I’m celebrating Social Media Day today at DFW Rocks Social Media speaking about Video for the DIY. It is a really fun topic since I am definitely a do-it-myself kind of person! I like to use my iPhone, my laptop (I have a MacBook Air) and my desktop (an iMac). You can, of course do video on a Windows PC, I just prefer a Mac.

I do my video blogs using my built-in iSight on my desktop computer, edit it in iMove and upload it to YouTube. For today’s event I used my iPhone to interview a few people using FLIMIC Pro ($3.99) which not only lets you shoot awesome video, it lets you upload directly to YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, Tumblr, Dropbox, or FTP the video.

I like uploading the video to Dropbox so I can edit the video in iMovie. In a live 30 minute presentation you don’t get to do a lot of editing (especially if you want time to take questions)! Once the video looks great you save it and upload the video to YouTube. When it is on your  YouTube channel you can easily embed it in your WordPress blog (or any html page) using either the embed code which YouTube provides or you can use one of the many YouTube plugins. I use the Artiss YouTube plugin, but there are many you can choose from.

I want to thank Victoria Wagner and Mark Neace for being good sports about being interviewed for this video!

I hope this was a helpful look into Social Media 2012 – Vide0 for the DIY!