Social media can teach you any and everything

By Lila Brown, Examiner.com

A new social media platform teaches anyone how to do anything through brief instructional videos. The how-to idea is basic, but the lessons offered provide expert advice to someone who is looking to learn everything or simply looking to learn something new. Watch here:


Founded by veterans of Google and YouTube, Howcast.com shows consumers engaging, useful how-to videos and guides wherever, whenever they need to learn how.

Howcast brings together the personality of user-generated content with the quality of a professional video studio to create engaging, informative, and free how-to videos for consumers. It also offers emerging filmmakers an opportunity to gain experience, exposure, and income.

Howcast partners with leading video sites and experiences across web, mobile, and emerging platforms to show consumers useful how-to videos wherever and whenever they need to learn how to do just about anything.


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Use Social Media for Career Success

By Lila Brown, Examiner.com

There’s no avoiding it, Web 2.0/social media is here to stay. It’s not just about fun and games; instead, young professionals should utilize their online networking capabilities to profile their skills and talents through new platforms. Now is the time for young professionals to build meaningful contacts and leverage relationships for career success. It’s all about building a personal brand.

Those on the job search are using social media to find jobs, connect with industry leaders, and obtain job references. Job seekers can expand their online network by finding professional blogs and niche communities. Most career advisers agree that blogs are the perfect way to build a brand online.

RSS feeds allow subscribers to receive content updates in My Yahoo!, Google Reader, Newsgator, Bloglines, and other news readers. Improve job performance and knowledge by staying abreast of breaking news that is industry related. Demonstrate being on top of industry trends and changes. Sites like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn provide great tools for young professionals to establish better relationships with colleagues, clients, or other companies.

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Young Professionals Use Ning to Network

By Lila Brown, Examiner.com

Some of the most popular resources young professionals use to communicate with each other include online social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. While both sites engage more than 300 million users, it becomes increasingly difficult to build genuine relationships around a common interest. Kansas City’s young professionals engage with online communities through Ning, a social platform for creating your own social network. Ning lets members custom build their own social-networking platforms based around their passions and pastimes.

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Strike a perfect and healthy work-life balance

By Lila Brown, Examiner.com

Kansas City Young Professionals Examiner


Live to work or work to live? That is the question many young professionals face beginning a life free from school to entering a world of financial independence.

While young professionals are ready to take on the challenges of building a career, most realize it is still important to maintain a sociable lifestyle. Most are not quite ready to become workaholics.

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