 25 April are what you should be looking for. The other two or three Tuesdays there'll be topics related to other things. However, if I just posted on languages and next day the Trumpet's government announces it was to prohibit the use of the English language anywhere in world but the U. S., I might slide in an extra language post as the next one. :D I hope this way you know what to expect a little better and know when it's really worth checking this page, if you're only interested in one topic. And now… Enjoy this month's LGBTQ+ related post: "Am I gay because of…?"

Hey there mighty people of the internet! And welcome to issue #49 of #TMIishTuesday - my weekly Tumblr post about what goes through my weird mind and what you guys want to know more about. It can be something very personal, it can be something political, it can be completely pointless - but in 99.9 % of the cases, it involves opinions. And mine as well. // Last week I told you about my favorite album at the moment: Troye Sivan's Blue Neighbourhood which was actually released more than a year ago. Here's why I find it so cool all of a sudden. // Following the rooster I mentioned in the foreword, this post is regarded as "LGBTQ+", but it certainly touches on other topics as well: Society, language, and more. And to be quite honest, I probably would have put it into the "society and language" category, if it wasn't that most LGBTQ+ topics in my list are based around sources on the internet, like articles of newspapers or magazines. But I have a spare hour at my parents at the moment - and their telephone and internet provider fails to execute its most crucial option: Provide telephone and internet. :D So… I'm tugging this topic in. This topic was actually inspired by questions asked on a German forum called "gutefrage.net" where you can get advice by other users on virtually any topic: Computer stuff, visa stuff, school problems, sexuality questions, and I'm convinced there'll be a section for make-up as well. If you google a question in German, chances are that one of the first hits will be a user of gutefrage.net asking your exact question, or a very similar one. That's also how I initially found the forum. And after I had read up on cooking skills - or whatever it was - I just clicked around a little more. And I came across the "gay" tag where people ask questions about their sexuality. And I was like: Maybe I could help some of those people. So I made an account - and every now and then, I'll browse the "gay" tag trying to help the people on there. As I expected, most of them are teens. And since I'm browsing the "gay" tag, most are male as well. And I found that some questions are quite amusing actually. Obviously there are those really deep-cutting problems with teens struggling with either their sexuality or coming out - who I happily help. But some… Man! People's minds can get so creative! I see SO many questions along the lines of: “I'm shy/dressing slightly different than others/young/old/have a smaller dick than others - does that make me gay?" I mean, I kinda get those people who ask questions like "I accidently touched a friend's dick. I think I'm gay now?". On the one hand, if you think about it, it's quite irrational. But on the other hand: If - like in most of Germany - students don't learn about the different sexualities at school until they are 14, 15 (if at all!), it's only natural that our internet-exposed 12- or 13-year-olds ask such questions. They just don't know. (And thanks to society and the use of "gay" as an insult, they are scared of being gay.) But let's get back to the totally strange questions that I find every other day on the forum. These just don't make any sense! Examples? Here you go:

1) "Is it gay when guys listen to Beyoncé songs?" Yeah, totally! Right? Music totally defines your sexuality! Right? If you're a guy and like a song that features a female singer, you're gay! The same goes for a girl who likes songs sung by guys! Oh, and if you like a duet featuring a guy and a girl, you're bi! Right? I don't have to elaborate on this one, do I?

2) "Am I gay just because I have a diamond tattoo behind my ear?" Yeah, totally! If you get a diamond tattooed that's so gay! You should have gotten a gold ingot instead! And why did you pick a spot behind your ear!? You should have gotten it on your back! Like a man! Excuse me? Get whatever tattoo you like on whatever part of your body you like. Okay, maybe don't go all the way IN. That's just dangerous. But for the rest - why not get a diamond behind your ear or a tiny pink bird on your forearm?

3) "Is it gay to dye your hair?" Yeah, totally! Only homosexual people dye their hair! See, I've been debating doing it for years now. And I might talk to my hair dresser about it this upcoming weekend actually. Oh, and my Mum dyes her hair as well to prevent the grey from showing. Oh, wait. My mum still lives with my father. Almost 26 years after having me. And she has been dyeing her hair for a good 5 years now. Why hasn't she turned lesbian, yet? Erm… I'm afraid our oh-so-promising hypothesis didn't pass the practice test again. Shit! Why is that!? Okay, and to finish this off, let me show you two more examples off the same site. The first one is a very bad troll who didn't even bother to get creative creating multiple accounts.

Mr. "Am I gay please help me maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan?" And he says: "I m/15 think that I am gay cause I accidently touched ONE friend's dick. Please help me!" I mean, poor guy! It's so easy to change your sexuality by just a slip of your hand. Damn, THAT must suck! But I didn't even have to intervene in the original post cause this happened. Note the usernames:

Let’s start with the post 25 mins ago: "I mean just because you touched his dick doesn't mean you're gay, but you grabbed it and I have to say you're doing a good job :3" 1. The start looks quite good tbh. It only gets bad after the comma. 2. The username 3. In the question it doesn't say he grabbed it. And then he replied again: "Yeah, man, you're gay …But that's okay , I'll suck you for 5 euros :)" Erm… Total troll!? :P To finish this off, let's have a laugh at a guy who totally nailed his answer to a guy who asked: "Which optical indications are there that you are gay?"

That guy replied: "At your wrist are clearly visible lines that cross diagonally to your arm (only those count that go from left to right). Their number tells you which kind of person you are dealing with: Homosexuals have two lines; if you are a pedophile, there's one; and there are three, when you're intellectual gifted. If you have a few interrupted ones, you can tell by their amount, distance, and length how often the person had sex." This guy is bloody brilliant!! …and I think that's a good one to finish off this post. Before I go, though, let me know what you thought of this post. What's the most stupid question you ever asked? Place a comment, tweet me, dm me, or do anything else you can think of to get to me. Talking about brilliant stuff: Today’s TMIish Queer Shoutout (let's get rid of the TMIish. That's just too long of a title!) is a film again. Moonlight, an American drama from last year. I don't watch films to easily, but after Ash Hardell talked about it in one of her videos, the plot just got to me and I had to watch it. It tells the story of Chiron, a shy kid who is picked on during school and whose single mother barely devotes time to him. He gets to know Juan, a drug dealer in his 40s or 50s. I won't spoil too much here cause the story is really well thought-through. Only that much: Chiron has to face some more challenges growing up and he eventually struggles with all the problems that arise in the typical ghetto-kind of neighbourhood - and gets to know his sexuality which will play a role later in the film as well. The film is split into three spans of Chiron's life: The small school kid Chiron, the high school kid Chiron (who is still bullied), and the grown-up Chiron who has moved out and lives his own life. As you can tell the gay theme only plays a minor part in this movie, so I can recommend this film to anyone without hesitation. So, if you have a spare two hours this week, find it online somewhere, go ahead and watch it! (Or, if you live in Germany: Wait until 9 March. It's supposed to hit the cinemas then. Might even watch it again then.) As always: Next #TMIishTuesday next Tuesday. If you have any questions in the meantime, just ask away. Whatever you’re curious about - I don’t bite. :) Until then: Stay mighty! Linkage: - gutefrage.net: www.gutefrage.net - Ash Hardell: www.youtube.com/HeyThere005

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