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The Viral Revolution
When Your Phone Becomes Your Press Pass
The Numbers Game
The Academy award-winning short film of this year will probably be watched by a few thousand, while an obscure YouTube clip of mine shot on a Samsung S5 camera phone might be watched by twenty thousands. I haven't hit the nose bleed millions of viewers on my YOUTUBE channel but I have hit the million viewer mark on this Cruise Ship Travel BLOG.
But as of Today Google+ will no longer be tracking the views publicly. They will only track subscribers.
It's been a while since ABC TV Nightline and Good Morning America used some of my footage but what a thrill to see one of my videos go nuclear in less than an hour. That was the first time I felt the impact of TV watching me instead of the other way around. My own Ed TV show.
I can see the future and it works! Point and Shoot
My cellphone is my credential, my ABC Press Corp Pass, My thirty something years in-the-trenches experience. Anyone can be a Professor Emeritus and guest speaker at Columbia's Graduate School Of Journalism next semester, and hosting an upcoming Anderson Cooper Live on CNN to discuss "Let's Make Sausage" your own idiosyncratic tipping point moment of Citizen Journalism.
You see, you don't have to be a Navajo code breaker to use a cell phone. Just post something to YouTube. Ah, but you all knew that.
The Future is Now
In a world where anyone with a smartphone can become a broadcaster, journalist, or content creator, the power of storytelling has been democratized like never before. Your next viral moment could be just one click away.