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I’m reading an article about compelling online video, and before I even get to the article itself, it introduces the people involved and a rundown of who they are. Look at this:

Mark Day: He’s the Comedy Content Manager at YouTube. He is responsible for supporting the comedy community on YouTube by tracking humor trends, identifying top users, featuring original videos, and developing contests and programs to foster the creation of quality comedy content.

Man we need to have more jobs like this out there. Someone who knows stories well enough to track them, who has a strong enough sense of taste to follow, connect, and market good work. Too many of us throw good work into the air and hope it gets caught for some reason by the wind and carried to high places. Do you have room in your workplace to get this kind of position? Are you marketing your own work manually? Like coming up with interested bloggers or online outlets that might do a quick writeup and embed your work, to drive traffic and visibility? What’s the distribution strategy? Whatever that is, it will fuel the generation of an online community. No strategy, no community, no audience, just a video. It’s inspiring to think of how some are out there dedicating their time to creating both incentive and connection to good stories…